Douluo: The Peerless Sun, Moon, and Yuhao

Chapter 233 Brother Huo seeks welfare for poor brothers
"Senior Huo, there are only three things we want from this trip: fairness, fairness, or, damn, fairness!"

"Yes, fair! You can't favor one thing over another!"

Huo Yuhao, who was reviewing and approving the development plan proposed by the researchers at the temporary office listed in Mingde Hall, suddenly found that his door was blocked when he went downstairs. The crowd outside the door was full of human heads.

Well, even if the door of his office building is not very big at all, judging from the number of people, there are dozens of people crowded at the door, which is not a small number.

Moreover, these guys who call themselves seniors are all wearing the uniforms of the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. As students from the "Outer Academy", they gathered in front of the Mingde Hall. Strictly speaking, it is quite illegal.

Facing the students blocking the road to protest, the guards of Mingde Hall did not want to be violent. They stood on the outside and looked at Huo Yuhao hesitantly.

"What are you arguing about? What are you arguing about? They're all stuck here. Even if you talk, they'll talk too. It's such a mess that no one can hear you clearly."

Huo Yuhao put his hands on his hips with an angry look on his face, as if he wanted to be a shark. His eyes and aura were so shocking that the students who came to block the door fell silent instantly.

"You, you, and you, come in and tell me what's going on." Huo Yuhao pointed to the three people who had made the most noise just now.

"Everyone else has dispersed. Go back and wait for notification. If anyone insists on staying here to cause trouble for me, don't blame me for blacklisting you."

As the three most representative people were brought upstairs, the others looked at each other, staring for a while and then dispersed.

With Huo Yuhao's level of mental strength, he certainly wouldn't be able to distinguish dozens of people's voices, but it was impossible for him to call them all to have a private conversation.

"Tell me, what do you mean by blocking the door and shouting for fairness? When did I feel sorry for you?"

"Senior..." The boy who shouted the loudest just now rubbed his hands anxiously and said with a grimace:

"When those students who went to receive the soul ring benefits came back, everyone was envious and had great opinions. It turns out that you are going to arrange souls for them. You should have told me earlier..."

"There are people in every grade who are better than those who have received benefits, but as long as you are stuck at the level bottleneck, this and this... If it is just a normal soul ring, the timing is not right, everyone We all understand, but this soul is obviously not like that! Since the soul can add soul rings to the host later, it will be the same no matter who you choose, so why exclude everyone!"

The meanings of the other two are quite different. Generally speaking, they can be summed up as "acid".

"What kind of strength do you have, you come to talk to me about fairness in the Soul Palace?" Huo Yuhao picked up the teacup, squinted at the three of them, and showed a smile as if he was looking at a bastard.

"Learn... senior?"

"Oh, okay, I won't kid you anymore. It's true that souls don't need to produce soul rings immediately, but we also have to summarize the experimental data. We can't use drugs with huge side effects to force you to reach the bottleneck level of soul power. Let’s do an experiment?”

Anyway, volunteers have already done this kind of extreme experiment for them. What Huo Yuhao wants is just general statistical data when it is applied to a large number of groups.

The student who had previously said outside the door that Huo Yuhao favored one over the other carefully said: "How you arrange it is all your business, senior, but their group of lucky white wolves snatched the soul. This really makes everyone happy." I feel like... I'm at a loss."

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "You are just feeling anxious because your classmates are getting opportunities and progressing faster than you. In fact, do you really have anything to lose?"

"If you are doing business, the mentality is that letting others make money is just as uncomfortable as losing money yourself. It is somewhat twisted..."

The boy looked at his companions, gritted his teeth and said, "Forget about everything else, but as a senior, you have to give everyone reassurance! These days, some students who have reached the bottleneck of their soul power have not yet added soul rings, choosing to wait and see. Let’s see if I can get a soul for myself.”

"As a result, you haven't shown up to give everyone an accurate message. We don't even know when you plan to open the reservation quota for the next wave of souls or how many people you plan to receive. It really puts people in a dilemma."

Huo Yuhao smiled: "Are you asking this for many of your classmates?"

"Yes……"

"Any other questions?"

"That's it... we already understand the function of the soul just from hearing the classmates brag about it every day, but will the cost of finding someone to conclude a soul contract be too much for the poor guy to afford?"

Huo Yuhao nodded: "Then I will tell you. When I get back, tell others not to come to my place to block the door and interfere with the work."

"The first phase of the Soul Palace is currently under construction. It is estimated that basic functions will begin in two or three months. Those who are willing to get a soul can wait for a while. The specific location and various matters will definitely be announced by then. Inform everyone in the academy, there is no need to rush, there is no point in rushing."

"As for the cost... Those with soul beasts below the fifth ring, or those who have contracted soul beasts for no more than ten thousand years, are free, so even poor people can afford it; but now that there is a shortage of talents, and the service is only open in Mingdu, you must be prepared to queue up. "

"Free? Are you serious?" When the three of them heard this, their eyes lit up. They originally thought that Soul Spirit, a subversive existence for Soul Masters, would make a lot of money out of this, but they didn't expect that it was actually for charity. ?

This must not be blown up... Bah, go back and blow it up?
"Am I guilty of lying to you? If there are no other problems, just get out of here and don't cause trouble to me again."

After sending away the three people who had brought him a little unhappiness, Huo Yuhao returned to his temporary office, poured himself a cup of tea and started drinking it.

He was indeed serious when he said that soul beasts under [-] years old were free, and it was true that he was doing universal charity work, but it was definitely not because Huo Dashan was showing great mercy.

He raises fish for free, then traps the fry in fish ponds and waits for them to grow fat before cutting off big ones. If he doesn’t even know how to operate this model, then in his previous life he would have been using pirated software tacitly approved by various manufacturers for more than 20 years. .

Thousands of years ago, the Wuhun Palace regularly went to the mountains and countryside to host Wuhun awakenings for school-age children for free. It seems to be a loss in terms of economic benefits, but who can say that it is meaningless?Without countless grassroots soul masters who do menial and backbreaking work like poverty alleviation cadres, how could Wuhun Palace have such deep popularity?

How many soul masters first came into contact with Wuhun Hall, an organization that may not often appear in their lives, from the time they awakened their martial souls, and even later tended to join Wuhun Hall after completing their studies?

A huge organization that has been operating for thousands of years and has the ability to suppress the secular kingship. On the surface, it seems to be prosperous for a long time. How can it be suppressed by force alone?It seems that "unprofitable" work is quite necessary.

Generally speaking, reaching the point where ten thousand-year souls are needed means that the soul master has reached the fifth ring cultivation level and becomes the new super soldier of Douluo Continent. At the same time, he also becomes the de facto new aristocrat whose economic conditions have improved dramatically.

At this point, a soul master whose talents and opportunities have been proven by facts will be more willing to spend all his money on training resources. The profit from one soul king is comparable to at least thousands of soul masters - and he also has to Thank you to the Soul Palace. Without directly attacking the largest number of grassroots soul masters, you can give the Soul Palace's behavior of amassing wealth a few more layers of camouflage and gain a good reputation.Hmm... For outstanding soul kings who are really short of money, they can also introduce "soul loans" and other loans that are actually more limited than a life contract, so as to maximize the efficient use of external human resources.

Capitalist society can produce tens of millions of times more productivity than slave society, not just by leaps in technological level. It is also true that debt slaves have a far greater willingness to work than indentured slaves - people who are breathless with 30-year loans. He will work hard, but if he really cuts off his confession and becomes a deadbeat, he might just end up in ruins.

In the spiritual sea, facing Brother Tianmeng's doubts about whether this arrangement could achieve the profit target, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but hold his head and laugh.

"Don't worry, Brother Tianmeng, and I'm not just doing this for the sake of fame. There are people rushing to do the decapitation business, but no one is doing it to make a loss. I will directly integrate the low-level soul master into the soul of the link. If all the profits are cut off, which competitor can grow secretly in such a harsh environment?"

In many cases, where sanctions fail to achieve their goals, dumping is a breeze.

The Soul Palace, with Huo Yuhao personally mastering the core technology, naturally has a monopoly on high-level soul fusion spells and qualified soul master resources; but there is no essential difference in human IQ, and the proliferation of low-level spells with lower difficulty is inevitable. There will be people who will use various methods to try to memorize it and steal it.

The severely unbalanced supply and demand relationship will inevitably give rise to a black market. Huo Yuhao has never expected to directly establish a monopoly position by relying on the protection of other agencies. Laws and regulations that are not enforced are just pieces of paper that are too hard to wipe one's buttocks.

If Huo Yuhao arranged for the Soul Palace to set high prices based on the soul fusion of grassroots soul masters, and rely on the only designated status in name to make a lot of money, he might be able to make a lot of money, but the profits that are extremely exciting and seemingly "at your fingertips" would definitely lead to The various underground black markets that compete for price wars for copycat souls—the Holy Spirit Church must be very interested in this.

But if the basic soul masters are offered free of charge, no opponent can rely on low-level copycats to accumulate the first pot of gold - a few people will ignore the free and guaranteed famous soul temple and turn around to the local fee-based ones. Small factory?
Senior soul masters are highly resource-rich and the soul palace has a natural monopoly on technical resources, so cutting them off is extremely efficient; and Huo Yuhao doesn't completely let go of soul masters below the fifth ring. What about "soul nourishing liquid", "soul health care package", " Value-added services such as "Soul Upgrade Service" can be arranged. There is no need to hold on to the iron rooster for those who really can't make money. Just treat it as providing gaming experience to paying players.

"Dong dong."

There was a knock on the door, and after Huo Yuhao shouted "come in", he found that the person who came was indeed a bit strange.

"Huo...sir, please read the letter written by the division commander personally."

The visitor was wearing the uniform of an officer of the Soul Engineer Corps, with the logo of the Evil Lord Soul Master Corps pinned on his epaulette. He took out a letter from the storage ring and handed it to Huo Yuhao with a respectful expression. He saluted without waiting for Huo Yuhao to say anything. Li turned around and left as quietly and abruptly as when he came.

"Wang Yiheng's autographed letter? He's a rare visitor, and he came to me directly without ever getting through to the hall master?"

Huo Yuhao held the autographed letter and looked at it, feeling strange.

After opening the letter and reading the contents above, Huo Yuhao felt even more ridiculous and dumbfounded.

As the souls were completely declassified, the five major soul master groups, who were the hands of the protector of the country, were also notified internally by the royal family immediately. All the soldiers down to the lowest level learned that the empire, which had always made no achievements in the research of soul masters, actually came up with something. The soul is such an ecologically subversive technology tree.

As the pillars of the country, all members of the soul mentor group have also been generously promised military benefits by the royal family - the "contract fee" charged by the soul palace for soul beasts ten thousand years old and above is free of charge!
In addition to the three to five hundred main battle soul masters, the soul master group also has a large number of logistics units; but the thousand-year and century-old souls they can use are fused for free. This policy is actually formulated separately for the main battle soul masters.

The emperor's favor was so great, but Wang Yiheng couldn't be happy about it. The seemingly "great discount" conditions were completely worthless to them.

The ten-thousand-year soul contract fee that the Soul Palace is preparing to implement may seem extremely painful to the Soul Sect, but to the Soul King, it is a figure that can be paid out in a few months by gritting one's teeth and saving money. Even if it is not free, for the Evil Lord Soul Instructor Group The extremely well-paid soul engineers are nothing.

It's okay to express gratitude for the emperor's kindness, but it would be too fanciful to expect everyone to be truly grateful based on the small amount of money saved.

Is it money that everyone is short of?It's a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast that is extremely troublesome to find in the Sun and Moon Empire!Not to mention that in principle, the spirit beast's willingness to actively cooperate needs to be as high as possible.

Finding a suitable ten-thousand-year-old soul beast with a near-lived life will cost at least ten times the amount of energy and time required to make a soul contract.

What the soul mentors are worried about is how to find people to help find the souls that will accompany them for life and give them a warm home. Who needs your five yuan coupon?
The royal family was also suffering a lot - before Xu Tianzhen personally fused the souls, he had killed many thousand-year soul beasts to train Huo Yuhao. Although they could be forcibly separated from the volunteers, the soldiers of the soul master group would definitely not care. This is bloody, but the ten thousand-year-old soul beasts that the royal family can raise are a drop in the bucket compared to the two thousand or so active soul mentors of the five national guardians.

Instead of searching for a few and letting people rush to buy them, it is better to block this hole from the beginning; they have already been given soul consumption coupons, people can't be too greedy.

However, Wang Yiheng, who had a close personal relationship with Jing Hongchen and knew more secrets, knew that the biggest trouble was not yet here.

There is still the possibility of quickly cultivating low-level soul contract masters, but now, Huo Yuhao is the only one in the entire Douluo Continent who has the ability to make contracts with ten thousand year souls!
If we don't discuss the schedule with Huo Yuhao first and wait for others to come to their senses, is it possible that the brothers in the Evil Lord Soul Instructor Group will really have to wait in line for at least a few months?
Looking at Wang Yiheng's request in his handwritten letter, "If it is convenient, please reserve time for the Evil Lord Soul Instructor Group to focus on soul matters. If you can help contact the resources of the ten thousand year soul beast, I will be grateful to everyone in the division and there will be a generous reward." , Huo Yuhao felt dumbfounded, and at the same time, a strange emotion grew in his heart.

Finally...

Even people like Wang Yiheng had to ask to come to him and treat him as an equal, instead of just treating him as "a junior whom Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming are optimistic about" and receiving preferential treatment.

I finally moved away the shadow and afterglow from my elders that were both protective and restrictive above my head, allowing me to look directly into the eyes of others and communicate.

However, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but shook his head when he saw the request to "help contact the resources of the ten thousand year soul beast".

Even Kong Lao and the royal family are helpless. Where can I find a way out?

Oh, no, I think I really do have one, and I have one and a half...

"Brother Tianmeng, Ice Emperor, Snow Emperor, I have a question that I need to consult with you seriously... What do you think of the Sun and Moon Empire? Are you willing... to promote closer cooperation?"

"What?"*3
In the sea of ​​spirit, Huo Yuhao imitated a blank letter and shook it.

"I don't know how much you care about the various ethnic groups in the Far North, but if you think about it from a long-term perspective, this may be an opportunity to improve the living environment of the soul beasts in the Far North."

"The most important thing about souls is that they can be inherited...which means that as long as families maintain normal inheritance, it will only take a few thousand years for the earliest souls to integrate into human society to become people of great significance and status. If they exist, they will be the true reliance of the top families of mankind, and even souls with a high enough level of spiritual intelligence will have a certain right to speak."

"I believe that the Sun and Moon Empire will be the unifier of the continent in the long run, but currently everyone is in a situation of extreme shortage of soul resources, especially those families that lack ten thousand-year soul beasts but have a decisive position."

"If we take advantage of this vacancy and embed some of the soul beasts from the Far North into the upper echelons of mankind and become the flesh and blood of an indivisible body, achieving a certain degree of symbiosis; you may not have this worry, but the Far North The spirit beasts will definitely gain some special status and benefits as a result."

"This window period is fleeting. If in another ten years, the Sun-Moon Empire really unifies the continent and has sufficient soul beast resources in the Star Dou Forest... you understand. In the final analysis, the problem lies in 'but Inherit' this characteristic, and now we happen to be at this crossroads where we have the ability and position to make decisions."

(End of this chapter)