Summoning Total War

Full text and no ads Chapter 75 Diversion Canal Irrigation

In June, the southern plain entered summer.

This spring lasted much longer than in previous years, and it wasn't until the end of May that the temperature gradually became hot. The busy construction progress in Athens continues, and the resettlement of nearly 240,000 people requires a lot of time, manpower and material resources. In just three months, hundreds of villages have been established in the Athenian territory.

These villages are attached to the towns, and the towns surround the city of Athens itself, and all the land in the territory that is close to the Nedoria River that is convenient for cultivation is developed. Each village roughly maintains a population of about 1,200 people, with a family as a unit, and each village is about two to three hundred households, separated by a distance of ten miles. Reclamation of the plain area has such a natural advantage, that is, the vast land does not require logging and burning mountains, which is convenient for the establishment of towns and the transportation of various materials.

As the population in the territory gradually turned to densification, Murphy also had to carry out a second urban planning.

The goblins, bear goblins, kobold slaves and so on captured before, now they have a busy task to hand over to them, that is, to dig out a river that traverses the city of Athens and the surrounding area. The width of the river is about Between 15 and 20 meters, the length is about 100 kilometers, and it runs through the north and south areas of the Principality. Of course, the first step of the plan will not be such a large scale. Murphy's initial plan is to develop and improve the irrigation system of the diversion canal, which will be integrated with various towns and villages near Athens.

The Nedoria River has tributaries that flow through the towns, so although this project is huge, it is not impossible to complete. It only needs to dig out a river channel for diversion and guidance, and then use a cobweb-like layout to divide a strip with a width of about three. Lead into the cultivated land into small rivers and ditches about five meters away. In this way, the irrigation canal system of the entire territory is initially completed.

In the Principality of Athens, the number of goblin slaves is as high as four to fifty thousand, and the number of kobold slaves is also thousands of scales. In addition to the bear goblin captured by Murphy, the scale of slaves in the city of Athens has exceeded 60,000. These slaves were all spiritually imprinted by the priests who led the temple, and unless they were left hungry without food, there was very little rebellion.

Because the earth has been eroded by the power of filthy death, there is now a lack of food in various places on the road, and the phenomenon of hobgoblins feeding on the same kind has appeared on the barren highlands. The situation is definitely not optimistic. If Murphy wants, he can even get tens of thousands of goblin slaves from the deserted highlands to enrich the population. But Murphy doesn't have such an idea now, because goblins are short and can't cultivate the land. Although they are a little clever, they don't have real wisdom. It's okay to let them do coolies, so the others are of little use. All text without ads

Now the number of Athens goblin slaves is close to saturation, and any more will be a waste of rations.

Although the food production in Athens has been increasing in the past two years, the rapid increase in population has also increased consumption. Murphy will also help the centaur tribe to exchange food for the horse fur in their hands. Food storage in China cannot be regarded as very abundant. After all, the food item is prepared, and it is absolutely not wrong to reserve more.

Perhaps at this time next year, after successfully completing the two-a-year farming reform, Murphy will consider increasing the number of slaves.

After all, the river to be excavated in Athens is not a grand canal like the one on the earth in the previous life. Excavating with a labor force of more than 50,000 would only take a little longer at most. For this, Murphy doesn't care too much, as long as he can dare to get the irrigation canal system before August. In the future, there is time to continue to open up these small rivers. After all, the tributaries of the Nedoria River are there, and there are many ways to continue to expand.

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The construction of cities and towns is in full swing, and the expansion of the main city of Athens is also being further planned.

Since the establishment of the Principality of Athens, the number of citizens recognized by the "Total War" auxiliary system in Athens has gradually increased. By June, the number of citizens recognized by the auxiliary system had reached 20,000. With a population gap of about four thousand, we can start preparing for the transformation of Athens from a big city to a mega city.

Now in the main city of Athens, the inner city and the port have been connected together, and the land previously reserved by Murphy has basically been constructed.

If the main city of Athens is to be upgraded to a megacity, then further external expansion is needed, building out commercial areas, residential areas, guard barracks, etc., and the future construction of the Pantheon also needs to open up areas.

The population of megacities is about 50,000. This does not include the population of the towns and villages surrounding the city, but is limited to the population living in the city. Of course, the real population is actually far beyond this scale. It is expected that when the mega city is completed, the total population of Athens will reach 100,000.

In such an era when civilization has just begun to evolve, a city with a population of 100,000 is definitely a huge project.

If you want to compare a certain famous city of the previous generation, it is the capital after the completion of the Roman Empire, that is, the city of Rome. Murphy intends to expand the scale of the mega-city to reach or even surpass that of Rome.

This is a very huge project

The time required is definitely not only one or two years to complete. According to Murphy’s estimation, it will take at least four to five years to complete the construction of the mega city. Among them, the final form of the Government House is the final form. , That is, the construction of the [Royal Palace], it takes more than one and a half years. This is still a budget under the condition that all aspects of material wealth are sufficient.

After the establishment of the palace, it not only means that this is Murphy's residence, but also means that the ruling system of Athens has been completely perfected.

The ruling hall will be abolished, and a space will be opened up in the palace as an administrative place. At that time, the cabinet assembly system will also need to be put on the table, which basically means that a complete kingdom system has been established.

Maybe at that time, Murphy will need a crown on top of his head.

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"Build walls high, dig deep pits, accumulate grain widely, and slowly become king."

This was a sentence sent to Liu Bang by Zhang Liang. Although it could not be applied to Murphy's body, it was undoubtedly Murphy's plan. Athens has a strong military power. This is a solid city wall. The southern plain is located in a special place and is surrounded by many races. Therefore, the core focus of Murphy's deployment is to accumulate food and slowly claim the king.

Food is the foundation of everything. As long as Murphy can successfully reform agriculture and achieve two harvests a year, then basically where he is, the popular support will be.

At that time, even if it completely turned against the noble council, there would not be many people standing in their camp. In this way, it is tantamount to avoiding a large-scale internal war among the human city-states. What Murphy needs to do is to resolve those stubborn elements in the aristocratic council who are not willing to hand over power. It will not damage the foundation of human city-states and excessively compromise the internal strength of human beings.

As for ‘slowly proclaiming the king’, although Murphy now has the ability to unify the southern plains by force, the loss of the Principality of Athens would be great.

And Murphy needs a little too.

That is to allow the lower-level civilians to more deeply realize the incompetence and decay of the aristocratic council, and even the middle and lower-level aristocratic classes begin to oppose their rule. In this way, the ancient order entrenched for thousands of years can be completely broken, and a new system can be established according to Murphy's wishes. Let this increasingly decayed system continue to corrupt from the inside and accumulate people’s dissatisfaction. When external pressure really comes, it will become a pure tofu.

Anyone who knows a lot about history knows a little bit.

It was very difficult to promote the new order, almost all of which were built from the ruins that were destroyed.

Whether it was the massacre used by the Qing Dynasty to maintain its rule or the turbulent ten years after the founding of modern history, the new order was almost completely implemented with iron and blood.

Unless it is time to be forced, Murphy does not want to use this **** and violent way to reform.

Because if one day he really needs to re-establish order in this way.

Then in the entire southern plains, half of the aboriginal nobles will be held under his butcher knife. Because without killing these power-controlled classes, Murphy will not be able to stabilize his rule.

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Time continued to flow, the area outside Athens was still in a mess, fighting took place every day, and death was close to everyone.

The decadent aristocratic council is still striving to support ~www.readwn.com~ under the power of the three grand princes to maintain its increasingly weak dominance. In the face of the rise of Athens, although they have intentions to hinder or have something, but they are somewhat weak, whether it is the murlocs moving south, the undead appearing, or the disputes in the southern wilderness, and the large numbers of cavemen appearing , They were exhausted, unable to shed the slightest strength.

have to say.

Although the two are on opposite sides, the existence of the aristocratic council still shared the pressure of Athens to a considerable extent, because the aristocratic council is a barrier, blocking the murlocs, the undead, the cavemen, and the underground creatures of the southern wilderness in Athens. opposite.

Perhaps they are not willing to do so, but the geographical location of Athens makes them a barrier to Athens, whether they like it or not, as long as they exist.

In 377 of the Second Age, early July.

It took nearly two months to finally complete the expansion of the Love Giant Temple, and Murphy was also anxiously waiting.

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