Chu Tian stood in front of the stone tablet of the Lord's Mansion and upgraded Xia Town to a second-level town.

Although the conditions for the second-level town were more complicated, and vassal villages had to be built, Chutian still tried his best to meet the conditions for upgrading the second-level town before the first epic battle.

"After the player upgrades your town, the direct jurisdiction will cover the nearby third-level village Xiaozhu Village, and you can choose to merge, destroy, or avoid Xiaozhu Village."

After Chu Tian chose to upgrade Xia Zhen, he faced another choice.

When Xia Village was upgraded to a first-class town, it did not directly border Kozuki Village, but as Xia Town expanded further, it had to face the problem of merging different territories.

"Merge."

Chutian turned Xiaozhu Village into a jurisdiction of Xia Town, so that there would be no Xiaozhu Village in the future.

The territorial extent of Xia Zhen began to expand, along the Yi River, and northward to Xiaozhu Village, forming a larger market town.

[Territory]: Xia Town (Level 2 Town)

[Lord]: Chutian (fourth class not changed)

[Affiliation]: Langya State, Xuzhou, Eastern Han District

[Specialty]: coarse celadon (E-grade specialty), rough copper mirror (E-grade specialty), rice wine (D-grade specialty), Yihe freshwater fish (D-grade specialty), Shandong garlic (D-grade specialty), high-quality raw silk (C-grade specialty), high-quality silk (C-grade specialty), high-grade indigo (B-grade specialty)

[Population]: 8021/10000

[People's Heart]: 75

[Public security]: 78

[Prosperity]: 3107/8000

[Administrative efficiency]: 21/100

[Agricultural Efficiency]: 34/100

[Economic efficiency]: 36/100

[Cultural efficiency]: 24/100

[City fortifications]: Intermediate rammed earth city wall (5.4 meters high, 6.5 meters thick at the bottom. Soldiers on the walls have +2 defense, which can effectively reduce the damage from bows and arrows)

[New Buildings]: Level 2 Guild Hall (increases the probability of merchants and caravans staying in the territory), Level 3 Station (increases the speed of information transmission)

[Vassal Villages and Towns]: 2/6 (Shangbi Village, Yunlai Village)

Chu Tian was somewhat surprised, because of the annexation of Xiaozhu Village, the overall economic efficiency of Xia Town was greatly improved, and the population soared directly to 8,000 people, meeting the population conditions for upgrading to a third-level town.

In other words, as long as the prosperity level increases and other conditions are met, you can upgrade the level 3 town.

The number of vassals in Xia Town has risen to six, and now there are only two vassals.

Chu Tian immediately turned the Lingyan Town under his control into a vassal of Xia Town, so that Xia Town would have a vassal territory of one town and two villages. Lingyan Town controls three more vassal villages. It is equivalent to Xia Zhen controlling one town and five villages.

The Eastern Han Dynasty is somewhat different from other civilized areas.

The territorial principle of the Holy See is "the vassal of my vassals is not my vassal", while the territorial principle of the Eastern Han Dynasty is "under the whole world, it is not the king's land".

As the lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chu Tian could directly control the villages subordinate to Lingyan Town through Lingyan Town, and even arbitrarily classify the vassal villages of Lingyan Town into the direct jurisdiction of Xia Town.

In other words, different civilizations have different ways of governing and varying levels of control over vassals.

The two new random buildings are the second-level guild hall and the third-level post station, of which the guild hall is an economic building to attract merchants and caravans to gather in Xiazhen. The third-level post station can set up sub-stations in the vassal villages and towns, and use horses to transmit information. After the post station is upgraded to the highest level, it can deliver an eight-hundred-mile emergency report.

Because of the complete annexation of Xiaozhu Village, Xia Town has many new buildings, among which Chutian is more concerned about the third-level mulberry garden, textile workshop, and dyeing workshop, which has formed a silk industry chain from silkworm raising to dyeing. Silk is a good thing, no less than a gold mine, and can bring a steady income every month.

The economically developed Xiaozhu District is likely to become the future Shifang District of Xia Town.

After the merger, the extent of the city wall was still in the original core area of Xia Town. Once an enemy comes to attack, either resist the strong enemy outside the town gate, or temporarily abandon the area outside the city wall and temporarily retreat inside the city wall. But that means the worst-case scenario - as long as there are no reinforcements from outside, being besieged is probably a dead end.

"Ding! You become the 21st lord of the Eastern Han District to upgrade to Level 2 and receive a Gold Recruitment Order. ”

The 21st second-tier town?

Chu Tian remembered that Xia Town was the 52nd first-level town, and now it was the 21st second-level town, and the ranking was getting higher and higher.

There's another Gold Recruitment Order.

Lingyan Town was merged into Xia Town, and the cavalry recruited by the second-level cavalry battalion in Lingyan Town can now be used to recruit first-order light cavalry and second-order elite light cavalry.

[Class]: Elite light cavalry

[Rank]: Second-order cavalry

[Attack]: 13 [Defense]: 6 [Speed]: 21

[Skills]: Intermediate Scouting, Low-level Mounted Shooting, Low-level Galloping

[Trait]: Thousand Cavalry Roll Hiraoka (E-rank trait, when a cavalry hero serves as the main general, all attributes +1)

[Military salary]: 3 taels / month

[Must Equip]: Inferior War Horse (Silver Level), Sword

The elite light cavalry required equipment must have inferior war horses, which are more expensive than ordinary war horses. Ordinary war horses are war horses that are not in the stream, and inferior war horses have been graded.

Chu Tian, who lacked inferior war horses, did not train second-order cavalry. He could use the second-level pastures in Lingyan Town to cultivate ordinary war horses or inferior war horses.

Raising horses is a technical job, and raising horses also requires cycles, and it will take a while from a foal to a war horse. Chutian can also buy war horses from other places and put them in secondary pastures for breeding, centralized management, which can reduce the cost of raising horses. For Xia Zhen, saving on horse breeding costs is an additional income.

Xia Town, Yunlai Village, and Shangbi Village have a population of 11,000, plus 6,000 people in Lingyan Town and three vassal villages, for a total of 17,000 people.

According to the ratio of 1:17, Chu Tian thought that it was relatively easy to support a thousand professional soldiers.

In the first epic battle "Yellow Turban Rebellion", the lords who can send a thousand professional soldiers are already great lords, and there are only a handful.

Cavalry and infantry and archers cannot be generalized. The cost of raising one cavalry can be used to raise several infantrymen.

"Ding! Achievement System - The follow-up series of achievements of 'Rich Country and Strong Soldiers' has been launched. You have completed the D-level branch achievement, 'Three Thousand Households', and you will be rewarded with a Loyal Shrine (Level 5) architectural blueprint. ”

Chu Tian looked through the achievement tasks and found that there was a series of achievements that were "Rich Countries and Strong Soldiers", the first task of this series of achievements "I am the lord" had been completed when the village was built, and "Three Thousand Households" was one of the follow-up tasks.

The current achievement system has three major series of achievements: "Rich Country and Strong Army", "Heroes in Troubled Times", and "Military Generals of Civilian Ministers", which correspond to territorial development, external expansion, and collection of heroes.

The Zhongyi Temple turned out to be a fifth-level architectural drawing, which was higher than the fourth-level fish market that Xia Zhen now had. If the Loyal Shrine is established, it can not only bring special effects, but also increase the prosperity of Xia Town, impacting the third-level town.