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["Battle of Heaven" Front: Important checkpoints on the northern front have been broken one after another, Ten Peaks Mountain has been placed under the control of the coalition forces, and the gateway to Haiya Province has been opened!

The battlefield on the southern front is still in the southern seas, please keep up the good work, and the final reward settlement will be related to the progress of the battle front!

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Soon after the announcement of the forum on the official website, the forum suddenly became lively.

Irena: "Good fellow, it's okay for the dog to plan and urge the change. (Funny)"

Elf King Fugui: "Other games are all about cutting the strength of equipment to press the player's progress, for fear that the player's speed of clearing the level is too fast, and the speed of disliking the player's strategy is too slow, this game is unique." (Funny)"

The mole in the canyon is on the run: "Captain Fang, you can't do it." (Funny)"

Tail: "Dolly: Fang Chang, can you do it!" (shy)"

Siss: "Ah O, calm down, you are also on the southern front." ”

Tail: "Wow! I forgot! °ロ°)！ ”

Makabazi: "It's too much! (Funny)"

Feng Qing: "No way, the speed of the W-2 is too low, it can't break through the close fire power net of the federal destroyer, and the limit of the old propeller aircraft is too obvious." ”

Ghost: "+10086, the Southern Front is in dire need of supersonic fighters!" ”

WC really has a lot of mosquitoes: "Ahem, that thing kamikaze is too expensive, you better use the propeller first, or I'll get you the one without the landing gear." ”

Feng Qing: "!! ”

Ghost: "Gan! Commander, are you still human! ”

Irena: "It's too real, too. (Funny)"

……

Looking at the complaints in the comment area of the official website announcement, Fang Chang couldn't help but twitch his brows, but finally couldn't help but bubble.

This Ah Guang is really a bit unkind.

Could the slow progress of the Southern Front be a problem for players?

As for the destroyers in the Northern Federation and the islands in the southern seas, any one of them can be pulled into reality, and they are all capable of sling a group of "concept ships".

On the other hand, Baiyue Company only has a bunch of propeller planes that have been changed and changed.

One thing to say, this thing is really easy to use for ground attack, and it has the advantage of staying in the air for a long time, low cost, and large numbers.

However, in the face of firepower point defense systems and high-precision guided weapons, it is a bit stretched.

In particular, in naval warfare, which is dominated by over-the-horizon operations, often not long after they take off from the airport, the other side is already targeting them.

Of course, the alliance side also has its own advantages, such as the army's combat effectiveness and individual equipment are far ahead of the Northern Federation.

If you can pass through the sea alert area of the Federation fleet and land directly on the islands of the Federation, the battle situation will definitely be much smoother than now.

However, the crux of the matter is that the other side clearly knows this, so the warning sonar and radar are all on 24-hour standby, and the patrol boats carrying depth charges are constantly cruising in uninhabited waters.

Not to mention landing, once it gets close to within 100 kilometers, it is possible to encounter an over-the-horizon strike.

Of course, this is true for both parties.

The Northern Federation is alert to the Coalition's aircraft and airborne troops, and the Southern Islands Alliance is also alert to the "frogman" troops of the Torch Church, and all kinds of early warning and over-the-horizon strike means are on 24-hour standby.

Previously, several waves of mutants carrying professional underwater combat equipment tried to swim to Anle Island to launch a surprise attack, but before they could even swim to Coral City, most of them were sent away by several depth charges, and the remaining mutants who fled in all directions were killed in the belly of the fish.

The xenomorphs that roam the oceans are far more terrifying than the xenomorphs on land, and the species are more abundant.

Without the cover of the "Boat Song", it is simply impossible for a lone mutant to survive in deep water for more than an hour.

Wary of the submarines on Anle Island, the Federation's fleet did not dare to cross the warning area and penetrate into the hinterland of the Southern Islands Alliance.

It is precisely because of this that the two sides have fallen into a strange state of war.

It's like two strong men with guns, each leaning against the bunker, with a distance of 50 meters between them, occasionally firing a shot or two at the opposite side, and then immediately retracting behind the bunker.

No one could afford to make a mistake, so no one dared to step out of cover to attack.

But—

This does not mean that both sides will stick to it all the time.

The Surgys Alliance, on its part, is developing an "underwater submarine" with the support of the alliance in preparation for landing on the North Island.

And the Northern Federation is obviously also preparing its own hole cards with the support of the Torch Church.

It is clear to both sides that this war will not drag on for long. In particular, the recent indentation of coalition forces in the north has made it urgent for the Torch Church to open up strategic space to the south.

Everyone is preparing for the upcoming decisive battle.

In this context, the player's room for maneuver is actually very small.

Including Fang Chang himself, there seems to be nothing more to do except put more effort into infrastructure projects in the southern seas and the Baiyue Strait, and use economic and trade means to encircle the islands on the side of the alliance.

After briefly eating dinner, Fang Chang went downstairs for a lap in the evening, then put on his helmet and returned to the line.

Game time: At 10 a.m., a regular meeting will be held at the Governor's office at Port Fries City Hall.

As the CEO and Chairman of Baiyue Company, the Governor from Dawning City will exchange views with him on regional affairs and the next phase of development, and convey the meaning of the managers by the way.

In fact, he is a governor, but this governor is fundamentally different from the governor of the empire.

The latter represented the interests and authority of the emperor, equivalent to the local incarnation of the emperor, while the former represented the alliance, as well as the constitution of the alliance.

From the perspective of rights and duties, this position in the alliance is more akin to the role of the "city lord".

That is, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Alliance, it exercises the power to supervise local affairs, is responsible for the daily defense work of the locality, and makes rulings on matters related to the overall interests of the Alliance from the standpoint of the Alliance.

As for the specific affairs of the local area and the execution of public authority, it is the responsibility of the town hall or a more specific agency.

Only in exceptional circumstances, such as when the locals have no sense of self-management or foundation, or if the Coalition needs a place to accommodate such survivors, will the lord or governor take charge of the specific affairs of the area.

For example, Singularity City.

If the alliance does not send someone to take care of it, the local survivors will be able to use the constitution of the alliance as toilet paper in a matter of minutes, and then get a local "Red River Alliance" that sells dog meat on sheep's heads.

As for places like Port Fries, the players themselves can thrive well, and the managers are happy to leave it to the players and locals to manage themselves, so they just set up a governor's office at the town hall.

When he was not alive, the governor usually just drank tea and read a newspaper, and then summarized the local situation and sent a telegram to report it to the administrator, and at the same time gave some instructions to the local institutions according to the manager's return......

If Mr. manager has an opinion.

For at least the past few months, managers have responded with "read".

Obviously, even the meticulous manager is impeccable about their work.

But this time it was different.

Hearing that the manager had given a rare clear instruction this time, Fang Chang couldn't help but feel a little curious about the meeting for a while.

There was still some time before the meeting, and he didn't rush to the city hall to report, but took a leisurely walk in the settlement they had set up with their own hands.

Perhaps by the time he reached the town hall, he would have guessed what the administrator's instructions were.

Now the time in the game is the beginning of August, and it is the rainy season when the Baiyue Strait is sunny and rainy.

Often one second the sun is shining, and the next second there is a pouring rain in the sky.

However, the rain was not annoying, and the french fries harbor was like polished glass, with a refreshing freshness inside and out.

After a few months of development, today's French Fries Port has begun to take shape.

With the completion of the port, a large amount of cement, steel, bricks and other building materials and construction equipment were left, and the port city hall simply signed a document to improve the housing of residents, encouraging local residents to convert those hand-built single-family cabins into three-story bungalows with mainly concrete structures through voluntary subsidies.

On the one hand, this is naturally for the cityscape of the French Fries Port, and on the other hand, it is to prevent tsunamis and earthquakes, after all, the original wooden houses can only be used, but more to boost the local economy, put a long line to catch big fish.

After all, only when the survivors have their own houses can they rent out the floors they don't need, or use the floors along the street to do some small business or something.

For the sparsely populated French fries port, land is arguably the least valuable thing.

It's not just the homes of local survivors who have changed, but also the roads in front of their homes.

The dirt roads, which used to be muddy when it rains, have now been replaced by clean and tidy concrete roads.

Speaking of this cement road, it is also quite exquisite.

For well-known reasons, the maintenance of the roads in the Baiyue Strait is quite expensive, and it is not strictly suitable to apply the methods of Dawning City to build a settlement.

However, not long ago, the research team of the Alliance Biological Research Institute developed a biomass material called "active cement" based on the study of biological samples collected in the local area and the mother nest in Qingquan City.

This material has peculiar self-healing properties, being able to extract energy and nutrients from the biomass on the surface, physically maintaining the original form of the "structural material" as a substrate.

To use a figurative but inappropriate analogy, the microorganisms attached to the material are like a miniature version of hermit crabs, and the pores of the reactive cement are the "shells" on which they live.

In order to protect their shells, they will actively fight against biological factors that try to destabilize concrete structures, and use themselves as binders to maintain the stability of concrete structures.

The initiator of the project is none other than Chen Yutong, the head of the French Fries Port branch of the Alliance Institute of Biology.

It is no exaggeration to say that this amazing technology is equivalent to directly removing the "+900% industrial and infrastructure cost" debuff of French Fries Port.

This self-healing "active cement" belongs to the category of living creatures in its own right, and not only is it not eroded by the local flourishing species, but it can even enjoy the bonus of the "leafy" buff, thus reducing the maintenance cost of the road.

The only fly in the ointment is that this active material requires an additional process than traditional cement in both production and use.

However, compared to the positive impact of this material, the increase in cost is completely negligible.

As it turns out, there are always more solutions than difficulties.

With the advancement of technology, what was previously considered impossible is becoming possible.

However, even if the debuff is removed from the industry, Fang Chang does not plan to change the local development strategy of "primary industry as the mainstay, tertiary industry as supplementary" for the time being, and the second industry is placed last.

After all, the buff that accelerates growth is simply too fragrant for crops!

The same crop can only be produced for one season in Dawning City, but it can produce three crops here without the concern of fertility decay, and it is even more rebellious than the production efficiency of Luoxia Province.

Now the scale and capacity can't go up, and when the French fries port develops in the future, it will become a bigger granary than Luoxia Province!

As for the secondary industry, it will be over to the port of Golden Gallen to solve.

Recently, a large number of migrants have poured into the outskirts of the port along the Yongliu River, and the large number of young and middle-aged workers is almost outpacing the capacity of the local infrastructure.

There is no better place to develop secondary production than there.

Finally walked slowly to the door of the city hall, Fang Chang squinted his eyes at the brick and stone landmark, suddenly stopped the NPC who was coming out of the building, and asked with a smile.

"Friend, where are you from?"

The man, who was supposed to be a recent immigrant, didn't know his face, and was stunned for a moment when he heard this inexplicable question, and then spoke.

"Silver Moon Bay...... What's wrong? ”

Fang Chang continued to ask with a smile.

"What do you think of life in Port Fries? Are you still happy here? ”

Hearing this, an emotional expression immediately appeared on the man's face, and he praised it sincerely.

"It's a nice place, I don't know how to rate it otherwise...... But I'm sure that if there was a kingdom of heaven, it would be like this. ”

There was no king, no nobles, and no priests to support, and he was most satisfied with the fact that he could get rich by working hard.

Of course, the bar along the coastal street is the one that makes him want to linger the most.

At least a third of the money he made last month was spent there.

Listening to the braggings of the sailors and mercenaries is much more interesting than praying to the idols!

Looking at this guy who had left the Spirit of the Sand Sea and the Silver Moon Goddess behind, Fang Chang laughed and said.

"I also think it's paradise...... If you like it, it means that we didn't come in vain. ”

With that, he walked towards the gate of the town hall under the man's bewildered gaze.

……

When the Governor arrived at the conference room, the Governor had almost just arrived, and politely asked the secretary to make him a cup of tea.

There wasn't much of a pleasantry.

The Governor from Dawn quickly got to the point, and said in a sincere tone.

“…… Recently, the port of fries has been growing rapidly, and there is a huge shortage of jobs in all walks of life, and the city hall has asked us to absorb more immigrants from outside the alliance, but we can't let anyone in, which will impact our homeless shelter system, and I want to ask you if you have any good ideas here. ”

Fang Chang asked.

"What is the manager's opinion?"

The Governor said earnestly.

"The manager asked me to ask for your opinion."

Fang Chang thought for a moment and said.

"It's very simple, use the budget of the French Fries Port or entrust a third-party company to build some training institutions and schools that meet the standards in the Golden Gallen Port, and then encourage employers who need labor to go to those schools to recruit graduates who have obtained professional skills qualifications, and we only need to issue visas to those who have already obtained employment contracts, so that they will have jobs as soon as they come ashore, and they cannot be regarded as displaced people if they have jobs and places to live."

The governor's eyes lit up and he gave a thumbs up.

"That's a good idea!"

Fang Chang made a helpless expression.

Isn't that a kie?

However, considering that there should be no such thing as a visa in the Age of Prosperity, and the civilization inheritance of the Wasteland Era has been broken, it is understandable that this fine tradition has been lost.

After all, Ideal City is actually a food desert without even "steamed vegetables", and compared with his hometown of Shanghai, this kind of thing is unimaginable.

In fact, the "e-pass" that their administrators recently made through the Sticky Community has a bit of a passport and visa.

Thanks to the existence of electronic passes, the survivors who had closed their doors have opened their doors, and the survivors living in the member countries of the Adhesive Community have also been given the right to "move freely within a limited area", instead of being left without a choice most of the time, as before.

In fact, to be honest, this is the most unreasonable place.

The managers from the era of the People's Union actually took out something that was not available in the era of the People's Union, and they used it so handily.

Fang Chang sometimes couldn't help but wonder if this guy should be an NPC played by a real person.

Just as Fang Chang was thinking nonsense, the governor sitting opposite coughed lightly and continued.

"There is one more thing, mainly about Baiyue Company."

Fang Chang, who came back to his senses, nodded and said dryly.

"You say."

The Governor said earnestly.

"The administrators want you to suspend the military conflict with the Empire and focus more on the southern seas."

Although it was expected, Fang Chang couldn't help but show a helpless expression on his face.

"We're already doing this, including the undersea power grid, freshwater pipelines, ocean current power stations, and the restart of Coral City, all of which are subtly bringing survivors in the southern seas to our side...... But as you know, the impact of these efforts is not immediately apparent, and the benefits of order take time to manifest. ”

Hearing this, the Governor immediately realized that he had misunderstood what he meant, and hastened to explain.

"You misunderstand that the manager is not questioning your work, on the contrary, he thinks that you are doing a good job. Whether it's the solidarity of the survivors in the southern seas or the handling of the expeditionary force, you have all thought carefully about the problems they encounter from the perspective of the 'managed'. ”

"It's over, we just did what we had to do." Picking up the teacup and taking a sip, Fang Chang said modestly, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl slightly.

That guy's affirmation is still very useful to him.

The Governor nodded.

"It's good that you can understand, anyway, the manager is not urging you to immediately gain an advantage on the front, he actually wants you to moderate your attitude towards the empire appropriately."

The corners of Fang Chang's mouth couldn't help but move.

"Are we strict with the Empire?"

The embargo was clearly a unilateral act of the Empire, which had never restricted the movement of people and goods at the port of Jingalen, and even acquiesced to the existence of shadow ports such as Jiaotou Bay.

As for the warlords who appear on the border, it is even more of their business.

Due to the ceasefire negotiations, he even suspended contact with the rebels in the Empire.

Regarding the chief's "shouting injustice", the governor made a helpless expression.

"I don't know anything about your affairs on the other side of the sea, I'm just conveying the meaning of the administrator. In addition, the Alliance is about to sign a formal ceasefire agreement with the Empire, and the Duke of Galava has already conceded on several key agreements, and Mr. Administrator hopes that the port of Kingalen will release Governor Nehak as a show of goodwill. ”

Fang Chang was stunned for a moment.

"That's it?"

The Governor: "Are there any difficulties?" ”

"I didn't ...... It's too simple. ”

Fang Chang said with a smile, then opened the VM in front of him and edited a message, and then clicked send.

Within minutes, a telegram from Port Kingalen City Hall would be receiving a telegram from Port Fries, and the secretary he had promoted would soon have everything done.

At most, tomorrow this time, Governor Nehak will leave the prison and stand on the street of Kinglaen Harbour, which has changed dramatically......

Hopefully, the governor would not be too surprised by the changes that had taken place in the places he had governed.

If the Reich is willing to take this as a gesture of goodwill, it is not impossible to let the more than 10,000 prisoners of war in the camps go home.

After sending the message, the chief looked at Mr. Governor, who was sitting opposite, and said calmly.

"It's done."

This is probably the fastest of all the tasks he has completed.

There was a look of surprise on the Governor's face, as if surprised at his speed.

Fang Chang looked at him and continued to ask.

"Anything else?"

Whether it is immigration management or the demonstration of the sincerity of the ceasefire, it seems to him that it is a trivial matter.

If that's all there is to it, there's no need to convey it to him through the Governor, just add a sentence to the taskbar and you're done.

He was more inclined to think that there was something more important.

And it was true that it did not surprise him, and the governor had something to say.

I saw the latter clear his throat and continue.

"In addition, regarding the listing of Baiyue Company that you proposed earlier, Mr. Manager has discussed it with the experts of Camp 101, and he thinks that your request is reasonable."

"The inhabitants of the Alliance should share in the fruits of the development of the Baiyue Strait, which will inspire them to explore the wasteland. For you, going public means easier access to capital, faster expansion of your business, and bigger pies. ”

"However, before that, you need to cooperate with the supervisors entrusted by the alliance bank to audit and evaluate the business, funds and assets under your name to ensure that the legitimate interests of investors and equity transactions are carried out under the premise of openness, fairness and justice."

"If all goes well, your IPO will be a successful example. Mr. Manager plans to set up a special stock exchange in Dawning City in the future to provide listing services for other companies that have financing needs and are in good health. ”

Fang Chang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but when he came back to his senses, a touch of surprise suddenly appeared on his face, and he immediately agreed without saying a word.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Manager! We will do our best to cooperate with the alliance bank to complete the financial audit work! ”

The Governor smiled and nodded.

"Compared with the first two things, this is just a small matter, not enough to worry about, just understand it."

Hearing this, Fang Chang had a bright smile on his face, but he didn't say anything.

The little thing?

If this is a small matter, then there is probably nothing more than that!

(End of chapter)