Employment Contract

In half a month, Mason ran out twice.

With Guixiangcheng as the center, several new small villages were built around it, thriving under the protection of Guixiangcheng. Mason was like an old farmer waiting for the crops to grow, and he couldn't wait to check on the crops... no, the growth of the village every day.

Although returning to the hometown is good, the places that can provide shelter are limited after all. These small villages can be reflected in more places, forming a chain of cities with large cities leading small ones.

Gloria returned safely and sent the data she brought back to the southern Mechanical City branch, which instantly ignited the enthusiasm of the researchers. It must be said that the technology geeks are mainly distributed in two areas. One is the Mechanical City, and the other is the Craftsmen.

The researchers at the Mechanical City branch focused on a common goal. They sorted out the replication methods with lower costs and replicated the pollutants at hand. This is a long-term project, and once successful, it will bring about earth-shaking changes. It will allow ordinary people to stand up from now on.

On the other hand, under Mason's persuasion (deception), the dragon descendants who returned together temporarily stayed in Guixiang City, intending to rest here before continuing to explore. Compared with the Black Mist Border, Guixiang City, which is closer, undoubtedly received their favor.

Since you're here, why not help maintain order and clear out the monsters nearby?

The noble dragon descendants simply disdained to discuss this cost, and just regarded it as a training exercise. With their help, even though several main forces were missing in succession, the defense of Guixiang City was still as solid as a rock. Mason even transferred more people to support nearby villages, forming an extremely good virtuous cycle.

In addition, the benefits of building trade roads finally emerged.

Aside from the caravans, the Freebloods began to slowly enter Guixiang City, viewing it as a supply point. Caravans that saw business opportunities came more frequently, and formed friendly relations with the profiteers' guilds.

The profiteers took the opportunity to hire a group of free bloods and entrusted them to escort the caravans as middlemen, which further promoted the prosperity of Guixiang City.

Due to a combination of these conditions, the Western Territory has been developing at an explosive pace, almost changing every day.

At this time, Mason finally welcomed his long-awaited teacher. Sty was very enthusiastic about him and wanted to announce that she would take up the job immediately.

Mason slapped his thigh. As a lord, how could he ignore the other party's request? He immediately arranged for the other party to go to the school, focusing on giving him a job experience first, and kindly covered his food, clothing, housing and transportation, just as a benefit for the first formal teacher.

The southern territory has changed even more. Although the mechanic has left, Adam is still in the south. He has learned a lot from the mechanic, including the method of making artificial humans.

After the mechanic left, Adam focused on improving his skills. With Gloria in the West, the supply of white crystals continued. Rambo opened the door to convenience, and the money was used to focus on research and infrastructure. With sufficient resource supply, the new town actually realized the plan of artificial people participating in the work first.

The robots don't know how to work hard, they work fast and well, and they greatly supplement the manpower. In addition to their daily work, they can also take care of road construction. Rambo has long wanted to expand the area of ​​the new town and move towards Ronald Town. Even the blueprints are for corresponding construction. As long as they are connected one day, they can immediately become a magnificent super-large city.

Ricks was so greedy that he made a deal with Lamborda, and the surplus androids would be supplied to them first. This way, the production capacity was greatly improved. They had enough food, warm clothes, and good things to use, which attracted countless envious eyes.

Many people from other territories fled here just to join them. Rambo accepted all of them.

The Viscounts around were furious and came to Ya'an to complain. At this time, Rambo came up with a genius plan: [Employment Contract].

If your subjects insist on running away, we can't do anything about it. Even if we send them back, can you guarantee that they won't run away next time? How about this, you keep your subjects here with me, I'll provide food and accommodation, and pay you monthly per person, and you'll be considered our hired servants.

The lord with a long-term vision rejected this plan. Rambo threw his hands up, looking innocent: What should I do? You can take them back, but I won't be responsible if they come here again next time.

The lords turned around and wanted to sue Ya'an, but Ya'an calmly drank a sip of tea. What could he do? The other party's master was the earl, who sat with him and was still in the west. Did he have to come back to confront him face to face?

As Ya'an tilted his butt, the viscounts agreed with their noses pinched.

At this time, Rambo came up with a new idea: What's the use of the territory if you all are gone? Why don't you just let us rent the land?

The viscounts were furious. You'd better not go too far. Not only did you take the people away, but you didn't even plan to leave them the capital! ?

In the end, Rambo defeated them with just one sentence. Brainworm Bloodblood pushed his glasses and said calmly, "Including infrastructure, the new town will pay for it."

Lords: ...

Who doesn't covet the roads in Cross's territory? Who doesn't know that it is a symbol of wealth? Who doesn't like the bright and transparent street lights, the grand parks and the roadside green belts? Is it because they don't want it? It's because they don't have money!

But now they are paying for the construction. When they stop renting, won't these things still be theirs?

The viscounts finally couldn't resist the temptation and all nodded.

Ya'an half laughed and half sighed: "You are getting more and more cunning. I really don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to let you follow that boy."

"Thanks to the Earl's promotion, I am where I am today."

Rambo always treated Ya'an with respect, and he remembered Ya'an's kindness. If Ya'an hadn't helped him, he wouldn't know where he would have ended up with Orih.

Ya'an put down the cup and sighed: "If you have anything else to say, let's say it now so we don't have to make another trip later."

Rambo made no secret: "I hope you can also participate in the two plans I just mentioned."

Ya'an seemed to have expected the other party to say this: "You know, Ya'an City has never left Ya'an, just like Ya'an has never left Ya'an City. It was in the past, and it is now."

Rambo said calmly: "It will be in the future."

"Everyone who has lived in Ya'an City, including me, is grateful for your kindness. But times have changed, Lord Ya'an. We don't need the management rights of Ya'an City. We just hope that Ya'an can become better."

"If you don't follow the tide, you will be crushed by the tide of the times. I don't want us to face such a division. Just look at the Cross Territory and you will find that this is the real way out. We will make Ya'an better."

"If your words get out, you're seizing power."

Rambo replied with a paralyzed face: "My Lord Earl, you know me. How could I do such a useless thing?"

"......"

Yaan was speechless and sighed: "Let me think about it. This is not something I can decide on my own."

“If you have any ideas, feel free to contact me.”

Rambo finished his tea and left, leaving Ya'an alone in the room. After a long while, he suddenly said, "You all heard it, what do you think?"

The Earl looked down at his tea and saw a face reflected in the cup.

A face completely different from Ya'an.

This face changes in a thousand ways. Sometimes it is a man, sometimes an old man, sometimes a woman, sometimes a child. Hundreds of faces appear one by one in the small water cup, talking about something at once, and only Ya'an can hear it.

The latter listened for a while and nodded helplessly: "Okay, since you all agree, I have no reason to refuse."

A long, long time ago, Ya'an City - oh, Ya'an City at that time was just an ordinary city. Its lord was called Ya'an.

He was a kind, strong, and calm city lord who was well-loved by the people. If there was a problem with him, there was probably only one.

He is not a human, but a kind of fairy hybrid called "Mirror Man".

This kind of goblin lives in a mirror and can only leave the mirror for a short time after reaching adulthood. The "people in the mirror" are very fragile when they are young, and can even be frightened to death. Ya'an inherited this fragile bloodline. In order to protect his descendants, he set rules. He moved his descendants into the mirror, and they can only leave the mirror and live as human beings when they reach adulthood.

When the Black Mist arrived, this magic changed drastically. Not only could only one person in the mirror leave the mirror, but also the next person in the mirror could only leave after the previous person died.

This is the secret of Ya'an's inheritance.

Some say they are the ghosts of Ya'an City, others say they live underground in Ya'an, and the rumors vary. Only the Ya'an people know that they are just a group of people in the mirror who want to become human beings.

In Ya'an, his people could still relax a little and observe the human world with the help of various mirrors. If they were to move to another place, the timid hybrids in the mirror would need hundreds of years to adapt to the new environment.

Over a long period of time, the Ya'an clan has already established a deep bond with this city. Since the position of city lord has not been taken away and the city can be made better, why not do it?

Mason didn't know that Rambo had prepared a big surprise for him, and he didn't know that Ya'an actually agreed to this outrageous suggestion. At this time, he had just finished his third external patrol and ordered the construction of roads between the villages. He also opened schools in the villages to ensure that people in every place could go to school.

This incident made some people in the church complain. The church made outstanding contributions to the development of the West. Mason built a school, but never mentioned the construction of a church. How could people not complain?

They wanted to ask, but Canaan, who was now a true god, had a very good relationship with Mason and turned a blind eye to the matter. Mason also laughed it off whenever he was asked, like a slippery loach, and had no chance of getting involved.

After a while, the clergymen became somewhat passive and slack. They only stayed because of the true god and their faith. Mason saw it, but he did not express anything and just took care of his own territory.

The believers reacted violently to this, and a subtle confrontation formed between the two sides. In the silent hostility, time passed quickly. When Mason woke up that day, he sensed something in his mind, and a hint of joy flashed in his eyes.

After more than a month, he finally reconnected with Aurelius.