Starting from Zero

Technical transformation is not something that can be completed in one or two days, and we can only hope that the researchers of the trade association can think of solutions.

Asura purple clothed walked to my side and said: "I'm going to Clark to order guild badges and various logos. Is there anything I need to deal with by the way?"

"Yes! I just have something to ask Clark for help. Do you know the characteristics of NPC equipment?" Asura purple clothed said: "I asked about NPC equipment a few days ago."

"How is the result?"

"There are two types of NPC equipment, one is called special equipment. This type of equipment can only be worn by NPC, and the other is called general equipment, just like us. General equipment. In other words, players can use NPC equipment, but NPC equipment players may not be able to use it."

"Can Clark build NPC equipment?"

"Yes."

"Then you go and tell Clark that he will help build the temple guard's equipment, and I will be responsible for the cost. Also, help me order a few sets of this." I let Scot Give the equipment to Asura purple clothed. "My demon servant doesn't have enough equipment now. You let Clark make 10 sets like this."

"Then I will go first."

"En! Go ahead."

After Asura purple clothed left, I also left the port. Now the guild is reasonably collocation of various parts, and I don’t have much to do. In the next few days, everyone was busy with the construction work in the three cities. The goods from the Northern Alliance and Atlantis arrived one after another, and the construction work began one after another. The armor of Ring Tone Knight was completed quickly. My 21 Ring Tone Knights all have the same equipment, but the mounts cannot be unified for the time being. Fortunately, I have a lot of familiars. 20 ordinary ringtone knights use heavy armored dragons, and Skye is the leader and needs special points. I let him use my steel claws. Anyway, I have night shadows, but I can still ride dragons.

It’s the 16th today. The materials needed for urban construction are basically complete, and a few of them have been contacted. However, there is still a problem that seriously affects our development, that is, the labor force. Isinger is already a super metropolis, and the steel city is bigger than Isinger. Although there is no need to build city walls and defense facilities, the amount of work is still not small. Although Tianyu City in Europe is not large in size, it is being expanded recently, and because the Iron Crusade wants to buy steel from us, Tianyu City’s Transmission Formation has been expanded into a super large Transmission Formation and a special application has been made for the construction of a cargo passage. The cities built by players are basically Level 4 Transmission Formation. These Transmission Formations can only transmit players and some portable items. If you want to transmit NPCs other than player pets and monster servants, you must have Level 3 Transmission Formation. If you want to transmit a large amount of goods, you must have Level 2 Transmission Formation. If you want to transmit large or large quantities of goods, you must have Level 1 Transmission Formation. Isinger’s Transmission Formation is basically Level 2 Transmission Formation, with some Level 1 arrays in a few places, and Transnational Transmission Formation is a special-grade Transmission Formation, which does not limit the transmission of items and distances.

According to this calculation, the amount of construction projects in each city is very large, and we simply cannot rely on the NPCs and guild players that can be mobilized in the city. Everyone thought of a lot of ways that were not good, and finally Xiao Yao proposed to hire workers. "Zero" is not a pure fight and kill game, construction is also a kind of fun, otherwise the "Simulation City" series of games will not sell so hot. There are a large number of non-combat players in "Zero". These people are practicing life professions, especially the various craftsmen. It would be a good idea to hire these people. Anyway, NPC craftsmen in the city also spend money, so please make it cheaper for players. Everyone agreed that this plan was very good, so I was elected as the recruiting supervisor.

Take Rose and Bingbing to Yunxiao City. When the City Lord is a bit of a cow, we held a job fair in the lobby of the original Light God Palace. Other guilds are not as big as ours. More than two hundred guards were mobilized from the city defense team to maintain order outside the temple, and Vina's temple guards were watching inside the temple anyway. I chose this place for job fairs. First, considering that there are many people in the main city of the system, we don't dare to go to other cities. At present, there is no player city as big as Isengard, as long as the bigger cities in the whole system are temple cities. These cities are either the Light God Palace or the subordinates of the Dark God Palace. With our current relationship, we see that the light and dark cities are going around, so don't think about it when you enter the city. Fortunately, the largest number of free cities in the game are neutral free cities, which usually do not affect our activities, but those big cities must not be close.

I have been drilling the valley to fight monsters before, and I have rarely entered the city. Today I opened a job fair to know that I was indeed out of date. Rose asked the city’s NPC guard to post an announcement one day in advance, and also hired players to go to other cities to promote it. The people who came to participate today are myriad. Rose at first let me open 16 channels. I still find it strange. Now I know why there are so many. Seeing this is not enough, I would have opened 36 if I knew it!

The gates in the middle of the temple are opened side by side with railings to open 16 passages, all the way from the entrance to the central square in front of the temple. At the entrance of each passage, there is an NPC responsible for maintaining order and clearing. The person who wants to sign up enters the temple from the passage. There is a table at the end of each passage. Two NPCs sit behind the table. After completing the procedures, they can leave through the small door behind the temple and directly enter the large Transmission Formation dedicated to the temple. Singh. Today I brought all Isinger’s high level NPC clerks, and their work efficiency is 200% faster than normal NPCs, but even so, the line is still very long.

Rose and Bingbing are standing behind the row of NPCs. If there is something that needs special handling, the NPC will hand it over to them. I myself run around inside and outside the temple, dealing with all kinds of amusing incidents. This time we recruit not only non-combat players, but also combat players. The two teams on the far right are dedicated to recruiting combat players, and those who fight are generally from these two teams.

I was patrolling the square, and suddenly I heard someone calling me. When I looked up, I saw an NPC cavalry leader standing on the top of the steps and shouting below: "Sir City Lord, please come here."

A line of people on the steps turned their heads to look at me. Anyway, I didn't wear a dragon suit today. I was in an order armor. No one knows who I am. Just look at it. All the way to the top of the steps, I walked into the temple and asked the NPC: "What's the matter?"

"There is someone playing a rogue inside."

I saw the middle as soon as I entered the great hall. There was a player standing in a team arguing.

"What are you guys? Isn't this a joke?" The player was still yelling, and the players behind were blocked by him and could not go through the formalities.

I walked over and said: "What's the matter?"

The rose sticks to my ear and whispered: "This person is a combat player, but he is standing in a non-combat The player came up from the team, and we asked him to re-queue to the next table to register, but he refused to line up and had to apply immediately. "I was about to walk over and was pulled back by Rose. "Don't be too impulsive. There are too many players here. Even if we are reasonable, we can't be too tough."

I patted her waist: "Don't worry, I don't know how serious it is?" Let go of Rose. Go to the person. "I'm the president of the Frost Rose League, how about we talk to the side? Don't delay other people's time."

"Then the delay to my time doesn't count? I can't do the rest today. Don't think about it. Do." That player is so long that he put on airs, didn't expect to speak so aggressively!

I smiled and said: "Look, the players behind are also very anxious. It's not a solution for you to keep stuck like this? In case there are some players waiting to come up to trouble you in a hurry, There are so many people here. I don’t know who hit you. If you want to catch it, it’s not easy to catch it. It’s not good how you say it.” I deliberately made the voice loud enough for the players behind to hear it. Murder a person with a borrowed knife. To be in place.

Actually, the players who are stuck behind here have long been unhappy with this guy, but the NPCs on both sides of the team stood in two rows, and no one dared to move. When I put it in this way, I meant to imply that beating is not against the law. Nowadays, people are very good at it, and they understand it. Hula, a group of people gathered up and knocked the guy down.

I stood by and stopped the NPC guard who wanted to step forward, but kept shouting: "Everyone must calm down. Go back to the team. It is not good to hit people."

< p>Anyway, I called me, and it was a good fight inside. After a while, the guy was thrown out like a puddle of mud, and his body was full of footprints. After the fight, the players of the two teams quickly resumed their teams, as if nothing happened. I walked to the side loudly and said: "A group of people were beating a player here just now. Who of you saw that group of people?"

Someone replied: "I saw it, that group of people seems I ran outside."

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I immediately answered: "Oh! It's probably a long run after so long. We still have something to do, so we won't chase it anyway. No life was killed." As a result, there was a burst of laughter below.

Order was restored in the temple, and I walked back to Rose and Bingbing. "The power of the masses is invincible, do you know?"

Rose gave me a punch with a smile: "You can!"

Our guild’s recruitment this time is considered a game The biggest recruitment since the beginning, and Rose did a good job in the preliminary work, so many people came to participate. Because it is in the game, it is very easy to recruit people, just look at the skill level. In the 48-hour job fair, we actually recruited more than 300,000 non-combat players, which is almost three-thousandths of the total number of non-combat players in China. After the recruitment was over, the labor required for urban construction was solved, but my economy also collapsed. The Dragon King only cares about Isengard's expenses, I have to pay for other cities, which is not a good thing. Although steel mines are a good thing, it takes time to convert steel into cash. Although the magic crystal in hand is very popular, we also need it and cannot sell it. I turned over the rubbish in the bracelets. I sold all the useless necklaces, armors, weapons, etc., but these all are small money, which is of little significance to the construction of the guild. It seems that we are about to enter the economic crisis again!

Rose and I lie on the top of the Juling Pagoda together, watching the sunrise while thinking about questions.

"You said I have any way to solve the economic crisis?" I asked with my arm around Rose's shoulder.

“There are three types of generally speaking countermeasures to our economic crisis. The first is to expand reinvestment, but I think this is not good. The second is to produce capital. Although we have this advantage, after all, this The method takes time."

"You mean you want me to use the Third Type method? Tell me directly what it is?"

Rose is very firm and said: "Foreign war."

"Fighting?"

"Capital plundering is the most effective and quickest way to solve economic crises. War drives consumption and produces spoils of war at the same time. The biggest advantage of passing on economic crises is to supplement We weaken the enemy at the same time."

"But what are we going to do? Pure war cannot make money unless you want to do arms business."

"Why not? "Rose asked me back. "It's very difficult to study manufacturing technology from finished weapons. It doesn't mean that we can copy our items. And we have absolute technological advantages, why can't we sell arms?"

"Okay. This one I understand."

"You have to think carefully about the sales, or you may end up making trouble for yourself."

"You don't have to worry about this, and how can I say it? Longyuan’s successor. I’m from the arms dealer Aristocratic Family!"

"Arms is only one aspect, there are other businesses."

"For example?"< /p>

"For example, taxation." Rose took out the financial records of our guild. "Look, our guild has done a lot of things so far. Being pirates, selling and eliminating battleships, gold trading, steel trading, transportation, and taxes in Yunxiao City. Among these aspects, the most stable and profitable one is Yunxiao City. Don’t look at the money you swindle from the Dragon King NPCs, it’s actually not much more than the city tax. Don’t underestimate the Silver Coin of the Transmission Formation usage fee, and don’t underestimate the 5% tax of each store, as well as the city gate. The entrance fee is 10 copper plates per person per time. The money is not much, but did you know? The 4 city gates in Yunxiao City have charged more than 10 million people in the least one day so far. You calculate it, 10 million People, 10 copper plates per person, that’s 100 million copper plates! There are at least 100,000 crystal coins per day for the entrance fee! 10 copper plates are converted into renminbi 1 dime. Beggar doesn’t care about 1 dime, but it can be done in one day. Provide us with 100,000 crystal coins. What do you think of this number? I have calculated the traffic in Divine City and Goddess City. The minimum number of people in Yunxiao City is 10 million per day, and the maximum number of people during holidays is 200 million. The average value is 2500. In other words, the income from the entrance fee of Yunxiao City can reach 250,000 crystal coins a day on average. Our guild owns 54% of the shares of Yunxiao City, and the admission fee is 135,000 crystal coins per day. In fact, the entrance fee is quite small. The rent of city shops, taxes, the cost of Transmission Formation, the cost of various offices, and the expenses of the temple. Now there is an additional catering industry. I have calculated that the income of a day in a city like Yunxiao City can still reach after tax 10 million crystal coins, we can allocate 5.4 million crystal coins, do you think the city is the most profitable industry?"

"According to your calculation, it is indeed a lot. But the city expenses are not small! "

"I have calculated that the cost of the city is mainly construction costs. The maintenance fee does not exceed 2 million crystal coins a day. Even in a city as big as Isengard, it is only 2.5 million crystal coins. The profit is The space is huge!"

"Do you mean that I want to build cities in other countries?"

"Not only to build cities, but also to make full use of the Contradiction."

"What do you mean?"

The rose shouted at the eye of hell above her head: "Eye of hell, open the map of China's coast and nearby areas." Hell Eyes instantly projected a perfect map in front of us. Rose pointed to South Korea and said: "This is South Korea. Just like the Chinese, they also hate Japanese people."

"Of course I know this."

"And our guild I have exactly what Koreans need."

"You mean transnational Transmission Formation?"

Rose gave me a quick kiss on my face. "It's really smart. We can build a city in South Korea. It doesn't need to be too big, as long as it can put down a Korean local Transmission Formation and a transnational Transmission Formation. Three square kilometers is enough."

"So it's not a big bunker?"

"Anyway, don't do anything, it's just a Transmission Formation entrance, no matter how big it is!"

"That's right! But where are Koreans going with Transmission Formation? Can't they be sent to China?"

"Just praise you for being clever and stupid. Korea. Of course people are going to Japan."

"But we didn't...!" I suddenly understood the meaning of roses. "You mean to build a city in Japan, and then let the Koreans go to fight the Japanese?"

"Yes. But it's not only that. We want to build in Japan not one, but two cities. "

"What do you want two to do?"

"Fight against each other!"

"Huh?"

"Our guild Isn’t there a lot of Japanese players? Let them build a city in Japan in the name of a Japanese, keep it secret, and prevent the Japanese from knowing that it is a city we built, and even let a few players leave our guild to form a separate Japan. The guild builds a city over there. Then we are next to this city, not too far away, and then build another city. But this time we need a large city, which must be well armed, and it is best to be close to the sea, so that our warships It can play a role."

"I see. When the time comes, Little Japan definitely wants to attack our city, but their warships can't beat us at sea. We can only come from land, which is the nearest to us. This is the city we secretly built. When the time comes, Little Japan will definitely gather in this city to supply supplies and fight with us for a long time. We transport Koreans to Japan to fight against Little Japan. Both cities are ours, we only need Just collect the money. If you want to fight, there will be deaths and injuries, and you will need a lot of weapons. We can build a lot of weapons shops, medicine shops, resurrection halls, etc. in both cities. When the time comes...hehehehe!" I couldn't help holding the rose back to kiss one. "You are really black!"

"I'll help you out and you still say I am black and have no conscience!" The next step is to start working hard for this strategy.

The first thing to do is to stop the construction of Tianyu City, and three more cities will be built immediately. So many places require money, and I really can’t stand it. At the same time I stopped building Tianyu City, I started to officially sell steel to the Iron Crusade. Our guild itself used the graphite steel produced by the Crystal Beetle, but the Iron Crusade certainly can't sell the graphite steel, just provide raw steel directly. While selling the steel, we also provided the Iron Crusade with new artillery, which is part of the Shenwu Cannon technology, and the condition is that the Iron Crusade quickly raises 20 million crystal coins for us. The Shenwu Cannon itself is a cannon of the Iron Crusade. 20 million is definitely expensive, but we have given corresponding policies, such as the exclusive right to buy out steel mines. Our guild is not allowed to sell to any European guilds other than the Iron Crusade. Sell ​​steel mines.

The 20 million is obviously not enough. I found Hong Yue again and asked her to bring Feng Yin Misiao over. After negotiation, Feng Yin Miaomiao agreed to provide 50 million crystal coins to support us, but he must have 10% of the shares in the three cities built. We are not at a loss even if we count, there is no way at the initial stage but to borrow money to live! Our own guild now has 50 million misappropriable funds, plus the 70 million raised, a total of 120 million crystal coins.

The city in South Korea doesn’t need to be too big. When the time comes, I advertised it to the Korean players, saying that we Chinese hit the Japanese and opened a channel for them by the way. When the time comes, the Koreans won’t We have attacked the city we built in South Korea, and even the monster siege Korean players may help us in our defense. So the city in South Korea does not need to be too big, it is enough to build with 2 million crystal coins. The two cities on the other side of Japan are going to be at war, and they must be built very tall and strong. According to our calculation, a city needs at least 90 million crystal coins. In other words, there are still about 60 million loopholes.

After thinking for a long time, I suddenly thought of someone. "Rose? Do you think it's okay to borrow money from Misty Rain?"