In reality, everyone's assets had already been calculated and turned into a pile of numbers. As for what these numbers were used for, the Federation Government did not announce it.
In the morning, Ouyang Shuo called Sun Xiaoyue to find out about her grandfather's gathering of scientists.
According to Xiaoyue, her grandfather had already contacted more than 20 scientists in the past half a month. They were temporarily staying in the Supreme Court under Xiaoyue's guidance to familiarize them with the game environment.
In addition, Ouyang Shuo also asked Sun Xiaoyue to do one more thing. That was to investigate the situation of the Cui family in the Supreme Court, especially the Cui family's reaction after Cui Yingyou's disappearance.
After the territory was promoted to a county, Ouyang Shuo gradually had the confidence to contact the Cui family. While Sun Xiaoyue was still in the Supreme Court, he wanted to use her as a middleman.
In the afternoon, Song Jia called Ouyang Shuo again.
Ouyang Shuo's commander's seal and letter were indeed effective and successfully moved the Song family. Song Jia and Ruan Ping's marriage had been postponed indefinitely.
After Song Jia heard the news, she was extremely impressed with Ouyang Shuo. In front of Ouyang Shuo, she increasingly revealed her feminine side and often called him.
At night, Ouyang Shuo went online on time.
After completing his routine training, Ouyang Shuo did not stay in the Lord's Mansion but headed towards the eastern district. Although the city wall had not been completed in half a month, the county's layout had been updated ahead of time.
The eastern district was the exclusive area of the bow and crossbow workshop, armor workshop, weapons workshop, and alchemy workshop.
When Ouyang Shuo walked into the bow and crossbow workshop, the head of the bow and crossbow department and the workshop's supervisor, Wu Peng, came up and greeted him respectfully: "Sir!"
In ancient society, skilled people, or craftsmen, had a very low social status. Therefore, these skilled people generally felt inferior and were very respectful towards Ouyang Shuo, the Lord. This included the Advanced Carpenter Lu Guangzhi, the Advanced Winemaker Du Chun, the Pottery Master Zhu Youzhi, and the others. All of them were like this. Perhaps only the head of the armor workshop, the blacksmith master Wang Zhuan, was an exception.
Ouyang Shuo nodded and asked: "Director Wu, how many crossbows have been made?"
The structure of the crossbow could be divided into three parts: the arm, the bow, and the mechanism. The "arm" was generally made of wood, the "bow" was placed horizontally in front of the arm, and the "mechanism" was installed behind the arm.
The mechanism that Ouyang Shuo was referring to was the most important part of the crossbow, the mechanism.
The crossbow mechanism was usually made of copper, but it could also be made of iron. It was installed in the 'Guo' of the crossbow. In front of the 'Guo' was a 'Fang' for the string, and behind the 'Fang' was a 'Mountain Gazing'. There was a scale engraved on the Mountain Gazing, which was equivalent to the ruler on modern firearms. It was convenient to adjust the angle of the crossbow according to the distance of the target and increase the hit rate of the shot.
Below the copper, there was a "hanging knife", a trigger, used to shoot arrows.
When the crossbow was launched, the string was first drawn, and the arrow was placed on the 'tooth' of the crossbow. The arrow was placed in the arrow slot on the 'arm'. After aiming through the 'Mountain Gazing', the 'hanging blade' was pulled to make the 'tooth' shrink downwards, and the string was unhooked. The arrow was then shot out at high speed using the kinetic energy formed by the rapid rebound of the drawn bowstring.
Twenty days ago, not long after he had been promoted in Shanhai County, Ouyang Shuo suddenly paid a visit to the Crossbow Division's workshop and requested that they produce a batch of crossbow machines as fast as possible. The number of crossbow machines must be no less than a hundred thousand.
Although Division Chief Wu Peng was puzzled by the Lord's strange request, he didn't object out of his inferiority complex. Instead, he obediently carried out the request.
Crossbow machines weren't like bows. The materials weren't difficult to find, and the requirements were very simple. They could be directly forged using iron ore. As for the production of crossbows, they were limited by the materials such as bowstring, cow horn, and cow hide. The production rate couldn't increase.
As the Crossbow Division had to take care of the production of other crossbows, they could only forge an additional 500 crossbows a day on average. Up to now, they had forged exactly 10000 crossbows.
After listening to Wu Peng's report, Ouyang Shuo wasn't satisfied. He said, "Division Chief Wu, we still have to speed up the progress. We can appropriately reduce the production of crossbows. After all, there isn't much demand for crossbows during this period of time. "
"Understood!" Wu Peng nodded in response.
Ouyang Shuo walked out of the Crossbow Division and entered the Armor Division's workshop.
It had been three and a half months since the establishment of the Armor Division. In early May, which was nearly two months after the establishment of the Armor Division, the Armor Division delivered 50 sets of Radiant Armor to the cavalry camp and 100 sets of Infantry Armor to the infantry camp.
These two batches of armor had played an important role in the battle of Zhuolu, shocking everyone.
Similarly, this batch of armor had suffered varying degrees of damage. The damaged armor was brought back to the main map and handed over to the Armor Division for repair. It had already been handed over to the cavalry camp and infantry camp.
After two months of pain, the Armor Division's craftsmen finally began to take shape. Now, the Armor Division had one Master Blacksmith, four Advanced Blacksmiths, 20 Intermediate Blacksmiths, and 150 Beginner Blacksmiths. In contrast, there was one Master Tailor Consultant, one Advanced Tailor, five Intermediate Tailors, and ten Beginner Tailors.
With such a large group of craftsmen, their monthly salary was 340 gold coins. It exceeded the military expenditure of a battalion, and it didn't include the consultant's fee, Mu Qingsi.
After the pain, the results were obvious. From May onwards, the Armor Division could forge 150 sets of Radiant Armor and 200 sets of Infantry Armor every month.
This was because the two batches of armor that were delivered in early May had been forged before that. Therefore, at the end of May, the Armor Division delivered another 150 sets of Radiant Armor to the vanguard camp and 200 sets of Infantry Armor to the Mixed Brigade's First Battalion.
Based on this speed, the vanguard camp would be ready by the end of July. The Mixed Brigade's First Battalion would be ready by the end of June. As for the Mixed Brigade's Second Battalion, they would only be ready by the middle of September.
In a short period of time, the Armor Division's production would not increase by much. Firstly, all the apprentices with the slightest aptitude in the territory had been searched. Now, they could only slowly search among the newly spawned refugees. Secondly, the supply of iron ore had reached a bottleneck.
The only mine in Shanhai County needed to supply weapons workshops to forge Tang swords and lances, the Crossbow Division to forge crossbows and arrows, and the Armor Division to forge armor. It had already reached its limit. Even if they increased the number of miners, it would be useless. This was because the territory was only so big and could not be expanded.
The only way was to find a new iron mine in the territory.
After walking out of the Armor Division, Ouyang Shuo returned to the Lord's Mansion and continued to deal with government affairs.
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In the following week, Feng Qingyang's Swordsman Town and Di Chen's Handan Town were promoted to first-class counties. It was especially difficult for Handan Town to rise again in such a short period of time after its failure.
In this way, China had a total of seven prefecture-level territories. There were only three places left for the top ten. It was still unknown who would emerge victorious.
Whether it was Xiong Ba's Tyrant Town, Military Kill Ripper's Asura Town, Drifting Fantasy's Fallen Leaves Town, Tao Wu's Hardstone Town, or even Dragon Seeking Town, they all had a chance.
These five territories belonged to the third tier. Compared to the first tier Shanhai County, the second tier Dan Yang County, Luofeng County, Red Blood County, Lingxi County, Jianxia County, and Handan County were a step behind. They might not have the confidence to apply for promotion in a short period of time. Especially Hardstone Town and Dragon Seeking Town, they did not even meet the basic requirements.
Military Kill Ripper's decline was within Ouyang Shuo's expectations. In his previous life, Military Kill Ripper was the weakest of the Six Tyrants of Handan. This was because the power that Military Kill Ripper represented had a natural flaw. They were a group that wandered in the gray area. Once their assets were frozen in reality, the nobles that they were on good terms with would no longer care about them. Then, they were like a chamber pot that was abandoned after it was no longer needed.
These people were naturally good at fighting and fighting. However, they were still lacking when it came to managing a territory.
In this week, Pool Town became the brightest spot in the entire territory. There was a middle-sized tribe and four small-sized tribes that had settled in Pool Town. This meant that the three tribes that were hesitating previously had all decided to leave the mountain. In addition to the initial small-sized tribe, Pool Town had an additional 14000 people in an instant.
In the southern region, of the Mountain Barbarian tribes that had cooperated with Shanhai County, only two middle-sized tribes and four small-sized tribes were left in the mountains, including the Xuan Niao tribe.
Other than the Xuan Niao tribe and the three small-sized tribes that relied on the Wolf Mountain Mine, the remaining middle-sized and small-sized tribes were all stubborn. It would be difficult to convince them to leave the mountain in a short period of time.
The arrival of the Mountain Barbarians allowed the population of Pool Town to exceed 20000 people. It was directly upgraded by two levels and was promoted to a second-class county. Zhao Dexian was also naturally appointed as the County Magistrate of Pool District.
The ambitious Zhao Dexian threw out a plan for 400,000 mu of farmland.
In Zhao Dexian's plan, Pool District would rush to open up 380,000 mu of farmland before August, increasing the size of the farmland in Pool District to 400,000 mu.
Based on an average of 10 mu of land per person, 400,000 mu would require 40000 farmers to work. At the very most, there were less than 20000 farmers in Pool District. Moreover, more than half of them were farmers like the Mountain Barbarians who were new to farming. Excluding the elderly and children, the actual labor force would be even smaller.
Looking at it, the target of 400,000 mu seemed to be a little reckless and exaggerated.
In reality, Zhao Dexian had his own plans. Pool District was using a Silver Level Village Creation Token, which increased the number of refugees attracted by 40%. This meant that 280 refugees could be spawned every day at the county level, and 8400 refugees could be spawned every month.
There was still more than a month before the second rice harvest at the beginning of August. In other words, as long as they could get through this difficult period of one and a half months, the population of Pool District would exceed the 40000 mark by mid-September.
From Zhao Dexian's point of view, it was worth it to work a little harder at the beginning in exchange for half a year's harvest. Since Zhao Dexian had calculated it so clearly, Ouyang Shuo had no reason to disagree. (To be continued.)
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