"Silver ore? What silver ore?"
Jobe''s fat face changed slightly and then returned to normal. He smiled and said without a smile:
"My dear Lord, don''t be confused by these mud legs. Yes, there is a poor small silver mine in your territory, but it has been mortgaged to Lord March of red leaf collar as early as last year. According to the laws of the Empire, it is no longer your mining area. Do you want me to take the mortgage contract to you?"
"Mortgage silver mine?" Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes. "How can I not remember such an important thing?" he searched his memory and confirmed that there was no such item in the memory of the young Lord.
Jobb said with a smile, "of course you don''t remember. Because you''ve already left all the affairs in the territory to me - your loyal housekeeper old jobb has full authority to deal with. Of course, the small matter of mortgaging the silver mine is also within my authority. Your seal is on the mortgage contract, and the whole process is in line with the law and impeccable."
Li Shuyi''s eyes twinkled with cold light, and her fingers quietly touched her waist.
Bai Xiaowen smiled: "but Anton said that the silver ore mined every month was given to you in the name of the Lord?"
Job smiled: "it''s even easier. I got the right to operate the silver mine from Lord March of the red leaf collar! There is also a contract to testify that all the output of Baishi silver mine, except part of which was handed over to Lord March as tax, belongs to me..."
Bai Xiaowen nodded and said, "Mr. job, you are really a loyal housekeeper."
Job was surprised that Bai Xiaowen''s rage did not appear as expected.
However, job 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 guard was dissolved two years ago because it couldn''t pay."
At this point, job seemed more confident and gradually found the initiative. The smile reappeared on his fat face:
"By the way, you can also fire me or expel me from Baishi town. However, before that, you need to settle the salary owed to me for six months, a total of 60 gold coins... I don''t think you can afford it, can you?"
"Maybe you should seriously consider my suggestion and sell the territory to Lord March of the red leaf collar. He is also very interested in your sister Miss Charlotte. After buying the territory, if Miss Charlotte is willing to enter the Lord''s house of the red leaf to become a personal maid, Lord March will pay another considerable gold coin..."
Bai Xiaowen coughed and interrupted job:
"You''re right, job. Usually, I can''t do anything about you."
Job was stunned and looked at Bai Xiaowen.
"But you are mistaken. As a noble wizard, sometimes I don''t need to rely on secular laws to get my things back."
"What do you mean..."
Joe Bu just wanted to ask a question, but he saw Bai Xiaowen''s right hand open, the light of the four-color spell swirling in his palm, and finally chose the Yellow spell, straight out!
The prompt message of spirit world rules came:
"The strength ratio between ourselves and the enemy is 0.378:1, and the success rate of confusion determination of confused heart charm is 62.20%."
"It is detected that your identity is the Lord of Baishi Town, which suppresses the identity of the target, puzzles and improves the success rate of judgment!"
"The confused determination of the confused heart mantra is successful! Job Handel, the head of the Lord''s house in Baishi Town, Northern Xinjiang, has been confused."
[identity still has suppression effect!] Bai Xiaowen repressed the excitement in his heart.
However, although the confusing effect of the heart charm is strong, it can only confuse one target. Then, even if the 9-minute cooling time has passed, you can''t cast the charm switch again. You must give up the target controlled by the confusion.
Once you give up control, the target will directly die in the brain - of course, Bai Xiaowen can also fight to be eaten back, and protect the target''s brain with mental strength while giving up control, but this is rare.
If you don''t give up control, the confusion effect will continue until Bai Xiaowen leaves the spirit world.
This time, Bai Xiaowen realized the benefits of "identity" and added a bonus to the confusion effect. It seems that in the future, class B, even class A and s tickets are more important to Bai Xiaowen than others.
The crowd stared in amazement. After Bai Xiaowen played a yellow light, Joe, who was still perky, turned out to be very clever. He knelt in front of Bai Xiaowen and wanted to kiss his shoes.
"Get up, job. How much money have you saved and where have you put it?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
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 sold to Lord march with red leaf collar, and the other 30% will be left to me. So far, I have saved about 474 gold coins, which are hidden in the cellar of my residence..."
"Lead the way." Bai Xiaowen ordered briefly, and then said to Anton and others: "follow me."
Anton and others trembled and dared not object at all. Unexpectedly, Lord is still a wizard! In Kane''s plane world, wizards are synonymous with mystery, and most people stay away.
Job''s house is next to the Lord''s house.
It is worth mentioning that Jobe, a fat man, also hired someone to set up an arrow blowing mechanism. If people who didn''t know about it wanted to open the cellar, they would be killed by nine poisonous arrows shot from three holes in the wall. However, under the personal guidance of job, the mechanism became a decoration.
In the cellar, Bai Xiaowen saw a box of gold coins. When his hand touched the gold coin box, a prompt came immediately.
"Territory construction resources detected: gold coins * 470. The Lord page (temporarily) opens."
Bai Xiaowen was slightly stunned and opened the Lord''s page curiously.
In front of Bai Xiaowen, a translucent interface appears, showing a brief map of Baishi town territory.
In the top column, a line of words is displayed:
Population: 7
Gold coin: 479
Food: 7
Building materials: 0
Valuables: 0
"Is this the data of Baishi town territory?" Bai Xiaowen frowned and asked, "there can''t be only seven people in the territory?"
The spirit world rules prompt responded quickly: "the population displayed on your Lord''s page refers to the number of people who are radiated by your influence and can obey your orders. Baishi town residents who have not interacted with you and have never seen you are not radiated by your influence and are not included in the territory population."
"You can improve your reputation and enhance your influence to increase the total number of people covered by your influence."
Bai Xiaowen understood. To put it bluntly, I''d better brush my face.
With Bai Xiaowen''s wisdom, he quickly drew inferences from one instance and got the meaning of the last three options.
Gold coins, grain and building materials refer specifically to the resources that Bai Xiaowen "has the right to dominate". Bai Xiaowen has no right to control the private property of other leaders in the territory, including gold coins, food and houses, and is not included in the Lord''s page.
It''s easy to understand that building materials and valuables are zero. As for the grain for seven people, Bai Xiaowen thought about it. It probably refers to a bag of flour and several strips of black bread in the kitchen of the Lord''s big house
As for the gold coin resources, we have just collected 4 gold coins, some silver coins and copper pocket money from job, plus 5 gold coins originally in the Lord''s house, a total of 479 gold coins are correct.
At the bottom of the Lord''s page, there is another column of text.
Army: 0
Popular feeling: 2
Livability: 3 (extremely poor)
Prosperity: 5 (very low)
The low values of these items were expected by Bai Xiaowen. After all, the vast majority of the leaders of the whole territory are in a state of not having enough to eat. What will the people like? Bandits run rampant, which leads to extremely poor livability.
Bai Xiaowen doesn''t know how to judge the value of livability. There are three points in Baishi town. What will it look like at two or one? It shouldn''t be a deserted no man''s land.
Baishi town is a large bandit dens. There are no caravans. It is normal that the prosperity is low.
Bai Xiaowen put the gold coin box into the storage space. This skill surprised Anton and others. Considering Bai Xiaowen''s identity as a "Wizard", they would not be unable to accept it after being surprised.
Suddenly, Anton boldly said: "Lord, since you are a wizard, why not exterminate the bandits in Baishi town? Those damned bandits, especially the Heifeng bandit group, kill and plunder everywhere, and your people dare not work normally... Without these bandits, even if you can''t be rich with the minerals and fields in Baishi Town, you should have no problem with food and clothing. Those who leave their hometown , will gradually come back, and the taxes handed over to you will also increase. "
The spirit world prompt message came:
"[Branch Mission: kill bandits] on."
"Mission objective: eliminate bandit gangs in Baishi town."
"Task difficulty: unknown."
"Mission duration: none (equivalent to the maximum number of days you can stay in Kane plane world)."
"Task reward: unknown."
After the branch mission was started, Li Shuyi looked at Bai Xiaowen and looked a little excited.
Bai Xiaowen looked at Anton a lot. His words were clear. The most difficult thing was to persuade him from the perspective of the Lord. Ordinary miners don''t have this ability.
However, Bai Xiaowen refused the task.
"I naturally understand these principles," Bai Xiaowen said lightly. "However, I didn''t kill the robbers. Naturally, I have my reason... Anton, you reorganize several miners and continue the mining of silver mine."
Hearing that Bai Xiaowen didn''t want to destroy the robbers, Anton and others were disappointed.
"What about the Heifeng bandits? They may rob the mining area again. It''s too dangerous." Anton tries to persuade Bai Xiaowen to change his decision from another angle.
"What was your salary before?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
"180 coppers a week." Anton doesn''t understand, but he answers honestly.
"As long as you are willing to go to the mining area, your weekly salary will increase by 50 percent," Bai Xiaowen said. "The Heifeng bandits will not rob the mining area again. This is my guarantee as the Lord. If you still don''t want to go, I won''t force you. I believe that with such salary price, many people in the territory will be willing to do it."
As soon as he heard that the salary was increased by 50%, the old miner''s eyes lit up and rushed to say, "dear Lord, those new workers must not be as efficient as us."
"So you agree?" Bai Xiaowen looks at Anton.
Anton can only bow his head and promise, "yes, Lord."
Bai Xiaowen doesn''t pay much. He only gives dozens of copper coins a week. It is very important to resume the production of silver and maintain the input of gold coins.
After Anton and others left, Bai Xiaowen ordered job to take the mortgage contract of the silver mine and the sharing contract with red leaf leader March, and finally sent job to the mining area to supervise the mining work.
"You should be able to fight those robbers," said Li Shuyi.
"You see?" Bai Xiaowen asked with a smile.
"Yes, the best solution to the main task should be to recruit robbers?"
In fact, Li Shuyi has been thinking, "we can only stay here for 15 days. No matter how we develop our territory, it can''t be effective in half a month. Taking a shortcut to make a fortune is the only way. There should be a lot of money in those robber dens, especially those of the Heifeng robber group."
"Your idea is very good. It coincides with me." Bai Xiaowen praised, which made Li Shuyi a little embarrassed.
"Then why did you refuse the task?" Li Shuyi asked.
"Shuyi, we''re wandering in the spiritual world. We don''t have to take the task when we see it," Bai Xiaowen said. "Think about what kind of reward Anton can give us as the initiator of the task?"
Li Shuyi shook her head.
"If we take this task, these people will know that we will launch an attack on the bandit group. Our surprise advantage will disappear," Bai Xiaowen said. "Don''t expect Anton to keep a secret... Maybe Anton himself can, but what about the others?"
Bai Xiaowen took a breath. "Once the news is leaked, it will affect my plan. In addition, Anton releases this branch mission, there is no decent reward at all. After completing the mission, he will become more loyal to me at most. Even if he doesn''t receive the mission and directly destroys the bandit group, he will gain his loyalty and gratitude, and play a role of confidentiality."
Li Shuyi nodded to show that she understood.
Bai Xiaowen returned to the Lord''s house and found an old map of Baishi town in the hall.
It can be seen from the map that the iron mine occupied by the Heifeng robber group is called "cliff mine", which is in the southwest of Baishi town.
"The first goal is the black wind bandit group? Is it too exciting? We should first choose a weaker bandit group to see if Kane''s level of difficulty in the world is high." Li Shuyi asked.
"There is a reason why I choose the Heifeng bandit group directly," Bai Xiaowen looked at the two contracts in his hand. "Don''t you think this bandit group is very strange?"