Chapter 183: Expansion and Attack

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Lei Zihao understands that when the main city is upgraded to level 5, whether it is an affairs officer or a general, it will become an existence that can be directly mass-produced like the army!

It can be said that in this way, the bottleneck of Lei Zihao's expansion will disappear without a trace, no matter how huge the territory is, how backward the communication, as long as enough troops are placed far away from the center of Lei Zihao's power, so that the generals and civil servants who are loyal to him can cooperate with each other to manage, you can ensure that the huge empire will not fall apart!

[Black Market (City Level 5 Building): 15% increase in city taxes, 10% reduction in city security. Corruption is on the rise in cities. 】

This building is one of the few functional buildings that can be built in Occupy Cities, and in the future, it can effectively increase additional tax revenue in many Occupy Cities!

[Casino (City Level 5 Building): Tax increased by 15%, city security reduced by 10%. Urban corruption is on the rise. 】

This building is similar to the black market, and it is also a functional building that can be built in any city.

[Museum (City Level 5 Building): +2 Military, Civilization Technology Points.] Only green cities can be built. 】

This building is more interesting, it can be regarded as pointing out a way for Lei Zihao to increase civilization technology points and military technology points without limit, as for the people's loyalty to the green, as long as Lei Zihao thinks, in fact, it can still be done, such as building a large number of love temples that increase people's loyalty and promote religious thoughts!

[Martyr's Monument (City Level 5 Building): You can spend a lot of gold here to "train" level 5 army soldiers, improve the courage of the army, and evolve their loyalty into diehards, the amount of gold coins and training time required for each army are different, and the army with too low loyalty cannot evolve into diehards! Only green cities can be built. 】

This is a functional building that upgrades Lei Zihao's low-level soldiers and mercenaries recruited after conquering special areas in the future, increasing their loyalty, and if you encounter a good mercenary class in the future, this thing is still quite useful, and the die-hard attribute is very tempting!

[Manor (City Level 5 Building): The personal safety of the generals stationed in the city has been improved, and the probability of the generals defecting has been greatly reduced. 】

Lei Zihao looked at the introduction of the manor, and couldn't help but cry and laugh a little, the all-out war system was really thoughtful......

[Royal Bank (City Level 5 Building): Generate money lending business, get an additional 50% gold income, only green cities can be built, you need to store a large amount of currency, once the city is broken, you will lose a lot of wealth, and the city with the Royal Bank will attract the greedy attention of foreign enemies. 】

"It's another functional building that increases fiscal revenue, but this time the increase is really gratifying, and it won't be limited to the main city, and it's basically no problem with its future financial resources......"

Lei Zihao rubbed his chin with his palm and muttered to himself.

Nowadays, the Golden Dragon Kingdom occupies a small territory, except for military expenditures, other expenses are almost negligible, but after the expansion of the territory of the Golden Dragon Kingdom, various administrative expenses will definitely increase geometrically, and at that time, the tax revenue cannot be as it is now, Lei Zihao is all invested in the output of the army, and he can't turn his country into a big military camp!

If he did that, what would the huge army eat and wear?

No matter what kind of social system, the number of producers must be much greater than the number of troops, and the army will not produce living materials, even if they do not need military salaries, they still need to live!

Therefore, to maintain a huge empire, with the expansion of the territory, the expenditure will increase greatly, limited by the backward communication technology of this era, this expenditure is a great loss in the transportation and exchange of materials!

This is also the ancient empire in the history of the earth, every time it expands to a certain extent, it will inevitably face the dilemma that fiscal expenditure is greater than revenue, and then it is to reduce fiscal expenditure to give some autonomy to the local government, and then ...... The empire collapsed......

Even if local governments are not given the right to reduce fiscal spending, they will lead to a long-term fiscal deficit, resulting in a lack of people in the country, and will eventually be overthrown by careerists!

Of course, Lei Zihao doesn't need to think about this problem for the time being, after he finished querying the buildings and troops, he inquired about some of the technologies displayed in advance:

[Long bricks (Civilization Technology Requirement 3): Long bricks are used in urban buildings to increase the durability of buildings, reduce the lethality of fire, and build a precondition for stone city walls.

Deep Mining (Civilization Technology Requirement 6): Increases Mineral Mining Efficiency by 100%. Fertilization (Civilization Requirement 9): Increases farm production by 10% for all cities that have completed Farmland Level 3.

Filter Pool (Civilization Tech Requirement 12): +10% City Health.

New Shipbuilding (Civilization Requires 15): Ships are 50% more efficient, and all new wooden hulls are more durable.

Fishing Grounds (Civilization Tech Requirement 20): Coastal cities with docks receive an indefinite amount of income.

Faculty of Affairs (Civilization Technology Requirement 25): The cost of recruiting followers and civil servants has been reduced by 20%.

Wooden Crane (Civilization requires 30): Reduces the cost of all city buildings by 20% and reduces the construction time.

Professional knowledge of midwifery medicine (40 in demand for civilized technology): 50% increase in urban population growth rate. 】

Compared to the building functions and powerful troops that had given Lei Zihao great shock before, these technologies really couldn't make Lei Zihao interested, and he quickly turned his attention to the use of this batch of gold coins!

First of all, start building the only Altar of Wealth and the Altar of Love, which are not built!

As long as the gold coin resources are in place, Lei Zihao can directly build a level 3 Altar of Wealth and an Altar of Love!

[Congratulations to His Majesty the King for starting to build all the temple series buildings, the Altar of Love will produce a High Priest of Love who satisfies all your desires, and the Altar of Wealth can produce a Lori High Priest with super high intelligence, please be mentally prepared!] 】

Lei Zihao looked stunned, and forcibly resisted the option of speeding up the construction with great willpower, and the gold coins should be used to recruit the army first......

Lei Zihao compared the mountainous terrain of the Jinlong Peninsula and the Balkans, and gave up the idea of recruiting a large number of cavalry troops, and only symbolically recruited a thousand cavalry archers to serve as a 'power search battalion'.

Subsequently, 10,000 heavily armed gold shield soldiers, 10,000 Praetorian Guards, and 40,000 gold coins were squandered......

The rest of the gold is to recruit a few archers who are used for fire suppression, but the armor-piercing ability is not ideal, as well as a large number of siege carts, torsion trebuchets, large trebuchets, and ballistas!

At the entrance of the Golden Dragon Peninsula, the more than 100,000 human servants left behind by the Night Elf Empire have taken advantage of the terrain to build a large number of fortresses.

It just so happened that these main battle armies, with the 10,000 crusader prisoners of war cannon fodder and a large number of siege equipment, Lei Zihao was full of confidence in the future siege war!

What's more, before he attacked, he would also receive gold worth 500,000 gold coins from the Orc Empire to attack the Night Elf Empire!

As long as there are enough gold coins, Lei Zihao no longer has to worry about the excessive battle damage of the army!

Soon, the Golden Dragon Kingdom commanded by Lei Zihao will show its true fangs to this world!