Region: Cape (Spanish Imperial Province)

Population: 1,500 (35 people in total with a monthly population growth rate of +2.3%)

Faith: Catholic

Tax: 400 (per month)

Treasury: 500 (energy)

Lord: Levi (King)

Cabinet: Chief Minister Greene, Chancellor of the Exchequer Saul, Minister of Justice (none), Secretary of War Wilmot, Secretary of the Navy Hall

Buildings: Governor's residence, 20 traditional houses, local fishing grounds, primary fortifications, and simple roads

Army: Barbary Pirates 1 (120 people), 12-pounder bronze Falcon 1 team (24 people)

Navy: 1 galleon (175 people), 2 heavy Canary warships (154 people), 6 light Canary warships (114 people)

Recruitable: Spearmen (Sheriff's Residence), Light and Heavy Garry Ships (Local Fishing Grounds), Single and Double Brigs (Local Fishing Grounds)

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A prompt box from the system appeared in Levi's eyes, which was also the first time he began to look at his Cape Town after being reminded by Green, but when the panel on it appeared like the game interface, even Levi couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

Just invisibly, he already has such a huge power, compared to two years ago when he had a small boat of more than a dozen people, it is simply hundreds of times exceeded, this kind of change even he has a little emotion, he can't help but shake his head, and the corner of his mouth shows an emotional wry smile: "Sometimes I suddenly find that unconsciously, I have become so strong?" ”

This kind of strength is not a comparison with the outside world, but a comparison with his own before, if this can't be called strong, maybe he was still struggling on the Devoe merchant ship before, wanting to be able to eat white bread, it was really too pitiful.

Slowly reading these data to his generals, Li Wei's tone was also a little proud: "After all, we are developing at a high speed!" ”

"If we encounter an enemy, we can only barely defend ourselves."

Green narrowed his eyes slightly, and gave a merciless blow to Levi's slightly proud tone, as the chief minister, he offered his loyalty, but it did not mean that he wanted to flatter because of this, but said: "Although the data looks good, it has not yet been fully transformed into strength." ”

The three people next to him also nodded, after hearing Levi's description, the originally solemn face was slightly relieved, but the face still did not relax, as generals who can take charge of themselves, of course they knew that Green's words were correct, especially the only few army arms, which also made Wilmot, the Minister of War, look unbearable.

"The Army is now supported by sailors from the Navy, and we don't have our own infantry."

Wilmot put forward his own suggestion at the same time, looking at Levi's solemn face, there was only a team of Barbary pirates and artillery, and even less than two hundred War Ministers, it was really a little uncomfortable.

But after hesitating for a moment, Wilmot still reluctantly said his thoughts: "Although we can recruit spearmen, this kind of infantry is not of much use to us, if we can, even if we have a simple armed militia, it will be a great help for the current army!" ”

The current Cape Town is indeed a large and defenseless stage, even if there are primary city fortifications, it looks quite spectacular, but once you look closely, you can know that there are only a few patrols in charge of the huge city wall area, and the patrol team's responsibility line is still quite loose, as long as there are prepared thieves, with tools such as flying claw ropes, they can even sneak in.

The four-metre-high walls are easy for thieves, and the effort required may be to secure the claws so that they can climb quickly without shaking, causing them to fall off in the middle of the climb.

The rudimentary fortifications were a good defense against an enemy with artillery, but they were also much shorter in the traditional walls of the Middle Ages.

Of course, if Levi had enough infantry to defend the rudimentary fortifications, he would have been able to blast them to pieces with the eight 7-pounder cannons that would have been equipped on each of the fortifications, with the medieval siege towers, siege engines, and the like.

But now it is not a problem of fortifications, the biggest problem is what Wilmot proposed, a lack of people.

The Sheriff's Mansion is able to recruit spearmen, which is the lowest combat branch of the army in "Imperial Total War", and generally speaking, it is quite useful to resist cavalry except for the initial stage without bayonets, but in the middle and late stages, it can be said that it is useless.

This can also be seen in the 17th century, spearmen are like bronze falcons, which belong to the inertia of the history of medieval warfare, but compared to the bronze falcon cannons that can at least bombard people and are still huge, the spearmen with three-meter spears may still be useful in some battlefields against the natives, but they can't hide the embarrassment that it has completely fallen behind the times.

Especially now Levi's Cape Town, what is needed is musketeers with flintlock muskets, even the lowest-level armed militia, in terms of adapting to modern tactics, compared to the embarrassing class of spearmen, it is several times stronger!

Even if the Spanish Empire was once famous for the Spanish phalanx, in fact, this formation has long disappeared from history with the popularization of flintlock pistols and the emergence of bayonets, and has been replaced by a modern model of the trinity of privates, artillery, and cavalry.

"We'll have to wait, maybe I'll figure it out."

Frowning slightly, Levi reached out and pinched his eyebrows, of course this problem is serious, because as the elven fleet approaches, the threat on the sea will increase greatly, and the sailors on those ships will not be able to assist in defense on land often.

Now there are still 500 energy points, and Levi originally wanted to continue to build traditional houses to attract refugees from Spain and increase the population rapidly, but now there are 1,500 people, plus the total size of nearly 2,000 soldiers, it has reached the current limit of Levi.

It's not about productivity and capacity, it's about the limits of consumption.

Now these nearly 2,000 people need to consume more than 80 buckets of bread every day, and compared to when they first came to this Cape Town, 80 buckets of bread is still a week's consumption, which is simply seven times.

The consumption of food also needs the demand for non-staple foods such as salted meat, sausages, fruits, fresh meat, fish, etc., even if Green has just brought back six boatloads of food, but compared to the consumption of more than 2,000 adults or middle-aged people, it is really like a bottomless pit, and even after a week, he has to continue to purchase regularly to make up for the current food shortage!

What's more, there are also water thief captives, the temporary fortress has already been organized into low wall areas, the first time more than 260 water thief captives, and the second time 830 water thief captives are all imprisoned inside, this has reached a thousand people, the same is a thousand mouths waiting to eat!

Even if you don't need expensive wheat bran bread, fresh sausages and expensive fruit, you just need to throw black bread, fresh water, and a little sour lemon to feed them, but this is also an expense, and it is also a food consumption.

"Needless to say, I understand,"

Stretching out his hand to stop Thor from saying something, Levi's hand pinching his eyebrows couldn't help but exert a little strength, his previous proud appearance had indeed disappeared, and he couldn't help but sigh and said: "Arrange for our citizens, while organizing the construction team, divide a part of the people to form a hunting team and a fishing team." ”

The advantage of fifteen hundred citizens is also reflected in this place, Green, as the chief minister, also bowed his head slightly and pondered for a moment, but nodded in agreement with Levi's proposal, and added: "The hunting team and the fishing team can form a few more, at present, we need to try to ensure the source of food, especially the fishermen, we have captured more than twenty relatively complete warships, which can also be used as fishing boats." ”

"That's it."

Levi also frowned solemnly, what they need now is this kind of stable development, at least to ensure self-sufficiency in food, blindly buying supplies from Gray Mist City, it is a test for his silver coins, and according to Thor's report during the casual conversation last night, their current reserves of large silver coins are less than a hundred.

The pressure on his shoulders suddenly surged down, making Levi gently reach out and rub his eyebrows, this sense of powerlessness also made him sigh, and said to Green: "By the way, form an expedition team and see if there is anything worth developing in the inland forest." ”

"Understood." First Officer Green also responded, silently frowning and pondering, after all, although the current development is high-speed, it also needs a period of precipitation to transform this high-speed development into real strength.

Especially in the area around Cape Town, it is also necessary to send special personnel to explore, mainly to depict the surrounding terrain, if you can find resources worthy of development, it is the best, even if there are no resources, it will also have a good role in promoting the expansion of the city in the future, after all, Levi cannot have only one Cape Town.

Compared to the west coast of the Silver Coast, there is only one town in Bal, but there are more pit villages located in various hills, and the prosperity of them is not at all comparable to that of Levi.

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(To be continued.) )