To Little Bad King, being able to receive missions from both Order and Chaos was actually a good thing. Although the assignments became harder, if he completed both successfully, he would surely receive two sets of rewards.
As the saying went, high risk, high reward... For Little Bad King, who was always short of money, the temptation of double rewards was simply irresistible. After all, his Fifth Grade promotion assignment required him to expand Qingliang Prefecture into "an entire province" and increase its population to over fifty million.
Never mind anything else; those two brief descriptions alone were enough to suggest how expensive the promotion assignments would be. Expanding his territory meant potentially deploying troops and fighting wars. But once war broke out, it would surely become a bottomless pit. With Little Bad King's current savings of just over ten million Star Source, forget mobilizing troops-even buying every soldier a pair of thermal underwear might prove a struggle.
That was why, when he first received this Promotion Mission, he had never considered taking Great Qian head-on. Instead, he had dispatched the Empire's finest agent, Shopkeeper Qiu, and used the cards already in his hand to lay long-term plans, pursuing division, defection, and an attempt to steal the enemy's home base.
But even that would eventually require cooperation from the Southern Border, as well as vast sums to grease palms in every quarter before he could seize an opportunity.
On top of that, rapidly increasing the population to fifty million would involve resettlement, reassurance, and other matters, which would surely cost a terrifying amount as well.
In short, "desperately short of money" was Little Bad King's lifelong nemesis. His stinginess, his penny-pinching, his willingness to fleece anyone he could and pluck feathers from any passing goose... Aside from a certain natural