I have millions of wage earners

The larger the potato village, the higher the management costs.

Of course, Flynn also has potato village taxes.

Although the tax rate in Flynn is very low, it can be said to be enough to maintain the operation of a medieval town.

The key is that the taxes Flynn collects from Tudou Village are low taxes. The standards for building a potato village are based on high modern standards.

In addition to maintaining the current Tudou Village, Flynn also needs to invest a lot of money in building transportation and security for the entire Tudou Village map.

From Tudou Village to Dunshan Town, from Shuilong Lake to Molang Mountain, from Pamukkale to the black iron mines in the underground world, infrastructure construction is ongoing everywhere, and all of this requires money.

Another big source of spending is Flynn's business needs.

Nowadays, Tudou Village's business is very developed. It is not as developed as a border town. In other words, it is precisely because Tudou Village is connected to the human civilization world and the wild land in the north of the mainland that the business of Tudou Village can be so developed.

Every day, businessmen traveling from north to south pass through Tudou Village to do business.

Flynn himself has been buying various supplies needed by Potato Village from these human or non-human merchants.

Such as copper ore, the specialty herbs of tiger people, the low-end meat used to raise griffons, and some handicrafts that cannot be produced in Potato Village.

and the expensive and in-demand mithril ore.

Flynn had always thought that when he had tens of thousands of players, he would be able to obtain an average of 10,000 grams of mithril powder a day, so he would definitely not have to worry about mithril powder.

As a result, various mid-to-high-level functions of the system are gradually emerging, and the Mithril required can easily reach thousands or tens of thousands.

Maintaining the operation and safety of Tudou Village also requires a large number of NPCs and guards.

Tens of thousands of players also need to consume a large amount of mithril powder every day.

As a result, Flynn's speed of storing mithril was much slower than he thought.

Saving several kilograms of mithril powder a day may seem scary, but in reality it only amounts to a few thousand gold coins. In a year, it may be less than a million gold coins.

Flynn couldn't wait patiently for the system's daily mithril points.

In order to maintain the development speed of Tudou Village at the ultra-fast online game speed level, it is necessary to purchase mithril ores regularly.

This is another very expensive expense.

Therefore, although Flynn now has a lot of cash flow on hand, he still needs gold coins.

Flynn spoke to Zhen as if he were making small talk, and at the same time, he seemed to be summarizing himself.

"Now that the south bank of the Wolf Claw River is basically calm, the brave men of my Big Potato Village have begun to take risks on the north bank."

"The north bank of the Wolf Claw River is a very vast area, several times the area under the current jurisdiction of Tudou Village."

"Based on limited information, I estimate that the terrain unit on the north bank of the Wolf Claw River covers an area of ​​at least 100,000 square kilometers, which is almost the size of a country called Nanbang Country."

"According to big data, there are various trolls, giants, humans, and elves strongholds on the north bank of the Wolf Claw River, and there are often demonic troop movements."

“It is not an easy task to open up territory on the North Shore.”

"In order to give the brave men of Tudou Village more space for activities, I need to continue to invest a lot of money."

"Really, now do you understand the importance of the dinar to Potato Village?"

This time it was rare that he listened to Flynn's words seriously, and then nodded and said: "Okay, okay, knight, I'm just joking for you. Don't be so serious, and be more chic like me."

"However, I am very confused. It is obvious that you, the knight, have not even fully developed the south bank of the Wolf Claw River."

"Why are you so eager to develop to the north bank of the Wolf Claw River? I remember you said, knight, that you prefer careful development and don't need rapid and mindless expansion."

Flynn smiled, and then sighed: "It's not that I'm in a hurry to expand, but that the brave men of my Potato Village need a wider space."

"A brave man never stops."

In fact, he was right. Flynn himself felt that his expansion speed was a bit too fast.

In less than a month, the entire south bank of the Wolf Claw River was covered.

At the same time, the number of players exceeded 10,000, and the indigenous population was reaching 40,000.

Cultivated land continues to expand, new industries are constantly established, and the army is constantly expanding.

Many things are developing rapidly.

But it is still in its early stages and has not been fully developed.

Theoretically, and based on Flynn's own ideas, it is best for Tudou Village to develop its internal affairs behind closed doors, stabilize it and avoid overexpansion.

But in fact, Flynn, as a lord in online games, has already been tied to the ever-expanding chariot by fanatical and militant players.

Flynn wants to lock them up to develop internal affairs, but are the players willing to simply stop and work every day to make money?

For most players, working to earn money is just an intermediate step that allows them to fight better.

Flynn must continue to expand and constantly look for new enemies and new adventure areas in order to satisfy the desire of the hot-tempered braves to fight.

In the current Tudou Village, there are still monsters in the wild area on the south bank of the Wolf Claw River, but the number is small and the distribution is very scattered. It cannot be called a stable adventure monster-fighting area.

The main stable adventure area is the underground world - there are too many monsters in that vast underground world, and the space is layered, so it can meet the adventure needs of players.

But if there are tens of thousands of players in such a large Tudou Village and there is only one adventure area in the underground world, it will be too monotonous.

For the sake of diverse gameplay, Flynn naturally has to let players continue to venture to the North Shore area.

The terrain unit on the north bank of the Wolf Claw River covers an area of ​​100,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to countries such as Nanjing and Iceland. It can meet the adventure needs of thousands of brave people in Tudou Village for a long time.

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Flynn spent money to transform Magic Wolf Mountain into a livestock farm, and set up strongholds and NPCs on the side peaks of Magic Wolf Mountain, allowing players to use the side peaks of Magic Wolf Mountain as a springboard to continue venturing to the north shore to open maps.

Players are also keen to take action on the North Shore and enjoy discovering new information on the vast new map.

But in this way, new problems also arise.

That's the distance, this real-world game lacks the portals like in the real game.

The transportation lines throughout Flynn's territory are actually very well built.

With the dual transportation capacity of horse-drawn carriages and griffons, plus roads that are close to modern standards, you can even boast that Tudou Village’s transportation is one of the best in the entire kingdom—except for a few main roads in the territories of other major lords, , how is it possible to continuously build a dense road network like Flynn?