Gaia sixth year, 30th December. A system announcement resounded throughout the world.
"World Announcement: On the sixth anniversary of 'Earth On's' launch, the game will undergo its seventh update. It will take effect immediately. For the details, please log on to the official website."
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The moment the announcement was made, Ouyang Shuo logged into the official website as usual to check the update.
[1] Cancellation of refugee respawn.
Since the global situation was basically settled, Gaia had decided to cancel refugee respawn. If the territories wanted to increase their population, other than natural growth, they could only wage war.
To a dynasty, population meant labor.
Regardless of the era, labor was the foundation of a country's development. Gaia's cancellation of refugee respawn had a greater impact on a dynasty with a larger territory.
Among them, the Great Xia Dynasty was naturally the largest.
With the Great Xia Dynasty's latest territory map, the number of refugees respawned in a year was close to a hundred million. By cancelling refugee respawn, the Great Xia's population growth would rapidly slow down.
This also meant that the dynasty would not be able to support an army of nearly seven million for long periods of time.
Although Ouyang Shuo was depressed, Gaia's move could not find any loopholes. The reason was also very sufficient. Since they wanted to make the game world more realistic, a bug like refugee respawn should not exist.
The various territories had also reached a stage where they went from pursuing speed of development to pursuing quality.
[2] Change the setting of the trial grounds.
Ever since Gaia's seventh year, after a country was destroyed, the country's players would no longer be sent to the trial grounds. Instead, they would receive the same treatment as NPCs. They could either surrender or seek refuge with other dynasties.
Such a setting reduced the difficulty of destroying a country in theory.
The premise was that the two countries had commonalities in terms of civilization. If not, it would be very difficult.
Gaia's move also made up for the slowdown in population growth caused by the cancellation of refugee respawn to a certain extent. As long as it was used properly, the massive player base would still be an inexhaustible treasure trove of human resources for the territories.
Ouyang Shuo could not help but guess. Could it be that the legendary trial grounds were already filled with players from destroyed countries? Was that why Gaia cancelled the setting?
The mysterious veil of the trial ground had yet to be unveiled.
[3] Change the setting of monster nests.
Once the beasts leave their nests, they would no longer swarm outwards. It was very likely that they would use the nests as the center and establish a fixed territory, slowly encroaching on the surrounding territories.
This meant that the monsters would become smarter and harder to deal with.
In the foreseeable future, the wilderness would soon have lands such as Magical Beast Forest, Magical Beast Mountain Range, Magical Beast Valley, and Magical Beast Swamp.
At the same time, adventurer players would also have a good place to go.
[4] Open up the results of the first industrial revolution.
Removing the restrictions of the first industrial revolution skill tree, as long as one had the corresponding research and development capabilities, they would be able to develop the relevant products and technologies of that period.
The First Industrial Revolution began with the invention of the working machine, and was marked by the widespread use of the steam engine as a power engine. The factory system replaced the manual workshop, and the machinery replaced manual labor. It set off a revolution in the textile industry, metallurgy, coal mining, agricultural chemistry, and railway transportation industries.
Looms, steam engines, steam locomotives, steam ships, cotton pulverizers, sewing machines, tractors, and other industrial products and technologies were introduced one after another.
What Gaia wanted to promote was the spread of these technologies. It wanted to advance the wilderness from an agricultural civilization to an industrial civilization, completely subverting and changing the global landscape.
Ouyang Shuo rejoiced, rejoiced that he had started promoting full industrialization as early as the beginning of the year.
From then on, apart from war, there would also be a round of technological and economic competition.
Any Lord with the slightest bit of brains would realize that as Gaia opened the floodgates to industrial technology, it would definitely lift the skill tree restrictions of the second or even the third industrial revolution.
Before that, whichever dynasty had more technicians and technology reserves, that dynasty would be one step ahead of the others.
The above four items were the full contents of this round of updates. There were no new expansion packs released, indicating that the game world Gaia was building was becoming more and more perfect.
Gaia would also gradually reduce its interference in the game world, allowing it to evolve.
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Shanhai City, Royal Palace.
Another year had passed. Ouyang Shuo stayed alone in the royal study, reflecting on the past year.
Ever since the Federation disintegrated and Skynet took over everything, Ouyang Shuo was relieved of the heavy burden in his heart despite having two opponents, the Azure Badge and the Silver Hand.
Externally, although the Moroca Province had fallen, they had successively conquered Johor, Pyu, the three islands of Java, and Ethiopia. Including the Maldives County, Hawaii County, and Hawaii County, the results were plentiful.
Internally, they were even more powerful. They had successively conquered the Han and Qing Kingdoms, subdued the Jin, Sui, Shu, and Xixia Kingdoms. Together with Xiong Ba and Battle Wolf, the unification of China was unstoppable.
The constant expansion of their territory was an increase in military strength, population, and resources.
After a year of hard work, the Grand Xia had achieved major breakthroughs in both internal and external affairs. They had initially broken free from the restraints of the Silver Hand and the Azure Badge, establishing a stable rear.
Even so, Ouyang Shuo did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
The seventh year of Gaia would be a year filled with opportunities and challenges. They needed to continue forging ahead.
Internally, they had to speed up the pace of unification to create the conditions for optimizing the size of the army. Externally, they had to use the African and American battlefields as a medium to open up the path to global hegemony.
Other than expansion, internal affairs were also of utmost importance.
Ouyang Shuo had a long way to go to govern a large empire and prevent it from deviating from its course.
Especially with the wave of industrialization, the Grand Xia was bound to make changes. They had to mobilize all resources, stimulate internal motivation, optimize the industrial structure, and solidify the foundation of the empire.
In addition, with the rise of the new social class and the new aristocrats, it was a huge test for Ouyang Shuo to balance the various factions to prevent internal strife and unite against external enemies.
The territory of an enormous Dynasty was more than 5,000km, and its subjects numbered in the hundreds of millions. Not to mention understanding the feelings of the people, even if Ouyang Shuo wanted to inspect the territory like he did in the past, it was already impossible for him to do so.
What Ouyang Shuo could rely on was the Grand Xia's civil and military groups.
Historical talents, aboriginals, players, commoners, aristocratic families, Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, foreign relatives, royal family, Han Clan, foreign clans, central clans, overseas clans.
In the present Grand Xia, from the confrontation between the two super groups, the civil and military, to the showdown between the different dynasties and provinces, there were factions within factions and clans within clans. It was intricate and complicated as they weaved a large net.
Ouyang Shuo was entrenched at the central node of the large net.
To this day, Ouyang Shuo was only in his early thirties. Looking at the history of China, he was definitely the youngest founding emperor. He was also the one with the heaviest burden.
Don't be fooled by Ouyang Shuo's triumphant progress. With Ouyang Shuo presiding over the capital, he had civil officials to assist him internally and generals to serve him externally. He could enjoy the glory alone, but who could understand his hard work?
As long as Ouyang Shuo was in the capital, he would read memorials late into the night. He would stay up all night, racking his brains, not daring to relax at all.
It was not an exaggeration to describe it as' treading on thin ice '.
Such hard work was not only a rare experience, but also a responsibility that could not be shirked.
Ordinary players, even top-tier players like Blood Romance, would never be able to imagine that an emperor like Ouyang Shuo stood on a completely different level from them.
It could even be said that they were two completely different worlds.
Ouyang Shuo was strong not only because of his outstanding talent, but also because of his constant training over the past six years.
The environment was the best at tempering people.
Ouyang Shuo's position was something that countless heroes dreamed of. It was equivalent to Gaia mobilizing a large amount of resources from the game world to nurture Ouyang Shuo's talent.
Hundreds of historical talents, hundreds of millions of subjects, and even a large number of players could be seen as Ouyang Shuo's sparring partners. They pushed Ouyang Shuo from a commoner to where he was today.
This was both an opportunity and a furnace for smelting steel.
Only after a hundred tempering could one achieve success.
Although Ouyang Shuo did not forget his original intentions, he had no choice but to shoulder the heavy burden of spreading the Chinese civilization to the entire world, making it the future hope of Planet Earth.
Ouyang Shuo was also a mortal, so he naturally had his fears.
From Gaia's fifth year onwards, Ouyang Shuo's advantage of being reborn no longer existed. He had to focus 120% and study seriously. He pondered day and night, continuing to point out the direction for the Great Xia Dynasty.
He was constantly worried that he would bring irreparable losses to the Great Xia due to his mistakes.
Outsiders only knew that the Great Xia Dynasty was smooth sailing, as though the heavens were helping them. Little did they know that in order to formulate a development strategy for the dynasty, Ouyang Shuo had suffered insomnia day and night.
Only his wife, Song Jia, knew a thing or two about it.
For this, Song Jia had already resigned from all her external positions. She had given up her dreams of being an entertainment pontiff. She was willing to be the woman behind Ouyang Shuo, managing the harem and creating a small world for Ouyang Shuo to rest in.
The couple helped each other in times of need.
The path of an emperor was never just filled with flowers and wine. It was filled with thorns, torment, loneliness, and choices. It was a representation of abandoning one's personal desires.
Just as Ouyang Shuo was deep in thought, a clear voice came from outside the door. "Brother!" It was like a clear spring that washed away the gloominess in the room.
It was also like a ray of sunlight that shot into Ouyang Shuo's heart. It made him subconsciously reveal a smile.
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