Ten minutes into the auction, the price of the [Advanced Resurrection Coin] surpassed 700,000. Ye Miao pondered for a moment and changed the originally chosen auction duration from 14 days to 3.
Her original plan was to bid slowly, aiming for a ceiling price, and then wait for the money to arrive. Knowing she'd be receiving a large sum of gold, she felt comfortable spending some of her savings to acquire a large quantity of elements. As for territory construction, waiting until the swamp mode ended would only delay it by a week or so, a minor impact.
But now that prices are rising so wildly, it would be great to get paid immediately after completing the three-day process. Developing a territory requires not only competing for resources but also competing for time, so the sooner you can, the better.
Although modifying the time would result in a 1% penalty on the total bid price, even if the bid reached millions, 1% wouldn't amount to more than a few tens of thousands, something Ye Miao could afford. Furthermore, other members who successfully bid had to pay a 10% handling fee. As a lord, Ye Miao could transfer this money from one hand to the other. This meant that even with the 1% penalty, she still earned 9% more than the others.
After leaving the auction hall, Ye Miao went to the legal team.
After the last round of recruitment, the legal team now has 14 members. It has now been split into two departments, temporarily referred to as Group A and Group B, which actually function similarly to the procuratorate and the court.
As for the "public security" in the public security, procuratorial and judicial departments, they didn't have enough manpower for the time being. Ye Miao led the arrests, and interrogations were basically merged into Team B. Even so, the two teams, with their different responsibilities, were already arguing fiercely due to their differing opinions.
After Ye Miao entered, he briefly greeted everyone and then sat in on the proceedings for a while. The short version was that Zhou Xian was a heinous criminal. Team B, a group similar in function to a court, learned during the trial that he had killed two to three hundred people, including perhaps a few dozen from Tianju City. The rest were swindled from other territories, resulting in the annihilation of many smaller territories.
Not only that, even the Tianju territory was originally taken by Zhou Xian after he killed his girlfriend Tian Ju.
From beginning to end, Zhou Xian was much worse than Wei Hua from Hongfeng Village.
Therefore, Group A and Group B reached a consensus on "repeated death penalty", but disagreed on the number of repeated death penalty.
Group A believed that the current legal provisions of the territory stipulated that the number of repeated executions was determined by the victim's roll; if no roll was made, the maximum number was 500. Since the victim was already deceased, and the number of executions could not be determined by roll as before, and Zhou Xian's behavior was so egregious, it was acceptable to execute him at the maximum of 500, but it could not exceed this number.
Group B felt that with two or three hundred victims, if they could roll the dice, there was no way the total would be just 500. Furthermore, Zhou Xian's evil deeds were beyond description; 500 was far too easy for him.
Wu Xu, the leader of Team B, was also the head of the legal team. He had spearheaded the drafting of the current draft law. For the past two days, he'd been utterly enraged by Zhou Xian's crimes. If he could travel back to ancient times, he would gladly have Zhou Xian executed by slicing him to death himself. Now that Team A was using the laws he had drafted to restrict him, Wu Xu felt deeply annoyed.
Wu Xu then argued: "Our laws are only in their infancy and are not perfect. We should analyze specific cases and not be so rigid!!!"
Wang Lei, the leader of Team A, was a very intelligent woman. She ignored Wu Xu's indignation and calmly adjusted her glasses. "The current laws in the territory are indeed only in their infancy, but they are quite detailed when it comes to the implementation of 'repeated death penalty'. My point is that where there are no specific rules, we can only analyze each case on a case-by-case basis. But where there are specific rules, we should follow them."
"Look at what Zhou Xian has done!" Wu Xu's rage rose. Everyone had been sitting in the living room, chatting peacefully, when he suddenly stood up. "Hundreds of lives! Plus, he murdered his ex-girlfriend to steal the territory!"
Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense, Ye Miao coughed in time: "Cough——"
Everyone subconsciously turned their heads when they heard the sound, and realized that the lord had come in at some point and was sitting on an inconspicuous chair nearby.
"Let me tell you what I think." Ye Miao's words swept across everyone. Everyone calmed down a little under her gaze. Wu Xu also took a deep breath: "Boss, please speak."
Ye Miao: "First, regarding the legal text, I agree with Wang Lei. Completely formulated provisions cannot be easily changed. Otherwise, these things will lose their credibility and will sooner or later become props for us to vent our personal anger. If you decide to impose repeated death sentences, the upper limit this time can only be 500 times. If you feel that this number is inappropriate, we can discuss and improve it, but it will only be used next time and cannot be changed at will now."
Wu Xu was indignant: "But..."
"Listen to me." Ye Miao gestured to silence everyone. "I know everyone is angry this time. If you want to vent your anger, I suggest you find another way within the framework of the current rules."
Wu Xu frowned: "What method?"
Ye Miao smiled, looked at him and asked, "I remember that in the relevant laws for exploiting and harming territory members, in addition to 'death penalty' and 'repeated death penalty', there is also 'exile', right?"
Wu Xu was stunned for a moment, and so were the other members of the legal team. Then they nodded hesitantly, "Yes."
The "exile" they created based on local conditions means taking away all people's equipment and skills, and then throwing them into a boss copy, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Since it is basically impossible to defeat the bosses in the game with bare hands, it is not an exaggeration to think of it as another form of death penalty.
Ye Miao: "Is there a limit to the number of times you can be exiled?"
Everyone:"?"
The current law is very general. The reason why "repeated death penalty" is written in detail is that it is actually tailor-made for Wei Hua. It has to be used once it is completed, so of course it has to be detailed.
As for "exile", although it was used on some core members of Hongfeng Village right after it was decided, these people were not as hateful as Wei Hua, so the legal team thought it was simple and never thought that this thing could be used repeatedly on the same person.
But now that Ye Miao said this, everyone was shocked but soon realized: "There really isn't a lot of times..."
"So," Ye Miao shrugged casually. "All I can say is, if necessary, I can use my skills to restore his health when he's about to be killed by the boss, and then rescue him."
"...Hahahaha!" Wu Xu felt good after imagining it, and looked at Wang Lei's face while laughing.
Wang Lei also shrugged: "Why are you looking at me? I just want to defend the dignity of the law, not to save Zhou Xian."
"Well, then you guys take your time to discuss it." Ye Miao stood up with ease. "If you need anything, feel free to contact me. I'm leaving now."
"Have a nice day, boss!" Wu Xu walked her out the door in high spirits, with one word echoing in his mind: multiple punishments for multiple crimes! Forgive the crimes and punish them together!
That night, the auction price of the [Advanced Resurrection Coin] put up by Ye Miao exceeded 1,000,000 gold coins and continued to rise.
It’s settled, I’m really going to get rich overnight this time!
Ye Miao was so happy that he drank two bottles of stamina potion and decided not to sleep tonight!
[Building Name: Grand White Building (Players can change the name)]
[Blueprint Price: 1000 Gold Coins]
[Required Materials: Bricks*15000, Cement*1500, White Tiles*15000. Purchasing the materials directly costs 20000 gold coins.]
[Building Name: Subtle Gray Building (Players can change the name)]
[Blueprint Price: 1000 Gold Coins]
[Required Materials: Bricks*15000, Cement*1500, White Tiles*15000. Purchasing the materials directly costs 20000 gold coins.]
Ye Miao directly purchased the materials and built two "grand white buildings", and then named one "Court" and the other "Prosecutor's Office".
A "subtle gray building" was built and named "City Library".
Finally, I walked into the reception hall and sent out the housing registration information that had been agreed upon earlier.
The registration information panel was equipped with a map. Ye Miao had temporarily divided the territory into four areas: east, west, south, and north. He planned to enclose an area in each area as a residential area. The north side was where the current residential area was, but it would be significantly smaller in size, adjacent to the school, with a cliff behind it.
The library is not far from the east side, and there are also Lu Weiwei and Su Xinran’s livestock farms. A little further west are the procuratorate and the court, and a little to the north are the library and school.
The south side is a little bit south of the east side. The advantage is that it is closest to the territory gate, but the disadvantage is that it is far from the market. However, the market can be split up in the future and can be located in various residential areas.
The residential area on the west side is next to the scenic area and is also close to the market. If you have more money in the future, it would be nice to develop homestay tourism on the west side.
The registration form includes various necessary information:
【Name】
[Current housing level] Thatched house/Wooden house/Stone house/Red brick house/Two-story villa/Three-story villa
【Want to move to】East District/West District/South District/North District
[Is the residential property to be replaced with the same property? (If you select "Yes", the property will be replaced directly with the same property. If you select "No", please indicate the property you want to replace. If the price exceeds the limit, the price will be refunded or the price will be supplemented.)] Yes/No
【Other (optional)】
The next morning, after seeing the new announcement, the members submitted their applications after careful consideration. Ye Miao looked through them and found that the West District near the market was popular as expected, but the South District closest to the territory gate but with nothing on it was also surprisingly popular.
She then asked a few acquaintances why, and everyone gave the same answer: "It's close to the main gate, so it's convenient for going out to kill monsters and gather things when I get home!"
Ye Miao suddenly realized: Communities with short commuting times are always popular!
At the same time, the various elements were once again fully collected. She heard that many players from other territories were squatting outside. If a territory member went out, they would find ways to get them to help exchange them for money. Seeing the further increase in the price of [Advanced Resurrection Coins], she simply increased her element acquisition target:
"【Ye Miao】 purchases various elements. Everyone can go to the reception hall to submit them.
Water Element (0/10000)
Ice Element (0/10000)
Purchase price: 20 gold coins/piece
Fire Element (0/10000)
Wood Element (0/10000)
Grass Elemental (0/10000)
Purchase price: 22 gold coins/piece
Mist Elemental (0/10000)
Purchase price: 30 gold coins/piece"
10,000 of each, plus the two bundles she'd already received, would last her forever even if she worked day and night refining cards. If the system stopped issuing card packs, she'd be the coolest girl in T City.
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