real apocalypse game

Chapter 425 Taxation
The Floating City was reorganized before, and the Pirate Kingdom was destroyed later. At its peak, the Floating City had eleven demigods, and the Pirate Kingdom had seven. Both were regarded as the top forces on Earth, and both were destroyed because they disobeyed the rule of the Earth Federation.

The fall of the two behemoths has taught ambitious and powerful professionals a truth. The times have changed, and even the calendar has changed. Now it is the fifth year of the solar calendar. Under the selfless sun, all professionals have to bow their heads. Acting under the rules set by Lin Mingyuan, whoever dares to jump out of the rules, or ignore the rules, just think about the fate of the Floating Void City and the Pirate Kingdom.

A week after the destruction of the Pirate Kingdom, there were successive requests from local forces to join the Earth Federation system, and there were many powerful demigod professionals among them.

Those areas that did not listen to the oracle and did not obey the king surrendered one after another, and the Earth Federation became more and more worthy of its name, becoming a super alliance that integrated all the forces on Earth.

Against such a background, base cities with a population of tens of millions have started construction all over the world.

The purpose of building the base city is to unite forces for common defense. Looking at the world, there are more than [-] forces, large and small, scattered all over the world.The advantage is to save the fire. Even if a camp is completely wiped out, there will always be camps that have not encountered natural disasters and survive, but this is very unfavorable for defense.

On February [-]th of odd-numbered years, the celestial sphere will converge again. At that time, a large number of monsters will flood the earth, and all parts of the world will encounter huge crises.

Lin Mingyuan wants to preserve the earth's vitality as much as possible, but all the forces are distributed all over the world, and Lin Mingyuan is a little too busy in just one central China region, let alone the whole world?If Lin Mingyuan failed to effectively contain the disaster on the day of the disaster, a large number of casualties among ordinary people would inevitably affect Lin Mingyuan's faith.

The way Lin Mingyuan thinks is to set up base cities and gather the population together, so that on the day of the catastrophe, Lin Mingyuan only needs to travel to a hundred base cities at most. At a loss, I can take care of the east but not the west.

The training base city cannot be built just by talking about it. The first thing that must be solved is the resource problem.

Not to mention the catastrophic era when production was idle for several years, even before the catastrophe, it would have been completely impossible for all the countries on Earth to work together to build a hundred huge base cities that could accommodate tens of millions of people, or more, within three to five years.

What's more, Lin Mingyuan's request is to build a hundred base cities before the arrival of February 22, the sixth year of the catastrophe. The manpower and material resources required are huge. It is not impossible to do it with the existing resources of the earth, but it will cause trouble. If the sky is angry and the people complain, then the gain outweighs the loss.

Lin Mingyuan's choice was to dig the corners of the abyss, and transfer the output of the abyss to exchange for various materials and transport them to the earth.

There are many kinds of materials, first of all, building materials. The most important thing to build a city is bricks and stones. Lin Mingyuan chose diamond bricks calcined from the red soil of the abyss and adulterated with emery. Each diamond brick can withstand more than ten attacks from legendary professionals. There will be cracks, and when the diamond bricks are superimposed and combined to build a city wall, the defense will further increase. Non-sacred level attacks can't even damage the city wall. Many fortresses in the abyss are built of diamond bricks.

Tens of millions of diamond bricks were transported to the earth through the abyss portal opened by Lin Mingyuan, along with various conventional and unconventional building materials, the basic resources for building a city.

Materials alone are not enough, skilled workers are also needed. Officially recruited by the Earth Federation, all city construction workers receive five times the wages, and are provided with subsidies for various living materials such as firewood, rice, oil and salt. One city construction worker can easily feed a family of five and save money. A lot of wealth.

The wages and various subsidies given to the workers all come from the resources of the abyss. The blood crystal coins in Lin Mingyuan's account were splashed out, in exchange for countless construction resources and the workers' high enthusiasm, and what they got were buildings. And the strong and powerful city rose.

The base city was built on the basis of the original city. An unbreakable city wall was built outside the city, and a defensive circle was drawn inside the city to build a magic tower.

The construction workers worked almost at the same time as the mages. At first, the self-proclaimed noble mages were willing to go to the dusty construction site to work with a group of sweaty workers until Lin Mingyuan launched a big stick and carrot offensive.

The magicians who participated in the construction of the city can receive the certification of federal magicians. Those who have not been certified will be regarded as wild magicians. Wild magicians are not allowed to build magic towers in the territory of the Earth Federation. This is a big stick.

Carrots are federal magicians who can receive subsidies, and the Earth Federation will fund the construction of magic towers for them when their strength reaches the legendary level.

As soon as the effect of the carrot comes out, even if there is no big stick, mages will flock to him. The criterion for judging a powerful mage is whether he has a magic tower. The most precious asset of Floating Void City is eleven powerful magic towers. The strength of the magician inside the magician increases by at least 50.00%.

The resources needed to build a magic tower are almost equivalent to a medium-sized gold mine. Ordinary mages really don't have the financial resources to build a magic tower. Not to mention legends, few sanctuary-level mages own a magic tower. The magic tower is almost the same as that of a demigod. Binding to mages, only demigod mages are eligible to own the magic tower.

Now the Earth Federation is willing to build a magic tower for a legendary mage for free.

But the magic tower is not built in vain. The legal property rights of the magic tower belong to the Earth Federation. The magician does not really own the magic tower, but only leases it. Of course, as long as the magician does not betray the Federation, his magic tower will not be taken back.

Moreover, the magic tower must be built in the base city, and the mage who owns the magic tower must also bear the responsibility of defending the city.

Even with these two restrictions, mages still flock to it, the magic tower is too attractive.

The earth is undergoing rapid changes. People can see and experience the changes with the naked eye. Massive resources are pouring in. Ordinary people with hands and feet, even if they don’t have any skills, can live comfortably and have a high level of wealth as long as they go to the construction site to move bricks. quality of life.

There are no more scavengers in the garbage dump, and the faces of the poor people turn rosy. Every citizen of the Earth Federation can enjoy the social welfare subsidized by the Federation, and they can live without doing anything.

The once-high-ranking professionals no longer dared to bully civilians. They had their own laws to restrain professionals and the top leaders of each base city. People regained their dignity.

Feeling the benefits brought to people by the establishment of the Earth Federation, people who are grateful for Lin Mingyuan's kindness have joined the Sun God Sect to bathe in the glory of God.

Lin Mingyuan's believers increased rapidly, and more and more dew drops of faith accumulated. No one saw Lin Mingyuan's hard work in the abyss, and his efforts were rewarded.

However, all this comes at a price. The large amount of funds mobilized in the 930th floor of the abyss attracted the attention of the middle and high-level abyss. The demon lord of the 207th floor of the abyss, the "wine demon" Cheeks, accidentally heard the gossip and knew that the demon lord of the 930th floor of the abyss Spending hundreds of thousands of blood crystal coins every day to buy various supplies, his family was quite wealthy. With a thought, he sent his men to the 930th floor of the abyss to collect taxes.

There is no reason for the high-level abyss to plunder the low-level abyss. The rule of the abyss is that the strong prey on the strong, and whoever is strong is justified.

There are seven hundred layers between the 207-layer abyss and the 930-layer abyss. There is a huge difference in the strength between the demon lords. For example, the demon lord with more than 900 layers of abyss is at the level of a demon god with weak divine power, while the vassals under Chix's rule all have weak divine power. At the level of a demon god, Cheeks, who sent his men to blackmail the 930-level abyss, didn't take it seriously at all. He blackmailed so many people that he can't even remember them.

The strong have everything, and the weak have no way to redress their grievances. Lin Mingyuan is very clear about the virtues of the Law of the Abyss, but Lin Mingyuan has been a strong man from the moment he stepped into the abyss, except for the loss he suffered when he met the original sin witch Helena. They all walked sideways. Lin Mingyuan never thought that one day he would become the oppressed. Lin Mingyuan was dumbfounded when Cheeks' envoy came to his door and threatened to impose taxes.

Cheeks sent the favored jester Rashad, whose strength is only at the level of an ordinary great demon, converted to a professional level of about 130 sanctuary level, which can be said to be very good.

However, Rashad was arrogant, and the demigod demon who led the way was scolded by him repeatedly. Only when he was in front of Lin Mingyuan did he become more honest. At least he stopped cursing, but his attitude was still arrogant.

"I heard that there is no backer in the 930th floor of the abyss. My master, the champion of the 207th wine barrel competition, and the 1000th floor of the abyss wine demon Qix are willing to provide you with shelter. You need to pay [-] and [-] million blood crystal coins to His Majesty Qix every year. Do you understand?"

Rashad obviously understands the market. The daily resource output of more than 900 layers of abyss is about 800 in exchange for blood crystal coins. The devil's bottom line is stuck, although there are many, but it is not unbearable, at least I can keep a third of it, if I am stingy and don't reward the demons under my command, 600 million blood crystal coins are enough to spend a lot of money and toss.

According to Medusa, the supplies she handed over to Helena, the original sin witch, were almost two-thirds of the output of the plane.

"It's a fair price, but I don't accept it, so get out immediately." Lin Mingyuan was not a doormat. The name of Liquor Demon Cheeks couldn't frighten him, and he didn't pay attention to Lin Mingyuan who was not an upper-level abyss lord.

Lin Mingyuan knew something about Cheeks, the drunkard. He was a weak demon god with supernatural power, and he liked to drink alcohol. He had won many championships in drinking competitions held in the upper abyss, and his character was extremely low.

The demon gods in other planes collect taxes, and they really go to them when they have something to do. The drunkard Cheeks is not. The pier will not worship him either.

Moreover, it is impossible for Lin Mingyuan to swallow his anger. In order to build the base city as quickly as possible, Lin Mingyuan spent all the blood crystal coins he had accumulated in the past year, as well as the capture of dozens of old demons he killed in the Stomach Prison. , Lin Mingyuan himself was thinking about where to go to fight the autumn wind, and where to have money to supply Cheeks.

Lin Mingyuan's attitude shocked Rashad enough. Rashad didn't expect that the demon lord of the small 930th floor of the abyss would dare not give Cheeks face, and said with a twitching face: "Good boy, you have kindness!"

Having said that, Rashad turned his head and left. Rashad, who failed to collect taxes, thought about how to add fuel and vinegar to the drunkard Cheeks to discredit Lin Mingyuan when he went back, and asked Cheeks to clean up Lin Mingyuan who didn't know what to do.

(End of this chapter)