Chapter 379 Fundraising

"Hey!"

The door opened, Allen looked back, and Adele walked in with big strides. Behind her, followed by several maids, each holding a silver plate with various dishes on it. They looked at Adele and Allen, with deep smiles on their faces. Adele reached out and pointed at the table next to her, and the maids put the dishes on the table.

"This is?"

Adele walked to Alan's side, knelt down and said, "No matter how busy you are at work, you must not forget to eat, my lord!"

The girl exuded an indescribable sense of oppression, and Allen shrank back with a dry smile. Adele's distance is so close that the silhouette of a pair of beautiful peaks can be vaguely seen under the neckline.

After the maids went out, Allen asked the girl to press her onto the chair. He shrugged his shoulders, picked up a knife and fork and carefully wiped away the food on the table. Adele is much more elegant. The table knife in her hand can always deftly cut a square piece of meat on the steak, and then put it into her mouth with a fork. After a while of chewing, send it into the stomach.

While eating, Adele said: "I have read the recent financial report in the city. During this period of time, our expenditure gap is really too big, while our income is just a drop in the bucket. If we continue like this, we will soon be unable to sustain it."

"I know, I just raided Dick's lair a few days ago and got some spoils. Selling them will bring you a lot of money." Allen has already started to eliminate the second piece of barbecue, ww√w. lined up.

"And then?" Adele said angrily, "Are you planning to make money by sweeping up thieves' dens? Lord Alan, there is only one Dick in the Blood Rock Wasteland."

"Then what's your opinion?" Allen asked humbly.

Adele pursed her lips, raised her chin slightly and said, "You finally asked the right person."

"Do you know, your subordinates may not all be clean and honest officials. I have been walking around the city recently. Except for the smaller scale, the mansions of those adults are no worse than your city lord's mansion in other respects." Ah Dai'er was born in an aristocratic family, and her vision of appreciation is beyond the reach of Allen. She smiled and said, "I'm sure that these high-ranking and small officials will have a lot of private property. This is ready-made wealth."

Allen was surprised: "Do you want me to confiscate their property?"

"Of course not, then they will have to fight back." The girl shook her finger and said, "Fund raising. We simply treat urban construction as a business, raise funds from officials and civilians, and raise funds in the form of stocks." .Of course they don't know what stocks are. We might as well use another method, such as bonds. In the future, they will make profits, and they can distribute dividends according to the proportion of their investment.

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"You can also consider opening up to merchants, such as those in Violet Harbor. They should have more abundant funds under their hands. Merchants will not refuse to use money for investment and make money. In this way, our financial The situation will improve, and with a lot of funds, it will also help accelerate the development of the city."

Allen's eyes lit up, and he said, "This is a good way. Adele, your little head is just so easy to use."

"Hmph, don't put a high hat on Miss Ben. If you are sincere, why don't you think about rewarding me better!"

"What do you want?" Allen asked casually, and took a sip of a glass of red wine next to him.

"I want to marry you."

Allen almost spit out a sip of wine, he coughed a few times, looked at Adele and said, "Are you kidding?"

Adele stood up, under the reflection of the light, for some reason, there was a sense of silence on the girl's body. It was only then that Allen realized that Adele was wearing a skirt today instead of the usual neutral clothes. In the modified skirt, the hem of the skirt is piled up with lace to create a fluffy feeling. A pair of thin legs stretched out from under the skirt, and the lights outlined the beautiful leg lines on it.

Allen couldn't help being a little nervous, and the atmosphere in the room seemed to have become a little ambiguous. He was just about to find an excuse to escape, but saw Adele walking over. The girl let her hair hang loose, and the loose strands of hair softened Adele's sharp outline. She walked up to Allen, stretched her legs, and climbed onto the chair in a kneeling posture.

The already bulging chest almost hit Alan's face.

Adele lowered her head, her hair slid down, blocking her and Allen's faces. In the faint light that penetrated through the hair, Allen could only see the girl's two delicate red lips.

With her vermilion lips slightly parted, Adele said softly, "Do I look like I'm joking?"

"Isn't it appropriate to talk about this now?" Allen hurriedly wanted to push her away, but the two of them were too close, and when they stretched out their hands, they pressed a mass of soft/flesh.

Adele groaned softly, advancing instead of retreating, her whole body almost hitting Allen's chest.

When the situation was about to get out of hand, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Lucy's excited voice sounded from outside the door: "Alan, look, I've already unlocked this box... Hey, what are you doing?"

Adele raised her head, stretched out her hands to gather her hair, and raised her chest in a demonstrative manner, so Alan's out-of-position hands looked so eye-catching. Lucy's little mouth opened into the shape of an "o", and Adele snorted, "Alan said that my handle is better than yours, double ponytail."

"What!" Lucy stretched out her hand and patted her chest and said, "How dare you compare with Miss Ben just because of your cherry-like thing?"

Adele sneered: "That's better than your two green plums!"

"..." Allen interjected, "How about we discuss something else?"

"Shut up!" the two girls said in unison.

Adele jumped down, stretched her waist and said to Lucy: "This lady is full, if you haven't eaten, you can stay here, there are quite a lot of dishes left."

She blinked her eyes and walked away laughing all the way. How could Lucy fail to hear the pun in her words, stomped her foot to close the door, and said angrily, "What did you just do?"

"I didn't do anything, don't listen to Adele's nonsense, it was just an accident just now." Allen said while holding his forehead.

"Hmph, if I hadn't arrived in time, she would have eaten you up."

Allen reached out and took her over, and said, "Do I seem to be that easy to eat?"

Lucy looked at him seriously and nodded, "Like!"

Allen snorted, and slapped her pink/buttocks: "Say, what were you excited about just now?"

Lucy raised the box in her hand. It was a fraudulent box obtained from the ancestral cemetery of the Baimon people. She said triumphantly: "I have unlocked the mechanism of the box. Inside is a ciphertext and a map. There are no signs on the map. I think the answer should be in the ciphertext. But I still need a little time to unlock the ciphertext."

"Ciphertext? Map?" Allen shook his head and said, "I feel more and more that this planet is not simple. I just found out not long ago that there are Naga people in this world. Roger and the others call Naga people aliens. Judging from their words, there should be many other species like this."

Lucy patted the box and said, "When I unlock the ciphertext, maybe I can unlock some of the secrets."

"Um."

"That..." Lucy hesitated, and asked, "Does she feel good?"

Allen said dumbfoundingly: "Don't worry about this issue."

The next day, Allen met Kira. Belmod brought her together. Alan didn't forget what he had promised Belmod before. Seeing Kira, he smiled and said: "Bermod helped me a lot, and it is foreseeable that his future It will become more and more effective. So in return, I would like to ask for him. Miss Qila, I wonder if you would like to stay and follow me with Belmode?"

Qila looked at Belmode and smiled calmly: "Of course I am willing, my lord."

"That's really great." Allen blinked at Belmode, and said again: "Then Miss Kira, you are born as an adventurer, and I want to leave it to you to deal with the intersection with the Adventurer's Association in the future. Now I have a task for you, I hope to recruit adventurers who can work for me for a period of time through the Adventurers Association."

"What do you want?"

"First of all, the time limit must be at least one year. Secondly, I don't need them to be strong in combat, but they must have certain talents. For example, they must be familiar with the geography of the empire's territory, or be good at inquiring about news."

"I guess I know what you mean."

Allen nodded, and looked at Belmode again. Qila knew that the two had something to talk about, so she left first. After she left, Allen said directly: "I need you to go to Black Iron Fort."

"Oh, hopefully an interesting task."

"Probably not that interesting." Allen shook his head and smiled: "We have a troublesome neighbor. I only found out about this not long ago. Sir Sharon of Black Iron Castle, he has a daughter married to Mo De. And we have cleaned up the entire family of Maude, and it is difficult to guarantee that Sir Sharon will not hold a grudge. If so, then this war will be fought sooner or later. Before that, I hope to know more about this Sir , as well as the strength of his subordinates, the strong and other information."

"Sounds really boring, but I'll take it. As for Kira, thank you for the arrangement, boss."

Allen said: "It's okay, as long as you don't worry about my wallet in the future. Although I really don't have much money on me."

The two looked at each other and smiled, when someone knocked on the door, the guard said outside: "My lord, Mr. Roger's representative has arrived."

In the next few days, representatives of Reese and the Lily Chamber of Commerce also came to Storm City one after another. In the end, the spoils Alan got from Dick were exchanged for 250,000 gold coins. The money will be used for matters such as the steel mill, and at the same time start recruiting craftsmen in the territory. A city is like a machine that has started its engine and its parts are starting to work.

(On the last day of the long vacation, taking advantage of the sunshine, I hurriedly took my family for a walk outside, and left~~)

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