The five basic buildings in the second-level county town, the theater building is automatically generated, and the Shanchuan Altar, Sheji Altar, and Li Altar can be built as long as there are architectural drawings. The most troublesome thing should be the chess academy, which requires chess players, which requires luck.
For the basic buildings of the second-level county, the market price of each architectural blueprint is 500 gold coins.
This kind of architectural drawings, including the basic architectural drawings of the previous first-level county towns, have been difficult to obtain from the bandit camp. Because of this kind of cultural buildings, there is basically no relationship with rogues. Therefore, the mixed brigade's previous banditry operations did not obtain even a usable architectural drawing.
Therefore, the purchase of architectural blueprints in a second-level county requires 2,000 gold coins.
The population limit of the second-level county has been raised to 50,000. According to the refresh rate of refugees in Shanhai County, it will theoretically take 100 days to reach full population again. Therefore, Ouyang Shuo must use other channels to plunder the population.
Of course, for other lords, there is still a big hurdle to be promoted to the third-level county seat, and that is the restriction on titles. Among the first-tier counties in China, apart from Ouyang Shuo, Lord Chunshen, Phoenix Prisoner, Wolf Warrior, and Bai Hua were all second-tier earls. Among them, the second-class earls of Wolf Warrior and Bai Hua were able to rise up by relying on the meritorious service rewarded when they were promoted to the first-level county seat.
To be promoted from a second-class earl to a first-class earl, 12,800 merit points are required. On the main map, it is almost impossible to obtain so many merit points. Therefore, they are still far from the first-class earl.
That is to say, even if Chunshen Jun and Wolf Warriors use players to fill the population of the territory and quickly upgrade the territory to a second-level county, it will stop here.
It is conceivable that the competition for the next campaign mission will be even more intense.
The restrictions on titles also play a role in the recent batch of lords who have been rapidly promoted to the first-tier townships. This group of lord players, from the beginning to the end, every time the territory is promoted, the system does not have additional meritorious rewards. They can only earn meritorious deeds by suppressing bandits, which is really a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, if they want to be upgraded to a second-tier township, they have to go through a lot of ups and downs.
The pyramid effect has already begun to appear. The importance of the title has also begun to attract the attention of the lord.
The territorial area of the second-level county reaches 5,000 square kilometers, while the Lianzhou Basin covers an area of 240,000 square kilometers. In other words, the area of Shanhai County already occupies 1/48 of the Lianzhou Basin. If the vast land occupied by nomadic tribes is deducted, the probability of Shanhai County bordering other territories is already very high.
Sure enough, on the second day after Shanhai County was promoted, Director of Military Intelligence Song San came to Ouyang Shuo's office.
"My lord, there is an important military situation."
Ouyang Shuo lifted his spirits and said quickly, "Speak!"
Song San organized his words before he said: "Last month, the investigation task assigned by the Lord to the Military Intelligence Division has made progress. After the territory was promoted, several territories that were still some distance away from us have already been attached to the new territory. edge."
"Tell me in detail!" Ouyang Shuo remained calm.
"Here!" Song San continued, "These territories are distributed on the east and west sides. There are five first-level villages bordering us on the west side, and three on the east side. Basically, these villages are all third-level villages. "
"How is the defense of these villages?" Ouyang Shuo was already murderous.
"The population of these third-level villages has reached the upper limit of 1,000 people, and they have one or two squadrons of garrison troops. Most of them are the most basic sword and shield soldiers, and some are even militiamen. In terms of defense facilities, they are also simple fences. To us, it is almost useless." Song San already understood what Ouyang Shuo meant.
"Then don't hesitate, get rid of them." Ouyang Shuo made up his mind, looked at Song San, and said, "At four o'clock in the afternoon, an emergency military meeting will be held to discuss the deployment. Both you and Leng Qian will participate."
"Here!"
After Song San bid farewell and left, Ouyang Shuo called the clerk, Bai Nanpu, and asked him to inform the chief of military affairs, Ge Hongliang, that the commander of the mixed brigade, Shi Wansui, and the five battalion officers of the mixed brigade, should go to the lord's mansion to attend an emergency military meeting.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting hall of the Lord's Mansion.
After Song San and Leng Qian reported the information on the players' territories on the east and west sides, Ouyang Shuo said, "How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch, these territories must be eradicated. What is the military affairs department's opinion on the specific actions?"
"What else do you think, my lord, this matter will be handed over to the mixed brigade, and it will be completed beautifully." Before Ge Hongliang could say anything, Shi Wansui yelled.
Ouyang Shuo frowned, and scolded, "What are you doing, rebellion?"
If it weren't for the presence of the five battalions of the mixed brigade, Ouyang Shuo might have spoken more seriously.
Ouyang Shuo found that ever since he was promoted to the brigade commander, Shi Wansui has become less and less concerned about Ge Hongliang, the director of military affairs. How can this not make Ouyang Shuo angry.
Ouyang Shuo absolutely couldn't tolerate his generals showing such a delicate air, even a super general like Shi Wansui couldn't do it. Therefore, he must nip this arrogance in the bud.
Don't look at Ouyang Shuo's gentle and elegant appearance, once a fire breaks out, none of the generals in the army will be afraid. Even Shi Wansui remained silent after being reprimanded by Ouyang Shuo.
Ouyang Shuo didn't want to embarrass Shi Wansui too much, so he gave him a step down, looked at Ge Hongliang gently, and said, "Director Ge, please speak!"
Ge Hongliang obviously knew it well, and it was even more embarrassing. Fortunately, the adults still trust him, and Ge Hongliang himself is not like Shi Wansui, who is quite wealthy. Ge Hongliang restrained his emotions and asked, "Does your lord have any time requirements for when to use troops?"
Ouyang Shuo was stunned, and said, "The battle must be resolved before the end of this month." The reason why Ouyang Shuo decided before the end of the month was that he didn't want to delay until July. At that time, the player's death level will be reset and all items will be dropped. As the first territory to launch a territorial war, the pressure of public opinion is too great.
Ge Hongliang nodded, and said: "As the saying goes, you must first settle down when you are fighting against the outside world. Since there is still plenty of time, then, my subordinates suggest that we first use ten days to wipe out the rogues in the newly added territory. Seeing that July is coming, the rice is about to be harvested. It is necessary to ensure that this batch of grain will not be coveted by the rogues in the territory. In addition, with the expansion of the territory, the settlements will also move out. Therefore, only the core area of Shanhai County will be developed. Only by clearing out the rogues and ensuring the stability of the territory can we add settlements and cultivate new farmland in the new territory."
Ouyang Shuo nodded in satisfaction, looked up at the generals, and said inadvertently, "Did you understand Director Ge's words?"
"Understood!" All the generals responded in unison, not daring to be vague.
"You are military generals, not pure fighters. It is important to kill the enemy on the battlefield. However, if you want to become a famous general, you must think about war from a broader strategic height, and you must have a sense of the overall situation and a big picture. Today, Ge The Director taught you a good lesson, I hope you will remember it and take it to heart." Ouyang Shuo warned again, but did not specifically mention Shi Wansui's name.
"Here!"
After the military discussion was over, Ouyang Shuo returned to his office. The territory had just been upgraded, and there were a lot of things waiting for him to deal with.
Gu Xiuwen, the magistrate of Beihai County, sent an official letter to apply for a financial allocation from the base camp to start the construction of the first city wall in Beihai County. The city wall of Beihai County will be built directly according to the standards of the second city wall currently under construction in Shanhai County, with a side length of six kilometers, a height of twelve meters, and a width of six meters.
In addition, Gu Xiuwen also asked for instructions in the official letter, whether it is possible to start the construction of the subsidiary territory of Beihai County.
After Shanhai County was promoted, the first-level subordinate territories of the three towns were able to develop another three subordinate territories, but Ouyang Shuo never agreed.
The reason is that the current Shanhai County, Beihai County, Yushui Town, and Youyi Town are too close together. As Ge Hongliang said before, only the core areas are developed, and the newly added territories have not been fully developed and utilized. , resulting in a great waste.
Affiliated territories cannot be moved. If it is said that for Beihai County, Yushui Town and Youyi Town, Ouyang Shuo has his own strategic considerations in the location selection of the three subsidiary territories, then, for the second-level subsidiary territories, Ouyang Shuo was not prepared to do such a thing. He had to wait until the territory reached a certain size before building a second-level subsidiary territory.
Affiliated territories cannot develop indefinitely downward, and the second level will end. That is to say, in the future territory, up to nine subsidiary territories can be developed. Otherwise, Ouyang Shuo would not have thought of a way to build settlements to divert the population and develop land.
The fundamental difference between a subsidiary territory and a settlement is that the subsidiary territory is scalable and can be continuously upgraded, and new refugees are refreshed every day. And settlements, what they were when they were built, are what they are. Population growth can only rely on the natural growth of the people to reproduce.
Similarly, if you attack another player's territory and occupy it, this territory will lose its most important growth and become a large settlement. The territory teleportation array will also disappear automatically.
This is also the reason why Ouyang Shuo didn't go on an expedition in advance to destroy other players' territories. Not to mention the labor force, but also constantly being harassed by bandits along the way, even if they are captured, they will not get anything except some people, which is really not worth the loss. The number of people captured in the surrounding village-level territories is not as good as that of the mountain tribes or bandit camps, which is unwise.
Not to mention, the captured population can be useful, that is, some civilians. Those special talents with ranks are loyal to the original lords, and it is not so easy to accept them for their own use.