350.

More than a dozen colleges, it sounds like a lot, but in fact, it is already remarkable to be able to exceed 400 people a year, and now, Zhang Ruoming has expanded the number of students tenfold, which is undoubtedly a huge progress for the local area, not to mention that in the field of basic education, Zhang Ruoming has built more than 100 schools in a year, trying to eradicate illiteracy, these city-states, almost most of them are illiterate, and need to be illiterate, and many literacy classes have been set up, and literacy is carried out in their spare time, trying to make them literate.

Only by knowing the words, they can understand the newspaper, and only by understanding the newspaper, they can know what is happening in the Survival League, and only by knowing these things, they can unconsciously identify with the country, slowly take it to heart, this is a subtle feeling, although you don't think there is anything at first, but in the long run, people in the water, land and plain will slowly identify with the Survival League, a national consciousness, Zhang Ruoming's step, obviously done very timely.

The other is to build railways and highways, because the water network of the water plain is vertical and horizontal, so on this, Zhang Ruoming does not need to build too many roads, after all, the cost is very high, and the waterway transportation is not bad, the top priority is to build a railway, so that the resources of Black Iron City and Joaquin City can be more convenient to enter these city-states, and Zhang Ruoming did not stop for too long, on the one hand, he was in the local governance, on the other hand, he also sent exploration troops to explore around, this step is much easier than before.

Because the city-states of the water-land plain themselves have communicated with many city-states outside, so they have some understanding of the tribes and city-states in the nearby mountains, under their leadership, Zhang Ruoming quickly determined the surrounding situation, but did not immediately send troops, but governed the local area for about a year, and after the rule of the survival alliance was stabilized, he led his army of 70,000 to start conquering one by one.

There is nothing to talk about in this part of the journey, in front of Zhang Ruoming's modern army, these earthen villages have no ability to resist at all, as for those city-states, they may be able to rely on the terrain and barely defend, but in the case of cutting off their trade exchanges with the water-land plains, the lack of materials immediately made the rule of the local rulers into a stalemate, at this moment, Zhang Ruoming does not have to worry at all, it only takes a while, these city-states will naturally begin to surrender, and soon Zhang Ruoming will conquer all these areas, After that, it was natural to change the land and relocate these mountain people to the water and plains.

At the same time, in these important locations in the mountains, the use of the original cottage to transform, make a forward base, and begin to explore further, and in this regard, the water and land plains have undoubtedly made a great contribution, through the waterway, they can contact the city-states and tribes hundreds of kilometers away, so the understanding of the outside world is much more than the survival alliance side, and it is worthy of the title of the head snake, with their help, Zhang Ruoming can be said to be fighting in the south and the north, from the water and land plains to the south and deeper than more than 400 kilometers, This can be regarded as being blocked by the new demonic beast, and this time the southern expedition is completely over.

In the south of the waterland plain, there are many city-states, for these city-states, Shu Han has set up a new governor's palace to govern, called Dingnan area, the terrain here is different from the water plain, for a large area of mountains and forests, the various city-states are also communicated through the water network, but the degree of communication is very low, the development of each city-state is also in a very backward state, some city-states do not even have electricity, after Zhang Ruoming controlled them, Shu Han sent Chang Ke as the governor of this area, to control the local area.

However, although the city-states in the region are scattered, they have a large population, and the territory is also the largest, with more than 60,000 square kilometers of land and a population of more than three million, and its capital is Dingnan City.

After three years of conquest, the expansion of the Survival Alliance at this time has come to an end, at this time, the Survival Alliance, the west and the south have encountered new Warcraft, the east is the sea, and the north is the Holy Alliance, the expansion can only be stopped, the most important task is to connect the various places together, so that the people of each place, not just because of force to succumb to the survival alliance, but really integrated, which takes a lot of time.

At the same time, the long-term war of conquest also made the old nobles led by Black Iron City miserable, and the long-term war was a huge pressure on the survival alliance itself, during the war, the whole country took the war as the overall goal, and all other expenses had to be reduced, including scientific research, so now that the war of conquest has ended, it is natural to shift the focus to internal affairs.

At this time, the Survival Alliance was already a huge country spanning 200,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 13 million, and it was naturally not as easy to manage as it was at the beginning, and there were more places to pay attention to, first of all, the construction of the railway, and then the internal affairs of each administrative district, for Shu Han at this time, he undoubtedly became busier.

And with the water plain, the population of Guangyuan and Dingnan gradually moved to the vicinity of Black Iron City and Huajin City, so that the population of the two cities has exceeded one million, at this time, these two cities look almost no different from modern cities, the city center is full of high-rise buildings, the lights are bright at night, just the industrial area, a batch of chimneys are emitting white smoke, and at the same time there is a new batch of construction, at this time the Black Iron City and Huajin City are worthy of being industrial cities, here, More than 50% of the industrial products are born here, and then sold to other regions, so it can be said that this is the essence of the survival alliance.

This is also the main reason why the central government can control the localities, although the Black Iron City and Joaquin City occupy not many places, but they have the largest industrial population, and at the same time, they are also the transportation hubs of various regions, here, so that the central government can always use the huge financial and industrial capacity to crush the localities, otherwise rely on friendship alone? At this time, Shu Han is no longer the simple person he used to be, in front of power, how many people remember their parents and brothers? As for friends, it's even less.

Although Shu Han still believes in his friends and brothers in his heart, but the so-called human hearts are separated from the belly, as a commander, he can't just think about himself, the birth of this system will continue to be used for decades or even hundreds of years, he may be okay when he is there, but what if he dies?

Just like Alexander the Great, no one has a talent for war, but he did not design a complete system before his death, so that Alexander's empire was divided into countless countries immediately after his death, and the leaders of each country regarded themselves as Alexander's successors, and then hundreds of years of war had an unparalleled impact on the whole world.

Therefore, Shu Han must consider how to manage this matter after himself, the strong and weak branches, is the method that Shu Han came up with, the entire Black Iron City and Joaquin City area, concentrated nearly sixty percent of the non-agricultural population, as for experts and scholars, nearly seventy percent of them are concentrated here, which makes the Black Iron City's scientific and technological innovation capabilities, economic capabilities and industrial capabilities far exceed any of the forces, so whether in terms of emotion or strength, they must obey the orders of the Black Iron City, This is the method that Shu Han came up with.

But at the same time, the gathering of a large number of non-agricultural population, the management of nature has become very troublesome, a city of 10,000 people and a city of 100,000 people, the trouble of management between the two is geometrically increased, after all, when the number of people is small, some needs do not exist, but once the number of people is large, even if it is a small number in the city, their needs will become a very large number, for example, the disabled, in small towns, there are few necessary roads and equipment for the disabled, because their number is very small, The cost of building these devices is so high that few people are willing to do it, but if the population of the city reaches one million, the number of people with disabilities will naturally increase to a point that cannot be ignored.

Another thing is city management, a city of one million people, Black Iron City and Joaquin City still do not have a large number of cars, so the city's traffic mainly relies on walking and horse-drawn carriages, originally a city of 10,000 people, it is naturally very convenient to walk, and now, a city of one million people, want to walk from the city to the other end of the city, I am afraid it will take a day.

As for the carriage, the poor naturally can't afford it, so the public transport system naturally came into being, the cost of urban management increases, and the complexity naturally increases, for the public transport system, the method of the Black Iron City is the tram, anyway, now the two cities are enough for the production of electricity, and there is no oil, and electricity is undoubtedly the most cost-effective.

This requires re-planning the road, and then doing other layouts of the city, etc., are very complicated things, as well as hospitals, police stations, fire stations and other public institutions within the city, how to distribute, how to distribute, etc., these need to be considered, the management of a large city, its difficulty is definitely not less than a small country, although these things do not need Shu Han to do it himself, but it is also very troublesome.

It is precisely because of this that the entire government management body needs to be reshaped, and finally the Black Iron City Government and the Joaquin City Government are established to manage, and the powers and responsibilities of the central and local governments begin to be separated, and Shu Han, as the leader of the entire country, begins to deal with all aspects of affairs, and as for the local affairs, they are handed over to the local government.

This undoubtedly made Shu Han a lot easier, he could focus more on the two things of diplomacy and defense, and the next goal of the Survival Alliance was very simple, that is, to fight with the Holy Alliance, and take advantage of the fact that the Holy Alliance had not yet gained enough benefits in the north, and fight a time difference to annihilate the Holy Alliance.

In the past three years, Shu Han has been observing the dynamics of the Holy Alliance, compared to the development of the Survival Alliance in the south, the Holy Alliance is undoubtedly much more difficult, after crossing the radiation land left by the fierce phoenix, Qiao Xuan originally thought that he was guarding the clouds and seeing the moon, but he didn't expect that in the vast North China Plain, a city-state alliance and country had already been established, after all, this is a plain, after people were finally not threatened by the monster, they began to fight each other, and it has lasted for a hundred years, And the plains made it very easy for all parties to communicate, so one by one the city-states were formed into countries, and when Qiao Xuan came here, he bumped into these hard stubbles.

Although their strength as a whole is not as good as Qiao Xuan's troops, the overall strong city-state is always much easier than the small city-state, so the two sides can be regarded as fighting back and forth, although Qiao Xuan won more and lost less, and also gained a lot of cities, but compared with the victory achieved by the survival alliance, it can be said to be unsatisfactory.

Coupled with Qiao Xuan's cruelty and tyranny, the northerners who had no impression of him were even more disgusted, and the resistance was often very fierce, in this situation for three years, Qiao Xuan's population from the north was only a few hundred thousand, and there was an obvious gap with the survival alliance.

And this is Shu Han's opportunity, so during this period of time, he has been rearming his armament, hoping to eliminate the enemy of this survival alliance in the cradle as soon as possible, for this reason, Shu Han also continued to expand the army, expanding the central army to 180,000, plus 60,000 in the Guangyuan region, 70,000 in the Shuidi Plain and 70,000 in the Dingnan region, a total of more than 380,000 troops.

Of course, these armies cannot be mobilized all, and each region naturally has to stay with some troops for defense, and there are mistakes on the one hand, and at the same time, the mobilization of the army also needs a lot of materials to support, so although many people want to start a war against the Holy Alliance as soon as possible, Shu Han still chose to be patient, this battle is bound to not be a war that can solve the victory or defeat in a short period of time, Qiao Xuan's power, Shu Han has been taught several times, so he must be fully prepared before he can start the war.

Many people disagree with Shu Han's thoughts, thinking that it is best to take advantage of this time, if Qiao Xuan finds an opportunity to wipe out the entire north, then the strength of the Survival Alliance and the Holy Alliance will be close at that time, and it will be more difficult to fight at that time, but Shu Han doesn't think so, Qiao Xuan is very powerful, but his brutality also makes many people very disgusted with him, and the reason why he doesn't dare to resist is just because he is afraid of Qiao Xuan.

And now, the entire north, under Qiao Xuan's attack, has held out for three years, it can be seen that these northern city-states really do not recognize Qiao Xuan's strength, they have a tenacious fighting spirit to fight against Qiao Xuan, in this case, Shu Han is also willing to believe that they can hold on for a longer time.