Vol 2 Chapter 79: next steps

Loucheng issued a notice that another group of people have obtained resident qualifications and will go to the designated location to collect items.
The residents who received the notice were all smiles and happily lined up in a long queue.
Seeing this scene, the candidate residents were full of envy in their hearts.
Things like this keep happening these days, and many people have been notified without any preparation.
Some people are envious and jealous, and some people work harder and harder, thinking that it will not be long before it will be their turn.
In the middle of the city, the most indispensable thing is hope. As the slogan on the wall says, loyal efforts will definitely be rewarded.
Even if the cunning and cunning people have been exposed to their ears and eyes for a long time, their behavior will change.
Today's Loucheng area is home to more than 200,000 people, most of whom are refugees from the border.
They have experienced the death of war, and they have been displaced along the way, and they naturally understand how happy the life in Loucheng is.
After knowing the rules of Loucheng, the biggest wish in their hearts is to become the official residents of Loucheng.
Apart from Loucheng, no other places are considered at all.
Loyalty is like mushrooms after a spring rain, constantly rising wildly, and more and more candidates meeting the standards.
For this group of people, Tang Zhen will speed up their promotion, so as not to wait too long and cause their confidence to be frustrated.
It's just that some things cannot be rushed, and the same is true for resident promotion.
Must obey the rules, pay attention to a step by step.
If all of them are promoted, I am afraid that people will have all kinds of thoughts, and even doubt the fairness of the rules of the building.
For Tang Zhen, such hidden dangers must be avoided, otherwise it may affect the promotion of Loucheng.
Lou Ling can handle it properly, it will grasp a reasonable scale, and promote thousands of official residents every day, and it does not take a month to collect the number of 100,000.
However, in this way, the consumption will increase again.
Tang Zhen knows better than anyone how expensive it is to maintain the normal operation of the building, and spending money every day is like flowing water.
If there is no cornerstone, it will be difficult for hundreds of thousands of people to feed their stomachs, let alone improve their rapid development.
Tang Zhen was looking at the map at the moment, which marked the distribution of mines in Daqi. Minerals such as copper and iron do not need to be ignored, and gold and silver mines must be marked.
He is going to send the residents of Loucheng, carrying automatic mining equipment, to the gold and silver mining area for mining.
If done properly, it should get a lot of gold and silver, thus alleviating financial distress.
Tang Zhen's occupation of Daqi this time has indeed obtained more than one billion silver taels, but he can only meet temporary needs.
Now he trains a large number of monks and promotes building residents in batches, all of which require massive capital investment.
Not to mention the daily operation of the building, hundreds of thousands of people need to eat and drink, these are the expenses of running water.
With such a shortage of money, Tang Zhen would definitely not let go of the minerals, and he must firmly hold it in his own hands.
The mining equipment sold by the cornerstone platform is extremely efficient and safe, and once it is put into production, it will not take long for it to pay off.
In addition to mining gold and silver mines, Tang Zhen also plans to continue to do business.
The employees of Ruixiang Firm have now joined Loucheng and work in the newly established commercial department.
In the near future, they will take a transport airship, equipped with armed escorts, and go to various parts of Daqi to sell goods in the city.
If necessary, you can also travel to neighboring countries to earn even more wealth.
Don't underestimate the private market, and don't underestimate the profitability of building products. Once this channel is fully opened, it is likely to make more money than mining.
All of Tang Zhen's products came from the cornerstone stage, and the cost of purchasing them was ridiculously low.
If you do it well, it will be a thousand times more profitable.
However, there is one thing that still makes Tang Zhen feel a little depressed, that is, there are restrictions on the sales of medicinal pills, and selling them to the outside world will lead to higher prices.
There are not so many restrictions on the internal use of the building.
This should be the protection rule of the cornerstone platform. There is no problem with internal use, but after beingware of the outside world, it will pose a threat to the building.
Tang Zhen's original plan was to earn more wealth by selling medicinal pills, and cultivators were the real rich.
But the existence of this rule prevented Tang Zhen from reselling to make a fortune.
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Fortunately, after research, Tang Zhen found a way to bypass the rules and restrictions of the cornerstone platform.
The cornerstone platform sells pill recipes, as well as various medicinal materials, which Tang Zhen can buy at a low price.
These pills and medicinal materials also have sales restrictions, which are almost the same as the rules for finished pills and magical instruments.
But if there are alchemists in Loucheng, they can be refined into finished medicinal pills, and there are not so many restrictions when they are sold.
However, such a medicinal pill cannot guarantee the perfect quality, and its efficacy will naturally decrease accordingly.
Perhaps it is for this reason that the cornerstone platform has no restrictions.
This is the case with medicine pills, and the same is true with magic tools.
This made Tang Zhen make up his mind that he must train Loucheng's own alchemy masters and artifact refiners, so that there will be no restrictions when making money.
The cornerstone platform is actually kind, not wanting to let Loucheng suffer too much damage, and also uses this method to supervise Tang Zhen, so that he can grow up as soon as possible.
In order to earn more wealth, it is actually a kind of progress to take the initiative to cultivate alchemy and artifact refiners.
Having seen the cruelty of war, Tang Zhen is actually very disgusted with war. He strives to strengthen himself and upgrade buildings. The main purpose is to protect himself.
If you don't make yourself stronger, you will have to face the cruel reality of the cultivation world. Whether it's the South Alliance or the Northern Border, or the esoteric sect that suddenly pops up, all of them will be able to swallow the building to the bone.
Tang Zhen wants to make money in business, but does not want to gain wealth through war. As for whether he can do so, it depends on how the future situation develops.
After summarizing, Tang Zhen formulated the next action plan.
Develop gold and silver mines in Daqi, increase mineral exploration efforts, and discover more gold and silver deposits.
Expand the size of the caravan, equipped with enough armed guards, to go to all parts of Daqi and foreign countries to do business.
From among the reformed monks, select a group of talented seedlings and train them to become alchemists and alchemists.
Other types of self-cultivation craftsmen also need to increase their efforts to cultivate them, and they may use them in the future.
Tang Zhen thought of this, and his heart was also darkened.
From now on, there is no need to worry about the source of monks, and the number will increase in the future.
You can do whatever you want to cultivate.
Of course, there are also disadvantages, that is, it takes a certain period of time to grow, and it needs to invest a lot of resources.
Thinking of the investment in cultivating cultivators, Tang Zhen felt a pain in the flesh. Whenever a group of cultivators was successfully transformed, his wallet would shrink a little.
Just when Tang Zhen was thinking about whether he should go to other countries and loot those stupid monarchs, he suddenly received a message from Liu Hanyan.
He has a dedicated communication channel and has added some friends, Liu Hanyan is one of them.
The ancestor of the Liu family came to visit, along with three other families, all originally belonged to the Yunxiao Sect, but all descendants joined Loucheng.
Liu Hanyan's three junior sisters and juniors belonged to these three families and came to defect with dozens of juniors.
Tang Zhen naturally has to treat these people who are aware of current affairs differently and take the opportunity to show his attitude to the outside world.
Although Loucheng can implant spiritual roots and mass-produce cultivators, it does not mean that outside cultivators are not required to defect.
The practitioners cultivated in batches are still different from the orthodox monks, and they are even far inferior in many places.
If you want to become an orthodox practitioner, you not only need chance and identity, but you also need to pay a lot.
When it comes to knowledge reserves alone, it is not inferior to learned people.
The Loucheng cultivator is different. As long as he has enough loyalty and is lucky enough to get a place, he can be reborn as a cultivator.
Even if you are illiterate, you can still become a practitioner.
Fortunately, this situation is only temporary. As the monks in Loucheng continue to grow, the gap between the two sides will become smaller and smaller.
Sooner or later, the grown-up monks in Loucheng will make the outside monks look up in awe.
Although this is the case, the recruitment still has to continue, and the more the quantity, the better.
Being able to identify loyalty, Tang Zhen naturally doesn't have to worry about traitors. Once he reaches the dangerous area, Lou Ling will automatically turn on the hoeing mode.
Loucheng is different from Zongmen. If you dare to hide your dirty thoughts, you will taste the bitter fruit in a short time.