"Silver ore?

Job's fat face changed color slightly, and then returned to normal, and said with a smile:

"My dear lord, don't be fooled by these mud legs. Yes, there's a poor little silver mine in your territory, but it was mortgaged to Lord March of the Red Leaf Territory last year. According to the laws of the Empire, it is no longer your mining area, do you need me to bring the mortgage deed to you for your inspection?"

"Mortgage silver mines?" Bai Xiaowen squinted, "How come I don't have an impression of such an important matter?" He searched his memory and confirmed that there was no such item in the young lord's memory.

Job smiled and said, "Of course you're not impressed. For you have long since entrusted me with all the affairs of the realm—your faithful steward, Old Jobe, is in full charge, and such a trivial matter as pledging the silver mines is of course within my authority. On the mortgage deed, there is your seal, and the whole process is legal and impeccable. ”

Li Shuyi's eyes flashed with a cold light, and her fingers quietly touched her waist.

Bai Xiaowen smiled slightly: "But Anton said that the silver ore mined every month was handed over to you in the name of the lord?"

Jobs laughed: "This is even simpler, I got the right to operate the silver mine from Lord March of the Red Leaf Lord! There is also a contract to testify - during the five-year validity period, all the output of the White Stone Silver Mine will be owned by me, except for a part of it that will be handed over to Lord March as a tax......

Bai Xiaowen nodded and said, "Mr. Job, you are really a loyal housekeeper. ”

As Job's original expectation, Bai Xiaowen's anger did not appear, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

However, Job still said cautiously: "Lord Dior, what do you want? Everything I do is in accordance with the laws of the Empire, and you have no right to punish me...... In addition, I would like to remind you that your lord's guard was disbanded two years ago due to lack of pay. ”

Speaking of which, Job seems to have gained more self-confidence and gradually found the initiative. The smile appeared again on his fat face:

"By the way, you can also fire me, or expel me from White Rock. Before you can do that, though, you'll need to settle the six months you owe me my wages, which is sixty gold coins...... I don't think you can afford it, can you?"

"Perhaps you should seriously consider my suggestion and sell the territory to Lord March of the Momiji Collar. He is also interested in your sister Miss Charlotte, and after buying the territory, if Miss Charlotte is willing to enter the Lord's Mansion of the Red Leaves and become a personal maid, Master March will pay another considerable amount of gold......"

Bai Xiaowen coughed and interrupted Job's words:

"Job, you're saying a good thing, and normally, I don't really have much to do with you. ”

Qiao Bu was stunned and looked at Bai Xiaowen.

"You're a little mistaken, though. As a noble shaman, there are times when I don't need to rely on the laws of the world to get my stuff back. ”

"What do you mean......

Qiao Bu just wanted to ask a question, but he saw Bai Xiaowen's right hand open, and the light of the four-color spell swirled in his palm, and finally selected the yellow spell and shot straight out!

The Spiritual Rule Prompt message came:

"The strength ratio is 0.378:1, and the success rate of the Confusion Charm is 62.20%. ”

"Detecting that your identity is the lord of Baishi Town, suppressing the identity of the target, and increasing the success rate of confusing judgment!"

"The bewilderment judgment of the Confusing Charm has been successful! Jobe Handel, the head of the Lord's Mansion in Baishi Town, Northern Xinjiang, has been bewitched. ”

Bai Xiaowen suppressed the excitement in his heart.

It's just that although the confusion effect of the Mind Charm is strong, it can only confuse one target, and then even if the 9-minute cooldown has passed, you can't cast the spell switch again, and you must abandon the target controlled by the confusion.

Once you give up control, the target will be directly brain dead - of course, Bai Xiaowen can also fight to be counterattacked, and at the same time give up control, use mental power to protect the target's brain, but this situation is relatively rare.

If he didn't give up control, the confusion effect would be maintained until Bai Xiaowen left the spirit realm.

This time he cast the bewilderment spell, which also made Bai Xiaowen realize the benefits of "identity", which added to the confusing effect. It seems that in the future, B-level and even A-level and S-level tickets will be more important to Bai Xiaowen than to others.

Everyone watched in amazement, and after Bai Xiaowen shot out a yellow light, Qiao Bu, who was still alive, actually became well-behaved and abnormal, kneeling in front of Bai Xiaowen, eager to kiss his shoes.

"Get up, Job. How much money have you saved in running the Baishi Silver Mine, and where did you put it?" asked Bai Xiaowen.

Jobe got up and said in a slightly mechanical voice: "I will exchange all the silver ore harvested for Imperial Gold Coins, seven of which will be traded to Lord March of the Red Leaf Lord, and the other thirty percent will be left to me." So far, I have saved about 474 gold coins, all of which are hidden in the cellar of my residence......"

"Lead the way. Bai Xiaowen gave a brief order, and then said to Anton and the others: "You follow me." ”

Anton and the others trembled a little, and did not dare to oppose in the slightest. Unexpectedly, the lord is still a wizard! In the Kane plane world, wizards are synonymous with mystery, and most people are avoided.

Jobe's residence is right next to the Lord's House.

It is worth mentioning that the fat man also hired someone to set up a blow arrow mechanism, and if an unwitting person tried to open the cellar, he would be shot by nine poisoned arrows shot from three holes in the wall. However, under the personal guidance of Job, this organ has become an ornament.

In the cellar, Bai Xiaowen saw a box of gold coins. As soon as his hand touched the gold coin box, a hint came.

"Territory building resource detected: Gold*470. The liege's page opens. ”

Bai Xiaowen was slightly stunned, and curiously clicked on the lord's page.

In front of Bai Xiaowen, a translucent interface appeared, showing a rough map of Baishi Town's territory.

In the top column, there is a line of words:

Population: 7

Gold: 479

Grain: 7

Building Materials: 0

Valuables: 0

"Could this be the information of the territory of Baishi Town?" Bai Xiaowen frowned and made an inquiry, "The population of the territory can't be only seven, right?"

The spirit rule prompt quickly responded: "The population displayed on your liege's page refers to the number of people who are radiated by your influence and are able to obey your commands." Residents of Whitestone who have not interacted with you, or who have never seen you, are not radiated by your influence and are not counted in the population of the realm. ”

"You can increase your fame and increase your influence to increase the total number of people your influence reaches. ”

Bai Xiaowen understood. To put it bluntly, you still have to brush your face.

With Bai Xiaowen's cleverness, he quickly drew inferences from one case and came up with the meaning of the latter three options.

Gold coins, grain, and building materials are all resources that specifically refer to Bai Xiaowen's "dominating authority". The private property of other lords in the territory, including gold coins, grain, and houses, Bai Xiaowen currently has no control over them, and they are not included in the lord page.

It is easy to understand that there are zero building materials and valuables, as for the food for 7 people, Bai Xiaowen thought about it for a while, probably referring to a bag of flour and a few strips of black bread in the kitchen of the lord's mansion......

As for the gold coin resources, 4 gold coins and some silver coins, copper pocket money have just been confiscated from Job, plus the 5 gold originally in the lord's house, a total of 479 gold coins are not wrong.

At the very bottom of the liege's page, there is another column of text.

Army: 0

Popular Hearts:2

Livability: 3

Prosperity: 5

The low values of these items were in Bai Xiaowen's expectation, after all, the vast majority of the people in the entire territory were in a state where they couldn't even eat enough, what kind of people's hearts could they have? bandits were rampant, which led to extremely poor livability.

Bai Xiaowen didn't know how to judge this value of livability, and there were still 3 points in the situation of Baishi Town. What would 2 o'clock or 1 o'clock look like? Probably not a deserted no-man's land?

Baishi Town is a large bandit den, and there are no caravans, and it is normal for the prosperity to be low.

Bai Xiaowen put the gold coin box into the storage space. This hand surprised Anton and the others again, considering Bai Xiaowen's identity as a "wizard", they would not be unacceptable after being surprised.

Suddenly, Anton boldly said, "My lord, since you are a wizard, why don't you go and exterminate the bandits in White Rock Town? Those damned bandits, especially the Black Wind Bandits, are killing and plundering people everywhere, and your people dare not work normally...... Without these robbers, with the minerals and fields of Baishi Town, even if they could not be rich, food and clothing should be no problem. Those who have left their homes will gradually come back, and the taxes handed over to you will increase. ”

A spiritual reminder message came:

"On. ”

"Mission Objective: Clear out the bandit gang in the territory of White Rock Town. ”

"Difficulty: Unknown. ”

"Duration of the mandate: none. ”

"Mission Reward: Unknown. ”

After this side quest was opened, Li Shuyi glanced at Bai Xiaowen and looked a little excited.

Bai Xiaowen has seen a lot of this Anton, what he said just now is clear, and the most rare thing is to persuade from the perspective of the lord, ordinary miners don't have this ability.

However, Bai Xiaowen refused this task.

"I naturally understand these truths," Bai Xiaowen said lightly, "However, I didn't go to exterminate the bandits, so naturally I have my reasons...... Anton, you reorganize a few miners and continue the mining of the silver mines. ”

Hearing that Bai Xiaowen didn't have the idea of exterminating the robbers, Anton and the others were a little disappointed.

"That'...... What about the Black Wind Bandits? They may raid the mines again. It's too dangerous. Anton tried to convince Bai Xiaowen to change his decision from another angle.

"How much did you get paid before?" Bai Xiaowen asked.

"180 coppers a week. Anton was puzzled, but replied honestly.

"As long as you are willing to go to the mining area, your weekly salary will increase by fifty percent," Bai Xiaowen said, "The Black Wind Bandit Group will not go to the mining area anymore, this is my guarantee as a lord." If you still don't want to go, I won't force it. I believe that at such a wage price, there will be many people in the territory who are willing to do it. ”

As soon as he heard the salary increase of 50%, the old miner's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Honorable lord, those new workers, the efficiency of excavation is definitely not as good as ours. ”

"So did you agree?" Bai Xiaowen looked at Anton.

Anton could only bow his head and agree: "Yes, Lord Lord." ”

Bai Xiaowen didn't pay much, just a few dozen more coppers a week. It is very important to restore the production of silver mines and maintain the income of gold coins.

After Anton and the others left, Bai Xiaowen ordered Job to take the mortgage contract of the silver mine and the sharing contract with the Red Leaf Lord March, and finally sent Job to the mine to supervise the mining work.

"You should be going to do it to those robbers. Li Shuyi said.

"Do you see that?" Bai Xiaowen asked with a smile.

"Yes, the best way to solve the main quest should be to recruit the robbers, right?"

Li Shuyi has actually been using her brains, "We can only stay here for 15 days, and no matter how we develop the territory, it will not be effective in half a month." Taking shortcuts to make a windfall is the only way. Those bandit dens, especially those of the Black Wind Bandits, should have a lot of money. ”

"Your idea is very good, and it coincides with me. Bai Xiaowen praised it, which made Li Shuyi a little embarrassed.

"Then why did you turn down the mission?" asked Li Shuyi.

"Shuyi, we are wandering in the spirit world, we don't have to take the task when we see it," Bai Xiaowen said, "Think about it, Anton himself has four walls, as the initiator of the mission, what kind of reward can he give us?"

Li Shuyi shook her head.

"If we take on this mission, these people will know that we are going to launch an offensive against the bandits. Our surprise advantage is gone," Bai Xiaowen said, "Don't expect Anton to keep it a secret...... Maybe Anton himself can, but what about the others?"

Bai Xiaowen took a breath, "Once the news leaks, it will affect my plan. In addition, Anton released this side quest, and there were no decent rewards at all, and after completing the task, he became more loyal to me at most. And even if you don't accept the task and directly destroy the bandit group, you will still gain his loyalty and gratitude, and it can also play a role in secrecy. ”

Li Shuyi nodded, indicating that she understood.

Bai Xiaowen and the others returned to the lord's mansion and found a dilapidated map of Baishi Town in the hall.

As can be seen from the map, the iron mine occupied by the Black Wind Bandits, called "Cliff Mine", is located in the southwest area of White Rock Town.

"The first target, is the Black Wind Bandit Group? Won't it be too exciting, you should pick a weaker bandit group first, and see if the difficulty of the Kane Plane World is high. Li Shuyi asked.

"There's a reason why I directly chose the Black Wind Bandit Group," Bai Xiaowen looked at the two contracts in his hand, "Don't you think this bandit group is very strange?"