Urban Sims

The resources were purchased, but the problem of worry soon arose.

These resources cannot be left alone and ignored. Someone must help manage them in order to produce the best benefits.

Gangjing City in District 52 can be left alone. The city management system can run independently and be managed by local people who bought the mayor's position. What Zhou Ming has to do is to adjust the city tax rate within the allowed range. Adjusting the usage prices and rules and regulations of various subsystems such as the monitoring system, information query system, land price system, legal system, assessment system, etc... only requires small-scale fine-tuning.

But not Area 51.

Area 51 must be assigned a dedicated person in charge to come down and manage it directly.

Because most of the miners in Area 51 are illiterate, strong and prone to trouble, if they don't send people down, no matter how hard the management of the mining company works, it will turn into a mess within a few months.

It is impossible for Zhou Ming to go down on his own. One is because the system does not allow it, and the other is that he does not have that much energy.

You can only go to the job posting center of the game city and post a recruitment information to recruit a qualified manager.

After the recruitment information was released, because Zhou Ming's salary of 8,000 dollars per year was above the average level, many people came to apply. Zhou Ming interviewed forty or fifty people.

After picking and choosing, a person named "Ban Gongyu" caught Zhou Ming's eyes.

This Mr. Ban is 128 years old this year. He looks like he is only in his fifties. He has a stern look and a walking pace. He always has a smile on his face, giving people the feeling of an old fox.

Originally, Zhou Ming didn't want to recruit someone like him. He felt that he was too slick and sophisticated, difficult to control, not very honest, and might take advantage of some loopholes.

However, Zhou Ming took a fancy to his experience and served six bosses successively, with a total of 90 years of experience in eight low-level areas.

It can be said that his experience is a huge wealth in Zhou Ming's eyes.

So after recruiting Mr. Ban, Zhou Ming went to him and consulted a lot about issues in different lower-level areas.

"Mr. Ban, generally speaking, what type of low-level areas are the most difficult to manage? Those that lack resources, those with strong folk customs, or those with overpopulation?"

"Any low-level area is not difficult to manage, as long as more than 90% of the people can survive and will not starve to death."

"What if it's not guaranteed?"

"Then find a way to reduce some of the people."

"Reduction, how to reduce it? Massacre, plague, or large-scale killing competition?"

"There are many ways. These are just the simplest methods. They will have a certain effect in the short term. But if you want to maintain that effect in the long term, you must use some more complicated methods with long-term bloodletting effects. For example, create two factions and regularly create some Disputes, divisions, conflicts, etc... Let the two factions fight and vendetta, the effect will be very good..."

The corners of Mr. Ban's mouth raised slightly, revealing his signature devilish smile.

"Besides these, is there no better way?"

Mr. Ban shook his head and said: "No, resources are limited. This planet cannot support an excessive population of rubbish. No area can develop uncontrollably."

Zhou Ming did not ask any more questions. He had heard similar theories many times. In the brainwashing broadcast at Area 51, what impressed him most was always the opening sentence: "This world was once destroyed by greed..."

Precisely because of the infinite destructive power of greed, we must use the model of the money empire to prevent the infinite expansion of greed...

But is this really the best way?

Does greed only have disadvantages and no benefits at all?

Zhou Ming disagrees, but now he is still within this set of rules. If he wants to deny this model, he must at least go beyond the rules and stand as a top designer to design a better world.

A week later.

Mr. Ban was sent to his area 51 and officially took over the area.

In addition, for the personal safety of Mr. Ban, he hired a team of security guards and security robots (including 5 humans and 100 robots) with good firepower from the security company of the game city for 5,000 gold per year... Including Mr. Ben's salary, the annual management cost reaches 13,000 yuan.

The total value of the ore mined in Area 51 each year is only about 100,000 dollars.

After deducting various costs, Zhou Ming discovered that in the next 30 years, unless Area 51's ore production experienced explosive growth, not only would he not make any money, but he would have to pay hundreds of thousands.

The same is true for Gangjing City. In the past ten years, economic growth has been extremely slow, public security has not improved at all, and private weapons workshops have begun to resurgence.

He thought for a while, anyway, Gangjing City couldn't make much money in a year, so he might as well do "light corvee, small tax, and rest with the people". First, he lowered the city tax rate from the original highest of 28% to the lowest. 11%, and all the taxes collected will be invested in the construction of various public facilities in the city, reducing the cost of monitoring systems, strengthening public security, vigorously developing other industries besides steelmaking, etc...

In short, he just wanted to conduct a series of experiments within the limits allowed by the rules to see if he could achieve some of the effects he wanted.

This includes Area 51.

…

Paradise Island, east of Game City, Area 11.

In a dense virgin forest, a tall castle stood in front of Zhou Ming.

The plane landed slowly on a green lawn. After getting off the plane, Zhou Ming, accompanied by two bodyguards, visited the owner of the castle.

This castle is called "Dragon Blue Castle".

The owner of the castle is named "Long Shengguang", and is known as Earl Shengguang (there are no honorary awarding organizations such as earl and baron in the upper area. Such titles are people's honorific titles for rich people). It is said that he is a very rich man. A big shot, he is also the owner of District 11.

The purpose of Zhou Ming's visit to Earl Shengguang was to buy a piece of land from him.

One piece is used to build a small castle, for long-term living and residence, to avoid external interference, and to form one's own private power here.

He has seven or eight houses in the game city, but he does not live in each house for more than half a year, or he rotates several houses in order to avoid being stared at, disturbed, and causing trouble for him.

Zhou Ming hid very deeply. Even so, after winning the 2 million yuan from Rogaby, the other party quickly found him. No matter where he lived, in a day or two, there would be someone claiming to be Rogaby's servant. , invited him to the castle as a guest, Zhou Ming made excuses several times to shirk the invitation. The other party became so angry that he directly called two gangsters who were doing dirty work. When the threat failed, they actually wanted to take him away.

After three or five moves, the two gangsters were knocked to the ground by Zhou Ming. After two injections of slave potion, these two gangsters with quite strong physiques became his personal bodyguards.

Naturally, Zhou Ming found that the game city was not a place to stay for a long time. He wanted to buy a piece of land outside the city. On the one hand, he could avoid harassment. On the other hand, as he had more and more resources at his disposal, he wanted to build a place of his own. Private power is imminent.

Inside Longlan Castle.

In an elegant living room, Zhou Ming is waiting for tea.

Looking around, there are many beautiful and colorful oil paintings hanging on the walls around the living room. According to Zhou Ming's appreciation, these oil paintings have a very high artistic level, whether it is the combination of colors, the expressions of the characters, the light and shadow of the scenery... It is completely comparable to the works of first-class oil painting masters.

"Earl Shengguang is not only a rich man, but also an artist in the field of painting." Zhou Ming muttered in his heart.

After waiting for about half an hour, an old man in his sixties, wearing a family robe, with a handsome and gentle face and calm eyes, walked into the living room with strong steps.

Earl Shengguang!

"Hello, Mr. Earl Shengguang." Zhou Ming stood up and said hello.

"No need to be polite, sit down... I heard that you want to buy a piece of land from me. What is it for?" After sitting down, Earl Shengguang asked straight to the point.

"Build a castle where you can live in peace, retire, and enjoy the joy of ordinary life..."

"He has great ideals to pursue... Butler, bring the map and let him choose."

The old butler next to him agreed, took out an electronic map board from his clothes, put it on the table and unfolded it, letting Zhou Ming choose for himself.

On the electronic map board, District 11 covers an area of ​​about 10,000 square kilometers. Except for Longlan Castle in the center, which accounts for about 20% of the area, the surrounding land is evenly divided into 80 square small squares. The area of ​​each small square is 100 square kilometers. The red ones represent sold and the blue ones represent unsold.

Zhou Ming saw that on the map board, 23 plots were displayed in red, occupying the lands that were closer to Longlan Castle, had the best terrain, and had the best scenery. The remaining 57 plots were slightly worse.

"I choose land 66. How much does this land cost?"

Site 66 is close to the eastern coast, with sea breeze, sea views, and beaches... If you build a castle here, it would be a really good choice.

Long Shengguang gave him a slightly surprised look. This boy had a pretty good eye. He also liked what his daughter liked.

He thought for a moment and said, "Okay, 1 million dollars, a lease term of one hundred years. If confirmed, we can sign the agreement immediately."

one million? It's so expensive. A small piece of land like this usually only costs two to three hundred thousand dollars, one million...

But the white sandy beach, the blue sea... did have an irresistible attraction for him. In addition, it can be rented for a hundred years. After thinking about it, Zhou Ming nodded and said: "Okay, this land. I bought it!"

…

After signing the contract and buying the land, Zhou Ming immediately contacted a construction team, drew a design drawing, and asked the construction team to construct according to the design on the drawing. Then he returned to the game city and bought more than a dozen A home service robot and dozens of security robots. He also spent 250,000 yuan to buy a private jet, which is purely electric-driven and has a maximum range of 3,000 kilometers. He also hired a pilot with a salary of 400 yuan/month. member.

It took three months to complete the castle. The building covers an area of ​​five acres, has ten floors and is 50 meters high (the top of the tower is still 20 meters tall). The exterior is painted white and there are 300 rooms inside. It was named " The small castle "Fort Hope", together with the land rent, cost him a total of 2.5 million yuan...