Volume 2 Chapter 16 Gang Establishment
Unable to identify! A divine object!
We all know what the system identification center cannot identify - it is a divine weapon! Only divine weapons cannot be identified by ordinary identification NPCs.
That's great. In one action of breaking into the imperial mausoleum, I not only obtained the mission items for establishing a gang, but also obtained a divine weapon. I also learned that another divine weapon, the Xuan-Yuan Sword, is also in the imperial mausoleum. Maybe I will have a chance to get it in the future.
I never thought that there would be two sacred artifacts hidden in an emperor's tomb. It really deserves to be called the Holy Emperor's Mausoleum. Hehe, maybe there are secrets in it that we haven't discovered yet.
“Let’s go to the south… There are legends about this crystal among the tribes in the wild lands. Perhaps their high priest knows the origin of this crystal.” The NPC said as he returned the crystal to me.
Well, this sentence is an important clue for identifying the artifact, so you must remember it well.
The crystal matter is over for now. Going to the wilderness to find the high priest is not going to be an easy task! Let's finish the gang building first.
When he arrived at the Ministry of Revenue, he found the NPC and handed him the tiger talisman. The Minister of Revenue took the talisman with surprise and said repeatedly: "Good, good! The relics of the Holy Emperor have finally seen the light of day. Bloody Sky, you really lived up to my expectations!"
"Thank you for your kind words, sir. Am I qualified to start a gang now?"
The NPC said with a smile, "Of course there is. I wonder what name the warrior used to establish the gang? Please let me know so that I can register with you."
We had discussed this a long time ago. Everyone raised many opinions and even argued over it until we were red in the face. Finally, I made the final decision, "As the saying goes, 'Beauty fades in the blink of an eye, while thunderclaps resound through the ages.' Also, 'Thunderclap arises out of the blue, and its fame spreads to all directions.' This first gang in our fantasy world, which we have established, will surely be like thunderclap, and its name will spread across the world. Moreover, we have worked together to build our gang, and we must make it prosperous and flourish. Why not name it after thunder? Let's call our gang the Thunder League!" This proposal was unanimously passed.
So I said to the NPC: "Sir, the gang I want to create is called Thunder Alliance."
"Okay, now that you have a name, you can choose a place as the base for your gang. This will also be your private territory."
Hehe, choosing a territory requires a lot of effort. It is not easy to strike a balance between rapid development and future development potential.
In Fantasy, it is not easy to set up a gang, and it is even more difficult to build and develop after the gang is established. The system only gives you a piece of wasteland. You must first open up the wasteland, which is troublesome. You must cut down the trees and bushes on the wasteland (requires the logging skills in the life skills), and clean up all the weeds, stones, etc. (requires the gathering skills and miner skills)... After sorting out the flat and clean land, you can enter the next step of construction, which requires astronomical money. Of course, if the construction is good, the rewards are also rich. You can build various shops on your own territory, recruit players to do business, and set the tax rate by yourself (the system only collects 5% of the business tax). The excess tax is the gang income. In addition, you can build houses in the resident area and sell them as commercial houses. In Fantasy, owning a house of your own can obtain many functions, but the price of buying a system house in the city is too expensive. Except for the rich, few people can afford it. There are many other benefits, which cannot be described at once.
However, just the step of clearing the land is very troublesome. Although the system will not refresh the trees that have been cut down within the range of the station, it still requires a lot of manpower and man-hours. With just a dozen of us, I am afraid that we can't finish it even if we work hard for a month!
The simplest way is to choose a territory near the Novice Village and hire newcomers to help with the work. After they cut down trees and collect materials, they can sell them back to the system store or even use them directly for construction. Although it is not possible to trade directly with newcomers, it is a bit troublesome to pay them. You can only use the gang's reputation as a guarantee and let them come back to collect the reward after reaching level 10, but as long as the operation is good, you should be able to hire a lot of players.
However, such a choice is not conducive to the later development. Where are the high-level monster refresh points near the Novice Village? When the average level of players is high, this settlement will lose its appeal.
If I had held on to my original idea and played Fantasy just to "make a fortune", I would have chosen this plan, taking advantage of the fact that no other gangs were established in the early days, and quickly developed the base to a certain level, and then sold houses, land, and shops. After making a fortune, I could retire and enjoy my old age. Even if the gang declined and disbanded because of this, what did it matter?
But now my thoughts are completely different. Building a gang is just the first step to my goal!
Therefore, after careful consideration, I decided that even if I couldn't make a penny in the early stage, or even lost money, I would still develop the gang!
Of course, you can't just do things recklessly when doing business. In order to attract more players in the later stage, the base was chosen to be in a remote location where high-level monsters frequently appeared. As a result, before the base was built, it was attacked by monsters, countless construction workers were killed and injured, and even the wasteland could not be developed. In the end, they had to give up building the gang. There are precedents of this.
Based on my understanding of the continental map during the internal test and the suggestions of the profiteers and others, I finally decided to base my base in one of the ten famous cities on the Cang Continent, west of Pojun City in the northwest, at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, on a triangular plain where the Xianling River and Wuding River converge.
The terrain here is flat and open, with two rivers sandwiched between them, forming a natural barrier. Although it is not as easy to defend as places near mountains, it only needs to build fortifications on one side to resist general attacks. One of the important reasons I chose this place is that it is located at the transportation hub between the east and west continents. If compared with real history, it is located on the Silk Road close to the Chinese border!
In Fantasy, cities on a continent can easily reach each other through the teleportation array set up by the system, but communication between continents is not so simple. You cannot teleport directly from one continent to another. You must walk hundreds or even thousands of kilometers in places where they are connected! Or you can travel across the continent by boat through the sea. However, to build a large ship that can sail long distances, you must have high-level craftsmen and other matching conditions, which cannot be achieved by the player level within three to five months. In addition, the dangers of sailing are not small. If you are unlucky and encounter a hurricane, whirlpool, turbulence, etc., the tragedy of the ship capsizing and the death of people often occurs. Therefore, the personnel exchanges between continents are still mainly based on land transportation.
This kind of personnel flow between continents is essential in Fantasy - first, the origins of various professions are in different continents. Although you can work in any profession in any continent, when you reach a high level, you still have to go to the place of origin to learn from a master in order to be promoted to a senior title and learn stronger skills; second, some equipment items are specialties unique to each continent. If you want to obtain such things, you must have cross-continental trade. Therefore, although cross-continental travel is dangerous both by sea and land, a large number of players are still willing to take risks. In the internal test, many players who experienced this kind of travel praised this setting of Fantasy, claiming that traveling through the four continents of Fantasy is tantamount to taking a trip around the world. Even if you put aside the various benefits that may come, the fun of traveling is enough to make people never tired of it.
Therefore, it can be predicted that as the players' levels and abilities improve, cross-continental exchanges will flourish, and this place is at a strategic point. Travelers preparing to travel from the East Continent to the West Continent, or those crossing the desert from the West Continent, can get supplies and rest here. If it develops well, it can even attract a large number of players here. For players who specialize in trade, trading directly here can save time.
In addition, there are many treasures nearby for leveling. On the alluvial plain formed by the two rivers, there are a large number of monsters ranging from 35 to 55 levels, such as deer, muntjacs, antelopes, wild horses, and bison, which can meet the needs of low-level players (below level 40). The Kunlun Mountains stretch for thousands of miles and have countless peaks. There are countless magical birds and beasts, ranging from level 60 to over level 100. The deeper you go, the higher the level. There are even various super bosses, including SS-level bosses such as phoenixes and unicorns.
Therefore, although the location here is a bit remote, especially now that the average level of players is still very low, it is difficult to recruit a large number of people to develop and build, but as long as we plan properly and get through the most difficult stage in the early stage, I am confident that I can develop this place into one of the most lively and prosperous places in Fantasy!
On the map of mountains and rivers pointed out by the Minister of Revenue, I circled the ideal place to stay. The NPC said, "Okay, from now on, this is your territory. In addition, because you are the first player to establish a gang in Fantasy, and you have completed the difficult Imperial Mausoleum mission, the system will give you a special reward: the system's tax on shops in your territory will be reduced from 5% to 3%; the initial territory area allocated to you by the system will be increased from 3 square kilometers to 10 square kilometers; the system will upgrade your title from Viscount to Earl."
Haha, great! I said that the Imperial Mausoleum mission is so difficult, there must be rewards! Don't underestimate this 2% tax break. After the territory grows and develops, maybe the daily commodity trading will be calculated at 100,000 gold coins. How much more can I earn? In addition, giving away more than twice the territory area is also a very favorable clause. Although when your territory develops to a certain extent and meets the system's conditions (such as the resident population, gang size, etc.), you can also apply to expand the territory, but it will cost a lot (the company also wants to make a lot of money by selling land), and the higher rank means that I can hire higher-level and more NPCs to protect my territory, which is something that others can't do even if they have money!
"Then congratulations on officially establishing the first gang in Fantasy - the Thunder Alliance!" said the NPC.
At the same time, the system wide-area broadcast (that is, the system information that all Fantasy players will receive at the same time) sounded: On January 23rd of the first year of Fantasy, the player Bloody Sky established the first gang in the game: Thunder Alliance!
Haha, although the system will make an announcement for each gang's establishment, ours is the first one. How impressive! It's like the system is advertising for us for free! I guess we won't have to waste any time recruiting people to join in the future.
After leaving the Ministry of Revenue, everyone was very excited. However, we did not go to the gang base immediately. It was too desolate there, and the number of permanent players in Pojun City was far less than that of Shenghua City, the largest city in the central part of the continent. We must do some preliminary work here before officially starting the construction of the base.
I added gang information and management functions to my system menu. As the leader, I have all the powers. At present, except Wanxing, all my friends are willing to join the Thunder Alliance, so I added them one by one as gang members, but Huai Huai is not online, so I have to wait for him to come online (joining requires both parties to agree in the system operation).
After returning to the city from the Emperor's Mausoleum, I had done so many things and it was already very late. I said, "Everyone, please go offline and rest. This mission has exhausted us. Let's go back and have a good sleep. We will meet at Taibai Restaurant at 10:00 tomorrow morning to discuss the plan!"
I got off the line, took off my helmet, and excitedly started a real-life PK with Ah Wei... We sang and made noises like crazy. After a while, a neighbor called and said they were going to call 110! I quickly stopped, took a shower and went to bed. Damn, my dream magic didn't work today. I kept thinking about how to build my gang...
When the sun shone through the curtains, I opened my eyes and looked at the LCD wall clock (it's 2045, technology should be much more advanced, right? This kind of thing should be popular). Wow, it's almost 9:00! I couldn't sleep at first last night, but then I slept soundly and had a beautiful dream. I dreamed that the Thunder Alliance became the largest gang in the fantasy world, established cities and countries... I couldn't count the amount of money I made every day, and I became a mythical existence in the fantasy world...
Well, maybe it is possible for dreams to come true, but it would take so much effort and hard work!
I wanted to enter the game earlier and discuss the details with the profiteer in advance, but since I got up late, I might as well save the trouble. In fact, I had already discussed the plan of establishing a gang with the profiteer in the past few days when I was preparing for the imperial mausoleum mission. Today, I just arranged the staff and assigned the tasks. I woke up Ah Wei who was still sleeping like a dead pig. Haha, he was too tired. The trip to the imperial mausoleum had consumed a lot of energy.
There was still an hour before the agreed time. After a leisurely wash, the two went out to eat breakfast for the first time in nearly a month. Huhu... Yongheji's soy milk soup dumplings are really good. It is said that after the opening of Fantasy, because the food in the game tastes better than in reality, many customers expressed dissatisfaction with restaurants in various cities, greatly reducing their real-life consumption and switching to a lifestyle of "eating something casually to fill their stomachs in reality and enjoying delicious food in Fantasy", which is also more cost-effective. The catering industry felt the pressure and began to improve its cooking skills. The dishes no longer dared to cut corners. For example, the crab roe soup dumplings I am eating now are much more genuine than before, and the delicious taste makes me exclaim.
After eating and drinking, I went home, logged into the game, and arrived at Taibai Restaurant on time. Haha, everyone was there, but I, the most important leader, was the last to arrive.
After everyone was seated, I asked Bad Bad to join in first, and then got down to business.
"Well, first of all, thank you all for your joint efforts. We have finally completed the task and established our gang - the Thunder Alliance. But this is just the beginning. There is still a lot of work to be done before we can truly build our gang well and make it grow stronger. This requires everyone to make more efforts."
"Regarding the preliminary construction of the base, the profiteer and I have already made preliminary plans. The first problem to be solved is funding. According to our estimates, in order to develop at the fastest speed, the start-up capital will require 500,000 gold coins!"
"What! No way?"
"Wow, 500,000 gold coins, that's 500,000 RMB, right? That's too much, right?"
When everyone heard this, they were all surprised and started making a noise. I raised my hand for them to be quiet.
The profiteer said, "Don't worry, the funding issue has been almost resolved. I've said before that I'm very optimistic about the prospects of Fantasy, so I decided to invest all my property, a total of 300,000 gold coins."
I continued, "I have also decided to invest all the money I earned from my early equipment purchases, a total of 100,000 gold coins." The remaining two bottles of monkey wine were sold at a sky-high price of 20,000 gold coins per bottle by unscrupulous merchants. As a result, the total amount of funds I had in Fantasy was close to 120,000. After deducting the remainder as my living expenses, I invested all my fortune in one go.
I added, "As for the shortfall, I believe that everyone can chip in a little. Haha, everyone made a lot of money some time ago! However, since it involves the investment of money, and the fantasy money and real currency are interchangeable, this is related to everyone's economic interests. Therefore, this money, as an investment in the gang, will be reflected in the future distribution of benefits. In order to be rigorous and fair, the profiteer and I have drawn up a plan. Let's see if it's suitable."
"We plan to conduct a joint-stock cooperation like we would a company. All of you here, except Wen Xin, Lao Zhou and Ba Dao, are friends who have united together since the beginning of Fantasy. If it weren't for your cooperation, I would never have been able to obtain 10,000 reputation points so quickly and be the first to obtain the right to establish a gang in Fantasy. Therefore, except for these three people, each of you can own 0.5% of the gang shares."
"This Imperial Mausoleum mission is very important to the establishment of our gang. It is extremely difficult. Everyone has made great sacrifices, including the profiteer and Bu Si, who have also made a lot of efforts behind the scenes. Moreover, you can all be considered as the founding elders of the Thunder Alliance. In the upcoming gang construction, we also need your strong cooperation, so we will allocate another 0.5% of the shares to each of you."
"To be frank, I was instrumental in the creation and development of the gang, so I should get another 5%."
"In this way, there are still 80.5% of the shares. 30.5% of them will be distributed in proportion to the capital investment of each person in this gang establishment. In other words, the profiteer can get 18.3%, I can get 6.1%, and the remaining 6.1% depends on how much each of you is willing to invest."
"The remaining 50% will be reserved for the time being and will be distributed in the future based on everyone's investment or contribution to the gang, including future members. In the future, the gang's profits will be distributed according to shares at the end of each month after deducting various expenses and reinvestment for the development of the gang. What do you think of this plan?"
No one had any objection. This plan was indeed fair. However, almost everyone agreed that I should get more. According to my contribution to the gang, I should get 10% of the shares. I smiled and said, "If that's the case, it would be better to distribute all the shares at the beginning! Leaving 50% is to maintain an attractiveness, so that all members will compete hard and contribute more to the development of the gang. We still have a long way to go. Maybe in the future, looking back, everything we have done so far is just insignificant. How can we be qualified to occupy such a large share of the shares?"
The profiteer added: "Since everyone agrees, this distribution plan will form a legally binding written agreement. I will send a copy to everyone and everyone will sign it."
Everyone said it was not necessary to be so serious, but they agreed to it after I and the profiteer insisted. As for investment, everyone also contributed 2,000 to 10,000 gold coins each to make up for the funding gap.
"Okay, that's enough about the distribution of funds and benefits," I said. "Next, we'll talk about the specific arrangements and personnel appointments."
"The first thing we have to do now is to recruit people and open up the base. Recruiting people is divided into two aspects. One is a large number of low-level newcomers, who are the main force of the new land. As the first gang in Fantasy, the system has made an announcement. We have a reputation. It should not be a problem to recruit a group of newcomers with levels of 15 to 25. We are even fully qualified to recruit the best. Bad, you are studying psychology, right? This task is mainly your responsibility. You can ask them some questions to examine their moral qualities. The level of the game is not the most important. Choose more people who are both passionate and Players with a sense of responsibility and justice. I don't want our gang to be filled with those arrogant, overbearing, and unreasonable people who rely on the support of the gang to do things like renting out the field for leveling, or causing trouble all day long, and killing people for no reason. That will only lead to us making enemies everywhere. Although these can be restricted by the rules of the alliance, it is most important to strictly control the selection of people from the beginning, so that a good atmosphere can be formed in the alliance from the beginning. In this regard, Crystal, Stone and Favorite will assist you. By the way, give priority to players with professional skills, they will be of great help to the future development of the gang. "
This suggestion was actually proposed by Moji, who had previously established a gang in another online game and felt the difficulty of management, so he advised me to pay attention to the quality of members. However, although he himself had experience, he was impulsive and irritable, and was not suitable for this kind of work that required carefulness and patience. Therefore, I assigned the above four people . I immediately changed their positions to elders (this title can be set by oneself, but it is not the time to specifically divide the functions, so I just set a title), so that they have the function of recruiting people to join the alliance.
I added, "Secondly, although our base is not a particularly dangerous area, most players are not capable of reaching it at their current level, let alone carrying out land reclamation work there. In view of this, we need to establish a force organization to protect newcomers from crossing the area between Pojun City and the base, and to clear out the monsters in the base. Moreover, before the wasteland is developed, the monsters will continue to refresh, and they must be handled by someone. With just a few of us, we simply do not have enough manpower, so we need to recruit a group of combat professional players of level 25 to 30. This is difficult. Many of the players who have reached such a high level are veterans of the game, or professional players like me. They all have their own goals. Some want to build their own gangs, some belong to certain forces, and some like to be lone rangers. Moreover, carrying out the above tasks will inevitably delay a lot of leveling time. Are they willing to lose... Losing the advantage in level is also a problem. For this, we need to let them know the benefits of joining the gang, and let them feel that the little effort now will get much greater rewards in the future. I think it can be done this way. Players who perform tasks can get 5 gold coins for every hour of work, and as a unified regulation, all players who join the alliance in advance will be senior members. In the future, they can get a 30% discount on consumption in the alliance, such as buying medicines from pharmacies opened by members of the alliance, while members who join the alliance after the establishment of the base can only get an 20% discount. In addition, for example, after joining the alliance, the alliance will organize special leveling teams to improve leveling efficiency; organize special treasure hunting teams to kill bosses, etc., which can all be used as a means for us to attract popularity. Of course, how to achieve good publicity requires eloquence, and this task belongs to Ah Wei. Fatty, profiteer, and birdie will assist you. "
I appointed four of them as elders.
Then he said, "Ba Dao's level is the lowest among us. You are a core member and will manage the younger brothers in the future. How can you command others if your level is too low? Ji Mo, Han Jiang and Wen Xin will train you in the next two days and upgrade you as soon as possible. You will all be the captains of the armed forces after the construction of the base begins."
"Bu San, Bu Si, Lao Zhou, the three of you should hurry up and practice your skills and improve your levels. Try to be qualified to open a shop and do business once the base is built. This will be very helpful in attracting popularity."
"Our base construction is tentatively scheduled to officially begin in three days, and we can make appropriate adjustments based on the recruitment situation."
"Finally, the financial operations of the Thunder Alliance will be handed over to the profiteer. Xiaoniao is studying accounting, and she will assist the profiteer in this regard. In order to ensure transparency, financial reports will be made to everyone every month."
After the tasks were assigned, everyone promised to complete them resolutely, but then they started to make a fuss: "We all have our own tasks, what are you going to do these days, Boss?"
I said unhappily, "The Imperial Mausoleum mission delayed us for two days. Didn't you see that the second place on the leaderboard has already reached level 38? If he catches up with or even surpasses me, my position as the top expert will be in jeopardy, and our gang's appeal to many players will be greatly reduced. This is called a burden from fame. I have to hurry up and level up like crazy these days."
