What did you do with the dice?

Shapaelo knelt down before Sanitieta and choked up, saying, "Lord Sanitieta, I know what I did before was wrong. I was greedy and I deserve to die. You know, my family is not noble. Our ancestors were all farmers and we are terrified of poverty! But after I took this money, I felt uneasy and didn't dare spend a single penny. It's all here."

Rusalka: (Tell me that we peasants don’t have a son like you!)

Sanita wanted to say it, but Rusalka asked him to say it, so he didn't want to say it anymore, so he changed the words: "Well, I'll give you two choices. The first choice is that you keep the money and give your life to us."

Shapaelo's face turned pale. "No, no, no, this money is not mine. It belongs to Lord Pearl Tear and Lord Sanitita. Who am I? I am just your dog. How can I take it?"

Sanitita smiled and said, "The second option is to spare your life. You can still keep the money and even continue to be the mayor here. But you know what you will do with it next. I just want the results. In a year, I want to see this place become the second Silver City. Then I won't tell Lord Pearl Tear about this."

Shapaelo nodded quickly and said, "Thank you, Lord Sanitieta, for your mercy. I promise not to make any more mistakes this time. I will do my best to serve Lord Pearl Tear and Lord Sanitieta!"

Sanita: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me. If there is no result in a year, you will still die."

After experiencing such a turbulent time, Shapaelo asked with a mournful face, "Sir, this... can you give me a little more time? I swear to the gods that I will reform, but turning this place into the City of Silver in just one year is simply too late."

Sanitta ignored his pleas and pierced his hands with wooden spikes, nailing them to the ground. Before he could even cry out in pain, he grabbed a piece of cloth and covered his mouth with it, saying coldly, "Are you questioning my decision? How to satisfy us is something you should consider. The death penalty is the verdict for your offense, but you have one year of probation to make amends for your crime. I think this is a very fair punishment. Good luck to you."

Oh, by the way, if you want to escape within a year, please don't let me find out, otherwise you will regret not choosing to die quickly today. I have too many magic tricks and I need a living body to conduct experiments.

This is just a small punishment. I hope that every time you take gold coins in the future, you will remember how much pain your hands are in right now."

After saying this, he turned and left, not caring about the mayor who collapsed on the ground in pain and fear. (I've finished this, are you done with yours?)

Rusalka: (The people from the Ward Group have helped us build the flagpole. Now Phoenix is ​​hanging the corpses one by one. Wow, this scene is a bit cruel. It feels like I have come to a primitive orc tribe. But when I think about the fact that Maomao is indeed an orc, it doesn’t feel so awkward anymore.

I'm like, brother, why are you such a villain? You're still torturing this bastard Chapaai? I'd say just chop him off and give him a quick death, wouldn't that be nice? Or at the very least, bring him to trial and give the people justice, just like you did with Louis XVI. At least they'll be happy, and it'll give me some reputation.

Sanitieta: (Kill him. Where else can you find me someone as experienced and capable as him to run the town? Although there are indeed many hidden dangers and problems now, we cannot deny that the town has developed so rapidly during his tenure, and many of his decisions as mayor have contributed greatly to it.)

Rusalka: (If you threaten him like this, will he change his ways?)

Sunita: (That's definitely not the case. A dog will always eat shit. If he does really well in one year, he will probably be greedy again in the second year, and even more in the third year, and then slowly return to his old ways.)

Rusalka: (Why don’t you chop him off? You keep rats as pets at home, right?)

Sanita: (In this world, anyone who sits in his position will be greedy. I said before that Custer is not greedy, but he is not as capable and knowledgeable about management as the mayor, so I am only doing this to address the symptoms.

As for the fundamental solution, that's none of our business. Do you still want to pass this town down through the generations, passing it down to the second and third generations of Pearl Tears in this world, and carrying forward the Pearl Tears family? Maximizing short-term profits is all that matters.

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On January 15, 544 of the Royal Calendar, as the morning sun slowly rose from the horizon, the small town of Teste welcomed a new dawn.

The demise of the Brotherhood led to the disappearance of the black street industry, and the large-scale manhunt resulted in batches of criminals being hung on the "execution flagpole" erected in the center of the town. For a time, everyone was in danger, but at the same time, they were impressed by the Lord of Pearl Tears' swift and decisive actions.

As for Sani Tower, after collecting fines from the Lot Processing Plant and Ward Group for illegal operations, bribery of local officials, and negligence causing the death of a local official, the matter was no longer pursued. Both chambers of commerce could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. If it was just a matter of losing money to avoid disaster, they could definitely accept it.

Then, Sani Tower promulgated a new "Anti-Monopoly Law" to protect individual small businesses from being able to trade freely in the town of Test, and provided various flexible anonymous reporting channels so that they would not be forced to give up the market after being coerced by large chambers of commerce, forming a unilateral monopoly environment.

Whether small merchants will report it is their business. This thing is mainly used to pressure the three major chambers of commerce.

The contract for the second phase of the processing plant was also signed, and the Maosi Chamber of Commerce received 2%.

The Kate Chamber of Commerce did nothing after obtaining the town's permission to do business, nor did it specifically cultivate its own power. It just used this place as an ordinary trading point and did not cause any damage to the town's atmosphere or substance.

The record was 0-0-0, but he won the MVP of the game, so it was like pie in the sky. He got 3% for free without doing anything.

The new branch president of the Chamber of Commerce was grinning from ear to ear when he was called in to discuss the contract. He used all the teasing words he could to the stern-faced and silent Bi Jones next to him: "We still have to rely on the support of our peers", "I would be disrespectful to refuse the kindness of our friendly business partner", "Whenever you want to switch jobs, we can sign you at any time. You don't have to do anything, just continue to be the president of the Maosi Chamber of Commerce."

Rusalka took 5% for herself, and this 5% will be managed by the Pastor Esdi who is stationed there. He can freely recruit residents from other areas of the Pearl Tears Territory to work in the processing plant, and also grant them residency qualifications in Test Town.

Since Doug Chamber of Commerce had recruited workers in advance, although they had nothing to do with the share of the processing plant's production profits, they naturally got the general contract for construction.

For them, although they did not get a share of the gold mine of the second phase of the processing plant, the market order has been restored, the material prices have recovered, and the market share of some scattered daily necessities businesses has been vacant again due to the antitrust law. They can also get a piece of the pie and make a small profit. If we put aside the fact that they did not get this new profit, it can be regarded as a good result.

As for the property seized and criminals arrested in this operation, they will be distributed and supervised by several chambers of commerce and newly dispatched local management, and invested in the town’s public construction. Residents can also sign up to join the construction team on their own initiative.

The difference is that residents can get a salary if they build their own houses or roads, but criminals do voluntary labor and are only provided with food and accommodation.

Sani Tower has arranged many new types of jobs. Considering that women may not be suitable for heavy physical labor, he has also specially developed a plan to build an "employment canteen", indicating that the workers' meals can be managed and contracted by the canteen. In this way, although some retail vendors will be reduced, many light physical jobs in the catering industry will be added to help re-employment.

As for the price, since it is a cooperative contracting system, and Sanita's order limits the canteen's profit ratio, it is ordered that after deducting labor costs from this part of the profit, it cannot be distributed as net profit, but the surplus must be invested in production.

As for whether the idea can be fully implemented in the later stage, Sanitita told Rusalka that under the influence of the system and the limitations of the times like Sinidi, if all the ideal plans he launched can be implemented to the extent of 60%, that is, around the passing line, it will be considered quite successful.

Anti-monopoly? Those merchants are eager to do business with the big chambers of commerce, so how can you oppose the big chambers of commerce using various methods to absorb retail investors and seize market share? Just like the Maosi Chamber of Commerce knows that opening a small account of "Ward Group" can be used as a pawn at any time, it is impossible for the other two companies not to understand this loophole operation.

It's just that before the antitrust law was introduced, these small accounts were opened more openly. Now that the rules are in place, they will be more covert and open more of them. That's the whole thing.

The reorganization operation lasted about a week. After everything was arranged and new local administrators and tax officials were transferred from Silver City, Rusalka withdrew his troops and returned to the city.

Of course, they also met Crown, who had been sent back, at the town gate. Rusalka had the guards stand by on both sides of his carriage as it passed through the town gate, and teased him, "Welcome Mr. Crown back to his loyal town of Test."

Crown knew that the matter was over, and he finally let go of his worries.

So he was in the mood to flatter Rusalka: "No, no, no, Lord Pearl Tear, please stop teasing me. My weak heart can't handle such jokes. I'm just a small businessman. How can I be like you, who can handle everything here in just a few days, which took years to complete? Honestly, if it weren't for your wisdom, courage, and magnanimity, I'm afraid I wouldn't have lost a few heads."

Rusalka: "They keep praising these two words over and over again. Try adding something new."

Clown was stunned. He took a long time to utter a word, "Unparalleled in the world?"

Rushaka gave a thumbs-up: "Okay, I like this pun."

Well, although Crown didn't realize that the word he came up with on the spur of the moment had a pun, as long as Rusalka was happy.

Chapter 188 Intelligence Debt

January has passed, and the town of Test is thriving with great construction.

According to the intelligence from Theresa and the great elf elder, Warfarin, the three grand dukes finally engaged in a formal battle, and a series of small-scale battles for positions began in the central part of the kingdom.

Even Grand Duke Delai was so angry that he directly mobilized the wizard team at hand and used top-level magic to create a flood that submerged the valley and directly destroyed one of Grand Duke Oaks' logistics bases. However, Grand Duke Oaks was not without countermeasures. The Church of the Seven Sins finally joined the battle. The fanatics and soldiers launched a suicide attack on the army with wizards, and the battlefield was littered with corpses.

Of course, the decapitation goal of this battle was not achieved, and the wizard still escaped, so for Grand Duke Delai, it can also be regarded as a great victory in strategic terms.

In order to pursue the victory, Grand Duke Gode wanted to cooperate with Grand Duke Delai's strategic plan and take the opportunity to cut off the supply line between Alice City and the north.

However, their marching movements were discovered by the Hobbits of the El Empire, and as a result, they were ambushed by Grand Duke Oaks. Fortunately, Grand Duke Gode's subordinates were very powerful, and Grand Duke Oaks was not well prepared, so they were ambushed. In the end, the two sides were evenly matched and had to withdraw their troops.

The elves who were supposed to join the support were attacked by a black dragon entrenched in the rotten swamps of the forest, and they had to call back their manpower to arrange the dragon hunting operation.

In addition, the five elders and two senior druids, along with an entire team of rangers, all died in the Marquis's territory. It could be said to be a devastating loss. As a result, the elves began to feel deeply wary of Rusalka. Naturally, they did not dare to invest all their combat power, but planned to shift their focus and test Rusalka's strength.

Huafarin was very happy. She said that Rusalka did a good job in killing her. For her, it was a good thing that she suddenly lost a competitor. She would laugh out loud in her dreams. She didn't care about Alice and Shana at all. Maybe in her eyes, they were already dead.

Rusalka: No, sister, I only killed four or five elves in total. How come I suddenly became an elite team that wiped out your five elders?

Also, what's going on with the elves? Everyone's working together to fight the foreign enemy, but when it comes to you guys, it seems like you're still debating your own internal strife.

Is this palace intrigue a skill that every elf in every world must appreciate? Then shouldn't Silvermoon City in neighboring Azeroth also give you a thumbs up.

The big guys in the central region showed off their magical powers. Sometimes floods came from the sky, and sometimes the altar next door summoned an ominous bloody sky. The battle was so intense that the common people were scared silly - Oh my God, where have they gone? Such a huge river is pouring down from the sky. Is this still our landlocked country, Sinidi?

Countless residents were afraid of this doomsday-like battlefield, fearing that disaster would befall them at any second, so they began to flee with their families to the rear, where the Pearl Tears Territory seemed to have been forgotten by the world and was spending the winter peacefully.

In peacetime, the escape of the people in the territory would be a big deal, but in the current situation, many small nobles in the central region not only turned a blind eye to it, but even let their children take the initiative to lead some of the people in the territory to migrate to the Pearl Tears Territory to settle down. The nobles in this world all have a strong sense of "inheritance".

The purpose of doing this is to prevent the main family from being destroyed in a war one day. At least the ones who were divided out can be regarded as continuing the bloodline.

How my descendants live is their own business. Anyway, I cannot let the family bloodline be cut off in my generation, otherwise I will not be able to enter the kingdom of God after I die, let alone face my ancestors.

Facts have proved that when there are too many people, there will be chaos. Many small forces do not follow the basic laws when settling in Zhulei Territory. They just find a place near the water source and start to settle down.

They felt that they were aristocrats themselves, and it was only natural for them to lead their subjects to migrate and open up wasteland. Moreover, as a border area, Pearl Tears Territory had so much wasteland, not to mention that no one had developed the border area to the east.

I know this is your territory, Lord Pearl Tear, and it's not like I'm shirking my duties as a vassal. I just need to pay taxes to you.

If you really can't do it, then how about this? Now that the border guards have been recalled by Grand Duke Delai, it basically serves as an air defense against Esdi. Why don't we go there and develop the land ourselves, and we can also serve as an outpost. If Esdi invades one day, we can report to you in advance, right, Leader Zhulei?

It sounds like they gained money and people for free, and also opened up land, but in fact it was not like that. Around February, when spring was about to come, the City Lord's Mansion of Silver City received reports almost every day that "XX forces and XX forces are fighting again for the arable land area, and they hope to send rangers to coordinate."

After reading this, Rusalka could only put on an expression like an old man on the subway with his phone, his brows furrowed. "These guys are all like the land god in Monopoly, right? They just occupy any piece of land they come across. They are unreasonable."

Sanita: "Well, it is true. The key is that it is not easy for you to drive them away. Even if you charge a residence tax that will destroy your descendants, they will be happy to pay it to you. For them, paying money is like buying the title of officially living here.

Moreover, we are now under the banner of the Grand Prince. They say they are here to seek refuge, so you can't refuse them. But since you are the Grand Prince, you have to abide by the kingdom's noble law. There are indeed regulations on priority for reclaiming wasteland.

As long as they are nobles with real power above baron or the eldest or second son of the direct line who does not yet own personal land, and the family does not have excess land to inherit, as long as the other party is willing to pay you land tax and trade tax, they are eligible to obtain the right to develop a piece of wasteland.

There is a different definition for the second son. For example, if the second son dies, the third son will automatically be promoted to the 'second son' under the Kingdom Law.

Although the early Baron Pearl Tear Territory seemed small, it was actually very large, because the border is a place with few people and a lot of land. Therefore, after conquering the entire eastern border area, the entire Pearl Tear Territory was much larger than Rusalka had imagined. If the area east of Mingyue City and the border area were also counted, it would almost reach one-sixth the size of the Kingdom of Sinidi.

So, to be bold, Rusalka can actually call himself a count now based on the land standard, it's just that he has fewer cities and soldiers under his command.

Therefore, wastelands can definitely be seen everywhere in the territory, but the quality of wastelands is also divided into different levels. The wastelands close to water sources and forests are definitely high-quality, high-fertility and high-yield wastelands. The ones in the middle that are like grassland terrain are also good grazing areas.

But hilly or rocky areas are not so good. If there are no mineral veins nearby, they are places where even dogs won't live.

The first batch of spring plowing is about to begin. At this time, everyone is naturally rushing to grab a good place. Once the seeds are sown, it means that the nearby residents will take root along with the seeds. The war itself has forced them to travel a long way. It will be difficult to get residents to move to a place like Zhuleiling that seems to be peaceful in the future.

Shouldn't we try to get a better piece of land while there is still land to grab?

Gang fights and the like are minor matters, and they also know their limits so as not to let their men cause loss of life. Their purpose is to find a reason to ask Rusalka to come out and divide the matter. Then, with the lord's words, it is basically the final word. Once this public decision is made, many subsequent disputes and troubles can be avoided, and they can also have more backers: if someone comes to make trouble and grab land in the future, it will be a slap in the face of Rusalka.

"I never thought that one day I would become Viscount Consenat. Now I feel like I am dealing with the territorial dispute between the Pearl Tear Territory and the neighboring Ropa Territory." After looking at the petitions on the table waiting for him to "divide the land", Rusalka couldn't help but sigh that the Snidi nobility is really a closed loop. No matter whether you have traveled through time or not, you carry dozens of centuries of thoughts in your head. No matter how famous you are, you have to go through the work that all different classes of nobility have to face.

Sanita, standing by, quipped, using Rusalka's words, "This is the confidence that a backward system brings you."

Rusalka was indeed mentally exhausted. She felt overwhelmed as to how to divide the land. To be honest, it was very difficult to divide the land in an absolutely fair manner. Both sides had their own reasons, and their residents varied in number, gender, and proportion of the old and the young.

Let me ask you, if you have 200 elderly, weak, sick and disabled people on your left and 100 young and strong laborers on your right, is it appropriate for you to divide the land 50-50?

It is definitely not appropriate. One young and middle-aged laborer can cultivate 2-3 times as much land as the opposite side. If you divide it this way, the per capita arable land on the right side will definitely not be enough, and a lot of arable land on the left side may be wasted.

It is even more impossible to do it by head count.

So, how about dividing it by labor? While that's certainly the best approach, real-life residents aren't like in a game. They won't just obey you. If you give 1 to the left and 3 to the right, what will the civilians think? Oh, we have twice as many people as the other side, but we only get one-third of their land. Why?

If you say that this is distributed according to labor, will they accept it? They will just be stubborn and think they are not inferior to the other side.

The act of moral kidnapping definitely does not exist in this world. Who would dare to kidnap a lord? However, it will take another form to conform to the concept of this world: if you, the lord, distribute it in this way, you must be accepting bribes from the other side!

It is normal to accept bribes, but if you want money you can just tell us directly and we can give it to you. You can't take the other party's money and not take ours. This is simply unfair!

Look, the ideas of this fucking Snidi Kingdom are so outrageous that sometimes Rusalka really can't tell whether they are cross-dressing or really believe the nonsense they say.

But when we find out that it is often the latter, we feel even more against all will. What kind of thinking is this? Are you not happy if you are not exploited?

If you don't exploit them, they will be dissatisfied and spread the word that Lord Rusalka is unfair.

Although there are many versions of Rusalka on the market now, his private life reputation has been damaged beyond measure because of Phoenix and his own strange attribute of being "a paladin who does not belong to Esdi", which can make up stories as soon as they are heard. Stories such as "animal ear control", "prisoner of war control", and "being exiled by Esdi due to excessive lust" are no longer uncommon, and there is no need for more elaborate versions.

Well, it’s true that I’m obsessed with animal ears.

His personal reputation and the rumors about his treatment of the people are still excellent, and this cannot be ruined.

But faced with a situation that was difficult for both sides, Rushaka simply decided to give up. "Oh shit! How about letting the two elves divide it? They're the most chaotic and unaffected by external factors, so the probability of both sides suffering misfortune is the same. That's truly fair."

Sanita: "Now I've made it clear to you how to use the Chaos Faction."

Alice had sharp ears. She happened to be passing by the corner, so she turned the corner and walked directly to the office door, rushing in: "What are you sharing? Did Miss Phoenix make new snacks today?"

Sanita: "All you do is eat. Have you done your daily exercises on magic output conversion speed?"

Alice stuck out her tongue and said, "I'll go right away. It's not too late after we finish our snacks."

After another month of practice, Alice has mastered the method of casting the scorching ray. She can now stably shoot out the first ray of fire, but she may not be able to shoot out two or three, and the number is very unstable.

Although it does sound strange, because according to the rules of the DND spell book, no matter what, a successful casting of the scorching rays must start with three, and if it is to be countered, it must be countered together. However, not only is the number of shots that Alijie shoots each time unstable, but even the interval frequency is not fixed. The most annoying thing is that Sani Iron Tower really can't figure out the reason, and it feels that the casting structure and everything are normal.

After studying it for a long time, I finally concluded that it was probably a problem with the conversion efficiency of magic attributes.

Because the magic circuits in the human body are all attributeless magic, which can freely absorb and convert elemental magic, but the elves' bloodline magic is naturally pure wood-attribute magic, and they will unconsciously neutralize the magic circuits and bloodline magic when outputting, which is equivalent to a dual-core computer. There is no way to freely allocate a core to each process to handle it.

Therefore, it may be that the wood and fire are incompatible, resulting in low efficiency of element conversion in this area, and the formation of the second and third rays "timed out", so this instant magic was automatically interrupted.

This can be regarded as a bug in the compatibility of fire magic and elven magic that she discovered, and it is definitely a groundbreaking new discovery that has never been seen before and will never be repeated. Sanitieta could only helplessly say that if there is a chance to publish a book in the future, he will definitely add this interesting setting.

Well, maybe there are other elves in this world who also want to learn fire magic, but he is very sure that apart from a time traveler like himself, no one is willing to teach them, absolutely no one else!

Rusalka: (It's worth it for you to travel all the way here to study it yourself, right? When you return, I plan to write a new rule book myself.)

Sanita: (Yes, I specifically asked the DM to let me travel through time just to research this.)

Rusalka was also happy to joke with him: (Then why did you drag me into this? I think I've treated you well, right?)

Sanita: (It's mainly because humanoids with an IQ of 5 are hard to find, and other people can't really act like them. Even if they do, they can hardly speak, making communication impossible. Hey! But your existence perfectly solves all the research problems. You're the room-temperature superconductor of the magic world! Without you, my rulebook would be missing a piece.)

Rusalka turned her head away: (I can’t stand it anymore. Another intellectual joke.)

Alijie found the bug, but Shana simply couldn't learn it. She might really not have the talent for casting spells, so she started learning enchantment magic such as drawing runes.

The effect is very good. She learns quickly and can now make her own explosive crystals.

If she could start the timing from the moment the fire magic crystal was enchanted, and the maker and everyone around her could run out of the explosion range with a radius of about 10 meters within 5 seconds, then her product would be considered a success.