Chapter 240 The sponsorship fee of 180,000 golden dragons

  Boom!

  On Lingya Mountain, there are engineering puppets all over the place, digging foundations, moving stones, pumping water and pulling sand, and surveying and mapping marks. Very busy.

   The roar of mechanical rotation continued.

  Most small puppets use puppet cores to output driving force, and consume spiritual energy without causing any pollution. However, there are also some large puppets that cannot be driven by the spiritual energy of the puppet core alone, and must burn spiritual **** for energy.

  Spiritual **** is mostly used in factories, and the black smoke generated by burning can block out the sky and the sun.

  At this time, on Lingya Mountain, the black smoke emitted by the large puppets was also constantly spewing out, spreading to the sky, and soon merged with the black smoke from Cuihai City, forming a layer of dark clouds in the sky.

   "Gah!"

   "Gah!"

   Unknown birds come in and out of the dark clouds, pecking at the spiritual particles carried in the black smoke.

  Duke was surrounded by a large group of people. He patrolled around the construction site of Lingya Mountain. After he got down the mountain, he saw Karius Flamingo's nephew, Carter Flamingo.

  A 2-ring Arcane Mage.

   "Master Duke." Carter bowed and saluted.

   "Your Excellency Carter, are you here to supervise the construction yourself?"

   "I came here to find you, my lord." Carter said.

"Find me?"

   "My uncle just got the news that the United Tower has passed an internal decision to cut down the 3-ring tree king - Wannian Pine Tower. I think that if the Duke Sage Mage Tower has this 3-ring tree king as the backbone of the Mage Tower, then this Mage Tower will be more perfect."

   "Have you decided to cut down the Wannian pine cone? I understand." Duke nodded to express his understanding.

  Carter conveyed the news, and said goodbye: "Then wish Lord Duke, bid for this tree king, and build the best mage tower."

  The Mage Tower is not an ordinary building.

   To be more precise, it should be a quasi-arcane weapon, and the main body must be built with a large amount of spiritual gold and spiritual materials to withstand various crises.

   Otherwise, the higher the mage tower is built, the more dangerous the tower will be.

   Moreover, Duke also needs to transform the chick's grandma, the trilobite ancient spirit pheasant feather, into the tower spirit of the mage tower. The quality of the materials used requires higher pursuit.

  If there is a tree king with three rings to build the backbone of the mage tower, it will obviously greatly improve the safety and psychic performance of the mage tower.

   "It's just a pity that the ten thousand-year pine cone has escaped the invasion of ancient evils, but it has to end the tree's life in the hands of humans."

   Boarding the airship and rushing back to Shenjiao City, Duke sighed in his heart.

  The United Tower has decided to cut down the Wannian Pine Tower, and he has no way to stop it. After all, he is only a member of the Five Towers Conference, not the United Tower.

   Go back to Suktara Mage Tower, the teacher just came back.

  Duke immediately asked: "Teacher, did you decide to cut down the Wannian pine cone?"

   "I knew you would ask about this." Suktara had expected it, and said gently, "Once Cuihai City is built, the transfer of the spiritual spring will be very serious. It will be difficult to support the needs of two 3-ring tree kings at the same time, so cutting down one is the best choice."

   "Is that so?" Duke thought thoughtfully, "So the reason why the two tree kings in Shenjiao City cut down one of them was also because of such concerns?"

  Suktara said: "Yes."

  Although the arcane masters of the Seven Towers Federation do not pursue a harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Every time a spiritual spring is occupied, the surrounding flowers, plants and trees are cut down and shoveled, and industrial black smoke and waste water are discharged to the surroundings at will.

  But planting spiritual plants can sort out spiritual energy, everyone knows this.

  So it is possible to avoid destroying spiritual plants, arcanists naturally will not destroy them at will, especially the rare 3-ring spiritual plants like the tree king.

  It's a pity that the growth of the tree king is too dependent on the spiritual spring.

   This conflicts with the needs of human beings. There is no doubt that the ultimate sacrifice must be the tree king, and it cannot be human beings.

   "Teacher, if I want to bid for this Wannian pine cone, what are the conditions?"

   "The tree king of the 3rd ring is my spoil of war in Heijiaohe land. Only local arcanists can bid for it, but there are quite a few people staring at it." Suktala changed the subject and said with a smile, "But you are a learned sage, and you want to build a sage mage tower. If you lobby, everyone will give you face."

   "I'm afraid Baron Black Jade will lose face."

   "Then work it out and put the Wannian Pine Tower on the table of the Five Towers Conference. At that time, everyone will definitely support you, not Baron Black Jade."

   "This... I'll contact you right away." Duke quickly understood.

  He is an arcane mage trained by Heijiaohe. How can he be compared to an outsider like Bernoulli when he fights at home.

   First, visit Keystone Mage Tower.

  Kiston squinted his eyes and said: "You kid, why do you want to draw all the benefits into your own bowl? The Twin Springs are yours, and you want to grab the 3rd Ring Tree King?"

   "I just have a need, my lord, you are the guide of Heijiaohe Land, you have to support us younger generations."

  "I can support, but as the United Tower is in power, my bowl of water must be leveled."

"Forehead…"

  Duke was thinking of words.

  Kiston suddenly came to a turning point: "However, if you promise me one thing, I will just give up this old face, so what if I prefer to help you."

   "Please tell me."

   "I want you to give birth to a child for the Raging Wave family." When Keyston squinted his eyes and spoke, he looked like an old fox instead of a lion king.

  Duke was taken aback for a moment, and responded, "But I don't know how to have children."

   "Ahem!" Keyston rolled his eyes, "Who told you to have a baby? My Nutao family has so many daughters, it's not easy to have a baby!"

   "But why does it have to be my child?"

   "Because you are good enough." Keyston didn't need to beat around the bush, "And don't say you don't want to have a child with my daughter of the Nutao family, Ji Liya, a flower from Shenjiao City. If that's the case, I have to consider marrying a noble from another city."

   "How could it be, Kiria and I really love each other." Duke suddenly thought of the **** romance drama on earth.

  Suddenly said righteously: "Don't worry, my lord, as long as Kiriya is willing, I don't care how many children I have."

  Have a child and put it in the care of the Nu Tao family, and by the way inherit the Nu Tao family's foundation, why not.

  Kiston nodded in satisfaction: "That's right."

  Duke then asked: "However, the Nutao family is very prosperous and is the largest family in Heijiaohe. Why do you need a child of mine?"

   "You don't understand." Keyston shook his head and sighed, "Although there is a large population, talents are lost from generation to generation. After finally cultivating Kiria, she is still a girl. Now you have 80% of Heijiaohe's spirituality, so I have no choice but to be cheeky and want you to have a child."

Every family has its cupboard.

  The Nutao family seems to be firmly seated as the overlord of Shenjiao City, but in fact there are not many arcane masters cultivated among the younger generations.

   It's no wonder that Keyston had such an idea.

  But Duke thought in his heart that Keyston's plan would come to nothing sooner or later. When it comes to physical talent, Duke is not high.

   Ninety-ninety percent of his talent falls on the golden finger.

  In any case, with the help of Keyston, the Wannian Pine Tower is basically stable. However, Duke will still visit the remaining members of the Five Towers Conference one by one, and give them a favor to let them give up the fight and give up their love to him.

   Xu heard the wind, and when the Wannian pine cone was put on the round table of the Five Towers Conference to discuss how to deal with it, Baron Black Jade Bernoulli did not attend the meeting at all.

finally.

   This three-ring tree king, which took thousands of years to grow, was successfully acquired by Duke. Of course, the price was not small.

   Fully converted to a price of 1.5 million golden dragons.

  Duke needs to repay the public finance of Shenjiao City in installments within ten years until the material cost is fully paid off.

   "The arrears have increased sharply, and the pressure is huge!" Duke personally came to the lakeside of the spiritual spring in Cuihai City, and watched the third ring tree king - the Wannian Pine Tower being uprooted.

   This towering tree with a height of 350 meters, when it fell to the ground, the whole ground was shaken.

   Silently muttered two sins.

  He personally directed the workers to remove all the branches of the Wannian pine cone, and then divided it into thirty-five sections according to the spiritual distribution of the entire tree trunk.

   Then they were transported to Lingya Mountain piece by piece in a black beetle car.

  Teacher Suktara, along with Terrence and other 1st-ring arcane mages who study the direction of alchemy, have already waited here in advance.

"teacher."

   "Let's work, try to refine the Wannian pine cone into a qualified backbone material as soon as possible, so that the construction team can construct as soon as possible." Suktala rolled up her sleeves with a smile, and went to refine the Wannian pine cone in person. She has done this kind of work for more than a hundred years.

   Even while working, she taught several 1st-ring arcane mages—in fact, these people were all her former students.

  At the beginning, he left the Mage Tower with Sorel.

   When Duke was promoted to a scholarly sage, except for Sorel, who was embarrassed to come back, the other students all came back.

  Suktara didn't care about them, and after discussing with Duke, he readily accepted these students.

  Duke did not immediately participate in the extraction of spiritual materials, but found Carter Flamingo and proposed his own new idea: "Now we have the Wannian Pine Tower. The material of this tree king is enough to extract the backbone of two mage towers."

   "Yes, definitely enough." Carter replied.

   "So, I want to change the blueprint."

   "Please do as you command."

   "I want to integrate the mage tower with the future castle, so that the backbone is connected to each other, that is, from the mage tower on the top of the mountain to the castle at the foot of the mountain, and carry out an integrated design." Duke put forward his own idea, and he did it for Grandma Zhiyu.

  If the mage tower uses a single set of backbones, then after the transformation of the tower spirit, Granny Pheasant Feather can only move in the mage tower.

  However, after integrating the backbone with the castle, Grandma Pheasant Feather can move around the entire Lingya Mountain.

  In this way, the entire castle and mage tower can be brought under the supervision of Grandma Zhiyu, which is enough to extinguish most crises in the bud.

   "In this case, we need to build a second spring in violation of regulations." Carter hesitated.

   "Don't worry, I will buy this spring sooner or later, just put it here temporarily." Duke laughed.

  Carter nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange someone to design it and come up with a new plan as soon as possible."

  …

   Time flies.

   In a flash, the hottest summer has passed.

  The construction of Cuihai City is still in full swing. Even though there is a large influx of people from other places, many construction sites are still short of people.

  Recruitment notices were plastered all over Shenjiao City and the surrounding market towns, and spread all the way to other cities. Even on the streets of Runwu City, there were recruitment notices for Cuihai City. The favorable treatment and the ability to settle in a big city have attracted many people.

   After packing up their luggage, they took the black beetle car and black centipede car to the new city hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

  Sheshou Town, which is close to Cuihai City, has become a transfer center for people and goods.

  The Black Snake family relied on tax collection and transportation to make a lot of money, and the entire Black Snake Manor was beaming.

   "Be prepared for danger in times of peace."

  Mulland Black Snake squinted his eyes, grabbed a handful of golden dragons from the vault, and watched the golden dragon leaking down his fingers. Under his smiling expression, there was a look of concern: "The Black Snake family has recently poached a lot of great knights."

   "Yes, Second Uncle." Muhans Black Snake replied with a serious face.

   "Before my father passed away, I once said that if wealth and strength do not match, disasters will inevitably occur. Muhans..."

   "Second Uncle, tell me."

   "The Black Jade family has shown goodwill recently, and even has the intention of forming an alliance with each other inside and out. In your opinion, should they be cited as backup?" Murand asked in a deep voice.

  Mu Hans pondered: "If you want to talk about the Black Jade family, it will definitely become one of the big families in Cuihai City in the future, and the branch of the Kaishu family will also become one of the big families. Together with several other families from other cities, this is a big force."

"go on."

   "If we turn to the Black Jade Family, it may be one of the ways to solve the difficult situation, but...the Black Snake Family may not be valued by them."

   "And then?" Murand grabbed another handful of golden dragons. He liked to hear the crisp sound of the golden dragons colliding with each other when they landed.

   "So I think that the future of Cuihai City must be a process of collision between foreign forces and local forces. If the Black Snake Family cannot remain neutral, then it is necessary to join one of them. For now, our only advantage is Duke."

   "Yes, foreign forces look down on our Black Snake family, and local forces also have rifts with us. Only Duke is our real backer." Murand said with emotion, "Unknowingly, Duke has grown into a big mountain."

   "It's only been a few years, it really seems like yesterday." Mu Hansi echoed.

   "Since Duke is enough to be our backer, then be firm and deeply bind the Black Snake Family with Duke!" Muland made the final decision, "Muhans, you count out half of this year's income and send it to Duke."

  Muhans said in surprise, "Half the proceeds?"

   "More than that, half of the proceeds from each year will be sponsored to Duke for the development of Duke." Murand gripped the remaining golden dragon tightly in his hand, "The family can't even train a 2-ring arcanist, so what's the use of keeping so much money!"

  Muhans hesitated: "If you do this, will Modis and the others have any objections?"

   "If you have any opinions, ask them to come to me, and you should do so."

"yes!"

  Mulhans took the order and left.

  Mulland let go of the golden dragon in his hand, threw it into the vault, walked out with his hands behind his back, and looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle: "Duke has the prospect of an arcane teacher. Although no one can guarantee whether his future will really grow to that point, it is worth stud!"

  The most important thing is that Snake Town is the hometown of Duke. This kind of affection is always there at any time. As long as Duke does not fall, the Black Snake Family will not fall.

  The next day.

  People sit at home, and the golden dragon comes up from the sky.

  In the Suktara Mage Tower, Duke, who was doing experiments, soon got a happy notification from his little assistant, Mu Lali: "Sir, my father is here."

   "Okay, I'm going to see Uncle Muhans."

  After the meeting, Muhans handed over a list directly: "Mr. Duke, this is half of the total income of Snake Head Town in the first half of this year. After our Black Snake family unanimously decided, we will deliver this income to you to help you explore spiritual mysteries."

   "Sponsor me?"

   "Yes, every year in the future, the Black Snake Family will give out half of the proceeds to help you explore spiritual mysteries."

"Well…"

  Duke glanced at the list, and the amount on the list was 180,000 gold dragons.

   This is half of the half-year income of the Black Snake Family, which means that the Black Snake Family can earn about 720,000 Golden Dragons a year.

   It has to be said that the Cuihai Valley development war and the urban construction plan of Cuihai City allowed the Black Snake family to enjoy the bonus of Bo Tianfei.

  Duke can easily think that this money is not so much a sponsorship fee as a protection fee.

  A small nobleman at the bottom earns 720,000 gold dragons a year, which obviously makes many people crazy with envy.

after all.

  Some 1st ring arcane mages can't earn 10,000 gold dragons a year.

  The Black Snake family has only one 2-ring arcane mage and four 1-ring arcane mages, but they can earn 720,000 gold dragons a year. It is hard not to be hated by others.

  Thinking about this, Duke made a symbolic refusal, and then asked someone to accept the sponsorship fee: "I will accept the sponsorship fee. Later, I will take some time to go to Snake Head Town and talk to High Priest Murand about investment."

  Investment is not the goal, but to promote the relationship between the Black Snake family and itself is the goal.

  The Black Snake family was so willing to pay such a high protection fee, Duke naturally tried his best to protect the Black Snake family.

  Now he is already a member of the local high-level circle in Heijiaohe, and has enough influence to protect the Black Snake family.

   "Then I won't bother you with the experiment, Mr. Duke, you can go and do your work, as long as Mu Lali stays with me." Muhans stood up and said goodbye.

  He became more and more unwilling to stay in front of Duke for a long time.

   Firstly, his daughter, Mu Lali, is just the other party's mistress, and his father-in-law's name is not right; secondly, although the other party is a junior, his achievements and status are frighteningly high, which really brings him too much pressure.

  Duke also understood this, so he didn't ask Mu Lali to stay with Mu Hansi and have dinner together at noon.

   returned to the laboratory.

  His current experiment is indeed tense.

  Because the fusion technology of the slide card and the fantasy card has reached the final finishing stage, more efforts will announce the birth of a new technology.

   "The film and television technology has been announced for a long time, but in the end, everything is up to you." Duke sighed, leaning over the test bench.

  The film and television technology has been learned to the highest tower and promoted to the entire Seven Towers Federation.

  Although it is favored by countless arcanists, who believe that it is an invention capable of changing society, the feedback is far less than that of strong light technology.

the reason is simple.

  The bright light technology is not difficult. After the promotion, the full replacement of the old lamps can be realized immediately, so as to gather the spirituality of millions of people.

  However, film and television technology, limited by the capacity of slide cards, has been unable to sink into the society for a long time, and the public simply cannot afford this new technology. As for the high-level arcanist, while researching, while waiting for the technology to mature, there was no movement for the time being.

  Being silent, naturally there is no spiritual feedback.

  At present, some related technologies have indeed been invented, but the development of film and television technology is minimal.

   On the contrary, the place that gives the most feedback is still the three-acre land of Heijiaohe, relying on the Phantom Musical that DreamWorks Film and Television Company is promoting-it's a pity that the screening cost is too high, and it is far from making money.

   "It's better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone. You can't promote film and television technology, so I will do it myself!" As the progress of the experiment accelerated, Duke's confidence became more and more high.

   Busy until noon.

  Just left the laboratory and was going to have lunch with Muhans Black Snake when another assistant Mu Lashan reported: "Sir, Lord James from Lingchi Farm has come and is talking with Uncle Muhans."

   "Is James here too? Just in time, let's chat at the dinner table."

  When Duke entered the dining room of the castle, James immediately took the initiative to open a chair for Duke and waited for Duke to sit down.

   "James, you don't have to be busy, sit down."

   "Hey, yes, my lord."

   After drinking a glass of wine, Duke asked, "James, have you brought people to choose the new site of Lingchi Farm?"

   "I was about to report this matter to you." James is now Duke's vassal, and everything is dominated by Duke. "The new site has chosen the area between Lingya Mountain and Variation Forest No. 3 according to your instructions. I have already bought about 50,000 acres of land."

  Lingya Mountain is located in the suburbs of Cuihai City, so the land is worthless, especially the undeveloped wasteland.

   "What is the quality of the land?"

   "Among all the land around Cuihai City, it's not the most fertile piece of land, but the advantage is that the terrain is relatively flat. After a few years of reclamation, it should be able to become a mature field."

   "Not being fertile enough has its advantages. Maybe it has an advantage in the cultivation of Chuuxuezhu." Duke laughed.

  The reason why he wants this land is that it is next to the No. 3 mutant forest.

   The underground of Mutant Forest No. 3 is where the ancient evils shed their shells. Although the shells have been smashed and destroyed, the evil spirits that escaped may not be completely dissipated for hundreds of years.

  The current No. 3 mutant forest has become a collection place for new specimens. Many arcane masters in the field of spiritual plants have sent mercenaries to search for new varieties of plants. Duke is more specific, and only looks for a kind of evil plant called Chuuxuezhu.

   After all, he doesn't have that much energy to study the field of Lingzhi.

   Now it belongs to whether there is a date or not to hit two shots first.

   "I haven't been to Lingchi Farm for several days, how is Ji Yulu growing?" Duke asked again.

  James replied: "Ji Yulu hasn't changed much, but in the surrounding Yulu, there are already a few 1-ring Lingzhi Yulu plants, which seem to be evolving. Maybe in the near future, they will evolve into 2-ring Lingzhi Yulu. I guess Ji Yulu should change a bit by then."

   "Well, pay close attention."

  Duke has completely handed over these specific recording tasks to his subordinates, and he only needs to summarize the data.

   At that time, it will be handed over to Xiaoyi to sort out, calculate, and then draw a conclusion.

   It didn't take long to eat lunch, and Muhans rushed back to Snakehead Town in a hurry, and James also went back to Lingchi Farm to handle chores.

  Duke naturally continued to devote himself to the experiment. In the past few days, he didn't plan to go out, so he stayed in the laboratory to complete the finishing touches.

   Now his vassals are gradually increasing, especially after receiving the Suktara Mage Tower, there are more capable subordinates. The construction supervision of the Duke Sage's Mage Tower, the financial audit of the Light Giant Spirit Tool Company, and the inspection of the Phantom Base were all assigned.

  This is the meaning of the title.

  In the Seven Towers Federation, the arcanist only needs to focus on the spiritual arcane, and everyone else will live around the arcanist.

that's all.

   A week passed by suddenly.

  In the Suktara Mage Tower, in the laboratory that belongs exclusively to Duke, the spiritual apprentices are busy, and in the laboratory, a brand new device on the test bench is carried by Duke on his shoulders.

   This device is very similar to the camera on the earth.

   "It's so beautiful, isn't it." Duke carried the equipment and looked in the mirror, "The brand-new camera made by Austrian hands is more artistic than the real camera."

   "This is due to your advanced aesthetics, master." Xiaoyi echoed Duke's boast.

  Duke said modestly in his heart: "Not only that, but it also includes Xiaoyi's design of craft casting. It is you and me who work together to create this brand new camera... Next, let us try its effect!"

  The camera was pointed out of the window, and Duke began to shoot the natural scenery around Shenjiao City.

   Looking for tickets~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)