122: The Forbidden City's Business Blueprint

Early the next morning, Tie Weiguo brought the reorganized Huaxia Clan leadership to visit Huang Chen.

He first expressed the Huaxia Guild's stance of willingness to follow the lead of Forbidden City, and then rented the City Lord's Mansion of Satellite City No. 1 from Forbidden City as a base for an annual rent of 2 million gold coins.

Although 2 million gold coins seems like a lot right now, it is still too little for a City Lord's Mansion.

I remember in the previous life, some factions even offered prices as high as 20 million gold coins per year to rent a City Lord's Mansion.

However, out of consideration for Tie Shengnan, Huang Chen did not fuss too much with Tie Weiguo.

Moreover, even if you drained the Official Faction of all their blood right now, they wouldn't be able to come up with 20 million gold coins.

And 2 million gold coins are still quite important for the current Forbidden City.

Besides, how can the purchasing power of gold coins now be compared to the middle and later stages?

It took a full 5 days for Huang Chen to replace all the remaining City Lord's Mansion plaques with Forbidden City branch signs.

Post-battle statistics showed a total of over 60,000 sets of Level 45 Dark Gold equipment, 250 sets of Level 45 Diamond equipment, and even over 21 sets of Level 50 Diamond equipment.

Huang Chen selected a Metal Element Users set for himself, and left the rest for Xie Chunyan to distribute based on the priority of attribute matching.

Of course, the dozen or so premium goddesses and core members who had followed him early on, like Li Ruo and Lin Han, would be prioritized to equip the Level 50 Diamond gear regardless.

During these 5 days, Xie Chunyan first upgraded Forbidden City to a Level 5 guild, capable of accommodating 2.5 million personnel.

Then, after screening the 100,000 peripheral personnel who had joined earlier, she directly increased the core personnel team to 10,000, and promoted the remaining 90,000 original peripheral personnel to inner sect members.

In addition, Xie Chunyan also carried out many drastic reforms to the division of labor.

First, 99 corresponding administrative departments were established for the 99 Satellite Cities, with Lin Han uniformly leading and appointing them.

Each Satellite City was initially equipped with 3,000 combat personnel led by 50 core members; once personnel were fully in place, each Satellite City's team would be supplemented to 10,000.

As for the main city, each of the 999 regions was staffed with 3 core members leading 1,000 newly recruited combat personnel.

As for the remaining nearly 500,000 personnel and the remaining 2,000 core members, they were all stationed in Satellite City No. 21.

It is worth mentioning that these 2,000 core members were composed of the original veterans of Forbidden City and the Iron Lady.

These people are definitely the ceiling of combat power for the current Forbidden City, and even the entire Huaxia Clan.

In the previous life, the little japanese of Sakura Country used the hidden passage in Satellite City No. 21, combined with the Zhongwu World, to catch Huaxia Clan off guard.

In this life, Huang Chen placed his strongest forces here; if the little japanese dared to come, he would definitely make sure they never returned.

The entire combat department was commanded by Tie Shengnan, with Lan Ling and Li Ruo serving as deputy commanders.

Then there was the logistics department, still headed by Bai Zhaoning; if the Harem wanted to find something to do, they could have Bai Zhaoning arrange work for them.

If they didn't want to do anything, they could just focus on lying flat.

Potions and forging both fell under logistics management.

During this period, the Lin Qinglian sisters actually developed an extremely keen interest in potions and forging, respectively.

Bai Zhaoning simply let them manage one institution each.

Finally, there was Yang Nuo's Special Operations Department; this department was developed by Yang Nuo himself, only needing to report progress to Xie Chunyan on time.

This arrangement actually greatly distributed the work and power in Xie Chunyan's hands.

This was also her consistent philosophy: let professionals do professional work.

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Inside the room, Huang Chen held two plump balloons—one in each hand—and gently blew into Xie Chunyan's ear, asking: "With this reform, you've completely extracted yourself from management. Are you preparing to start laying out Forbidden City's business blueprint?"

"Hmm!"

Xie Chunyan shivered when Huang Chen blew on her and let out a soft hum before saying: "Forbidden City's development is currently mainly focused on leveling up and farming equipment. There shouldn't be any internal or external obstacles that can hinder Forbidden City's development anymore."

"According to your estimation, the Hundred Clans Map should open in another week. After entering the Hundred Clans Map, the first thing we need to solve is the 100 million funds for building the city."

"We currently have about 20 million gold in liquid funds on hand. There is still a shortfall of over 70 million."

Huang Chen nodded upon hearing this.

Indeed, most of Forbidden City's 20 million gold came from the rental income of Myriad Treasures Tower.

If development continued at this rate, it was estimated that it would take a few more months to scrape together the funds for building the city.

Huang Chen was very curious about Xie Chunyan's take on how capitalists make money, so he squeezed slightly with his hand and asked: "Then what do you want to do?"

Xie Chunyan let out a soft moan, glanced at Huang Chen, then buried her head deep in the crook of his arm and continued: "I plan to establish our own trading firms in the 99 Satellite Cities and some regions of the main city."

"The Huaxia People are generally around Level 35 now. Level 35 Black Iron, Bronze, and Silver, all the way up to Level 40 Black, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, will be extremely scarce for some time to come."

"And in the process of Forbidden City leveling up newcomers, a large amount of this equipment will be produced."

"Therefore, we can dump this equipment that Forbidden City doesn't need through our own trading firms, and at the same time, we can acquire the materials needed for those life professions."

Huang Chen pondered for a while after hearing this, then asked in confusion: "Currently, even a set of Level 35 Black Iron equipment costs a few gold on the market. Ordinary Trial Takers now can't afford it at all, and those who can afford it can farm such equipment themselves. So who will buy the equipment Forbidden City dumps?"

Xie Chunyan chuckled: "Once this equipment flows to the Huaxia People, it can greatly increase their strength. This way, these people can face higher-level monsters, or at the very least, it can significantly improve their monster-farming efficiency."

Huang Chen was confused; what did this have to do with not being able to afford it?

Seeming to see Huang Chen's doubt, Xie Chunyan continued before he could ask: "If they can't afford it, we can offer them installment loans. Once their strength improves, they will earn money quickly and be able to pay back Forbidden City's loans."

"Then, once this habit of advanced consumption is cultivated, these people will constantly come to take out loans to seek greater strength."

"This way, it can continuously bring massive wealth to Forbidden City..."

Hearing this, Huang Chen widened his eyes; wasn't this the model where the government previously approved business loans for companies or individuals through banks?

In this way, not only could the low-level equipment on hand be sold at a premium through interest, but Forbidden City's prestige could also be greatly increased.

One has to say that when capitalists suck blood, they really have a system for it—sucking your blood while making you grateful for it.

And just as Huang Chen decided to reward Xie Chunyan once more.

Xie Chunyan suddenly frowned and said to Huang Chen: "Take a look at the number of Level 50 players on the Hundred Clans Map."

Huang Chen heard this and opened the panel.

【Number of players who reached Level 50 in Hundred Clans: 3212 / 10000】

Opening the details, Huang Chen was immediately unsettled.

It showed that behind Huang Chen and his core team of over 2,000 people, the Vermilion Bird Clan already had 1,000 people on the list...