Now Chu Tian is still in the shock of upgrading from a first-level town to a second-level town, and he has another gold-level recruitment order and a blueprint for the construction of the Loyal and Righteous Temple in his hand.

Gold-level recruitment was very familiar to Chu Tian, and it was the first time he had seen the construction drawings of the Loyal and Righteous Temple.

[Name]: Zhongyi Temple

[Grade]: Level 5 military and cultural buildings

[Effect]: The morale of the troops in the town increases, the negative impact of the death of soldiers on the territory is reduced, and the town's blessing value is +1.

The effect was very simple, but Chu Tian knew how attractive the three effects brought by the Loyal Shrine were.

First, the morale of the troops belonging to the towns increased. Morale is very important in "Lords", as long as morale falls, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be seriously affected, and finally they will be defeated or defected.

Second, the death of a soldier is a huge blow to the soldier's family, and if there is a crushing victory or defeat, the popular will of the people in the territory will drop significantly. With the Loyalty Temple and Li Kui, even if he loses the battle in the future, the people's morale in Xia Zhen will not decline easily.

Third, the blessing value of the town affects the harvest, auspiciousness, and special products, and few buildings can increase the blessing value.

The Loyal Shrine must be built.

Especially in the next epic battle "Yellow Turban Rebellion", Chutian estimates that a large number of soldiers will be killed, and even heroes will be killed, after all, this time it is not the Yellow Turban general Zhang Min, but the 80-level Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and other big bosses of the Yellow Turban camp. Around Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and other Yellow Turban generals, there must be a group of experienced Yellow Turban soldiers, Yellow Turban Chiefs, and even Yellow Turban Warriors.

Therefore, building the Loyal and Righteous Shrine in advance can increase the combat effectiveness of the Xia Zhen army and weaken the negative effect of the death of soldiers on Xia Zhen.

What is the composition of the forces involved in the "Yellow Turban Rebellion", Chu Tian must be carefully considered.

First of all, the battalion of the sailors was excluded, and the sailors were better than nothing in the battle to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion. The decisive battle of the Han court to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion was mainly a large-scale battle in the field and a large-scale battle in the city.

Secondly, due to the limited financial resources and war horses, it is very difficult to have 100 first-order light cavalry in the pass in the early stage.

Then you can only expand the size of infantry and archers.

"600 elite infantry, 300 Xuzhou archers. At that time, 200 soldiers will stay in the town, and a total of 100 cavalry, 200 archers, and 500 elite infantry can be sent to participate in the epic battle. ”

Chu Tian only left 200 professional soldiers, and he was not worried about other lords attacking Xia Zhen during the period, because during the epic battle, all the lords who participated in the battle were in the truce period by default, and other lords who did not participate in the epic battle could not declare war on them. 200 professional soldiers were left behind, just to prevent the surrounding horse thieves, bandits, and water bandits from attacking the town.

There are only a handful of lords in the entire Eastern Han region who can send an army of 800 people. Of course, this refers to professional soldiers, and if it is eight hundred village warriors, there is a large group of lords who can take it out.

But no one will take the village warriors to fight the fierce Yellow Turban Army. Xiangyong is the labor force of the territory, and only with labor can there be output, and with Xiangyong who does not have much combat effectiveness to participate in the war, it is estimated that the battle achievements obtained have not lost much. After a battle, the future of a town is destroyed.

That's why Chutian will implement the policy of separating soldiers and peasants. Professional soldiers occupy only one population, and can exert more powerful combat effectiveness than Xiangyong, and even if they die in battle, the impact on the territory is not as great as the impact of a large number of Xiangyong deaths.

After the sowing was over, some of the farmer's labor was released, and Chutian dispatched labor from various villages and towns to the barracks in Xia Town or Lingyan Town for training according to the plan.

All the lords are intensively preparing for the first epic battle.

From September to December, the rudiments of each lord's territory gradually took shape, and they also had their own vassals. Some lords even started village wars, town wars, and annexed each other in order to strengthen their own power.

Chutian is also expanding wildly.

He sent Mulan, the strongest military general in Xia Town, to lead the existing army to sweep the surrounding villages and bring them under Xia Town's control.

Xia Zhen completely controls Lingyan Town, and there are three vassal territories, so there are still three empty territory places. Lingyan Town is a first-class town, with three vassal villages and an empty territory.

Chutian asked Mulan to occupy the nearby third-level villages, and then turned them into vassal territories.

Because of the existence of the towns of Xia Town, Lingyan Town, and Langya City, it is difficult for the nearby third-level villages to have enough population to be upgraded to towns.

It's not that the village chiefs of these third-level villages are incompetent, but that they happen to be sandwiched between Xia Town and Lingyan Town, and they can't develop at all. They also don't have an army like Summer Town that can plunder the population around.

All that awaits them is the fate of being conquered, surrendering or having their village breached.

The territory of Xia Town-Lingyan Town, with 17,000 people, is by no means something that a third-level village can compete with.

Territorial development is like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. The so-called strong get stronger, the weak get weaker, and it's hard to defeat the strong with the weak. The Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Weishui can be described as examples of the weak defeating the strong, but the gap between the weak side and the strong side is not too obvious. A territory of 17,000 people and a third-level village of 1,700 people are ten times the difference in strength.

Hua Mulan was sent to conquer the nearby villages, while Chu Tian stayed in Xia Town to attack the third-level town, and then the world's number one city.

Originally, it was not easy for Xia Zhen to catch up with Liaodong Town, which was the first in the Eastern Han District, but after directly absorbing Xiaozhu Village, which was the size of a first-class town, Xia Town had the possibility of catching up with Liaodong Town.

The absorption of Xiaozhu Village directly increased the population of Xia Town by 3,000, and a large number of economic buildings, specialties, and the prosperity of the main city.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiaozhu Village was near Xia Town, then Xiaozhu Village could only become a vassal village, not a part of the main city.

Now Xia Zhen has the capital and opportunity to pursue Liaodong Town!

Therefore, Chutian always supervises the development of the main town.

Mulan's conquest of the surrounding third-tier villages is an attempt to increase the overall prosperity of the territory.

At the same time, Chutian established post stations in the vassal villages and towns, and issued decrees to let the vassal villages build large-scale construction.

"There's also a piece of gold on hand. Anyway, it's very unlikely that the Golden Recruitment Order will recruit a historical hero......"

Because Chu Tian was one of the top 100 lords in the Eastern Han District who had been promoted to a second-level town, he received a gold-level recruitment order. The Gold-level Recruitment Order has a high probability of recruiting ordinary heroes, and a very small probability of recruiting historical heroes.

After having Mulan and Li Kui, Chu Tian's vision has become a little picky, so he didn't care much about the gold-level recruitment order. What interested him more was the Historical Hero Recruitment Order.

"Ding! Consume a Gold Recruitment Order and you gain the allegiance of Zhou Yafu, the king-level commander. ”

"Oh, it's really an ordinary British ......" Chu Tian seemed to realize something, his eyes widened, "Zhou Yafu of the Western Han Dynasty to pacify the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms!" ”