Chapter 531 Rising Sun Knight

Xu Lai is not easy to use the wealth of the city hall.

After all, Xu Lai just told Jimmy that he wanted to reform a series of municipal facilities, including road repairs, sanitation improvements, etc.

All of this requires money, and the key is that Xu Lai also specifically emphasized that it is not allowed to directly recruit farmers, and they must be hired with wages.

That's fine, after all, it's not that there are no nobles who do this. The enthusiasm for work will definitely be much higher when paid than for free, and the work will be done better and faster, which can save a lot of time.

The key is that Xu Lai also abolished almost all the exorbitant taxes and only retained some necessary expenses.

For example, the largest city entry tax was abolished, and even the city wall will be abolished in a while, so people can enter from wherever they want.

But the sanitation cleaning fee is a must, because if it is all free, I can't believe how much garbage the residents in the city will throw out.

So this sanitation work cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach, and a suitable and reasonable reward and punishment policy must be formulated.

For example, the garbage produced by ordinary residents is definitely not as much as that produced by restaurants and merchants, so a public garbage station can be set up for residents to put out.

Those who are willing to go and throw away the garbage can be exempted from part of the garbage removal fee. Families that keep the garbage clean for a long time can be exempted from all the fees, or even rewarded.

Merchants should be charged more, and fines should be imposed on those who are more polluting and smell more.

Of course, it should also be fair, just and open. Once the right to impose fines is given, it may not only fine merchants with serious sanitation pollution.

This phenomenon is not an isolated case. After all, it is impossible to say that people in the other world have no greed, and Xu Lai can put an end to corruption with just one sentence.

This is impossible, but things still need to be pushed forward, and we can't stop eating because of choking.

Xu Lai is still worried that the reserves in the city hall may not be enough, so how can he use them?

Fortunately, Xu Lai has other ways to make money.

For those nobles who surrendered and did not want to work for Xu Lai, although Xu Lai wants to occupy their cities, he does not have to kill them now.

With their status, the ransom must be tens of thousands of gold coins per person.

Even if someone can't make it, the key is that there are hundreds of people with some status in the dungeon.

Although not all of them are nobles, and many of them are just ordinary officers, they are much richer than ordinary people. It is easy for them to pay the ransom and collect a million gold coins.

With this savings, plus the autumn tax just collected, Xu Lai estimates that he should be able to support himself to the stage of self-sufficiency.

The manor has not been searched yet, so it has not been counted.

If the decorations are not counted, and rare resources are converted into gold coins, these things in the castle are about 3 or 4 million gold coins.

However, it is said that Aini also saved a sum of money in the temple, which is used to lend to heroes and people with a certain status.

Although the temple no longer cooperates with Aini later, it is impossible to give the money to Xu Lai.

In addition, Xu Lai also searched out a large number of sophisticated equipment, weapons and treasures from Aini's castle.

These things are not easy to estimate, because many of the equipment here are antiques.

In Aini's treasure house, there are many sets of high-level armor such as heavy armor, chain armor, and full body armor.

Each set is meticulously crafted. In Xu Lai's words, it is made piece by piece by hand, and each pattern is different.

The exquisite appearance, coupled with decent properties, is obviously not worth it if measured only by the value of ordinary magic armor.

There are many rich people in Conaston Castle, but only nobles and heroes need to hoard these equipment.

The advent heroes are probably rich, but they may not want these equipment with low cost performance.

For example, the cross sword that Xu Lai is interested in has the entire hilt wrapped in dragon skin and inlaid with 81 gems on the handguard.

The handguards protruding on both sides of the hilt are used for blocking and protection when fighting with others.

There are so many gems inlaid on it, do you think it is better to block or not?

Moreover, the cross sword has a slender blade, which is better for stabbing. It is obviously not as good as a two-handed sword or a broadsword for slashing.

The key is that Xu Lai is not good at stabbing in the battlefield swordsmanship he has learned. He is used to big moves, and even the prophet sword feels a bit restrained when he uses it.

Only the Doomsday Blade burning with blazing flames is easy and enjoyable for Xu Lai to use.

The effect of this cross sword is also very good, adding 1 level of tactics and 1 level of offensive skills, but it can only increase the basic effects of these specializations and cannot trigger special effects.

It is equivalent to allowing the master-level offensive skills to play the bonus of the ultimate offensive skills, but the special effects of the ultimate offensive skills are not available.

Moreover, Xu Lai's offensive skills have been fully cultivated, so this thing cannot take effect either, because the ultimate offensive skills have reached the top and it cannot break through the top limit.

On the outside, Xu Lai still likes it very much, but if he really wants to keep it for his own use, Xu Lai feels that he is losing money.

He is a pragmatist, so he doesn't like things that are obviously more expensive than their value.

But he doesn't like it, just because it is still in the development stage and money needs to be used in key places.

When the day comes when he no longer has to worry about money, he probably won't be willing to sell these decorations that enhance his image.

Besides, it doesn't matter if he doesn't like it, others may not dislike it.

Among the heroes of advent, there may be more people who like this kind of equipment.

And these people may be poor to death, relying on the high-interest loans lent by Count Aini to barely survive.

Rich people, such as Xu Lai, may have incredible money.

Apart from other things, Xu Lai knows that the ultimate financial management technique alone can earn 1,000 gold coins every day, which is 360,000 gold a year.

If there is also a specialty in financial management, the income is very considerable.

In addition to these gorgeous equipment, Aini also collects some practical treasures, such as the gold set and gold bag that Xu Lai also has.

The number of low-level treasures is always large, and it is normal to have duplication.

Xu Lai has no interest in ordinary treasures, and is only interested in artifacts and holy artifacts.

Not to mention, Aini really has a treasure scroll in his collection.

[Knight's Spirit Synthesis Scroll]: Knight's Ring (primary treasure), Knight's Cloak (intermediate treasure), Knight's Gloves (advanced treasure), Knight's Soul (super treasure) can be synthesized into Knight's Spirit.

Knight's Spirit is a special summoning treasure. After synthesis, it needs to consume mana to use, and no equipment is required.

Knight's Spirit: Consume 100 mana points to summon 8th-level Rising Sun Knights of level * 1.5, which lasts for 12 hours and can only be summoned once a day.

Rising Sun Knight: 8th-level spiritual creature of the human camp (can be resurrected by resurrection and can be treated by mages), no consumption.

Features: 1. Sun Horse, Rising Sun Knight can control the Sun Horse, ignore all terrain obstacles under the sun, and have the ability to fly.

In places where the sun cannot shine, the Sun Horse will be weak, all attributes will decrease by 20%, and it will not be able to ignore the terrain.

2. Rising Sun Knight, when the sun covers the Rising Sun Knight, the Rising Sun Knight will not be affected by mental spells such as blindness and grief.

3. Dazzling Charge. When the Rising Sun Knight launches a charge, the target locked by the Rising Sun Knight will gain a "dazzling" state, and the dodge and block abilities will be blocked (not effective for targets without visual ability).

4. Spirit creatures are immune to all physical damage, and the spell damage (including healing spells) received is doubled.

5. Knight Charge. After use, the movement speed increases by 150%, the mount's physical consumption increases by 100%, and the damage of the knight's entourage increases by 10% for every 15 meters of movement, with a maximum of 300% (can be superimposed with special effects such as captain's specialties)

The Knight's Spirit is a very special treasure. This thing is not equipped on the body, but like the Hellfire Summoning Stone, it can summon special units to assist in combat.

The difference is that the Hellfire Summoning Stone is a consumable item that can only be used once, but the user does not need to pay an additional price.

And this Knight's Spirit can be used once a day. At Xu Lai's current level, one use can summon 60 Rising Sun Knights.

Xu Lai has a lot of Hellfire Summoning Stones, but this thing is disposable, so Xu Lai is reluctant to use it.

In most situations, he can handle it alone and does not need this thing at all.

Therefore, this thing was distributed by Xu Lai to Su Ya, Yu Lan, Giselle and others for self-defense.

But if it can be summoned continuously, just like summoning elemental creatures, then Xu Lai will not feel sorry for using it.

The key elemental creatures are affected by magic expertise, and even if the magic expertise level is high, it can only summon a few more elemental creatures at a time, and it cannot improve the essence of elemental creatures.

After all, elemental creatures are of lower level, and no matter how many there are, they can only be used as cannon fodder.

Unlike the Rising Sun Knight, that is a real high-level knight, and a knight immune to physical attacks.

Xu Lai dare not imagine how terrible damage such a knight unit will cause if it rushes into a unit without spell attack ability.

It's a pity that Xu Lai can't summon such a knight now.

Aini had the synthesis scroll of Knight's Spirit, but he only collected the Knight's Ring and Knight's Cloak.

Xu Lai had the Knight's Gloves, but he didn't have the most critical and important Knight's Soul.

Without a key treasure, there was no way to synthesize the Knight's Spirit, so Xu Lai could only envy.

Fortunately, he had already thought of a way to raise treasures.

There were really few of Aini's collections that Xu Lai liked, and he planned to sell the rest.

Ordinary sales, of course, would not sell for much money, the key is that there were too few buyers, and the price would inevitably be suppressed.

Therefore, Xu Lai planned to use the auction house that he was building to auction.

It happened that his auction house was promoting, but it was a pity that it could only rely on the caravans traveling to Qingfeng City for promotion.

And there was not even a teleportation array, so even if others wanted to participate, they could only follow the caravan.

This is why Xu Lai couldn't wait to build the teleportation array.

Borrowing from his own auction house would not only bring more profits, but also add many precious items to his own auction house, increasing the appeal of Qingfeng Auction House.

Xu Lai also planned to hold a grand transportation ceremony for the treasures, equipment, and collections discovered in the castle.

Tell those buyers who are interested in these treasures and equipment that these things will be transported to Qingfeng City for auction, and artificially promote Qingfeng City.

Of course, Xu Lai's doing this is also quite dangerous. At least he can't let ordinary mercenaries transport these treasures.

First of all, although Aini is short of soldiers and generals, he has a deep foundation after all. If he gathers together, who knows where he can get hundreds of elites.

So even if Roland and his Holy Light Knights are escorted, Xu Lai is not very reassured.

Without Xu Lai's blessing, Roland and his team may not be the opponents of other 8th-level masters, and they may not even be able to beat the 7th-level masters.

Even Roland and his team may not be able to escort, Xu Lai is even more worried about the mercenary group. Maybe they will embezzle the treasures worth millions or even tens of millions.

It's not that Xu Lai doesn't trust others, it's really that money is attractive.

Therefore, he plans to escort this batch of treasures personally.

Of course, they didn't set off right away. First, the auction house's publicity hadn't been done yet, and second, the construction of the auction house hadn't been done yet.

4 or 5 days away from home, according to the construction progress of those builders, the auction house might have been built.

However, as a very important display window, it's not enough to just build the auction house. Xu Lai also needs this auction house to support it.

It just so happened that there were many precious decorations in Aini's castle. These things didn't need to be sold, so they were simply packed together and shipped back for use.

Xu Lai still set off as he had planned before, waiting for the teleportation array to be built.

At that time, should we use land transportation to slowly transport them back, or just spend a sum of money and use the teleportation array directly to teleport people and goods together.

Anyway, hundreds of paladins and angels, plus dozens of carriages, will only cost tens of thousands, at most hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

Just thinking about it, Xu Lai felt so distressed, so he decided to sit in the teleportation array honestly.

The goods in the castle were counted, and Xu Lai didn't have the patience to sit in the castle all the time.

He asked Roland and Jilong to transport all these precious treasures and equipment to the busiest streets for exhibition.

While exhibiting, the news of the Qingfeng City Auction House was spread.

The teleportation array of Conaston can be used now, and it is connected to many large cities in the empire, so the news can be spread quickly.

Xu Lai himself took Elvi to visit the outdoor buildings that were circled by Aini and no one was allowed to visit.

The reason why the ancestors of the Aini family built Conaston here was because this place could radiate to several outdoor buildings.

Among them, there were two outdoor knight training camps, which were also the outdoor buildings that Xu Lai had to occupy. (End of this chapter)