At the same time, in the province of Burion, which is tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Black Rock Mountains, the land of 2,380 square kilometers is full of noisy and chaotic scenes.

Nearly 100 territories have been established in a short period of time in accordance with the pre-planned orientation, in order to seize the opportunity, each guild that has obtained the territory has invested a lot of manpower and material resources into this almost barren land at all costs, one by one buildings have risen from scratch, and one by one the mines have been opened up from small to large, and even in the area near the Burion Mountains, with the melting snow on the mountains, some scattered farmland has also been reclaimed, and the seeds have been sown on the tail of spring ploughing. Wait for a few months to mature.

After nearly a month of development, the Angel's Covenant successfully raised the level of the territory to a small city, and the scope of control also expanded to the entire inner city of Venaburion City, and its rapid development speed greatly exceeded the expectations of other guilds, which shows that with a strong guild as the backing of the territory, how huge the power can burst out, just one month, has surpassed Yu Bin's development for more than a year.

Of course, such a rapid development speed has also brought a lot of hidden dangers, just the population composition, even if it has the advantage of being able to attract displaced people from several human kingdoms, the new city of Venerburion is not as good as Yu Bin's Naxxramas, although the population has surpassed Naxxramas, but in terms of quality, the current Venabryon can only be regarded as a refugee camp.

As a result, the city's main inhabitants are still a large number of players, including not only members of the Angel's Covenant itself, but also a large number of adventurers who want to find opportunities in the city.

In the Lord's Mansion on the northwest side of the city, the magistrates in charge of Venapyrion are reporting the latest week's developments to the senior of the Angel's Covenant who is sitting at the long table, and at one end of the table sits Raphael, who must be present at every council as the lord of Venaperyon.

"In terms of agriculture, after half a month of detailed surveying, it has been determined that there is no suitable area for growing crops within 50 kilometers of the old town of Venabrion, and I am afraid we have to give up the plan to develop agriculture." The first to report is the player in charge of farming, a slightly chubby-looking man, and judging by his outfit, it is obvious that he is a lifestyle player.

In fact, the vast majority of players who can serve as government officials are life players, because combat players rarely have the time to deal with a lot of government affairs.

"Isn't there anything you can do to improve these soils through the purification of the druids?" It was Bell who spoke, and she was most interested in developing her own agriculture in her territory, trying to get Venabrion out of buying food from the merchants, and for this reason, she even invited a group of druids through her connections to try to improve the land ravaged by the fire elemental with natural spells.

The Minister of Agriculture shook his head regretfully: "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, Your Excellency the Deputy City Lord!" The forces of nature cannot afford to provide the land with enough nutrients for crops in a short period of time, and even if it is continuously purified, it will take at least two years to reach the minimum standards for growing crops, is the answer of His Excellency Druixenas Greenhorn. ”

"Alas, although I have expected this result for a long time, I still feel very unhappy to hear this news!"

With the expansion of the Angel's Covenant, the original Iron Triangle of Horsemanship also had to play a role in different positions according to their respective specialties, and the knight Camilla became the head of the knights directly under the territory, with a knight group of 2,000 players responsible for the daily patrol and defense of the territory, and was also responsible for training an NPC knight group of about 500.

The priest Solian served as the logistics minister of the territory, responsible for the overall management of the distribution of materials throughout the territory, which was a perfect fit for Solian, and in reality this woman was an executive of a large company.

As for the mage Tiramisu, she initially wanted to select a group of elite members of the guild to form a player's own mage guild, and use Venapyrion as the headquarters of the association, but this idea was rejected by the other higher-ups, in their opinion, this kind of self-entertainment will not have any effect except for attracting attention, so Tiramisu eventually became the deputy of the bell, and also ranked as the deputy city lord.

Lexington, who was in charge of finance, said with a smile: "In my opinion, this is good news, although the idea of the bell is good, but if you want to transform the soil, you need to invest a lot of money and strength, and the pressure on the current territory is too great." ”

"Alright, that's the end of it! Until the economy of the territory becomes self-sufficient, investment in agriculture will take a back seat! Raphael finally made a decision, "Go ahead and report!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!" The female player in charge of commerce stood up and took over from the Minister of Agriculture just now, "According to the municipal plan, the first commercial district has begun to be officially opened, in order to attract game merchants to invest, thirty percent of the shops in the commercial area will be provided to them for free, on a first-come, first-served basis, and now it seems that the effect is good, there are already six shops that have started to open, two equipment shops, one alchemy potion, one herb shop, and the remaining two are tailor shops, in addition, there are three hotels and two inns in the territory, all of which are run by the guild itself." It is expected that nearly 3,000 gold coins will be collected from these shops next week. ”

Bell nodded in satisfaction and asked Lexington, "Sounds good, you can collect three thousand gold in taxes in a few days." ”

"Actually, this amount of gold is not as big as the income from our next dungeon!" Lexington shrugged his shoulders, "What's more, in order to build this business district, we have invested a total of nearly 300,000 gold coins, and if you add those hotels and inns, the total investment even exceeds 500,000, I don't know when we will be able to recover these costs!" ”

"Take your time in everything!" Tiramisu smiled and said, "Alright, go ahead!" ”

"In addition to the commercial area inside the city, some of the ores and materials obtained from the resource gathering points outside the city are also openly sold to players through the market in the territory, and the income from this is about 5,000 gold coins per day, but with the flow of players, there may be a large fluctuation."

Next it was the turn of the Minister of Urban Construction: "The preliminary municipal planning has been completed, the drainage system, water supply system, roads, lighting, greening and housing have been preliminarily unified planning in accordance with the requirements, and the construction of the main part will last nearly half a month to complete, in addition, the sewage and water treatment facilities are still being planned, and the specific construction period cannot be determined for the time being." ”

"I hope to complete this design as soon as possible, and if there are not enough people, I will ask the bell to add thirty more people to you." Raphael was not satisfied with the progress of the city's construction, which had lagged far behind the expansion of the territory.

But in fact, the Minister of Urban Construction also has a hard time, because the Angel Covenant is not as tight as Yu Bin at the beginning, so with a large amount of manpower and material resources invested, the expansion of the territory is almost once a few days, which makes the designers of municipal construction a big headache, has complained to him many times, but as the Minister of Urban Construction, he does not dare to pour bitter water in this regard, you know, as a reward for this position, he can get nearly 50,000 US dollars per month in reality, This is much more lucrative for him than commuting to and from work every day, and if he is not dedicated to this work, more people want to replace him.

"On the military side, the standard recruitment buildings have all been completed, and the recruitment of soldiers is also advancing, the only problem is that the territory cannot meet our needs." In charge of the military is Mikael, who in reality is a military researcher with corresponding professional qualities, although amateurish.

"Don't we have that many NPC populations? Why is there not enough soldiers? Bell was puzzled by Mikael's claims.

Mikael sighed helplessly: "In fact, the people and the soldiers are completely different. ”

The recruitment of soldiers in the human territory is completely different from the undead, as a game world similar to the real world, the rules of the Entagre continent cannot allow humans to invest resources only to obtain a soldier of the right prime, even if it is an undead, it must be transformed through corpses, and if humans want to recruit soldiers, the most important thing is that the territory has a suitable source of soldiers, that is, the people.

Each soldier recruited means that the number of subjects is reduced by one, so the territory of humans is more complex and has more aspects to consider than that of the undead. How to balance the ratio of army to population is an important factor in testing the level of governance of a lord.

Recruiting too few soldiers will make the province lack sufficient defenses, and recruiting too many soldiers will make the province less attractive, after all, no one wants to join a reckless lord. What's more, every time a domain is conscripted as a soldier, it means that there is a population that cannot create wealth for the territory, not only can it not create wealth, but the additional soldiers will also consume additional materials for the territory, which will put additional pressure on the development of the territory.

Mikael explained the relationship between the soldiers and the people to the bell in detail, and after listening to it, the bell also showed a disappointed expression.

"Therefore, the mere migration of displaced people from other kingdoms is no longer sufficient for our needs. In fact, these migrated displaced people hardly have any skills, not only can they not meet the daily operation needs of the territory and undertake suitable jobs, but also because they are displaced people, all living materials must be provided by the territory, which greatly increases the burden on the territory. Mikael concluded.

In addition to the undead, the increase in the number of inhabitants in the territory of other races is actually mainly due to the attraction of the territory itself to attract those free people who are willing to migrate, and with the increase in the number of residents, the new population generated through childbirth will gradually replace these migrated free people and become the main factor in the population growth of the territory.

"What then? Or stop absorbing exiles from other kingdoms? Lexington asked, "Financially, I'm not opposed to this, the realm has already spent more than two million gold coins to settle these outcasts, and each population has almost cost nearly four hundred gold coins!" ”

"So much?" The bell and tiramisu cried out in unison, they had never imagined that these outcasts would cost so much money.

Lexington was not surprised: "First of all, to transport a displaced person from his original kingdom to this place requires a large transportation cost, which accounts for almost one-fifth of the cost!" Secondly, from the first day of recruitment, we must provide them with enough food, water, clothing and shelter, which will take up more than half of the cost, and the rest is to reassure them and train them some basic skills, at least so that they can go to the resource points as workers to extract resources! In addition, the 400 gold coins I am talking about do not include the expenses that will continue to be spent in the future, even if these homeless people become our lords, they still need to consume food, water and other materials every day, and these need to be purchased from the merchants! ”

"Oh my God! If this continues, we will be eaten poor by these guys who are waiting to be fed! The bell lay on the long table, hugged his head, and said, "President, why don't we recruit any more homeless people!" ”

"I'm afraid not! First, if the level of the territory wants to continue to increase, it must meet a certain number of people, and the player cannot count this number; Second, although it is expensive to recruit outcasts, we can at least get some troops from them, and we cannot quickly expand our army by attracting freedmen; Thirdly, and most importantly, once we stop recruiting outcasts, the preferential policies of those kingdoms for us will be lifted immediately, and we will not be able to get a steady stream of support from them like we are now, both commercially and policyly, it will have a great impact on our development, not to mention, in order to deal with these outcasts, they are likely to find other guilds to cooperate! Raphael shook his head and vetoed the bell's opinion.

This is the biggest problem faced by Venabrion, and this difficulty, Yu Bin's Naxxramas has already survived, because he relied on his own strength to develop NPC territories at the beginning, which makes the current Naxxramas have entered a virtuous circle, coupled with the characteristics of Naxxramas's territory, more and more high-quality territories will only make the development of the territory faster and faster, this is the so-called accumulation.

Faced with this problem, neither Mikael, who was in charge of the military, nor anyone else in charge could think of a solution, so the hall fell silent.

"Alright, that's all for today's meeting! When you go back, try to solve these problems, and I hope that by the next meeting, you can come up with some solutions! Seeing that the meeting was useless to continue, Raphael had no choice but to end the briefing. As everyone gathered their belongings and prepared to leave, Raphael nodded at Tiramisu and motioned for her to stay.