Chapter Eighty-Seven: Wang Rui's Ambition
Li Tang also has an army, with a number of 5 million, all of whom are ordinary soldiers. However, this army is under the management www.biquge.info of Linhai City, but it does not have to pay their military expenses. This is Yin Fei's Blood Shark Legion.
This legion, during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, not only intercepted countless ships fleeing with their families, but also passing merchant ships. He even took advantage of the emptiness of the mainland's defense, landed directly, and robbed a lot of rich people.
Moreover, they also broke through a lot of player market towns, aboriginal villages and towns, etc., and obtained a large number of materials and a lot of village construction orders.
At the same time, in the process of robbery, his team also continued to grow, expanding to the current 5 million people. Moreover, they cooperated with Ye Hui's Kunpeng Legion and easily avoided countless strangulations and encirclements.
Some big forces, if they want to catch Yin Fei, even offer a reward of 500 gold coins, but they can't get Yin Fei's head. Moreover, when Yin Fei and the others were surrounded and chased to the point of running out of ammunition and food, they would often catch some cargo ships that happened to be carrying the necessary supplies.
Moreover, Yin Fei and his leaders were divided into several teams. On weekdays, there are many contradictions and frictions. However, only a few people know that their big boss is actually only one. Moreover, only a very small number of elite pirates know about the relationship between this pirate and Linhai City.
In the past few years, the money that Yin Fei and they have earned for Li Tang is actually not much less than Ye Hui! Of course, Ye Hui's Kunpeng Legion developed faster. Moreover, in almost every important port, properties and wharves were bought, and the expenditure was very large. Even the boats need to be bought with money.
The Kunpeng Legion has 2 million special troops, 14 million ordinary soldiers, 8 million sailors, 1 million employees in the jurisdiction of Linhai City, and 3 million local employees. It's a veritable giant!
Even so, every year, the Kunpeng Legion still pays a lot of profits and taxes to Linhai City. also helped Li Tang transport soldiers and people for free, and helped Linhai City bring back a lot of basic resources!
Every time, Li Tang abducted a large number of people, but in fact, it was the Kunpeng Legion who helped transport them back!
Today, the two jurisdictions under Li Tang's name, the Linhai City District and the Starting Point City District, both have a large population.
Under the name of the starting city, there are only the city of Nanyang and the city on the heart of the Yellow River. These cities are for players to join. Currently, there are only 40 million people.
The cities on the heart of the Yellow River need to pay high taxes. Therefore, the population of each city is not large. The reason why the city was built was also to open up trade routes and attract displaced people.
The city of Nanyang also needs to pay taxes, but not much. However, these cities can attract a large number of displaced people. Li Tang can gradually transfer these displaced people.
Under the name of Linhai City, it includes several major islands and Qiankun bracelets. These are places where players can enter, but they can't fall in, and they can't enjoy bonuses. These places have a total population of 800 million.
Most of this increase in population was abducted from the Nanyang area. A large part of them migrated from Jizhou.
Of course, there are also pirates who hijacked the population, and Li Tang's sailors "rescued".
Even so, Li Tang's military-civilian ratio is still very high. It's almost 10 to 1! Even so, excluding the Blood Shark Legion, the Kunpeng Legion, and the 10 million troops parasitic in the system city, there are still 29 million troops to feed. The ratio is also as high as 28 to 1!
In particular, on the heart of the Yellow River, if these cities did not have special tasks, and in order to maintain trade routes, several cities would not be able to feed the army at all.
The same is true on Qiongzhou Island!
The only most cost-effective is Nanyang.
It seems that the cities in the Yizhou area are close to gradually saturation. And Li Tang estimates that Yizhou can have a 1 billion people, and it can basically be developed.
And in the Qiankun bracelet, there are 2-300 million people, which is the limit. However, inside the Qiankun bracelet, Li Tang plans to use it often as a transit station, and there is no need to saturate the population inside.
There is another place, that is, Qiongzhou Island, where 5-600 million people can also be accommodated. After all, the environment of Qiongzhou Island is much better than that of Yizhou Island!
Counting up, Li Tang's population task has been half completed. The remaining half of the target can be slowly replenished in three to five years. It's a waste to replenish too much of the population at once!
In this case, it can be considered that a large number of cities will be built in the Nanyang area.
Nanyang built a city, although it was necessary to pay taxes. However, Li Tang must be able to pay the taxes and find a way to keep it for himself. As for handing over Jingzhou City, don't even think about it.
The only drawback is that the people of the Nanyang region can't enjoy the attribute bonus of Linhai City!
However, although it is troublesome to solve this problem, it is not completely impossible to solve. It's a big deal, let all the subjects join the subordinate cities of Linhai City. Then, the subjects were migrated to the city of Nanyang, but the household registration of these people was not changed. In this way, the problem can be solved.
Therefore, the direction of my key development today should be the territory of the starting point city.
Speaking of the starting point city, it is now the thorn in the flesh and the thorn in the eye of the current Jingzhou thorn Shi Wang Rui.
This starting point city, in the era of Xu Miao, once belonged to Jingzhou City for a while. Later, in order to put the new city in the starting point city, Li Tang specially asked Xu Miao to get the ownership of the starting point city back. After all, Xu Miao trusted Li Tang very much, so he was relieved to return the starting point city.
Since then, the city has been a cargo distribution center for Linhai City, and a transit point for receiving refugees.
In order to ensure the safety of the city, a large number of troops have always been stationed in the starting city. The number of troops is as high as 400,000. Moreover, these people are all special troops.
After several years of development, the starting point has developed into a county seat. The area of the territory has also been greatly expanded. Even, under Li Tang's special instructions, the area of the territory of the starting point city has crossed several peaks and directly reached the edge of the Han River.
Speaking of which, the environment of Jingzhou City is absolutely unique. There are two sides, the Han River, and there are two sides, which are high mountains. The territory of the starting point city is actually surrounded by Jingzhou City. The only room for development is to develop towards the mountains. But this is impossible, and the cost of developing the mountain is too great.
However, Dahyesan Mountain, where the starting point city is located, is next to the Han River. So, when the starting point city was upgraded to a county town, the edge of this territory was deliberately extended to the edge of the Han River. In this way, it will be possible to establish a water village on the Han River.
As for the roads connecting the city and the water village, Li Tang built two. One was carved out of the mountain, and the road was not wide and difficult to walk.
The other is along the foot of Da Xian Mountain, from the territory of Jingzhou through the territory, and then dig a section of road by the river to connect the two places. However, the road is relatively gentle and there are few curves, so it is still relatively easy to walk.
Because of this, Wang Rui, the current Jingzhou Thorn History, will see that the starting point is not pleasing to the eye.
Although, Li Tang and Wang Rui used to be comrades-in-arms in the trenches. However, Wang Rui is from a big family, and he doesn't look down on Li Tang from a small family at all. Therefore, although the two cooperated to capture Wancheng, they did not have a deep friendship. Even, Wang Rui also thinks that in the first battle of Wancheng, Li Tang just hitched a ride with him, so he was able to enter Wancheng.
Therefore, Wang Rui has always wanted to take back control of the starting point city. After all, the starting point city is next to Jingzhou City, which gives Wang Rui a very unsafe feeling.
It's a pity that the current Li Tang is not as easy to knead as he was at the beginning. His fame is only higher than Wang Rui's! If you want to suppress Li Tang with your official position, you have to look at Li Tang's military exploits!
It is true that Wang Rui is Li Tang's boss. However, Li Tang has a dual identity. Li Tang followed Huangfu Song and them to play the yellow scarf, but it was not the general joining identity of ordinary players. Instead, as a real Nanyang Taishou, he went to the war!
Otherwise, the player Li Tang can be on an equal footing with Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Zhu Jun? Even if Li Tang brings more soldiers, can he exceed the Player Alliance?
Therefore, Li Tang is representing the local yellow scarf and getting war exploits, so naturally he also needs to be rewarded. At least, after every battle, the imperial court will recount the merits, and Li Tang's reward will be indispensable.
Especially in the Battle of Cangting and the Battle of Jizhou, Li Tang's performance is also remarkable. Therefore, Li Tang's general title was promoted from General Hulie all the way to General Zhenwei.
To be honest, in this day and age, there are many generals though. However, the title of general is very rare. Ordinary generals, relying on connections and seniority, can be obtained. But the title of general can only be obtained by merit. Unless, it is a symbolic title of general like the Great General.
Li Tang is now General Zhenwei, and his grade is equivalent to 5-6 grades. However, Wang Rui did not dare to treat Li Tang as a 5-grade military attaché.
Moreover, although Wang Rui looks down on Li Tang. However, he knew that Li Tang's exploits were real. Back then, in the entire Jingzhou, when no one dared to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, Li Tang had already relied on the starting point city to kill millions of Yellow Turbans!
Therefore, Hua Qing, the defender of the starting point city, after Wang Rui of the ward, built a water village and two passages on the grounds of supporting Li Tang's army against the Yellow Turbans on the front line. Successfully made the starting point city get out of the encirclement of Jingzhou City, and became a nail that could seriously threaten Jingzhou City.
By the time Wang Rui came to his senses, it was already too late. Wang Rui wanted to take the starting point city, but he had scruples about the danger of the starting point city and the army in the city. I'm worried, I can't take the starting point city for a while!
Attacking friendly cities can only be done quickly. Otherwise, once the other party is operational, he will definitely not be able to continue the attack. What's more, this is Li Tang's city. If Li Tang made a fuss about it, said that he would move Huangfu Song and others, and bring the lawsuit to the court, he would be justified and unclear.
Therefore, even the water village hanging alone outside the starting point city, Wang Rui did not make up his mind. After all, Hua Qing's excuse every time was that he needed to keep the water village and support the food and materials of Li Tang's army.