Maintaining world peace and promoting social progress are 12 words that are easy to say, but not easy to do. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The former is nothing more than to prevent others from fighting, and whenever a war is about to break out, to support the invaded, or to resolve the grievances between the two sides. Although it is difficult, there are still traces to follow, and there is a general direction to work towards. But the latter is really a bit empty, and even though most of the higher-ups of the Void Masquerade Church are quite smart, they can't come up with any good solutions.

"Needless to say for the time being, the battle of the day the sun goes out is terrifying, and it is estimated that the major powers in the world, at least the countries of the main plane, will not want to fight for a long time. "That is to say, for the time being, we should focus primarily on promoting progress." So, Your Majesty, what do you think is progress?"

Sui Xiong nodded, pondering, and said: "The so-called social progress should first be reflected in the improvement of the people's living standards, that is, to let the people eat, drink, dress and live well, but also to let their legitimate rights be protected, let them live a rich, safe and dignified life, promote the construction of democracy, and protect personal freedom......"

As he thought about it, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his heart: "By the way, I remember......ed!" We will build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious country, build a free, equal, just and law-based society, and advocate a patriotic, dedicated, honest and friendly atmosphere. Fortunately, I made a promotional cartoon for the community, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to memorize it!"

Leon and the others looked at each other for a long time. It was Gerald, a giant with an honest and straightforward personality, who spoke first: "Your Majesty, what you are talking about...... I don't really understand. ”

"It's nothing. I can explain them to you one by one, but it's actually quite simple. ”

"But Your Majesty. Do you have to aim so high if you want to promote social progress?" asked Leon, "I can understand what you say, but the standard ...... Isn't that an exaggeration?"

Sui Xiong was stunned: "Is it exaggerated?"

He looked around the conference room and saw that everyone had similar expressions to Leon.

Surprised, helpless, and hopeless.

"Uh...... It does seem to be a bit exaggerated...... Sui Xiong wiped his sweat and said with a wry smile, "Then we can lower the standard a little first......"

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, we want social progress. It is nothing more than to let the people have food, clothing and shelter first, be able to have a stable income, and save some money after a year of hard work. When you are alive, you are like a person, and when you die, you don't have to worry about going to hell...... "Aren't you right?" said Orianne Gerten, one of the two lords of the Church, "and I think I can try to do that. ”

“...... That's too low. Sui Xiong muttered.

"Not low!" Orion sighed, "Your Majesty, do you know that before the teacher's stationery workshop was built, more than a dozen of us in Gerteng died of starvation every winter due to lack of food and clothing. It's also because we're here as a trailblazer. Ordinary people have more land, their income is higher, and their family background is slightly thicker. To be placed in those that have been in business for a long time, before and after several different families have been exploited. It's not uncommon for hundreds or thousands to freeze to death in a winter......"

Sui Xiong frowned and asked, "Why don't you give disaster relief?"

"It's easy to save the needy, but it's hard to save the poor!" said Orion, sighing. "Those who will freeze to death and starve to death are usually poor. They often have no arable land. There is no strong laborer in the family who can earn an income. How much can I earn by relying on women, children, and children alone? In the past, Gelten himself was poor. Everything is expensive in winter, and although I will send rations and some clothes to these families, the winter in Gelteng is still cold after all......"

"But that's no longer the case. Since the stationery workshop was built, the territory has become much more financially prosperous, so I simply relocated these landless families to the vicinity of the workshop and let them do some odd jobs for the workshop. On the one hand, there is a relatively stable income, and on the other hand, it is easier to provide relief in the winter. Orien smiled and said, "Over the years, except for some who are sick, there are also those who are drunk and fall on the side of the road, and those who really freeze to death and starve to death. ”

Sui Xiong nodded slightly, and looked at Leon again.

Although Carissa Riley is the lord of Garth City, everyone knows that it is Leon who is really in charge of the affairs of Garth City.

Leon immediately understood what he meant, and replied: "The situation in Gars City is better than that of Gerteng, after all, this is a commercial town, and there are more job opportunities. Even if you don't have arable land or strong labor, you can find enough work to make ends meet. It's just that Gars City and the surrounding area have a large population, and there are many things to manage on a regular basis, and I have only done a little rough in terms of helping the poor, and I am afraid that the details are not as good as those of Gerten. ”

Sui Xiong frowned slightly, and then looked at Mrs. Teague.

Over the years, the Void Mask Playground has evolved, and the people in charge are also adjusting. Some time ago, Liv, who was originally in charge, finally couldn't bear to be with the case all the year round, yelled to resign, ran out to form an adventure team, and has been active in the northern ice fields during this time. And the current head of the playground is Mrs. Teague, who was originally in charge of civil affairs and has great prestige among the residents, but now it is nothing more than an increase in the workload, but she can cope with it.

"The situation at our playground is much better. "However, this cannot be used as a basis. ”

"Our income is so high that we have enough liquidity at our disposal to ensure that every resident has no worries about food and clothing," she said. In this case, I can certainly make sure that everyone is well fed, well dressed, and well housed. But if we want to generalize our experience here, it is not possible. ”

"Why is it impossible?" asked Sui Xiong.

"Your Majesty, do you know? Our amusement park is the largest and highest-level entertainment venue in the entire main plane, and there are many rich people who come here to spend money, and it is not uncommon for high rollers to spend a lot of money. Not only that, but we also have a huge source of finance, which is the once-in-a-decade auction of the Longevity Potion, which is simply a great ......loot for the wealth of the entire Main Plane," Lady Tig said with a smile, "These two sources alone. It's enough to feed a small bit of country. But how can there be such an opportunity in other regions? Your Majesty, if you want to promote social progress, you must not just make progress on our own. ”

Sui Xiong nodded. His ideal is not to follow the desert tyrants on the earth, lying on the oil and closing the door to freedom. What he wants is to move the whole world. At least the social progress of the entire main plane. As Mrs. Teague said, the two major sources of money for the Void Mask Playground are things that no one else can learn or get, and it makes no sense to use them as a reference.

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up, and he remembered the Barony of Keane, who was far away in the Thunder Duchy.

Compared to the main stationery base of Gerteng and the commercial city of Gars, the situation in Barony Keane is much more ordinary. There is no special output, nor is there any particularly convenient transportation conditions, it is just an ordinary small territory. If you can build such a territory. Let the people live and work in peace and contentment, then the experience can be promoted.

...... And he doesn't have to wait for the results of Barony Keane's development at all, he can find another place to build first!

Thinking of this, he made a decision.

"Gather some adventurers who have traveled far and wide. He said, "I'm going to find a place that is as ordinary as possible, and build an ordinary territory to see." ”

"If I can manage an ordinary territory well, then I can find the direction to promote social progress!"

A few hours later, a dozen young adventurers were gathered. Sui Xiong conjured into an aristocratic incarnation and met them accompanied by Mrs. Teague.

"I want to find a place that is relatively close to the Void Mask Playground. A risk-taker with almost gray hair who is currently a janitor and retire in a library in the playground said, "Isn't that the town of Pyroxene or the town of Gold Rush?"

Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment, to be honest. Although the Void Mask Playground is located in the Northwest Region, he really doesn't know much about the situation in the four towns in the Northwest.

In his mind, Rye Town is the largest transportation hub in the Northwest Territories. Agriculture is quite developed because the land is less polluted, and the town of pyroxene has veins of gemstones. Although low-grade, there are occasional high-end ones, and the town of Gold Rush has gold, copper, and iron mines. Gold mines attract a large number of wealthy seekers, with copper and iron ore being the main sources of income, and Dragonroar is a mountain hunter, with the main source of income coming from monster hunting.

To be honest, he felt that the four towns in the northwest had their own characteristics, and none of them could be regarded as ordinary territories. Why did this old adventurer think that Pyroxene Town and Gold Rush Town were ordinary territories?

When he asked the question, the old adventurer laughed and said, "Your Excellency, you are putting too much emphasis on the point of 'ordinary'. What is ordinary? The income is average, the resources are average, and the transportation conditions are also average, and this is ordinary. The traffic conditions of Rye Town are too good, Dragon Roar Town is adjacent to the playground in the north, and the mountains infested by demonic beasts in the east, with unique resources, both of which cannot be regarded as ordinary. But where is the town of Huishi and the town of Gold Rush not ordinary?"

"There are gem veins in Pyroxene Town, and there are gold mines in Gold Rush Town. ”

"The gem veins in Pyroxene are low-grade, and the gold mines in Gold Rush are even lower-grade. Such veins are not a hundred but eighty on the mainland. The old adventurer smiled and said, "You only see that they 'have' these resources, but you don't see the income that these resources bring to them...... These two towns are so poor that they can't even afford to support an army, so what's so special?"

Sui Xiong pondered for a while and understood what he meant.

Unlike Sui Xiong himself, the old adventurer looked at the problem from the perspective of geography and income level. It is true that there are gem veins in Pyroxene Town, and there are gold mines in Gold Rush Town, but whether it is a gem vein or a gold mine, the output is not high. These two towns simply cannot afford to make more income from these two veins.

In contrast, the commerce and agriculture of Rye Town, and the demonic beast hunting in Dragon Roar Town, that is a reliable source of money, and it can really be called an "unusual" territory.

"What is the specific income level of the four towns?" he asked.

"You shouldn't ask us. The old adventurer said, "We are just ordinary adventurers, and you should ask the Thieves' Guild about this kind of thing." ”

Sui Xiong nodded, gave them some consulting fees, especially some more to the old adventurer, and then sent them away while he ran to find Rhodes.

Rhodes is almost seventy years old this year, and thanks to the Longevity Elixir, he looks like he is less than sixty now. Because of his good strength, although his hair is all white, his spirit is still very good, and he has a feeling of being old and strong.

When Sui Xiong came to him, he was instructing a group of young people from the Thieves' Guild to learn antique identification. This is his specialty, and he even got the nickname "gray eye" because he was good at identification.

For thieves, "eyes", "hands" and "daggers" are very special titles. "Eyes" means that the thief is particularly good at identification, "hands" means that the thief is skilled in hand, or is good at arranging and dismantling mechanisms, or is good at stealing, and "dagger" means that the thief is a master of combat.

The former leader of the Pyroxene Town Thieves' Guild "Kuaishou" Wren, who tried to plot against Gerald and Parin, is a master of traps. And Rod, who succeeded him as the head of the Thieves Guild in Pyroxene Town, and later became the president of the Thieves United Guild in the entire Northwest Region, is a master of identification.

Once, when he was drunk, he once said that he was a powerful appraiser in the Gold Coin Federation, and he had competed with several other experts for the highest honor in the direction of the "eye" of the Thieves Guild, "Golden Eye". It's just that his skills are not as good as others, and he was unlucky enough to offend a powerful figure, so he had to go to the northwest to avoid trouble.

Of course, Rhodes himself is already a big man now, and he doesn't even bother to take revenge on the "big man" who forced him to leave the northwest back then - because in his opinion, that person forced him to run away back then, although he suffered a lot, but also provided him with a huge opportunity. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't get along in the Gold Coin Federation and ran to Pyroxene Town, how could he have met His Majesty the Void Kamene, and how could he have had a later encounter?

Although he will not thank the guy who persecuted him, he will not take revenge again. In his opinion, all this was the arrangement of fate, and what happened back then was nothing more than a little trick on him by the god of fate.

Now Rhodes has retired from his position as president of the Northwest Regions Thieves' United Guild, and he takes on the role of advisor, teaching young people about identification every day, in addition to handling some of the financial work of the Void Mask Playground. It's a bit of a feeling of spending your old age in peace.

"Your Majesty, do you want to learn more about the income of the four towns in the northwest?" Hearing Sui Xiong's request, he was slightly stunned, recalled for a moment, and told the specific income and expenditure of the four towns in the northwest in recent years.

To be honest, this information is a secret, but one of the main businesses of the Thieves Guild is to inquire and sell information, and this level of information is really nothing to them, even Rhodes, a semi-retired high-ranking executive, knows about it.

In fact, Rhodes really cared about this information all the time, because he was in charge of finances.

After listening to Rod's report, Sui Xiong finally understood why the old adventurer thought that Pyroxene Town and Gold Rush Town were ordinary. Although both towns have ore veins, they don't actually get much income from them. Gold Rush Town is a little better, there are copper mines and iron ore as the base, how can you have a stable income, Huishi Town does not have much income, mainly relying on entertainment consumption and the like. Since the opening of the Void Mask Playground, their income level has been declining, and they have now dropped from the original status of the core of the Four Towns to the lowest position in the Four Towns.

In fact...... The town of Pyroxene is now somewhat abandoned.

The so-called gem veins are very low-yielding and do not require many workers. Occasionally, some high-end gems will be sent to the Mask Void Playground to be sold. At present, the town of Pyroxene is not inhabited by many people, except for a few workers and small vendors who provide services to them. Even the Church of the Noble God and the God of Law has been evacuated from there, and only the Church of the God of Wealth still maintains a small temple there.

Sui Xiong pondered for a long time, and finally made up his mind to draw a circle on the map of the location of Pyroxene Town.

"In that case, let's start here and carry out reforms!" (To be continued.) )