Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Drogo looked at the magic stone in front of him.

He rarely saw magic crystals destroyed like this.

Not only was it broken into several pieces, but there were also several signs of burns.

"You want me to repair it?" Drogo looked at the two half-elves in front of him.

"Yes, it contains images that will definitely cause a sensation across the entire continent, images of the destruction of the Augustan safe zone." The captain replied.

"Hmm..." Drogo snorted.

At present, it seems that if the situation continues to develop in this way, the war that originally took place between two small places will inevitably become the most watched event in the entire continent.

Being noticed is a good “stage”.

It is very suitable for organizing charity activities to improve the corporate image.

Image is very important. The Drogo Group can now be described as the ultimate combination of Tengzi in the social world, Activision in the gaming world, and Bandai in the toy world.

Consumers have always been complaining but still buying.

this is not good.

Make consumers buy with reverence!

Many companies have done similar things. Although they are usually very humble, they have a good reputation for a time through charitable packaging.

After all, good things have been done. Judging by the deeds rather than the intentions, it is better than doing nothing.

"We can pay."

I thought Drogo was hesitating and didn't want to repair it, the captain said immediately.

"No, you definitely don't need to pay. I will arrange for someone to repair it. If this is a paid job, you won't see me. Aisha, leave it to Professor Moore's team. If there is no other way, contact the Mage Guild."

"Thank you, thank you very much."

"You're welcome. It shouldn't be a big problem. Go back and wait for good news."

I don't know how they brought the magic crystal fragment out. It doesn't look like they have mastered long-distance teleportation. But they were able to walk out of the war zone, so they must have some skills.

After seeing off the adventuring team, Drogo began to think, what level of assistance is appropriate?

Providing some supplies is definitely the most direct way, but the supplies themselves are easy to get, but how to transport them in is difficult.

And now there are many organizations preparing supplies to aid the city-state of Augustan, not just Drogo's family.

End the war.

You don’t have the ability to know.

Eh!
Suddenly, Drogo had a bright idea.

There are many refugees coming out of the city-state now, and they have nowhere to go, while Waterdeep is short of people and needs labor.

But accepting refugees is not something that can be done casually.

He has seen too many cases where refugees have caused problems, especially those with religious attributes.

It's somewhat like a virus.

It's the kind that is difficult to cure.

Drogo was not going to do such a cruel job as "sacrificing one's own body to feed the tiger and cutting one's own flesh to feed the eagle".

He plans to be selective.

"Elsa, let's set up a refugee camp at the border where more refugees are leaving Augustan City. We will provide medical care and supplies," Drogo ordered.

"What?" Aisha thought she had misheard. "Did you just say a very strange word, refugee camp?"

"Yes, the refugee camp."

"Ah!" Elsa screamed.

"What's your name?"

Aisha hurriedly took out her cell phone and said, "No, I have to inform Teacher Fulin immediately that her male dragon has been replaced!"

"No, is it abnormal for me to run a refugee camp?"

Elsa nodded vigorously.

"What if I plan to capture all the refugees and send them to hell to mine?"

"Yes! That's right!"

"You big ass! I just want to do something nice, okay?"

Seeing that Drogo didn't seem to be joking, Elsa finally got serious.

In fact, she has always been a kind girl. After her monthly salary reached the threshold of high-income people, she sponsored many poor students who could not afford to go to school.

Since I have changed my destiny through knowledge, of course luck has also played a significant role. I should also provide such opportunities to those in need.

To be honest, after spending the past few years together, Elsa is very sure that Drogo is not a bad dragon, otherwise he would not treat his employees so well. His only shortcoming is that he is so obsessed with gold coins.

Therefore, Drogo would never do something like a refugee camp, which only involves investment but no returns.

"Of course, we will select some of the refugees and send them to Waterdeep to become the labor force, but we cannot grant them citizenship directly at the beginning. They need to work for several years and undergo some assessments before they can become citizens." said Drogo.

Deepwater hukou may not be attractive to other big cities, but it is very popular among homeless refugees.

There is no such thing as giving money to refugees here. Everyone has to work hard to have food to eat.

Even if there is a social security system, it does not protect those who want to get something for nothing.

The entire Waterdeep belongs to Drogo, there is no need to use this trick to win votes.

Having said that, there is something magical about those people who try to get votes, get themselves involved, and really believe in it.

"As for how to select, before all refugees enter the refugee camp, they are told that it is the messengers sent by the gods they believe in to save them, and see who starts praying on the spot, especially those who pray particularly devoutly."

"I understand. You need the most devout believers." Aisha said.

"No, not the most pious ones. The less pious one wants that thing, the better."

There's no way to talk. Drogo has never been able to talk to fanatics.

Even if you believe in a magic goddess, you can understand it. There are still many gods in other people's lives.

Believe in a god that has disappeared.

Can't understand it at all.

"As for those who are particularly devout, we encourage them to go back and fight. If they can't even defend the land given by God, how can they be considered devout believers?"

External help is always just auxiliary. If you want to achieve the final victory, you still have to rely on yourself.

"Among those who are not superstitious about religion, we should try to select those who have received education and have a skill. When they come to Waterdeep, we should not put them together. We should disperse their living places and train them in different jobs."

Another important factor for social peace and stability is to reduce the phenomenon of grouping together.

It is not because of who has a good relationship with whom that it is called a group, but it is about forming a community of interests with its own internal rules and forming a force.

In the agricultural age, this was a necessary means to improve the possibility of survival, but in the industrial age, this was a social relationship that did not match productivity.

The most representative ones are probably gangs, or feudal clans where family rules are higher than national laws. Oh, and there are more abstract ones, such as aristocratic families that marry close relatives to ensure "pure bloodline."

It's not a purebred dog, so how can it have pure bloodline?

We came from the same hometown, but arrived in a strange new city together.

A hotbed for gang formation!
Therefore, they must be broken up, making it physically more difficult to form cliques.

"Then before these people become citizens, they will be required to take all kinds of courses and be forced to attend classes, so that they have no time to contact each other. After they are integrated into Waterdeep, the need to find fellow countrymen to stick together will not be so high." After saying this, Drogo thought about it and saw if there was anything he had missed.

"By the way, missionary activities are not allowed outside of religious places in Waterdeep."

The benefits of the lord are that he can say whatever he wants in his own land.

“But if anyone wants to build a religious place in the city, it will not be approved, except for churches.”

There is no way. If we can’t control the church, can we control the refugees?
"Oh, and one last thing. Send a film crew to the refugee camps. There are a lot of promotional videos to be made."

Doing good deeds without leaving a name is almost the same as not doing it. Every gold coin spent by the Drogo Group on charity must be photographed!
So, soon, the Drogo Group hopes that the refugee camp will be officially completed.

Drogo may not have spent the most money to aid Augustan, but he definitely made the most noise.

From the day the refugee camp began to accept refugees, various videos, interviews and documentaries appeared in various media.

And these contents are quite popular.

It was not only because the filming crew sent by Drogo was very professional and the footage they filmed was very high-quality, but also because the broken magic crystal was repaired and the adventure team risked their lives to record the footage of the Augustan Safe Zone, which was released.

Vian was completely pushed to the forefront of public opinion.

The previous attacks on civilians were bad enough, but compared to this time, it is hard to say whether there is any humanity in the planned clearing of the safe zone designated by themselves.

Anyone with even a modicum of moral sense cannot accept such evil.

Varian's official spokesperson is still arguing, claiming that the resistance organization took advantage of the safe zone they set up with good intentions, so they had to launch the attack.

It is the resistance groups that disregarded the safety of civilians that should be held responsible for this tragedy.

The outrageous remarks completely aroused people's anger.

Featured comments no longer work, and they smartly learned to close the comment section.

What’s even more interesting is that some self-media that are very good at following hot topics entered the country of Villian and filmed a lot of content about the local civilians’ views on the war.

However, the attitude shown by the locals is even more difficult for people from other countries to understand.

Everyone who appeared in the interview firmly believed that they were righteous.

To be precise, it is even "noble".

According to them, Augustan's resistance organization was the culprit of everything, and they were cleaning up these organizations in order to allow the city-state to develop "better" in the future.

The most appropriate and best ending is for Augustan to completely belong to Varian.

It's hard to find someone who can describe aggression in such a refreshing and refined way.

A large amount of such content appeared, and the quantitative change led to a qualitative change. The protest against Varian was no longer limited to condemnation.

Although several major kingdoms and churches only expressed verbal opposition to Varian and did not take more substantial actions, many civil organizations have begun to form supporting armed forces.

If unarmed volunteers who go with peaceful purposes will be attacked, we will have to replace them with volunteers who are not afraid of being attacked.

Several major mercenary groups and adventure groups have announced that they will send combat teams into Augustan.

Nominally for basic justice.

I think he also wanted to gain fame through this.

But this is understandable, doing good things should be rewarded.

It's not true that good people should be pointed at with guns.

Among the many teams preparing to enter Augustan, one team found Drogo.

"You need sponsorship, you say?" Drogo asked.

"Yes, we mainly need weapons and equipment. You have done such a great deed by setting up a refugee camp, and you must also hope that this unjust war will end as soon as possible. If we can get your weapons, I believe that we can greatly speed up the progress and reduce the sacrifices of the soldiers."

The leader of this mercenary group said this very sincerely.

"No, we don't even have weapons, so let's not rush to support the weak."

"Well, it's like this," the mercenary leader continued, "We don't lack basic weapons and equipment, but..."

Drogo understood and took a liking to the guy in the gun shop.

Since the appearance of the real-life Doom Slayer at the Expo, various new weapons of the Drogo Group have been revealed.

There are many related discussions online, and there are different opinions on how effective these magical firearms are in actual combat.

Many people think it is the future of magic weaponization, while many others think it is just a large-scale toy.

Drogo was lacking a platform to display his wares, so he started selling them.

It's not like he hadn't thought about letting the support mercenaries use these weapons and verify them in the Augustan War, but he wasn't thinking about sponsoring the weapons.

In war, no matter how much money is spent, it can never be won faster than the speed at which the war is won.

Asking Drogo to sponsor him, although he can afford it, it will hurt.

The kind that hurts a lot.

However, since the whole incident has attracted so much attention and the public is extremely angry, perhaps he doesn't have to bear the sponsorship responsibility.

So, Drogo asked, "Does anyone in your mercenary group know how to take pictures?"

"Filming?"

"Yes, our latest miniature sports cameras are not very obstructive and can be hung on armor. Don't worry about it. Of course, it would be better if you have the ability to design your own lenses. I can sponsor you with a batch of weapons and sports cameras. Then, you can send me the things you shoot on the battlefield. As for whether the weapons can be supplied later, it depends on my performance."

Although the mercenary leader didn't know what Drogo was going to do, he readily agreed because he had a batch of weapons.

A few weeks later…

Cornflower Street.

Drogo Movie Theater.

There is a huge screen outside the theater, which is usually used to show trailers and other content.

What was shown today was a little different and attracted quite a few passers-by to watch.

On the screen, there seemed to be a person's first-person perspective. He was holding a strangely shaped gun, hiding behind a low wall, and his breathing was heavy and rapid.

A few seconds later, heavy footsteps were heard.

The protagonist of the video leaned out slightly, and not far away, a huge self-propelled structure was checking whether there were any missed enemies nearby.

Just as he was about to reach the protagonist of the video, at this moment, he rushed out of the low wall, raised the strange gun in his hand, aimed at the weak point of the construct and pulled the trigger.

Then, smoke and dust filled the air, and the light of magic covered the entire construct. After intensive explosions, the construct fell heavily to the ground.

Is this a picture of Augustan City?

The onlookers were speculating.

Do they have the power to fight back now?
The last shot in the picture is a close-up of the fallen construct.

It looks like he is completely paralyzed.

Then, the protagonist of the video turned around and fled quickly, and the screen gradually went dark.

How is he? Is he still alive?
Everyone is curious.

However, an ad suddenly popped up on the screen.

"The Ancient Mecha deck of Yu-Gi-Oh! is now on sale. The Ancient Mecha · Justice gun pack is available for a limited time. For every box of this pack you buy, the resistance fighters on the front line will receive a box of new ammunition! For justice and belief, come and buy it..."

In this way, the first "crowdfunding" war in the history of Feilin Continent began. (End of this chapter)