Star Tycoon

Chapter 203 Recuperation
The trading merchant has arrived in the Star Kingdom, and will remain there for seven days.

Upon seeing the prompt, Tian Ersan decisively went inside.

The Star Kingdom's tax revenue mainly comes from new residents, while the original elderly have a tax payment grace period of more than six months.

Four or five months is enough time for many people to regain public support.

When Tian Ersan appeared, the women strolling around the city all came over with friendly smiles.

"Master, you are back~"

"The owner must have just slept with a woman; he smells of perfume all over his body."

"Let me smell it." A woman in her twenties squatted down and sniffed Tian Ersan's sweatpants. She quickly and seriously said, "He must be over thirty-five. He smells real!"

Ignoring the group of thirsty young women, Tian Ersan quickly searched for the location of the trading merchants.

After locating the merchant's position using the map, Tian Ersan quickly reached out and grabbed a young woman's shoulder, then jumped up and hugged her tightly.

"Let's go! To the South City Market!"

"okay!"

The young woman, who possessed boundless stamina, was only 1.6 meters tall, but she steadily ran out carrying a man who was 1.78 meters tall on her back.

Level 6 marching speed + 50 speed bonus from equipment + all attribute bonuses from agricultural heroes

The young woman ran faster than a motorcycle and quickly delivered Tian Ersan to the South City Market.

Resources can be traded in the market, or purchased with copper coins.

You can also sell them; buy resources at the lowest price and sell them at the highest price.

The merchant was a middle-aged, overweight man who showed no surprise when he saw Tian Ersan riding a woman over.

"Lord City Lord, welcome to my small business amidst your busy schedule. It's not easy to see you, as many of my partners say this place is not suitable for doing business."

Tian Ersan was too lazy to waste words. "Enough with the nonsense, what's the deal?"

The trader smiled and opened the interface, showing Tian Ersan a tradable option.

Besides the higher prices for resources and purchases compared to the fifth-tier market, there are also various other low-grade goods available for purchase.

Tian Ersan checked the available items for purchase.

Flame Pillar: Fire-type skill book, priced at 10 copper coins.

A Single Tree Can Become a Forest: Agricultural Skill Book, Price: 25 Copper Coins.

Shady Trees: Agricultural Skill Book, Price: 50 Copper Coins.

Abundant Harvest: Agricultural Skill Book, Price: 100 million copper coins.

Rest and Recuperation: Internal Affairs Skill Book, Price: 200 million copper coins.

Eagerly Awaiting: Internal Affairs Skill Book, Price: 100 million copper coins.

Twice the effort, half the result: Internal Affairs Skill Book, priced at 50 copper coins.

Tian Ersan looked at his current eight-figure bank account.

[You purchased the Flame Pillar skill book for 100,000 copper coins, gaining 1 point of favor with the trading merchant.]

……

[You purchased one hundred items and a large amount of resources from the trading merchant, gaining an additional fifty points of goodwill from him!]

[Transaction successful! The trader drove away satisfied, deciding to return in a while with some basic items.]

"Hahaha~"

The merchant laughed and drove away, disappearing from sight a few seconds later.

Tian Ersan was already used to this kind of thing, and casually walked into a nearby house to check the situation.

The men of this family have gone out to work, leaving only the wives and children who are not working at home.

My wife was standing in the yard admiring the scenery, while the kids were squatting and playing, watching the ants.

Upon seeing Tian Ersan enter, the two of them acted as if a switch had been turned on, rushing over to greet him.

"See Master!"

"Why aren't the children in school? They should go out and play."

Tian Ersan casually sent the forgotten child to Wangzhuang Elementary School, and then went inside to talk with the woman.

The woman quickly said, "Master, I just arrived this year. Everyone else has a name, but I don't. I would like to ask you to bestow a name upon me."

Tian Ersan looked at the woman dressed in the coarse linen clothes of ancient women.

"What are you capable of?"

The woman looked at Tian Ersan seductively, "I know how to take care of people."

"Pah!" Tian Ersan cursed. "Can he pay taxes? Can he work? Can he join the army?"

The woman lowered her head pitifully.

The default setting is that it's not possible.

"A parasite like you doesn't deserve to stay in the Star Kingdom!"

Tian Ersan cursed loudly and quickly moved her out.

Once outside, you will automatically receive an identity and name, Tian Ersan checked.

Hua Feihong, female, 26 years old, from Beijing, is a female employee of Chengbang Group. She has a bachelor's degree and works as a women's clothing designer. She has a son who attends primary school in Wangzhuang.

Tian Ersan saw a very outrageous setting.

"Why is someone with a Beijing household registration being added? Shouldn't it be someone from Tao County?"

As Tian Ersan shouted in confusion, the artificial intelligence in Tian Ersan's phone quickly vibrated.

[Master, Alpha knows the reason!]

Tian Ersan quickly asked, "What's the reason?"

Alpha replied: The master's group has a large number of farmers and workers from Taoxian County, but the Chengbang Commercial Building office building currently has a large number of highly educated people from Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and other places.

Excluding the cleaners, out-of-towners make up 60% of the staff at Chengbang Shopping Mall!

Tian Ersan was speechless. The small Tao County had quietly become a well-known county.

The original intention was to provide a large number of jobs for the labor force in Tao County, but after two years of development, a large number of people from other places also came to compete for the business.

Especially those jobs that pay well, have little work, and offer great benefits naturally attract ordinary people in big cities.

Many female live streamers have switched jobs. Although live streaming is still very lucrative, there are too many female live streamers, and their social status is not so good. Many people still want a stable and respectable job.

It includes meals and accommodation, helps children with their schooling, and is located in a very lively area with well-established parks, gyms, and hospitals.

Earning over 100,000 a year is already very, very good.

Even people from first-tier cities flock here to compete for the limited number of spots available each year.

Now that Tian Ersan was not short of money, he didn't think about selling the new employee's house in Beijing and quickly went back to focusing on his own affairs.

Skill books contain general skills, but each general can only have one skill. Forgetting a skill requires special items, and changing it is very troublesome.

Pillar of Flame: Single-target damage skill, from a common skill book.

Single tree can form a forest: increase the yield of a single forest plot by 50%.

Shady trees: Increase the yield of all forest fields by 25 percent.

Abundant Harvest: Increases the yield of all farmland by 25%. Rest and Recuperation: When no soldiers are being conscripted in any military camps within the city, the city gains one-thousandth of the maximum daily population of civilian dwellings to support the workforce.

Impatient: Dedicate all your energy to immediately complete a building/research project. Level 1 reduces time by up to 100 hours. Can only be used once per day.

Double the effort for half the result: Spend 50 energy points to double the speed of a building/technology within three hours, but the speed of participating workers and academies will be reduced to 50% for the next 24 hours.

"Ignore the trash damage skill books. The recuperation skill books are very important to me. The 'Impatient' and 'Double the Effort' skills are also very useful."

Tian Ersan looked at the fifth-level governing hall he was building.

Currently, a level 4 government hall can only accommodate a maximum of four heroes.

Tian Ersan pondered the importance of several skills, and the consequences of using or not using them.

"Let's tackle the impatient ones first. It can reduce the time spent on technology every day, quickly upgrade farm technology, and it's also very effective for upgrading the administrative hall."

"The skills of the three heroes are already very powerful, so there is no need to replace them."

"First, hire a useless general for him, then fire him when you no longer need him."

"This thing will take all your energy, and the more energy you put in, the more you lose out. It would be too much of a loss for me to use it."

"If it's twice the result for half the effort, it's not very useful. Three hours of double time only adds up to six hours. It's garbage."

"We can use it for recuperation and development. I currently have about 4,000 houses, which is equivalent to the upper limit of 20,000 people. Even one-thousandth of that is 20 people."

"The most important thing is that the jobs are for working people, not useless people!"

"It will be temporarily interrupted when recruiting soldiers, but it will resume when recruiting soldiers. It seems to be a passive skill, which is very suitable for me."

Tian Ersan picked up the "Resting and Resting" skill book and quickly slapped it against his own head.

slap~
Congratulations on learning the skill: Rest and Recuperation.

Rest and Recuperation (Level 1): When the military camps in the city are not recruiting or training soldiers, laborers will randomly spawn in the civilian houses within the city. The current number that can be released is 19.
You can use skill books to level up.

Tian Ersan looked at the release quantity with curiosity.

How to release it?

After pondering for a second, Tian Er quickly reached out and pressed the release button without thinking.

Dick dick~
Tian Ersan quickly withdrew his hand, and as he did so, he noticed three white lights appearing in the open space in front of him.

A young man in his thirties, an elegant mother-in-law in her fifties or sixties, and a five-year-old child.

"Owner!"

Three people, a man, a woman, and a child, greeted Tian Ersan.

Tian Ersan cautiously inquired, "Who are you?"

The man replied, "I am the husband of this household."

The mother-in-law replied, "I am the mother-in-law of this household."

The child replied, "The child is the child of this family."

Tian Ersan couldn't quite tell whether they were brothers and sisters or mother and son, or grandmother and grandson.

Hua Shengrong, male, 30 years old, graduated from Beijing University of Science and Technology, and is an employee of Beijing Lanxing AI Company.

Hua Xiaomiao: Male, five years old, a student at Wangzhuang Kindergarten.

Zhu Mengqiu: Female, 55 years old, retired female teacher from Beijing.

With the skill of recuperation and rest, Tian Ersan can solve many problems of only one person being given a five-person population, thus filling the population gap.

Tian Ersan went to the empty house to release people, resulting in more than a dozen deaths.

These people are all laborers, so they don't need to go out to earn money; they just need to build houses here in this space.

There is a severe shortage of manpower for the construction of several large buildings, including the city walls and the government hall.

The skill book for reducing construction time was given to an ordinary general whom he was casually taking care of, since he would be dismissed sooner or later anyway, and Tian Ersan didn't bother to cultivate a relationship with him.

At the end of July, Holly's Harry Potter movie was also released.

The film industry has its own rules, and it's very difficult for newcomers to rise to the top. The industry, which is jointly controlled by giants, will not allow an emerging force to squeeze up and be on the same level as them.

Fortunately, Holly was only after fame, not money, and gave up most of the profits to gain the support of the publisher and subsequent contract renewal.

The various contracts and agreements they signed only put their minds at ease; they were of no concern to Holly and Tian Ersan.

In late July, Harry Potter also became popular in the country.

The movie was also shown at the cinema in Chengbang Shopping Mall, and it was offered for free to groups of people.

While the others were watching the movie, Tian Ersan was busy creating babies in his spatial dimension.

Each time a house is entered, one laborer is released.

[Ding! This house has reached its population limit. Released residents have been converted into reserve residents.]

Just as Tian Ersan was wondering what the reserve population was when he entered the house, he suddenly saw another prompt.

[Mu Xiuying will acquire a reserve population and will be promoted to a labor/taxpayer population within ten months. After ten months, once the labor population is born, she will retain either the labor or taxpayer status.]

Tian Ersan looked at the continuous stream of notifications.

Is this the Yang family's residence?

Tian Ersan found himself in a full room, and thus turned the labor force to be released into reserve population.

The term "reserve population" is different from "potential population." Here, "reserve population" refers to unborn children.

"Luckily it wasn't the old lady, otherwise it would have been really hard to explain."

Tian Ersan breathed a sigh of relief. Although the old lady was an elegant old woman, it was really too shameless for an old tree to bloom.

Mu Xiuying was only nineteen years old, and although her pregnancy was a bit early, she was also only nineteen, so they were considered a good match.

"If she's pregnant, she's pregnant. Just tell everyone she's mine, and it'll save me a lot of trouble."

Tian Ersan didn't take this seriously and went to release people from other empty houses.

Compared to children, Tian Ersan needs men who can work now, preferably grown men.

Tian Ersan quickly gave birth to men for several widows and sons for several mothers-in-law.

Nineteen a day, that's one hundred and ninety in ten days!

Moreover, this is a skill that can be used directly in Glory City.

These are all laborers who can pay taxes, serve in the military, and do manual labor. The rise of the Star Kingdom is just around the corner!
Just as Tian Ersan was busy delivering sons and grandsons to elderly people living alone, Lu Changlin arrived.

"My lord, the Level 5 administrative hall is complete, and the academy's planting technology has reached Level 9. It will reach Level 10 in a month, at which point we can start researching housing technology to accommodate more people!"

Tian Ersan nodded in satisfaction, "Good, build all the houses inside and outside the city, and let the people who come out collect resources or upgrade buildings."

"Yes, my lord!" Lu Changlin agreed and went to carry out his business.

As a special hero who appeared on Tian Ersan's birthday, he is much more proactive than other heroes in handling affairs, and he is more concerned about the Star Kingdom.

The fifth-level governing hall had five thousand vacant plots of housing both inside and outside the city, while foreigners occupied the wilderness.

Theoretically, 10,000 farmhouses plus 5,000 residential houses could provide 35,000 laborers, but in reality, it's far from enough, only a little over half.

With an additional two or three thousand laborers and several thousand reserve personnel, Tian Ersan needed even less outside labor.

After leaving, the seemingly inhuman Tian Ersan pondered important matters.

"Now that we have a way to increase the labor force, we don't really need that many people in reality, right?"

(End of this chapter)