Lu Cheng has built nearly 1,000 intermediate thatched huts in the camp, but when the population increases to 1,000 people, the growth rate is obviously much slower, because the buildings and facilities need to be maintained, and they also occupy a lot of manpower, which is not something that can be bought with money, and the growth of citizens is too slow, resulting in a lack of manpower, so that he does not dare to expand the army too fast, so as not to chaos in the production and maintenance of the foundation.

"Mike, come on." Lu Chengzheng had a sad face, and shouted when he saw Mike passing by in front of him.

"My lord, what do you command?" Mike asked respectfully.

"Oh, that's right, you have a lot of credit for Operation Ruins, and I'll take your brothers to the blacksmith later to get a dwarf suit for each of you, which is an extra reward for you." Lu Cheng didn't rush to ask questions, he first won over these adventurers, he understood the connotation of adventurers, as long as he gave them enough money to work hard, he was willing.

"Ah, thank you, Lord!" Mike excitedly wanted to salute, and Lu Cheng quickly grabbed him.

"By the way, Mike, there's something I don't quite understand, and I'd like to ask you." Lu Cheng cut to the topic after some encouragement.

"Your lord, you are too polite, what do you want to know, I must know everything I know." Mike hurriedly replied.

"I just have a headache The growth of citizens in the territory is too slow, you can also see, since the number of citizens exceeded 1,000, the population growth has slowed down a lot, and now the houses in the camp are enough to live more than 2,000 people, but the citizens are only about 1,200 people, and I don't know when it will reach 2,000 people at this rate." Lu Cheng shook his head and sighed, this matter had bothered him for a while, but he didn't understand what to do.

"Your lord, your territory is very well built, and the problem of population growth may be due to satisfaction." Mike replied.

"Satisfaction?" Lu Cheng thought for a moment and asked, "What is satisfaction?" I haven't seen satisfaction data. ”

"Lord, satisfaction refers to the satisfaction of citizens with their lives, such as whether they live comfortably, whether they can eat enough, whether they have a good job, whether they are satisfied with their income, whether they have a place to entertain, and so on. If the satisfaction of the citizens is not high, then it will affect the growth of the population, and after the satisfaction of the citizens is low to a certain extent, there may even be riots, and in severe cases, the entire city will be destroyed......" Mike replied in more detail.

"Then I'm not satisfied with my territory now?" Lu Cheng asked.

"This... Your Lord, the satisfaction of the citizens in your realm is not low, but it is not high. I've been in contact with some of your citizens who are generally dissatisfied with the food supply. Now that the food in the territory is relatively simple, they want to have more food options. In addition, your citizens are not satisfied with clothing, transportation, security, income, and entertainment, and if these problems are solved, the territory should be able to welcome more people. Mike truthfully told Lu Cheng what he had seen and heard.

"Understood." Lu Cheng frowned, Mike's introduction made him understand the real reason for the slow population growth now. Previously only concerned with building houses, without considering the quality of life of the citizens, Ocean Century is a highly simulated game after all, the lower the satisfaction of the citizens in the game with all aspects of the territory, the slower the population growth will be, and there is a certain possibility of riots after a certain level.

We must find ways to improve the lives of the people and strive to increase the population as soon as possible.

"My lord, the last time I recruited adventurers, I was a little worried." Mike said again.

"Oh, how's it going?" If it hadn't been for Mike himself, Lu CD would have almost forgotten to ask about the progress of the matter.

"There is 1 high-level adventurer who has agreed to come to your territory, and 7 intermediate adventurers and 42 junior adventurers will also come to your territory in the near future." Mike said with a spring breeze on his face.

呲 ~ it, so many people!

Don't you want to rob me, there are 50 adventurers, more than all of Lu Cheng's skilled citizens combined! How the hell did you kidnap so many adventurers? Oh no, invited! Wait, I'll calculate, I'll give you a total of 139 gold coins, but fortunately, the camp's hourly income has reached 70 gold coins now, wouldn't it be bankrupt if it was still 7 gold coins?

But the more adventurers, the better, in the battle of the ruins, Lu Cheng saw the strength of the adventurers, a junior adventurer can top at least 3 militiamen, and more than 50 adventurers are stronger than the combat effectiveness of all the militias combined! It was enough to double the strength of the camp, although it would cost a lot of money.

"Well, okay, hurry up and let them come over, and promise that your reward won't be less than a copper, you can rest assured." Of course, Lu Cheng knew what Mike cared about.

Mike, who was a little apprehensive, immediately burst into excitement and happily went to abduct someone.

After Mike left, Lu Chengcheng decided to go to the exchange first to see if he could find a way to improve the satisfaction of citizens.

【World Information】Happy Zhang Xiaoxiao: The auction house sells special economic architectural drawings [pasta restaurant drawings], with a reserve price of 100 gold coins, on a first-come, first-served basis!

Belch......

Just when Lu Cheng was looking through the information of the exchange, he suddenly swiped out a piece of world information.

Pasta restaurants? That is, the restaurant, which can be used to improve the satisfaction of citizens, but will the price be too high? The reserve price is only 100 gold coins!

When I opened the auction house, the drawings of the pasta restaurant had risen to 120 gold coins, Lu Cheng thought to himself, sure enough, there are still a lot of local tyrants, look at the more than 200 gold coins in his pocket, and the seller did not set an upper limit, so he didn't go blindly to make do.

Wait for almost 3 hours to see what the price is, and grab it if it's the right one. In the past few hours, I have spent less money for the time being, save first, and after 3 hours, I will have more than 500 gold coins in my pocket, and there must be not many people who can compete with me.

The exchange and the auction house went around again, bought some urgently needed items, and even grabbed a dozen steel swords at a low price on the exchange, it is estimated that the seller set the wrong price, confused the total price with the unit price, and it was also a windfall, and got some ordinary drawings, which added up to dozens of gold coins.

【World Notice】Congratulations to American player Fightagain for becoming the first player to upgrade to a village, rewarding +1000 honor points and +5 world reputation.

【World Information】Fightagain: Long Live America! Long live freedom and democracy!

【World Information】Taro Yamamoto: Long live the Great Japanese Empire!

CrazyJack: Long live the British Empire!

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Dear players, the purpose of Ocean Century is to maintain friendly relations between colonists, because of Fightagain, Taro Yamamoto, CrazyJack...... and other 117 players violate the game regulations, the system will punish the above 117 players in accordance with the current management norms, and each violating player will deduct 2000 prosperity and be banned for 5 hours to set an example, and those who have objections can file an appeal.

【World Notice】After being punished with 2000 prosperity for American player Fightagain, he returned to the level 5 camp, canceled the reward for the first person to upgrade to the village, and revoked honor points +1000 world reputation +5.

【World Information】Chinese God of War: 666...

【World Information】Park Muzheng: If you don't die, you won't die...

【World Information】Zero:666...

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There are players who have upgraded the village, but these guys are desperately shouting slogans that can easily lead to division, and they are severely suppressed by the system. Lu Cheng looked at his prosperity, there are still more than 2500 points to upgrade to the village, the first player to upgrade to the village can be rewarded with 1000 honor points, and the limited-time invitation in the honor mall is still valid, and each limited-time invitation means at least high-level professional skills, for Lu Cheng, every citizen with advanced professional skills is a money printing machine.

Must get these 1000 credits!

Lu Cheng didn't know if he was the only player in the game with an honor value of more than 1,000 points, but as long as he won the first place in the village, he could get another high-level class, which would be of great benefit to the current development of the territory.

There are now 1,107 intermediate huts, each providing 7 prosperity points, and there is still a gap of 2,500 prosperity, and 358 will have to be built to build all intermediate huts. In addition, more farmland and farms can be built, Lu Cheng calculated, if he is fully engaged in the construction work, it will take nearly 1 day to complete the construction task, and the time is very likely to be slower than other competitors.

Is there any other way?

Lu Cheng first arranged the construction task, and then soaked in the exchange and auction house to find a possible way to increase prosperity, and after checking it, he really found an item that could increase prosperity.

[Waterwheel Blueprint]: You can build a waterwheel next to the flowing water to increase prosperity according to the construction and usage.

While most architectural drawings directly indicate how much prosperity can be increased, this one indicates that prosperity is increased according to construction and usage. In other words, it can be high or low.

After checking the price, the reserve price is 30 gold coins and a fixed price of 100 gold coins, and there is still half an hour before the auction expires, and now the price is 49 gold coins, what Lu Cheng lacks now is time, so he immediately bought it at a fixed price of 100 gold coins

There is a river right next to the camp, more than 300 meters away from the nearest part of the city wall, and the river is 100 meters wide and the water flows very fast. The river crosses the forest and joins the sea at the south side of the camp, because the growth of crops also needs fresh water, Lu Cheng arranged a special water team to fetch water from the river to irrigate crops very early, and the waterwheel can save dozens of laborers after it is completed.

After using the drawings, the body of the waterwheel only needs 1,000 units of hard wood, 1,000 units of wooden boards, 200 units of bamboo tubes, 200 units of hemp rope, 200 units of tools, 100 units of iron rods, 100 units of iron wire, 100 units of iron pieces and some small objects, which will not cost much money for Lu Cheng. The water pipeline needs to be arranged separately, and can be built in a variety of ways, the simplest is to get a bamboo pipeline, which is very cheap, and the construction period will be very short, and the more complex ones will use the ditch.

Lu Cheng thought about it for a while, because the drawings marked the level of prosperity according to the construction and use, that is, the more simple the construction, the lower the prosperity, and the prosperity gap is still very large, and the speed of building intermediate thatched huts is still slow, so it is necessary to increase the prosperity of the waterwheel as much as possible.

Then choose the most expensive plan!