1085: When the tree is tall, the phoenix will come; when the flower is fragrant, the butterflies will come.

...

Maurice left, taking with him a new understanding of Li Village.

The three villagers who had voluntarily joined Busen City wanted to follow, but were directly abandoned by Maurice's men.

What a joke.

That action just now had already caused Li Changkong to pull the power switch on Busen City; if this continued, the consequences would likely be even more severe!

...

"Li Changkong, how could you do this?

What right do you have to stop us from becoming citizens of Vog Country?!"

"We are just your villagers, not your slaves. You even want to control where we go. Do you know, this is dictatorship!"

Zhang Yang had always had zero sense of belonging to the Village.

Even after so many things happened later, his sense of belonging remained zero.

If Li Changkong could see hatred values, he would even see this guy's hatred value towards the Village steadily increasing!

Now, in a sense, Li Changkong had again ruined Zhang Yang's good fortune, causing him to be unable to bear it and jump out to confront the other party again.

As his words fell, the two villagers behind him also echoed: "That's right, Village Chief, what you did just now was too much. We finally managed to curry favor with the higher-ups of Busen City, and now you treat them like that. Aren't you putting us on a spit to roast?"

As this person finished speaking, a woman next to him, who also had zero sense of belonging, curled her lip and said: "I thought our Li Village was going to completely prosper and flourish, but in the end, because of someone's short-sightedness, the Village can only stagnate."

"By offending the important figures of Busen City like this, how can we possibly continue to develop in the future?"

"It seems our lives will be like this. Who can we blame for our bitter fate, meeting such a corrupt Village Chief?"

The three villagers who wanted to join Busen City all spoke with hatred towards Li Changkong.

And among the crowd, there were also many villagers with a low sense of belonging, who also started discussing amongst themselves.

"Ding ~ Detected overall decrease in villagers' sense of belonging. Li Village villagers' overall sense of belonging has dropped to Low-level. The buff enjoyed by the overall Mid-level sense of belonging has been removed."

Amidst the people's discussions, Li Changkong heard this prompt from the System.

He frowned and looked at these villagers.

Villagers with a sense of belonging of 80% or more basically had no fluctuations.

It was mainly those villagers below 40%, who accounted for nearly half of the villagers, whose sense of belonging was rapidly decreasing during this moment of discussion!

Seeing this, Li Changkong's eyes flickered, and he felt a slight chill in his heart.

He had exhausted his efforts to raise the villagers' sense of belonging.

And now, because of this matter, the villagers' sense of belonging had plummeted directly, returning to the beginning!

"System, it seems impossible to cultivate the sense of belonging of the territory's subjects to a high level."

Li Changkong faced the System, muttering to himself with a hint of dejection.

"Where the phoenix tree is tall, the phoenix will surely arrive; where the flowers are fragrant, the butterflies will come naturally."

Before Li Changkong's eyes, a simple line of text appeared on the System panel.

And looking at this line of text, the Man was slightly silent.

Suddenly.

He seemed to have figured something out, and a look of sudden realization appeared on his face.

That's right, the sense of belonging of a group, this thing is not something that can be cultivated.

No matter how much he gave to the people under him, the overall sense of belonging could plummet due to a negative event.

If he wanted these people to have a sense of belonging, there was only one direction: make Li Village strong!

When Li Village itself was strong enough, these people wouldn't need to be managed; their sense of belonging and pride in their hearts would naturally explode!

Therefore, rapidly developing the hard power of Li Village and ignoring the uncontrollable overall sense of belonging was the correct approach!

Before, he hadn't immediately classified the thirty slaves as villagers of Li Village because he was worried about lowering the overall sense of belonging.

According to the current situation, there was no longer any need for that.

In that case...

Li Changkong's attention returned to the present. He looked at the three people led by Zhang Yang and the noisy group of villagers behind them, and calmly said: "I am not stopping you from joining Busen City."

"If you want to join Busen City, I have a condition."

"What condition?!"

Zhang Yang asked urgently, as if worried that Li Changkong would lie. After his words fell, his eyes looked at the other party like a greedy mouse.

"Zhang Yang, actually, you are a talent. If you leave, it will be a huge loss to Li Village."

Li Changkong patted Zhang Yang's shoulder, his tone gentle.

This change in tone and praise made everyone present feel strange, thinking that Li Changkong was trying to keep Zhang Yang.

"Village Chief, people go to higher places like water flows to lower places. My value indeed deserves better treatment. You don't need to persuade me to stay."

Zhang Yang also clearly felt that Li Changkong was using these words to keep him.

While showing a bit of self-satisfaction on his face, he still had no intention of staying in Li Village.

"Ah, you're right. Leaving Li Village is your own choice, and I really shouldn't stop you."

"Just as you said, if I were to control even this, it would make me truly seem like a dictator."

As his words fell, Li Changkong looked directly at the other party and said in a troubled tone: "However, just as I said just now, you are a talent of our Li Village. If you leave, it will be a huge loss to Li Village!"

"My condition is not much. As long as you can get a hundred people to join Li Village, or if Busen City is willing to give a hundred people to Li Village for your sake, then you can leave as you please."

"Exchange me for a hundred people?!"

Zhang Yang's tone couldn't help but rise slightly.

"That's right. Do you think your value is less than a hundred people?

You are a talent in the field of electricity in Li Village; you can even connect wires."

"That's right."

After Zhang Yang took a breath, he nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, the Man looked at Li Changkong again: "Village Chief, do you keep your word?"

"In front of the entire Village, would I still lie about this matter?"

Saying this, Li Changkong turned his head to look at the villagers behind him and directly announced loudly: "From now on, I allow any of you to leave Li Village, but the prerequisite is that after you leave, you must provide Li Village with one hundred new people."

Since the overall sense of belonging is no longer important, then... it is time for Li Village to enter a period of rapid development!

As for whether the newcomers to Li Village would cause trouble, there is no need to worry about this, excluding those powerful individuals.

Of course, powerful existences are also unlikely to take a liking to Li Village at this stage.

As for whether these people leaving Li Village would cause Li Village to lose its source of livelihood — appliances.

That would indeed have some impact.

But the impact would definitely not be significant!

After all, the electric power is in his hands!

...

Busen City.

After the acting City Lord Maurice returned to the City Lord's Mansion, his face was full of distress.

Originally, he had planned to take in the entire Li Village and establish an electricity department for Busen City, but he never expected things to escalate to this point in the end!

During the short time when Li Changkong turned off the lights, Busen City, which now has a population of three million, directly experienced dozens of deaths, with an even larger number of injuries!

With so many casualties, the pressure Maurice was under was immense.

And this also made him understand even more clearly that those people from Li Village were a bunch of lunatics who shouldn't be easily provoked!

"Maurice, Master Lu Lu has created an electric light!"

Maurice's door was suddenly pushed open. The one who entered was Fei Kui, the acting City Lord of Feikang City.

"What?!"

Hearing this information from Fei Kui, Maurice instantly became energized.

From the discovery of the electric light until now, Maurice had been solely focused on acquiring the technology for electric lights.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken such a risk to recruit people from Li Village.

Now that he heard his own people had actually overcome this technology, how could he not be excited?!

"Quick, take me to see!"

Maurice urged Fei Kui.

...

Master Lu Lu, this is a Goblin.

He is also one of the few Goblins in Busen City. His Artifact Refining technique is arguably the strongest among the cities in the West!

Master Lu Lu had always specialized in refining weapons, which made people subconsciously overlook his potential understanding of electric lights.

When Maurice arrived at the main hall, he could see that Master Lu Lu had placed the electric light he created on the ground.

"City Lord Maurice, please see, this is the electric light I have created."

"I disassembled the electric light that Li Village sold to us and found that their electric light is actually not complicated."

"It's just some glass, and tungsten wire, as well as a small Holy Light Array Formation inside and a device that converts electricity into light."

"I only used an hour to successfully replicate a light bulb."

Master Lu Lu's words were calm and unruffled, as if everything was under control.

The onlookers around him all had smiles on their faces, feeling that the City Lord's invitation to Master Lu Lu, this great talent, to Busen City was truly the correct choice!

"Good!

Well done!"

Maurice couldn't help but praise loudly.

Now, they no longer had to worry about the constraints from those guys in Li Village.

Once their own light bulbs were also popularized, even if Li Village was given ten times the courage, would they dare to be so presumptuous with them?

Thinking of this, Maurice was filled with self-satisfaction.

"Is this light bulb connected to electricity?

Will it not light up?"

Maurice asked with a smile.

Master Lu Lu heard this and shook his head with a contemptuous smile: "This thing, I have replicated it in every aspect. It's exactly the same as the light bulbs from Li Village. How could it not light up?"

Saying this, Master Lu Lu placed his palm on the end of the light bulb connected to the wire, and a surge of lightning power slowly emerged from his palm!

"Buzz buzz ~"

As expected, the electric light instantly burst into radiance!

"Good, good, good!

Master Lu Lu is a great hero of our Busen City!"

After seeing this scene, Maurice was full of praise.

"I said, this thing has no technical content at all. In the future, I will pass down the manufacturing technology, and the people within the city can produce it themselves."

Master Lu Lu put away the light bulb and said with a face full of pride.

"That's not right."

Suddenly, a puzzled woman's voice came out.

That was a Magician among the higher-ups of Busen City present, who could use Holy Light Magic.

After witnessing Master Lu Lu light up the light bulb, a look of confusion appeared on her face.

"Why did I not detect any trace of Holy Light in those lights just now?"

After the woman's words fell, the people around were also slightly stunned.