Chapter 2 Xiliang Steward
I grew up in the desert since I was a child, the desert climate is harsh and abnormal, the day is like being in a furnace, and the night is like an ice cellar, this is nothing, what is more terrifying than day and night is all kinds of monsters in the desert, and I grew up in such an environment. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is an ancient desert tribe, numerous, but no one knows who they are or where they came from, and in the end they position themselves as desert people, all because the desert people do not have their own writing, and their history is lost in the river of time.
It wasn't until the appearance of my family that it improved, and the ancestors said that the desert people were simple and friendly by nature, and that they could teach them how to read and write, and that all the great truths were not to be mentioned, so my people settled down in the desert tribe.
Thousands of years have passed.
It wasn't until I was born, from the moment I became sensible, that the elders taught me all kinds of knowledge, such as civil, military, city, and government affairs, and at first I didn't understand why I was taught these things, and it wasn't until I became an adult that the elders told me the origin of my clan.
My name is Li Gu, the reason why I gave the word "So" is completely the meaning of hometown, even if my family lived in the desert for a few years, we have never forgotten our hometown, which is a city outside the desert, called "Xiliang".
And our clan is the loyal servant of the Li family of the Gaochang royal court of Xiliang, so we also follow the surname of the Li family Li, the people of my clan have always served the royal family of the Li family, and also served as the steward of the lord of the city of Xiliang City, it can be said that the entire Xiliang City is the brainchild of my ancestors, and our clan attaches more importance to the Xiliang City than to the Gaochang Royal Court.
The ancestors said that one night, the army of the Celestial Empire suddenly entered the city, killing people when they saw them, burning them when they saw houses, and a group of demons who escaped alive, there were also soldiers in Xiliang City, and there were also elites, but that could withstand the countless armies of the Celestial Empire?
As a result, the Gaochang royal family escaped with a bloody road, while the people of my clan got lost with the people of the Gaochang royal family when they fled.
At that time, the Xiliang City City Lord Token was kept in the hands of the ancestors, and it was taken out of Xiliang City together, but unfortunately I didn't know where it was in the desert, and the ancestors lost the City Lord Token and could never find it again.
This has become the regret of my family, and it is also one of the most important things in my life, to find the order of Xiliang City.
Second, after admonishing from generation to generation, no matter who obtains the order of Xiliang City, our clan will send a representative to serve as the steward of the Xiliang City City Lord's Mansion and be loyal to the auxiliary city lord.
Therefore, our clan will select one person from each generation of newborn babies and use all resources to teach this baby, and when it comes to my generation, this representative is me, Li Gu.
For Xiliang City, I certainly yearn for it, but after thousands of years, there has never been a city lord in Xiliang City, and the talents cultivated by my clan are just waiting to die of old age day by day, as for me? It's no exception, I don't have to do any work here, I wait day by day, until the day I die.
Suddenly, one day, the elder of the clan called me over and told me that my mission had come, as long as I left the tribe and went south, I could reach Xiliang City, where there was a city lord waiting for me.
It was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for me, but the elders would not allow me to stay longer, so they immediately threw me the simple salute and told me to set off immediately, and I could see the eagerness and excitement in the eyes of the elders, after all, they were also selected people, but they were already old.
I didn't have much choice, I picked up the simple salute and was about to leave, and when I walked out of the tribe, my friend Goturu was secretly followed out by the tribe people, saying that they wanted to protect me.
It's good to have a bodyguard, after all, the people of the desert tribe are strong, and their combat power is outstanding, they have to fight with all kinds of monsters in the desert every day, and practice a good skill, my good friend Gotulu is of course no exception, and he is still one of the best among his peers, but unfortunately the desert tribe does not advocate individual force, the desert tribe pays attention to unity, regardless of any high and low, without discrimination.
After walking for nearly a month, many monsters appeared on the road, and they were all put down by Goturu.
Gotulu had never seen what the city looked like, and in fact I hadn't seen it, so I couldn't say why, but when we walked out of the desert and saw a city that looked like a city, and when we approached it, we saw the word "Xiliang" written on the gate, and I knew that this was the hometown that my people dreamed of coming back to.
However, this hometown is too shabby, right? The city walls all have collapsed positions, and there are no simple repairs after the collapse, no wonder the elders are in a hurry to drive me out, I'm afraid the city lord is not proficient in these things.
After meeting the lord of the castle, there was almost no extra nonsense, and I became the steward of the castle lord's mansion, and the lord of the castle did not even ask about my origins, and then began to study the issue of conscription and garrison and consolidation of the city wall.
I didn't immediately answer the Castle Lord's question, and the Castle Lord didn't mean to ask for my opinion, it seems that I only need my good help, but in this way, wouldn't the ancestors' cultivation of me be in vain?
Therefore, after I inspected the whole city for a few days, I directly told the city lord: The matter of conscription should be sooner rather than later, but you must be mentally prepared, and the maximum number of soldiers that can be recruited in the whole Xiliang City will not exceed 4,000.
The cost of building the city wall is even greater, and the current city lord's mansion is unaffordable in terms of financial resources and manpower.
And also...... More and more problems arise.
Looking at the appearance of the city lord's deep frown, I realized that it was really not easy to be the lord of a city, which was the reason for my importance.
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In the face of the appearance of Li Gu, Absolutely Bored and the others were extremely happy, but they were also facing a development problem, conscription only needed a notice, but where did the weapons and armor come from? Where will the soldiers be stationed? You can't call them home and sleep every night, right?
Li Gu means: conscription, the construction of barracks, smelting workshops, blacksmith workshops, craftsmen's workshops, textile workshops, and before the construction of workshops, there must be an iron ore factory (if there is no iron square, all iron must be purchased from outside) and the cultivation of cotton and hemp crops.
The same is very involved.
The idea of building a barracks with soldiers as a work is very good, but it is absolutely boring and faces a serious problem, funding.
The entire Xiliang City has no income, it is impossible to collect taxes from the people in the city, and the people in the city do not need the city lord's mansion to help, and the city lord's mansion has to snicker, not to mention the matter of taxation.
Originally, digging wells and sowing seeds had already used their funds for Absolute Boredom, and the rations of the people in the city made Absolutely Bored and others poorer day by day.
In the end, the breeder decided to leave Xiliangcheng and accept a heavy hire from the Juyi League to help make up for the financial problems of Xiliangcheng, and at the same time brought a large number of medicines, which were worth a lot of money, and the breeder wanted to sell them for more money.
Until, half a year later, the first army of Xiliang City was established, and the soldiers were equipped with weapons and leather armor, and they were absolutely bored to build a hundred-man guard, which was extremely powerful, using a Tang knife, and the whole body was wrapped in armor sturdily.
Normally, these 100-person guards will be assigned to act as escorts around each person, go out to combat and experience, and at critical moments, they can gather 100 people when they are absolutely bored.
Just cultivating this team of 100 people took absolutely boring and a lot of effort.
Guards with knives: Ninth order.
Weapons: Refined Tang Knife.
Equipment: Standard full-body armor.
Attribute: God speed.
This team of 100 people is not only strong in combat, but more importantly, their attribute "God Speed", God Speed has a wide range here, which represents: God of action and God of attack.
In other words, this 100-belt sword guard belongs to the fast attack type of troops.
In the early days of preparing for the construction of various workshops in Xiliang City, it was impossible to create such blade equipment, and the equipment and weapons of the entire team with knives were absolutely boring and purchased from players with real money, in order to reduce the burden of each person first, after all, relying on more than 20 people to patrol Xiliang City day and night, it was really stretched, and with the addition of hundreds of people, it gave everyone a buffer.
Originally, patrolling in a team of two people could be replaced by one person with five to eight guards with knives as a team to patrol and defend the city, and at the same time allow the guards with knives to accumulate experience.
How do you gain experience? Of course, the number of players around the outside of Naxi Liang City has increased.
While weakening the other party, you can strengthen yourself, why not?
But all of this was proposed by Li Gu to Absolute Boredom, and they were all ideas to solve the urgent needs of the moment.
Gradually, everyone realized that Li Gu was not just a city lord's mansion steward, not like an ordinary NPC, Li Gu was more like a staff member, giving advice to everyone behind the scenes, seemingly a young scholar, steady and relaxed, everything was to put Xiliang City in the first place.
Cultivating a guard with a knife in advance, it is a strange soldier set up by Li Gu in order to guard against the enemy's sneak attack at night, for the strength of absolute boredom, your brother, the five masters and others, although Li Gu has seen and understood, but have you ever seen an army where generals go into battle to kill the enemy, and no soldiers have been seen? Is this still an army? It's a bare-bones commander.
Therefore, the players who are eyeing the periphery see that Xiliang City has limited manpower, and there are only more than 20 people, and there are always negligences, and this sword guard came out to make up for this negligence.
Subsequently, Li Gu took Gotulu and ten guards with knives out to find the source of minerals, and when he left, he said bitterly to absolute boredom: Now the workshop is only in a state of preparation, and adults should focus on agricultural development, and only when there is food can there be soldiers.
More than half a month later, Li Gu came back, and at the same time brought back a hand-drawn map of the Xiliang region by himself, and marked several places on the map, namely "stone", "iron", "gold" and "silver".
There are more than ten landmark points on the map, which undoubtedly brings great wealth to Xiliang City.
Weapons and armor are inseparable from iron, and city defense buildings are inseparable from stone, and these two need gold and silver to pay for the workers and soldiers...... From that moment on, Xiliangcheng was in full swing to carry out various industrial developments.