Chapter 760: Ideal Persistence, Housing Emergency

However, the balance of payments in the past and the balance of payments now are completely different concepts.

The balance of payments in the past was the final achievement of the old system reaching a relatively mature stage; even with further development, it was just that, and the room for imagination was extremely limited.

But the balance of payments now is the preliminary stage after the transformation of the new system, and future development holds great promise.

If it weren't for the fact that the Tower of Time truly lacks much foundation right now, coupled with the constraints of the external environment, the Tower of Time could actually keep operating at a loss and eventually lose its way into becoming the strongest.

This is the choice of the path.

Choosing the right path, even if there are thorns and bumps at the beginning, once the critical turning point is crossed, a comprehensive victory will be ushered in.

Although Xia Duo cannot guarantee that everything will go as he expects, for the moment, he is still full of confidence in his choice.

Of course, even if he lacked confidence, he would still choose the path he believes is correct; after all, who doesn't have ideals and persistence!

Today's Xia Duo is no longer the person who had just transmigrated and lived only to survive; in fact, if he had lived merely to survive, he would have already achieved that.

After his Bloodline Awakening, he possesses a lifespan longer than that of a normal person, and he is very certain that he can become a Senior Arcanist; learning Life Extension Magic is nothing.

Or he could also wait for Iolum's Longevity Technique to come out; lifespan is simply not a problem.

But living is not just about being alive; Xia Duo has more pursuits. The shallower ones, such as living better, enjoying life, etc., and higher ones, even becoming a Great Arcanist or even a god-like existence, are not unimaginable.

In the end, these are all at the individual level.

But for now, Xia Duo is already very satisfied to be able to obtain longevity; he does not covet so-called immortality or eternity, as it is hard for him now to imagine what true eternity looks like.

He is more willing to leave some traces for this world, for this period of history, and for future time.

His choice is to create a civilization according to his will and use it to transform this world.

And this is also his current ideal and persistence.

Different from the ideal of wanting to be a scientist when he was a child—which, although pure, also seemed hollow—the current him can pursue ideals with more rational and realistic convictions; this is his progress.

It is also human nature.

Of course, Xia Duo does not think his ideal is necessarily higher than "becoming a scientist," "becoming a star," or "becoming an official and getting rich."

Ideals themselves have no high or low; it only depends on the environment at the time and whether one can truly practice them.

From this perspective, Xia Duo is currently a relatively qualified pursuer of ideals; he is practicing his ideals step by step and persisting in his persistence.

……

In the Study.

Xia Duo and Niya sit opposite each other at the window. At this moment, the window is projecting the scene of the starry sky outside. After the two finish talking, Niya reads quietly, while Xia Duo gazes at the stars, lost in thought.

The reason he chose to create a civilization as his ideal is, to some extent, because he realized that even if an individual is powerful, it is difficult to transcend reality; only by borrowing the collective Wisdom and power of the group can one go further and see more.

Taking one last look at the stars—naturally including that King-Slaying Star flickering incessantly in the northwestern sky—Xia Duo closes his eyes and focuses all his attention on Memory Retrospection.

Occasionally, when he gets tired of it, he will divert part of his attention to deduce the essence of Magic in his mind, carrying out organization and integration at the theoretical level.

……

The next day, the negotiations continue.

Poluokan still attends together with Saituosi. Xia Duo was a bit surprised at first, but then he realized that perhaps Poluokan is there to guard Saituosi.

The existence of Magic makes it difficult for ordinary people in this world to keep secrets, and this naturally includes trade secrets, negotiation bottom lines, and so on.

Of course, Magic is not omnipotent; the will of ordinary people can sometimes transcend Magic.

Furthermore, Magic is not without traces; anything used will inevitably leave traces, it is just a question of whether it can be detected.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo feels that having Aiboke come forward to accompany Dailike was the right move; after all, through the Perception Field, he does not have absolute certainty that he would definitely be able to discover Poluokan's Spellcasting behavior.

Although the possibility of Poluokan using Magic to influence Dailike is extremely low, and Dailike certainly possesses a mind Amulet, an extra layer of protection is safer.

"Xia Duo, you said yesterday that Poluokan mentioned the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce wants to rent land in the Savile Territory to build warehouses. Do you think Saituosi will make a slight concession on the agency fee today?" Niya suddenly says.

"This—perhaps he will!"

Although he says so, Xia Duo does not think in his heart that Saituosi will easily make concessions; after all, the future rental of land may not necessarily involve him, but the current negotiation can allow him to reap tangible, visible, and touchable performance.

How to act should not be hard to judge.

Unless Poluokan brings instructions from above, but it is unlikely that the upper management of the Ming Shui Chamber of Commerce would give up the benefits already in their mouths.

After all, compared to the small expenditure of renting land, the agency fee for Magic Item is the big part.

……

Similar to yesterday, Xia Duo still puts a little attention on the negotiation and more attention on Memory Retrospection. During this time, Laidun sends him a Sending, saying the Northland Fleet has arrived at the Linshui Village pier.

This batch of newly joined residents totals 1,194 people and has all been registered, but there is one problem: the pre-prepared wooden houses are still lacking.

Seeing this information, Xia Duo immediately interrupts his Memory Retrospection. He has never forgotten that next month, which is November, there will be three more batches of new residents arriving, at least two thousand people.

If there aren't enough houses now, then it is estimated there will be even fewer next month.

And now that autumn has arrived, the temperature is getting lower and lower; how will they spend the winter without houses!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo can barely sit still and wants to return to the Territory to personally supervise the work progress of the Woodworking Workshop.

Now that he has the ability of Memory Retrospection, many studies that do not require practical operation can be carried out in his mind.

Such as searching for data, summarizing and refining information, calculating and deducing processes, proposing various hypotheses, and so on.

Compared to the past, his time is more than twice as abundant!

However, the warning the Princess passed through Niya makes him hesitate. After thinking about it, Xia Duo decides not to leave the Tower of Time, but he sends a Sending to Laidun, ordering him to personally sit in the Woodworking Workshop and supervise production.

At the same time, the Woodworking Workshop must also increase manpower; this time, the newly joined residents are to be prioritized for the Logistics Department, ensuring that every resident can have their own house before winter.

Of course, Xia Duo does not have nothing to do here; the Arcane Garden of the Tower of Time needs to continue to increase production so as to provide sufficient food reserves for the Daxia Territory.

Fortunately, the Tower of Time just recruited a batch of full-time servants not long ago, otherwise, the manpower would be a bit stretched now.