After spending a month or so, Yang Rui finally managed to establish the name of the Provincial Governor's Office in the entire Qing Province. Although the various counties and counties in Qing Province were only intimidated by Yang Rui's military power and temporarily compromised without paying a huge price, at least the functions of the Provincial Governor's Office had been mostly restored. In the future, the various counties and counties would have to think more carefully about how to deal with the Provincial Governor's Office.
In fact, Yang Rui's actions were all just temporary measures. Currently, the Provincial Governor's Office had very limited power and responsibilities. It was basically impossible to control the entire Qing Province. Yang Rui could only use this opportunity to establish his authority. When the time was ripe, he would take complete control of Qing Province.
However, Yang Rui's actions of recruiting refugees and refugees were very successful. In a month, Yang Rui had recruited more than 110,000 refugees and refugees from the six counties and 60 counties of Qing Province. Moreover, many counties and counties were constantly providing refugees and refugees to Yang Rui. As a result, Zhang Ning, who was in charge of this matter, had never been idle.
According to the previous Liegeman capacity of Yang Rui's territories, the population limit of Dashan City, Weitang Town, Xiamo Town, and Wutun Town in Jiangji was 190,000. In reality, the actual number of Liegeman was more than 120,000. The gap was less than 70,000. It was impossible to accommodate so many new people!
For this reason, Yang Rui had no choice but to upgrade Dashan City's territory, turning it into a medium-sized city. The population limit also doubled, causing Yang Rui's territories to have a population of 290,000. Even with the 110,000 refugees from Qing Province, the total number of Liegeman had almost doubled to 230,000. The gap was still more than 50,000 people.
Compared to the maximum number of Liegeman (Advanced Town Level) in other player territories, Yang Rui's Liegeman population already had a significant advantage. The newly added 100,000 Liegeman also brought sufficient manpower to Dashan City. Yang Rui mainly invested them in the production of wine, shipbuilding, fine iron arrows, and other specialties. Of course, most of them were invested in the production of food.
Now that he had a stable source of population, Yang Rui's efforts in recruiting soldiers also increased. From thirty to fifty people per day, he recruited a hundred people per day in order to deal with the upcoming second storyline.
With the new Liegeman population abundant, Zhang Ning once again used the Yellow Scarf Class Change Order to create 10000 Yellow Scarf Soldiers. She then sent them to train in Penglai. At this point, Yang Rui had a total of 30000 Yellow Scarf Soldiers. Their levels were also continuously rising.
These Yellow Scarf Soldiers all had hopes of becoming a Fifth Grade special soldier – Yellow Scarf Strongman. Even though Yang Rui only had a thousand or so Yellow Scarf Strongman skill books and equipment, Yang Rui had obtained a blueprint for a special Yellow Scarf sacrificial building – the Yellow Scarf Altar. Once this special building was constructed, a sacrificial ritual could be held every seven days. After spending a certain amount of money, ten Fifth Grade Yellow Scarf Strongmen could be created during each ritual.
Even though there was a limit to the number of Yellow Scarf Strongmen that could be created each time, the accumulation was still considerable. The strength of a Yellow Scarf Strongman was probably not the strongest among soldiers of the same grade. Regardless, it was still a special soldier class. They were definitely much stronger than ordinary soldiers of the same grade.
Apart from that, after Yang Rui reorganized the three thousand soldiers he had taken from the three governors, he also filled the gap of seven thousand soldiers in the Green Province Governor's army. According to the rules, the Green Province Governor's army could have 10000 soldiers. There were no restrictions on the grades of the soldiers. These soldiers were 'unified' members of the Great Han Dynasty. They did not occupy a portion of Yang Rui's personal territory. They only needed to be recruited from within Green Province. Of course, Yang Rui had to start training them early!
Yang Rui also sent the seven thousand newly recruited soldiers to the Penglai Territory map to train. The 10000 soldiers of Green Province might belong to the Green Province Governor's army in name, but ever since Yang Rui had dealt with the three governors, all of Green Province's soldiers had been under his control. All the military forces were firmly controlled by Yang Rui. They were almost equivalent to Yang Rui's private army.
While the various counties and prefectures were recruiting refugees and refugees, they also paid a large amount of taxes. They also paid a considerable amount of military taxes. After Zhang Ning tallied it up, the total was 19200 gold coins. Under normal circumstances, such a military tax was enough to sustain the 10000 soldiers of Green Province for two to three years. This was also the most direct result of Yang Rui's efforts.
After this portion of money was collected, it could only be kept by the Green Province Governor's army in Linzi. At the same time, it was limited by the system to only be used for the soldiers of Green Province. In other words, it could only be spent on the current 10000 soldiers!
However, Yang Rui did not care too much about such a small amount of money. Moreover, the system's restrictions might not be effective. When the time came, he could just use the excuse of purchasing military supplies to purchase items from Big Mountain City. It was equivalent to taking it out of his left hand pocket and putting it in his right hand pocket.
While collecting the military tax and gathering the refugees, Yang Rui did not stop tempering his own strength in his free time. Currently, Yang Rui's Intermediate Internal Cultivation Mantra, Soul, had reached level 3 with 100% proficiency. As long as he had a suitable Advanced Internal Cultivation Mantra, he would be able to practice it immediately.
At the same time, Yang Rui had already maxed out his special advanced skill, Wild Goose Twenty-Four Forms, Soul. He had also learned the special finishing skill, Wild Goose Forty-Nine Forms, and his proficiency had reached level 3 with 90% proficiency. Yang Rui's strength was now at the peak of Advanced General!
In about a month's time, the twenty thousand sword-shield soldiers who were originally training in Penglai had all reached Fourth Grade. Their level was even higher than Yang Rui's Guard of Steel, but their combat power was still far inferior. It would not take long for the Guard of Steel to catch up and surpass them. In the end, the Guard of Steel would still be the first to reach Fifth Grade.
"I see that there are quite a lot of Yellow Turbans left in Green Province. If Blazing Sun's plan is to target the entire Green Province, we should start now and focus on eliminating the scattered Yellow Turbans on the ground of Green Province. If we have enough strength, we can even eliminate the Yellow Turbans in the neighboring Xu Province, Ji Province, and other areas of Green Province to eliminate the problem of banditry …"
After placing a large number of soldiers in Penglai Territory to train, Yang Rui, under Cheng Yu's suggestion, started to eliminate the remaining Yellow Turbans in Green Province.
Now that the main storyline of the Yellow Turbans Rebellion had passed, even though Cheng Yu intended to eliminate the Yellow Turbans in Green Province, these scattered Yellow Turbans had become spawn points for humanoid monster NPCs. Even if they were all eliminated, new Yellow Turbans would continue to spawn!
Yang Rui was well aware of this. However, he currently lacked a way to obtain skill books for high-grade soldiers and generals. Even if he couldn't completely eradicate the Yellow Turban faction, he could only treat it as farming for skill books. As such, Yang Rui didn't mention this matter. He only brought a hundred or so Fifth Grade Warriors with him and began his attack on the Yellow Turban faction of Green Province.
"System Notification: Congratulations to player Blazing Sun for successfully eliminating the Yellow Turbans in the North Valley of Yellow County. Do you wish to destroy or disperse this Yellow Turbans Encampment …"
Reality proved that Yang Rui still did not know enough about Cheng Yu. After completely eliminating a Yellow Turbans, Yang Rui was presented with two choices. Normally, there would only be one option: "Destroy or not." However, it was very likely that Yang Rui's identity as Green Province's Provincial Governor gave him an additional choice. Obviously, Cheng Yu knew about this in advance.
"Disperse!"
These Yellow Turbans spawn points, or humanoid monster spawn points that were similar to the storyline's spawn points, such as the Western Qiang Rebels or the Black Mountain Army's spawn points, were not native monster groups, nor were they associated monster groups. Destroying them would not cause the spawn points to level up, but there was a monetary reward for choosing to destroy them. Yang Rui already knew this, but Yang Rui still chose to disperse them.
Dispersing them was considered fulfilling the Provincial Governor's duty, and there was no monetary reward. However, just as Cheng Yu said, for Yang Rui, if he wanted to scheme against the entire Green Province, he would have to work hard on the environment of Green Province. Since there was an option to disperse them, Yang Rui naturally would not choose otherwise.
As expected, the Yellow Turbans spawn points that Yang Rui had dispersed could no longer spawn Yellow Turbans. There were not many Yellow Turbans spawn points in Green Province, and the average Yellow Turbans were not higher than Fourth Grade. Only a small number of Fifth Grade Yellow Turbans would spawn, and occasionally NPCs with the strength of Beginner General and above would appear. However, the Yellow Turbans spawn points were more widely distributed, and there were more of them. Therefore, the hundred or so Fifth Grade Warriors that Yang Rui brought with him was enough.
In the span of ten days, Yang Rui had cleared out nearly two counties in one go. At the same time, he had obtained plenty of related skill books and equipment, including ten Basic General skill books and thirty to forty Fifth Grade Yellow Scarf Strongman skill books.
Although there weren't many of them, it was better than nothing. It was important to note that Yellow Turbans were a special force that only appeared around Zhang Jiao and his brother in the previous storyline. It was already good enough that one or two Yellow Turbans spawned at each spawn point.
The reason why there were so few of them was because of the number of Fifth Grade Warriors he had farmed previously. In truth, special force skill books were not easy to obtain. Be it the other player organizations or individuals, the number of special force skill books that they could obtain at this stage of the game was very limited. In fact, they were as rare as Beginner General skill books.
"System Announcement: Due to successive years of famine, the people's hearts have become unstable. The Yellow Turbans in the Three Kingdoms Civilization Zone have reappeared. Yellow Turbans are rampant in Hedong County, Taiyuan County, Runan County, Green Province, and Xu Province. The world is filled with war and bandits. Emperor Ling of the Great Han Dynasty has changed the position of Provincial Governor to Provincial Governor under Liu Yan's proposal. He has also appointed various officials and ministers as Provincial Governors. Grand Secretary Liu Yan will be the Governor of Yi Province, Grand Servant Huang Wan will be the Governor of Yu Province, and Grand Secretary Liu Yu of the Eastern Sea will be the Governor of You Province."
However, before Yang Rui could clear out any Yellow Turbans spawn points in Green Province, a System Announcement of the Three Kingdoms Civilization Zone arrived. The Yellow Turbans had reappeared!
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