I'm working on infrastructure in Xihuan

Outsiders don't know what Viscount Norbert talked about with Lucien. They only know that the noble association headed by Viscount Norbert has completely softened his attitude towards the construction of the new city. In order to express his support, Viscount Norbert took the initiative to He transferred most of the chamber of commerce properties under his name to the new city, and opened the door for craftsmen and farmers who wanted to leave the manor and move to the new city.

Lucien also reciprocated, leaving a house in the center of the city for the chamber of commerce under the name of Viscount Norbert, and gave him many additional policy benefits to compensate him for the loss caused by the migration of labor.

Of course, the other manor owners who reached a settlement with Lucien under the help of Viscount Norbert did not have these benefits. Standing on the same starting line as other retail merchants, how much they can win depends on their own ability.

Therefore, they clearly did not dare to resort to tough measures to stimulate the lord, but they still used tricks to retain the population on their manor land-labor is the foundation of the manor. The land can only be abandoned in the end.

Lucien didn't respond to this, and let the manor owners make their own troubles.

After all, they can't be intimidated, they can only lure them, let go of their physical pain and cut off their own benefits to subsidize the civilians. In the end, it is Lucien's system value that will increase.

At the same time, in order to attract more labor to immigrate to the new city named "Rolles City" by Lucien, Lucien formulated many policies for civilian immigration, such as [-] gold coins that can be received after three months of residence. Subsidy, a family can enjoy a low urban head tax if all household registrations move to the city, and the house is exempted from housing tax for the first year of moving in. Whether it is buying or renting, the price is kept down to a level that most people can afford.

He saw the business opportunity with a flexible mind, and took advantage of the ultra-low discount of the opening of the new city to buy the entire house in the prime location near the central square, hired construction workers to carry out some renovations, and started the hotel and hotel business when the autumn hunting season came.

Everything in the new city is new—newly paved roads, new buildings, and a pool of clear, brand-new water.

Because of the unpleasant experience Lucien and the manor owners had with the building of the city, and the manor owners were not particularly positive about participating in the development of the new city, except for the Norber family who took advantage of policy convenience and spent a lot of money on cakes in the new city. Except for a block on the top, most of the area is still in the stage of internal melee with unknown situation, and the power is rising and declining all the time.

Lucien sat in the carriage and opened the small window with curtains. The noise from outside came in along with the wind, mixed with the unique atmosphere of the land surrounded by high walls.

This brand-new city is full of vitality, where the differences between upper and lower classes are temporarily broken, and those who seize the opportunity will get rich overnight, or they will go bankrupt in an instant if they make a mistake.

Lucien stared at the passers-by outside the window with his chin propped up, and he could still read the mixed feelings of being busy, hopeful and at a loss on the faces of those people, like fishes put into the river from the fish tank, in the waters without boundaries Instead, I don't know where to swim.

"Does the air in the city make people free...?" Lucien chanted a well-known saying in his previous life, paused, and added a questioning tail at the end of the sentence.

A city surrounded by high walls looks more like a fish tank than a vast countryside.

Now is the most lively time of the autumn hunting season, but Lucien, the nominal owner of Rollus City, has stepped into his own city for the first time—the impact of his knife is more serious than expected It's not that he miscalculated his physical condition, it's just that Anna taught him a little lesson and forced him to lie on the bed until he felt like he was about to go moldy, so that Lucien could treat his body better.

Lucien murmured and complained about this several times. When he was making plans, Anna didn't object to Yunyun, just like a cat with drooping airplane ears and still meowing.

Just ignore him at times like this.

Anna had mastered this technique proficiently when Lucien was a child, and did what she should do until Lucien moaned and said to her that he knew he was wrong while buried under the quilt.

I know I made a mistake, so I dare to do it next time.

Anna does not object to all of Lucien's plans, because she

Knowing that Lucien has such a personality, it would be of no use for him to object, and he would push Lucien away from him, but at least it made Lucien suffer a little afterwards, so he won't make it worse next time.

It is extremely dangerous to put yourself on the chip board. People know themselves too well, and using themselves as chips will be too easy, and they will approach the red line that cannot be approached step by step, until they fall into the abyss irretrievably.

Today Lucien came to fulfill his promise.

Witnessed by the president of the trade union, the president of the chamber of commerce, and representatives of the nobles, in other words, the first members of the city council, he will sign the amnesty granted to Rolles City through a magic contract, and paint him to the council members of President Andasi and others. The cake is completely finalized and implemented.

And Anna didn't want Lucien to come.

After this period of tempering, coupled with her experience in the palace, it was enough for her to realize the storm that this new system would bring.

But besides coming with Lucien, what other choice did she have.

Looking at Lucien's side face, Anna sighed sadly in her heart. For some reason, she suddenly hoped that the beautiful Hall that Lucien liked would come back soon.

Having a nice and obedient Hall is always less risky than what Lucien is playing now.

……

Here, Anna thought that Izzy, who didn't know where she was going, could come back quickly, and over there, Izzy was almost ready to pack her luggage and rush back to Velvet overnight.

If it weren't for others in the underground maze, they could only go forward until they got out and could not go back. Because of the magic in the maze, those who tried to go back in the maze would inevitably lose their way and eventually become the nourishment of the maze, so they could go forward The difficulty of leaving the maze is much lower. The route to crack this maze has been explored clearly. You can buy a simple map for ten gold coins at the nearby mercenary union.

Except that the labyrinth covers an extremely wide area and the route is tortuous, and there are countless carnivorous monsters and plants hidden in the dark environment in the twists and turns, as well as the trap mechanism of the maze itself and a large number of secret doors and passages that only appear at specific times and conditions. It will take a month or two to get out of it.

Yixi originally planned to stay there for at least a year and a half.

This kind of underground labyrinth is a good retreat and leveling place for Hall. The environment meets the requirements and the strength and density of monsters are sufficient. When staying in it, you must stay alert and be able to hone your actual combat skills intensively. At the same time The concentration of elements inside the labyrinth is extremely high. When the secret door is opened, find a dark room to empty out the monsters inside and close the door, and you can soak in high-concentration elements and enjoy three to five days of practice time.

The improvement in strength after one or two years of polishing here is enough to compare to wandering aimlessly outside for five or six years.

Of course, this kind of training operation is only suitable for the Hall mercenary team with high mental tolerance and certain poison resistance and night vision ability. It is not recommended for ordinary humans to imitate.

Most of the teams entering the underground labyrinth are the same as the adventurers entering the Moon Mountains. The main purpose is to hunt for gold. They usually spend money to hire priests from the church, use magic to maintain mental stability, and quickly enter and exit. The period shall not exceed three months.

From time to time, Yixi can meet such a team and learn something from them. If the other party is reliable, or if he is lucky enough to meet a mercenary of the same family who is doing a task, he will exchange some prey and entrust the other party to help him Send a letter addressed to the lord lord.

Maybe there will be one letter a month... After staying underground for a long time, Yixi is not very sure about the speed of time, but unfortunately he can't receive the reply letter. Every time Yixi calculates the time, he can't help but feel a little regretful about it. .

Knowing the news of Lucien's assassination, they heard the news from a certain mercenary team entering the maze when they entered the underground maze for four to five months. Due to the speed of information circulation and various factors, this The news is already outdated, and it is only used as a precondition to relate to the exterminated nobles of Velvet. The focus is on Velvet's eye-catching New City of Rolles.

With the arrival of the autumn hunting season, the city of Rolles, like Lucien's tourist attractions during the peak tourist season in his previous life, ushered in a golden period of economic leap.

The local chamber of commerce of Velvet itself has invested in various

The similar products processing factory has gradually driven the volume of goods transactions. After the city is completed, the new tax policy of the Chamber of Commerce and the simplification of various procedures have attracted a large number of trading interests from external chambers of commerce, which has greatly catalyzed the development of local businesses.

Whether it is the bulk transactions between chambers of commerce, or the retail business between chambers of commerce and individuals, they are all rising rapidly, and the vigorous development of various industries has created a labor gap-the port terminal needs more porters. Urgently begging to welcome and send to the skilled accountants, hotels and restaurants recruited handymen and cooks for laundry and cooking. Under the premise that the city has preferential policies for the naturalization of foreigners, not only the locals of Velvet have yearned for the city of Rolles, It also attracted many civilians who couldn't live in other places to come and join them.

If that's all, then Rollus City is just a city with good prospects for rapid development. Due to its geographical location, it is difficult to develop into any big city. What really makes this city attract the attention of the entire northern province and even the entire empire is The amnesty granted to the city by Lucien as the lord, and the unprecedented [City Council System] implemented by the city.

It wasn't the news that Lucien was assassinated and seriously injured that made Issie almost impulsively pack her luggage and take the risk of going back, but the parliamentary system that Lucien took the initiative to set up.

New things will inevitably lead to disasters, and what Lucien is facing at this moment is bound to be turbulent attacks and opposition like landslides and tsunamis.

He has to go back.

Izzy's body appeared even faster than this thought, so fast that if Ned and Locke hadn't jointly dragged him into the dark room to calm down, he should have been swallowed by the dense fog of the maze at this moment.

In the end, what stopped him from hurrying back to Velvet was the letter written by Lucien, sent from Velvet all the way from his clan.

The content of the letter was so simple that it didn't matter who opened it and read it.

His wayward lord just gave him the simplest instructions like training a dog.

[Wait in place. 】