The news that the Five Lakes were promoted to a third-tier city. It also made Pang Tong and the others sigh, "We Fengxiang are also ready for everything, only owe Dongfeng, if it weren't for the delay in the return of the lord, we would be the first to be upgraded to a third-level city!" ”

As early as a week ago, Feng Xiang had already completed all the conditions for upgrading the territory, and the moat, research center, and temple had been put into use successively!

Before a certain city lord and Wang Yue went to sea, Feng Xiang was only one step away from upgrading the city, and only three buildings had not been completed and used, one of which was the largest foundation engineering moat in the secondary city stage.

After the moat is completely completed, there is an extra trench on the periphery of the Fengxiang stone city wall, which is about two meters wide and filled with water, so that the defense of the territory is improved again, at least when Fengxiang City encounters a strong enemy's attack, the combination of "stone city wall + moat + arrow tower" will make the siege side face great trouble, before the moat is filled, the condescending defenders are enough to make the enemy pay a painful price!

A certain city lord has been out to sea for more than 4o days, and according to the previous estimates, the trip to Xianshan should have ended for many days, but until now, Zhuge Lin, who has been staying in Fengxiang City, still can't contact Ah Niu and Xiaoyu, which can't help but make Pang Tong and the others worried.

Jiang Qin's anxiety was no less than that of Pang Tong and Sun Liang, and the action of going to sea was the responsibility of the good hand of the Canglan Sailors. If there is any accident, Jiang Qin will not only have no face to face Ah Niu, but also face the men, women and children in the territory! Therefore, even though Jiang Qin had to go to Youzhou with the sailor to trade with the Talan tribe, he still deliberately left a message and asked the remaining troops in the town to send small boats to the sea to investigate.

When Pang Tong thought of Mr. Shui Jing's evaluation of the dangerous journey to Xianshan, Pang Tong's mood became a little heavier. Fortunately, he also knew that a certain city lord and Xiaoyu were immortal, and if they really encountered an accident at sea, they should also be resurrected in Fengxiang City, and there was no such situation so far, so that Pang Tong and the others would not be too crazy.

In such a situation, no news is the best news!

Unable to contact Ah Niu, it is useless to be anxious, and now the attention of Pang Tong and the others is naturally on the body of Five Lakes City, they know better than many players how difficult it is for Five Lakes City to advance so quickly, and Kakaluka's strength needs to be reassessed.

"Among the buildings in the secondary cities, our moats are built very quickly, and the little fish girl often stays at the construction site before she goes to sea. The upgrade of Five Lakes City to a second-level city was later than our Fengxiang, but they were promoted to a third-level city faster than us, doesn't it mean that ......"

Pang Tong didn't continue, Sun Liang had fully understood what he meant,

Although Feng Xiang suspended the construction of the moat some time ago due to financial constraints, the total time of the shutdown was less than three days, which can only show that it is not only a possibility that Lake City also has an architect, but a fact. According to the time, it is very likely that the skill level of the architects of the Five Lakes is higher than that of Xiaoyu!

After all, Xiaoyu is just a junior architect.

As for the huge cost of building the moat, Pang Tong and Sun Liang were not surprised, with the strength of the Five Lakes City in Yizhou, coupled with Kakaluka's huge gains in the campaign against Dong Zhuo, the problem of funds was not difficult to solve.

The biggest difficulty in advancing to the second-tier city is not the moat. It is the multi-skilled talents needed by the research center, and the comprehensive talents of intermediate "blacksmith + carpenter" are not easy to find. Out of the consideration of taking precautions, Fengxiang has carried out large-scale comprehensive skill training after being upgraded to a second-tier city, especially the most urgent demand of "blacksmith + carpenter".

The difficulty of getting started in any profession is relatively simple, usually a novice only needs to go through ten days of training for senior talents to be able to get out of the teacher, to obtain the ability of the primary stage, it is difficult to promote from the primary to the intermediate level, which not only requires a lot of practice, but also needs a little opportunity, and the so-called "epiphany" is obviously unavoidable.

In fact, the talent demand of the intermediate "blacksmith + carpenter" has caused headaches for many territories that have been successfully promoted to second-tier cities, and the fact that Wuhu has been promoted shows that Kakaluka's territory already has such comprehensive talents.

This can't help but make Pang Tong and others impressed by the talent thickness of Five Lakes City.

Sun Liang, who held the purpose of "casting a wide net", did not hesitate to draw more than ten intermediate blacksmiths or carpenters from the territory to cultivate the second skill, high investment does not necessarily bring high output, but at least this time the result is not too bad. A week ago, a craftsman named Shen Hua finally managed to break through to the intermediate carpenter realm, so that Fengxiang's research center began to be put into use!

Research Center: An institution that studies siege and defense equipment, current research projects: primary traps, research progress: %.

Primary Trap: The effective distance is 2ooo meters, under normal circumstances, the enemy cannot be identified or destroyed in advance, and the lethality is low, but any enemy may fall into it and be damaged, which can play the role of "trapping the enemy" and "killing the enemy". Traps are disposable consumables that take up 1 space and have a 5% repair rate.

Traps are the only object that can be studied by the current research center, for no other reason, not that all relevant technologies can be studied after the establishment of the research center. The ascent of technology is also a gradual process, and there are clear restrictions on this in the game, and the setting of the research center is closely related to another important military structure, which is the city wall. Before the primary (first-class) stone wall is upgraded, it is impossible for the research center to study the second type of city defense technology!

Meantime. The size of the city wall also determines the number of city defenses that can be built, the capacity of the first-class stone city wall is 1ooo, according to the description of the trap "occupies space 1", when Feng Xiang successfully researched the trap technology, he could only build a thousand traps for the time being.

After the scale of the city wall was increased, the city defense space was expanded!

After the operation of the research center, Pang Tong and others immediately inspected the building, and the corresponding technology must be researched by the presiding craftsman, so that the territory can manufacture the corresponding siege and defense equipment. The research center cannot support the simultaneous research of multiple technologies, but it can accept up to ten qualified comprehensive talents to work at the same time, which will greatly increase the degree of research.

Therefore, although the research center has been able to use normally, Fengxiang's cultivation of comprehensive talents has not stopped, especially the intermediate "blacksmith + carpenter", Sun Liang even expanded the training scale of this kind of talent again!

This kind of skill accumulation is not in a hurry, especially Shen Hua's two skills are only at an intermediate level, and he really can't ask for more. %, Pang Tong still couldn't help frowning, "If Shen Hua's two skills can reach the advanced level, the research degree should be improved a bit." ”

Improving the skill level of comprehensive talents can also speed up the research of urban defense technology!

Pang Tong and Sun Liang were a little puzzled: even if they had not studied the "primary trap" technique, the territory could also be set up on the battlefield or outside the city, and before Feng Xiang completed the promotion to the city, in the battle with the Yellow Turban Army, a long trench was dug outside Wuwei Town. If it weren't for that trench, Feng Xiang's casualty rate would probably be quite considerable.

In this case, the "primary trap" technology of the research center seems to be a bit redundant, and digging pits everywhere outside Fengxiang City seems to be suspected of "damaging the environment".

This question was not solved until the rudimentary trap technology was studied and built according to the law, "In this way, wouldn't it be more difficult to siege the city?" ”

The traps built in the city defense space usually do not appear in the open space outside the city, but only exist in the virtual city defense space, and only when the territory is attacked, these traps will quietly harvest the enemy's life!

Enemies within two kilometers of the city walls. It is possible to be hit, and the attribute of "under normal circumstances, the enemy cannot be identified or destroyed in advance" is the biggest difference between the city defense trap and the manual digging trap! It is commendable that the two types of traps are not impossible to coexist, and as long as the lord has enough time and energy, it is also permissible to make the perimeter of the city into "terraces" before the war, if it is hoped that such traps will play a decisive role...... Wake up.

Although the resources required to build a trap are not too low, the fact that building such a defense is too easy for no sober lord to resist this temptation, how can the extra defense be wasted?

In fact, when the description of the city fortifications was disclosed on the Internet, the lord players who reached the second-tier city set off an unprecedented wave of research frenzy, and "in the game, technology is also the primary productive force" has become the consensus of many lord players.

The temple, which has been due to the lack of monks, has finally made progress, and a monk who struggled to survive in the deserted temple outside Linzi City was invited to Fengxiang to serve as the abbot of the temple.

In the opinion of Sun Liang and others, with Feng Xiang's prestige and conditions, any monk should weep bitterly that he was fortunate enough to join the first city in the world, and constantly chanted "My Buddha is compassionate" while getting up happily and setting out on the road - provided that monks abounded as many as the crops in the field.

But this stupid young monk who claimed to be wise not only did not show the slightest "grateful heart", but showed some reluctance to "bend into a move" and "never meet talents".

"Shouldn't it be that after being a monk for too long from the world, he even forgot his normal joys, sorrows, and sorrows?" Sun Liang thought in surprise, but such a trivial matter can't make Sun Liang, who has a lot of affairs, remember it for too long, it doesn't matter whether Huiming is really a fool or not, for Sun Liang, the opening of the temple is the most important thing!

Temple: Inherit Buddhist thoughts, meet the religious needs of the people in the territory, and gain +2 satisfaction with the territory.

Fengxiang City, the administrative center.

The day's work is over. The other officials had already returned to their respective residences, leaving only Pang Tong and Sun Liang.

The faces of the two of them were a little solemn, during the time when Ah Niu was away, they had been under great pressure, but what really made the two of them feel depressed was the lack of news from a certain city lord. They know best that the lord who seems to be "idle" and "not doing his job" many times is the soul of Feng Xiang, quietly controlling the exhibition of the first city in the world while talking and laughing!

Of course, even if Ah Niu is not there, talents like Pang Tong and Chen Gong can also take care of the territory in a proper manner, even better than when a certain city lord intervened himself, but Pang Tong and the others at this time extremely hope that a certain city lord will come back soon, even if they come back, they will not do anything.

"Still don't have any news of them?"

Pang Tong couldn't help but ask again, full of nonsense, Sun Liang shook his head, "According to the schedule." Jiang Qin and the others should be about to return from Youzhou, and the safety of the town can be assured. As a result, I have increased the number of people who have gone to sea in recent days, but I have not received anything of value in return. ”

"I heard that the fairies of Xianshan are very beautiful, I don't know if the lord and Wang Yue are happy and forget to return, but Xiaoyu's mother is also all the way, according to the temperament of the lord, it shouldn't be too much......" Pang Tong squeezed his eyes and smiled narrowly, Sun Liangqiang couldn't bear to live in front of the former teacher and didn't laugh, it was so lame, and the gloom on his face finally disappeared.

This "joke" is not funny, but Pang Tong's goal of relieving Sun Liang's pressure has also been achieved, when a certain city lord is not there, the feelings of the deputy city lord will directly affect the mood of Fengxiang's officials, and Ji'er will pass it on wave by wave until the ordinary people!

After Sun Liang calmed down, Pang Tong asked leisurely, "How is the situation in the territory these days?" Did you encounter anything big? ”

Although Sun Liang is a disciple of Pang Tong, he is also the person who is really responsible for Feng Xiang's specific affairs, and Pang Tong, who is full of wisdom, rarely asks about specific trivial matters on weekdays. When a certain city lord was away, Pang Tong did not inquire about internal affairs every day, but only took the initiative to ask for help when Sun Liang encountered a problem that was difficult to solve, and the two would communicate every few days.

The same is true today.

"Fortunately, there is basically nothing special these days. In addition to the old problem that the population of the territory has reached saturation and some problems that affect the absorption of displaced people, only Mr. Chen Gong sent someone back, saying that Longfei's construction funds are about to run out.

Although we still have a lot of foreign debts that we have not yet repaid, since we do not need to inject any more capital into the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Chen's need for 500,000 yuan is not a big problem, after all, the lord has also said that Mr. Chen must do his best to meet his needs. But the population problem is really a headache, and we can't build refugee camps endlessly! Sun Liang replied with a little distress.

Pang Tong knew Chen Gong's temperament very well, and if it wasn't for the urgent need, he would never send someone back so urgently. Although the Heqi Chamber of Commerce has an establishment in Liangzhou, the Chamber of Commerce is still in its infancy and accounting, and Chen Gong can't do it even if he wants to withdraw some funds from the Heqi Chamber of Commerce.

"Gongtai actually sent someone back to Qingzhou to get the money this time, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't contact the lord through Guò Yiren, it means that his side is already very tight, so send someone to send him over." Pang Tong said in a deep voice.

"It took some time for Mr. Chen to send someone from Liangzhou, and I was a little worried about whether Long Fei's capital needs would change again. There is no more construction expenditure in the territory now, plus after Jiang Qin's sailors have returned from transporting horses. Fengxiang's tight financial situation will be alleviated, so I plan to send someone to send more money to Mr. Chen, if the construction of Longfei is missed, it will not be good, now I can probably squeeze out 800,000 gold, and I am ready to send someone to send it tomorrow. Sun Liang said with a smile.

Sun Liang has even more respect for Chen Gong, who has worked hard to cultivate himself, than for Pang Tong!

"Well, go back and talk to Li Erxia, this time let's let a few people run through the dark flower, it's not good if there is a problem on the road with so much money, our Fengxiang is still very poor. As for the problem of population, there is no other way for a while but to wait for the lord to come back and upgrade the territory. Once Fengxiang is upgraded to a third-tier city, the population problem will naturally be solved! ”

In the past few months, Fengxiang's opportunity to upgrade the subordinate territory has been handed over to Long Fei, Fengxiang's population limit in Qingzhou has not been raised for several months, and the large amount of population for material transactions with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army has been completed, Fengxiang City has been overcrowded.

Seeing Sun Liang nodding silently, Pang Tong seemed to remember something, and suddenly asked, "Have those two lords not helped us upgrade our subordinate territories recently?" ”

Sun Liang smiled wryly, "No." Since the end of the campaign against Dong Zhuo, none of our subordinate territories in Blu-ray City and Sea Soul City have been upgraded, and those two lords have gained a lot of benefits in the battle, including some high-level talents, who have been upgrading their subordinate territories with all their strength recently, where would they slow down their development for that reward. If only we knew how to upgrade a subject province to a city! ”

The monthly opportunity to upgrade a subordinate province is constant, but the population changes after a successful upgrade are not the same, and everyone knows that the upper limit of the population increase in the second-level township cannot keep up with the increase in the population of the third-level township. Therefore, the most immediate thing to do in the face of a population explosion is to upgrade the higher-level vassal provinces as much as possible.

However, so far, none of the lords in the game have had city-level dependent territories!

How to upgrade a subordinate territory that has reached the level of a third-level township to a city is a secret that the current lord players are desperately trying to decipher, and no one knows the method! (To be continued)

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