Urban Sims

Nearly a million feet in the air.

A Royal Airliner was flying at ten times the speed of sound, heading east rapidly.

In the luxurious first-class cabin, there was Zhou Ming, who was already full of silver hair. Although his eyes were still as strong and energetic, his energy was much less than before.

"The actual age is 65, but he looks like an 80-year-old man."

It's not that Zhou Ming doesn't know how to maintain health, nor is it because of excessive drinking and sex, it's simply because of working too hard.

In the past forty years, in order to build Wancheng Kingdom, he had not had a good rest for a few days. There were many crises and difficulties. If his brain hadn't been spinning rapidly, it would have been impossible to get through them easily.

As the founder of Wancheng Kingdom, no one has given more than him.

Therefore, this caused his aging to accelerate, causing his cultivation level to no longer improve, and causing him to live for a few more years at most.

Of course, Zhou Ming didn't plan to live much longer. 70 years old was enough, and he had to get rid of this body as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, he laughed inwardly, "When it comes to death, I'm afraid no one can talk about death like it's just fun, right?"

He shook his head. This is normal. He has lived and died dozens of times. He used to think life was precious and act cautiously, but now he is not even afraid of committing suicide.

And if his trip to Dongyuan Continent accidentally slips out of control or makes a mistake, it might actually be a trip to death.

So, what does he want to do this time?

Get rid of demons.

Get rid of that female devil Jiang Ruonan.

However, this is quite difficult.

Because Jiang Ruonan's cultivation is actually at the peak of the late trance period, and is infinitely close to breaking through to the level of a spiritual saint.

In the entire Dongyuan Continent, there are few ancestors who are her opponents.

Moreover, she also has the superb ability to conceal her aura and move stealthily. Not only is it difficult for people to guard against her, but the probability of assassinating her is zero.

Before Jiang Ruonan became the female devil, she could survive for decades under various pursuits. It was impossible without a few brushes.

Zhou Ming planned to get rid of her.

This is quite difficult.

Once it fails...

"You still have to operate carefully, don't expose any flaws, gain enough trust, and succeed with one more blow!"

…

Dongyuanzhou, central part.

In the middle of a majestic mountain range.

An extremely huge palace, standing tall.

The palace covers an area of ​​more than 5,000 acres, has more than a hundred floors, and is more than 800 meters high.

Looking down from a high altitude, the palace looks like three superimposed isosceles trapezoids, divided into upper, middle and lower floors. From bottom to top, it shrinks and becomes smaller in sequence, like a pyramid.

The topmost building, which is approximately triangular in shape, covers an area of ​​more than 300 acres.

The palace is all light red and is built using the strongest man-made materials. More than tens of millions of tons of building materials such as Yaojin, black iron, and high-adhesion cement are used. It can be called a "super project."

The Palace of Happy Bliss.

is the name of this palace.

It took eight years to build, millions of civilians were requisitioned, and more than 10 billion spiritual coins were spent. The interior decorations were even more magnificent and magnificent.

In order to build this palace, it took eight years and at least one hundred thousand people died.

So much so that the pale red paint on the exterior wall of the palace was privately called "the blood of dead refugee husbands".

"One hundred thousand people died and one hundred thousand families were broken. In her eyes, one hundred thousand is just a number, right?"

Zhou Ming sighed, treating human life as child's play, exchanging human life for temporary happiness. I'm afraid only people like her can do this, right?

In addition to Xiaoyao Bliss Palace, in recent years, he learned from intelligence that Jiang Ruonan had ordered his subordinates to carry out many large-scale projects.

If you want to spend tens of billions to build a thousand-story tower, stand on the top of the highest tower and see the world's scenery.

If we wanted to dig a large lake with a radius of three thousand miles and row boats and raise fish in the lake, we would probably have to recruit 100 million people.

He also placed an order for a "City in the Sky" to the Royal Airliner Manufacturing Factory in Wancheng Country, requiring the Royal Airliner to be built by the passenger aircraft manufacturer. The length of the Royal Airliner must be at least 1,000 feet, and there must be at least one in both length and width inside. Baibu's bedroom is for her to rest.

As for the cost of building this "City in the Sky", just quote a number.

There are countless such projects. Sometimes when Jiang Ruonan comes up with an idea, he will come up with another project.

"With such extravagance, how can we spend enough money?"

Zhou Ming muttered secretly, and there was only two words to describe this kind of behavior: nonsense.

…

Inside the Paradise Palace.

In a place similar to a wine pool and a meat forest, Zhou Ming met Jiang Ruonan.

At this time, she was wearing a translucent graceful gauze, holding a beautiful woman in each arm, and walked over in messy clothes.

After seeing Zhou Ming, she was slightly surprised, "Zhang Shanhe, how come you have become so old? If you look like this, you are not far away from old age and death, right?"

She shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, I have to find a way to let you live a few more years and serve me well. I have a pill recipe in my hand, called 'One Hundred Thousand Yang Yang Pills'. It only needs the blood of one hundred thousand people." The soul is used as a medicine to refine the yang-enhancing pill. After eating it, you can live for another hundred years... Let me ask you, what if you don’t want this pill?"

"No need. If you want me to serve you for a hundred years, I'd better commit suicide."

Zhou Ming waved his hand and refused directly.

"Huh, you don't know how to flatter me. You old and ugly thing, do you think I want it? If you were a few decades younger, I might consider it."

Jiang Ruonan glared at him and wanted to activate the Heart-Eating Gu to torture him, but canceled the plan... because it was useless.

"Master, you are such a bad old man, what are you thinking about? Can you be better than us?"

"Master, you are so old, do you think the things under him are still useful?"

The two beautiful women in Jiang Ruonan's arms rolled their eyes, pointed at Zhou Ming and sneered.

"He is more useful than you!"

Jiang Ruonan smiled coldly, put his hands on the heads of the two beautiful women, and suddenly inhaled. Amidst a burst of frightened screams, the two beautiful women aged at a speed visible to the naked eye in tens of seconds. She became an old woman older than Zhou Ming.

A head full of white hair and wrinkles all over.

"Ah! Ah!!"

"Master, I was wrong, Master, I was wrong!"

Two women, one screamed wildly and the other knelt down and kowtowed desperately.

"??"

Zhou Ming was stunned when he saw this scene. This...

Shaking his head, the devil is really a devil.

…

In a side hall.

Jiang Ruonan, who had changed into normal clothes, sat leisurely on the main seat sipping tea.

Zhou Ming, who was sitting in the seat next to him, held a thick stack of ledgers in his hand. He lowered his head and flipped through the pages, his brows furrowed like a washboard.

After a long time, Zhou Ming stopped browsing, raised his head and asked: "You mean, there is not a single spiritual coin in your Xiaoyao Palace's treasury now?"

Jiang Ruonan put down his teacup and nodded to him lightly.

Are you kidding me?

Zhou Ming glared at her, "You said before that your Xiaoyao Palace owned countless cities, destroyed nine major sects, plundered trillions of wealth, and possessed endless resources."

He asked: "Now, where are your trillions of wealth? Where are your endless resources?"

"Ahem!"

Jiang Ruonan coughed twice awkwardly, shook his head and said, "I don't know, maybe the flowers went out."

"What did you spend it on?"

"Well, just build the palace, build the house, and get some fun things. Then, my subordinates told me that there is no money in the treasury."

"It can't be spent so quickly! Trillions of spiritual coins must be carried out at least on hundreds of projects at the same time before they can be spent."

"Well, there seem to be more than a hundred projects that I asked my subordinates to do." Jiang Ruonan thought for a moment and said.

Zhou Ming turned to look at her, froze for a moment, and then shook his head: "It can't be spent so quickly. Any project will take one to several years to complete. It's not like approving a project and spending all the money immediately. , this is a slow and steady process.”

He guessed that there must be a group of rats among the officials responsible for managing the money treasury in Xiaoyao Palace, who had embezzled a considerable amount of money.

"I think so too, Zhang Shanhe, help me find all those people and execute them all!"

Jiang Ruonan said with an angry look on his face: "They even dare to reach out for my money. Are they tired of living?"

Zhou Ming said: "Internal corruption and embezzlement is only one of the reasons for the financial bankruptcy of Xiaoyao Palace, but it is not the main reason. The most fundamental reason is that your account books seem to only have expenditures and no inputs."

He put the account book in front of Jiang Ruonan and flipped through a few pages: "Look, in the income and expenditure records in the past few years, nine out of ten are expenditures, and one out of ten is input. Not to mention the small amount of input, and it is large. It is the income from several mines provided by the mortal city, and there are no common agricultural taxes, commercial taxes, and industrial taxes. Is it possible that your Xiaoyao Palace has not even established a basic tax system?"

If a tax system is not even established, no matter how much property you have in your bank account, sooner or later you will be left with nothing.

"tax?"

This unfamiliar word made Jiang Ruonan even more embarrassed and hesitating. The cities, people and property in the world were not all private property that she could use at will. Once she was short of money and supplies, she could just send someone to get it. Yes, what kind of tax system is needed?

How troublesome is that?

"you--"

Seeing her expression, Zhou Ming, who knew that he had guessed correctly, was completely speechless at this moment.

What kind of supreme ruler is this? He is clearly a weirdo who can be labeled as an "idiot" and governs the world like playing house.

If she acts like this, it won't take many years before the entire Dong Yuan Continent will be defeated by her.

"I can help you solve the financial problem, but I want you to give me enough rights."

"Yes, as long as you help me get the money back." Jiang Ruonan was very happy.

"Don't agree so quickly. If you leave this matter to me, I will kill many people. Some of them are your favorites and confidants. You should think about it again."

"Kill as you like, I have no confidants, only slaves, including you." Jiang Ruonan pointed at him with his green-white finger.

"As long as you agree."

Zhou Ming nodded and had a rough plan in mind.