Once the beginner checkpoint was completed, Yang Rui transferred Chen Li and 30 militiamen over to guard the checkpoint. At the same time, they were farming monsters in the outer valley to level up. Chen Li, Chen Ping, and the militiamen who were the first to change their class had all reached level 19. If they had the relevant skill books, they could try to change their class to Tier-2 soldiers in no time.
However, skill books were very rare. The bandit camp in the inner valley was the only source of Tier-2 skill books in the mountain village. However, so far, only two basic sword techniques had been found. The skill books needed to level up would definitely be the bottleneck for any force to develop in the future!
Half of the army in the inner valley had been transferred away, so it was a little difficult to farm 5 companion communities. At the same time, they also had to guard against the next attack of the Velvet Stone Tortoise. Yang Rui immediately added 30 villagers with higher combat strength to Chen Ping's team. In less than half a day, all of them had changed their class to Tier-1 militiamen, maintaining the army in the inner valley.
After the adjustment of the army, Yang Rui organized the villagers to use the upgrade blueprints they had bought this time. They upgraded the sawmill, quarry, and six other basic buildings to beginner level. The rest of the blueprints would have to wait until the relevant basic buildings were completed before they could be used.
As for the intermediate market, the minimum requirement was 100 units of Tier-9 wood.
Yang Rui had noticed that there was an order for 200 units of Tier-9 Rosewood in the market. Each unit was priced at 100 coppers, after tax. Yang Rui had wanted to buy it a long time ago because the price of the wood would rise to an unimaginable level in no time. However, due to the poor economy of the mountain village, he had never put it into action.
He opened the market and searched for it. The Tier-9 Rosewood was still there. Yang Rui gritted his teeth and bought it for 10000 coppers. He immediately used 100 units to upgrade the market to intermediate level. The remote trading range of the mountain village had expanded to the entire Yan Province.
"Trading Market: Intermediate Building. Tax 5%. Allows remote trading within the entire Yan Province. Can be upgraded to Advanced Market. List of goods: …
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Following the upgrade of the market, the number of items in the Intermediate Market had increased by several times. Yang Rui naturally searched carefully and bought a few of the items with lower prices, about 1600 units. He then sold them at a higher price and put them back on the market.
Although the shortage of food in Juping County had been alleviated, it was not completely over yet. Yang Rui believed that he would be able to sell the food very soon and make a lot of money! Even if he couldn't sell it, he could keep it for his own use.
What made Yang Rui quite happy was that after searching through the much longer market items, he found two more valuable items.
"Charcoal, 200 units, price 1000 coppers, after tax!"
"Landscape Folding Fan, 1 unit, 1200 copper coins, before tax!"
Black charcoal was an important raw material that blacksmiths would need in the future. It was the prerequisite for high-grade smelting. Yang Rui really wanted to search for the seller's information, but before the system update, the market did not provide such information.
As for the Mountain River Folding Fan, Yang Rui was very clear that it had some special uses, so he did not hesitate to bid for it. Even if he didn't need the Landscape Folding Fan in the future, he could just sell it. In Yang Rui's memory, this type of item had been hyped to an unimaginable price in his previous life!
After buying the first two items, Yang Rui once again led the crowd to build a basic building, the Granary. He then used the upgrade blueprint to upgrade it to the Beginner Level.
"Beginner Granary: Beginner Level Building, a special warehouse for storing food. It can slow down the deterioration and decay of food by 40%. Storage capacity: 0/20000 units, durability: 50."
The difference between the Beginner Granary and the System Warehouse was that after storing a certain type of food, it would not be converted into the corresponding unit of normal food. It would still retain the characteristics of a certain type of food. For example, if 100 units of sweet potatoes were stored in the System Warehouse, it would become "Food: 100 units" before the system update. However, if it was stored in the Granary, it would still be "Sweet Potatoes: 100 units"!
After finishing all these, Yang Rui devoted himself to the production of sweet potatoes. He increased the number of villagers, increased the effort of reclaiming wasteland, and increased the area of planting sweet potatoes.
For this reason, in the following days, Yang Rui put all the new villagers into the planting army. Other areas that needed manpower such as wood production, stone production, fishing production, etc., maintained the original number of villagers and didn't put in any more.
On the first day of the second month of the third year of the Zhi Guang He, the area of cultivated land in the mountain village had exceeded 1000 mu. The number of villagers who were involved in reclaiming wasteland and planting sweet potatoes had exceeded 300 people. The daily production of sweet potatoes had reached 2,800 units. After deducting the consumption, the daily net production had reached 2,100 units!
Moreover, after signing the sweet potato purchase agreement, Yang Rui no longer used sweet potatoes as the staple food of the mountain village. Instead, he completely purchased food from the market to satisfy his daily consumption! Almost all of the sweet potato production had been accumulated in the Grain Warehouse!
On the first day of the first month, "A pint of incense" in Juping County had also sent the first batch of five carriages to transport sweet potatoes. The capacity of each carriage was 1,000 units. However, what they did not expect was that the mountain village had already harvested 6,000 to 7,000 units of sweet potatoes in the past few days. Five carriages were no longer able to carry all of them!
"Chief Blazing Sun, this time, A pint of incense and the mountain village have traded a total of 5,000 units of sweet potatoes. Based on the current market price of grain and according to the provisions of the purchase agreement, the total amount is 198252 copper coins. This is all the cash, please check and keep it properly! " The old butler who was sent to transport the goods meticulously took out the corresponding amount of silver and copper coins and handed them to Yang Rui seriously.
"Hehe, Butler Zhao is really serious! Of course, I don't have to worry about the money! " Yang Rui took the yellow and white coins from the butler and stuffed them into his pocket without counting them. Of course, he did not have to check carefully because the money immediately turned into a pile of numbers. It was a total of 198252 copper coins, not a single coin less!
He did not know how this pile of numbers was calculated. It was almost 2,000 silver coins. Wouldn't it be easier to settle with a round number?! Yang Rui silently cursed. However, the entire transaction was still very pleasant. This money was very practical!
The market price of grain was less than 4 copper coins per unit. Selling 5,000 units of sweet potatoes as normal grain would only fetch less than 20,000 copper coins. However, this transaction with A pint of incense increased this amount by tenfold. This transaction was equivalent to a few months of the mountain village's income!
"Since the transaction has been completed, this one will bid farewell to Chief Blazing Sun. After this, we must hurry up and push the sweet potatoes out of the market. If the market is good, I believe that we will be able to meet Chief Blazing Sun again in a few days! "Butler Zhao said politely.
"Butler Zhao, take care. Blazing Sun will not send you off! I hope that we will meet again soon! "Yang Rui also cupped his fists and bowed.
After bidding farewell to Yang Rui, Butler Zhao led the five carriages along the winding mountain road.
Apart from the coachman, Butler Zhao only brought 10 bodyguards. However, each one of them looked abnormally strong. According to Yang Rui's observation, the weakest of these 10 bodyguards was probably Tier-3 soldiers. It was even possible that they were Tier-4 and above! Ensuring the safety of the carriages was not a problem!
The strength of A pint of incense could be seen from this!
"System Notification: Congratulations to all players! Due to everyone's unremitting efforts, the number of player territories in the entire server has reached 100. The server's territory ranking system and civilization ranking system are now open!
From today onwards, players can check the ranking of the top 100 territories in the entire server, as well as the ranking of the top 100 territories in each civilization! I hope that all players will continue to work hard and achieve good results! "
Just as Yang Rui was sending off A pint of incense with his eyes, a system notification suddenly rang out. All players who were online received the same system notification at the same time. Only then did everyone realize that the number of territories in the entire server was not small!
The game's ranking system could be checked as long as one was online. There was no need to log out. Yang Rui almost immediately pulled up the entire server's territory ranking system to check:
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Rank Territory Name Founder's Civilization Affiliation Index
1st:
Petersburg Petersburg Slavic Civilization 4211
2nd: Kagawa Seiji Sato Sato Ichiro Japan Sengoku 4023
3rd: China Village Iron Blood Sword Three Kingdoms Civilization 3998
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