"My Lord, the total land area of Big Mountain City has reached more than 200,000 mu, and there are more than 36000 people engaged in farming. With Mr. Sun Qian's help, there is no shortage of manpower, and there is still a lot of surplus. The daily production of sweet potatoes has exceeded 1 million units, and it has been maintained at around this number!
Previously, A pint of incense had also increased the quantity of sweet potatoes, reaching one-fifth of Big Mountain City's daily production. However, the remaining sweet potatoes can only be stored as normal grain. Currently, the amount of grain stored in Big Mountain City has reached more than 10,000,000 units. We have also built more than 10 new high-grade granaries … "
In a hall of Big Mountain City's City Lord's Mansion, Wang Hai reported the current production situation of Big Mountain City to Yang Rui in detail. It was not until four days after Yang Rui brought Gao Shun and the rest back that Wang Hai had the chance to speak with Yang Rui alone.
In the few days after returning to Big Mountain City, Yang Rui did not stop working. The things that he had planned before were not easy to complete. Yang Rui spent a few days before he finally saw some results.
The first thing that Yang Rui worked on was the issue of the leveling resources for the soldiers. The resources of Big Mountain City could no longer satisfy the leveling needs of all the soldiers. There was a gap of about a few thousand soldiers. Yang Rui originally planned to send about 10,000 soldiers to the Wenshui Frontline from the pirate camp to Wei Tang Village to level up. However, after Yang Rui activated the "Vanishing School of Mo" brocade box mission, he made some changes.
This mission had a time limit of one year. There was no limit to the number of times it could be cleared. The first floor of the mission was filled with all kinds of mechanical beasts, ranging from Tier-1 to Tier-3. Most of them were Tier-1 and Tier-2, although they were not humanoid monsters. However, they could drop all kinds of items other than skill books.
As the first floor of the quest map was very suitable for the soldiers to grind their levels, the Mechanical Beasts would spawn once every 12 hours. Yang Rui was not in a hurry to clear the quest. He might as well use the quest map as a temporary leveling spot, satisfying the leveling needs of thousands of soldiers.
In this way, even if he did not send out soldiers, he would be able to satisfy the training needs of his soldiers. However, Yang Rui ultimately decided to send three thousand soldiers to the front lines of Wenshui. Half of them were Tier-1 militia so that they could be converted to water soldiers. In the future, it would be easier to satisfy the needs of the battleships. These 3,000 soldiers were all stationed in Weitang Village.
For this reason, Yang Rui had also continuously upgraded Reed Pond Village from an Advanced Village to an Advanced Town to increase the population limit, turning it into Reed Pond Village! After leveling up Wei Tang Town, Yang Rui realized that as a subsidiary territory of Big Mountain City, an Advanced Town was the highest level that could be leveled up.
This level limit was once again verified in Lower Ink Village. After Yang Rui had continuously upgraded Lower Ink Village from an Advanced Village to an Advanced Town, the leveling options in Lower Ink Village's attribute list had also turned gray. They could not continue to level up.
Yang Rui had upgraded both Village Level 1 subsidiary territories to Advanced Town, greatly increasing the size of both territories. Most importantly, the population limit of Yang Rui's territory had also increased, providing a guarantee that it could accommodate the increasing number of Liegeman in the future.
Another subsidiary territory of Big Mountain City – Wutun Town of Jiang Ji could also be upgraded and renamed. However, after some consideration. Yang Rui did not upgrade this territory, nor did he casually change its name.
Wutun Town of Jiang Ji was far away from Big Mountain City. Although Yang Rui had stationed troops there for a long time, if other players were to target the town, it would be in a precarious situation! The reason why no one dared to attack Yang Rui's territory was because of Jiang Ji. The main reason was that Wutun Town of Jiang Ji was very similar to other system territories. At this stage of the game, players were unable to attack Big Mountain City's system territories!
Big Mountain City's system territories were mostly open to players. However, there were also quite a few that did not allow players to casually enter and exit. Wutun Town of Jiang Ji had always appeared in the eyes of players. If players were to rashly upgrade or change its name, it would instead cause unnecessary trouble.
Apart from these three subsidiary territories, as long as there were enough buildings, Big Mountain City could also be upgraded to a Medium City. However, Yang Rui was not in a hurry to upgrade it. God knows when the next Small City would be successfully upgraded among all the Lords in the entire server. At the same time, Big Mountain City's requirements to upgrade itself were not high. Hence, Yang Rui temporarily did not upgrade it.
Of course, Yang Rui did not forget to construct the Martial Arts Hall. This building's function could allow a general's experience to rapidly increase. From there, it could replace actual combat or farming. As long as there were two generals sparring, the effect would be even more obvious. This was what Yang Rui urgently needed.
At the same time, Yang Rui had also built and upgraded two high-grade docks in the pirate camp and Wei Tang Town. He had also assigned the beggar carpenter Jiao Wenshuai and several other intermediate and advanced carpenters to specialize in the construction of daggerboats.
Daggerboats could be said to be the first type of warship that Yang Rui had obtained. Currently, they had a very high strategic value in Wenshui. Furthermore, the materials used to construct them were only Grade 9 wood, so the cost was relatively low. To Yang Rui, he could also afford to construct them on a large scale.
For a long time, Yang Rui had obtained a lot of blueprints, but there weren't many that were practical. In comparison, the blueprints for the construction of the dagger-boats were considered to be more cost-effective. Previously, Yang Rui had obtained a bamboo longbow blueprint, and it also required the use of ninth grade wood!
Speaking of daggerboats, Yang Rui easily thought of the Waning Moon Alliance. This blueprint was obtained from their boss, Remnant One. At the time, Yang Rui had signed a cooperation agreement with the other party to exchange Grade 9 wood for a Fourth Grade Sailor skill book. So far, both parties had already made two transactions. Yang Rui had used 1600 units of Grade 9 wood to exchange for 400 Fourth Grade Sailor skill books. After obtaining enough wood, Waning Moon might have already constructed a portion of the daggerboats!
The reason why Yang Rui had such a large amount of high-grade wood was mainly because he had intended to stockpile wood during the initial stages of the game to pay for the palace repair donations. This was to make a profit from the difference in price. However, Yang Rui still underestimated Emperor Han Ling and the Ten Constant Attendants. These people were only borrowing the name of the palace repair donations. What they actually handed over was mainly gold and silver. Wood was actually the minority. This also caused Yang Rui to not sell much of the wood he had stockpiled.
According to the beggar carpenter Jiao Wen that Yang Rui had taken in, his father was previously in charge of managing the donated wood. The Ten Constant Attendants did not pay attention to the management of this' rotten wood 'at all. They even punished Jiao Wen's father for managing the wood. From this, it could be seen that the goal was not the wood, but to collect money!
Yang Rui was even considering whether he should use Zuo Feng's connections to buy the donated wood from the palace! Since Yang Rui had originally planned to go to Luoyang to look for Zuo Feng, he could give this matter a try …
By the time Yang Rui was done, it had already been four days since he returned to Dashan City. After listening to Wang Hai's report on the various basic production situations, Yang Rui considered for a moment and transferred half of the Liegeman who were originally in charge of mining iron from the sawmill, quarry, and Linwen Village to the farming industry. He was prepared to further expand the scale of food production.
"My lord, you mean to gather the Liegeman to expand the scale of food production?! But now … Dashan City's food supply is enough to last for a long time … "After receiving Yang Rui's order, Wang Hai was a little puzzled and asked.
It was normal for Wang Hai to have such doubts. According to Dashan City's current inventory and consumption, it seemed like there was already enough food. However, Yang Rui knew that food would continue to be scarce and would gradually become the most important strategic resource! At least, it was the same situation after the Dong Zhuo Rebellion!
Currently, the price of food had risen from 4 to 5 Copper Coins per unit to 40 to 50 Copper Coins. Moreover, it was still rising. In Yang Rui's previous life, when he had entered the game, the price of food had been even higher than it was now. In the future, wood, stone, and other resources would be easy to buy, but food would be difficult to obtain!
Since Dashan City had a special building like the Dragon King Temple, it would not face the problem of drought. Moreover, with Sun Qian overseeing the city, the production efficiency had increased by more than twofold. It was a great boost to the food production. On the other hand, although the Liegeman had been taken away from the other basic production, with the help of Sun Qian's skills, the scale of production did not decrease. The other basic production would also be stabilized at the original level and would not be affected.
The only thing was to ensure that Sun Qian could continue to live in Dashan City! Regarding this, Yang Rui was planning to go to Green Province's administrative center – Linzi. He wanted to bring Sun Qian's family to Dashan City to ease his worries. Yang Rui had not reported to Green Province since he became the Provincial Governor of Green Province. It was a good opportunity for him to make a trip there.
"Sir, Blazing Sun has his own plans for this matter. I will explain it to you in detail when I have time. Let the Liegeman transferred over continue to expand the farmland and increase the planting area. Just do as I say."
Wang Hai was only asking out of curiosity. After seeing Yang Rui's determination, he went to arrange the crops as instructed.
Another five days passed before Yang Rui finally received the horses from the relay station. After equipping the 2,100 Fourth Grade cavalrymen (the lost ones had been resurrected with points), Yang Rui then split the cavalrymen into groups of fifty. Each group was led by a beginner general and patrolled within fifty kilometers of Dashan City.
Yang Rui's main reason for this arrangement was to search for refugees and disaster victims to replenish the population of Dashan City and the other territories. At the same time, the patrolling cavalrymen could also train at any time.
Much of Dashan City's strength had already been exposed. Moreover, Yang Rui was not worried that these small groups of cavalrymen would be targeted. With their mobility, it would be very difficult for anyone to plot against them! In fact, Yang Rui's actions were widely regarded by the players as him flexing his' muscles'!
It was worth mentioning that the cooldown of the Yellow Scarf Class Change Order had also ended. Zhang Ning had once again turned ten thousand Xiongnu prisoners into Yellow Scarf Soldiers.
Moreover, perhaps due to the dual identities of the Xiongnu, they were both herders and warriors. Their levels were also not low. As a result, the Yellow Scarf Soldiers that were turned into Yellow Scarf Soldiers were all Third Grade and Fourth Grade from the start!
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