Faced with an unknown number of giant beasts in the poisonous dragon Ze, Meng Chen could only give up the exploration of the secret of the token.

When Meng Chen returned to the city hall, the soldiers on duty to detect the map immediately reported to Meng Chen: "Your Excellency, about an hour ago, nine light spots suddenly appeared on the southern edge of the detection map, three light red light spots and six yellow light spots. However, these spots of light soon disappeared. ”

"Nine points of light? Well, I got it! ”

Meng Chen nodded, and said secretly in his heart: "Hold off for the time being, and wait until the City of Hope ......"

In the absence of external interference, the City of Hope has built up strength in a low-key and rapid manner.

It's fast to the end of April.

The harvest of the first season of grain this year has been completed, and Meng Chen is sending 800 first-order farmers to the academy in batches for promotion training.

Once these 800 Tier 1 farmers have completed their promotion, the 80 plantations will produce 2.4 million units of grain (white) per season.

At that time, the City of Hope will be able to meet its food needs by growing crops alone, even if it does not go out to hunt animals.

Therefore, Meng Chen has recently begun to think about the issue of growing cash crops.

The plantation can not only grow food, but also grow cash crops such as fruits, vegetables, and cotton.

These cash crops can not only improve the diet of urban residents, increase the popularity and satisfaction of urban residents, but also provide low-cost raw materials for tailors and carpenters.

You must know that the clothes of the more than 5,000 residents of the City of Hope now come from the plant fibers that Meng Chen used to exchange for gold coins.

This expenditure, as the number of residents increases, occupies a large proportion of the total gold consumption in the City of Hope.

Meng Chen plans to add 400 new farmers and expand 40 plantations dedicated to growing cash crops.

In addition to plantations, the resource production of quarries, lumber yards and mining sites has gradually expanded to the limits of their current size.

The lumberjacks, quarrymen, and miners of the City of Hope have been promoted to Tier 2 professions one after another.

At present, the daily output of wood (white), stone (white) and energy ore has reached 600 units, 1,800 units and 3,000 units respectively, which can fully meet the development needs of the City of Hope.

However, the increase in resource production is not all good.

Take the energy mine as an example, there are two ore veins in the mine, and one of the ore veins has faintly shown signs of reduced production under the frenzied mining.

If the Energy Vein is exhausted, the development of the City of Hope will come to a standstill in the absence of other sources of gold.

This made Meng Chen have to start thinking about how to maintain the rapid development of the City of Hope when the energy ore was exhausted.

After checking the exploitation of various resources, Meng Chen began to count the number of high-ranking soldiers in the City of Hope.

Thanks to the previous large-scale training of Tier 4 soldiers, the number of Tier 4 soldiers in the City of Hope at this time is as high as 920, of which Tier 4 Knight and Tier 4 Ranger each account for half.

Among the 460 Rank 4 Knights, there are 200 Blue Rock Rhino Knights and 260 Wild Bull Knights.

In addition, not only Tier 4 Knights own mounts, but Tier 4 Rangers also own mounts.

Since there is no need to wear heavy weaponry, the Tier 4 Ranger's mount is a better choice, and only needs to capture some dexterous and swift beasts.

Of the 460 Tier 4 Rangers, 240 were mounted on wolf beasts and 220 were mounted on antelope deer.

Due to the fact that there were too many mounts of the 4th level soldiers, Meng Chen built a beast pen again on the west side of the inner city.

In addition to the knights and rangers, the City of Hope also has ten Tier 3 Arcane apprentices, including two enchantment apprentices, two alchemy apprentices, and six mage apprentices.

After the Potions Garden is built, the Alchemy Apprentice can provide high-quality magic materials for the Alchemy Workshop and Enchantment Workshop by cultivating Potions Plants.

Potions plants come from two sources, either through seed samples provided in the Potions Garden, or by modifying and transplanting rare plants from the wild.

In order to obtain more rare plants, Meng Chen even sent a large number of soldiers out to search.

Unfortunately, the Potions Garden is still in its infancy, and potions plants are slow to grow and scarce, so the high-quality materials available are limited.

However, the enchantment apprentice used limited materials to study four practical enchantment equations, namely the primary strong rune, the primary magic resistance rune, the primary sharp rune, and the primary demon-breaking rune.

The alchemy apprentices are also not far behind, although the alchemy workshop was built late, but also researched three alchemy potions, namely primary spiritual washing liquid, primary spiritual liquid, and primary berserk potion.

As for the six mage apprentices, they are not auxiliary spellcasters but combat casters, and their attributes are three for fire, two for ice, and one for wind.

Meng Chen's request to them was simple, to strive to break through the current level and become a true arcane mage as soon as possible.

A few days ago, Meng Chen gave an order to build the fourth stage of the defensive array.

Today, there are 21,640 units of wood (white), 22,480 units of stone (white), 772 units of metal (white/green), and 1658220 units of grain (white/green) in the six tier-2 warehouses in the City of Hope.

Note: The gray quality resources that were once piled up in the warehouse, except for grain, were all sent to the trading market by Meng Chen.

In Meng Chen's resource space, he has 25,660 gold coins, 1,228 soul power, 29,800/30,000 grain (white), 100/3,000 wood (white), 100/3,000 stone (white), and 100/3,000 metal (white).

Just as Meng Chen was counting the family background of the City of Hope, two pieces of information suddenly appeared in his mind, "Knight 10 training is complete!" "Ranger 10 training complete!"

Meng Chen's spirits perked up, and he said happily: "This batch of knights and rangers has completed their training, and the training quota of these two fourth-order instructors has finally reached the number required for promotion!" ”

Subsequently, Meng Chen came to the Knight Hall and the Ranger Camp, and sent the two most experienced fourth-order instructors to the academy for promotion training.

The training of each Tier 5 instructor requires the consumption of 32 soul power, 200 gold coins, and 18 days.

Based on this calculation, the training of each Tier 5 soldier requires 24 soul power, 60 gold coins, and 12 days.

Meng Chen shook his head and sighed secretly: "In the future, the cost of soldier promotion training will be a huge expense!" ”

When the Knight and Ranger Instructor complete the promotion, more than 200 Knight and Ranger with full experience will be promoted to Tier 5 soldiers one after another, and their equipment will be updated.

After leaving the academy, Meng Chen came to the Enchantment Workshop.

"Welcome, my lord!" The two enchanted apprentices greeted Meng Chen respectfully.

Meng Chen nodded and said with a smile: "You guys continue to be busy, I'm just here to see the production of enchanted equipment!" ”

"Yes, my lord!"

The two enchanted apprentices bowed and returned to work to continue enchanting weapons and equipment one by one.