For the ordinary people in the Xia Hui Territory, the changes brought about by the victory in the war were slow and subtle.

For example, more and more mountain people chose to use the Xiahui Territory as a transit point for trade with the Naoman City and the Lords of the Agate Plain, which greatly increased the local economic advantage. The minstrels, too, of the tavern's deeds, proclaimed the name of the prophet as much as possible, paving the way for the future of the sect.

This kind of thing that is difficult for ordinary people to perceive abnormalities and will only take it for granted, there are still many in the territory, and everyone is unaware.

But there are also some swift and tangible changes: for example, there is no longer a curfew at night, and more and more Storm armor and well-equipped guards are standing at the street entrances in key areas to show the force of the territory.

There are also many hired mountain workers in the city.

Many residents were surprised to find that the streets and alleys were full of sturdy men from various departments sweating to reorganize and expand the streets

Exhibition downtown.

Due to the addition of such a group of strong laborers, the process of reshaping the urban area of Xiahui has been greatly accelerated.

1. What is this tower? Magnetic storm electric circles?

The black thing on top of the Lord's Mansion is...... Prism cluster cannon?!

- Oh my God, the whole street has a brand new pavement? Even armor can't be broken, right? And that's not all.

On the Lone Flame Peak outside the city, at the platform in the middle of the mountain, there is even a simple dragon's nest One by one Recently, the residents who go out can always see a dragon shadow passing in the sky, which really brings a lot of fright to the locals.

Theo is happily building his own nest. The young Zhenlong, who left his mother's supervision for the first time, is like a young man who rents a house away from home for the first time, and wants to build a warm little home of his own by himself.

Ian's attempts to help were politely declined, so he could only shake his head and leave

Even, the changes of Xia Hui Ling are not limited to the city.

It also originated in the distant imperial capital of the empire.

On January 9, 774 in Terra, a blue-black dragon-scale war horse galloped through the streets with the envoy of the imperial capital, he did not slow down, but he did not hit anyone, and the tall war horse could even step on the ice and gallop in the air at the most congested moment, causing the onlookers to let out an exclamation.

It galloped through the vibrant city of Glow, all the way to the castle of the Lord's Mansion on the shore of the lake, before slowing down and climbing the cliff.

Many passers-by looked at the dragon horse and the knight in amazement, they gathered together, and they could not understand who was so bold as to dare to ride a horse to rush to the lord's mansion, and many of them even thought that the knight had insulted their messenger, and indignantly carried the hammer and tool pliers in their hands, and wanted to come forward to ask for an explanation.

However, the local residents of Xiahui City vaguely saw some clues from the sun crest on the knight's armor, and they grabbed the mountain people and told them the true identity of the knight.

It was the messenger of the imperial capital.

"It's finally here? It's time to officially honor me. “

In the Lord's Palace, Ian, who was exchanging funding issues with Scott, looked up and said in surprise, "However, I thought they would have a New Year's festival in the Imperial Capital (the celebration that ends in the first half of January)

They will come later, and now it seems that they left at least ten days early. ”

"My record is still somewhat useful." He laughed.

"Imperial Capital?" Scott, who was struggling to fund the construction of the new city, was a little dazed, the Iron Man scratched his head, looked at his lord, and asked with some expectation: "Is it the little master of the Ellen family who sent you the funds?" “

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Of course not. Ian shook his head, and he complained, "Don't say that Isengard is like Kaizi who sent me money, we are allies who help each other, and he helps me much more than money."

"And didn't he already send five thousand thalers last time? Who do you think bought all the alchemy equipment in the new alchemy workshop? Ian felt that he had to let his subordinates know who was the true nobleman of the Xia Hui Leader.

"But at the moment there is a real shortage of money."

Scott looked at the tables and accounts in front of him, guilty

He pinched his pen worriedly: "The new farm in Xiahui Lake needs a sum of money, the element crystallization production line of the alchemy workshop needs money, the tools for exploration in the gorge need money, the new mine needs money, the employment of mountain workers needs money, and the new city also needs money, not to mention the improvement of the sewer project and the pollutant recovery equipment of the alchemy workshop, which you have requested."

"It's not the recycling of pollutant substances, but the "reuse equipment", which can recover at least about 10 to 20 percent of the effective alchemy materials, which can greatly save costs, and the earlier it is built, the more it can return to its original cost and even make money. ”

The young man frowned slightly, and he glanced at the document in his hand: "But other than that..... Well. It's all pure spending. ”

Seeing this, Ian couldn't help but be silent, and then sighed: "The construction of the territory really costs money like flowing water - if you know it early, you won't buy people's hearts, and you will reduce taxes for the mountain people." ”

That said, but if the mountain people were not given tax breaks to recuperate, Ian's next development and population diversion for the Medra Autonomous Region and other hill tribes would have been delayed for more than a year.

If Ian really wants money, he has a way to make money. Not to mention anything else, he took someone from Jiamu some time ago

The large amount of sublimation minerals and demonic beast materials brought back from the underground vault can quickly obtain tens of thousands of thalers of abundant funds if they are sold.

But this kind of precious materials and even strategic materials, it is easy to sell, but it is difficult, for the sake of quick money to sell sublimation materials, I will definitely regret it in the future.

So Ian and Xia Hui are not poor, just for a better future, in order to save time, and many things that are more important than money, resulting in a bit of capital turnover.

Zheshi!

"Speaking of which." Ian opened the Prophetic Vision and looked at the lilac figure at the gate of the Lord's Mansion: "Can I ask the empire for a development fund?" I also meet the conditions of the Imperial Southridge Development Plan! ”

Thinking of this, he quickly got up and greeted the other party.

And the Imperial Capital Messenger never expected that a knight who came to deliver the news would be caught by the local lord and ask about the various regulations for applying for "development funds". He usually doesn't pay attention to imperial policy, how can he know this?

Although the lord in front of him is very good-looking, if it is a weekday leisure time, the messenger does not mind saying a little more at all.... But before he came, he had done his homework, and he knew very well that the white-haired young man in front of him was a murderer who had fought side by side with the real dragon and had newly killed the leader of the third-level mountain people, the top-level kind of heaven!

He didn't dare to fool the other party with half-understood information.

Therefore, he was embarrassed to refuse, and he did not dare to say nothing in front of a patrol knight whose rank was higher than his own

Turning his head and leaving, the messenger knight could only give one opinion: "Sir, you see, in a few days, you will be honored with Tymo. Viscount Ducas is coming, he is a big man in the noble hall, he must know more about this aspect? ”

"That's a good idea."

After getting the news he wanted, that is, "who will give him the honor", Ian did not continue to pester the messenger, but let the other person leave.

He thought thoughtfully: "Viscount Ducas of the noble hall. I think it was a character under the command of the Great Prince, right? I didn't expect to go around and around, and it was his people who came to award me a medal. “

"It should be a strange thing to plan to take this opportunity to try to recruit me, how could the second prince allow it? But I don't care, it would be nice if I could cheat a sum of money.....

He had already begun to think about how to bargain for more benefits

Just as Viscount Grant, who had eaten the aid of the Grand Duke of Thorin and the aid of the imperial capital, said, aid is such a thing, if you don't eat it in vain, you can't eat it.

If you want to develop the nobility of the territory, don't be afraid to eat a hundred family meals.

Every scam is the last scam, and then don't be afraid to be discovered!

Ian and Elder Manya, united with the King of the Mountain to quell the turmoil in Nanling, had long been reported to the imperial capital.

Although the main topic of the imperial capital today is the front line of the war with the Flying Flame Land on the western border, the small good news of Nanling has also attracted the attention of some well-intentioned people.

In the first week after the victory, Ian received letters from many acquaintances: the praise of the Second Prince, the support of another batch of Aether Crystals from the Marquis of Batun, and congratulatory letters from Isengard and Master Gosai..... Even the birch and the frost butterflies were delivered

A small piece of paper tells Ian that the Ians have found the hot water elves.

Now, they're trying to move the original nest out of the cooler and find a place to place it, making it a true "elven lair."

If they could, they wanted Ian to come over and help out as well—it was a bit difficult for only one second-level to do that, and no other elves would come to Southridge anytime soon. Ian did write about his return to Port Harrison in his memo.

The development of Xia Hui Territory is now on the right track, with his prestige, on the surface Xi'o brought the force guarantee, and secretly there is Adalbert Guard as insurance, the whole territory is impregnable, and he is not there

Very safe. Not to mention, Ian now has mastered the most important "Aether Crystallization Production Line"!

The Elemental Crystallization Condenser obtained from the Kamu Department was in very good condition, and after being sent back to Xiahui City by the Qing Tide, it was transferred to the depths of the Alchemy Workshop by Adalbert.

Except for a small number of core white people guards, no one knows where this alchemy equipment, which is more valuable than all the alchemy workshops in Xiahui City combined, is kept, and those white people guards, and even

Qingchao itself doesn't even know what it does.

After Ian returned to his own territory, the first thing he did was to prepare for the construction of his own element crystallization production line to completely solve the energy problem in his territory. The core condenser is ready-made, and the remaining production line is quite simple, and Xia Huiling can produce it by itself.

The raw material "Night Crystal Mushroom", there is a channel and cultivation area in the Jiamu Department, and the Elder Manya took over the plantations located in the northern part of the Midra Autonomous Region and the Odore Autonomous Region, and after a short period of rectification, he sent a steady stream of Night Taste Mushrooms to the Kasumi Collar.

Around the end of the month, the crystallization of the elements produced by Xia Hui Ling will be freshly baked, providing sufficient and cheap energy for many new alchemy projects. "At that time, even without me, the territory will develop rapidly. I just need to keep track of the progress of key projects. “

Ian isn't a power-loving person, and if he could, he wouldn't want to be in charge of things at all and concentrate on research.

But in the continent of Terra, power and power complement each other, and if he has power, there will be power to follow.

Some call it duty", but that's only for responsible sublimators. There was a considerable part of the aristocracy that only liked to use power to satisfy their desires.

However, Ian was a responsible person, and after the end of the war and the inheritance of the Steel Dragon's Nest, he worked overtime for more than a week to prepare all the government affairs related to the mountain people and the development plan of Xiahui City, and then he had time to think about other issues.

Of course, this is not a bad thing - in the process of handling government affairs, Ian also converted "Kodenegama's soul into a mid-level spiritual computing unit using a silver chip."

As the "intermediate computing unit" condensed by the soul of the third energy level sublimator, its computing power is nearly 100 times that of the "foundation".

Compute Units". First, because the improvement of the quality of the soul greatly improves the structural strength of the computing unit, making overclocking acceleration operations easier, and secondly, because with sufficient quantity, the computing unit can also be built into a more complex computationally efficient structure.

By observing the structure of the intermediate computing unit, Ian also began to upgrade his soul, once again optimizing his computing power, and gradually strengthening his soul strength to the point of *** at the third energy level.

In this way, as Ian's soul strength increased, he also noticed that the number of "Spiritual Calamity Path Parallel Worlds" that he could link to in his Heart Light Body Guide Star was also increasing.

It is precisely for this reason that Ian had already unlocked the Spiritual Calamity path at the beginning of the year, but until now he has not begun to choose a parallel world to try the exchange technology. The opportunity is precious, and I can try it

If the link is better, don't compromise.

Nearly ten days have passed, and Ian has almost completely converted his soul into a "medium computing unit" structure, and his soul strength increase will slow down, and will remain at this level for a long time. At that point, he will begin to communicate with parallel worlds.

In this way, the basic computing unit is the "elementary meditation method", and the intermediate calculation unit is naturally the "intermediate meditation method". “

While experimenting with himself, Ian

On the other hand, he is also summarizing the foundation of the future arcane path: "But it is still too complicated, I can figure it out, but I also have to consider it for ordinary people." ”

He had already taught all the "meditation methods" he had summed up to Adalbert, asking the genius of the Dead Emperor to help him continue to optimize the meditation methods, and asking the other party to try to think about how to use the existing "meditation methods" to summarize a set of "apprenticeship meditation methods" that ordinary people with only "artificial souls" could learn.

Ian could do this research himself, but he was too short on time, and Adalbert also liked this kind of technology that could strengthen ordinary people. Being a leader means assigning the right tasks to the right people.

Knowing and employing people is the most important job of the lord. Only the most critical projects can make Ian take the time to study. Ian told Scott that he would continue to push forward the major projects in Xiahui's territory, and that he had something to do.

As for the money thing, he will figure it out.

In this regard, Ian is really not panicking.

Even if he can't cheat a sum of money from the eldest prince, he can still contact the Flint Group."

Alchemy plating agents that can be effective on armor have been proven to be practical, and their performance is extremely good, and they can be mass-produced, but now there are still some key problems in the project, such as the pass rate that need to be solved, so it is necessary to apply for a second batch of research funds to stabilize the quality of the plating agent.

That's all right?

Ian even had several follow-up reasons, such as "the need to develop special new alchemy equipment", "the need to train a new batch of professional alchemists", and "the need to improve the compatibility of different types of armor......

Every reason can cheat a wave of research funds! Ian is skilled!

As for what Ian is going on, he needs to leave the territory in the middle of his busy schedule, leaving behind all sorts of pretty important research and official duties... Nature is the most critical item.

The new advanced direction of the third energy level of the Immovable City is now a new potion that Ian has tentatively named "Lord of Steel", and its most critical core material, the "Earth Vein Source Crystal", was transported by the King of the Mountain, Benlong, and is now at the mouth of the Lone Flame Peak, waiting for him to enjoy.