Chapter 365: If you want to get rich, build roads first
The upper officials collect money, and the lower ones will follow suit. This kind of behavior will not necessarily directly affect the combat effectiveness of the army, but it will definitely weaken the loyalty of subordinates. Su Cheng understood this. But should the soldiers you bring always and completely obey you? This is not quite the same as the concept and method of Boss Su leading the Seven Swords Mercenary Group. However, Boss Su understands when he thinks about it: a real wealthy family must have a firm foothold in the military and politics in order to obtain a century-old inheritance.
What he couldn't understand was that Li Dingjun seemed to have an understanding and insight beyond ordinary people about Yue Wumu's life.
With the 10,000 gold coins lent to him by Li Dingjun, Boss Su returned to the Tongcheng Bar and summoned Duan Wei, Nan Feiyan and Miss Yuanbao. Li Yuanbao is here to deliver gold coins. At this moment, the mailing cost of a few thousand gold coins can also be saved. In addition to helping with transportation, Duan Wei and Nan Feiyan also had other tasks. The trio stuffed their backpacks with the Five Spirit Fat Bandages and the Black Mamba Snake Poison Antidote and headed to Velana together: he only needed to take on the name of Baron Velana, while Duan Wei and Nan Feiyan needed to use a one-time teleportation scroll sponsored by Sandra.
The Baron of Wildfire teleported into Velana, and his foothold was naturally in his Wildfire Castle. The castle is not large, the house covers an area of about five acres, the main building has two floors, the first floor covers two acres, the second floor is about an acre of slightly larger area, and there is a huge rooftop. Boss Su landed on a flagstand in the center of this rooftop, and behind him was a flagpole more than ten meters high. Looking down, the castle resembles a traditional courtyard house, with three sides of the main building, solid houses made of stone, and fortifications such as battlements. Rambo really built this place as a military camp! The gate is open, and although there are no houses above, there are also battlements. In the doorway, more than a dozen people were lying in the shade enjoying the cool breeze passing through the door. One of them seemed to see the baron of wildfire above the castle, and was rubbing his eyes at the baron.
"Brother Orange, where are you? How did we get to the palace of Vilena? Duan Wei looked confused.
"You used the teleportation scroll that the queen gave us, isn't it normal to send it to the palace? By the way, hurry up and show the name of your Seven Swords Mercenary Group! Don't get misunderstood! Tell the guards and wait for me at the gate of the palace - just wait for the Baron of Wildfire to come and meet the Queen! ”
As he spoke, Su Cheng went down to the first floor and entered the courtyard, and a group of construction workers had already surrounded him, and when they saw the baron of wildfire showing his title, they all bowed down at the same time. The foreman was the first to look up: "My lord, you're back!" We've worked day and night to finally build your castle! There are still some details, Lord Lan Bo said that you will wait for you to come back and take a look! ”
The project was not finished, and Boss Su didn't want to check out in a hurry, so he handed the foreman a handful of gold coins: "Everyone has worked hard." The gold coins were divided. I'm going to see the queen first, and I'll talk about the castle later. Just rest and get paid! ”
The Black Brothers let out a cheer!
It originally took more than two days to return to the palace from the wildfire. Sandra persuaded the two tribes along the way to set up a caravanserais, reducing the time to a few minutes, and it was already very easy to travel to and from each other.
Rundegol is already forty-two. He received two of Gunner's legacy: karate and alchemy. He has been staying in Veranna for more than ten days, although he can't level up normally, he can smoothly use the various herbs on Velana Island to hone his alchemy, which is quite a bit of a pleasure, not to mention that Gunna also gave him a task: to receive the baron of wildfire and assist in the transfer of materials after the baron of wildfire. There is a commission for this work! But Twilight. When Orange will come, no one can say. Her Majesty has already made up thousands of gold coins for the construction of the Baron's Palace, and she must be looking forward to the Baron's return as soon as possible. Hearing that two adventurers had teleported to the palace, he immediately went there, and the other party was indeed a man from the Baron of Wildfire.
The three of them waited together for Boss Su, Long Degor stayed at the palace gate, and the three of Seven Swords went to see Sandra together.
Rambo also accompanies Sandra in the palace, which is no better than the wilderness, and he also needs to show others a legend on the shelf. After the baron of Wildfire finished saluting the two, he presented the male and female swords, and then pulled the corners of Lan Bole's mouth: "Not bad, not bad." The quality of this sword is not something that the Grandmaster will never be able to forge. Ou Jianying? It's your Grand Master of Twilight, right? ”
"It's not. He is a descendant of the swordsmith, and he is on the same level as the Thunder Destroyer! ”
"Oh, I see. You're the inheritor chosen by this swordsmith, aren't you? Darling, we can help him with this. ”
Sandra laughed and said, "Are you worried about the few pieces of heavenly iron hidden in the palace?" ”
Lan Bo hehe: "If you don't forge it into a weapon, Tiantie is a waste." Besides, we can ask this little guy to forge for us after he gets the inheritance. Your class is better than ranged support, and your guard must be constantly strengthened. Otherwise, I won't be able to rest assured that I will go on missions in the future! ”
After a wave of dog food was spilled, everyone began to discuss business.
The Baron of Wildfire first settled the cost of the castle materials that Sandra had paid in advance: three thousand three hundred gold coins. Then ask about the cost of the teleportation array from Wilana City to Wildfire Keep. As for the cost of construction workers, it is almost negligible due to the addition of a discount on the mamba antidote.
The level of the space mage of the Principality of Verana is not high, and they can only build a short-distance teleportation array. To build a teleportation array that can travel through a long space to reach Frost City, you need at least a great magician of space magic. Sandra introduced: "I've been waiting for you to come, just to directly build the teleportation array of Wildfire Castle into a high-level teleportation array. Can teleport to both Velana and your Twilight Continent. The cost would skyrocket, but it would be much cheaper than building a short-distance teleportation array and a long-range teleportation array. ”
Lan Bo felt that the baron of wildfire was a little confused, knowing that he still didn't understand the level planning of the teleportation array: "The lowest level of the teleportation array is a short-range, one-way teleportation array, which is only a little more advanced than the one-way teleportation scroll in your hand. The Principality of Velana can build short-range two-way teleportation arrays. As for intercontinental teleportation, it is necessary to submit an application to the Intercontinental Parliamentary Union with the title of Grand Duke or above, and after obtaining approval, you need to hire the Grand Magister of the Space Law System to assist in the construction. ”
"Can you tell me about the specific level of the teleportation array?"
"Short distances, up to 300 km; Unidirectional. This is level one. The cost of materials for construction is 100 gold. The cost of hiring a construction mage is 900 gold. Maintenance costs are not included. Level 2 in both directions. The total price is 2,000 gold coins. A one-way teleportation array within 1,000 kilometers that does not cross the intercontinental boundary is level 3, and the construction cost is 4,000 gold coins; Four levels in both directions, five thousand gold coins. There is no one-way intercontinental teleportation array, and the total cost is not less than 10,000 gold coins. ”
The cost of the teleportation array is actually not very high, and the biggest expense is the magician's hired Filipino maid, followed by the maintenance cost.
After settling the material cost of the castle, Boss Su only had more than 12,500 gold coins in his hand, and it was impossible to use all of them for the construction of the teleportation array. But the matter has come to this point, and I am unwilling not to fight: "I have no money!" If we cooperate and build the Intercontinental Teleportation Array in Velana City, how much money is Her Majesty willing to pay? ”
Just waiting for your words! Rambo and Sandra looked at each other: "We think so too!" This will be of great benefit to the economic development of Wilena. But Wilana is in ruins, and she needs money everywhere. We can't squeeze out too much gold either. The advantage of intercontinental teleportation is that we can only build a teleportation array, and spend gold coins to light up the corresponding teleportation array channel icon to achieve teleportation to each other. ”
Self-built intercontinental teleportation array is equivalent to establishing an airline, right? At least it's also a highway! Is it as simple as you say? Boss Su didn't believe it.
"Herein lies the difficulty. Channel icons can be crafted with the help of the mage who built the teleportation array. But this thing itself is a miniature space magic array, and if it is transported through the teleportation array, it is easy to interfere with each other and cause disorder, which will disable the channel icon at least and cause damage to the teleportation array. So this thing can only be escorted by personnel on foot! ”
"So what?"
Sandra smiled: "I paid for the construction of the teleportation array, and the task of lighting up the channel icon is entrusted to you!" ”
I'll go! From Africa to the Western Regions, this is farther than Tang monks learning scriptures from the West! "Your Majesty, are you joking? Wouldn't it be enough to leave this kind of thing to Lan Bo? Leave it to me, I'd like to, but I can't squeeze out that much time! Tell me, not counting the remoteness of Twilight Continent, just to ...... How many days does it take to get to Kenny? ”
Sandra didn't speak, and Rambo said, "It's inconvenient for me to participate in this kind of thing." You don't know, most teleportation arrays are filled with channel icons. The more advanced the teleportation array, the more likely it is to be filled with channel icons. If we put ours up, we will probably need to take someone else's off. This creates competition. If I come forward, out of the principle of reciprocity, the other party will have a reason to send a legend to prevent it. Battles at my level will inevitably cause spatial fluctuations within a certain range, and will also adversely affect the channel coordinates. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, the legend will not come forward to participate in this kind of action. ”
Sandra threw out a decoy: "You take this task, I can ask the mage who built the teleportation array to leave the first channel icon to you!" This is irrevocable. ”
Boss Su had to take on this task, just to be able to bargain. Now that the price offered by the other party can be said to be full of sincerity, you can discuss the next action. "I have a question, what if I light up the channel icon today and someone dismantles it tomorrow?"
"Cold salad!" Lan Bo will also tell a Chinese joke: "Once the channel icon is lit, no one dares to remove it immediately." You have to wait for it to run steadily for a while. As long as you can prove that the channel you have built is more valuable than someone else's during this period of time, the owners of the other icons will unanimously maintain your icons. While this is difficult to guarantee, it can also make it difficult for the other party to reconstruct the channel icon. To put it simply, we need to increase the flow of people and logistics in this corridor during this period. The more the merrier! Haven't you walked through a similar passage? ”