MC's career as foreign lord

“Well then, Your Highness, we'll take our leave!” The group of elves were seen off by Zhou Ren outside the territory, leaving only a slightly reproachful look from Shia beside him.

“Why did you agree to send me back to undergo the trial?” she said, looking at the man in front of her with great dissatisfaction.

“Where's Leah?” Zhou Ren evaded the question.

“I'm in the virtual world learning 100 ways to cast spells as a mage. Don't change the subject. I want to know why you agreed to send me away!”

She was no longer the naive and adorable elf princess. Zhou Ren sighed with some regret. After experiencing these years of twists and turns, this princess seemed to have really understood some things. At least, his Mandarin could no longer deceive her so easily.

“Didn't your mother say she was going to abdicate? According to your rules of succession, even if I don't agree, they will send someone to take you back for the empress's training ceremony!”

Zhou Ren said. Although two years had passed, the girl beside him was no longer the girl who was一心想 to inherit the throne. It could even be said that if she wasn't doing so well in the territory, she wouldn't even want to go back to the elven clan to manage that mess.

“You know, I…” Shia said. The elf princess had already expressed her feelings to him. The speed of development between the two in the territory was not slow, and could even be said to be particularly fast. No matter what kind of problem could be solved, no matter what kind of thing could be developed. Isn't this better than being angered by the two elders in the elven clan every day?

Zhou Ren shook his head and said, “Rules are rules. Even if you don't want to inherit the throne, you have to go back and formally state your attitude, and then inform them of this matter, right?”

He said, “Staying here with me as a turtle can't solve any problems. Even if you don't say it, I know what you're thinking. Even if you don't want to disappoint your mother, unwilling is unwilling!”

“I…” Shia stopped talking. This was inherently a very difficult thing to choose. Even if Zhou Ren said more, it wouldn't actually help much.

“Alright, if it really doesn't work, I'll go talk to them, okay? How difficult can it be?” Zhou Ren said, looking around. “Since the little girl isn't here, Anna wouldn't have run back to her treasure house to sleep, would she?”

Speaking of which, it was strange. This silver dragon didn't know when she fell in love with fluorite. That golden yellow light was simply too beloved by her. Coupled with a pile of gold blocks dug out from the ground, she actually made herself a super-large bed of fluorite and gold.

“No… Our editor-in-chief Anna is scolding those dragons in the room…” Shia said, and the previous topic was easily skipped. The two, one human and one elf, walked side by side on the road in the territory.

“What's wrong? Did some little dragons run to remote areas to interview again, and then bring back news that cost a lot of money but had no benefits?” Zhou Ren said.

He spoke and laughed. Since the territory's news system swept the world along with the entire virtual world, Anna, as the editor-in-chief, had not had a peaceful day for a long time, taking her little dragons to run around to collect news every day.

However, she would occasionally come back to Zhou Ren to play, and by the way, get some brand-new props from him, and then run out to find the black materials that various races didn't dare to expose.

Now the territory's news had already spread throughout the entire continent. Even those large nobles, including the legendary ones, didn't dare to offend this silver dragon. Otherwise, putting some black material on them and hanging it in the sky for half a day would be enough to cause the family to suffer heavy losses. A certain mage academy didn't believe this, and as a result, the number of students was halved in a year, and they had no choice but to bring gifts to find the Silver Dragon King to apologize.

“It's not that. One of the little green dragons under her seems to have discovered news about Dragon Island, and posted it directly without listening to her. Now this little green dragon is being hunted down by metal dragons all over the world!” Shia covered her mouth.

“Alright…” What else could Zhou Ren say? He could only shake his head helplessly. “Put this little guy in the abyss, let him stay with you for a while, and let Noxil train him well, so that he won't do this kind of thing again in the future. He probably can't stay in the main world, find an excuse to send him into the Astral Plane!”

He pinched his temples with some headache, patted the elf's shoulder beside him, “Alright, let's talk about our affairs tonight, I'll go to the city hall to deal with today's government affairs first!”

“Hand over your fishing rod first!” Shia stared at him. She knew her fiancé's temperament too well. Of course, things had to be dealt with, but although he was the lord of the territory.

But there were a dozen or twenty secretaries to handle various events under his command, and there were also many dignitaries. He could distribute the tasks in half an hour, and then spend one or two hours to sign the documents that needed to be signed. The rest of the time was either running to other worlds to slack off, or running to the river to fish.

If she didn't take good care of him, who knows what kind of big problems would arise.

“Sigh…” Zhou Ren sighed. Why was the trust between people so weak?

He had no choice but to hand a fishing rod flashing with magical light to Shia, and then, after the high elf left, he quietly took out another fishing rod from the equipment bar, flashing with golden light. This was a brand-new fishing rod made by the lovers through the forging platform. It was said that the randomness could be as high as 50%.

“Hehe!” He smiled and waved the fishing rod in his hand, walking towards the city hall. Didn't he still find a chance?

An advertisement for Amanatower was also hung on a notice board on one side of the territory. After two years of silence, this sun god finally announced his comeback.

It was just that because the gods were all grounded, the other party's publicity was not greatly hindered. Soon, an advertisement in the virtual world began to spread throughout the continent. It seemed that in at most 20 years, he should be able to accumulate enough believers, and then be locked into his own kingdom of God, right?

Zhou Ren thought with some malice, suddenly becoming a little reluctant. He was such a good material researcher and expert in providing various divine powers. If he was suddenly put in confinement, wouldn't he have to find another demigod to do research?

“Lord!” Zhou Ren, who had just arrived at the city hall, heard a very familiar voice. He looked up at the man who was obviously more confident and more elegant than before.

“Henry? Why do you have time to come to the city hall? Is there anything in the town that can't be solved?” Zhou Ren asked.

In the past two years, Henry, the town mayor, had also successfully shed the temporary title on his head and truly become the leader of Pine Leaf Town, and also the leader of most of the human civilians in this area.

In reality, he didn't come here very often. After all, the City Hall was more for handling territory matters and various diplomatic affairs. Even the processing area for the virtual world was directly moved by Zhou Ren to another area, to that large tree network composed of the Tree of Life.

Therefore, the managers of the various races didn't come here often. Henry's sudden arrival naturally piqued Zhou Ren's curiosity.

Behind him, some secretaries selected from the African ethnic groups followed, holding some documents in their hands. It seemed that these were Zhou Ren's official documents for today.

"It's like this, Lord. I'm applying to build a river channel from the big river to the town. This can solve the drinking water problem for most people in the town, and also provide a good solution to the transportation problem, without even needing to build another railway track!"

Henry said this, which naturally made Zhou Ren think. He said with a smile and a scolding tone, "Good fellow, you were waiting for me here, huh? I just rejected your suggestion to build a railway to the town a few days ago, and now you're directly asking for a river channel?"

He smiled, "Granted, granted. However, you must raise the money and manpower for the construction of the river channel yourself, and I must require that you do not affect the normal lives of ordinary people, nor can you forcibly conscript people!"

"That's natural!" Henry nodded. It seemed that what he needed was this order of approval, so he quickly left.

"It seems that Pine Leaf Town is developing well recently. Even Henry isn't coming to me to complain, but running over to ask for various financial and equipment assistance?" Zhou Ren said.

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He still remembered when his territory was just built and Henry had just become the acting mayor, it was really a situation where they had nothing. He would come to him every now and then to complain, wanting to get some money to compensate for the various facilities in the territory.

Mainly, this guy didn't take a single penny except for his salary and the money his wife earned from her work in the territory. All the money he earned was used for the proper purposes of the territory, which annoyed Zhou Ren, but he couldn't say anything.

So later, he was so annoyed that he even avoided seeing him, directly telling Henry to find the treasurer. As long as he could get that money from the greedy member of the Church of Wealth, it would be fine.

However, this matter seemed to have come to an end about a year later. Henry was promoted to become the official mayor, and they hadn't seen each other for a long time. The only few times they met were usually at the monthly general meeting to discuss various matters.

He didn't expect to encounter such a situation today, which really made him feel very magical. Zhou Ren shook his head. There was nothing to say about this. Let's listen to what the secretaries around him have to say first.

"Your Excellency, Mayor Henry has centralized many financial projects in their town, and has obtained a large sum of money through public bidding. They may be richer than those Mushroom People now!" The opening elf secretary was the little prince of the elf clan.

Although the little prince of the elf clan didn't have any inheritance rights in the clan, he came here to train because of his sister's relationship. At least he had done a good job this year, so Zhou Ren didn't mean to drive him away.

"Oh, I didn't expect Henry to have such good financial skills. It's not easy to be richer than the Mushroom People!"

Although the wealth of the Mushroom People is even at the bottom of the ranks among the various races in the territory, this is not a reason for a small town to surpass them. After all, this group of Mushroom People manages the virtual world tax revenue of this large area. Even if most of the tax revenue has to be turned over, the small part of them working in it is not to be underestimated.

Looking at it this way, it was right to give this town to him, Zhou Ren thought, his gaze naturally drifted away, and he waved his hand slightly. He didn't want to know what strange things Henry had done. This was not something that he, as the lord, needed to grasp in detail.

"Tell me about today's situation. There's no need to repeat those nonsense. I want to hear the more important things!" Zhou Ren said, and the little prince beside him had already opened his mouth.

"Your Excellency, the state letter from the Orc Empire has been sent over for the 27th time. The new Orc Emperor has expressed his deepest apologies to you and is willing to provide compensation!"

Zhou Ren waved his hand, "This new guy is more sensible than their old man. However, I heard that his coup lasted for nearly two months. Is this still the first state letter? Let's put him on hold and see how things go. If he can send out three consecutive letters, we can temporarily give him a little quota to bring into the territory!"

He was a little surprised. He originally thought that the civil war in the Orc Empire would last for another two months, but he didn't expect it to have ended already. The little Orc Emperor sent a state letter to express his loyalty without hesitation, which was a bit beyond his expectations.

This is unlike his old dad. The previous 26 documents were all very strongly worded denunciations, and even war documents, but they were not implemented for some reason. He didn't expect things to have developed like this in the past two months?

He waved his hand and didn't say anything more. The little prince was very perceptive and put the document in his hand down and began to read the next one. And their group left the hall and began to move towards the top floor of the production hall, taking the redstone elevator and quickly arriving at the roof, which was the treetop of a Tree of Life, a room of 200 square meters.

It's not that he deliberately built the house so big for a special purpose. It was really because if he didn't make the house so big, he wouldn't be able to fit all kinds of documents and various people's offices. His several secretaries needed separate office space, and he naturally needed the best room in the business to overlook the entire territory.

As he walked, he naturally continued to deal with the next matter. The little prince of the elf clan was energetic and quickly sorted out the second matter and reported it to him.

"News from the Church of the Goddess of Wealth, the Great Wind Period on the territory will be here soon, and there will be two months of disconnection from the outside world. Although there are teleportation gates for mutual transportation, they feel that it is still a bit inconvenient, so they are discussing with you whether a portion of the money should be transferred over in advance, or continue to be stored in the church as usual!"

"Just continue to store it, and the interest will be paid as usual. Anyway, our financial system has been laid out almost completely. The stock market should be able to be launched in two months at most, right? I wonder how the trading market is doing?" Zhou Ren said. It took two years to complete the deployment of these things. His speed is not very good.