novelraw #203 - Section 203
#203 - Section 203
A low-interest loan spread over thirty years can be easily repaid. Isn't the land in this wonderful City of Freedom practically free? Rounding it off, it's practically a gift!
Previously, during the encounter at Da Yi, Tarsica didn't use the allied forces of the great powers as cannon fodder. This demonstrated her courage and control, earning her an excellent reputation.
Now, the plans she's promoting are definitely extremely reliable!
The great powers were already preparing to invest in the Terra Kingdom, and now with such favorable investment policies, a large number of subscription applications were submitted immediately.
In the end, all 100 plots of land offered by the City of Freedom were sold out.
Afterward, some great powers who still had money left over expressed their desire to buy more.
Following the trend of buying high and selling low, these people were turning red with envy.
Regarding this request, Roger wasn't polite with these fools and, using his divine design skills, launched a second phase of satellite cities for the City of Freedom.
This time, during the public auction, the great powers and large merchants competed fiercely, and the second phase of land was sold out again!
Calculating the average price per square meter, the satellite city areas were even 15% higher than the core city areas…
But those who bought it felt they had made a profit. The City of Freedom would definitely skyrocket sooner or later!
When it comes to investing in real estate, the long-lived races are quite experienced.
Moreover, their ability to exploit is maxed out. After thousands of years of accumulation, their national treasury may not have much else, but they certainly have a lot of gold coins.
For Tarsica, these two rounds of transactions were so good that she would laugh in her dreams.
Even with just a 30% down payment, the accumulated amount is a very considerable figure, which can now fully promote the governance of the Kambu Sak Desert.
Such a massive project is beyond the capabilities of the beastmen. Fortunately, with the gathering of merchants here, it's quite convenient to mobilize labor and various materials.
Thus, trade and transportation routes gradually formed, and massive amounts of materials converged here. The once barren desert land seemed to have the potential to become the center of the entire Eternal Night World overnight.
There are the latest alchemical products produced by the Green Vine Empire, as well as the traditional crafts of the elves, the specialties of the underground races, and fresh slaves from other planes…
The 'enlightened' Tarsica intentionally turned Terra into a free port, and policies and taxes favorable to commercial activities were issued one after another, making it increasingly lively here.
The planned City of Freedom is the core of the free port ambition.
And Tarsica's growth is more than just this.
For the construction of the City of Freedom, Tarsica only gave a 5% down payment to the contractors, with the rest of the construction costs being advanced by the construction teams.
Everyone wasn't afraid that the Queen would run away, the money was just a matter of sooner or later, and everyone had great confidence in Tarsica.
However, after the real estate construction started, Tarsica could use the projects under construction as collateral to borrow more funds from ambitious merchants.
Then, she used the borrowed money to start more projects simultaneously, publicly recruiting construction teams again, using the 5% down payment to have them advance the construction costs.
As long as her revenue is strong, those merchants will always agree in order to make money.
And with new projects, more cash can be mortgaged.
The money in Tarsica's hands expanded rapidly like a balloon.
The Duffia Canal still needed a fourth phase of construction, but under Tarsica's capital operation, the fourth phase was constructed simultaneously.
The Kambu Sak Desert was full of druids planting trees.
The once barren and desolate desert could be transformed into a lush green landscape in less than two years.
At the same time, the wealth actually controlled by the Terra Kingdom with limited capital increased exponentially, by dozens of times.
This is a common financial leverage technique on Earth, and the real estate developers in the Rabbit Country are the most unscrupulous.
A company's actual cash may only be tens of billions, but through various means such as loans, mortgages, pre-sales, and fundraising, it can eventually operate hundreds of billions or trillions of funds.
Leverage of dozens of times is a very common operation for them.
This risk is much smaller than stocks. The most important thing is that they caught up with the crazy rise in real estate for more than 20 consecutive years. Banks and funds blindly favored real estate companies, and the difficulty of obtaining loans was countless times lower compared to real enterprises.
Just like those external capitals waving gold coins and wanting to participate in the construction of the Terra Kingdom.
Not letting them get on board would be Tarsica not giving them face.
Roger had already returned to the City of Mysteries after the Green Vine Empire withdrew its troops, so he only heard Tarsica report her money-grabbing feat afterward.
"You're really crazy. Now half of the Eternal Night World admires you for blowing bubbles," he felt he had a new understanding of Tarsica.
The Queen, who once couldn't sleep because she had too much cash, is now carrying dozens of times the debt, but her complexion is getting better and better. Amazing!
Facing Roger's slightly mocking gaze, Tarsica responded calmly: "I plan to establish a Terra Investment and Development Fund to participate in some of the Arcane Council's research and development projects."
"Invest! We have many projects with high returns, guaranteed to meet all the requirements of the sugar mommy!" Roger immediately put on a humble attitude.
The Empire has many projects underway at the same time and is in need of money.
Tarsica covered her mouth and chuckled, staring at Roger: "Sugar mommy doesn't ask for much, just you."
"Don't joke around, this country is all about serious business," Roger immediately took a step back.
Tarsica sighed almost imperceptibly and seriously discussed cooperation.
Only then did Roger confirm that her growth rate was truly astonishing.
In just a short time, she had increased the value of the Terra Kingdom tenfold out of thin air, embarking on a super-fast development track.
And then, in a blink of an eye, she was about to become a capital queen, turning around to invest in the Green Vine Empire!
She is now frantically gathering the wealth accumulated by other countries over the past hundreds or thousands of years and controlling its flow.
Compared to her, Sophie's Lucky Cat is just a beggar.
It can only be said that capital has always been so crazy.
But also because of Tarsica's competence, totem bracelets were shipped in batches, and the Elysium Illusion had no bottom line. Now the total number of online users in the virtual space has successfully exceeded one hundred million.
Roger finally recalled the layout goal he had forgotten.
Chapter 180: Afu's Apotheosis, Roger's Move
At this time, we must thank the great powers for their heavy support.
They paid money, gave resources, and also helped gather people. What a noble spirit of internationalism.
Currently, the number of users in the virtual space in the entire Eternal Night World is around 500 million, and the number of active users is very high.
On this night, the number of users online at the same time exceeded one hundred million.
On Earth, such data would definitely be suspected of being inflated. The difficulty of increasing the number of registered users and the number of concurrently active users is different.
But who made the virtual space this kind of entertainment, in the Eternal Night World, there is no competitor, and it has irreplaceable stimulation, gradually developing dependent users climbing.
The Empire is using the Fearless Space better, the daily actual online time is limited, there are various transaction rules inside, the stimulation of food, clothing, housing and transportation needs to be purchased, the stimulation of sex is more age, frequency and various additional conditions, to avoid developing user addiction.
At the same time, Fearless Space also undertakes learning, information flow and other functions, requiring users to ensure that in addition to pure entertainment projects, must ensure sufficient learning project usage time.
This is a bit like forced online classes, but the monitoring is more strict, there is no way to fish, and there are related tests to verify the absorption effect.
Course standards can unlock the daily entertainment time.
The good news is that the Empire's preparation of these courses is very careful, all are the best teachers and ensure the recording and absorption effect, and some garbage teachers on Earth reading courseware is completely different.
At the same time, listeners can also score the course, the negative rate reaches a certain level, the test results are continuously too low, this teacher must be replaced.
The Empire's Minister of Education has made a military order to reduce the Empire's youth and middle-aged illiteracy rate to within 20% within three years, of which Fearless Space is an important means.
Compared to the Earth's teachers are the iron rice bowl establishment, mixed days are relatively easy, but also school classes do not talk about dry goods, with extracurricular classes to create income, the Empire's teachers can not.
Each popular culture course, skills improvement courses are carefully prepared, the Eternal Night Queen personally reviewed, hoping that the Empire's cultural level can achieve a real improvement.
Under layers of restrictions, although Fearless Space still has epoch-making fun, but the torture of human nature also exists, so addiction is not so strong.
And the Elysium Illusion is different.
It is for the great powers to control the people and exist, various functions and the Terra Kingdom were customized, crude sensory stimulation is given to enjoy without restraint.
When enjoying, they will ingest nutritious but very poor taste of nutritional packages, mass production through special ingredients, the cost is much lower than normal food - which is also the Terra Kingdom's current largest export commodity.
In this use environment, the great powers of the user's dependence on the Elysium Illusion is much higher than the Empire, many people in the hard work, the only expectation is to enter the Elysium Illusion to escape life.
Heavy production, being forced to maintain a healthy body, and then false satisfaction of life stimulation, the great powers of the people look like hard-working labor machines, for a time the production efficiency greatly improved.
But in the long run, their creativity and combat ability will be greatly reduced, the entire thinking ability will suffer great damage.
And there is a little, relying on the Elysium Illusion, the satisfaction brought by the belief in the gods is much less.
The gods doctrine to the believers promised a good future, the present can not be achieved, they pray devoutly life is still bitter.
But in the Elysium Illusion food Chinese house beauty immediately have, casually abuse super strong monsters, directly meet all their fantasies -
In contrast, what is God, is there Elysium Illusion fun?
There are already churches in opposition to the large-scale use of the Elysium Illusion, but has been collectively opposed by the nobles.
Many once devout believers are not willing to give up the use of the Elysium Illusion, but let the church fall into a rather embarrassing situation.
The rulers are they support out, now the rulers have found that through the Elysium Illusion management past nothing to make trouble the population is super simple, various inputs greatly reduced, how can give up such a useful thing?
Originally it is impossible to mutually tolerate the imperial power and theocracy, the internal there is the Elysium Illusion divergence, the external is the Green Vine Empire's threat decline, immediately the contradiction between the two prominent, enter a certain secret struggle stage.
Fanatics destroy the Elysium Illusion transmission nodes, and then trigger the bottom people and the church conflict cases are also increasing.
For those bitter people, life is already very bitter, the Elysium Illusion is their last candy, who to deprive them will dare to fight with whom!
The taking of nutritional packages, so that their physique has generally improved a lot, combat effectiveness is also increasing.
Elysium Illusion was originally the Green Vine Empire to the great powers prepared a bottle of poison, Roger has been vigilant about the side effects of mental stimulation, always limited to control the Empire's people contact consumer Internet.
But the great powers have not experienced similar problems, just see the labor force to the virtual space, their rule costs greatly reduced, brought about by the productivity improvement, is like a life-saving straw to grab this thing.
If the effectiveness of improving the enthusiasm of slaves decline, their first reaction is to hope that the Terra Kingdom to step up the development of a new generation of totem bracelets, in order to bring more real sensory stimulation.
Therefore, although there is resistance from the church, but has been the evening, the number of active users in the Elysium Illusion of various countries, is still a rapid upward trend.
In this case, only need a specific time to go online to receive the reward activities, Roger needs 100 million active users target is achieved.
The Chapter of Imbalance, a small laboratory, the maintenance team of the magician camp suddenly found that the database disappeared, the entire website lost contact.
Soon they confirmed the reason, is Afu in a very unstable state, the body's energy reaction surged dramatically.
They sounded the alarm, Frankenstein, the Eternal Night Queen, Roger and all rushed to the scene.
Everyone temporarily did not find a solution, but Afu this looks like there is no life-threatening appearance, always can rest assured.
The Eternal Night Queen saw Roger that a thoughtful expression, suddenly understood.
"Roger Aiqing, explain it, this should be your arrangement?" The Eternal Night Queen quietly pinched someone's arm.
I do not know when to start, this guy is getting more and more mysterious, secretly carrying out her do not understand the operation.
Roger smiled gently: "You do not worry, Afu such a performance, should be the virtual space online users exceeded 100 million, and then triggered Afu's apotheosis ceremony."
"Apotheosis?" Everyone's expressions looked at Roger differently.
The road to apotheosis was originally a public secret of the universe, but since the rise of the Seven Gods, they have sealed this information, can only be found in the ancient books of the words and phrases, but has been many years without a successful apotheosis.
Before they thought Afu absorbed the magician camp those emotions process, like the original belief, but at most is the level of totem worship, from apotheosis there is still a very long distance.
Roger chuckled: "I do not know the specific operation, but Afu has close to a understand the Seven Gods collect the means of faith, I believe in his cleverness, reverse out the most basic apotheosis ceremony, is not difficult."
"Shana ..." The Eternal Night Queen immediately reacted.
Roger let Afu incarnation to Shana's side, sure enough, not only let them hug each other for warmth, but in the next game a bigger chess.
Although only got the most primitive apotheosis ceremony, means no optimization, quite primitive and dangerous way, the waste of faith will be very much.
So Roger prepared for him 100 million online users, is to enough faith, to ensure Afu's success and security.
Now that all conditions were met, Ah Fu's apotheosis suddenly began and ended smoothly.
Ah Fu had already woken up. In terms of appearance, he hadn't changed at all, except that when he raised his chubby little hand, a silver cross star appeared on the back of his hand.
Divinity - Freedom.
Many veteran mages naturally interpreted that information.
"Did Lord Charles choose this domain for him? It seems very niche. Is there any particular reason for this?"
Frankenstein asked curiously.
Logically speaking, the Eris Worm was the true creator of the virtual space. Ah Fu, as the strongest Eris Worm, could have become powerful most quickly if he had been apotheosized with something like 'entertainment' or 'enjoyment.'
A god is composed of three aspects: divinity, godhead, and divine domain.
Divinity is the foundation of becoming a god, the essential difference between a god and a mortal. Divine power arises from divinity.