Lord of the People of Online Games (Lord of the Gaming World)

"The Eastern Han District really is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and everyone wants to compete for the first place."

Chutian was slightly shocked. There were a large number of lord players in the Eastern Han District, and the competition was extremely fierce.

There are thirteen prefectures in the Eastern Han District, and even the Jiaozhou in the outlying areas and the Protectorate of the Western Regions have a large number of lords.

As early as during the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had already shouted that the prince and general Xiang Ning had a seed. In the Eastern Han region, the generally accepted truth is that whoever has the bigger fist has the final say, and whoever has the right to compete in the Central Plains.

Moreover, the Eastern Han District is the largest district, and there is a high probability of a big lord appearing.

"Youzhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Guanzhong are excellent horse producing areas, and the lords in these places have huge advantages in the early stage."

Chutian found that half of the top ten lords in the Eastern Han Dynasty came from the prefectures and counties that produced horses.

These lords should already have quite a few cavalry. The power of cavalry in the age of cold weapons is self-evident.

The emergence of the world's first town in the Eastern Han District is both a good and a bad thing for Chutian. The good side is that the overall strength of the Eastern Han region has improved, and the bad side is that in the future, the "small soldiers at the border in the late Ming Dynasty" may become a strong enemy.

A lord in the Youzhou area occupies the land of horses in Liaodong. Once he is in charge of the sixteen states of Yanyun, there are not many princes and lords who can stop him after entering the customs.

But Chu Tian is not anxious.

There are so many lords in the early stage, and the gap between the first echelon and the lords behind is not obvious.

Xia Village will soon be upgraded to a town.

"Master, after the population of the village has increased, the amount of farmland has been seriously insufficient. Please order the farmland to be reclaimed, and the wasteland will be completed before sowing in October, and there will be enough food next year."

Li Kui, an official of the peasantry, interrupted Chutian's attention to the other lords.

It is necessary to have a dream, and in front of it is the problem of eating.

The food problem is once again placed in front of Chutian - the amount of existing farmland in Xia Village is insufficient.

"How much gold and silver does it take to reclaim farmland?"

"There is a lot of wasteland in the plains outside the village, and there is no need for gold and silver to acquire land. As for labor, it is enough to use displaced persons, and the reclaimed farmland will be used for them to cultivate in the future, so there is no need to distribute gold and silver. The only cost is to buy a batch of axes, hoes, etc. Iron tools for removing weed trees."

"It is also necessary to organize the villagers to divert the water from the Yi River to the newly reclaimed farmland and to dig wells. The number of newly reclaimed farmlands should be greater than the required amount so that the population will increase in the future. The implementation of the rotational farming system also requires more farmland to Avoid compromising annual yields. Half of the farmland is used for production and half is used fallow each year.”

"This is a map drawn by the minister recently after exploring the nearby fields. It basically lists the wasteland that can be reclaimed as farmland."

As a Dian Nong official, Li Kui seemed extremely conscientious, and he had already prepared a map without special instructions from Chu Tian.

Chutian took over the map. The reclaimable farmland outside Xia Village was huge, and there was basically no pressure on the land. It is estimated that when the city level is reached, the land use problem will be tense.

"You should organize the villagers who don't have farmland to reclaim new fields. The cultivators have their own fields. In addition, the sale of land is strictly prohibited for the time being, and the farmers are left on the land."

Chutian weighed it and banned the sale of land in the early stage to ensure that there would be no problem with the grain harvest next year.

"Yes."

Li Kui responded and left, recruiting villagers who wanted to farm but did not have farmland in Xia Village, and reclaimed according to the location of the map.

Soon Xia Village implemented an agricultural policy - "the tiller has his own field".

The ownership of the reclaimed farmland belongs to the lord's mansion. If a family has cultivated a piece of land for more than five years, then the family will always have the right to use the land by default.

On the premise that the family does not change the use of the farmland, the lord's mansion will not transfer the right to use the land to other farmers.

About 200 villagers followed Li Kui to open up wasteland before planting seeds in October. These villagers carried iron tools such as hoes, axes, shovels, etc.

In full swing, with high fighting spirit.

The newly reclaimed farmland will be the land of their own family in the future, and they will naturally pay attention.

Although the ownership of these farmlands is nominally vested in the lord's mansion, the title of the manor's mansion is only for the purpose of levying land tax, prohibiting the sale and purchase of land, and requisitioning land for compensation in the future.

Other than that, these lands are not much different from their own.

All in all, as long as farmers pay their land rent on time, they can farm the land forever.

The population of Xia Village gradually climbed to 2,000, and the prosperity of Xia Village also increased due to the reclamation of new farmland.

As the labor input of logging, quarry, and mining farms increased, so did the size of these resource buildings.

Finally, the fourth-level fish market was completed. The prosperity of Xia Village suddenly increased by 50.

The prosperity of Xia Village is now 504 and the population is 2021. Because of the completion of the fourth-level fish market, the prosperity of Xia Village ranks among the top ten villages in Xuzhou.

Conditions such as popular sentiment, public security, and special buildings are also basically satisfied.

Only 100 gold is left.

As a lord, if there is not enough money, there are only two options - either to loot the money of other forces, or to borrow it.

Chutian chose to borrow money. The object of the loan is not others, but the Xiaozhu Village of the alliance.

A first-level town can have four vassal villages, and Chutian plans to annex Xiaozhu Village.

If Xia Xia Liang, the village chief of Xiaozhu Village, is unwilling to accept the merger, Chu Tian can only use force to conquer her. Of course, military conquest here refers to sending troops to surround Xiaozhu Village.

With the strength of a group of brave villagers in Xiaozhu Village, they could not resist the battle to destroy the village in Xia Village.

Chutian has already greeted Xia Xia Liang in advance, and the best way is to annex Xiaozhu Village unscathed.

There are many buildings in Xiaozhu Village that even Xia Village does not have, such as mulberry gardens, commercial houses, pawnshops, security bureaus, textile workshops... These are all buildings that Chutian admires.

"You go and invite the village chief of Xiaozhu Village to discuss the merger of the two villages."

Chutian arranged for a small team of cavalry to escort the village chief of Xiaozhu Village.

It is better to make it clear face-to-face about such a major event as the merger of the two villages.

Can Xiaozhu Village come up with such a huge sum of money as one hundred gold?

Chu Tian still had some doubts.

One hundred gold is equivalent to one thousand taels of silver. In the early stage, few lords could easily lend one hundred gold.

"Can your Xia Village be upgraded to a town without a hundred gold? If you want, I can bring it to you. But you have to pay it off within a year, and the interest is one-tenth of the principal."

Summer cool to inform Chutian in advance.

"no problem."

This guy can really take out a hundred gold.

Chutian found that the economic-minded Xian Liang was simply a cash machine.

You must know that after all players are trapped in "Lord", they cannot use Earth coins to exchange gold and silver. That is to say, this hundred gold is the funds that Xia Tianliang managed to collect by relying on Xiaozhu Village.

One-tenth of the interest is 12 taels of gold, which is completely acceptable to Chutian.

By upgrading to a town early, you can conquer other villages, bringing in more tax than interest each month.