In Lower Ink Village, other than the meeting room and the residence which were elementary level, the rest of the buildings had reached intermediate level and above. Especially the blacksmith shop, which had reached advanced level! This would explain why Molin possessed arrows that were far superior to ordinary ones. After Lower Ink Village submitted to the Great Mountain Village, the advanced blacksmith shop was naturally under Yang Rui's control!
The other buildings such as the tailor shop, vinegar shop, and winery had all reached intermediate level. To a large extent, they made up for the Great Mountain Village's lack of industries and levels!
What attracted Lower Ink Village's attention was that there used to be an intermediate level barracks and an intermediate level inn. However, both had been destroyed and abandoned. Still, it showed that Lower Ink Village was once extraordinary.
The intermediate level barracks corresponded to intermediate level soldiers of Tier 5 to Tier 7. It could be seen that Lower Ink Village had once possessed great military strength! Although the inn was a common building, very few villages would choose to construct such a useless building. However, Lower Ink Village's inn had reached intermediate level. This made Yang Rui very suspicious of Lower Ink Village's past!
The appearance of the intermediate level building, Mohist Hall, had slightly confirmed some of Yang Rui's suspicions. However, Yang Rui did not delve too deeply into this issue. Now that the entire Lower Ink Village had submitted to the Great Mountain Village, regardless of the origin of these buildings and resources, they would greatly make up for and develop the Great Mountain Village's deficiencies!
If all the resources of the Great Mountain Village and Lower Ink Village were combined, whether it was the raw materials or the buildings, they would more or less meet the requirements to upgrade to a town.
Needless to say, with the purchasing power of the Great Mountain Village, even if any of the raw materials did not meet the requirements, they could just spend some game coins to make up for it! The key was the intermediate level building requirement. After combining all the buildings in Lower Ink Village and Great Mountain Village, there were already 13 intermediate level buildings and above, far exceeding the required 8 buildings to upgrade.
When Yang Rui obtained the system official position, the Great Mountain Village would be able to upgrade to a town immediately, leaving all the potential competitors far behind!
Three days after Yang Rui returned to Dashan Village, the official document from the County Commandant's Office was delivered to Yang Rui's hands as scheduled. Under the recommendation of Liu County Lieutenant, Yang Rui was officially appointed as the Pavilion Master of the (Ao Lai) Peak. His administrative office was located in Dashan Village. (The administrative offices of the Pavilion Masters at the end of the Han Dynasty were all located in one of the stronger villages within their jurisdiction!) The area of jurisdiction was 5000 square kilometers with the mountain village as the center!
A 5,000 square kilometer area was not considered small in reality. Even in the game, it far exceeded the area of a normal pavilion. However, if you think about it carefully, you will find that there is something fishy about it! The area Yang Rui was given was a few hundred kilometres around the mountain village. Almost all of it was occupied by the Ao Lei Mountain Range. The only effective area that he could use was the mountain village!
Of course, the system assumed that the government didn't know about the situation of the two villages in the Gourd Valley, so it didn't take the area of the Gourd Valley into consideration. This allowed Yang Rui to obtain some usable land. Furthermore, the official document clearly stated that the amount of tax that the Pavilion in the Middle of Peaks had to pay would be calculated according to the standards of the mountain village! Otherwise, if the government knew about the situation in the Gourd Valley, it would be hard to say how they would deal with it!
Even so, Yang Rui was still very excited after receiving the official position from the system! As long as he was willing, Yang Rui could upgrade the mountain village to a small town at any time and enjoy the feeling of being able to leave his opponents far behind!
However, the moment Yang Rui received the official position from the system, he decided to delay the matter of upgrading the town to a later date.
After receiving the submission of the Lower Ink Village, the size of the territory, the size of the population, and the amount of resources, including the ranking of the mountain village, had re-entered the World Territory Rankings and the Three Kingdoms Territory Rankings. It had even taken the first place in both of these rankings! This sudden rise had attracted a lot of attention. The official game forum had already exploded with discussion about the sudden appearance of the mountain village at the top of the two rankings.
Most of the people were just surprised, amazed, and could not help but say a few words. However, there were still quite a number of people who "tirelessly" asked and complained about this matter to the system. As the founder of the mountain village was a player from China, many people, especially on the Three Kingdoms Territory forum, had already started to search for information about Yang Rui!
Fortunately, the game system of the "War of the Worlds" was completely virtual. There was almost no possibility of the player's information being leaked. The network nodes were completely mismatched. Even if one used abnormal network methods, it was impossible to obtain the player's correct information! Otherwise, Yang Rui would have probably been dug out by people long ago, standing at the heart of the storm from then on!
Even so, players like Starlight had already had a few "close contacts" with Yang Rui and the mountain village. Naturally, there were people who posted the location of the mountain village on the internet. Although it was not very convincing, there were still many people who came to the vicinity of Ao Lai Peak to verify the existence of the mountain village!
Yang Rui could clearly feel that for the past two days, there was a continuous stream of players who appeared outside the checkpoint of the mountain village, asking for information about the mountain village! Unfathomable! However, they were all blocked outside by the checkpoint!
For this reason, Yang Rui decided to go all the way. Using the time when there were fewer people in the morning, he led a large group of soldiers and villagers to the entrance of the valley that led to the Ao Lai Peak from the outside world and directly built a primary checkpoint!
This was the third checkpoint that belonged to the mountain village. The blueprint for the beginner checkpoint was found in the warehouse of the bandit camp at the top of the mountain. This checkpoint directly cut off the connection between Ao Lai Peak and the outside world. Moreover, it was just right to guard the bandit camp at the entrance of the mountain. Yang Rui had chosen the location of the checkpoint!
Yang Rui built this checkpoint with great fanfare. Although he chose to build it in the morning when there were fewer people, there were still many players who bumped into him. However, so what if they bumped into him? The number of soldiers that Yang Rui led was enough to intimidate any player present. They could only watch as Yang Rui built the checkpoint bit by bit, not daring to make any moves.
By the time they gathered their men, Yang Rui had already cleared all the players in the checkpoint out of the checkpoint. The newly built checkpoint was already more than one meter tall. There were as many as three levels. Approximately one hundred Second Grade Archers were stationed at the back of the checkpoint. Another two hundred Third Grade and Second Grade Foot Soldiers were lined up neatly in front of the checkpoint, guarding the construction of the checkpoint.
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