After Yang Rui returned to Grand Mountain City, he sent a message to the CU Alliance. Very quickly, the other party sent someone to bring back the horses for this month's auction.
In the past ten days or so, Chi Zhong had bought over 2300 high-priced horses from Grand Mountain City's supermarket. They were all of Yang Rui's harvest from Xiliang, and he had paid a little more than 100 gold coins for the transaction. Yang Rui had only sold 1000 horses to the CU Alliance, but the transaction had reached 20000 gold coins.
In the days that Yang Rui had left, the Grand Mountain City's cavalry and Wei Tang Town's water soldiers had increased the number of Liegeman and refugees that they had collected. The number of Liegeman that they had collected from Wei Tang Town had reached 2600, while the cavalry had collected over 4000. In addition, there were 300 Liegeman that had been spawned from the special refugee camps in Grand Mountain City, as well as 200 newborns.
These sources of Liegeman were constantly replenishing Grand Mountain City and the other towns, but they had yet to reach the upper limit of the territory's population. After Grand Mountain City had been upgraded to a small town, its population limit had reached 100,000 people. Recently, Yang Rui had upgraded Wei Tang Village and Xiamo Village to an advanced town, so the population limit of the two towns had reached 40,000 people. In addition to the 10,000 people in Jiang Ji's Wutun Town, the population of Yang Rui's territory had reached 190,000 people.
Yang Rui's Liegeman population had only just broken through 120,000 people. This included the 20,000 Yellow Turban Soldiers that had been forcibly increased by using the Yellow Turban Class Change Order twice. There was still a gap of 70,000 people from the upper limit. Moreover, this was not a population bottleneck. Grand Mountain City could be upgraded to a medium town at any time. At that time, the upper limit of Liegeman would most likely double. It could increase the upper limit by 100,000 people. As a result, Yang Rui's territory still lacked Liegeman population.
It was due to the huge population advantage that Yang Rui's territory had always been much higher than other player's territories. Yang Rui's territory had always been at the top of the World Rankings and the Three Kingdoms Civilization Rankings. This fully demonstrated the importance of Liegeman numbers.
Although the other large player forces had sufficient manpower, they were limited by the number of Liegeman in their territories. These people could not belong to the same territory or be under the same person. Naturally, their territory ranking was not as high as Yang Rui's!
At this time, even if a player organization established many territories, it would not be recognized by the system as the same force. Moreover, this restriction was likely to last for a very long time, all the way until the Eastern Han Dynasty was destroyed and the era of heroes rose up.
If Yang Rui wanted to maintain his leading position, he had to make good use of this time to gather as many people as possible, develop his territory, and even seize territory to become an overlord! This was a little different from his original intention when he first entered the game, but perhaps this was the only way to finally find the answer he wanted!
Other than the considerable increase in the number of Liegeman, the food production of Grand Mountain City had also increased. Under Yang Rui's attention, many Liegeman had been transferred to the farming industry. Most of the newly recruited Liegeman had also been invested in the food production. In just a short period of ten days, the newly developed wasteland area had increased to more than 10,000 mu. The total area had exceeded 210,000 mu, and the daily food production had greatly increased.
At the same time, with the help of Sun Qian's skills and the special Dragon King Temple, the production of sweet potatoes had also increased by a large margin. The overall yield had increased by about 20%, and some plots had even exceeded 30 Lieges per mu (a 4-day cycle). Compared to the average yield per mu of the Great Han Dynasty during the drought at the same time, it was like the difference between heaven and earth!
It was worth mentioning that most of the Xiongnu captives that Yang Rui had captured were forcibly converted into Yellow Turban Soldiers by the Yellow Turban Class Change Order. The rest were mostly women and children. After they were arranged by Yang Rui to live in the residential area outside the Black Dragon Pool, they had slowly adapted to the environment and consciously began to grow crops. They were basically self-sufficient.
In fact, there was nothing strange about this. Previously, when they lived in Hetao and the north, they had already learned how to grow crops. Moreover, compared to the fanatical believers of the Yellow Turban captives, the Xiongnu captives had become neutral after arriving at Grand Mountain City. This was also an important reason why they were able to accept Yang Rui's arrangements.
Of course, apart from the food production, the other basic production of Grand Mountain City was also progressing in an orderly manner. The production of wood, stone, iron, and so on was also steadily increasing. Yang Rui also attached great importance to special industries such as wine making, warship building, ganoderma planting, fine iron arrows, and so on. The production of these industries was also steadily increasing.
The development of the territory was stable and the rear was stable. Yang Rui was relieved and went to Western Liang to farm monsters again. However, before he left, Yang Rui gave Wang Hai all the Skill Books and equipment that he had obtained. He also told Wang Hai to use them as soon as the soldiers and generals met the requirements to level up or Class Change Order.
At the same time, when Yang Rui passed by Juping County, he paid a visit to the newly appointed County Magistrate Yan. The two of them could not help but become friends. Therefore, it was reasonable for County Magistrate Yan to host a banquet for Yang Rui. The atmosphere during the banquet was very harmonious. Yang Rui and County Magistrate Yan's relationship was considered to have been established. Therefore, Grand Mountain City had one less thing to worry about.
When he arrived at Western Liang's Ledu Town again, Yang Rui repeated his daily routine of farming monsters and hunting horses. He did the same for more than ten days. As his rewards increased day by day, Yang Rui was not tired of it even though it was a little monotonous.
However, the good times did not last long. A sudden system announcement broke Yang Rui's routine of farming monsters in Western Liang.
"System Announcement: Due to the fact that the American players have completed the Story Quest, the progress of all civilizations and regions will automatically be pushed to the time before the second large-scale game's Story Quest. The system will update for 24 hours in real time in ten minutes. Players, please be prepared to go offline …"
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The system announcement came out of the blue and was repeated three times. It was a progress of the Story Quest triggered by the American players. At that time, Yang Rui was chasing after a large herd of wild horses near Joy City. However, as the system update was about to arrive, he had no choice but to bring everyone back to Joy City on his Flying Carpet. After settling everyone down, he went offline.
Yang Rui actually had some expectations for the system's advancement this time. From the time Yang Rui entered the game and the game's progress in his previous life, there would definitely be a large advancement of the game's progress before the second large-scale game plot happened. However, in his previous life, Yang Rui entered the game late and did not pay much attention to such things. Therefore, he did not have much of an impression of it.
However, now that he saw that the progress of the game was caused by the American players completing the Story Quest, Yang Rui had some vague memories of it. In his previous life, there were related topics on the forum. The main point was that the American players had a relatively simple background. That was why they were the first to complete the system update! He did not expect it to be the same in this life.
Simply put, the American players' background could be summarized as a Magic and Sword Civilization. Although they had taken reference from the data of the European mythological characters of various eras and constructed a complete background system, in terms of race settings and soldier types, this structure could not escape the shadow of the Heroes of Might and Magic Mode.
Therefore, the background of the game in the United States might be simpler compared to other civilized regions. The analysis on the forum post was not without reason. Of course, this was Yang Rui's understanding at the moment.
The game content update would take a day in real life. Yang Rui used this time to replenish his supplies in real life for the upcoming second large-scale game's Story Quest. At the same time, he moved his real life residence to the Nanwan Lake private villa in the suburbs. Naturally, Xiaohui was very happy about this.
Moreover, because this villa had not been transferred under its real name, no one knew that Yang Rui lived in this villa. Therefore, Yang Rui and Xiao Hui's safety in the real world was increased by a lot.
However, when Yang Rui entered the game again, he realized that the spawn rate of the Western Qiang Warriors, Western Qiang Generals, and Cavalry was not normal. In fact, Yang Rui could not even find the shadow of a large group of Western Qiang Rebels in a large area around Le Du City. Occasionally, he would encounter a few scattered low-level Western Qiang Soldiers. There were no Western Qiang Warriors spawning in the vicinity of Rakhan City.
This was very strange. In his previous life, when Yang Rui entered the game, Rakhan City was still a spawn point for Western Qiang Warriors. Moreover, Rakhan City was near the Qiang Tribe's gathering area. Even after the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, Rakhan City was still spawning Western Qiang Warriors. It was because of this that Yang Rui knew about the existence of this spawn point.
Currently, not only around Rakhan City, but also in the area from Le Du City to Rakhan City, other than a few low-level soldiers, the main force of the Western Qiang Rebels had all disappeared. Yang Rui thought for a long time but still could not figure it out. Only then did he notice a few system announcements that he had not checked.
"System Announcement: Due to the overall progress of the game, the Three Kingdoms Civilization Region has advanced to the 'War of the Foreign Officials' node. The current time is 28th of July, 5th year of Zhongping (28th of July, 188 years) …"
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These few system announcements were made within the Three Kingdoms Civilization Region. When Yang Rui saw the progress of the Three Kingdoms Civilization Region, he faintly realized that at this time, the Western Qiang Rebels were in a large scale confrontation with the Han Dynasty Army. This caused the main force to disappear. The Western Qiang Generals, Western Qiang Warriors, and Western Qiang Cavalry were temporarily not spawning in this area.
"System Announcement: The Great Han Dynasty Emperor Ling has issued an imperial edict to recruit strong men in the Western Garden. There will be eight Western Garden Captains. Two talents will be selected from the Western Garden's Relatives Group, Eunuch Group, Landowning Family Group, and players. They will be respectively appointed as the Upper Military Captain, Middle Military Captain, Lower Military Captain, General Military Captain, Assistant Military Captain, Right Military Captain, Left Military Captain, Right Military Captain, Right Military Captain …"
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"System Announcement: In order to select outstanding warriors from the player community to be appointed as the Left Military Captain and Right Military Captain, on 29th of July, 5th year of Zhongping (29th of July, 188 years), an arena will be set up in the Western Garden and a player martial arts competition will be held. The event will last for one day. We hope that all players will participate! Participating players can register at the nearby Great Han Dynasty territory. Once the event starts, they will be teleported directly … "
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