Liu Bei had been relentlessly pursued by Yang Rui and had been defending Guangjun City and the surrounding areas for a long time. This was also one of the reasons why Yuan Shu was helpless against him.
Of course, there were deeper reasons for Yuan Shu's weakness. Generally speaking, Yuan Shu spent more time plundering and enjoying than worrying about governing his territory. In this aspect, Yuan Shu was inferior to most of the other Marquises.
This was especially true after he had hastily proclaimed himself Emperor. Yuan Shu had been isolated by the various powers, greatly affecting the strength of his territory. Other than Marquises like Yang Rui who had special plans, Yuan Shu was basically unable to exchange resources with other powers.
Moreover, at this time, Yuan Shu's mentality had undergone a great change. Under the pressure of many parties, Yuan Shu had felt that the most effective way to obtain materials and support from various aspects through the method agreed with Yang Rui.
In the current stalemate between Yuan Shu and Liu Bei, Yuan Shu continued to send messengers to Yang Rui. Batch after batch of NPC Liegeman were traded to Yang Rui and then transported to Yizhou by Taishi Ci's fleet.
In this way, over two months, Yang Rui had received three batches of Yuan Shu's NPC Liegeman, totaling more than two million. There were also four batches of NPC Liegeman sent to Yizhou, totaling more than 1.3 million people.
However, the last batch of NPC Liegeman was still on the way to Yizhou and had not yet reached their destination.
From the beginning, a total of nearly two million NPC Liegeman had been transported to Yizhou. The number of Liegeman in Yizhou's territories had suddenly increased.
Not only had the original 101 territories been developed and upgraded to Town Level 1 Territories, Yang Rui had also established 49 territories in the Eastern Savage Tribe region of Yizhou, increasing the number of territories in Yizhou to more than 150.
The construction and production of the various territories had also rapidly and orderly expanded. After the first harvest, the second season of grain and black sugar cane had already been planted. The new territories in the Eastern region mainly focused on harvesting and planting sugar cane.
When the Tree of Civilization had been planted, all the wild sugar cane on Yizhou had been upgraded to black sugar cane. Naturally, the wild sugar cane in the Eastern region had also been upgraded.
At this time, the various Savage Tribes that had occupied the wild sugar cane had been cleaned up by Yang Rui. All the black sugar cane in the Eastern region had naturally become Yang Rui's additional harvest.
After Yang Rui had established 40 to 50 villages in the Eastern region, he had even placed most of the Liegeman NPCs there. He did not do anything else and only focused on harvesting the black sugar cane.
Although the black sugar cane was already in Yang Rui's possession, if it was not harvested after ripening, it would not take long for it to spoil and lose its edible value. This was also the reason why Yang Rui had rushed to harvest the sugar cane.
With the sugarcane harvest guaranteed, a portion of it was still used for planting in the Eastern and Western regions of Yizhou and Guangling Prefecture. The rest was sold by Yang Rui at the Merchant Alliance's internal trade fairs.
For this reason, Yang Rui held many internal trade fairs and promoted the black sugar cane to become the most fashionable food for the rich people of the Three Kingdoms. Just like how Yang Rui had promoted sweet potatoes, Yang Rui had once again led a consumer trend in the game.
The price of the black sugar cane had been maintained at 20 East Sea silver coins per kilogram. In the two months of the game, the supply had not met the demand and had generated a lot of income for Yang Rui.
Yang Rui made a rough estimation. After increasing the number of sugarcane harvesters and increasing the number of large transport ships (carrying capacity of 600000 jin) to nearly 100, the fleet would be able to transport back a batch of black sugar cane every half a month. Each batch would be about 60 million jin.
In the two months of the game, Yang Rui had transported back three batches of nearly 200 million kilograms of black sugar cane.
Even after deducting the losses in the middle and the part of the sugarcane that Yang Rui kept for seed, in the two months of the game, just the black sugar cane alone had brought in more than 36 million East Sea gold coins for Yang Rui.
Although this amount of money was not considered very large in Yang Rui's hands, it was still a considerable amount of income. In the hands of other feudal lords, it was probably comparable to the total wealth of many people.
It had to be known that this number was calculated in East Sea gold coins. At the current exchange rate of East Sea gold coins to game coins, the total value was equivalent to about 100 million game coins.
This was the benefit of monopolizing a treasure island.
Of course, this also required enough transport capacity to transfer labor and carry out the sugarcane harvesting. At the same time, it also required the cooperation of the Merchant Alliance and other business networks to achieve the current results.
This meant that Yang Rui had enough large transport ships, as well as the Merchant Alliance and other business channels. If it were other feudal lords or powers, they probably would not be able to convert the sugarcane into money even if they had a treasure mountain.
Speaking of the exchange rate of East Sea gold coins, it was also necessary to mention the exchange rate of Flying Dragon coins in the Nihon civilization's Kingdom War City.
More than a month after opening the Yizhou route, Yang Rui had officially opened the exchange rate of Flying Dragon coins in the Nihon civilization's Kingdom War City. After more than ten days, he announced that Flying Dragon coins would gradually become the only currency in the Kingdom War City.
Although Yang Rui did not set a time limit, because the trade with the Nihon civilization's Kingdom War City was still in the expansion stage, it was not suitable to have too many restrictions. Instead, it might affect the stability of trade.
However, Yang Rui naturally would not let the Nihon civilization's Kingdom War City take advantage of this. He took the exchange rate of Flying Dragon coins in the Kingdom War City with the purpose of using the change in exchange rate to gain benefits in the Nihon civilization's Kingdom War City.
As a result, Yang Rui set a time difference between the opening of the exchange rate of Flying Dragon coins and announcing it as the currency of trade. During this time, he wanted to pull up the exchange rate of Flying Dragon coins, which had fallen to the bottom, back up.
For this reason, Yang Rui did not make any announcements after opening the exchange rate of Flying Dragon coins. Because it was not the first time Flying Dragon coins were released, there were no related system notifications.
Moreover, Yang Rui had arranged the Flying Dragon coins exchange place very discreetly. The style of the place looked more like a teahouse. The number of Flying Dragon coins that could be exchanged at the same time was very limited. He had also arranged for Wako Uesugi's people to exchange at a time in advance.
As a result, the small amount of Flying Dragon coins that Yang Rui put in could not fall into the hands of others, and the exchange rate of Flying Dragon coins was quickly pulled up.
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