World Online

by S.H.A aifu

Earth Online – a virtual MMORPG that takes place in the future year of 2190 – a game that everyone will bet their futures on. Set in a map that is ten times the size of real-world Earth, players battle for supremacy in the first game to feature personal adventure, territory construction, and grand warfare. For every death you experience in the game, your level would drop back to 0.

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Chapter 153 - Raider City Attack (Part 3)

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Editor: Jun

The Combat Logistics Division delivered hot and delicious dishes for the soldiers who were risking their lives.

At that moment, no one dared to leave the city walls, and even Ouyang Shuo didn't dare leave. He let the Sangu restaurant prepare some dishes and send them to the resting room in the city tower for Bai Hua and the others.

Using the rest time, the members of the Shanhai Alliance chat and ate at the same time. The topic of their discussions were focused on the first half of the raider's attack that had just ended.

"I really didn't expect that the raider city attack would be so intense." Xunlong Dianxue said emotionally.

"Yeah, it's making me lose all my confidence." Feng Qiuhuang agreed, her face filled with uncertainty.

Bai Hua looked at Ouyang Shuo with concern and asked. "Wuyi, do you have confidence for the afternoon's attack?" The others looked towards him in worry.

Ouyang Shuo smiled. "It's fine. We blocked off their attack in the morning so their morale has already been lost. As long as we don't make any mistakes, it will be no problem to block them."

"But, Shanhai Town has equally lost as many troops in the morning. And the enemy has 1000 elites and 1000 cavalry that hasn't made a move." Bai Hua wasn't as optimistic.

Based on the post battle report, out of the 6700 raiders, 200 water bandits died, 300 were captured, 1200 basic raiders died, and 300 elite raiders died. This was to say that the enemy still had half of their strength. Definitely such a big loss would affect their morale and whether or not they could give it their all in the afternoon was a huge question.

On the side of Shanhai Town, of the 500 navy soldiers in the Beihai navy fleet, 50 had died. 50 archers from the Shanhai town city defence unit had died, 200 sword shield soldiers died, and 80 out of the 500 civil team force died. Their losses were in a 1:5 ratio as compared to the raiders, which was a very good result.

"The raiders lost more than us, so let's just see how they'll react." Ouyang Shuo said.

At the same time, in the raider's big tent.

"Big Brother, the situation isn't good. What should we do the afternoon?" Heiqi asked.

Huoda was very solemn. "In the afternoon, it's time for second brother to act."

"How so?" Heiqi was a bit confused.

"In the morning I arranged men to build the floating bridge, and we had prepared two already. When we were attacking in the morning, based on the report by some of the guys that retreated, the enemy shifted a group of soldiers over from either their east gate or their north gate. Hence their defences would be weakened further, which will give us a chance. Second brother, you must immediately bring your troops to loop around the back, using the floating bridge to get across the city protection river and sneak attack their north gate. Remember, you must wait till the west gate has attacked before starting your attack. You can't be too early, or they'll have a chance to prepare. Understood?" Huoda explained.

"Understood!" Heiqi said excitedly.

At 1PM, the raiders launched another attack. This time, Huoda didn't leave any reserve troops and ordered all his troops to attack, giving them enough pressure such that they are unable to care about their north gate.

Ouyang Shuo stood on the city tower and saw that their 1000 cavalry at the wing were gone, he immediately had a bad premonition.

As expected, in the skies above the north gate, a signal bullet appeared which was the sign of a sneak attack.

"I order the troops!"

"Present!"

"Order the Beihai naval fleet to return to the city protection river to help in the Defence of the north gate."

"Yes sire!"

After the messenger left, Bai Hua said, "These raiders are so crafty and smart. Once they found out a weakness, they will stop at nothing to exploit it."

Ouyang Shuo laughed. "Originally I didn't have 100% confidence, but now I can confirm that Shanhai Town will win."

"Why so?"

"The enemy raider is in over himself and wants to use the cavalry to attack our north gate. He doesn't know that there are 400 soldiers there and also the Beihai naval fleet. Most importantly, them shifting the cavalry away will open up the 600 cavalry that we had hidden near the west gate. Originally with the 1000 cavalry there I didn't dare to attack, but now since they chose to die, I have no choice." Ouyang Shuo explained.

Bei Hua's eyes brightened and smiled. "No wonder, the enemies definitely won't expect Shanhai Town to have so many cavalry that hadn't been used."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, sending out another order. "I order general Lin Yi to prepare to go out at anytime. Wait for my signal."

"Yes sire!"

"Brother Wuyi, why not let them go now?" Mu Lanyue asked curiously. The little brat had finally gotten used to the battle environment and walked out of the resting room.

Ouyang Shuo laughed and explained. "Now the raiders have just launched an attack, and be it stamina or morale, they are at the highest condition. It isn't a good time to attack."

"Oh!"

An hour later, the battle at the west was still in a stalemate. Although the raiders added an extra 1000 elite, the city protecting troops had an extra 300 men. Added with the alchemical fire oil cabinet, both sides were equally matched.

The ambush at the north gate wasn't effective, and the west gate had entered a stalemate, so Huoda couldn't keep calm anymore. Especially as the number of injured men increased, their morale had reached the tipping point, and if nothing was done, there might be deserters. Huoda didn't dare to take it too casually and personally led the lines to raise morale.

Ouyang Shuo stood on the city tower and upon seeing their leader enter the fight, he heaved a sigh of relief. He called for the major of the God Machine Unit Wang Yuanfeng, pointing to the leader and said, "General Wang, do you see that middle aged man commanding in the middle of the battlefield?"

Wang Yuanfeng who had an amazing vision could obviously see him clearly. " I see him. That's their leader, right?"

"That's right. Now, do you have confidence to shoot him down?"

Wang Yuanfeng took a deep breath and said carefully, "He is approximately 1300 meters away from the wall, and with the range of the bed crossbow, I think I can give it a try."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "General Wang, take a gamble. Remember, it's better if you fire two together, as this is a chance we'll only have once."

"Understood."

Wang Yuanfeng turned around and left, gathering the bed crossbowmen to zero in and aim the bed crossbows. To kill their leader, they had to fire the triple-bow acruballistas strongest arrow, which was the "1 spear 3 sword arrow". It's range could reach up to 1500 meters. As for the frosty crow arrow that suppressed the catapults, they could fire over 10 at once to prevent the enemy from getting close to the catapults.

After aiming, the triple-bow acruballistas fired at the same time. The 1 spear 3 sword arrow was as big as a spear, and drew a perfect arc in the air and flew towards the main leader Huoda.

Ouyang Shuo stood on the city wall and looked nervously at the trajectory. Wang Yuanfeng didn't let him down and the two arrows one after another accurately found his position.

Huoda at that time was still trying to raise the troops morale. Facing the two sharp arrows, he had no way to react before they pierced him like spears, killing him instantly.

The death of Huoda caused the morale, which was just rising, to plunge to the depths. Especially the way he died was too shocking. They never expected that the enemy could shoot such a scary arrow from 1300 meters away.

Ouyang Shuo definitely wouldn't miss such an opportunity and hollered, "Send my orders!"

"Present!"

"I order the cavalry to exit the city to break through their defences and destroy the enemy."

"Yes sire!"

Below the city walls, the 600 cavalry were waiting nervously. After getting the order, Lin Yi excitedly shouted to the men behind him. "Brothers! It's our turn!"

"Kill!" The 600 cavalry screamed.

These excellent warriors were cooped up for an entire day, while even the civil team was sent. Only they had to wait for their turn. Till now, they finally got the chance they waited for, how could they not be excited?

As the city gates opened slowly, 600 cavalry dashed out of the city gates like a sharp arrow, charging into the raider army. Behind them, the city gate that was opened was quickly closed.

The news of Huoda dying had slowly spread around the raider camp. The raiders at this time had low morale, and it was like they lost the heart of their army. The attack of the Shanhai calvary destroyed the last bit of hope they had and crushed their fighting spirit.

Lin Yi had already gotten used to using this kind of assault.

Especially during the Battle of Zhuolu, from start to finish Lin Yi had witnessed the commanding prowess of Zhang Liao, learning a lot. He was also a hardworking man and during the resting times, he'd asked Zhang Liao for help and teaching. Zhang Liao wasn't a selfish person. and he had a good impression of Lin Yi. Hence, he helped him without holding anything back.

Six hundred cavalry under the leadership of Lin Yi galloped around amongst the raiders as if there were no one there. The raiders were prepared to attack the city, so their formation was obviously a sieging formation. Facing the charging of cavalry, they were unprepared, so how could they block them?

Lin Yi was also smart, leading the cavalry to focus on destroying the ladders, catapults and moving arrow towers to help the allies have the upper hand. As their sieging tools were destroyed, they were forced to retreat.

After charging around for a while, Lin Yi didn't dare to stay too long and led the troops back. The raiders were scared like birds and had no strength to stop their retreat.

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Chapter 154 - Surrender

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The battle that followed totally entered the rhythm of Shanhai Town.

Out of the 3 leaders of the raiders, their main leader Huoda had died, their 2nd leader Heiqi was trapped at the north gate and their 3rd leader Huo Liu was captured. The raiders at the west gate had no one to lead them. Although they still had a little fight in them, they didn't know what to do, whether to advance or retreat.

Ouyang Shuo didn't give them much time to think. After solving the city wall's danger, he ordered General Shi to prepare the sword shield soldiers to totally destroy the raiders.

Ouyang Shuo said goodbye to the members before walking down the city wall. As he walked down, the cavalry was resting, and the medical team did simple bandaging for those that were injured. That assault wave went as expected. As they prioritized destroying the siege weapons, however, they had lost 50 odd men.

"Sire!" Seeing Ouyang Shuo, Lin Yi bowed.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and praised him. "You've done well."

"Sire, what do we do next?" Lin Yi was concerned.

"Of course we must end it with a bang and totally destroy them. This time the infantry unit will follow you all out of the city."

Lin Yi was stunned, asking, "Sire, the raiders still have that many people? Why don't we use the walls to continue to defend?"

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "They are already afraid, so why would they have the courage to continue attacking. If it happens as I expected, once we launch our final attack, they won't be able to set up any defenses, and running will be their only option. We don't have any time to waste with these raiders. Don't forget that the north gate is still under attack."

"Understood."

After a short rest, Ouyang Shuo personally led his troops and brought 550 cavalrymen and 800 sword shield soldiers out of the city gates.

This time, Ouyang Shuo wasn't prepared to use any tactics like interweaving. He would face then head on. The cavalry was like a flood, and after charging into the raider forces, started a merciless slaughter. The sword shield soldiers followed behind, and under the leadership of General Shi, they were valiant and courageous.

Talking about it, the sword shield soldiers were bored from having to defend all day, now that they had a chance to attack, they could let all the pent-up anger out.

As Ouyang Shuo had expected, Shanhai Town's attack was something the raiders didn't expect. After being subjected to a large number of casualties, the raiders, who were already frightened, couldn't hold on anymore. They didn't hesitate anymore and ran for their lives.

At this time, Ouyang Shuo had other thoughts. He rose on the Qingfu horse and shouted at the raiders that were running, "Put down your weapons, and we will not kill anyone that surrenders!"

Seeing the lord use such a trick again, the soldiers followed with a tacit understanding. "Put down your weapons, and we will not kill anyone that surrenders!" The loud shouts caused their eardrums to tremble.

To speak the truth, these raiders attacking Shanhai Town didn't make any sense anymore. Since the main leader had died, surrendering wasn't a bad option. Hence, without much of a rush, the raiders threw down their weapons and surrendered.

Definitely, there were those stubborn ones who still tried to run. To those, Ouyang Shuo didn't give a chance and ordered the cavalry to attack and kill them one by one. Needless to say, a four-legged creature was obviously faster than a two-legged one, and most of those who tried to run were killed.

Seeing that running was useless, more and more raiders started to surrender, the weapons in their hands were like hot yams, and they threw them quickly onto the ground.

Ouyang Shuo didn't have time to collate all the numbers, leaving the sword shield soldiers to send the prisoners back to the barracks. Ouyang Shuo brought the cavalry back to the city, then crossed the city and went towards the west gate.

Heiqi at this moment still didn't know what had happened at the west gate, trying his best to lead the cavalry to break through. Unfortunately, this cavalry was good at assaulting and not sieging. Added with the lack of siege weapons, it was much harder.

Restricted by the width and depth of the city protection river, the Beihai naval fleet and their Mengchong warships couldn't sail into the river. Hence, only the 4 squadrons from Qiushui Town city protection unit, which included 1 sword shield squadron, 2 bowmen squadrons, and 1 crossbowmen squadron, could defend the north gate. Luckily, there were the 4 acruballistas placed by the God Machine Unit that made up for the difference in numbers.

Both sides were at a stalemate, and neither side knew how to settle it.

At that moment, Ouyang Shuo led the cavalry forces and rushed to the north gate. Ouyang Shuo ordered Lin Yi to bring the troops and wait at the gate while he went up to the city tower.

Seeing Ouyang Shuo, Zhu Hongliang and Zhang Daniu, who were in charge of defending the north gate, were astonished.

Ge Hongliang asked with uncertainty, "Sire, did the west side already win?"

Ouyang Shuo nodded and laughed. "That's right, the threat has been nullified. General Shi is sending all the prisoners back to the barracks. I was worried about your side, so I brought cavalry here to assist."

"That's great!" Ge Hongliang and Zhang Daniu said together.

"Let's go, let me have a look at the raider's cavalry." Ouyang Shuo walked beside the city tower and looked across, only to see 800 odd cavalry hiding out of the range of the bed crossbow, not daring to expose themselves.

As for this batch of cavalry, Ouyang Shuo did not want to let them go. After this huge battle, although Shanhai Town won, they had suffered heavy casualties and needed new blood. These raiders were nice replacements. After the battle, Shanhai Town would upgrade to Shanhai City and would need to expand the army. Since this was so, to get this batch of raiders under their flag was highly suitable.

Ouyang Shuo wasn't bothered about their identity as raiders. In the Shanhai Town army, a large portion of them were raiders. As long as they were paid a salary and after a period of time under military regimentation, the banditry in them would slowly be wiped out. Raiders who liked to do evil weren'ot many. Most just wanted to earn money, and helplessly had no choice but to become a raider.

Ouyang Shuo turned and asked Ge Hongliang, "Director Ge, based on your observations, what is the character of the leader of the raider cavalry like?"

"Sire's meaning is?" Ge Hongliang was surprised.

"You don't need to care what I think. Just say your feelings." This director liked to think too much sometimes.

He hesitated awhile before saying, "Based on my observations, he doesn't look like an evil person."

"Oh." Ouyang Shuo's eyes brightened and he asked curiously, "Why do you say so?"

Ge Hongliang organized his words and said, "From the start, the enemy directly charged for the city gates and prepared to attack. When they found that the strength of our bed crossbows was too huge, however, the leader immediately retreated and didn't continue to attack recklessly. Hence I predict that he cares about his men. Normally, such a leader wouldn't be evil and immoral."

Ouyang Shuo nodded; he couldn't disagree with that.

Ouyang Shuo thought for a while before saying to Ge Hongliang, "Since that is so, let's go talk to this leader!"

"Oh!"

Walking down the city tower, Ouyang Shuo rode the Qingfu horse and ordered the city guards to open the gates and put down the suspension bridge.

Just as Heiqi was contemplating whether to advance or retreat, he suddenly saw the gates that he couldn't take down open from the inside. As the suspension bridge was slowly placed down, a squad of cavalry appeared at the gate.

Ouyang Shuo led the cavalry across the suspension bridge and over the city protection river untilthey were less than 1000 meters away from the raiders. He shouted to them, "I'm the lord of Shanhai Town, who is your leader? Can he come out to talk?"

Heiqi was shocked, suddenly seeing a young general riding a special horse and wearing exquisite armor. His aura was special.

Hearing his words, Heiqi additionally felt surprised, and a bad premonition rose up from deep within his heart. At this time he didn't dare be too careless and went to the front of the cavalry, shouting, "I'm the leader of the cavalry, Heiqi! I don't know what advice sire has for me?"

Ouyang Shuo nodded, as his reaction wasn't as reckless as a normal raider's." I can't give advice on anything, but as for the situation on the west side, you aren't clear about it so I can help fill you in."

Heiqi had a bad premonition in his heart. On the surface and in outward strength, however, he didn't show it and shouted, "Hen, what will you say?"

Ouyang Shuo started to beat around the bush and said, "Your leader was killed by my bed crossbow. Not only that, but your entire western forces have already surrendered. You don't need me to say more and you should already know what that means. I don't want any more slaughtering. As long as you surrender, I promise I will accept you in the Shanhai Town army."

Ouyang Shuo's shout caused a stir in the cavalry forces.

Heiqi froze, as the worst outcome had occurred. Of course he wouldn't be scared by such simple words by the enemy, scolding, "Lies. This is only your word, how could I trust it?" Hearing Heiqi's words, the raiders became quieter and started to doubt the truth.

Ouyang Shuo gave a sinister laugh, turning around and signaling Lin Yi.

He understood and ordered his men to send Huoda's head to them.

Seeing their main leader's head, the raider cavalry believed that the troops at the west had surrendered. A feeling of despair rushed into their hearts. As for their troops, even if they wanted to run across the floating bridge, it was impossible. After all, the enemy had cavalry and wouldn't allow that to happen.

Heiqi turned around and looked at his terrified men. They had looks of fear and pain. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "We surrender."

"Good!" Ouyang Shuo was delighted.

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Chapter 155 - World's First City

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The moment Heiqi surrendered, a system notification sounded out from Ouyang Shuo's ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for leading Shanhai Town and successfully passing the test, officially upgrading to grade 1 city."

Just at that moment, a golden light shot up from the lord's manor into the sky and spread out wide. The glow stretched out to the new boundaries of the territory before disappearing.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for upgrading to a grade 1 city. Town grade lord's manor automatically upgraded to city grade lord's manor. Randomly selecting 3 basic city grade buildings, player can choose one."

"System notification: random selection complete, the 3 buildings are Chenghuang Temple, teahouse, and jail, please choose!"

"I choose Chenghuang Temple!"

"System notification: The building has been automatically built. Player, please take a look!"

Following which a ring of system notifications sounded.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for becoming the first player in the Chinese region to upgrade to a grade 1 city. Rewarded 2200 merit points!"

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for becoming the first player in the Chinese region..."

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi..."

As compared to the village and township stages, the city stage merit points rewards were double.

The moment the notification went out, the Chinese region was in an uproar. Shanhai Town's upgrade came out of the blue. For the past two days, players had just witnessed Bengalore Town and Free Town failing to upgrade. Everyone thought that all the lord players would learn their lesson and delay their upgrade applications.

Who would have thought that Shanhai Town would still go ahead and do the impossible? Most crucially it had actually succeeded. The Chinese region players felt like they had witnessed history.

Sure enough, shortly after the system notification, a world notification sounded.

"World notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for being the first player in the world to upgrade to grade 1 city, rewarded 4000 merit points, 4000 reputation points, given the title of World's First City!"

"World notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for being the first player in the world.."

"World notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi..."

A strong sense of pride and honor burned in the hearts of all the Chinese players. Many of them were excited. Some who were rash and didn't want to exit and voice their thoughts on the forums spent one gold to shout on the country channel. Anyways, one gold was affordable in the current state of the game.

"1st floor: Qiyue Wuyi has brought glory to the country, amazing!"

"2nd floor: nicely done Qiyue Wuyi!"

"3rd floor: another world first, so amazing!"

"4th floor: Qiyue Wuyi I want to give birth to a monkey with you!"

Ouyang Shuo obviously didn't have energy to bother about the country channel, as he had many things to deal with.

After Heiqi surrendered, Ouyang Shuo ordered Lin Yi to bring the raider cavalry back to the barracks. The organization of the troops would be discussed the next day.

Following which, Ouyang Shuo called Ge Hongliang to his side, asking the Military Affairs Department to tabulate the casualty report. They had to prepare compensation for the casualties and also prepare an organization report for the military to be discussed tomorrow.

After giving his orders, Ouyang Shuo rode the Qingfu horse and hurriedly went towards the square.

Receiving the notification, Bai Hua and the others already knew about the result and didn't remain in the west city tower, returning to the square to prepare to return to their territories via the teleportation formation.

Ouyang Shuo rushed to send them off. After they sent him their congratulations, all of them left. They knew that since Shanhai City had just upgraded, there were a bunch of stuff for him to do so they shouldn't disturb him any longer. Anyways, since the alliance channel was opened, if they had anything they could discuss through the channel.

Before leaving, Feng Qiuhuang told Ouyang Shuo that she had received a pigeon letter that Di Chen's Handan Town had expectedly failed. Ouyang Shuo nodded and didn't say anything.

After sending them off, Ouyang Shuo finally had time to check out the stats after the upgrade.

【Territory】: Shanhai City (Grade 1 City)

【Lord】: Qiyue Wuyi (First Class Earl)

【Title】: The World's First City (Increase town fame by 30%)

【Morale】: 94

【Security】: 92

【Refugee Spawn Rate】: 200 * (1 50%) = 300 / day

【Territory area】: 2000 square kilometers

【Territory Unique Characteristic】: 50% Refugee attraction rate, 25% Special talented people attraction rate, 50% Crop production rate, 25% Productivity of workers, 20% Experience earned by troops, 10% Chances of talented people in the territory to advance a level

【Political】: 55/100 (Affecting the administrative efficiency and morale)

【Economic】: 50/100 (Affecting the trading prosperity and tax)

【Cultural】: 52/100 (Affecting the education development and quality of residents)

【Military】: 58/100 (Affecting the military strength and stability)

【Subsidiary Village】: Beihai Town, Qiushui Town, Friendship Town

【Territory fund】: Four Seas Bank

【Territory Association】: Textile Association

【Territory Industry Properties】: Bei Mu saltpans, Langshan mine, West city ranch, Jifeng valley horse stables

【Territory Specialties】: Lianzhou three flower wine, Colored silk, White tea

【Special Building】: Lianzhou College, Beihai Bay, Sangu hotel, Qingyang Guan

【Hidden Building】: Ma Zu Temple (Sealed), Recruitment Hall, Yellow Emperor temple

Basic buildings list:

【Teahouse】: Provides tea, rest, discussion and a meeting place. Building requirements: Tea professor, Teahouse building blueprints, 4000 units of wood, 8000 units of green brick, 2000 units of stone. Building time: 7 days.

【Blusher powder shop】: Sells blusher powder. Building requirements: Merchant, Blusher powder shop building blueprints, 2000 units of wood, 4000 units of green brick, 2000 units of stone. Building time: 5 days.

【Chenghuang Temple】: Used to pray to and respect Chenghuang. Building requirements: Chenghaung temple building blueprints, 5000 units of wood, 8000 units of green brick, 4000 units of stone. Building time: 10 days.

【Earth Temple】: Temple used to respect and pray to the Earth God. Building requirements: Earth temple building blueprints, 4000 units of wood, 5000 units of green brick, 4000 units of stone. Building time: 7 days.

【Jail】: Place where criminals are locked up. Building requirements: Jail building blueprints, 4000 units of wood, 5000 units of green brick, 5000 units of stone. Building time: 7 days

As compared to the township stage, the city stage stats interface was simpler. In the basic structures, apart from the famous structures, the other structures didn't appear in the stats page.

Entering the city stage, the main focus wouldn't be on the basic buildings and instead on the local specialties and local production. These two decided the difference between territories.

Apart from that, as compared to a grade 3 township, a grade 1 city had other interesting changes.

Firstly was the speed of refugees spawning, the basic rate of 50/day in the township stage had increased to 200/day, and the upper limit of the population had increased a lot.

Based on the specialty of Shanhai Town, to reach the upper limit of the grade 1 city would at most take 1 month.

This was the distinct feature of the game. It was hard to upgrade tiers but easy to get from one grade to another.

Definitely, the reason why it was so fast had something to do with the specialty of Shanhai Town. A normal town would need 50 days to reach the upper limit, nearly twice that of Shanhai Town. The further into the game, the stronger the specialty of Shanhai Town would become.

On the side of basic buildings, a grade 1 city had 5 basic buildings, much less than a township. The basic buildings were all prepared during the township stage, so in the city stage, most of them were expanding their scales and efficiencies.

The 5 basic buildings, the teahouse, and blusher powder shop belonged to business buildings. Chenghuang temple and Earth temple belonged to cultural buildings under the charge of the Culture and Education Division. As for the jail, the procuratorate division was naturally in charge.

A grade 1 city building blueprint cost 200 gold, and other than the Chenghuang Temple that was already built, Ouyang Shuo needed to spend 800 more gold.

Apart from that, the town grade granary, Ancestral Hall, and private school needed to be upgraded to city grade. However, as the Ancestral Hall became the Yellow Emperor temple, there was no need to upgrade it, saving a huge amount of gold.

As for the remaining granary and private school, upgrading to city grade was already their max.

The granary and private school were considered grade 2 village basic buildings, and a city grade blueprint needed 500 gold each, so a total of 1000 gold.

The advanced buildings like the shipyard could be upgraded to a special level, only that it needed a grandmaster level ship builder. Shanhai City's shipyard manager Zheng Dahai was already at the master level, but he was a long way away from the grandmaster level.

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Chapter 156 – Drastic Actions

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Only after checking the new stats of the territory did Ouyang Shuo have the mind to view the new Lord's Manor.

The entire manor had increased by over 3 times and could be compared to the old county government's manor.

The upgraded Lord's Manor was still split into front and back. The difference was now each part had 3 courtyards, connected in a row to form into a grid of 6 courtyards.

Of the 3 big courtyards in the front, the one in the middle had taken over the function of the old front yard. The only difference was apart from the meeting room the lord's office, the various department's offices had all changed into the offices of the various directors.

The lord's office was still to the west of the meeting room. The office was twice the size of the old one. Not only was there a waiting room, but there was a small office for the clerk.

To the west of the meeting room, apart from the lord's office, was the Finance director's office. East of that were 3 offices which only had the Administration director and Material Reserves director, as the last office was still empty. As for the Military Affairs director Zhu Hongliang, he still worked at the military district courtyard.

The patio in the middle of the courtyard had an additional pavilion and other facilities. It made the courtyard look additionally stylish. Between the east and west sides of the courtyard was an open-roof walkway to the two courtyards.

The courtyard to the west held the offices of the various divisions. In the main room as well as in the side rooms, there were a total of 15 offices. As for the divisions under the Administration Department, and those under the Finance Department, Material Reserves Department, and the Auditing Department, all 11 had their own offices.

As for the Procuratorate Division and the Law and Order Division, they shared an office outside.

The east courtyard was a field, and was similar to the barracks in design. The storehouse, accommodations, and canteen were all there. This would be the place for the manor guards to stay in and to be in charge of the safety of the Lord's Manor.

The 3 courtyards in the back were still the living quarters of the lord and his close ones. Ouyang Shuo took the middle one while the ones on the sides were prepared for his female dependents.

The 2 sisters were arranged to stay in the west courtyard. In the past, as they had no choice, the 2 sisters shared the same courtyard as Ouyang Shuo's. Now that they could afford it, of course he had to give the girls their own courtyard.

As for why he didn't give each of them one courtyard, naturally Ouyang Shuo had considered other things.

Seeing that the storms were getting stronger in real life, Ouyang Shuo predicted that the migration project was going to be moved forward. Hence the east courtyard was prepared for Bing'Er.

Apart from that, at the back of the Lord's Manor, there was an additional garden. The 3 courtyards at the back was connected to the garden.

The garden was of much higher class than the design and decoration of the patio. There was a small bridge which overflowed and trees, fish, and birds, there was everything.

As time was limited, Ouyang Shuo didn't look around clearly, taking a quick glance before going to his room and going offline.

In the day when he was at home, Ouyang Shuo wasn't in the mood to pay attention to the forums. One could imagine that the forums were bustling, but they couldn't pique his interest.

After the Battle of Zhuolu, Ouyang Shuo placed priority on the territory upgrade. Now that he'd succeeded, he was thinking about whether to start his plan.

Ever since he got the Yellow Emperor internal cultivation technique, he was feeling very impatient.

It was mentioned that if one wanted to divulge secrets about Earth Online and didn't want to be accused of revealing national secrets, the only way was for players to deduce and guess through things in-game. Like when Ouyang Shuo asked Song Jia to purchase player territories, such an act was legal.

Now that the territory purchasing had reached near the breaking point, what was missing was that final push.

And now, Ouyang Shuo had the ability to tip it over and make everything blow up.

If he anonymously revealed on the forums that the secret manuals in the game could be practiced in real life, that would make the whole world explode.

Originally, even if players obtained authentic secret manuals, it was hard for them to learn them in reality. As the secret manuals was too low-leveled, their effects couldn't be adequately displayed. Secondly, if no players pointed them towards the right way, rarely would there be players who thought that way.

The only people who knew the truth were those that practiced ancient martial arts, and these people would definitely not reveal this secret.

Hence even in the Qingyang sword sect which Feng Qingyang had set up, its disciples learned the emperor rank secret manual, but no one would think to practice it in real life.

Of course Ouyang Shuo would expect there to be some lucky people who managed to get authentic internal force cultivation secret manuals. However, they would need to keep it a secret to protect themselves. Hence until now, no one had exposed any secret related to this.

Obtaining the Yellow Emperor internal cultivation technique was like obtaining a sharp knife to counter attack. His secret manual was obtained through legitimate means. Hence, if he announced that he found out that secret manuals could be practiced in real life, then it would be within his rights. Be it Gaia or the federal government, none of them would be able to punish him.

Ouyang didn't hesitate any longer and switched on his handbrain, going onto the forums. He didn't care about all the other useless and messy news, anonymously posting that he had unintentionally found out that secret manuals worked in real life. He said that he didn't know whether or not it was all in his mind so he wanted other players to verify.

Anyways from start to finish he just pretended to be a lucky fellow, and that he was both scared and excited and just wanted to share it with everyone.

This post was just like throwing down a mine.

Maybe it wouldn't come into effect.

But as long as players paid attention to it and followed the post to try to practice the internal strength force techniques, this news wouldn't be able to stay hidden.

If such a secret were revealed, then everything unusual about Earth Online wouldn't be things that the federal government could continue to hide. They would have no choice but to bring forward the migration project. With that, it would be destroying the greatest advantage and trump card of Di Chen.

It had to be said that this drastic action was very toxic.

As long as the migration was brought forward, then Di Chen and the others wouldn't have an advantage over Ouyang Shuo. Since they were on the same starting line, Ouyang Shuo would have nothing to fear.

The reason why Ouyang Shuo was so confident Gaia wouldn't delete his post was because of the stance of the federal government.

Based on their wishes, they didn't want to hide anything about Earth Online. The current situation was just a compromise they had to do when discussing with the various strong powers. If someone legally revealed insider news, then the federal government would take it as a good thing.

Who knew, perhaps Gaia would also help to hide the identity of the poster, lowering the risk of him being revealed to a minimum.

After posting, Ouyang Shuo logged off the forums and starting to cultivate.

The mine had been buried, and maybe in a few days it would explode. In the game, as he had the first city in the world, Ouyang Shuo had gained an absolute advantage. So one could say that everything had been prepared well by him.

Ouyang Shuo now needed to think about the next step of Shanhai City's development.

Upgrading to a city was a brand-new level. He couldn't use the same management methods as that of a township to manage a city. To say the truth, his ability to control a city was pushing it.

After all, he was an adventure mode player in the last life, and he'd never touched territory building. All the things he knew were basically things he heard in his last life.

In reality, he was just a college student that just graduated. Be it in experience or ability, he was quite limited.

If it weren't for the grind in his last life, he wouldn't have the confidence to lead Shanhai City and its people all the way.

In the current situation, the only thing he could do was to put in more hard work and to learn in the field using the advantage of his last life to accumulate an advantage in the early stages.

Apart from that, he had to be humble and cultivate a desire for learning. He has to treat people well and get more people to trust him. Thinking far ahead was his key to victory.

He had to make use of himself knowing the development direction of the game to make long term plans. Like this, even if his ability was lacking, his men could cover him and allow him to fight head to head with the others.

This was why Ouyang Shuo had focused on developing and bringing in talent. As a lord, he only commanded the big picture and steered the ship in the right direction. The rest depended on his men.

No one was born as a talented person. Only through many trials and turmoils would one succeed. Just like the Han emperor Liu Bang, his many officials and he himself grew up as peasants.

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Chapter 157 - Foreshadowing

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At night during dinner, Ouyang Shuo started having a conversation with Sun Xiaoyue about game matters.

"Xiaoyue, last time you told me that a lot of work occupation players are gathered in Dali?"

Sun Xiaoyue looked at Ouyang Shuo and casually said, "Yeah."

"Are you interested in setting up a guild?"

"Setting up a guild? I don't think I can handle that." Sun Xiaoyue didn't have much interest in it.

"What I mean is, we can build a guild formed up of purely work occupation players. If this were the case, you could bring together all your friends. A guild can open up a guild channel so you can communicate easily." Ouyang Shuo wasn't ready to give up and tried to tempt Xiaoyue.

Sun Xiaoyue was a smart girl, and Ouyang Shuo had such an obvious intention. She wasn't dumb and understood straight away, staring at him and teasing, "Rich man, so what's your plan?" Last time Ouyang Shuo had transferred 300 gold to her and totally scared her.

Ouyang Shuo also knew he was too rash, and embarrassment appeared on his face. Luckily after getting close, he became more thick-skinned and said, "My plan can't be explained in such a short time. Anyways, I'll provide the funds for you to set up a guild. It's a win-win isn't it?"

Sun Xiaoyue looked at Ouyang Shuo weirdly, unexpectedly not bargaining and accepting.

After dinner, Ouyang Shuo had received little aunt Lin Jing's call.

Ever since knowing Ouyang Shuo's real identity, Lin Jing naturally paid attention to everything that happened to Shanhai Town. The escapades of Shanhai Town in the battle map made Lin Jing emotional and she nearly called. After Shanhai Town upgraded to the world's first city, Lin Jing couldn't help it and called to congratulate him.

"Little Shuo, not bad!"

"Thank you, little aunt!"

"I really didn't expect that you could get such great results. Next time little aunt will have to depend on you."

Ouyang Shuo froze and laughed, "Little aunt, stop mocking me." To divert her attention, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to change the topic and said, "Yeah little aunt. I want to work together with the Snow-War Rose Mercenary Group, are you interested?"

"Work together? What kind of work?"

"I hope the mercenary group can set up a separate branch to hire work occupation players. The prerequisite would be that the recruited players would be willing to move."

"Little Shuo do you want to hire work occupation players for your territory?"

"That's right."

"This is something that needs a lot of effort and our mercenary group will have to collect payment." Lin Jing instantly turned into the deputy leader and started to talk business.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, commended her business spirit, and laughed. "Of course I wouldn't make them work for free, you know that we have what you all need."

Lin Jing's eyes brightened and he said with uncertainty, "Equipment?"

"That's right!"

"But, wouldn't you be exposed?" Lin Jing was worried.

Ouyang Shuo felt warm inside, they were family so what they considered first was the safety of the other. Ouyang Shuo smiled mysteriously and said, "It's okay. To build such a branch, it needs a period of time. Whatever happens in the future, who knows? Anyways, you just need to know that I'll pay you. I think Xie Siyun will support you, and with both of your support, this cooperation would work."

Lin Jing looked at Ouyang Shuo and nodded. "As long as you have it planned."

"Thank you, little aunt!"

"You, ah... we're family so why are you being so courteous? Anyways it's a win-win situation, isn't it?"

"Happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!"

The next day, Ouyang Shuo went online on time.

Ouyang Shuo walked out of the room and on the patio, Yingyu and Qing'er were packing up together with Siqin and Siqi. From today, both of them would move to the west courtyard.

Looking at Ouyang Shuo, Yingyu put down the luggage and walked forward, asking with concern, "Big brother, Qing'er and I are moving to the west side courtyard so the main courtyard will only have you. We should hire some more maidservants. You are already a lord of a city and can't be as casual as before. If you don't have anyone to look after you, people would laugh at you."

Ouyang Shuo froze and instantly nodded. "Yingyu, you make sense. How about this, I'll pass this job to you."

Yingyu threw Ouyang Shuo a stare and said unhappily, "Big brother is so lazy."

To hire maidservants for Ouyang Shuo, it wasn't a small issue. The maidservant of him would be the boss of the back courtyard and would have high authority which was higher than Siqi and Siqin. Hence, to handle this well wasn't a simple thing.

Of course, for Cui Yingyu who was born in a large family, this wasn't a difficult matter. Although Ouyang Shuo was so casual in saying that, in truth, he had already considered everything.

Ouyang Shuo didn't bother and asked curiously, "Yingyu, you should make a name for your courtyard."

Yingyu didn't say anything and instead, Qinger smiled gleefully and said, "Big brother, we have already thought of the name and called it Qingyu Courtyard. How is it, is it nice?"

"Qingyu Courtyard? Not bad!"

"Hehe!" Qing'er was clearly satisfied.

Ouyang Shuo didn't stay in the backyard and walked towards the front courtyard.

The front courtyard was as busy as various administrative workers were shifting their work and documents to the side courtyard on the left.

Seeing Ouyang Shuo, Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing walked over and smiled. "The lord's manor has become so big!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded, and thinking about Yingyu and Qing'er naming their courtyard, he felt that the front courtyard should also have a name. He told his intentions to the two who naturally agreed.

Ouyang Shuo knew he wasn't as skilled in this area and said, "As for the naming, I'll rely on both of you."

Tian Wenjing took the lead and said, "During the Ming Dynasty, the palace had Wenhua and Wuying, two halls. Today, for our east and west side courtyards, one is for martial arts and the other is for civil servants, why not just name it Wenhua Courtyard and Wuying Courtyard?"

If it were following history, naming in such a way naturally wasn't correct. Since it was a game, the main map naturally didn't have the Wang Dynasty.

Ouyang Shuo was pleased with this name and looked at Fan Zhongyan. "What do you think about it?"

Although Fan Zhongyan felt that stealing the name was bad, it made sense and showed their ambition so he agreed.

After naming the courtyard, next would be arranging someone to carve the signboards. These matters obviously wouldn't need Ouyang Shuo to personally worry over as his subordinates would handle them.

Ouyang Shuo walked out of the manor and walked towards the barracks. What he cared about most now was the situation with the prisoners and the casualty situation with the Shanhai Town army.

The cavalry unit and the Qiushui Town city protection unit who had rushed over for reinforcement were still in the barracks and hadn't left.

Before Ouyang Shuo left yesterday, he had told Ge Hongliang that he was going to hold a meeting to discuss the problem with the military organization.

The generals gathered in the barracks meeting room.

Ouyang Shuo sat on the elevated platform, looked at Ge Hongliang on the left, and said, "Director Ge, what's the situation with the prisoners and our casualties?"

Ge Hongliang stood up, bowed, and started reporting, "Before reporting the prisoner situation, I'll first report our casualties. The Beihai Naval fleet's first unit lost 50 men. The cavalry unit lost 50 men. The Qiushui Town city defense unit lost 100 men including 50 cavalry and 50 sword shield soldiers. The Shanhai Town city defense unit lost 100 men including 50 archers and 50 sword shield soldiers. The 2 infantry units lost 150 men. The god machine unit lost 10. Apart from that, the peasant forces lost 100 men. In total, a total of 560 men were lost."

Ge Hongliang paused, giving time for them to digest this before continuing, "In this battle, we had a total of 3000 prisoners. Amongst which were 300 water bandits, 700 cavalry, 1000 normal raiders and 1000 elite raiders. Out of the 2000 raiders, 1000 are infantry and 1000 are archers."

After Ge Hongliang reported this, he returned back to his seat.

Ouyang Shuo continued, "What's the reorganization plan of the Military Affairs Department?"

Shi Wanshui and the other generals looked towards Ge Hongliang. This concerned all their interests so they paid a lot of attention to it. Some units lost a lot and badly needed new blood.

Ge Hongliang had become the Military Affairs Director for a long period of time, but being stared at by all the directors, he still felt a shiver down his spine. Luckily he had the support of the lord, or else he wouldn't be able to handle them.

"The Military Affairs Department plans to inject fresh blood into the units that had casualties. With the remaining prisoners, we can build a cavalry unit and 3 infantry units. As for the specifics, we need the lord to decide."

Ge Hongliang didn't suggest any specific plans.

Ouyang Shuo frowned, he could see that Ge Hongliang was pushing away responsibility as the director he himself was lack of confidence. It seemed like in the future he had to find a historical person to take over.

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Chapter 158 - Mixed Regiment

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Ouyang Shuo temporarily ignored his worry towards the Military Affairs Department and announced his military reorganisation plan.

"I agree with a large part of what the Military Affairs Department has said. The casualties in the various units have to be replaced. But not all members must be chosen from within the prisoners."

The reason Ouyang Shuo did that was to show that he supported the Military Affairs Department. The generals seated were no fools and definitely understood. Before choosing a suitable replacement, Ouyang Shuo had to resolutely support Ge Hongliang and act as his shield.

Ouyang Shuo first looked at Pei Donglai and said, "The 300 water bandit prisoners will be handed to the Beihai Naval Fleet. Apart from replacing the 50 soldiers, the remaining 250 can act as the reserve force for the naval fleet for the future expansion of the 3rd unit."

"Yes my lord!" Pei Donglai was surprised that the lord said outright that the Beihai Naval fleet was going to expand. As its commander, Pei Donglai was naturally delighted.

"As for the 2nd leader Huo Liu, just execute him. We have already killed his older brother and there's no way back." Ouyang Shuo ordered. The current him didn't have any psychological burden when ordering executions.

"Understood!"

Ouyang Shuo looked around and looked st Wang Yuanfeng. "The god machine unit is special so the dead 10 soldiers will be recruited from the territory. Apart from that, we must increase development of the reserve force. The future city wall will be able to fit more arcuballistas and will need many more archers."

"Yes my lord!"

Ouyang Shuo looked at Shi Wanshui next and said, "The 15 men from the infantry unit were all elite mountain barbarian warriors. These two units are the future heavy armored infantry unit. My intentions are to transfer 150 men from the Langshan protection unit. As for the soldiers there, we will recruit from the various tribes."

"Yes my lord!" Shi Wanshui didn't have any objections to the Military Affairs Department and since the lord considered everything, he had no reason to do the same.

In the end, Ouyang Shuo looked at Zhao Sihu, Zhang Daniu, and the others and said, "The, city protection unit and the cavalry unit will be reinforced with the raider prisoners."

"Yes my lord!" The three generals acknowledged.

Following which, Ouyang Shuo started to announce his plans for the remaining prisoners.

"Lin Yi!"

"Present!"

"After supplementing the cavalry unit, immediately return to Friendship Town's north camp. The cavalry unit will be named the vanguard unit and will now be under Friendship Town."

"Thank you lord, for the name!" Although they were removed from the main camp, Lin Yi knew the responsibility which was bestowed upon him.

From their name, it wasn't hard to see that their role was to act as the knife against the nomad tribes. Their importance was obvious.

"Director Ge!"

"Present!"

The Military Affairs Department needs to make an army flag for the vanguard unit. The design will follow the lord's flag design and change the golden dragon to a cross of the horse lance and Tang Sword."

"Roger that!"

Ouyang Shuo's orders made the other generals and leaders of the units look towards Lin Yi with envy. Apart from the god machine unit, the vanguard unit was the 2nd to be given a name and was the first to be given an army flag. This honor made everyone mad with envy.

Lin Yi laughed on the inside, these usually calm and composed young men were emotional and he said, "All members of the vanguard unit thank my lord for the army flag, and we won't let you down!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded and continued. "Li Mingliang."

"Present!"

"I order you to form another cavalry unit out of the 600 cavalry raiders. The remaining 100 will be sent to the reserve force."

"Yes, my lord!"

"The newly built unit will move into the city's west camp, and you will be its major."

"Thank you my lord, and I won't let you down!" Li Mingliang was very emotional.

Ouyang Shuo waved him off and continued. "The cavalry unit 2nd squadron captain Sun Tengjiao will become the 1st squadron captain. The 3rd squadron captain Liaokai will become the 2nd squadron captain. The 4th squadron captain Guoliang will become the newly built cavalry unit's 1st squadron captain. The original calvary unit's 5th squadron captain Suwang will become the 2nd squadron captain of the new cavalry unit."

"Yes my lord!"

Ouyang Shuo didn't have any biases, and the remaining 4 captains were equally assigned to both cavalry units. The only difference was that the vanguard unit was a heavily armored calvary unit, and the newly built one would be lightly armored.

After arranging the cavalry, Ouyang Shuo looked at Shi Wanshui once again. "General Shi, I order you to build a bowmen unit and a pikemen unit from the remaining raiders. The two infantry units and the newly built cavalry unit, bowmen unit and pikemen unit will become the first mixed regiment of Shanhai County. You will be the colonel and be in charge of the city's west camp."

Shi Wanshui replied loudly. "Thank you my lord for your trust, I won't let you down!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded and announced the personnel appointments. "The first unit of the regiment will be the infantry first unit, and the major will be Shihu. The second unit is the second infantry unit, and the major will be Shibao. The third unit is the cavalry unit, and the major will be Li Mingliang. The fourth unit is the pikemen unit, and the major will be Zhaoyan. The last unit is the bowman unit, and the major will be Jiangkai."

"Thank you sire, for your trust!" They all replied in unison.

At this point, all the captains that had reached the basic general level had been promoted to major. Major was a bottleneck, and to become a colonel, one needed to be an intermediate general.

What was key was that for those normal soldiers who changed class to basic generals, to upgrade once more would be highly difficult. Most of them would be stuck and would never be able to break through.

Only those with immense talent, after training and stimulating their potential could be able to break through to intermediate general.

Just as all the generals thought that all the reorganisation had ended, Ouyang Shuo didn't disperse the meeting. "The upgraded Lord's Manor has a new drill courtyard known as the Wuying Courtyard. This means that it's time to build a guards army. The current guards army will be a squadron. The members won't be newly recruited and will be chosen from the various units. To become a member of the guards army, one must be an elite and must be good at archy and riding."

"Lord, don't worry, the mixed regiment will push forward our best warriors," the newly appointed colonel Shi Wanshui said.

"The five hundred men of the vanguard unit are at your disposal." Lin Yi followed.

Following which, all the other majors also said the same thing.

As for the newly built guards army, all the generals agreed with it. All the generals were personally brought up by Ouyang Shuo. Now to build a guards army, they all wanted their best soldiers to be chosen as it would be the utmost honour.

Ouyang Shuo laughed happily and said, "The selection will be done by the captain."

"Wang Feng!"

"Present!"

"You are appointed the Guards squadron captain and are in charge of the selection of members."

"Thank you lord for your trust, I won't let you down!" Wang Feng's face was really emotional.

During the military reorganisation, all the captains were promoted, and only Wang Feng didn't get a new role which made everyone feel weird. One must know that out of all the captains, he was one of the best.

As the disciple of Bajiquan master Lin Yue, Wang Feng's potential was greater than majors like Zhao Sihu and breaking through to intermediate general was sure to happen. As for advanced general, that would be up to fate.

Today, the answer was revealed.

Although Wang Feng was a captain, he had more power than a normal major.

From what the lord had described, the future Guards army would be made up of soldiers that surpassed a grade 9 elite soldier. They wouldn't just be skilled in a single type, but would be skilled in all areas.

That was right, the future Guards squadron was a special force in Ouyang Shuo's eyes and the elite of the elite. Because of such strict demands, Ouyang Shuo decided that it would just be a squadron.

Shi Wanshui, Lin Yi and the other generals that participated in the Battle of Zhuolu expected such an arrangement. During the Battle of Zhuolu, Wang Feng followed closely beside Ouyang Shuo and had in actuality done the job of a Guards squadron captain.

If any other general took up that role, some other general would be unhappy. Only Wang Feng would make everyone happy and accept the decision.

The military always worshipped the strong, and in terms of skill, Shi Wanshui was the best. Under him would be Lin Yi, Sun Tengjiao and Wang Feng. Even the intermediate general Pei Donglai was weaker than the three of them.

Hence, Wang Feng as the guards squadron captain was highly suitable.

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Chapter 159 - Guild Token

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After announcing the setting up of the guards squadron, Ouyang Shuo ended the meeting.

After which, he ordered them to immediately return to their camps after replenishing their forces. Especially the vanguard unit which needed to return to the North camp.

Of the 300 Qingfu horses obtained during the Qingming Operation, 100 were lost during the Battle of Zhuolu. Of the remaining 200, Ouyang Shuo wanted to leave 150 for the Guards squadron and the other 50 to the Military Intelligence Division.

Originally, the unit that needed the Qingfu horses the most was the vanguard unit. But to confuse the Tianfeng tribe, they couldn't assign them horses that weren't obtained from them.

Hence, the vanguard unit still had a shortfall of 400 Qingfu Horses. Luckily, the Tianfeng tribe had sent someone to contact Zhou Haichen to tell them that they had intentions of trading again.

When Ouyang Shuo received the letter from Zhou Haichen, he gave power to Friendship Town to purchase Qingfu Horses and equip the vanguard unit in the shortest amount of time.

Walking out of the barracks, Ouyang Shuo made a trip to the Military Affairs Department.

In the Military Affairs Department meeting room, Ouyang Shuo gathered the 3 heads of the Military Intelligence Division.

"My lord, is there anything big going on?" Songsan had a face filled with excitement.

During the military meeting, Songsan also joined, and only the Military Intelligence Division didn't get any plans, which disappointed Song San. Today, for the lord to call them alone was a huge signal.

Unfortunately, Ouyang Shuo dealt them a blow right away and said in a low tone,"To put it bluntly, towards the recent work by the Military Intelligence Division, I'm not pleased. Your intelligence can't keep up with the enemy and it makes me disappointed."

Song San's face turned white and immediately stood up, kneeling on the ground and said with panic, "I've not done my job well, please punish me!"

Leng Qian and Lei Xun had a face full of regret and immediately knelt on the ground.

Ouyang Shuo's criticism was like lighting to the Intelligence Division. If it were spread out, all members of the division won't be able to lift their heads up.

Seeing the 3 of them blame themselves, Ouyang Shuo told them to stand. "Stand up, if others see it, what will they think?"

"Yes my lord!" Song San and the others stood up and returned to their seats, the fear on their faces didn't go away.

"I know the three of you aren't experienced and you learned everything from scratch. For you to pick up this job is also really difficult. But I have no choice as I lack talent in this area, so I can only squeeze the three of you." Ouyang Shuo was very thorough in his words.

"We are sorry for failing my lord!" Song San and the rest were touched. This young man was one of the earliest original sergeants in Shanhai Village. As he was smart, he was placed in charge of the Military Intelligence Division.

The heavens pitied him, and this Military Affairs secretary, who didn't have anything when he came to the village, was given a position.

Following which, in the Military Intelligence Division appeared Lengqian and Lei Xun, two elite spies whose fame overtook his. Luckily, Ouyang Shuo didn't lose faith in him and allowed him to remain as the secretary.

Even Leng Qian and Lei Xun could only be considered learned personnel and weren't experts.

Hence, to say the truth, for the Military Intelligence Division to get to such a level wasn't easy.

Unfortunately, Ouyang Shuo held too high a hope for this division. He was clear that intelligence was very important in a war. That was why since the village grade level he had formed up the Military Intelligence Division. He wished that the division could, through practical experience, grow and develop step by step.

Sadly, intelligence work was a very specific and professional job. The skills used weren't things that someone on the outside could understand. Hence, that was why even until now the Military Intelligence Division was so lacking.

Ouyang Shuo had a headache, and helplessly since he couldn't win by quality, he needed to win by quantity. He looked at the 3 of them and said, "I've decided to expand the division once again to 200 people. Apart from the current two teams, there will be a new special operations team. Songsan will be in charge of that. During this period of time, you guys will develop a group of elite spies. To increase the efficiency, the Transport Division will provide you with 50 Qingfu horses."

"Thank you, my lord, for your trust!" Song San took the lead and said gratefully.

Ouyang Shuo waved him off and continued. "Apart from that, I'll give the three of you some mission. Song San will lead the special team to investigate the western region. Leng Qian will lead the first team and investigate the eastern region, including the mountain barbarian tribes. Lei Xun will lead the second team and continue investigating the north."

"Yes my lord!"

"I'll give you a month and you must give me exact details of the east and west, and create a map of the regions for the upcoming war." Ouyang Shuo turned his eyes to the territories on the side, holding bad intentions.

"Yes my lord!"

From the Military Affairs Department's reorganization, this would use up large amounts of gold.

It would cost 1900 gold to pay the dead soldiers' families, the newly-built 3 units and 1 guards squadron, and the added Military Intelligence Division team.

With that, only 200 gold was left from the 2000 that Ouyang Shuo had left.

The last 200 didn't last for long as Ouyang Shuo used it to purchase a guild token, and sent it to Sun Xiaoyue for her to use it in Dali to build a work occupation guild.

The empty-handed Ouyang Shuo didn't even have any money to buy a grade 1 county building blueprint. He could only wait for the month to end for Langshan mining field and Northern Saltpans to hand over their profits.

Dali,

Sun Xiaoyue was just shopping along with her friends when suddenly a notification appeared by her ear.

"System notification: you have an anonymous package, will you accept it?"

Sun Xiaoyue instantly remembered the conversation she had with Ouyang Shuo and muttered, "Accept!"

A white line shone across, and in her storage bag, a guild token appeared.

Similar to the village creation token, guild tokens were split into copper, black iron, silver and gold. The different level guild tokens would allow a different number of players and have different guild specialties.

A copper guild token had an upper limit of 100 men and had no guild specialty. A black iron token had a limit of 1000 men and 1 specialty. Silver guild tokens had a limit of 10 thousand men and 2 specialties. A gold guild token would have a limit of 100 thousand men and 3 guild specialties.

Normally speaking, a guild with a copper token would be known as a small guild, a black iron guild as a medium-sized guild, and silver and gold guilds as large-sized guilds.

In theory, a large-sized guild would at most have 100 thousand members. But in truth, one could use many different ways to increase that upper limit.

Of course, to control a 100 thousand member guild was impossible without a strong and efficient team.

Hence, behind the top 10 guilds, there would at least be a workshop behind them. Some of them even had investments from financial institutions to have professional teams to manage the guild.

So for some solo players to use their high levels and fame to build a large-scale group, the guild would either be controlled by financial groups, or would run the risk of disbanding.

The players in the game were even more practical than in real life. They wouldn't join based on reputation and be a slave for the guild. Especially as this game affected real life, there wasn't such a chance.

The difference with the village creation token was that the guild token could be upgraded from doing quests, and the guild specialty could be selected and wasn't fixed.

For guilds like the Snow-War Rose Mercenary guild, which were in the top 10, they started off with the lowest copper grade token, and through doing quests upgraded its level. At this stage, all the guild tokens they used were all at least silver rank.

On the current market, a copper guild token cost 10 gold. The black iron grade ones needed 200 like the one Ouyang Shuo built.

As for silver rank guild tokens, only the 10 big guilds had them. The golden rank guild tokens were a real mystery and weren't something that current adventure game mode players could get.

Upgrading the guild token through guild quests was pretty easy early in the game. Like the 10 big guilds, many high-end players used less than half a year to upgrade their guild tokens from the lowest level to the silver rank.

However to upgrade it from silver to the gold rank, one needed a long and arduous journey.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that the largest guild in China, the Blood Evil Mercenary guild, had taken one and a half years to upgrade to a gold rank guild token.

Of course, apart from an additional guild specialty, for the 10 big guilds, the silver guild token was already enough. After all, they could set up branch guilds for other members.

The core members hadn't actually reached a total of 10 thousand members. The so-called core members were basically the loyal members and ones which were paid a salary.

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Chapter 160 - Fallen Moon Guild

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Staying on topic, Sun Xiaoyue received Ouyang Shuo's guild token and was thinking about setting up the guild. She didn't have any heart to continue shopping.

She turned around and looked at her buddies. "Luoluo, let's set up a guild and play together."

Luoluo's full title was "Fallen Leaf of Autumn". She was a 21 year old university student, an intermediate alchemist, and Sun Xiaoyue's best friend in the game. "Setting up a guild? How do we have enough money? The guild token is very expensive. We can't exactly buy a copper token right?"

Sun Xiaoyue took out the black iron guild token from her storage bag and raised it in the air, saying gleefully, "Look, what is this?"

"Ya, a black iron guild token."

"Thats right!"

"Xiaoyue, when did you become so rich, you took out 200 gold a few days ago and it was already scary enough, now you take out a black iron guild token. This token costs 200 gold." Luoluo looked at Sun Xiaoyue. "Say the truth Xiaoyue, do you have a sugar daddy?"

Sun Xiaoyue's face turned red and her embarrassment turned into fury. "Stupid brat, what are you saying? This was sent to me by my friend. It's not free, I actually sold my body for it."

"Ha? I thought you said you didn't have a sugar daddy, now you even sold your body?"

"You..." Sun Xiaoyue knew that this time she couldn't explain herself, and she didn't want to continue on with this topic.

"Anyways I'm going to set up a guild, so would you like to join in?"

As expected, Luoluo excitedly said, "Join, of course I'll join. The black iron rank guild token has a specialty. And also, I want to be the deputy guild leader."

Sun Xiaoyue once again had control and said excitedly, "You want to be the deputy leader?"

"En."

"Call me older sister and I'll agree."

"Ya, but we are the same age and even the same month, so why should I call you older sister?"

"Are you going to call me that? If not, your deputy guild leader position is going to fly away."

Luoluo suddenly went right next to Xiaoyue and dragged. "Sister~ Sister~"

"Tsk, you might as well have not even called..."

"I don't care, I've already called you. Quick, let's go register!"

Sun Xiaoyue rolled her eyes and said, "What's the rush, call Hui Tuban and the rest. We can't have only the two of us in the guild right?"

"Right right, let's send a pigeon letter and ask them to meet us us at Yamen."

Dali Region Yamen

Sun Xiaoyue and Luoluo reached there first, and 10 minutes later, 3 male players walked over.

Seeing the 3 males that were late, Luoluo grumbled, "Ya, you're really guys, actually making us two girls wait for you..."

"Big miss, we rushed over from the school." The one that spoke had an average body. He looked normal and his name was Wuchi. However, as his Chinese name was pronounced the same as shameless, he was thus called that. They all studied at the imperial city architectural college but their main course was bridge design

Wuchi and Luoluo were boyfriend and girlfriend in real life. It was through Wuchi that Xiaoyue met Luoluo and became best friends.

Of the other two males, one was slightly thin and was called Hui Tuban. From his ID, one would know that he specialised in city planning.

The last guy who was slightly fatter was called Jiu Duanxian, and he was a map drawer.

"Ok, since everyone is here, let's give our guild a name before we register."

"We are all from the architectural college, so why not call it architectural colleague guild?" Hui Tuban said.

"That's such a terrible name. No good, no good." Luoluo disagreed.

Jiu Duanxian laughed. "Luoluo, although you don't belong to the college, you can be counted it's sister-in-law."

"Haha!" the rest laughed as Luoluo chased him around.

After fooling around, Wuchi said seriously, "I've thought of a name."

"What?"

"Tumu Castle!"

"Ha?"

"Think about it, it sounds cool and has to do with our occupations."

"Tsk~"

She turned and looked at Luoluo. "Luoluo, do you have any good ideas?"

Luoluo thought about it seriously. "Xiaoyue, why not combine our names and call it Luoyue Guild (Fallen Moon Guild), let's not care about this bunch of stupid guys."

"En." Sun Xiaoyue nodded. "I agree, what do you guys think?"

Under Luoluo's forceful eye, Wuchi had no choice but to agree.

"Yea! Three votes and majority wins!" Luoluo didn't bother about Hui Tuban and Jiu Duanxian, and ended the voting.

Hui Tuban and Jiu Duanxian. These two bros looked at one another and laughed bitterly. "Ai, so inhumane, so inhumane."

Luoluo didn't bother with them and pulled Sun Xiaoyue into Yamen.

Sun Xiaoyue passed over the guild token and received the form, filling up the basic information before handing it over once again.

In the end, after paying the 1 gold fee, the guild was formed. Such high efficiency.

After Fallen Moon Guild was formed, Sun Xiaoyue kept her promise and promoted Luoluo to deputy guild leader, appointing the other three as elders. The deputy guild leader and the elders had the ability to recruit members. As for kicking members, only the guild leader had that power.

After forming the guild, the guild channel was instantly opened, and one didn't need to pay a fee to talk.

The black iron rank guild token allowed them to choose a guild speciality. As it was going to be set as a work occupation guild, Sun Xiaoyue chose the specialty which was- Raise skill familiarity by 10%.

Every member would wear the badge of the guild. The guild badge was designed as a circular moon and on it, and a group of people sat on the moon.

The guild badge was also jewelry, and the guild specialty would be activated through the badge. If one removed it, the guild specialty would fail to work.

Walking out of the Yamen, Sun Xiaoyue looked to her partners and said, "I've told Luoluo that setting up this guild was a mission by a friend. He's a lord and hopes that we could recruit work occupation players through the guild."

"Joining the guild, does it mean joining the territory?" Hui Tuban asked.

Sun Xiaoyue shook her head. "Of course not, everyone can make their own choice."

"What's the territory of your friend called, is it great?" What Wuchi cared about was strength.

Sun Xiaoyue gave an awkward laugh. "I also don't know what his territory is called. But what I can be sure of is that it's strong. He paid for my training fees and also for this guild token."

"Sugar daddy!" Luoluo started once again.

"Go to hell!"

"Xiaoyue, what you mean is for us to help and recruit work occupation players for the territory right?" Out of the 4 of them, Jiu Duanxian was the most rational and the smartest.

"That's right. With the guild specialty of Fallen Moon Guild, it wouldn't be too hard to recruit people. Only because of there being the territory, hence we must hold a careful selection. Only those who are willing to move over and have high potential will be selected." Sun Xiaoyue explained.

Jiu Duanxian nodded. "Don't worry, we will help you!"

"Yea!"

"Lets go and recruit people!" Luoluo loved having more people around.

Jianye, the base of the Snow-War Rose mercenary group.

"Jing Jing, are you saying that your nephew wants to work with us?" Xie Siyun who was the War Rose in the game asked with uncertainty.

"Yes!"

"Has he told you his identity?" Xie Siyun understood Lin Jing too well and guessed the meaning right away.

Lin Jing didn't find it unexpected at all and nodded. "That's right. But I temporarily can't tell you."

The two of them had formed an understanding spanning many years, and shared everything with one another. Since Linjing wouldn't say it, Xie Siyun wouldn't ask. "How does he want to work with us?"

"The mercenary group will help him build a work occupation group, and his territory will provide equipment." Lin Jing didn't hide anything.

"Equipment?"

"That's right. Believe me, we won't lose out on this trade." Lin Jing knew that without revealing a bit more, she wouldn't be able to convince her.

"Oh?"

"I really can't say."

"Ok, as expected your nephew isn't simple and has huge ambition."

"So does that mean you agree?" Lin Jing was elated.

"You already promised him, what choice do I have?" Xie Siyun said helplessly.

"Haha, Siyun you are the best."

"Okay, since it's a cooperation, we must be sincere in doing it. You will personally be in charge of the guild. I'm actually curious about what type of equipment he can provide us that makes you so eager." War-Snow Rose Mercenary guild being able to expand to its level was because of the trust between the two.

"En." Lin Jing nodded. "I heard that the few guilds in Jianye have been gearing up. It seems like they are forming an alliance, so we must be wary."

Xie Siyun laughed. "They are staring at our best guild in Jianye Crown."

"What are your thoughts?"

"Let them do what they want. A bunch of stupid fellows, what can they do?"

"Are we really going to not care?" Lin Jing was still a little worried.

"Relax, trust me."

"Ok, as long as you have things planned out." Lin Jing had a lot of faith in Xie Siyun.

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Chapter 161 - Chenghuang Temple

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Ouyang Shuo returned to the lord's manor.

When he passed the clerk's office and saw Bai Nanpu who was arranging some documents, he suddenly remembered something and said, "Nanpu, about the administrative meeting this month, let's set it on the 25th. Go inform each division to prepare. Since we just upgraded, ask all of them to prepare a specific report on the next stage of their work."

"Yes, sire!" Bai Nanpu jotted it down.

"Oh ya, and also please ask Director Tian to come to my office."

"Okay." Bai Nanpu nodded, turning around and exiting the office.

Ouyang Shuo walked into the guest room and picked up the teaware, personally brewing a pot of white tea.

When Tian Wenjing entered and saw Ouyang Shuo brewing the tea, he was astonished and rushed up to help. "This kind of tough job, how can I let sire do it?"

Ouyang Shuo waved him off and invited him to sit across him, smiling. "The way of the tea is broad and profound. By occasionally doing it, one can wipe away one's annoyance." As he said it, he pushed the cup of tea in front of Tian Wenjing.

Tian Wenjing hurried and picked up the teacup, taking a few sips before putting it down.

After the greeting, Ouyang Shuo got straight to the point. "If I shift you away from the Material Reserves Department, I'm saying if, then whom out of the 3 secretaries and the deputy director do you think could become the director?"

Tian Wenjing froze, he originally thought that Ouyang Shuo had called him to discuss work and didn't expect him to drop such a bombshell, shifting him away from the Material Reserves Department for what cause?

For a moment, Tian Wenjing hesitated and didn't know how to reply.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head and smiled. "You don't need to worry about anything, just give me your objective comments."

Since Ouyang Shuo had put it like that, he had no choice but to answer. Tian Wenjing calmed himself down and went into deep thought, summarizing the 4 people one by one in his head.

The Deputy Director Yuan Shaoping was promoted because of the gold mine. His professionalism was undoubted but his administrative skills were hindered by his birth, and adding with Langshan mining field being so far from the main camp, Yuan Shaoping didn't have the chance to attend the Lianzhou College. Hence, he was lacking much. Furthermore, the current Langshan mining field needed this manager and he wouldn't be able to leave at the moment.

The Resource Division Secretary Du Xiaolan was the disciple of Finance Department director Cui Yingyu. Unfortunately, as she had spent too short a time by Yingyu's side, she didn't learn everything needed. Managing the Resource Division already pushed her to her limit and wanting to take a step up was even more difficult. Not anyone could become the second Cui Yingyu.

The secretary of the Transport Division Zheng Shanpao was similarly a country bumpkin. The jobs of the Transport Division was fairly simpler. After building the Jifeng valley horse stables, most of his efforts have been placed there. He wouldn't be able to remove himself all of the sudden, and also his ability was lacking, making it hard for him to take up such an appointment.

The one Tian Wenjing admired the most was the Saltpan Division Secretary Zhang Shen Zhui.

This young man had excelled during the year-end exams and have been intelligently utilized by Ouyang Shuo. After taking over the division, he used a short time to get in on track. The Northern Saltpans had undergone many expansions but no major mistakes and errors had occurred. This secretary could take much of the credit for it.

What was rare was that Shen Zhui was flexible and had a strong desire to learn. During his free time, he would improve himself at the Lianzhou college or follow beside Tian Wenjing to learn about administrative matters.

The only thing to worry about was that he was too young and lacked experience.

As compared to Fan Zhongyan, Tian Wenjing was more direct and after consideration, he said without hesitation, "Since sire asked then I'll say boldly. If I were to recommend one person to take over as the director then I feel that out of the four, Shen Zhui is the most suitable."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, as he too also felt that Shen Zhui was suitable for the job.

After Tian Wenjing finished, he was still rattled and uneasy, and this naturally couldn't escape Ouyang Shuo's eyes. "Sir, do you have any concerns?"

"Yes, sire!" Tian Wenjing was really direct.

Ouyang Shuo picked up the teacup and took a mouthful before saying, "To speak the truth, putting you in the Material Reserves Department is wasting your ability. Only that last time we didn't have anyone to chair the department, so we used the easy way out. Now that the department has gone on the right track and had someone like Shen Zhui to take over, it's the best time for you to move on."

Tian Wenjing's emotions quickly picked up and he asked, "Sire is saying?"

"Don't worry, during this month's administrative meeting I'll tell all of you." Ouyang Shuo didn't want to reveal it too early.

Sending away Tian Wenjing, it was already near noon. All the workers and officials that had been busy for the entire morning left the manor and went back home for their meals.

Ouyang Shuo stood up and went to the backyard. Although Yingyu and Qing'er had moved to the adjacent buildings, they still ate their means in the main courtyard. In Qing'er's words, she couldn't let big brother be too lonely.

In truth, in the entire back courtyard, only the main courtyard didn't have a kitchen. The chef was Wang Shen, whom Gu Sanniang had personally chosen before she left, an intermediate chef.

The dining table was filled with many dishes. There were chicken, duck, fish, meat, vegetables, and fruits. Nothing was lacking.

Ever since the jewelry shop opened, its business was booming. Many especially bought copper and silver jewelry. The migrants had nothing, and even if they had money or valuables, they were all stolen by raiders. Now that their lives were stable, naturally they started to buy jewelry.

Only with the profits of the jewelry shop was it enough to maintain the daily expenses of the lord's manor.

The economy of the territory after 3 months of constant stimulation had shown signs of prosperity. Based on Yingyu's reaction, the 5th month's financial output had finally crossed 2000 gold.

Qing'er, that brat, was now a rich girl as the business of the garment workshop was booming.

As Shanhai Town upgraded to Shanhai City, the rate of migrants entering had increased again. Qing'er had already discussed with Wuni to increase the scale of the garment workshop.

The few of them were talking at the table.

"Big brother, guess what? In the morning when I spread the news that the lord's manor wanted to hire a maidservant for you, instantly there were a bunch of young girls that rushed forward. Of those that came, many were from rich families. Seems like big brother's charm is too much." Yingyu joked.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "Yingyu you must choose wisely. We are choosing a maidservant, not a wife, don't waste their futures."

"Big brother is really heartless. I really don't know what kind of girl is befitting of big brother."

Ouyang Shuo stared at her. "Eat your food, now you dare to even tease your big brother."

"Big brother, you're so overbearing." Qing'er spoke up for Yingyu.

Ouyang Shuo looked at Qing'er with surprise, turning around to look Yingyu. "Our little brat, why are you so quiet today, it's not your style."

Yingyu laughed. "Qing'er is worrying about the garment workshop. The garment workshop wants to expand its scale but the business district doesn't have any extra space, as it was mostly taken by the other big workshops."

No wonder she was so quiet, this girl had been thinking too much about money. He looked at her. "Silly brat, don't worry, why didn't you tell brother, I would have solved it for you."

"Big brother is so busy, I couldn't bear to create more problems for you." Qing'er was considerate and thoughtful.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. Recently he had not been thinking about this little sister.

"Okay, don't worry. The planning of the territory is about to appear. The second city wall will also start production. After it's built, there will be a lot of space for you to expand your workshop."

"Really?" Qing'er's eyes instantly brightened.

"When did brother ever lie to you?"

"Yay, thank you big brother."

"Ok, eat your food."

"En." Her worries were gone and she became a lot more joyous.

In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo took the time to visit the Chenghuang temple.

The earliest "Chenghuang" wasn't a god but it referred to the moat outside the city. The earliest meaning of "Chenghuang" was derived from Shuiyong.

The earliest god they prayed to was the "Shuiyong God", then it slowly became the protector god of the suburbs, becoming "Chenghuang god". Chenghuang was one of the lords of the underworld and his scope was something like the magistrate. His job was to remove evil and to protect the city.

Based on historical texts, in 239 BC there was already a Chenghuang temple. During the Tang Dynasty, they prayed to him during the county festivals and only during the Song Dynasty did the custom really become common. Ever county with a magistrate would also have a Chenghuang temple.

The feudal government had listed praying to Chenghuang into the sacrificial ceremonies, mostly praying for rain, sun, and no fires. The people said that "The god that was closest to the commoners was Chenghuang."

Ever since the Ming dynasty, any county magistrate or official would pray to Chenghuang, and when it was the first day of the job, they would visit the Chenghuang temple in the morning.

Shanhai Town's Chenghuang temple was naturally built in the in the culture and education district, together with the Mazu temple and the Yellow Emperor temple, turning into a group of temples.

After the Chenghuang temple was built, the Culture and Education Division had already arranged man to maintain the Chenghuang temple.

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Chapter 162 - Difficult Question

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The real world

During breakfast, Sun Xiaoyue raised the topic of building the Fallen Moon guild to Ouyang Shuo.

"You are quite fast!" Ouyang Shuo was surprised.

"Well of course!"

Talking about that, Sun Xiaoyue was a bit demoralized and said embarrassingly, "Apart from a few of my friends, those that joined yesterday didn't reach 10 people."

"How come? Did you set the requirements too high?" In the last life, Ouyang Shuo also played in a guild and made a few close brothers and sisters, building the Liangshan Mercenary group together. The leader was big brother Songpu. Who knew if there would be an appearance of Liangshan Mercenary group in this life?

As for the dispute with Songpu in the last life, the anger had disappeared after Ouyang Shuo was reborn.

However, Ouyang Shuo wasn't sure how he would feel if he saw Songpu again. He wondered whether or not he could put everything down and become friends again, or if they'd just be passersby in each other's lives.

Sun Xiaoyue shook her head and said helplessly, "When I was recruiting, I found that most players who fit the requirements had joined big guilds. The remaining were solo players who didn't want to join guilds. We can't exactly invite players that are messed up or are here just for the guild buffs."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "You're right, quality over quantity."

"However, now that we can't get people, what should we do?" Sun Xiaoyue wasn a proud person and didn't want to accept defeat.

Ouyang Shuo drank a mouthful of her soybean drink and said, "Don't worry. Those solo players that don't want to join guilds just don't want to be bounded by the guild. They are actually the people with the most potential and whom we are looking out for. We must first make them trust us and show that that our guild is a place for work occupation players. We won't have any restrictions on them and won't need them to complete any quests. Anyways, we also won't plan on upgrading the guild."

Sun Xiaoyue's eyes brightened and she smiled. "You're right, this is worth a shot. However, we might end up with nothing in the end."

Ouyang Shuo laughed confidently. "Don't worry, as long as they join, they won't be able to escape me."

Sun Xiaoyue lips twitched. "Tsk, you're bragging again. If you mess it up, you're going to cry."

Ouyang Shuo didn't pay attention to her nagging and looked at Bing'er. "Baby have you finished eating? Brother will send you to school."

Bing'er was fighting with the omelette and upon hearing Ouyang Shuo rush her, she gobbled down the remaining piece. It was only that she couldn't speak now.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "Relax, eat slowly."

The little brat struggled to chew, finally swallowing the egg into her tummy. She took the tissue that Ouyang Shuo passed over and wiped her little mouth elegantly, giggling. "Yes brother, I'm full. Let's go!" She carried her little bag that was placed on sofa and led the way to the door.

On the way to school, Bing'er looked up at Ouyang Shuo and frowned. "Brother, Sister Xiaoyue and you have been talking about games. Bing'er doesn't understand."

Ouyang Shuo patted her head and said, "That's because it's an adult game, so it's okay if you don't understand."

"Oh. Bing'er feels that playing catching with Xue'er is more fun."

Talking about that, Ouyang Shuo got a headache. "It's all because of you. Xue'er became mischievous and hid my socks..."

"Hehe!" The little brat laughed like a little fox. Actually, she had asked Xue'er to do that.

"You cannot be like this in school."

Bing'er was unhappy and muttered, "I'm so well behaved in school. Even the teachers praise me."

"That's good." Ouyang Shuo looked up. They had already reached the school gate. "We're here, go in yourself. While coming home, stay safe on the road!"

"En, bye bye brother!" Bing'er waved goodbye to Ouyang Shuo before hopping to school.

When he went back home, Ouyang Shuo started to cultivate.

Ever since learning the Yellow Emperor internal cultivation technique, he had not been practicing bajiquan in reality. As for the Yang family spear technique, he didn't even meet the cultivation requirements. Luckily, internal cultivation was the core.

When he finished, it was already close to noon.

After taking a break, he opened his handbrain and went onto the forums. He found his anonymous post to see if anyone replied.

As expected, there were people that had noticed the post. However, everyone thought that he was bluffing on purpose, and wrote it to attract attention. Those impolite ones even said that he was retarded and couldn't differentiate between reality and the virtual world.

Ouyang Shuo laughed humorously. It seemed like the number of people that learned authentic secret techniques in the game was so small that none had seen his post.

In the forums, a post like this which was done anonymously was easily forgotten and drowned out. Ouyang Shuo couldn't bump it up too vigorously, or else his intentions would be very obvious.

However, Ouyang Shuo wasn't worried. As long as one or two people who cultivated in authentic secret techniques saw this post, it wouldl gain traction.

On the forums, the news about Shanhai City was still the hot topic. Apart from that, Handan Town failing was also being discussed, and poor Di Chen was getting destroyed.

Shanhai City's upgrade had motivated all the other lords. Following the failures of Sanli Town, Bengalore Town, and Free Town, many players were scared . At least now players knew that the upgrade quest could be completed, and that it wasn't a death quest.

One could predict that the next wave of upgrade applications would soon come.

Other than that, the process of the Shanhai Town's upgrade piqued much curiosity. In the past, be it Sanli Town, Free Town or Bengalore Town, they were all very high-key and didn't lock down any information. As for Free Town, the lord had even done a live stream of the whole process.

Only Shanhai Town kept it low-key, and apart from the Shanhai Alliance, no one knew. The same went for the specific battle process.

Everyone was very curious how Shanhai Town had completed such a high difficulty quest. Unfortunately, this was going to be a mystery, and the originally Shanhai Town which was getting clearer had again worn a newly mysterious veil.

Getting off the forums, Ouyang Shuo started searching for historical information, especially regarding the next battle. In the last life, he didn't participate and as such didn't have such an advantage. Now he could only find some opportunity from the books and stories.

At night when Sun Xiaoyue came back from school, she brought back with her new news.

"Do you remember my two ex-roommates?"

"Are you talking about Qinruo and Pan QiaoQiao?"

"Ya, you remember so clearly. Do you have intentions towards them?"

"What, please don't randomly say things." Towards a girl's thoughts, Ouyang Shuo couldn't understand.

"What I wanted to say was today in school we talked and talked and suddenly talked about Earth Online."

"This game had attracted a wave of discussion. I didn't hide that I'd started playing. Now both of them are excited to join, and they want to see what kind of magic it has."

"Well if they want to play, then go ahead!" Ouyang Shuo didn't care.

Sun Xiaoyue froze, having a feeling of landing a punch only in thin air. "What, people are trying to help you, and you don't care?"

"What help?"

"Think about this. If they join, their boyfriends would join too. Pulling them all into the guild, our powers will increase by a lot."

Ouyang Shuo laughed bitterly and said, "You're thinking of it too ideally. Firstly, they might not play work occupations. Secondly, even if they did, they're rookies, what use would they be? Even if they were talented, they're only 4 people. So the focus must still be on what I said this morning."

"Oh." Hearing Ouyang Shuo's explanation, she got demoralized again.

Science guys had such low eq, and always analyzed things from a rational perspective, refusing to think about the warmth and communication that exists and is necessary.

Ouyang Shuo didn't want to see her give up and consoled her. "Don't be demoralized. Your hard work for the guild is worth praise. And no matter what, them joining will make your journey more fun."

"En." Being consoled by Ouyang Shuo, she felt much better. It was just that she wasn't as excited and happy as before.

At this time, Bing'er suddenly jumped out and said, "Big Brother is stupid."

Xue'er, who was flying in mid-air also joined in and shouted, "Stupid stupid."

Ouyang Shuo was speechless. "Who did I make angry this time?"

Sun Xiaoyue, seeing such a scene, burst into laughter.

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Chapter 163 - City Planning

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After dinner, Ouyang Shuo went back into his room and logged into the game.

In the game, he walked out of the room and looked at the cold courtyard. He was still not used to it. Usually at this time, Yingyu and Qing'er would have woken up and started to wash up along the corridor of the courtyard.

Now, it was such a big courtyard, but apart from the maidservants, there was only Ouyang Shuo.

Tossing away the emotions in his head, Ouyang Shuo picked up the spear and started to practice the Yang Family spearmanship technique. After this period of training, his Yang Family spearmanship technique could be said to have grasped a bit of its essence.

At 10 AM, Ouyang Shuo punctually appeared at his office.

Ouyang Shuo took up the blueprint on the table and started to examine it. This was the arrangement plan of Shanhai City, which the Construction Division had delivered yesterday. The chief designer was the Vice Secretary Hao Jiancheng.

Based on the plans by the Construction Division, the second city wall was 6 kilometers Long, 12 meters high, and 6 meters wide.

The only difference was that the second wall only had 3 sides, which was to say the second city wall didn't have a southern wall, building the eastern and western walls deep into the mountains and becoming one with the mountain range. To put it another way, the 4th wall was the mountain range itself.

As it had only 3 sides, although it was higher than the first wall, based on the work done, the second wall took twice as long to complete. Based on the population of Shanhai City, the Construction Division had the confidence to finish the second wall within a month.

After the second wall was done, it would take up 36 square kilometers, 4 times larger than the old city and it was similar to 3 Shanhai Towns.

At the same time, the city protection river had become an inner-city river, providing water for the residents.

During the Shanhai Town period, the drinking water of the residents was obtained from digging wells. In the future, not only drinking water but water used for daily uses and workshops could be collected from the inner city river, making it very convenient.

The second part of the Shanhai City planning was the reorganization of the city area.

Based on the organization by the Construction Division, Shanhai City would be split into 4 parts. The region inside the first wall would be called the core region. Using the northern part of the first wall as a divider, this would be called the northern region, and it would be the largest region, twice the size of Shanhai Town.

The eastern and western sides would be the eastern and western regions respectively. These two regions were small and took up half the space of Shanhai Town.

The core area of the city was split into north and south. The southern area was the brain of the whole territory and was similar to the old imperial palace. Based on the plan, the southern part was split into left, right, and middle.

The middle was obviously the upgraded lord's manor and the garden. The left was the government offices. The bureaucrats of the departments would be concentrated in this area.

The right was now the culture and education area. The Yellow Emperor Temple, Mazu Temple, Chenghuang Temple, Recruitment Hall, the private school and Lianzhou College were all located in this area. As the Mazu temple and the Chenghuang temple were places where residents always visited, they would be moved to the northern region instead.

At the same time, the private school was also moved out of the core region. As for the Recruitment Hall and Lianzhou College, they were moved to the northern side of the core region. This meant that the southern region's right side only had one building which was the Yellow Emperor Temple. The lord could only pray at the Ancestral Temple.

The northern core region was also split into left and right. The left was where the institution region was where the Recruitment Hall and Lianzhou College were placed. In the future, any institutions would be built here. As for the advanced market that was initially here, it would be moved to the western region and be next to the teleportation formation.

The right of the northern core region was the military district. Based on the plan, it would have the Military Affairs Department and barracks. As for the armory division workshop, bow and crossbow division workshop, the weapons workshop, and alchemy workshop, they were all shifted to the eastern region.

As military production increased, the military district couldn't handle all these workshops. Hence, moving them to the eastern region was for the best.

As for the western region, it was the residence area for the officials. They would be close to the government offices in the core area to make it convenient for going to and coming back from work. The future residential area for officials was going to become a district for the rich and powerful.

Lastly the biggest region: the northern region. It was split into east and west, each region being the size of Shanhai Town. The business street that was initially on the center line from the core area was moved to the middle of the northern region, and its size increased by 100%.

The western half was the residential area. Apart from that, the two temples and the private school would also be moved here. Considering that this region would be where dangers and things would occur, the Law and Order Division and the Procuratorate Division offices were planned here to maintain law and order.

The future residential area was going to become a middle class or wealthy merchant living area, as many of them held power in the shops or workshops. They were the first batch of residents, and as the territory prospered, so did they. Those that came later, it was hard to amass more money than them.

The eastern side was the business region. The big handicraft workshops would all be moved here. Based on the near management personnel, the Four Seas bank, Business Division, and Tax Division were all moved here. The planned business region was 4 times the size of the old one, enough for the workshops to expand their production.

After looking at the plans, Ouyang Shuo was amazed. Jiancheng, that young man not only understood what he wanted, but made it more specific and better.

Based on the organization, the territory would not need any new rearrangements in the near future. As long as they followed the arrangement plan and added buildings to their respective regions, everything would be settled.

Just as Ouyang Shuo was praising the Construction Division, the clerk Bai Nanpu walked in and said, "Sire, Secretary Xu is looking for you."

"Let him in."

"Yes, sire!"

Xu Shuda didn't enter Ouyang Shuo's office often. This Culture and Education Secretary was a scholar and managed the Lianzhou College well. Hence, Ouyang Shuo rarely interfered in his work.

"Sire." Upon entering, he bowed to Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo smiled. "Shuda, sit!"

"Sire I have a request, please approve it." Xu Shuda said straight away.

"Please speak!"

"I request to remove the chairs from the meeting room." Xu Shuda was very serious. Apparently, this was very important to him.

Ouyang Shuo was stunned and surprised. "Why?"

"As the territory's trade and your rank increases, you need to maintain your honor and dignity. If we all sat on chairs for the meeting, it doesn't fit our difference in power and goes against culture."

Ouyang Shuo frowned. "Shuda, your meaning is to ask everyone to stand?"

Shuda shook his head. "If you don't want us to stand and be too tired, you can follow the olden style and have some short seats, so we all sit on the floor."

Ouyang Shuo understood.

Respect was treated importantly in olden society. It was the base of governance and was needed for one to build up his rule.

Their importance in manners and respect was shone in the way they acted. Everyone had to act in a way that was suitable for their rank and status.

To not easily break that respect, they wanted the rulers to follow the olden rules. To lead the country as Yao Shunyu did, everything from ruling to the small things like changing and eating all had their rules. The modern day education system developed from such rules and customs.

As a player territory, one couldn't follow those rules to the letter. Not even talking about the others, just talking about Yingyu, if one followed the old rules, she wouldn't even be allowed to lead.

The system in Shanhai City was designed by Ouyang Shuo alone, and made use of modern knowledge entirely different from that of the old times.

However, he had to admit that respect was crucial in ruling and had a considerable effect. The key was how to choose which parts of the old customs and rules were applicable and useful.

Shanhai City didn't have a fixed organization to monitor and guide the actions and etiquette of people at different levels.

At this time for Xu Shuda to step up and correct the poor etiquette, and also to change that flexibly based on Ouyang Shuo's values made him very happy.

He smiled and looked at Xu Shuda. "Shuda, your suggestion is excellent, I'll approve it. As for the layout of the meeting room I'll let the Culture and Education Division be in charge, and I'll ask the Material Reserves Division to work with you."

"Yes, sire!" Shuda was delighted. To meet such a lord who was willing to be corrected was indeed a blessing.

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Chapter 164 - Internal Affairs Department

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In the afternoon, Shen Zhui walked into the lord's office.

Until he sat down, he still wasn't sure why Ouyang Shuo had called him.

The last conversation between Ouyang Shuo and Tian Wenjing was naturally kept confidential. Apart from those two, there wasn't a third person that knew. Tian Wenjing wasn't a big-mouthed person, and before Ouyang Shuo revealed it, he wouldn't tell others about it.

Ouyang Shuo smiled as he pushed the teacup towards Shen Zhui. "Relax, it's good news." Although Shen Zhui was chosen and developed by Ouyang Shuo, this was the first time both of them had a conversation. Naturally, he felt nervous.

Shen Zhui heaved a sigh of relief and calmed down.

"I've noticed your performances in the Saltpan Division, and you've been doing well. Now I have a more important task for you. Are you willing to leave the division?" Ouyang Shuo didn't hold back the compliments.

He was shocked. Now that he was already a secretary, what was a more important role? He didn't dare to think about it and said carefully, "I'll follow what sire says."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "If I let you become the new director of the Material Reserves Department, do you have confidence?"

Even someone as calm as Shen Zhui, upon hearing such news, couldn't keep his emotions in check.

To be able to be commended by Tian Wenjing, Shen Zhui was obviously special. But this news was too shocking. However, he quickly collected his emotions and said, "To be honest,I don't dare to think about this question. Compared to the four directors, in terms of skill or experience, I'm still lacking."

"You don't dare?"

Shen Zhui gritted his teeth. He knew that if he rejected this, then he might not have another shot at such a once in a lifetime opportunity. Although the temptation was great, he decided to be rational.

Think about it, the 4 directors of Shanhai City, none of them were simple and ordinary.

Director Fan and Director Zhang were famous people in history. Becoming directors was wasting their talents. Naturally, one wouldn't talk about not being able to live up to certain expectations.

Director Cui was the godsister of the lord, and was born into a business family. She had vast experience and had been in this territory since the beginning.

Director Ge was the one out of the 4 with the least experience. Even so, he could bring along a huge camp of refugees and survive in the wilderness, which spoke volumes of his ability.

He also had vast experience in the military. Even so, there were negative rumours about director Ge spreading, and if it wasn't for the support of Ouyang Shuo, he wouldn't have been able to hold his position.

Every director was a monster in leadership, and they weren't people a normal person could beat.

Shen Zhui knew that he was a scholar, and had only a few years of private schooling to learn a few things. His formal education was done in Lianzhou College. In the territory, not mentioning the talents, there were more than 5 scholars and people who passed the imperial exams.

As for experience, he had one of the least out of the few secretaries. Out of the 3 secretaries in the Material Reserves Department, he had the least experience.

The only thing that he had was his spirit and his desire to learn. However, such qualities couldn't add to his competitiveness, as after all, everyone looked at results.

Hence, Shen Zhui didn't have the confidence or the skill to take over such a heavy responsibility.

He gritted his teeth and said solemnly, "Yes sire, I don't dare."

He didn't expect that not only would Ouyang Shuo not be angry, but also laugh happily. "Not bad, really not bad."

Shen Zhui was confused and asked, "Sire?"

"You know why I praised you?"

"Please solve my ignorance, sire!" Shen Zhui said respectfully.

"Promoting you to director was a dangerous decision. Your concern is also my concern. If you accepted straight away, then I would have to think whether putting you at such a position was the right choice. If a person could know everything about himself and block temptation, he deserves to be given a chance. Long ago in the military, I made it clear that we would develop talent and wouldn't look at experience. Here, we will use the same theory."

"I have to admit that the time may not be right to promote you, but we have no choice now that director Tian has a more important job. The Material Reserves Department needs someone to take over, and from his recommendation, you are the best fit. During the administrative meeting on the 25th, I'll announce your promotion. Primarily, however, I was still worried. I wanted to talk to you and also test you."

"The results showed that our decision was right and that you are a talent. You don't need to worry, pressure is a good thing. You need to turn that into motivation. I want to prove to the world that our Shanhai City has the ability to groom directors. Don't worry and do your best. If anything happens, I'll back you up. Remember, I'm your final shield."

Ouyang Shuo's words were exactly what he wanted to hear. Even if he faced a sea of fire, he would jump without hesitation if Ouyang Shuo ordered him to.

Shen Zhui stood up and kneeled on the ground, bowing to Ouyang Shuo.

His eyes were filled with tears and he said emotionally, "Don't worry sire, I won't let you down." He had decided to do his job well and take the pressure.

Ouyang Shuo stood up and helped him up, patting his shoulder. "You're a man, why are you crying? Do well, show me some results."

Shen Zhui tried his best not to cry and shouted, "Yes sire!"

5th month, 25th day, Shanhai City meeting hall.

The 5th month's administrative meeting had started, and apart from the directors and secretaries, there were the head of the affiliate villages.

Under the charge of the Culture and Education Division, the meeting hall had totally changed.

In the meeting hall, a stage was set up and had split the hall into 2 regions. The higher region had a red mat, and on it was a wooden table which was half a meter tall. The middle was flat and the sides curved up. On it were a paper ink and a pen.

Behind the table was a chair. It had an oval back and on the sides where it extended was the arm rest, a very simple design.

At the bottom of the meeting hall, there were 3 short tables on each side. On them were tea and fruits. Behind them were similar floor mats, just that there wasn't a chair.

The 4 directors were seated at the 2 sides and knelt behind the chairs. Behind them were the secretaries. The last 2 tables were currently empty. Beside the left table sat the 3 heads of the affliate villages. On the right were the secretaries of the Auditing Division, Law and Order Division, and the Procuratorate Division.

Ouyang Shuo sat on the chair, his body straight, and looked down before saying, "Before we officially begin, I'll announce some personnel changes."

The various directors and secretary were all unfazed as they had expected that the lord would make changes.

"I've decided to set up an Internal Affairs Department to be in charge of the law and order, jails, auditing, and population control. The Auditing Division, Procuratorate Division and the Law and Order Division will all be under this new department. Apart from that, the Household Registration Division will also be moved under this new department."

Ouyang Shuo had dropped a 1000-pound bomb which exceeded all of their expectations. The Internal Affairs Department was in charge of all the important divisions, and its importance could be compared to that of the Administration Department. Especially after moving the Household Registration Division over, now all 4 departments could be said to be equally important.

The setting up of the Internal Affairs Department was done with modern society as an guide, combining with the current situation with Shanhai City. Their role mainly had to deal with law and order.

The only exception was the Auditing Division.

How to maximize their ability had always been the problem Ouyang Shuo had been thinking about.

If he made them directly into a department, it might be too thin and not important enough. If he let them work independently, however, they'd lack authority, which wouldn't help their work. After much consideration, Ouyang Shuo decided on this strategy.

When he announced the setting up of the Internal Affairs Department, Tian Wenjing understood everything. Ouyang Shuo probably wanted him to take charge of this, as compared to the Material Reserves Department, whose stature had been constantly increasing or decreasing. This was certainly more attractive and a better place to show his ability.

As expected, Ouyang Shuo started to make personnel changes. "Tian Wenjing will be the director, and at the same time he will be relieved of his duties as Director of the Material Reserves Department."

Tian Wenjing got up immediately and walked to the middle of the hall before bowing. "Thank you sire, for your trust. I won't let you down."

This arrangement was something that was too shocking and no one had expected it.

In the territory, to be able to take up such a task, only Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing could do so. as Fan Zhongyan was already the Administration Director, for Tian Wenjing to be the Internal Affairs Director was to be expected. Now both of them had finally got back to the same starting line.

The only thing that everyone looked forward to was about who was going to replace him. The position of Director of Material Reserves was similarly very attractive.

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Chapter 165: Explosion

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Ouyang Shuo didn't let everyone wait for long, and after announcing the structure of the Internal Affairs Department, he said, "I appoint Shen Zhui as the new Material Reserves Department director, and at the same time remove him from being the secretary of the Saltpans Division."

Everyone was in an uproar as this was unexpected news. Everyone looked towards Shen Zhui, some with jealousy, some with curiosity. It was just that no one looked to congratulate him.

Although he had prepared himself to withstand pressure, to face such a situation, it was still tough to breathe. Thinking about Ouyang Shuo's words, Shen Zhui slowly calmed down, walking into the middle of the hall and bowing. "Thank you sire, I won't let you down."

From today onwards, Shanhai County had given birth to another dragon head. Although this one was a bit duller than the others, one had to admit that his rise was motivation to everyone.

Following which, the meeting officially started. The various secretaries and directors gave their reports. Everything went as expected and there weren't many surprises.

After the administrative meeting had ended, it was already noon, and everyone went back home. Only the 3 heads of the affiliate territories were left at Ouyang Shuo's request to have their meals at the lord's manor.

Two days ago, the choosing of maidservants had come to an end.

Under the supervision of Yingyu, the two maidservants were invited in. The older one was called Zisu, and the younger was called Banxia, and both would be in charge of his living. Zisu was also in charge of managing all the other servants.

Based on Yingyu's introduction, both of them were orphans and had no relatives in Shanhai County. Zisu was still okay as her age was similar to Yingyu. She was a calm person, and her ability was not bad. Banxia was a bit younger, similar in age to Qing'er.

In truth, to be Ouyang Shuo's maidservant was exceptionally easy. Because he went offline at night, and he wasn't around in the day, the time he was served was very little.

In the afternoon, Gu Xiuwen, Zhao Dexian, and Zhou Haichen walked into the office and started to describe the situations in their various territories.

Qiushui Town's head Zhao Dexian mentioned that Qiushui Town needed to do 2 things, which were firstly to upgrade the water irrigation system and secondly to build the city walls.

Ouyang Shuo supported and agreed for the Four Seas bank to loan Qiushui Town a sum of money to use for these two projects. On the scale of the city wall, Ouyang Shuo raised specific requirements. As an affiliate territory, in the future, they would have at most 2 city walls.

Hence, the first wall had to be 5 kilometers long, in the middle in scale of the 2 walls in Shanhai County.

As for the upgrade of the water irrigation system, that needed more support. The purpose of Qiushui Town was as a grain base. Apart from reclaiming more land, perfecting the water irrigation system and raising production of grain per acre was the best way to solve the problem. After all, if one had a lot of land but not enough farmers, then it'd be useless.

Zhao Dexian was worthy to be called an ex-village chief, having a sharp eye for agricultural matters and vast experience. At least at the current grade 1 town, he could still be of great use.

The Friendship Town head Zhou Haichen reported the trade situation with the Tianfeng tribe. Friendship Town had smoothly completed their second trade with Tianfeng tribe, obtaining 200 Qingfu horses.

Both sides had agreed after discussions to build a fixed market. With this, Friendship Town could trade with the nomads and wasn't restricted to trading only with particular tribes. The key was that as the fame or the reputation increased, other tribes might come and trade with them.

Hence, the setting up the market meant that it opened up the window to trading with the nomadic tribes. The goods were no longer restricted to Qingfu horses, sheep, and fur. Everything was tradeable. If it went smoothly, then this would stimulate the economy and the lives of people in Friendship Town.

Lastly was the report from Beihai Town's head Gu Xiuwen.

It had been a month since Beihai Town upgraded to a grade 3 town, and adding the 4000 Jifeng tribe prisoners, the population had received a considerable boost.

Even so, Beihai Town was still half a month away from reaching the 10 thousand max population.

As for Harbour Town, Gu Xiuwen raised that the fishermen had already set up a fishermen association and started to work together when fishing. The men went out to fish while the women stayed at home to dry the fish to make fish jerky before sending it to the market to sell.

In Beihai Town, apart from the fishermen, the biggest group were the salt workers at the Beimu saltpans. Based on his plan, they wanted to copy the main territory and build living quarters near the saltpans, slowly shifting them out of the town.

Beihai Town wanted to turn into a harbor town, so it needed to throw off the burden of salt workers. Now in the town, the ratio in the population wasn't typical, as half of the population were salt workers.

Furthermore, the salt workers had said that they were willing to shift out. Firstly, it was more convenient and secondly, there was more freedom.

It was only on how to build the living quarters that the town and the Saltpans Division couldn't agree on.

Beihai Town wanted to separately build 5 living quarters near the saltpans, and each would accommodate 1000 workers, the same as a full population grade 3 village.

The Saltpan Division was thinking from a management point of view that they could at most build 2 quarters. In the end, Ouyang Shuo decided to let the salt workers decide for themselves.

After the brief meeting, the 3 of the heads went back to their territories.

Ouyang Shuo returned to the backyard and got ready to go offline.

In the backyard, Zisu was bringing Banxia and sewing clothing for Ouyang Shuo. Zisu was an intermediate tailor, and she could sew some clothes for daily use.

In actuality, the clothing that Ouyang Shuo wore on formal occasions was all done by Qing'er. That brat not only cared about what she wore, but she also settled the clothing of both Ouyang Shuo and Yingyu.

Based on what she said, as the brother and sister of a master tailor, if they wore clothes too badly, she would lose face.

Going back to the room, Ouyang Shuo went straight offline.

In reality, Ouyang Shuo's anonymous post had finally attracted attention. Some players replied that they followed the method and they felt the presence of internal strength.

When there was one, there would be two. If there was only Ouyang Shuo who said that, then everyone wouldn't believe it. Now with others, it would have a certain persuasiveness.

Hence, this post was dug out from the sea of posts and became a hot topic.

For the past two days, the questions and replies on the post had grown. Many lucky players replied to say that they had cultivated successfully. Of course out of those, there would be many liars who only wanted attention.

Ouyang Shuo wasn't clear if the popularity of the post had anything to do with the federal government.

What he could confirm was that everything was going in the direction that he wanted and even exceeded his predictions.

The landmine had finally exploded, and the protests of the people got more and more intense like a thunderstorm and charged at the federal government.

The federal government finally couldn't keep quiet any longer and announced that on the 26th of May, which was that day, they would make a speech through the television to answer all the doubts.

After sending Bing'er to school, Ouyang Shuo returned home immediately and prepared to watch the speech. Sun Xiaoyue didn't go to school today and specially stayed at home. With a woman's 6th sense, she felt that something big was going to happen.

The two of them sat on the sofa and turned on the tv to witness the critical moment.

"Eh, what do you think the president would reveal about Earth Online? I felt that something is up and that it's weird." Before the broadcast, Sun Xiaoyue asked Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo had already trained himself to control his expression and said, "How would I know. Anyways it's gonna start soon, so we will know soon enough."

"You really don't know?" Sun Xiaoyue didn't give up.

"Of course I don't!" Ouyang Shuo lied so hard that even he believed himself.

Sun Xiaoyue stared at Ouyang Shuo. From his face, she couldn't find any abnormality, so she could only say helplessly, "You're getting better at faking."

Sun Xiaoyue had long ago believed that he knew something, just that she wasn't clear how much he knew. Hence she would often test him out.

Unfortunately, with her skill level, she was unable to make an old fox like Ouyang Shuo speak.

At 9 AM, the federal government president appeared on the television.

At the same time, out of the billion people, at least half were, through various means, watching this special broadcast.

"Hello everyone, I'm going to announce huge news. After hearing it, please do not panic as the federal government has made plans to solve any problem that will occur."

"Twenty years ago, our scientists found that our Earth will, in 2200, which was 10 years later, explode from the core and the entire Earth will become a ball of fire."

"Luckily, heaven left us a path, and on one of our satellites, we spotted a new planet which could sustain life. Hence the federal government created a secret galactic migration project. The game Earth Online that everyone is paying attention to is a part of that project. The project has in these 20 years, come to fruition."

"The federal government has officially decided to start the galactic migration on the 1st day of of the 7th month of 2190. At that time, everyone will sit on the galactic spaceship and fly towards planet Hope. The specific details will be posted on the federal government website. Please work together with the federal government and prepare ahead of time. See you soon!"

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Chapter 166 - Migration Project

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The words from the federal government president were simple but held deep meaning, enough to rattle everyone. If one wanted to know more details, they would have to go onto the federal website. In truth, after the president finished his speech, the television channel started to report on the details of the migration.

Firstly after the program, the whole world would enter code 1 alert status. Military and police were to enter battle formations and prevent any sabotage or stealing from happening.

From tonight onwards, the whole world would start to practice curfew, where after 9 PM, no one was allowed to stay out, and all entertainment venues were to close.

In modern day society, most of the weapons used were energy weapons. Laser weapons had long replaced the normal guns and rifles used 200 years ago. A 100 years earlier, electromagnetic guns had replaced firearms. With strict weapons control and Gaia that monitored everything, for normal people to cause problems was already very difficult.

Subsequently, from the next day onwards, all schools would stop. Of course that didn't mean that learning stopped, as all the lessons from primary school to university would be moved to Earth Online.

Apart from people appointed to maintain and run the services in the cities by the federation, any other normal shops and services would be closed, and the workers no longer needed to report for work.

From this moment on, all bank accounts and fixed properties were frozen, and people couldn't buy, sell, or trade goods. Food and daily products would be distributed by the federation to prevent looting.

Gaia, who had eyes on everything along with delivery robots, easily delivered all the goods, and one didn't need to worry that they wouldn't receive the things that was meant for them.

The federal government started to calculate one's personal assets and changed them into credits. In truth, this job had been started long ago, but now it only needed them to comply and confirm.

All transportation vehicles including trains, planes and airborne railways were now only used to reunite families.

From the next day onwards, the government would send everyone a game cabin. Those who already had one wouldn't be given an additional one. All the cabins were designed based on one's basic information.

Additionally, the government specifically pointed out that the space on the spaceship was limited, and one was only able to bring a limited number of personal items. They had strict requirements and limitations on the size and weight of the luggage.

At this point, this was all the government had revealed. As for planet Hope and the changes in-game, they were temporarily not revealed.

The federal government had considered how much the public could accept and wanted to control the situation in reality, waiting for everyone to enter the game before making changes in-game.

After learning the details and confirming that they were the same as the previous life, Ouyang Shuo didn't bother about the shock from Sun Xiaoyue and said, "I'll pick up Bing'er from school. As for the rest, let's discuss later."

Sun Xiaoyue nodded understandingly. "Go."

On the roads were signs of chaos and panic. Luckily there were police maintaining law and order and armed machines on patrol, so there weren't any riots or fights.

After the curfew was set, the military entered the city and helped the police in maintaining law and order in order to prevent violence.

Suddenly, Ouyang Shuo received a phone call from his little aunt.

"Little Shuo, did you see the news? I hope you and Bing'er can come over to Shang Hai, and at that time we would all board the galactic spacecraft."

Ouyang Shuo paused. On this point, he had his own plans. "Little aunt, on the way to Bing'er's school, some things aren't convenient to say. How about this, I'll call you in the evening."

Talking about Bing'er, little aunt instantly understood and switched off the phone.

Following which, Ouyang Shuo received Song Jia's call which he declined. If it wasn't that he didn't want to reveal that he had already knew the news, he wouldn't have let Bing'er go to school today.

This was such a sudden change. Although the teachers would comfort them, Ouyang Shuo didn't want Bing'er to face any shock.

When he reached the school, as expected, there were many parents waiting at the gate to pick their kids up early. The school could understand, and as the teachers weren't in the mood to continue the lessons, the early dismissal was smoothly done.

Luckily, everyone was a decent human being, and there wasn't any pushing or rushing.

Bing'er appeared by the gate, and upon seeing Ouyang Shuo, she ran and shouted, "Brother!" Obviously, she was happy that Ouyang Shuo picked her up early.

Ouyang Shuo pulled her hand and smiled. "Let's go home!"

"En." Her emotions were still very calm. At her age, she didn't have much understanding towards the apocalypse of intergalactic migration.

On the other hand, she asked curiously, "Brother, my teacher said we would all sit on galactic spaceships and move to other planets, is that true?"

"Yes."

"Wa, that's great. Bing'er has not sat on a spaceship." Bing'er had a face filled with excitement. "Brother, do you think there will be monsters in the new world?"

Ouyang Shuo was speechless. As expected, a kids world was totally different. He rubbed her head. "Brother doesn't know. However, even if there are any, Bing'er doesn't need to be scared, as brother will protect you."

"En." Bing'er had a lot of faith in her brother.

On the way back, various stalls and shops had all closed. Luckily, Ouyang Shuo was prepared and he had gathered some amenities.

When they reached home, it was close to noon.

After lunch, Ouyang Shuo let Bing'er return to her room to rest. Bing'er was well behaved, and knew that Ouyang Shuo had things to tell Sun Xiaoyue, so she went in without a fuss.

Ouyang Shuo brewed a cup of tea for himself sitting on the sofa as he looked at Sun Xiaoyue. "Xiaoyue, what are your plans? When're you going home?"

Her family wasn't in Jiaozhou, and going home was the obvious choice.

Sun Xiaoyue said helplessly, "In the morning when you went to fetch Bing'er, my family called me to go home tomorrow."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and said, "Then go home tomorrow. Don't let them worry."

"Till now you still don't want to tell me your in-game ID?"

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "It'll only be a month, right? In the game, based on the time, you should have graduated right?"

It was a trick. Every time she asked, he would change the topic. As she observed in the past half a year, Ouyang Shuo's ID had very important information, which made him so careful. If not, he wouldn't be such a cold and secretive person.

"Yes, I graduated the day before and am now a intermediate architect. Yesterday, I followed what you said and spent 100 gold to enter the King City building department to intern. The one month of the internship might just be when the migration will happen." Sun Xiaoyu explained.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "On the side of the Fallen Moon guild, is there any progress?"

Fallen moon guild had became her little problem, and she laughed bitterly. "Qinruo and Qiaoqiao have already joined. Apart from that I used your method and there were some

rewards. However, our reputation was too low and players didn't want to join. Yesterday, we just crossed a hundred members."

Ouyang Shuo was still very confident. "Don't worry. As the real world changes, their views will change too. A month later when the migration starts, everything will not be a problem. You don't need to worry about the guild, so just focus on your internship."

"Okay." Sun Xiaoyue wasn't too devoted to managing the guild anyways.

"Oh ya, there's something I need your help on."

"What is it?"

"I remember you said that your grandpa was a boat specialist?"

"Yes." Sun Xiaoyue was confused on why he would bring this up.

"When you go home, can you talk to him? I hope he can join my territory. Best if he could ask some of his scientist friends. Especially concerning ships and alchemists."

Sun Xiaoyue understood and giggled. "You always like to beat around the bush. Since I'm joining you, my family will naturally join you too. As for the others, you better call my grandpa yourself. When I return, I'll call you and let my grandpa have a video chat with you."

Ouyang Shuo was delighted. "That's the best Xiaoyue. You've done me a huge favor."

Sun Xiaoyue shook her head and said, "Okay. However, I must remind you that you bragged so much about your territory. If it sucks in the end, what an embarrassment."

"Don't worry, when was I so unreliable?" Ouyang Shuo said helplessly.

"That's true. Okay I trust you. In the future I'll depend on you, my lord." Sun Xiaoyue joked.

"Luckily I have you. If not, I don't know how Bing'er is going to adapt when she enters. Even in the game I won't be able to be by her side." Ouyang Shuo was really thankful for Sun Xiaoyue.

She sighed. "Ha, i won't see her for 1 month. I'm going to miss her. Ok, the things that needed to be settled have been done. If there's anything, just call me. I'll go find Bing'er."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and said, "Ok, go."

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Chapter 167 - Weapon Specialist

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In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo took the time to make a trip.

He wanted to visit a person that was super important for the future development of his territory.

He took a trip to an old neighbourhood in Jiao State suburbs. This kind of neighbourhood was considered a forgotten area, similar to the shantytowns 200 years ago.

Because of the massive drop in population and also the excellent welfare packages, this old neighbourhood was like a ghost town. Those who lived here were usually those who couldn't mix well into society.

When he got out of the car, he followed the memory in his last life and walked the streets of the neighborhood. On each side were old shops that were dilapidated and long closed.

When he saw a weird advertisement sign, he was sure that the guy from the last life didn't lie. Ouyang Shuo walked into another alley and onto the muddy and dirty surface. Both sides had high walls and on them were creepers and other vegetation.

After walking 500 meters in the alley, he finally saw a similar advertisement sign that was hung slanted on a building.

The advertisement board was made of an iron sheet, and rust spots were all around it. A bullet was spray-painted on it. If people didn't pay attention they wouldn't recognize it. Such a bullet had stopped production 50 years ago, and it meant that weapons using gunpowder had left the stage of history and was replaced by higher quality and stronger weapons like lasers.

Seeing that advertisement board, it was like Ouyang Shuo entered a trance.

If nothing went wrong, living inside would be, apart from his few brothers and sisters, one of his best friends in-game.

He was called Liumo, a very basic name, and his in-game ID was Zidan Chutang. This was a guy who couldn't fit into this era, engrossed in the weapons that had already been left in history. From hobby to passion, he nearly went too far.

To analyze and study thermal weapons, he left home, broke up with his girlfriend and lived in the old neighborhood.

He stayed for 10 years and only stepped out of that little house when the galactic migration occurred.

At that time, his girlfriend had already married and given birth. Liumo who was disheartened and lazy, roamed around the game and did nothing. His talent was hard to use in the game.

Ouyang Shyo met Liumo by chance during a meeting. It was a coincidence, and both of them were similar to one another, so naturally they became friends.

During their casual conversation, he talked about this experience in his life that left a deep impression in Ouyang Shuo.

That was right. Ouyang Shuo had specially come to find him was to get to know this best friend again, and also to invite him to his territory to study thermal weapons.

In the later stages of the game, guns and cannons were the main weapons in the war. After history entered the Ming Dynasty, warships had to have cannons to be able to rule the oceans.

The system had strict restrictions on the technology tree, and it was difficult for players to break out of the restrictions of their country.

Europe and America, the countries that relied on the industrial revolution, the birth of guns were a standard part of their technological tree. Like in the Free Town defence, the arquebus had already come into play.

However in China, although there were already guns during the Ming Dynasty, because of the restrictions on them during the Qing Dynasty, they weren't developed and instead there was a drop in technology.

Hence, to build destructive guns and cannons was difficult in the Chinese region.

Manufacturing manuals of these items were unable to be found on the market or the auction. Even using the freedom system in the game to craft items, they wouldn't have high damage and fatal power.

The appearance of Magnus had opened up a new door towards success.

As he was a western NPC, that meant that he grew according to the western technology tree. Which meant that if Magnus mad Liumo worked hand in hand, they could skip the manufacturing manuals and craft high damage guns and cannons.

Of course, this was much harder than the westerners using the manuals to craft guns. However, at least this was a possibility that was worth Ouyang Shuo investing in.

Ouyang Shuo did not want to lag behind in the future ocean battles.

Tossing aside such thoughts, he walked forward and knocked on the door of the small house.

"Who is that?" Inside said a shocked voice. Following which, a man opened the door wearing a work uniform and an unkempt mustache, his hair like a bird's nest.

Ouyang Shuo froze. One's image was improved and changed in the game, in addition to his clothing, Ouyang Shuo wasn't sure if this was the right guy.

"Hello, my name is Ouyang Shuo. Are you teacher Liumo?"

The middle-aged man also froze. "Yes, how did you find this place?"

Ouyang Shuo was relaxed. Seeing his good friend like this, he found it hilarious. In the game when Liumo talked about his past, the most he referred to were the 2 advertisement boards and not about his clothing. Ouyang Shuo guessed that he probably didn't know what state he was in.

Ouyang Shuo didn't reply and laughed. "So are you not going to invite me in?"

Liumo was forthright and wasn't afraid that Ouyang Shuo had any ill intentions, just inviting him in.

When he walked in, the entire house was like a thermal weapon museum. Different kinds of rifles and pistols were strewn all over the place. Apart from that, there were specialized tools to make guns and ammo.

Seeing Ouyang Shuo have an interest in such weapons, Liumo got a bit excited.

He didn't chase to find out how Ouyang Shuo knew his name and instead warmly introduced Ouyang Shuo to his weapons and their stats.

Ouyang Shuo could understand his feeling. Such recognition was something that was very important to Liumo.

In modern society, of those Liumo was the only one other than those who specialized in weapon history who had such a deep understanding of these things.

Most crucially, not only did he have knowledge, but he had practical ability. Only such a place with no monitoring could allow Liumo to explore his interest.

Of course, although one could say that it was a dead monitoring zone, it was only because he didn't use the weapons to cause harm to others. If not, Gaia would have contacted the police to lock him up.

After viewing Liumo's gun museum, Ouyang Shuo brought up his main reason for coming. "You should have watched the president's speech on television today right?"

Liumo froze. "What television speech?"

Ouyang Shuo nearly fainted, he really didn't know. These kind of people were usually the last few to be brought up onto the galactic spaceships.

"You can access the net here?"

"Of course, if not how would I search for information?"

"Go to the federal government website to see." Ouyang Shuo said impatiently.

"See what?"

"Just see, it's of the utmost importance." Ouyang Shuo started to use the tone of a best friend to talk to him.

Liumo didn't care. Maybe it was because it wasn't easy to meet someone that recognized him and his work. He opened his handbrain and went onto the federal government website.

On the official website, the posts and details regarding the migration were placed at easy to see places. "Galactic migration?" Liumo looked at Ouyang Shuo with uncertainty.

Ouyang Shuo nodded.

He was stunned and started to read the articles.

5 minutes later he had finished, and he looked at Ouyang Shuo in shock. "Is this real?"

"Of course, this afternoon the president went on television to speak. This video should be on the website too." Ouyang Shuo could understand his doubt.

Liumo opened the federal government website and found the video. After watching it, he went silent.

Ouyang Shuo left him alone for 10 minutes to gather his thoughts before saying, "If nothing goes wrong, the government will send gaming cabins tomorrow. Do you have any plans?"

He laughed bitterly. "What plans can I have? A person like me that society won't take in, migration or not what difference does it make?"

"Don't say that, at least you still have family right?"

Liumo kept silent for a long while before uttering, "Yes you are right. I'm such an unfilial son. I should go visit my parents, only I don't know if they will recognize me."

In the last life, Liumo had missed the chance because of such thoughts and considerations. This became one of his biggest regrets, and Ouyang Shuo didn't want history to repeat itself.

"Thank you, brother." Liumo said sincerely to Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo said, "That's right, we are brothers. Since you are older, I'll call you older brother. To tell the truth, I've been playing Earth Online from the start and have a small result so far. How about you come and help me in-game, and us brothers will work hard together."

"Okay as long as you don't despise me."

Hence between people, things were extraordinary. With some people, even after a long time, you were unable to have in-depth conversations with them. Others, even meeting once, would seem like lifetime friends.

"Big brother Liu, don't self-deprecate yourself, I believe that your studies on thermal weapons can definitely open up the sky in the game." Ouyang Shuo said.

"You are saying that I can still analyze thermal weapons in the game?" His eyes brightened up.

"That's right!"

"That's great, I can't wait." Liumo was really excited.

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Chapter 168 - Marriage

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After exchanging numbers with Liumo, Ouyang Shuo didn't stay any longer and left.

When he went home, it was already 5:30PM, and it was time for dinner. Ouyang Shuo didn't say a word and started to cook for the two women in the family.

When eating, Ouyang Shuo noticed that Bing'er's eyes were red and said, "Baby, did you cry in the afternoon? Who made you sad?"

"Bad brother." Being exposed by Ouyang Shuo, Bing'er was embarrassed.

He obviously knew that the little brat was sad because she heard that Xiaoyue was going to leave. He was just teasing her to change her mood.

Sun Xiaoyue could only watch on and nag. "What brother actually bullies his one sister? Haiz.."

"I agree." Bing'er followed.

Ouyang Shuo wouldn't try to defend himself. If he did, he would die a terrible death. He knowingly focussed on eating and didn't say a word.

Sun Xiaoyue and Bing'er looked at each other and laughed, like a pair of little foxes that claimed victory.

After dinner, Sun Xiaoyue started packing. Ouyang Shuo looked at her packing bag after bag, and asked doubtfully, "Xiaoyue, you are bringing all those away?"

"Yes, I won't be coming back so of course I'm taking them away."

"Are you dumb?" Ouyang Shuo spoke with sarcasm.

"You! What's that supposed to mean!"

Ouyang Shuo was speechless and said, "Didn't they say clearly that each person could only bring a small number of personal items? You can bring all this home, but in the end you still need to leave them on Earth. So don't you think you aren't dumb."

Sun Xiaoyue froze, and when she regained her thoughts, she said with a forced smile, "Oh ya, I forgot. I'm really reluctant to throw all this away."

Maybe at that moment, she really realised what the galactic migration meant. This wasn't like changing houses, moving from one district to another, but it was moving from one planet to another.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little down, Ouyang Shuo didn't say anything and went back to his room.

He made a call back to Song Jia.

"Blockhead, you finally return my call. I was anxious to death." Song Jia sounded very anxious.

"Calm down, say things slowly, what exactly happened?" Ouyang Shuo consoled her.

"Aiyo," she was despondent, saying, "In the afternoon, The Yuan family raised up the issue of marriage to my grandpa and they want me and Yuanping to marry to form more reliable alliances in-game. Although it was shelved after my disagreement, I'm afraid I can't stop it for long. Blockhead, what should we do?"

Ouyang Shuo froze, Yuanping actually took that step.

Seems like both the Song family and Yuan family, which were middle sized powers, felt no sense of security as they had just started the game. They wanted to group up to stay safe, and this became a natural choice.

Marriage was a great idea. Song Jia's father was the wielder of power in the Song family, and Yuanping was the heir to the Yuan family.

"What do you think?" Ouyang Shuo didn't react.

"Even if I die I wouldn't marry him. If my grandpa forces me, I'll run away from home." Song Jia was getting very emotional and her attitude was very resolute.

Ouyang Shuo was calm, recalling the last 3 months of their love. It had magical effects.

Their love had all the ingredients of a drama, from the student gathering, a crush, meeting after a long time, rich family problems, etc.

All this didn't look real, but this was love.

Love made you rash and irrational, making you not care about anything and give yourself up.

Ever since he was reincarnated, many beauties appeared in his life. Towards them, Ouyang Shuo had different feelings. They were friends and sisters, but never lovers.

Only in front of Song Jia would Ouyang Shuo put down everything and truly be himself.

"Jia Jia, don't be rash." Ouyang Shuo calmed her down. "What you must do is express your opinion. Don't do anything else. I'll deal with the rest."

Song Jia felt warm inside. "Blockhead, what will you do?"

"The reason your grandpa thought of such a solution was to find a good ally, am I right?" Ouyang Shuo found the core of the issue.

Song Jia nodded. "That's right. Last time he cared a lot about me. Before this, Yuanping came often to chase me, and my grandpa didn't agree."

"That's right. Since it's in-game, naturally we will solve it through the game. Relax, I will prove that I'm more reliable than the Yuan Family."

Song Jia didn't want to tease Ouyang Shuo about his bragging and said, "Blockhead, I trust you. You won't let me down."

Ouyang Shuo didn't want to make the atmosphere depressing and laughed. "Jia Jia, after you migrate, will you stay at your Tianshuang Town, or come to me?"

Song Jia froze. "That's depends whether your place is as good as you say it is."

"Haha, I guarantee you will be pleased."

"Stupid blockhead, still bragging."

Following this, the two naturally continued to flirt. Ouyang Shuo found that Song Jia was especially clingy today, and totally different from usual.

The sudden change and the thing about marriage made the usually confident Song Jia into a little girl who wanted someone to rely on.

The two of them talked till 10, when little aunt called and Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to end the call saying, "Sweetheart, my little aunt called me. Let's talk next time."

"En." Song Jia, although she was reluctant, she followed what Ouyang Shuo said.

"Good night. Don't worry, I'll settle the game stuff.

"Good night."

Ouyang Shuo hung up the call and picked up his little aunt's call. "Little aunt, it's me."

"Little Shuo, who you talking to, your phone has been engaged for so long."

"I was talking to your future niece in law." Ouyang Shuo could finally relax himself.

Lin Jing's eyes brightened and smiled, "Wa, little kid, not bad. Who is that girl? When you going to introduce her to me?"

At this moment, Lin Jing felt like she had the instinct of being a parent.

Ouyang Shuo said, "Little aunt, I don't dare. What if you steal her from me?"

"Hey stupid brat, when did you start making fun of your little aunt?"

"I don't dare. I don't dare." Ouyang Shuo raised his hands and surrendered.

"Ok let's stop fooling around and talk about business. Little Shuo, have you thought about my proposal in the morning?"

Ouyang Shuo had thought it out and said, "Little aunt, you know that tomorrow Bing'er will enter the game."

"What does that have to do with this?"

"I'll definitely bring her to my territory. If I move to Shang Hai and stay with you, what if she lets slip and reveals everything in the game? It's not that I don't trust your members, but just to be safe, I don't want anything to happen at the last moment. Little aunt, don't worry, I studied the migration specifics, and although in theory people in the same city will board the same spaceship, if we are relatives we can apply to the government to let us board the same spaceship at the last moment." Ouyang Shuo explained.

Lin Jing froze. She didn't think about this so much. As for her nephew, he was so careful.

"Then that's okay, you make sense." Lin Jing compromised.

"Thank you little aunt for your understanding."

"We are a family. Tell Bing'er that I'll visit her a month later in-game."

"I will. That little brat will definitely be happy."

After ending the call with little aunt, it was only then that he had time to log into the game. At this moment, Bing'er was already asleep, so he wouldn't go disturb her.

In the game, it was naturally in chaos.

The first was that the exchange platform was closed, losing Di Chen and the others their money provider.

Following which, the prices of every good in the game began to rise. The players were clear that as players swarmed into the game, the balance would be broken.

As for the complaints and anger of the players who sold their territories, they were unable to cause any uproar.

Ouyang Shuo didn't have the mind to care about all this, and ordered the finance department to collect the profits of the latter half of the 5th month from the Beimu saltpans and the Langshan mines.

Firstly was that Ouyang Shuo needed to buy the basic building blueprints of the grade 1 city, and secondly he need to pay the military salaries.

Ouyang Shuo knew that since the federal government set the migration on the 1st of the 7th month of 2190, there would be an update in the game at night.

The upcoming update would have a deep impact on the game, and he needed to make use of the last month to make preparations and make use of his advantage to earn big.

All this needed large amounts of resources, or everything would be for naught.

Spending an entire afternoon, Ouyang Shuo hid in his office and thought about what he would do for the next month. Apart from that, he needed to convince Song Jia's brother, Song Wen, to helph im convince his grandpa to abandon the marriage.

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Chapter 169 - Bargaining Chip

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Ouyang took out a token from his storage bag. This token was obtained by General Shi when they destroyed a large-scale raider camp 2 days ago.

Ever since the mixed regiment was formed, Shanhai City once again activated bandit destruction mode. His goal was to clean up the new 1000 square kilometers of territory.

Two days had passed, and they had only completed a fourth of their mission. Based on the colonel of the regiment Shi Wanshui, he predicted that he would at least need a week to finish it.

Because of the bandits, the business around the lord's manor Guards was pushed back time after time. Ouyang Shuo decided to order Wang Feng to hold the trials after the bandits were dealt with.

Ouyang Shuo held the token in his hand. It was a basic soldier token.

Heavy armored infantry token (basic): Can directly change the class of 100 max rank militiamen to rank 1 heavy armored infantry.

A similar token had appeared during the auction. However, that was the more expensive heavy armored cavalry which was bought by Xiongba for 1200 gold.

This heavy armored infantry token, based on the market price shouldn't be less than 2000 gold. Firstly was that the market prices soared, and secondly the rarity and preciousness of gold couldn't be compared to 2 months ago.

This soldier token was nothing to Shanhai City. To Song Wen, however, it was a precious treasure.

Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate and anonymously sent the soldier token to Song Wen. Along with the token was a handwritten letter by Ouyang Shuo.

In the letter, Ouyang Shuo mentioned that he was the friend of Song Jia, and that this soldier token was a meeting gift to give to his future brother-in-law. If he were willing to help out and break the marriage, Ouyang Shuo would reward him. Whether the Song family was willing to ally with a family that was around their level, or ally with a friend that was much stronger, the decision lay in their hands.

In the future, the game would be a battle between the strong. Tianshuang Town shouldn't miss this chance. If they did, they would remain a second-rate territory.

Ouyang Shuo appeared very tough in the letter. He knew that facing a family like the Song family, the weaker you looked, the more they looked down on you. On the contrary, the stronger you looked, the more they would respect you.

At the current stage, to casually hand out a soldier token was a symbol of strength.

It wasn't hard to imagine that after receiving the token he would definitely report to his grandfather. Based on the sly nature of businessmen, before they understood Ouyang Shuo's bottom line, they naturally wouldn't place all their stakes on him right away.

This was the outcome that he had wanted. As long as they hesitated and delayed for this month, then when the migration started and Ouyang Shuo revealed his identity, Yuanping wouldn't stand any chance.

Ouyang Shuo wasn't worried that the Song family would do anything harmful to him. Now the world was on an alert, and the safety of everyone was the top priority.

Famous players like Bai Hua had long before had their real life identities revealed. The federal government had thought this through and placed much care on their safety.

With the businessman status of the Song family, they wouldn't tread on the dangerous road as that would be of no benefit to them.

Ouyang Shuo was so careful because he was worried about Di Chen and the other strong powers. Their strength in reality was frightening, and even in such a world situation, Ouyang Shuo didn't have confidence that he could get away safely.

After settling the soldier token issue, Ouyang Shuo went offline.

In the morning, Sun Xiaoyue brought some simple luggage and went home. As for her game cabin, it was sent through the federal government game cabin transmitting channel and promised to be returned the same day.

In the afternoon, Bing'er's game cabin reached the house. As a kid, her game cabin was of a small size.

After the workers left, Bing'er looked at the game cabin that belonged to her and asked curiously, "Brother, is Bing'er going to play the same game as you and sister Xiaoyue?"

"Yes. How about this? Tonight you can be with brother, and also there will be two sisters to spend time with you. Bing'er will definitely like it."

"Then can Bing'er see sister Xiaoyue?" The little brat couldn't forget about Sun Xiaoyue.

Ouyang Shuo bent down and pinched her cheeks. "Of course. However, you need to wait for a month. And also, Xue'er can join the game with you, are you happy?"

"Ya, is that true, brother?"

"Of course, when has brother lied to you?"

"Yay, I'll go find Xue'er." The little brat said as she ran out of the room.

At 6 PM, Ouyang Shuo logged into the game. This time Bing'er and Xue'er followed along. Because she was still underage, she used the parental guidance mode. Ouyang Shuo had confirmed himself as the parent of Bing'er.

Under the parental guidance mode, Ouyang Shuo could help her control her character, and after a series of selections, Ouyang Shuo appeared in the Character Creation Hall.

"Ya, such a beautiful fairy sister." Bing'er exclaimed as she looked at the guiding fairy.

Ouyang Shuo didn't waste time and set her ID as Ouyang Bing, choosing the lord's game mode and making her side job a knight, her birthplace was set as Shanhai City.

Of course, to Bing'er the job didn't have any meaning as she wouldn't even get it.

After selecting everything, the brother and sister appeared in the teleportation formation of Shanhai Town, together with them was Xue'er, the advanced smart pet.

Walking out of the formation, Ouyang Shuo pulled on her hand and pointed to the lord's manor. "That is brother's house, baby do you like it?"

Seeing such a vast manor, she exclaimed, "Ya, such a beautiful house!"

"Let's go. Two sisters are waiting for you."

"En."

Walking into the lord's manor, the various workers of each department hadn't started work, and the entire estate only had some workers. Ouyang Shuo brought her to the backyard. When the maidservants Zisu and Banxia saw sire walk in from outside the yard, they were surprised.

What was more surprising was the little girl he was holding to and the little thing jumping on her shoulder.

"Sire!" Although they found it surprising, they still bowed and greeted.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and said, "Banxia, go call big miss and second miss."

"Yes sire!" Banxia immediately turned around.

Ouyang Shuo looked towards Zisu and laughed. "This is my sister, Ouyang Bing. Next time she will be the third miss in this manor. She is still young, so I need you to take care of her."

After two days of observation, Ouyang Shuo was pleased with Zisu. She did her work well and arranged everything nicely and aptly. Handing Bing'er to her allowed him not to worry.

Zisu didn't dare to be too slow and bowed towards Bing'er. "Third miss!" Suze wasn't dumb, and the sire had specially instructed her to take care of his sister.

Bing'er thought it was fun and she looked at Ouyang Shuo. "Brother, this sister looks like the sister on the television."

Ouyang Shuo didn't know how to explain this to the little brat and said, "Baby, next time treat this like our home okay?"

"En."

Bing'er's adaptive skills were solid. When she moved in with Ouyang Shuo, she wasn't the least bit uncomfortable. In the last life, she had quickly adapted to this game.

This time, Yingyu and Qing'er had already washed up and rushed over.

Ouyang Shuo invited everyone to the main hall and let Bing'er stand beside him. After Yingyu and Qing'er sat down, he opened up. "Yingyu, Bing'er, let me give introductions, this is my sister Ouyang Bing."

"Ouyang Bing?" Yingyu frowned in thought. "I remember big brother say that your surname was Ouyang. Is this little sister your real sister?"

Such a good memory. Ouyang Shuo nodded. "That's right, my real name is Ouyang Shuo, Qiyue Wuyi is a nickname." Ouyang Shuo pulled Bing'er and pointed to them. "Bing'er this is big sister Yingyu and Qingsi, have you remembered their names?"

"En." In a formal occasion, Bing'er was always well behaved, calling both of them, making them both delighted.

Especially Qing'er, this girl couldn't sit still and walked beside Bing'er. "That's great, I'm finally not the youngest, so brother won't always bully me."

Following which, she was curious about Xue'er who stopped on Bing'er's shoulder. "Bing'er, tell sister who this little fellow is."

Xue'er was smart and didn't wait for Bing'er to reply. It flew up on its own and said. "Xue'er, Xue'er."

This move made Qing'er's mouth agape. "Ya, it flies. So magical, it's like the sprite in the legends. You said you are called Xue'er?"

"En."

Even the always calm Yingyu couldn't sit still and looked at Ouyang Shuo, asking, "Big brother, is that an ancient sprite?"

Ouyang Shuo didn't know how to explain this to them and said, "Just treat it as it is."

At this time, Suze walked in. "Sire, miss, breakfast is ready."

"Ok, let's go eat breakfast, let's talk at the table." Ouyang Shuo got up and dragged Bing'er, bringing her to the food hall.

After breakfast, Ouyang Shuo let Yingyu and Qing'er do their own business. Bing'er would take care of herself today.

Before leaving, Qing'er didn't stop reminding Ouyang Shuo to bring Qing'er to her tailor shop. She wanted to sew some beautiful clothing for her new sister.

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Chapter 170 - Teacher

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Taking into account that Bing'er just came, Ouyang Shuo wasn't ready to let her move in straight away into the east courtyard. Instead, he emptied a room in the main courtyards.

Ouyang Shuo didn't do much in the entire morning, just bringing Bing'er around Shanhai Town. The majestic Qingfu horse, the Nian beasts... all of them caused her to be amazed and intrigued.

As for how the lord suddenly had a new sister, both the residents and the officials in the manor were all delighted. This proved that their lord had a family heritage which was very important in ancient times.

Zisu was arranged beside Bing'er to take care of her living and daily needs. On the side of Ouyang Shuo. He only kept Banxia, as either way he didn't need much taking care of and service.

In the afternoon, Zisu continued to accompany Bing'er to sightsee around Shanhai Town.

Ouyang Shuo returned to his office and started to deal with all the administrative work.

He picked up a document which was from the weapon workshop manager Xukun. In the document he mentioned that they had already combined the crafting techniques of the Tang knife and the long spear, and created the lance.

Out of all the long weapons, the earliest used weapon was the spear. As chariots appeared,dagger axes appeared for soldiers to attack on top of the chariots. The appearance of war horses proliferated cavalry and combining the advantages of both the spear and the dagger axe, it slowly became the main weapon of the cavalry, the halberd.

When heavy armor appeared, to increase the penetration of the weapon, the main weapon of the cavalry became lances. The lance's appearance was the same as spears, just that it was made with better materials and was stronger.

The core of the lance was its pole. The higher grade lances often used tricuspid cudrania wood. Unfortunately such a precious material was not yet found in Shanhai Town.

With the lance, the equipment of The Shanhai City heavy armoured cavalry was set. Now what they lacked was a lance teacher to teach the cavalry how to use the lance.

Dwelling on this topic, Ouyang Shuo instantly thought about Qing Qiong from Xunlong Town.

He didn't hesitate and shouted in the alliance channel, "Requesting help from xunlong."

"Boss, what's up?" Xunlong Dianxue immediately replied.

"Cough, lend me your Qing Qiong, we can discuss the terms."

"Wa, the chance to exploit the boss has come." Siege Lion suddenly appeared.

"Boss, Qing Qiong is my only general, I can't relax with him gone."

As expected that little brat started to raise the stakes. Ouyang Shuo didn't want to follow his tempo and offered, "One day for 10 Tang knives, no less than half a month."

Based on his offer, a Tang knife was 5 gold, 10 would be 50. If Xunlong Dianxue wasn't happy with it then he would be too greedy.

"Deal!" In truth, this far exceeded his expectation.

"Wa, Xunlong you have earned big. Boss, my Qin Shou is also for rent, I can give you a 20% discount." Siege Lion was envious.

"Why would I rent your Qin Shou, you should just give him to me, name your price." Ouyang Shuo joked.

"Hehe, Qin Shou is not for sale." Siege Lion still hadn't lost his mind.

"Xunlong, teleport him over now. We will count it as a day." Ouyang Shuo shouted.

"No problem, I'll go look for him now." Xunlong Dianxue agreed.

Ouyang Shuo got up and left the lord's manor and prepared to go to the teleportation formation to welcome Qing Qiong.

As expected, in 10 minutes he transported over. "I greet Lord Wuyi!"

"I've made General Qin busy. As for the reason you are here, I'm sure your sire has told you?"

"Yes he told me it's to teach your army how to use lances."

"Great, general please follow me."

"Yes!"

Ouyang Shuo brought Qing Qiong to the Military Affairs Department and handed him over to director Zhu. "Director Zhu, I'll hand general Qin over to you. Tomorrow, follow him and go to the barracks. Tell Lin Yi clearly to ensure all soldiers have grasped the lance. Those that perform well will become sergeants."

"Understood!"

Ouyang Shuo left the Military Affairs Department and went to the lord's manor, nicely bumping into Yingyu.

"Big brother, the Langshan mining field and Northern Saltpan's income has been collected. It's a total of 7600 gold."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "How much does the Financial Department need this month?"

"This month we earned 2000 gold and need around 3000 gold of subsidies to maintain expenditure." Yingyu said apologetically.

"That's very good already." Ouyang Shuo consoled. "How about this, I'll leave 3600 to either the Financial Department. As for the remaining 4000 gold, transfer it to me."

"En."

Holding onto the gold, Ouyang Shuo went to the market and spent 1800 gold buying all the building blueprints as well as the upgrade blueprints for the granary and the private school.

On the market appeared another batch of gold rank secret manuals, which he bought up. There were a total of 24 totalling 1200 gold. Adding to the 76 he bought last time, Ouyang Shuo now had 100 gold rank secret manuals. These secret manuals were going to soar in price after the 7th month.

As for the remaining 1000 gold, Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to use and saved it for emergencies.

Going back to his office, he passed the building blueprints to the clerk and asked him to pass it to the Building Division. The plans for Shanhai City done by the Construction Division had already been approved. Hence, Ouyang Shuo didn't need to order and decide which place would be for which building.

After dealing with all that, the 2nd city wall project had started. To save time, the renovation of the village started at the same time. All buildings were moved based on the new plans. Just renovating the buildings had cost 500 gold, which was why Ouyang Shuo had kept 1000 gold for emergencies.

Based on the military power, and also the sweeping operation done by the mixed regiment, the buildings which were shifted outside of the first city wall and weren't protected didn't have to worry about their safety.

The raiders didn't have the courage and the strength to attack Shanhai City at such a time.

6 PM, Ouyang Shuo was in his office reading.

Bing'er suddenly ran in and laughed. "Brother, time to eat."

"Okay!" Ouyang Shuo picked her up and pinched her nose asking, "Baby, did you have fun?" He asked and walked into the backyard at the same time.

"En, brother it's so fun here."

"Then have you been naughty?"

"Bing'er is so well behaved. If you don't believe you can ask sister Zisu. And also sister Qing, she also helped measure my body and made beautiful dresses for me." In just an afternoon she had gotten close to both Qing'er and Zisu, really a fearless brat.

Returning to the backyard, dinner was already prepared and Yingyu and Qing'er had returned. Seeing Ouyang Shuo carry Bing'er in, everyone looked at each other and smiled.

After dinner, Ouyang Shuo brought Bing'er into her room. He asked Suzi to get out before telling Bing'er how to go offline. After confirming that she went offline, Ouyang Shuo returned to his room and went offline.

After going offline, he rushed to her room only to see the little brat opening the game cabin and climbing out of it.

"Baby, are you tired?"

"En, a little bit." Just out of the game, Bing'er was still a bit woozy and couldn't get used to the environment.

"Then go brush your teeth and brother will make you breakfast. After that, go back and have some sleep, okay?" Ouyang Shuo said.

"En, I'll listen to brother."

Needless to say, the shops had already stopped working. Ouyang Shuo could only cook himself and make two bowls of noodles and two eggs on top of that.

After she finished her breakfast and went back to bed, Ouyang Shuo went into the living room and started cultivating. He decided that from today onwards he wouldn't leave the house even to run, and would stay in the room and cultivate.

After warming up, he took a hot shower and returned to his room to cultivate the Yellow Emperor internal cultivation techniques

By 11AM, Bing'er had woken up.

As she didn't need to go to school and couldn't go out to play, she sat in the living room to watch cartoons. Luckily, she had her brother to accompany her so it wasn't too boring.

In the afternoon, they ate a simple lunch. At 2PM, Ouyang Shuo acted as the replacement teacher to revise her work with her. At 4PM, she started to do her work. Ouyang Shuo sat beside her and opened his handbrain, either searching the forums or looking up information.

This kind of schedule became their norm during the month.

At 5PM, Ouyang Shuo received a call from Xiaoyue.

Ouyang Shuo got up and left Bing'er's room. "How are you, did you go back smoothly?"

"En, I reached home yesterday. This afternoon I talked about my grandpa about you and he was interested and wanted to talk to you." Sun Xiaoyue said.

"Great."

"In the display appeared a 60 year old man. His head was full of white hair but his face was red and filled with life, with little wrinkles and looked very energized.

"Hello grandpa, I am Ouyang Shuo."

"Hello little kid. Thank you for taking care of my granddaughter." The grandfather was very polite.

"That's normal, as we are good friends!"

"Good, young people should be like this." He was very work focused so after a few simple greetings he dived right in. "I heard from Xiaoyue that old people like me had things to do in the game?"

Ouyang Shuo could understand his feelings of being a scientist for a large part of his life, and spending it all in his field of research.

What people like him cared most about was their research. To toss it aside was something that was hard to get used to. Now hearing that they could continue their jobs, they were obviously very excited.

"Yes grandpa. In the game as long as you have a suitable platform, scientists like you have a huge part to play." Ouyang Shuo smiled.

"Good good good. We old people don't like to hang around. To sit around and do nothing would be really torturous."

"Grandpa, you can call all your friends up. Even those that can't get in contact now can also just leave their contact information." Ouyang Shuo smiled and said.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

"Thank you grandpa, sorry for the inconvenience."

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Chapter 171 - Undercurrent

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Just as Ouyang Shuo was recruiting people and building bridges in real life to bring in more talents for his territory, the lords in Lianzhou basin had a peculiar occurrence.

May 30th, Broken Blade Town.

The lord of Broken Blade Town, Ba Dao, had brought all the core members of his territory and waited beside the teleportation formation. Not long after, 5 players walked out of the formation and started talking with him.

The 5 who'd teleported over were the lords of Tianfeng Town, Gushan Town, Guangshan Town, and Youngye Town, who were Xiaofeng Canyue, Dengtai Baijian, Chengfeng Polang, and Heise Pifeng, respectively.

Adding the Broken Blade Town, the 6 territories were the other towns apart from Shanhai City and Mulan Town in the Lianzhou Basin. Out of all of them, only Broken Blade Town and Tianfeng Town participated in the Battle of Zhuolu. The other 4 territories had just upgraded to a grade 1 Town recently.

As the migration news was revealed, hundreds of millions of players swarmed into the game. This also pushed many territories to upgrade quickly. A large number of grade 3 villages upgraded to grade 1 towns. From today onwards, towns were the average of players in the game.

As more players joined, many lords could handle the pressure and started recruiting players to their territories. Out of the recruited players, a significant portion was family and friends.

A lord would have several close relatives like aunties and grandparents. Adding cousins, colleagues, and friends, this was already a huge group. Apart from his, as for relatives of friends and friends of friends or colleagues of friends, these groups added together consisted of hundreds and thousands.

Based on the players' thinking, instead of slugging away and struggling alone, why not stay in a territory controlled by a friend?

Unfortunately, the cruel war between territories would destroy their beautiful dreams.

Obviously, lords weren't fools, and apart from recruiting their friends and family, they would also recruit different types of work occupation players. As for combat occupation players, because there were many conditions, the lords were very careful when hiring them.

When the lords hired players, they had to be very careful and couldn't recruit players who had other motives. In the last life, some groups made use of other lords' recruitment and acted as they didn't know each other before joining the territory. After which they moved against one another to obtain the lord's trust.

The lord thought that he had obtained talents. In the end, the players that joined the territory took control and became the lords of the territory.

This was only one example, and there were many others. After all, the Chinese region had too many smart people. One couldn't deny that lords were the elites of the game, but if one talked about social experience, they might not be up to the level of some of the game's rookies. These rookies were probably those that were molded by the harshness of society.

There were also professional fraud organizations which were much scarier. As these group of people entered the game, it would make the game more chaotic.

Hence, when this storm brewed, Ouyang Shuo pointedly reminded his allies to be careful when recruiting new people.

Out of all the allies, Feng Qiuhuang was the least susceptible as she was backed by many elites of various prominent families. No organization would dare to touch her and have ideas about her.

Siege Lion who didn't look the part but in truth he paid a lot of attention to detail. His eye for details and understanding of the lord game mode had amazed Ouyang Shuo. Hence, Ouyang Shuo didn't worry much about him. Anyways he also had Fat Tiger to help, so the chances of them messing up were much lower.

Ouyang Shuo was more worried about the crazy quest finder Xunlong Dianxue. He was the typical guy that was good at a game but had low EQ. Ouyang Shuo roughly remembered that Xunlong City in the last life had a crisis and in the end, it was solved. As for what exactly was the crisis about, Ouyang Shuo wasn't in the loop.

Bai Hua's Consonance Town was considered a special territory.

In Consonance Town, there were many players already, and the vast majority were members of the guild they created in previous games. Hence in this player wave, Consonance Town had an additional 3 thousand people, getting them close to the 10 thousand max population of a grade 3 town.

In theory, their risk was the greatest. However, in truth, Ouyang Shuo wasn't worried. In the last life, it was proven that Bai Hua had to control and deal with such elements. If not Consonance City wouldn't have become one of the enormous rulers.

The one that Ouyang Shuo felt terrible about was Mulan Town. As expected, the changes that happened in the last life had occurred once again on this poor Mulan Yue.

Mulan Yue's parents were both scientists that worked on the mars base. To continue their research, after analyzing 10 years of the change of earth, they decided to remain on Mars temporarily.

The federal government had left a spaceship and twenty years of supplies for the workers on the mars base. After they complete their mission, they could sit on the spaceship and rush to planet Hope.

Mulan Yue wanted to stay on the mars base with her parents. However, which parent would want their kid to suffer with them, so they resolutely declined.

Hence, the little lady that was going to take this new path alone had felt very down recently. When they knew, they all teleported to Mulan Town to console her. Ouyang Shuo promised that when they reached planet Hope, he would let her stay by his side.

The consolation from friends had finally let her, to have lesser of an emotional change as compared to the last life. Apart from feeling a little down, nothing significant has happened.

Ouyang Shuo also finally understood why she had worked so hard to run her territory. She wanted to build a good base for when her parents arrived.

Because of this change, Mu Lanyue had become much closer with Ouyang Shuo. Under his recommendation, Mulan Town temporarily wouldn't recruit other players.

Closer to home, the meeting of the 6 lords of Lianzhou basin at Broken Blade Town was highly unusual.

The Qiushui River and friendship river which intersected in a Y shape had split the Lianzhou Basin into 3.

At the V portion, it took up half of the land area of the Lianzhou basin. This was the territory of the nomads. Apart from Milan Town that was in the south part, very few territories could survive here. Even if there were players who could build their territories here, it was highly likely to be destroyed by the nomads.

On the east and west side of the Y, there were 30 odd territories. Broken blade Town and Tianfeng Town, the two winners of the Lianzhou basin in the last life were on the east and west side, at the uppermost point of both rivers. Beside them were the two vast lakes in the Lianzhou basin, the east lake, and the west lake. They were back facing a mountain and sides facing the lake, with this kind of geological advantage, it was no wonder why they had an advantage in the last life.

Yishui Town was near the middle flow of the Qiushui river. It's lord Ruoshui Sanqian was the only female lord in this meeting.

Gushan Town was at the Southeast edge of the Lianzhou basin and was built at where the eastern mountains met the southern mountains, a very good place to defend. It's lord Dengtai Baifang ever since knowing that Shanhai Town had mountain barbarian warriors, he wanted to come into contact with them and had already obtained some progress.

The future Gushan Town would be the closest competitor to Shanhai City to get the mountain barbarian tribes.

Guangshui Town was in the middle of the friendship river, similar to that of Yishui town. The lord Chengfeng Polang was a medium-sized family prince.

The last Yongye Town was built on the north-west corner near the Yongye forest. The forest on the west of Shanhai Town was the border of the Yongye forest. Hence, Yongye Town was the territory that was closest to Shanhai City.

The lord Heise Pifeng was a vicious person.

It wasn't hard to imagine that these 6 territories held significant strategic land in the Lianzhou basin and would be the most significant obstacle to Shanhai City claiming control.

Their meeting was to create an alliance. The 6 of them stayed at Broken Blade Town for an entire day and officially formed the Sky Knife Alliance. This alliance used a dual-leader style, and the two leaders were Ba Dao and Xiaofeng Canyue.

Apart from that, Tianfeng Town, Yongye Town, and Guangshui Town had formed a triangle while the other three formed another. The Sky Knife Alliance was already split between two parties.

The 6 members of the alliance surrounded Shanhai City from many directions. Their goal was to work together to clean Shanhai City out. If not, as Shanhai City continued to develop, they wouldn't have a place to stand on in Lianzhou Basin.

The Sky Knife Alliance was a typical military deal. The alliance deal was to not fight amongst themselves before they dealt with Shanhai City. At the same time, in future territory battles, everyone must work together and chase out the lords from the territories which were weaker than them.

This was the typical big fish eating small fish. The small fish were scared, and allied to attack the big fish while also not forgetting to eat the little shrimps to strengthen themselves.

This kind of an interesting situation would be the norm in territorial wars. After all, such conflicts were cruel, and it was either you die, or I die, there was nothing much to be said.

Whether or not the Sky Knife Alliance would achieve their goal, only time would tell.

About this kind of an undercurrent, Ouyang Shuo knew nothing, but he was a step ahead and asked the Military Intelligence Division to gather information about the other lords. When the time came, he would destroy anyone who dared to stand in the way of Shanhai City.

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Chapter 172 - Mountain Barbarian Settlement

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On the 5th day of the 6th month, Shanhai City had finally ended their raider operation.

The 10 day raider operation started by the mixed regiment had obtained great rewards. It earned a total of 2500 gold and 3000 prisoners, as well as large amounts of grain and equipment.

As for special items, apart from that heavy armored infantry token, they also obtained a territory specially scroll.

Territory specialty scroll (3): After use, agriculture production increases by 10%.

There were a total of 6 territory specialty scrolls. Shanhai City had already obtained the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ones, and only hadn't got the 1st, 5th, and 6th ones.

Out of which, the first raised the refugee attraction rate, the 5th raised the levelling speed, and the last one raised the chances of talents breaking the bottleneck, all of which were very important.

The gold earned was basically the cost of the military expansion. Of course, the large amounts of payments were due to the salaries from expanding the army.

In the current Shanhai City, the vanguard unit's salary was born by Friendship Town, the Beihai naval fleet by Beihai Town, and Langshan protection unit didn't have any salary. Hence the city only needed to provide salaries to the mixed regiment, the city protection unit, and the god machine unit.

Even so, Shanhai City's monthly expenditure still reached 2000 gold.

3000 prisoners, 250 of which were water bandits which were sent to Beihai Town, and sent to be reserves for the Beihai Naval fleet. With this, the reserve squad of the third squadron of the Beihai naval fleet had reached max members. The moment Beihai Town upgraded to Beihai City, these reserve troops would change class to form the 3rd unit.

The remaining prisoners, apart from a minority who were chosen by the Military Affairs Department and sent into the reserve troops, were sent to build the 2nd city wall. Once the project ended, they would be sent to either the brick kiln or the pottery workshop.

After the raider operation had ended, the selection for the lord manor Guards had officially started. Before it began, Ouyang Shuo had spread that the salary of the Guards would be twice that of any other.

Honor and money. These two temptations weren't things any good man could resist.

Ouyang Shuo specially arranged Wang Feng to pick some high rank elites who didn't want to change class to basic general. Based on his understanding, if the rank 9 elite soldier didn't choose to change class, then there was a chance they could upgrade to a war elite.

In the afternoon while Ouyang Shuo was reading, the director of Internal Affairs Tian Wenjing, who had got on the job not long ago, walked in.

"Sire, congratulations!" Tian Wenjing couldn't hide his happiness.

"Oh, what good news?" It wasn't often he saw this director happy, making Ouyang Shuo very curious.

"There was news from Xuanniao tribe that a small sized tribe was willing to come

down the mountains and build a settlement in our territory." Tian Wenjing laughed.

Ever since the Jifeng tribe was destroyed, Tian Wenjing was appointed as the territory ambassador and put in charge of matters regarding the mountain barbarians.

The newly set up Internal Affairs Department and changing the director of the Material Reserves department. He didn't hand over this job regarding the mountain barbarians to the new Material Reserves Department. Instead, Tian Wenjing was still in charge.

Ouyang Shuo considered that firstly it wasn't easy for Tian Wenjing to get close to the mountain barbarians, and changing someone halfway would mean starting over. Secondly, this fell nicely in the role of the Internal Affairs Department, which was suppose to deal with population control.

After the 1st day of the 5th month's holiday, Ouyang Shuo started to daringly change the mountain barbarian policy. He shifted the relatives of the mountain barbarian warriors to Shanhai Town, and also recommended mountain barbarians to come down the mountain to work or move to Shanhai Town.

Today, after nearly a month, that strategy had shown some results.

"Which tribe is it?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"It's one of the 8 tribes that agreed to work with us in the 3rd batch. This tribe was because the mountain barbarians and the grain payment were a one time off thing and wasn't like Xuanniao tribe and the 3 tribes in the second batch who could get remuneration from Langshan mines. Hence, after they used up the grain, they were once again back to the start." Tian Wenjing explained.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, expressing that he understood.

Xuanniao tribe was the first mountain barbarian tribe to work together with Shanhai City. As such, they'd gained the most. Their men not only took up the big positions in the mines, but also had an increase in influence on surrounding tribes, replacing the destroyed Jifeng tribe and becoming the leader of this small region.

The 2nd batch of tribes that worked with Shanhai City were 3 small tribes. It was also during that time when Jifeng tribe rejected the friendship of Shanhai City, and when the future animosity started. Men from these 3 tribes were sent to Langshan mines, and as such their living conditions had been improved.

The 3rd batch of tribes that worked with Shanhai City were tribes that had no choice after seeing Shanhai City destroy the Jifeng tribe. Of this batch, there were a total of 2 medium tribes and 6 small tribes.

For this batch of tribes, because the Langshan mine was already full, hence they only obtained a one-time payment and relied on picking herbs on the mountains in return for grain. Adding the fact that their best soldiers joined Shanhai City, it made hunting for food a lot more difficult.

Hence it was understandable if these tribes from the 3rd batch couldn't resist the temptation. After all, any person would want to be able to live without needing to worry about food and money.

If it was before when everyone was the same and was struggling, there would be nothing for people to envy. However, because of the Langshan minefields, it split the tribes into two. A rich and poor divide was formed.

Adding that these tribes had tasted the good stuff from the grain that Shanhai Town had given them, giving their tribe a period when they had sufficient food, and now having them go back to before was something no one would be willing to endure.

Furthermore, there was Tian Wenjing at the side who was constantly persuading them, finally causing a tribe to be unable to resist and throw aside their mountain barbarian custom and be willing to live in Shanhai City.

After thinking carefully about the whole process, Ouyang Shuo was more and more confident in his strategy. In it there were rewards, including carrots and sweets, unleashing the strategy to perfection.

"How many people does this tribe have?" Ouyang Shuo continued.

"Around 1800 people."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. This number of people was considered little even amongst small tribes. "House this tribe at Qiushui town. It's closer to their old home and the difference isn't that huge so they can adapt. The future tribes that decide to come down will also be housed there. I'll tell Qiushui Town and order them to work with the Internal Affairs Department to choose a location for the building project."

"Understood!"

"In this mountain barbarian affair, you have done very well and I'm very pleased. However, we can't be content with the current situation and must continue to convince more and more of them to come down and join Shanhai City."

"Sire don't worry, I won't let you down!" Tian Wenjing promised solemnly.

After Tian Wenjing left, Ouyang Shuo started to write a letter to the head of Qiushui Town, Zhao Dexian.

In the letter he wrote that the settlement would follow the standard grade 1 town, and that it would be mainly for agriculture. He wrote that they must have sufficient farming lands, and even if reclamation needed to be done, that it must be rushed such that at the end of the 7th month the 2nd season of rice planting could begin.

Apart from that, Qiushui Town needed to provide sufficient farming tools. If they had farming cows they could also lend it to the settlement to reclaim land. They must also send experienced farmers to teach and advise the newcomers.

These mountain barbarians did not have any farming experience, and if Qiushui Town's agriculture industry wanted to rise, it needed their help. This settlement had to be of high quality such that it could be used as a standard to attract more tribes.

Qiushui Town would be in charge of all their food, and to lessen the burden on the town, the Finance Department would give them 1000 gold in subsidies.

It was nice that the town had the water irrigation system project and the city wall building going on so they could use these mountain barbarians, following the main camp's standard to give payment.

Lastly, Ouyang Shuo mentioned in the letter that Qiushui Town needed to plan out the settlement and make preparations for when more mountain barbarian tribes came down to live in the future.

In his letter, Ouyang Shuo was very specific and had considered all points. One could see how much importance he placed on this.

After writing, he called the clerk Bai Nanpu and asked him to send it immediately to Qiushui Town. Shanhai City had specific messengers who were in charge of sending and receiving letters between territories. There were a total of 4 of them who were under the charge of Bai Nanpu.

After this, Ouyang Zhuo stood up and went to the office of the Director of Finance, raising the issue about the subsidy. This sum of money was naturally form Ouyang Shuo's pocket.

Deducting this subsidy and the 500 gold for renewing the city, Ouyang Shuo only had 2000 gold left.

At 6PM in the afternoon, Bing'er appeared punctually in Ouyang Shuo's office to ask him to eat dinner. This had already become routine. In this period of time, Bing'er had completely adapted to life in Shanhai City.

In the lord's manor, be it officials or servants, they all loved and cared for her. Adding with the fact that she was pretty, cute, and also very well behaved, it made her well loved by everyone.

Especially Er Wazi, who after getting out of school, would follow Bing'er around.

Today, she was wearing a Tang Dynasty princess dress, a pink skirt with many flowers sewn into it. This dress was naturally done by Qing'er herself.

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Chapter 173- Weakness

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On the 6th day of the 6th month, when Ouyang Shuo went online, a system notification sounded in his ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Chun Shenjun for becoming the second player in the Chinese region to upgrade to rank 1 city, rewarded 2000 merit points!"

"System notification: Congratulations player Chun Shenjun for becoming the second player in the Chinese region..."

"System notification: Congratulations player Chun Shenjun..."

After half a month, China had finally birthed its second grade 1 city.

In this period around the globe, there were already 5 grade 1 cities. Out of the top 10 territories, apart from Sanli Town, Bengalore Town, Free Town, and Handan Town who failed their test, the remaining 6 all successfully upgraded.

The other territories closed the lead of Shanhai City.

After Chun Shenjun and Pill Sun City upgraded, Ouyang Shuo ridiculed in the group. "Guys when are you all going to apply to upgrade, you can't lag behind too much."

Out of the 5 allies, Mulan Town and Black Lion Town were only grade 2 towns, a fair distance away from upgrading. Xunlong Town had just upgraded to grade 3 town so they would be that fast.

The ones with the most hope were Fallen Phoenix Town and Consonance Town that had upgraded to grade 3 town a long time ago.

"I'm prepared to wait for one more week." Bai Hua replied first.

"Then Fengwu?"

"Wuyi, I was just about to look for you." Feng Qiuhuang replied first.

"Oh?"

"I had just applied, and the 9th will be when the raider attack comes.

"That is a good thing, what do you want me to do?"

"Everything is ok. I just need to borrow your 3 bow 8 cow bed crossbow."

Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate. "No problem. Recently, the bow and crossbow division made another set so along with the other 2 sets. I'll lend them all to you. I'll also send the major of the god machine unit to teach you how to use it."

"That's great. I was still worrying about how to train my men." Feng Qiuhuang was delighted.

"When you all apply to upgrade, tell me. I'll lend them to you too."

"Yay, chief is the best!" Mu Lanyue was fooling around again.

"He is the best 1!" That was Gong Chengshi.

"He is the best 2!"

"He is the best 3!"

Ouyang Shuo was a bit speechless. He didn't know that the two goddesses would join in too. The reason he did that was that he hoped everyone would successfully upgrade and raise the ability of Shanhai Alliance.

"Wuyi, let me tell you news." Feng Qiuhuang said.

"What news?"

"Including my family, the various powers older generation have all entered the game. Although they won't go into the spotlight, they will be planning and be scheming from the back. So towards Di Chen and the others, you need to be careful." Feng Qiuhuang reminded.

"Relax, I'll pay attention." These kinds of circumstances were what Ouyang Shuo had expected, and as such he was very calm.

"And also, don't think that just because the exchange platform closed that everything is good. The strength and power of the families are far more than expected. Originally, many of the elites were working and occupied with the businesses. Now they have all entered the game as well. With this group of experienced people, the territories will be run better, and their abilities might not be worse than some historical personnel. Especially in finance and business matters." As Ouyang Shuo was very casual with his reply, Feng Qinhuang became more earnest.

Others wouldn't know, but she was sure that Ouyang Shuo wasn't a descendant of some hidden power. When the reality is already so chaotic, any secret person would have no choice but to surface and who else would be like Ouyang Shuo and become more and more secretive.

Feng Qiuhuang looked up to this ally, and didn't want him to underestimate his opponents.

What Feng Qiuhuang said were all things that Ouyang Shuo already knew.

Not only that, but Ouyang Shuo also new that Zhanlang's Blood Red Town had recently surged in strength. This was because a group of military men had joined the town and formed a professional army.

These men were many times more disciplined and skilled than the original NPCs, especially regarding intelligence gathering and special warfare.

Not only that, their general's ability to command was not weaker than that of the olden generals. It could even be said to be better in some areas. Their only weakness was that they didn't have the cultivation techniques and specialties of the NPCs, and were weaker in combat power.

This was equal to Blood Red Town directly obtaining an elite force and some historical scholars and generals, so this was such a scary situation.

As for the other members of the original Six Tyrants of Handan, they all became stronger. It wouldn't take long for all of them to rise to grade 1 cities. What made Ouyang Shuo interested was that after the migration, in reality, Di Chen would have lost the upper hand over Sha Pojun. He was interested in what would happen between those two.

If it wasn't for his hard work early in the game, now Shanhai City wouldn't even have the rights to challenge them. Only because he had started producing and nurturing residents and officials since the grade 1 village could he now stand a chance.

Luckily, he still had some methods. If not, he would have to give up the throne in the Chinese region.

The weaknesses of these big powers were that no matter how strong they were, they had to conform to the rules of the game. And talking about the understanding of the game, no one could come close to Ouyang Shuo.

For example, those financial elites were entering the game, but the game didn't have a stock market and also didn't have a modern bank, only ancient ones. They didn't even have a base of capital, making it hard for them to try anything. Of course, if they were pulled over to the Four Seas bank, then the rise in management skills would be very apparent.

Another example would be the professional farmers who could naturally improve the water irrigation systems. However, if they wanted to make some mix of rice to raise the yield, then it would be impossible. As for fertilizers and pesticides, it was impossible for them to appear.

"Thank you for your reminder!" Ouyang Shuo understood her care and concern.

The topic that she raised up made the atmosphere very cold and severe. Out of the 6 members of the Shanhai Alliance, only she had a strong family background, and the rest were commoners.

Initially, all these things were topics that they didn't talk about. But today she brought out the advantages of the strong powers. It apparently made the others feel suppressed.

"Ok la, we don't need to give up. As long as we continue discovering and nurturing, there will never be a lack of talent. Even without elite players, we can make use of residents to manage the territory well. Also, the residents respect the lords and are loyal to them. This is something players couldn't do." Ouyang Shuo cheered everyone on.

"I feel that Wuyi is right. Shanhai City only has one Wuyi, and he managed to stand atop of the world. With this, we can see that the potential of the residents is enormous, the key would be how we use it and nurture them." Bai Hua agreed with his view.

"I also support brother Wuyi. Sister Mu is so good!" Mu Lanyue followed and said.

Hearing them put it that way, Gong Chengshi and Xunlong Dianxue became a lot more relaxed. What Ouyang Shuo could provide was after all, limited. After all, in order to travel far, one must still rely on themselves and walk their own paths.

"Brothers and sisters, are you all lacking money? My Mulan Town is so poor, sister Mu wants to expand the army, but we can't get enough gold to change class." Mu Lanyue was sounding depressed and revealed her situation.

Towards this smart girl, Ouyang Shuo's heart felt very pained. "Yue Yue, if you lack money, brother can lend you some."

"I don't want it. Although you have money, Shanhai City is so big and has so many forces to feed, I don't want to take up your funds." Mu Lanyue directly rejected.

"Since that's the case I've got a suggestion for you to think about."

"What suggestion?"

"You all know that Shanhai City has a bank called the Four Seas bank, right?"

"En, yes I know."

"My suggestion is to open a branch in your town and provide low-interest loans. Not only would that solve your money problems and also earn profits for Shanhai City, a win-win situation. You also don't need to feel guilty. Of course, the economic power of Mulan Town will slowly be controlled by the bank." Ouyang Shuo made it very clear that there were pros and cons.

"I'll discuss with Sister Mu before I tell you."

"Of course."

Hearing the conversation between those two, the other 4 were silent. Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang temporarily didn't lack funds. Gong Chengshi and Xunlong Dianxue, on the other hand, were facing similar problems to Mu Lanyue.

However, just as Ouyang Shuo said, allowing the Four Seas Bank to run in your territory would be giving up the economic control of your territory, needing courage and a lot of trust.

In truth even if Gong Chengshi and Xunlong Dianxue agreed, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't allow it.

Ouyang Shuo agreed with Mulan Yue only because they were both in Lianzhou Basin, and were destined to merge. To connect the economies earlier would be beneficial to the future merge.

Additionally, he wanted to make use of the Four Seas Bank to help Mulan Town grow quickly. Only with its swift growth would it be able to defend the Zhennan Pass.

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Chapter 174 - Zhennan Pass

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Mu Lanyue switched off the Alliance channel and went to look for Mu Guiying, telling her about Ouyang Shuo's suggestion.

After hearing what she said, Mu Guiying kept silent and didn't utter a word. Apparently, this was a difficult choice. Based on her original intention, she wished for Mulan Town to be able to run independently. But now because of the lack of funds, the town had been progressing slowly and her time and effort had been diverted, making her unable to focus on the military.

After a long while, she looked towards Mu Lanyue. "Xiaoyue, let me ask you, how much do you trust your brother Wuyi? Apart from allies, do you have any other feelings for him?"

Mu Lanyue was stunned and didn't understand why she would suddenly ask that. As she trusted her thoroughly, even if she found it weird she would answer adequately. "Brother Wuyi is an ally and also a brother. Although he isn't my real brother, I can feel that he is sincere and real."

Mu Guiying nodded. "Then let me ask you, as for the future of Mulan Town, how do you consider it? Both us and Shanhai City are in the Lianzhou Basin and are bound to face each other one day."

"I don't want to hide it from sister, but I've thought about this problem. Sister, you already know that Father and Mother will be separated from me for a long time so I need to run Mulan Town to make them proud of me when they return. As for the future, merging into Shanhai City would be the best choice. However, before that, I want to use my own ability to run Mulan Town well." Mu Lanyue gave such a reply.

"I understand. Since it's like that, I agree to open a branch of Four Seas Bank in Mulan Town. I can also focus more of my energy on the raiders and nurture an elite force for our territory to defend the Zhennan Pass."

Mu Lanyue was ecstatic. "Ok, I'll go tell brother Wuyi."

After receiving her reply, Ouyang Shuo got up and went into Yingyu's office.

"Big brother!" Yingyu stood up and invited Ouyang Shuo to sit.

After he sat down, he described the thing about Mulan Town to her and said, "Yingyu, I would like to shift Yang Yun from Beihai Town and send her to Mulan Town. What are your thoughts?"

Cui Yingyu took a moment before smiling. "I think it's okay. She was part of the building of the Four Seas Bank and is clear about how it runs. She also took charge of the Beihai Town branch and accumulated a lot of experience."

"Ok, then send a letter with the authority of the Financial Department for her to return to the main camp. As for the person to replace her, the Financial Department can decide that."

"Understood." Yingyu nodded and asked, "Big brother, on the side of Mulan Town, how much gold are you going to prepare?"

To that question, Ouyang Shuo had a rough draft. "If we prepare too little, it won't do. The first sum will be set at 2000, which is all our spare cash. This sum should be able to last for a while. When it's used up, then we will invest further."

"I agree." Yingyu was from a business family and she was clear that once the bank was settled, it was a money vacuum, the early investment was needed for future returns, and as such, she agreed.

At 2 PM, Wang Yuanfeng brought 3 sets of 3 bow 8 cow bed crossbow and teleported to Fallen Phoenix Town. After sending him off, Ouyang Shuo returned to the lord's manor.

At 4 PM, Yang Yun had returned to Shanhai City and rushed straight back to the lord's office.

After Ouyang Shuo told her about her new appointment, he reminded her. "Mulan Town's lord Mu Lanyue is my friend, and this branch opening is a normal business activity. When you are there, you must be neutral and not interfere with their economic matters and not much of their management affairs. Do you understand?"

The Four Seas Bank was a sharp dagger, and if the wielder didn't have a clear head, it could cause substantial damage. Ouyang Shuo naturally trusted Yang Yun, but because of the significance, he still had to remind her.

She nodded her head solemnly. " Don't worry sire. I understand what to do."

"That's good." Ouyang Shuo waved her off and said, "What I need to say has already been mentioned. It's not early already, so you should make a trip to Director Cui and see if she has anything for you. Tomorrow morning, I'll personally send you to Mulan Town."

"Yes!" Yang Yun replied and took her leave.

Yang Yun wasn't sent alone. Apart from her, the Financial Department chose two elite personnel to be her helpers. As for the preparation job for the Four Seas Bank there, Mu Lanyue would be in charge, including the selection of the basic workers.

At the Mulan Town teleportation formation, Mu Lanyue and Mu Guiying waited.

After both sides met, Ouyang Shuo introduced both parties. If the Four Seas Bank wanted to do well here, it had to have her support, and they would have many opportunities to work together. This was why Ouyang Shuo had to help them build a bridge.

Ouyang Shuo let Yang Yun and her two helpers discuss with Mu Lanyue about the Four Seas Bank, while he walked out of Mulan Town and towards Zhennan Pass under the company of Mu Guiying.

Zhennan Pass was 20 kilometers away from Mulan Town, and it guarded the only route from Lianzhou Basin to the Guangxi region. Now it was taken by a bunch of mountain thieves.

At the center of the 50 meter wide canyon seen from afar, a little majestic mountain stood. The whole pass was washed by time, leaving down time's legacies.

The Zhennan Pass was split into the main pass and the east and west side gates. The main pass was 20 meters high, 30 meters wide, and made of stone. The bottom of the pass was where the only opening was, which was 10 meters tall and 8 meters wide. It had 3 city gates which were all closed.

The main pass extended towards the side until the cliff wall. It was slightly lower at 15 meters high. Each side had a small gate which was 6 meters tall and 4 meters wide for people and goods to enter.

"General Mu, how much do you understand about the mountain thieves?"

These mountain thieves were a tumor, and Ouyang Shuo was planning to work together with Mulan Town and eradicate them and allow Mulan Town to take over.

Mu Guiying shook her head. "You should have seen that our spy has no way to even get close. The moment she gets near, she would be exposed to the guards."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and asked, "Then what do they do to survive, why doesn't Rhu come out of the pass to rob? Especially with Mulan Town within their sights, why weren't they disturbed?"

Mu Guiying frowned. "This was the part I found weird. Based on my conjecture, they probably amassed a significant amount of resources when they had taken over the pass, and it was enough to last them. Secondly was that there were people that would go through the pass, and they'd take fees which were enough for them to survive. Hence that's why they were cooped inside and rarely came out to rob. After all, they were people too, and unless that had no choice, they wouldn't risk going out to rob and kill others."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and agreed with Mu Guiying's conjecture, laughing. "It seems like they aren't a random group of people. Their leader isn't simple. Not only can he think clearly and think far ahead, but he should also have a high prestige in the group."

"How so?" Mu Guiying was curious.

"Think about it. Just as you said, a large portion of the mountain thieves are living blissfully. That is because they were forced onto this path and had no choice. They only wanted to feed themselves and thus wouldn't be willing to take risks. However, there is also a group of evil man who finds happiness from robbing and killing. This bunch of people wouldn't be willing to be cooped up at the pass and enjoy their normal lives. The leader being able to suppress this bunch of evil men, this leader must have prestige." Ouyang Shuo explained.

Mu Guiying nodded and agreed.

"So for the long term, we must think of a way to remove them. If not, what if one day the leader couldn't control his bunch of thugs? It would be a ticking time bomb towards Mulan Town, able to explode at any time." Ouyang Shuo reminded.

"I understand, Mulan Town will increase the patrol around the Zhennan Pass, to understand their strength in the shortest amount of time."

"If you need my support just ask for it." Ouyang Shuo promised.

"Of course."

When the two of them returned to Mulan Town, Mu Lanyue was still discussing with Yang Yun about some matters. Ouyang Shuo didn't stay for long and passed the 2000 gold for the bank over to Mu Lanyue for safekeeping. After the bank was built, she would make use of the player storage function to store the gold in the bank vault.

Ouyang Shuo then returned to Shanhai City through the teleportation formation.

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Chapter 175 - Beihai City

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Three days later, it was the 9th day of the 6th month, and Fallen Phoenix Town had successfully upgraded to Fallen Phoenix City, becoming the 3rd grade 1 city in the Chinese region.

On the 11th day of the 6th month, The moment Ouyang Shuo went online, a system notification sounded in his ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Zhan Lang for becoming the 4th lord in china to upgrade to grade 1 city, rewarded 1600 merit points!"

"System notification: Congratulations player Zhan Lang for becoming the 4th lord in china..."

"System notification: Congratulations player Zhan Lang..."

As expected, Blood Red Town, which was supported by the military, had suddenly showed their strength and succeeded in upgrading.

Being provoked by Zhan Lang, Bai Hua couldn't resist and decided to apply 3 days earlier, which meant that Fallen Phoenix Town would welcome the raider attack on the 6th month 13th day.

Which meant that Wang Yuanfeng, who had just returned from Fallen Phoenix City was sent to Consonance Town to help arrange and teach them how to use the bed crossbows.

The Four Seas Bank at Mulan Town had officially opened yesterday. Mu Lanyue directly borrowed 1000 gold in the name of Mulan Town to use to expand the military and build the city wall. The remaining 1000 gold was left for the various individuals in the town for their shops and workshops.

On the same day, Beihai Town had reached the max population of 10 thousand people, and officially upgraded to Beihai City. The upgrading of affiliate villages didn't need to take the system test. As long as they met the requirements, they could automatically upgrade.

After Beihai City's upgrade, Ouyang Shuo imemedately appointed Gu Xiuwen as the Beihai City county magistrate . At the same time, he ordered that his administrative level would be equal to the directors of the main camp.

Before the upgrade, the various heads of the affiliate villages didn't have titles, what they were called weren't fixed, and their administrative powers also weren't confirmed.

Using the chance, Ouyang Shuo shaped the management of the affiliate territories, while also letting go of some authority. The various directors and the county magistrates of the grade 1 counties were all under the direct charge of the lord. The lord would not interfere in the country magistrate's affiliate territory, and he would report everything to the Administration Department in the main camp.

The administrative powers of the affiliate territories were one level lower than that of the main camp. This meant that the 4 directors of the affiliate counties would be equal to the secretary of the main camp, and their secretaries would be similar to Shanhai's vice secretaries. Their salaries would also be based on their administrative powers and not their position.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo also drew a clear line at their administration structure. The affiliate county didn't have a Military Affairs Department and only had a Combat Logistics Division; their bank was directly controlled by the main branch of Four Seas Bank; their Material Reserves Department didn't have a Saltpan Division. The Combat Logistics Division was drafted under the jurisdiction of the Material Reserves Department.

After Beihai county upgraded, the Beihai naval fleet expanded and officially build a third unit with Lihai as the 3rd major. At the same time, Ouyang Shuo sent Pei Donglai a letter to hold selections for the 4th unit. When the time came, he would immediately send the 4th unit.

Once the Beihai naval fleet had expanded to 4 units and a total of 2000 men, they would officially attack Yueer Island and Black Shark to pull out these poisonous teeth.

After finishing with Beihai County, Ouyang Shuo got up, left the office, and walked towards the backyard.

In it, Bing'er was playing with Blackfang.

The Blackfang today had already matured and he was strong and menacing. It had well developed muscles and strong bones. It was 75 centimetres tall and weighed 55 kilograms.

Its fur was very beautiful and high quality, glistening in the air.

The black tooth puppy was smart and active. It would occasionally try to trick his owner, and treated old people and kids very nicely. The poor Blackfang was abandoned by Ouyang Shuo. The arrival of Bing'er was like giving him a new life. She really liked him and would bring him by her side and play with it, feeding it different types of good foods.

"Brother!" Seeing Ouyang Shuo, she spread her arms wide and ran towards him.

Ouyang Shuo picked her up and smiled. "Baby, are you bored?"

Bing'er shook her head and giggled. "No, Bing'er finds it more fun here than at school."

Ouyang Shuo thought to himself, Stupid brat, of course you aren't bored, the whole territory treats you as a princess and welcomes you everywhere. Gu Sanniang often invited her to the hotel and gave her many cakes. Qing'er had made over 10 sets of dresses for her.

Even in the wood workshop, the manager who owed Ouyang Shuo a big favor. Lu Guangzhi, hearing that she was only 8, dropped the work at hand to make her a wooden toy.

As it was already the 6th month and one month away from the summer holiday, so the federal government decided to have an early holiday. Hence, the schools in the game would only open next term which was the 1st day of the 9th month.

When Bing'er found out that she had a full 3 months to play, she was delighted.

"Baby, brother will bring you to ride horses, okay?" Ouyang Shuo felt guilty. For half a month, he had spent very little time with her. If it wasn't for the fact that she was mature, he wouldn't know what would've happened.

"Really?" Bing'er was delighted.

"Of course."

"Yay, riding horses!"

Ouyang Shuo placed her down, grabbed her hand, and walked towards the stables. The stables today had been moved to the Wuying courtyard.

Walking in, a group of soldiers were practicing in the square. They were the Guards selected, a total of 100 members.

Seeing Ouyang Shuo, they all stopped and bowed to him.

Ouyang Shuo waved them off and asked them to continue.

The captain of the Guards Wang Feng ran across and said, "Sire."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "Wang Feng, I want to bring Bing'er out. Let someone bring out the horse."

"Yes sire!"

Ouyang Shuo turned around and walked to the lord's manor gate.

A while later, the stableman had brought Ouyang Shuo's Qingfu horse. Behind him were 4 Guard members who were also holding onto their Qingfu horses. They wore the Mingguang armor and were fully equipped.

Ouyang Shuo took the rope and used his eyes to give them a hint and ask what they were doing.

Their leader was smart and immediately said, "Sire, captain told us that when you go out we must follow you and protect you."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Wang Feng was really caring. Ouyang Shuo didn't want to break his plan and casually said, "Then come along, but remember not to follow too closely."

"Yes sire!"

Ouyang Shuo turned around and carried Bing'er onto the horse. Following which, he got on and hugged her in front of him. Just when he wanted to leave, Blackfang ran out.

"Ya, little black, do you want to follow us?" This was what Bing'er called blackfang.

Blackfang actually accepted such a stupid name, totally not have the dignity and pride of a black wolf dog. It rushed towards Bing'er and barked twice, its back tail swinging incessantly.

Bing'er could actually understand it and turned to Ouyang Shuo. "Brother, let little black come with us!"

What else could he do but nod and agree?

Bing'er smiled happily and shouted, ",little black let's go!"

While in the city, Ouyang Shuo rode the horse slowly. On the way when the residents saw the lord bringing his sister out, they made way and also nodded to acknowledge him.

Ouyang Shuo nodded back and went out of the western gate and into the wilderness.

The second city wall was being built in the region near the western gate. Ouyang Shuo didn't disturb them, but instead went beyond the area and into the deep wilderness.

In front of him were empty plains where Ouyang Shuo started to let his horse gallop freely. Blackfang could actually keep up with the Qingfu horse's speed, causing Ouyang Shuo to be amazed.

Bing'er sat on the horse and laid in his arms. As she saw the scenery pass by, she was elated. Her little mouth didn't stop as she talked and talked and talked.

A while later, Ouyang Shuo raised his head at the little mountain and froze. He had unknowingly actually made it to the Qingyang temple.

Since it was such a coincidence, Ouyang Shuo decided to visit the temple and the temple's presiding priest, Ge Yan.

After getting off the horse, he carried Bing'er and passed the horse to the Guards. He walked up and knocked on the temple door.

With a click, the door opened, and a 12 to 13 year old boy bowed to Ouyang Shuo and asked, "Sir who are you? Why did you come to the temple?"

Before Ouyang Shuo could reply, the guard behind him said, "What impudence! This is the lord."

Ouyang Shuo stopped him. He obviously wouldn't blame a kid for not knowing as it was normal. "Little priest, where is Ge Yan?"

The little priest was originally very scared after being scolded. Only after seeing that the lord didn't blame him did he relax and said respectfully. "He's in the temple, please follow me."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and asked the Guards to wait outside. He held Bing'er's hand and followed behind. This was the first time Ouyang Shuo walked into the Qingyang temple. It had green stone floor, and there were green bricks, trees, and plants everywhere, giving off a simple and refreshing feeling. Ouyang Shuo nodded. This was certainly a good place for scripture cultivation.

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Chapter 176 - Grade 2 City

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Qingyang temple, Silence room

Ouyang Shuo and Ge Yan sat face to face, cross-legged. The middle of them was a few teaware, and Ge Yan was making tea. As for Bing'er, the little priest brought her to play in the temple.

Ge Yan passed a cup of the tea that he had brewed to Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo took it, drank a mouthful and exclaimed, "Good tea!" The tea was the white tea that Ouyang Shuo had sent someone to deliver. The water, on the other hand, was Ge Yan's secret. Hence, the tea had a different taste to it.

Ge Yan smiled and didn't stay a thing, looking at Ouyang Shuo. "Sire, did you meet with some good fortune lately? On your body, I sense a smell and aura that belongs to Taoism."

Ouyang Shuo was astonished. This Ge Yan was not simple. He could detect the internal chi in his body. In this period, he practiced diligently and had already reached the second layer.

In the second layer of the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique, the upper limit of internal strength reached 1000 points. However, Ouyang Shuo could only rotate 5 cycles a day. Which meant that at this speed, he needed half a year to be able to reach the third layer.

Such a slow cultivation speed made him feel anxious. He was thinking whether his cultivation method was wrong. One must know that the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique had 12 levels, and with this speed even if the trainee 10 years, he or she wouldn't be able to reach the peak.

Ge Yan was a Taoist and the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique could be considered Taoist, so maybe he has some methods. Ouyang Shuo thought about it. Perhaps his chance was right in front of him.

Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to take this too lightly and said respectfully, "I don't want to hide from you, I've fortunately obtained the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique. I've practiced it for a while and found that my cultivation speed is very slow. Hopefully, you can give me some tips."

Ge Yan laughed. "Sire sure has good fortune, the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique of the Taoist secret manuals is considered one of the best. Sire isn't a Taoist and doesn't read scriptures. Of course it's difficult to cultivate."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. So that was it.

Ouyang Shuo stood up and bowed to Ge Yan. "Please take me as your disciple."

Ge Yan accepted it and asked Ouyang Shuo to sit down once again. "Sire is the lord, a rank 1 earl. You are destined for greatness; I don't dare to accept you as my disciple."

Ouyang Shuo was anxious and wanted to bow once more.

Ge Yan stopped him. "Sire doesn't need to be too rash. Although I'm unable to take you as my disciple, I can teach you about Taoism. When sire goes home, as long as you explore more about Taoism, you will receive a lot of benefits."

Ouyang Shuo calmed down, as he had finally had a method.

The two of them sat still once again, and Ge Yan started to give Ouyang Shuo a lecture about Taoism.

This lecture lasted for two hours. Finally, a system notification sounded in Ouyang Shuo's ears.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for getting advice from Ge Yan, understanding Taoism, observing the ways of the heavens and understanding how to cultivate. As for specific details, please explore on your own."

Although the system said he had gained something, Ouyang Shuo didn't know what effects he had gotten. Only after going home and cultivating the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique would he be able to find out.

When it was closer to noon, Ouyang Shuo brought Bing'er and had a meal at the Qingyang Temple before leaving. Before leaving, Ge Yan gave Ouyang Shuo some Taoist scriptures for him to explore and understand.

On the way back, Bing'er asked curiously, "Brother, what did you and that uncle talk about in the morning? Y'all talked for so long. I was so bored."

She was such an active and curious little brat. Ouyang Shuo laughed. "We talked about the path of cultivation."

"What is cultivation?"

"Cultivation is the school that adults go to." Ouyang Shuo could only explain it that way.

"Oh, so brother was just going to school." Hearing that, Bing'er lost all interest.

Returning to the lord's manor, Ouyang Shuo asked Bing'er to find Zisu to play with her. He went back to his room and started cultivating the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique.

After rotating one cycle, Ouyang Shuo was delighted.

Now he found that rotating one cycle could increase his internal strength by 4 points. This meant that his cultivation speed had increased by four times. Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to take it for granted and started working hard, continuing his training.

After he rotated 5 cycles, his meridians felt sore and painful. He had no choice but to stop. It seemed that Ge Yan's advice rose the quality of his internal strength but not the number of times that he could rotate it.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo was delighted. After all, he initially needed half a year to reach the third layer and now he could do it in one and a half month. As long as he persisted and studied Taoist scriptures, he could definitely raise his cultivation speed. His future was looking very bright.

After he finished his cultivation, it was already 4 PM.

He walked out of his room and into the front yard to deal with administrative matters.

On the 13th day of the 6th month, Consonance Town had successfully defended and became the 5th city in China.

Two days later, Shanhai City had reached the max population.

Ouyang Shuo walked into the meeting hall and softly requested to upgrade. A white light shone across, and in the middle of the hall, a golden stone steele rose from the ground. He pressed his right hand onto it, and the system notification sounded.

"System notification: checking Shanhai City upgrade requirements..."

"Requirement 1: Population has reached upper limit, requirement met!"

"Requirement 2: All basic buildings have been built, requirement met!"

"Requirement 3: Lord is at least rank 2 earl, requirement met!"

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi's Shanhai City for meeting all upgrade requirements, would you like to upgrade?"

"Upgrade!"

From the stone steele, a golden light shot up into the sky and burst apart, turning into a golden luster and spreading towards the new borders of the territory before disappearing.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for being the first lord in China region to upgrade from grade 1 city to grade 2 city, rewarded 2200 merit points!"

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for being the first lord in the Chinese region..."

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi..."

Shanhai City had once again taken the lead and became the only grade 2 city in the Chinese region.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for upgrading to grade 2 city. Randomly selecting 3 grade 2 city basic buildings, the player can choose one."

"System notification: Random selection completed. The buildings are Theater, Shanchuan Altar, and Sheji Altar. Please choose!"

"I choose the theater!"

"System notification: The building is automatically built. Player, please take a look!"

A white light shone across, and the golden stone steele sank back into the ground. Ouyang Shuo took the time to check the stats of Shanhai City.

【Territory】: Shanhai City (Grade 2 city)

【Lord】: Qiyue Wuyi (first class earl)

【Title】: The World's First City (Increase town fame by 30%)

【Morale】: 94

【Security】: 92

【Refugee Spawn Rate】: 200 * (1 50%) = 300 / day

【Territory area】: 5000 square kilometers

【Territory Unique Characteristic】:

50% Refugee attraction rate, 25% Special talented people attraction rate, 50% Crop production rate, 25% Productivity of workers, 20% Experience earned by troops, 10% Chances of talented people in the territory to advance a level

【Political】: 60/100 (Affecting the administrative efficiency and morale)

【Economic】: 55/100 (Affecting the trading prosperity and tax)

【Cultural】: 55/100 (Affecting the education development and quality of residents)

【Military】: 60/100 (Affecting the military strength and stability)

【Subsidiary Village】: Beihai city, Qiushui town, Friendship town

【Territory fund】: Four Sea Bank

【Territory Association】: Textile Association, Fisherman Association

【Territory Industry Properties】: Bei Mu Saltpan, Langshan Mine, West City Ranch, Jifeng Valley horse stables

【Territory Specialties】: Lianzhou three flower wine, Colored silk, White tea

【Special Building】: Lianzhou College, Beihai Bay, Sangu hotel, Qingyang Guan

【Hidden Building】: Ma Zu Temple (Sealed), Recruitment Hall, Yellow Emperor Temple

Basic buildings list:

【Theater】: A building used for theatrical performances. Building requirements: Troupe, Theater building blueprints, 8000 units of wood, 4000 units of green brick, 5000 units of stone. Building time: 10 days. (Note: This building was built automatically)

Chess courtyard: A courtyard to play chess. Building requirements: Chess player, Chess courtyard building blueprints, 8000 units of wood, 4000 units of green brick, 5000 units of stone. Building time: 10 days.

Shanchuan Altar: Palace to pray to and respect god Xiannong. Building requirements: Shanchuan building blueprints, 2000 units of wood, 8000 units of green brick, 8000 units of stone. Building time: 10 days.

Sheji Altar: A place to pray and respect God She and God Ji. Building requirements: Sheji building blueprints, 2000 units of wood, 8000 units of green brick, 8000 units of stone. Building time: 10 days

Calendar altar: A place to worship the spirits and gods. Building requirements: Calendar altar building blueprints, 2000 units of wood, 8000 units of green brick, 8000 units of stone. Building time: 10 days

All the 5 basic buildings for a grade 2 city were all culture buildings. Even at grade 1 city, the culture buildings were the main basic buildings.

The Shanchuan Altar, Sheji Altar and calendar altar were the three altars that a city needed to have. Shanchuan Altar was located in the southern suburbs outside the city, known as South Altar; Sheji Altar was in the northwest suburbs, known as the west altar; the Calendar Altar was in the northern suburbs and known as the North Altar.

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Chapter 177 - Murderous Intentions

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Out of the 5 basic buildings for a grade 2 city, the theater was automatically built, and the 3 altars only needed blueprints. The most annoying one had to be the chess courtyard as it required chess players, which needed an element of luck.

For the basic buildings for a grade 2 city, each blueprint was sold for 500 gold on the market.

These building blueprints, including the grade 1 city blueprints, were very difficult to obtain from raider camps. This was because such cultural buildings had nothing to do with raiders. Hence, the raider operation did not give Ouyang Shuo any blueprints that he could make use of.

Hence, to buy all the blueprints for the grade 2 town, he needed 2000 gold.

The population's upper limit of a grade 2 city had increased so much that based on the current refugee spawn rate, it needed 100 days before it would be reached. Hence, Ouyang Shuo needed to increase his population through other means.

Definitely, to other lords, upgrading to grade 3 city there was also a huge gap which was the rank restriction. Out of all the grade 1 cities in the Chinese region, apart from Ouyang Shuo, the others were still rank 2 earl. Zhan Lang and Bai Hua's rank 2 earl was even obtained through the reward for upgrading to grade 1 city.

To rank up from rank 2 earl to rank 1 earl, the merit points required were impossible to obtain from just the main map. Hence they were a long way away from rank 1 earl.

Which meant that even if they were able to reach the population upper limit and become a grade 2 city, it would just stop there.

One could imagine how intense the competition would be at the next battle quest.

The rank restriction had also shown during the batch of lords that had just upgraded to grade 1 township. This bunch of players from start to finish, at every upgrade of their territory, they weren't given any rewards and as such could only attack raider camps to earn limited merit points.

Hence, for them to upgrade to a grade 2 township was very difficult.

The pyramid effect was slowly showing. The importance of the rank was also slowly starting to gain attention.

The territory area of a grade 2 city had reached 5000 square kilometers, and Lianzhou Basin took up 240 thousand square kilometers. This meant that Shanhai Town had taken up 1/48 of the Lianzhou Basin. Ignoring the area that the nomads took up, the chances of Shanhai City overlapping with other territories were very massive.

As expected, on the second day after Shanhai City upgraded, the Military Intelligence secretary Songsan came into Ouyang Shuo's office.

"Sire I have important military information."

Ouyang Shuo was shocked, quickly saying, "Speak!"

Song San gathered his words before saying, "Last month, the investigation that sire asked the Military Intelligence Division to conduct has had some progress. After the territory upgraded, the few territories around us had already become right at our new border.

"Please be more specific!" Ouyang Shuo didn't show any emotions.

"Yes, sire!" Song San carried on. "These batches of territories are on our east and west sides. The west side had 5 grade 1 villages, and the east has 3. These are all grade 3 villages."

"How are the defenses of these villages?" Ouyang Shuo was ready to kill.

"These grade 3 villages have already reached the upper population limit, have one or two squadrons of protection troops, mostly made up of basic sword shield soldiers, and some are even militiamen. As for defenses, they are all simple fences which are the same as nothing to us." Song San understood what Ouyang Shuo wanted to hear.

"Then we don't need to hesitate, remove them." Ouyang Shuo had decided, turning to Songsan. "At 4 PM, organize an emergency meeting to plan related matters. You and Leng Qian should join."

"Yes, sire!"

After Song San said goodbye and left, Ouyang Shuo called the clerk Bai Nanpu and asked him to inform the Military Affairs Director Ge Hongliang, mixed regiment colonel Shi Wanshui, and the 5 majors to join the emergency military meeting.

4 PM, lord's manor meeting hall

After Songsan and Leng Qian reported about the player territories to the east and west, Ouyang Shuo said, "We have to destroy these players before they become threats. As for the specific operation, does the Military Affairs Department have any ideas?"

"What ideas can we have sire, this thing will be passed to the mixed regiment, and it will be done beautifully." Ge Hongliang hadn't said anything but Shi Wanshui started blabbering.

Ouyang Shuo frowned and scolded, "What are you doing, are you trying to rebel?"

If it wasn't for the 5 majors of the mixed regiment being there, Ouyang Shuo might've been even harsher.

Ouyang Shuo noticed that ever since he became a colonel, Shi Wanshui had paid less attention and respect to the Military Affairs Director. Hence, he was furious.

He couldn't allow his leaders to be so arrogant, even a special level general like Shi Wanshui. Hence, he needed to crush that kind of attitude before it starts to spread.

One shouldn't look at Ouyang Shuo and his cultured and gentle appearance, once he got angry, everyone in the military was afraid of him. Even Shi Wanshui didn't speak when he was chided by Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shyo didn't want to make him look too bad and looked warmly at Ge Hongliang. "Director Ge, please speak."

Ge Hongliang apparently understood what was going on, but he still felt embarrassed. Although Ouyang Shuo trusted him, he wasn't a war general like Shi Wanshui was and just stayed cooped up on the city walls. Ge Hongliang calmed himself down and asked, "As for when to use the troops, does sire have any demands?"

Ouyang Shuo froze. "By the end of this month we must end the battle." The reason why Ouyang Shuo wanted to end it by this month was that, in the 7th month, the players would become level 0 and lose all their items when they died. As the first player to start a war, he would undoubtedly receive a lot of backlashes.

Zhu Hongliang nodded. "The old people said, before one faced the outside, one should ensure that their internal area is peaceful. Since we still have some time, I suggest using 10 days to destroy the raider camps in the territory. Seeing that the 7th month is going to come and the rice crops are going to be harvested, we must first protect them and ensure that they won't be eyed by raiders near the border. Additionally, as the territory size increases, the settlement must also move outwards. We can't only develop one core area in this 5000 square kilometers of land. Only by clearing out the raiders and ensuring internal safety can one set up new settlements and reclaim more farmland."

Ouyang Shuo was pleased. He raised his head and looked at everyone else. "Do you all understand Director Ge's words?"

"Understood!" Everyone replied in unison.

"You are all generals and not purely soldiers. Although killing on the battlefield is important, to become a famous general, one must think and consider things from a higher perspective. Today, Director Zhu gave all of you a lesson. I hope all of you remember it in your hearts." Ouyang Shuo warned once again. However, he didn't specifically mention Shi Wanshui's name.

"Yes, sire!"

After the military meeting ended, Ouyang Shuo returned to his office. The territory had upgraded, and there was still a bunch of things for him to deal with.

Beihai City's magistrate Gu Xiuwen sent a letter to ask for a sum of money from the main camp to be used to construct their first city wall. Beihai City's city wall would follow the standards set by the second wall of Shanhai City: 5 kilometers long, 12 meters high and 6 meters wide.

Apart from that, Gu Xiuwen also asked if he could start to build affiliate territories for Beihai City.

After Shanhai City upgraded, the 3 grade 1 townships could further develop 3 affiliate territories on their own, only that Ouyang Shuo didn't let them.

The reason was that the current Shanhai City, Beihai City, Qiushui Town, and Friendship Town were too close to one another. Like what Ge Hongliang said, to only develop one region and not make good use of the new space in the territory was an absolute waste.

The position of the affiliate territories couldn't be moved. If one said that for the first 3 affiliate territories Ouyang Shuo had a strategic consideration, then the second tier of affiliate territories Ouyang Shuo wasn't prepared to do so so quickly. He wanted to wait till the territory reached a Cherian scale before building the second tier affiliate territories.

Affiliate territories wasn't a never-ending cycle. A second tier was the max which meant that the future territory could only have 9 more affiliated territories. If not, Ouyang Shuo wouldn't have thought about building settlements to split the population to open up more land.

The difference between a settlement and an affiliate territory would be that an affiliate territory could grow and expand, every day having new refugees come in. A settlement was going to remain the same as how it was built. The growth of its population could only depend on the residents giving birth.

Similarly, if a player attacked other territories and claimed it as their own, they would lose their growing ability and become a significant settlement. The territory teleportation formation would also disappear.

This was also the reason why Ouyang Shuo didn't destroy other territories earlier. Not only did it make use of personnel, even if he succeeded in the attack and got rid of some territories, he also wouldn't be able to get anything. It would be a waste of time. The populations of these village-grade territories were even lesser than that of the mountain barbarian tribes or raider camps.

Even less needed to be said about the quality of the prisoners, as most of them were just commoners. Those special talents had loyalty to their original lords, so it wasn't an easy thing to make them work for you.

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Chapter 178- Cultivating Poison

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One could describe Ouyang Shuo's strategy toward the territories at his border as cultivating poison.

Ouyang Shuo had always viewed Lianzhou Basin as something he owned. He wouldn't allow any others to corrupt it. The other territories in Lianzhou Basin weren't even on the same level as the Shanhai City.

After all, destroying their territories would mean losing that important growth stat. Hence, Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't be too rash. Instead, he just watched closely as these territories developed. They were similar to a blood-making machine which provided the Lianzhou Basin with refugees.

He had to wait for the basins to start and connect with Shanhai City. Only then could he possibly spy on and see some of the secrets of his territory. After that, Ouyang Shuo would make a move and remove them from Lianzhou Basin.

To protect the secrets of Shanhai City, Ouyang Shuo needed to create a manmade empty region between the City and the other players' territory. This would prevent other players from infiltrating his territory.

This region was similar to the cans used to raise venomous insects, which separated it from the master.

Of course, to raise venomous insects, one needed to have absolute strength and also great cultivating methods. Otherwise, the insect you raised might kill you instead. Ouyang Shuo wanted to be the insect rearer of Lianzhou basin, but this was something the sky blade alliance definitely wouldn't agree to.

Without a doubt, Ouyang Shuo rejected the request from Beihai City to build affiliate territories.

As for the monetary request to build the city wall, they could only collect the profits early. These were the earnings in the first half of the 6th month from Langshan mine and Northern Saltpan.

Shanhai City earned money quickly but spent it even quicker.

Ouyang Shuo used red ink to jot down his thoughts on Gu Xiuwen's letter. As for the monetary request, he would provide 500 gold. Beihai City would have to solve the rest themselves.

Following this, the clerk Bai Nanpu followed Ouyang Shuo's annotations and informed the various divisions and departments, which would settle it themselves.

Now, Ouyang Shuo didn't need to run to their offices when he had something to announce or inform. He wouldn't need to ask them to make a trip to his office. When he reached City level, he had pushed for a more orderly and fast administrative process.

An example would be what had just happened. After Ouyang Shuo finished his annotations, Bai Nanpu would convey Ouyang Shuo's intentions to Cu Yingyu. She would naturally send people to collect the profits from the first half of the 6th month and give a portion to Beihai City.

After he settled the matters concerning Beihai City, Ouyang Shuo picked up the documents that the Qiushui Town head Zhao Dexian had sent him.

Zhao Dexian raised in the letter that they had built the mountain barbarian settlement. That small-sized mountain barbarian tribe had moved into the settlement. Zhou Dexian had sent the needed living items and farming tools.

Tian Wenjing was a genius. After building the settlement, he gathered many of the mountain barbarian tribes. In the name of giving them a tour, he brought them to view the settlement.

They saw many green brick houses, granaries filled with grain, chickens, ducks and other poultry in the courtyard, bunches of vegetable lands, the vast plains outside the settlement...

All this amazed the barbarians viewing the mountain.

Compared to their tough lives in the mountains, this settlement looked like paradise on earth.

Not only that, but Zhao Dexian had also sufficiently understood what Ouyang Shuo wanted, so he followed the standards of the tribe witch to build a very majestic ancestral temple.

All these factors added up would definitely make one touched and amazed. On the spot, there were two small tribes that expressed their willingness to migrate to Shanhai City. Additionally, one mid-sized tribe and two other small tribes said that they would discuss with their people before they made a decision.

Such a bountiful harvest made Ouyang Shuo delighted.

When the two small tribes migrated down, Qiushui town would reach the population upper limit. Then, they would become that 2nd affiliate territory after Beihai City to upgrade. Not only that, the increase in manpower meant that the grain production for the next half year would increase.

Ouyang Shuo noted in the letter to provide Qiushui Town with an additional 1000 gold for the building of future settlements.

Now, it seemed like out of the three affiliate territories, friendship Town was lacking. Although they succeeded in building a trading market, the nomads valued their Qingfu horses highly and wouldn't easily sell them.

Furthermore, the purchasing value of the Qingfu horse was incredibly strong. The 200 horses traded from the Tianfeng tribe allowed them to obtain enough resources to use for a long time. It was currently summer, and it was the best time to let the animals graze, so the herders were all busy and didn't have time to trade.

Hence, the trading market was very cold and didn't reach the expectations of Town head Zhou Haichen.

After he read this letter, Ouyang Shuo had some thoughts.

It seemed like to remove the huge rock—the nomads—relying purely on trading was impossible. Most crucially, he would also need to make use of military might for it to have a chance of success.

With these thoughts in mind, Ouyang Shuo immediately sent a letter to the military affairs department and the city north barracks of Friendship Town. He asked them to conscript more soldiers and to expand an additional cavalry unit in half a month.

As for the main barracks, Ouyang Shuo didn't plan to expand the military. If not, it would place a huge financial burden on the territory.

The income of Friendship Town was actually very low, and they still needed to maintain a city protection unit and a north city barracks, which made them struggle. Ouyang Shuo noted in the letter to ask the Finance Department to give them 1000 gold. This gold was for military expenditures and funds to buy Qingfu horses.

With that, the three affiliate territories had spent 2500 in gold. Without the two gold gooses of the Langshan mining field and the Northern Saltpans, he wouldn't be able to carry on.

From this, one could see how difficult it was to run a territory, especially one like Shanhai City that developed together with its affiliate territories.

The grade 1 towns mostly just built mud city walls. The reason that they didn't use stone was because they didn't have the resources or the money.

After refugees entered the territory, they weren't your slaves but your residents. When the businesses were just set up, it was okay if you just provided meals as this was something they could understand.

However, after that initial stage and the town went up to grade 1 town things would change. If the lord continued to squeeze them and force them to work for his personal gain, they would likely start a riot and kill their lord, especially if the lord treated them like slaves and didn't give them clothes and salary.

In the last life, there were many lords who were killed by their own NPCs and replaced.

Under normal circumstances, the refugees were definitely very docile and followed instructions. As long as one didn't force them to the brink, they would do such a thing. If not, riots would happen out of the blue and no one would dare to be a lord.

After he dealt with the letters of the three affiliate territories, it was already close to six in the evening.

Ouyang Shui got up and passed the annotated letters to Bai Nanpu. Then, he headed to the backyard.

"Brother, you got off work early." In the backyard, Bing'er and Zisu were playing an Olden version of puzzles. When they saw Ouyang Shuo, they were surprised.

Lu Guangzhi made this puzzle especially for Bing'er. In real life, Bing'er had seen and played with many different kinds of toys, but this kind of IQ game intrigued her. She was also talented; even Zisu and Banxia couldn't beat her.

Ouyang Shuo nodded,"Ya, Brother came back early to look for our little brat and see if you were well behaved."

Bing'er placed down the puzzle and ran over, as she wanted Ouyang Shuo to hug her.

Ouyang Shuo carried her up and walked toward the canteen. The time right was just nice for a meal. Ouyang Shuo felt puzzled. After entering the game, Bing'er became more clingy and frequently asked for hugs.

Ouyang Shuo guessed that she probably saw him treating Yingyu and Qing'er well. Then, she felt that he was going to be snatched away.

This was similar to real life, where kids didn't want their parents to give birth to another sibling. They didn't want more siblings because they didn't want to split their parents' love.

Ouyang Shuo didn't interfere and just watched on. He couldn't reduce his care for Yingyu and Qing'er. Ouyang Shuo wanted to let Bing'er know that love was supposed to be shared and this was a part of her life that she needed to go through.

After dinner, Ouyang Shuo returned to his room and went offline.

In reality, it was only half a month away from the 7th month, 1st day migration date. The atmosphere was still and cold, filled with fear for the future and the sadness of leaving the earth.

The news reported that some elderly didn't agree to migrate. Firstly, they were very old and even if the earth changed, it was still in 10 years. They probably wouldn't live for that long. Secondly, they didn't want to go through the torture of galactic travel.

The federal government respected their choice, and before they left, they would leave enough resources and lifestyle machines to take care of the citizens that weren't willing to migrate.

Apart from that, artists were reluctant to leave their artworks like old buildings, paintings, and cultural artifacts.

Those crazy people wanted to die together with the art pieces and cultural artifacts. The federal government didn't care about the views of these people and dragged them into the spaceships.

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Chapter 179- 400 Thousand

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In reality, everyone's personal assets had been tabulated and turned into a bunch of numbers. As for the use of these numbers, the federal government didn't reveal.

In the morning, Ouyang Shuo called Sun Xiaoyue to ask about her Grandfather recruiting Scientists.

Based on her summary, her Grandfather had contacted 20 odd scientist in this half a month. They were all in the Dali region and Sun Xiaoyue brought them around to get used to the game environment.

Apart from that, Ouyang Shuo asked Sun Xiaoyue to do another thing—investigate the Cui family in the Dali region, especially what kind of reaction they had to Cui Yingyu disappearing.

After upgrading to a city, Ouyang Shuo finally had the ability to make contact with the Cui family. Since Sun Xiaoyue was in the Dali Region, he wanted her to help join both parties.

In the afternoon, Song Jia made a call to Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo's soldier token and message had succeeded as expected. Song Jia and Yuanping's marriage had been indefinitely delayed.

After Song Jia learned of the news, she totally admired Ouyang Shuo and would often call him.

At night, Ouyang Shuo got online on time.

After completing his cultivation, Ouyang Shuo didn't remain in the lord's manor. Instead, headed toward the east region. In a large part of half a month, although they hadn't completed the city walls, the Organization of the city was already in place.

The bow and crossbow workshop, armory division workshop, weapons workshop and alchemy workshop were located in the east region.

Ouyang Shuo walked into the Bow And Crossbow Division workshop, the secretary-cum-manager, advanced bow maker Wu Peng went up to welcome him and said respectfully," Sire!"

In olden society, such people were called artisans and their societal status were very low. Hence, they all had very low self esteem and treated their lords with a lot of respect. Maybe only the only exception was the secretary of the Armoury Division, advanced blacksmith Wang Tao.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and asked,"Secretary Wu, how many crossbow machines has the division made?"

The structure of the crossbow can be split into three parts: arm, bow and machine. The arm was mostly made of wood, the bow was placed across the front portion of the arm, and the machine was fixed around the back of the arm.

The crossbow machine that Ouyang Shuo asked about was the most important portion of the crossbow, the machine.

It was mainly made up of copper, but it could also be made of iron. The front was the 'teeth' used to hang the string and behind that was a connecting link. Engraved on it was the angle and the distance. This was similar to the scope of a modern gun, and based on the distance of the target, the user adjusted the shooting angle to increase accuracy.

At the bottom of the casing was the input link used to fire the bolts.

When the user fired the crossbow, they pulled the string and hooked onto the ;teeth', which placed a bolt onto the bolt channels. After aiming through the connecting link, the user squeezed the input link to cause the 'teeth' to sink downward. This released the string from the hook and shoot the bolt out at high speeds.

20 days ago, not long after the upgrade of Shanhai city, Ouyang Shuo suddenly visited the Bow And Crossbow Division workshop. He asked them to focus on rushing a batch of crossbow machines and create a quantity not less than 100 thousand.

They naturally had doubts about their lord's weird request, but as they felt inferior, Wu Peng didn't ask and just followed the orders.

The crossbow machine wasn't like bows and the materials were easy to find. Moreover, they were also very easy to make and only required stone and iron ore. Unlike the production of bows and crossbows that were affected by the factors of the materials such as the bow strings, horns and leathers, hence, their production rate was limited and couldn't increase much anymore.

As the Bow And Crossbow Division still had to care about crafting bows and crossbows, they could only make an extra 500 crossbow machines a day. To date, they made just exactly 10,000 sets.

After Ouyang Shuo listened to this report, he wasn't pleased, "Secretary, you need to increase the speed. You can reduce the amount of finished products for bows and crossbows anyways, as we don't have a requirement for those in this period of time."

"Understood!" Wu Peng nodded.

Ouyang Shuo walked out of the Bow And Crossbow Division and went into the Armoury Division workshop at the side.

To date, they had built the the Armoury Division for three and a half months. During the 5th month, nearly two months since it was set up, the Armoury Division passed 50 sets of Mingguang Armor to the cavalry unit and 100 sets of Buren Armor to the Infantry Unit.

These two armors played a huge role during the Battle of Zhuolu and shocked everyone.

Which at the same time, the armors suffered various degree of damages from the war. The damaged armors were brought back and handed to the Armoury Division for repairs and then passed back on to the soldiers.

After two months of organisational pains, the Armoury workshop artisans had slowly started to form up. To date, they had one master blacksmith, four advanced, 20 intermediate, and 150 basic blacksmiths. They also had one master tailor, one advanced, five intermediate and ten basic tailors.

Such a massive group of people took up 340 gold a month, more than the overall spending of a unit. Moreover, this did not include Qing'er's advising fees.

After the completion, the results started to show. Since the start of the 5th month, they could produce 150 sets of Mingguang Armor and 200 sets of Buren Armor in one month.

They made the batch of armor handed out during the 5th month before the month had started. As such, the Armoury division was able to pass 150 sets of Mingguang Armor to the vanguard unit and 200 Buren Armor to the mixed regiment at the end of the month.

Based on this speed, at the end of the 7th month, the vanguard unit would be fully equipped. At the end of the 6th month, the first unit of the mixed regiment would be fully equipped and the second unit would reach the same stage by the middle of the 9th month.

In a short time, their production speed wouldn't have any large increases. Firstly, they had already chose the residents in the territory who could become blacksmiths; they could only search from the New refugees. Secondly, the supply of iron ore had reached a bottleneck.

Shanhai city's only mining site needed to supply the weapons workshop to craft lances and Tang knives, the bow and crossbow division for crossbow machines and bolts, and the Armoury division for armor. As such, they had already reached its max. Even if they increased the quantity of miners, it was no use as the space was limited.

The only solution was to find new iron mining sites in the territory.

Walking out of the Armory division, Ouyang a Shuo returned to the lord's manor and continued to deal with administrative issues.

In the next week, Feng Qingyang and Di Chen had both successfully upgraded their towns to grade 1 cities. In particular, Handan Town had recovered so quickly after their failure, which certainly wasn't easy.

With that, there were a total of seven rank 1 cities in the china region. Only three spots remained for the fight for the Top 10.

Be it Xiong Ba, Sha Pojun, wandering magic, Wufu, or even Xunlong Dianxue, they all stood a chance.

These five territories were considered 3rd series, and compared to the first series Shanhai city and the second series cities, they were lacking. In a short amount of time, they wouldn't be confident of applying to upgrade. Especially Stone Town and Xunlong Town, who hadn't even fulfilled the basic requirements.

The situation of Sha Pojun was as Ouyang Shuo had expected. Out of the original Six Tyrants of Handan, he was the weakest. This was because the powers he represented had a huge weakness. Once their assets were frozen, their friends and business partners wouldn't bother with them, which caused them to be abandoned.

Sha Pojun and his men were good at fighting. However, in terms of managing a territory, they were still lacking a lot.

During this week, Qiushui Town became the brightest light in the entire territory as a total of one medium-sized tribe and four small tribes decided to migrate. This meant that the hesitant tribes had all decided to come down from the mountains. In addition to the small tribe from the beginning, Qiushui Town suddenly had an influx of 14 thousand people.

In the south, of the barbarian tribes that cooperated with Shanhai City, including Xianniao tribe, only two medium-sized and four small sized tribes remained in the mountains.

Apart from Xuanniao tribe and the three small tribes close to the Langshan mining fields, the remaining medium-sized tribe and the small-sized tribe were very stubborn and probably couldn't be convinced in a short amount of time.

The arrival of the mountain barbarians made the population jump two grades and directly become a grade 2 city. Zhao Dexian was also assigned the role of Qiushui City Magistrate.

The ambitious Zhao Dexian tossed out a plan to reclaim a total of 400 thousand mu of farmland.

He planned to reclaim 380 thousand mu of farmland and raise the scale of their farmland to a total of 400 thousand mu.

Based on the average of 10 mu per person, 400 thousand mu would need 40 thousand farmers. Now, they only had half of that, Moreover, a large portion were novice mountain barbarians. If you excluded the children and the elderly, the number would be much smaller.

If one looked at it that way, the 400 thousand figure was exaggerated and rash.

In truth, Zhao Dexian had made his calculations. Qiushui city was made with a silver village creation token, and its refugee attraction rate had increased by 40%. This rate meant that everyday, it could have 280 refugees and 8,400 a month.

There was still more than a month till the second rice planting at the start of the 8th month. As long as they passed half a month of struggling and hardship, the population of Qiushui city could hit 40 thousand in the middle of the 9th month.

The way he saw it, the early struggles for half a year's of grain was worth it. Since he already made such specific and clear calculations, Ouyang Shuo obviously didn't have any reasons to disagree.

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Chapter 180- Lightning Operation

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Gaia first year, 6th month, 24th day, Shanhai city's second raider operation had finally reached an end.

Compared to the first time, the region of the raider operation had expanded by three times and would obviously yield better rewards. They had netted 5400 gold and 5500 prisoners and gained large amounts of grain and equipment.

Most importantly, he had obtained a technical manual in this raider operation.

: after use, user automatically grasps the technique to craft ladders.

In the last raider city attack, Ouyang Shuo witnessed the strength of the ladder. He yearned and desired such a siege weapon. He passed over the manual to the combat logistics division for the artisans to analyse and create as soon as possible.

Ouyang Shuo didn't forget that there were still a group of mountain bandits waiting for him to settle at the Zhennan Pass. The appearance of the ladder was a godsend. If not, he wouldn't have a good idea of how to attack that pass.

Based on Shi Wanshui's report, they faced a tough opponent in this raider operation. It was a advanced raider camp with 3000 raiders, among them were 500 elites and 1500 basic raiders.

Luckily, the mixed regiment had experience with raider camps and were able to coordinate well between the units. In addition to this, they had the trump card of the first unit of the regiment—four squadrons equipped with Buren Armor—their defence was shocking and they took down the raiders without much danger.

In just that battle alone, the mixed regiment had lost 100 men. One must know that in the two large scale operations, the mixed regiment had only lost 300 men, so one could imagine the intensity of the raider operation.

In truth, upon reaching the city grade, raiders could practically threaten the territory. This was because of their limited scale and an advanced raider camp was already the maximum. In the wilderness, the people they could rob and track were rare, so a large number of raiders gathered together could only starve.

When faced with such a well-equipped, proper army like the mixed regiment, the raiders had no way to fight back. Hence, Ouyang Shuo didn't personally join the raider operation after Shanhai City's upgrade and just left it to Shi Wanshui.

The 5500 prisoners, apart from the 1000 to join the reserve forces, the remaining 4500 were all sent to Friendship village to help it upgrade to grade 1 city. Out of the three affiliate territories, friendship town was the slowest. Ouyang Shuo could bear to let it live on it's on and not help it.

Ouyang Shuo appointing Zhou Haichen as the city magistrate of friendship town touched him. However, out of the 3 affiliate territories, only he didn't achieve anything. His lack of results made him feel guilty, and he felt that he was letting Ouyang Shuo down.

Ouyang Shuo didn't say anything and just asked him to work harder to make up for the difference.

At the same time, Ouyang Shuo ordered Leixun, who was collecting information on the nomadic tribes, to quicken his pace. He also wrote a letter to the new 2nd vanguard unit major Sun Tenjiao. Ouyang Shuo asked him to increase their training to ensure that they could be put to use at anytime.

In the raider operation that had just ended, Ouyang Shuo especially asked him to bring the unit to join in. He allowed Leixun to train them and form some combat ability as soon as possible.

Normally speaking, a normal soldier in a unit must be rank 5 to be considered passable. If not, that unit would be considered a new unit.

After a month of inspection, Ouyang Shuo named the second leader of the raiders during the city attack—Heiqi—as the deputy major. Ouyand Shuo did this to strengthen the ability of the second vanguard unit.

He was now just a deputy major, which looked like a downgrade of two ranks. After all, he was leading one thousand cavalry during the city Attack. But to a spared General, this chance could already be considered a great treatment.

Ouyang Shuo definitely did this because of Sun Tengfei's ability, which were equal to Heiqi. In addition to his experience, Ouyang Shuo would naturally choose to promote Sun Tengfei first.

Furthermore, based on the speed that Shanhai city was expanding, as long as Heiqi performed well and stayed loyal, he was bound to be appointed as major.

The 5400 gold earned from the raiders and the 7600 in profits from the mine and saltpans added up to 13,000 gold. Out of this, he gave 2500 to the affiliate territories, 2000 to buy basic building blueprints, 1250 for building the 3rd unit of the Beihai naval fleet and the class change course for the second cavalry unit, and 250 gold as compensation for soldiers of the mixed regiment that had died. Finally, he was left with 7000 gold.

Ouyang Shuo didn't deal with the remaining gold immediately. He was prepared to wait for two days. At that time, the latter half of the month's profit was tabulated. Then, he would make decide how to allocate the remaining funds.

In the afternoon, Shanhai city meeting hall.

After the raider operation had ended, Ouyang Shuo was about to start acting on the neighboring territories.

Based on the plans of the Internal Affairs department, the operation would be codenamed lighting— they would remove the 8 player territories with lightning quick speed.

Hence, Shanhai city had no choice but to make use of all their forces.

The operation was split into east and west, entering together and starting at the same time.

On the east there were only three territories. The units in charge were the Shanhai city city protection unit, Qiushui city city protection unit, Friendship city city protection unit, and the second vanguard unit. They were under the leadership of director Ge Hongliang.

The four majors weren't any pricks, so it would be easy for him to take charge of them. Apart from that, Ouyang Shuo wanted to use this chance to train the battle strength of the various protection units and also their ability to work across long distances.

Based on Shanhai city's situation of being in the middle, defending on the back foot wasn't his goal and attacking was more of his style. Hence, he didn't want the city protection units to be cooped up in the city and lose their fighting ability. They needed to be pulled out time after time for battle to maintain their morale and killer instinct.

On the west, there were five player territories and Shuo Wanshui was the one guiding the mixed regiment.

As the Military Intelligence Division reported that these territories didn't have any decent city walls, the god machine unit wasn't activated.

This operation used up more men than attacking the raider camps, but their opponents were Grade 3 villages that couldn't even compare to advanced raider camps.

Speed, this was the core of the operation.

They aimed to take down all eight territories at the same time and not give them a chance to react.

Before he left, Ouyang Shuo ordered them to not hesitate when they reached the village. They were to attack immediately and take down the lord's manor and complete the mission.

After a player's territory had been occupied, all the players in it would be teleported to the system imperial capital. Lianzhou Basin players would naturally be sent to Dali.

If the player died during the process, he would be revived at the imperial capital's reincarnation hall.

Hence, to cleanly end the battles, the east and west troops would set out early in the morning and set up camp near the territories. In the morning of the next day, they would initiate their attack and not give their opponents the chance to react. At that time, many players probably hadn't even logged in, and did not know who the enemy was.

This was the effect that Ouyang Shuo wanted.

If these eight territories knew that Shanhai city had destroyed them, they would spread it on the forums and cause all the other territories in the Lianzhou Basin to work together.

Only if they kept their identities a secret would they be able to keep the opponent guessing, preventing them from pointing their fingers at Shanhai city. Ouyang Shuo was raising poisonous insects, but he didn't want them to group together.

He raised the insects to fight each other, which would leave the strongest one standing.

After he settled the strategy, the majors returned to their barracks to prepare for tomorrow.

6th month, 25th day, the troops set out.

The mixed regiment moved out from the west city barracks and went toward the most western area of the territory. The three city protection units and the vanguard unit went from their own barracks to Qiushui city to meet up. Then, they would head toward the most eastern region.

6th month, 26th day, five in the morning.

For the east army, Ge Hongliang's plan was for the three city protection units to each attack one and the vanguard unit to act as a mobile unit to adapt when needed.

As for the west, Shi Wanshui didn't have any plans or tactics.

The various units of the mixed regiment were all specialized soldiers, hence Shi Wanshui split up the five units and reorganized them. He formed five units that were similar to city protection units. They two squadrons of sword and shield soldiers, one cavalry squadron, one spear squadron, and one archer squadron.

The protection squad of the grade 3 villages were only 100 people. At most, they would have 200. When they faced a unit, it was impossible to defend. Moreover, it was a sneak attack, so there was no way they could succeed.

At 5:30 a.m., The eight units of 4000 soldiers were like five surgical knives. Under the direction of the military intelligence division, they precisely stabbed into the enemy.

A grade 3 village had arrow towers and stone sentries. The attacking troops didn't bother to hide. It was still dark and they didn't find a need to hide their tracks.

The wooden gates of the village were burst open by the mountain barbarian sword and shield soldiers. The troops behind them followed and successfully took down the lord's manor.

At that time, the territories that could react fast enough had rushed out to prepare to intercept. However, the protection squads were weak and couldn't match up, so the army smashed them into bits.

When the residents saw their fellow villagers being defeated so easily, they didn't dare to go up. Instead, they only watched on as the invaders took over the lord's manor.

After the invaders occupied the territory, the NPCs naturally became prisoners.

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Chapter 181- Spending Spree

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The lightning operation went unexpectedly smooth, and they didn't face any unexpected situations.

After completing the operation, the soldiers gathered all the residents together. They arranged for the residents to bring back all the material and resources to Shanhai city.

These villages were located outside of the territory of Shanhai city, so Ouyang Shuo decided to leave all of them empty. Once the territory area increases, these villages could act as settlements.

At that time, the farmers could be brought into the villages and reclaim farmland to plant rice. Then, it would slowly become a village under Shanhai city. They could open up the vast areas of land.

6th month, 26th day, 5:30 p.m.

The east and west armies brought back 7200 prisoners as well as large amounts of goods and resources to Shanhai city.

As it was already late, Ouyang Shuo didn't arrange for them to enter the city. Instead, he let them spend the night outside the city. Anyways, it was summer and the nights weren't cold. They also had tents, so it wasn't too hard on them.

Ouyang Shuo didn't have an interest in keeping the resources that were brought here, so he distributed it to the villagers. With that, it would lessen the hatred that they had toward Shanhai City.

The next day, the Household Registration Division started to work.

They had already created a perfect process for dealing with refugees and prisoners.

The Household Registration Division were situated at the north and west sides. There were specific points to welcome new refugees. When they arrived, the officials would help register them and place them into the household registry of Shanhai city.

After that, the official would split the refugees up based on their talents and occupations.

Farmer, fruit farmer, miner, lumberjack, and breeder—these occupations were suitable for living outside the city, so they were sent to the various settlements after they collected their basic welfare package. When they reached the settlement, the officer would arrange their living.

The Agriculture Division and Material Reserves Department had workers to help and assist the household registration division.

Artisans, tailors, businesspeople, and the like—these talented individuals were sent to the post house, which will be in charge of their meals and housing. The Household Registration Division would send recommendation letters according to the individual's occupation. They could use these letters to find a suitable job.

After they found a job, the refugee would have to leave the post house and rent a house in the residential area for living purposes.

The construction division had built some resettlement houses for the refugees to rent.

With a fixed house, they could go to the Material Reserves Department and claim their welfare package.

After they had worked a while and settled down, they could go to the four seas bank to take a loan to buy the house that they had rented with a sizeable amount of savings.

With extra money, they could go to the market and buy some poultry to rear at home. The hardworking ones could buy vegetables or seeds to grow in their yards.

The even richer ones could go to the garment workshop to buy new clothing or the jewelry shop to buy jewelry. They could even occasionally head to the hotel to drink, or the tea house for tea, or the theatre to watch shows and listen to songs.

A large portion of refugees ended up there and just led their lives nicely. The younger chaps would consider their futures and marry to get kids.

As for the generals, scholars, and special talents, they would be recommended to the secretary of the household registration—Duquan.

For those at Gold rank and below, Duquan would recommend them to the respective directors based on their occupation. He would assign them to work in either the military or various departments.

Only the really special ones could get Duquan's recommendation to Ouyang Shuo, for him to personally assign them work.

The refugees who felt that they were suitable for the army could give up their jobs and join the military barracks.

The Household Registration Division had been well drilled in this process and was able to do it smoothly. Even with an influx of 7200 people, it was just a problem of sending more men to handle it.

Of course, this bunch of prisoners was much more special. Amongst them, there were still people who were loyal to their lord. A large portion were core members of the village, scholars, or generals.

To this bunch of people, Ouyang Shuo would not dare to be careless. He would demote all the generals to sergeants and sent them to various units. The civil servants would be sent to work in various affiliate territories as basic personnel.

Ouyang Shuo had his reasons for the way he handled the civil servants.

The city magistrates of the affiliate territories were all aboriginal people, so they wouldn't be too wary of these prisoners. At the same time, they would also be able to improve the administrative system and raise efficiency.

Of course, this was also his test to the three city magistrates. He wanted to see if he could persuade these bunch of civil servants.

What he expected was that in this bunch of prisoners, there wasn't a historical figure. The highest ranked ones were only two basic rank generals and a scholar.

After settling the prisoners, Ouyang Shuo started dealing with the financial matters.

The 7600 gold profit for the latter half of the 6th month had been collected. Now, Ouyang Shuo had 14600 gold on hand. He took 4600 and passed it to the financial department as financial expenditure.

Ouyang Shuo carried the remaining 10 thousand gold and went to the advanced market. It had already moved to the front of the lord's manor, west of the square and right beside the teleportation formation.

Come to think about it, Ouyang Shuo had rarely come to the market, as Shanhai city was basically self-sufficient. Apart from building blueprints, there was little that he had to buy.

He came to the market because of the huge system update after the galactic migration. Moreover, this update will change the settings of the market.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to make use of his knowledge beforehand to buy many items.

Ouyang Shuo first looked for secret manuals. He swept up all the authentic gold secret manuals, a total of 20 for 1000 gold.

With that, Ouyang Shuo had collected 120 authentic gold secret manuals.

Surprisingly, he found another emperor rank cultivation technique. It was the famous for 1500 gold. Ouyang Shuo bought it without hesitation.

The weren't of much use to him, but it was a treasure to Song Jia. Her dream was to open a clan and become a chivalrous swordsman, so this scripture would make a good clan cultivation technique.

Afterward, Ouyang Shuo spent 500 gold to buy a and a . Both the military grain pill and the military tent were great items that would be used a lot, so Ouyang Shuo needed to be self-sufficient.

Most importantly, military grain pills, military tents, alchemical fire oil, and alchemical fire oil cabinet were resources which would cease to be sold after the update.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo directly spent 1000 gold for 100 thousand barrels of alchemical fire oil. This batch was enough to last Shanhai city for 10 years. The combat logistics division shifted it to under the mountain range. In the huge cave, men watched them to prevent any person from coming close.

Apart from military resources, Ouyang Shuo also purchased a batch of grain.

Although in the 7th month, Qiushui city and Friendship city could both harvest their rice, but after calculation, the territory was still lacking food for the latter half of the year.

The fertile game land of Qiushui city produced 350 units of grain per mu, seven million units for its 20 thousand mu. On the side of friendship village, it produced 320 units of grain per mu, 20 thousand mu and that would be 6.4 million. This totaled up to 13.4 million units of grain.

The second harvesting season would be the end of the 10th month, a full 4 months of time.

Shanhai city and the 3 affiliate territories had a population of close to 40 thousand that grew at a rate of 1140 per day.

Based on the lowest consumption of 1 unit per day, they need 17.8 million units of grain to last till then. Considering that the military used double and the wine brewery and animals needed grain too, they would need 20 million units of grain.

All of this didn't factor in the influx of people due to mountain barbarians or prisoners. As this was bound to happen, he had to consider it.

Overall, the first collection of grain was just a little more than half. This was also under the condition that the farmers sold all of the grain they collected.

After the system update, the goods trading platform will be removed, and players could only buy grain through the auction platform or trading platform with other players. If the trader sees that you have a food crisis, they would raise the price and wouldn't be like the system that keeps a stable low price.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo spent the remaining 6000 all on grain, obtaining 6 million units of grain and filling up half of the newly upgraded city grade granary.

Although there was still not enough grain, this solved before the grain prices increased. After all, the 7th month was harvesting season, and no Town would have a problem of lack of grain.

So, Ouyang Shuo spent 10 thousand gold to lay a solid foundation for the development of Shanhai city. Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered what a cruel experience the grain crisis in the latter half of the year was for territories.

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Chapter 182- Despicable

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6th month, 28th day, the migration in reality had entered its final stages.

The migrants had carried various artwork, old books, and biological samples onto a spaceship. Apart from that, various production lines and smart robots were on that ship. These were brought to ensure that when it reached planet Hope, they could be assembled straight away and produce various resources.

In truth, two years after the satellites spotted planet Hope in the year 2171, the federal government had put together an explorer squad to do the first stages of exploration.

The explorer squad had traveled for a full 10 years before they reached planet Hope. In addition to the time for the signals and messages to be sent, the basic knowledge the federal government had about planet Hope were just of these few years.

Hence, the production lines that were sent were very specific. As for the specific details, only the high-level federal government members and the people involved knew.

The spaceships designated for the migration had been parked at the various spaceports. As Jiaozhou was a city closer to the middle region, it had its own spaceport. Ouyang Shuo was definitely going to rush to Modou to meet up with his little aunt. Then, he would board the spaceship at the suburbs of Modou.

As it lacked maintenance and fixing, the network signals were starting to become unstable.

In the morning, he gave Sun Xiaoyue one last call to ask about the situation with the Cui family.

"The Cui family has a huge reputation in Dali and is a huge business organization. They run nearly every type of businesses. Their core is silver weapons and banking," Sun Xiaoyue said through the phone, "It's as you said, bandits attacked Cui Yingyu when she was on a trip. Then, she went missing. After such a long time, they believe that she has already died."

Ouyang Shuo nodded," Xiaoyue, I don't want to hide this from you, she's in my territory. After I come online, I'll send you one of her items. Use it link up with the Cui Family."

"Oh no wonder. Leave this matter to me!"

"Thank you!"

Ouyang Shuo hung up. Then, he opened his handbrain and headed onto the forums.

The lightning operation was revealed on the forums. The eight lords were describing their experience. In truth, there was nothing to say, as they didn't even see who their enemies were. When they went online, they were directly sent to the Dali Region.

This was the first territory destruction incident in the China Region that wasn't due to monsters or raider attacks.

Naturally, it attracted attention, especially at such a specific time—a few days before the migration. This event made everyone curious, and they started to speculate.

Although they didn't know who it was, Shanhai City had become the biggest suspect. The reason was simple. Firstly, Shanhai City was the strongest in the Lianzhou Basin, and thus they had the ability to do so. Secondly, Shanhai Town had recently upgraded to grade 2 city and the territory land had expanded.

Moreover, the members of the Sky Blade Alliance fanned the flames, so Shanhai City became the biggest suspect.

Ouyang Shuo remained calm and didn't make any statements. He neither admitted nor denied these claims.

If someone stood out to scold and chide Ouyang Shuo, that guy would be an idiot. The main point of Earth Online was territorial warfare and conquest, so there was no justice or righteousness. It was just survival of the fittest.

Luckily, there were no idiots. Even the eight lords only ranted on the forums. In the end, they could only accept that they were unfortunate.

In truth, the reason this became a focal point was why Shanhai City decided to rage wars at such a sensitive time period, was it a show of strength or to make a stand?

If one called it a show of strength, there was no need to do so with their ability, as they had already earned the respect of everyone in China.

Bai Xiaoshen raised the point that Shanhai City's action had actually helped everyone out. He had warned the rookies that although there was freedom in your territory, you are never safe and can be attacked at any time. It was better to just stay safe in the system imperial city.

His argument had received a lot of support.

Many rookies that joined the game started to weigh the pros and cons of playing the lord mode.

During the weighing process, another thought was tossed out. The person raised that there was a perfect solution—to join a strong territory. That way, you could remain safe even if you don't have power.

Ouyang Shuo kept quiet. He didn't know if it was a coincidence or if Chun Shenjun and the others had fanned the flames. The migration caused many to lose their everything. At this time, Chun Shenjun had provided them with hope. He wanted to get them into his own territory to make up for his current weakness.

Although Shanhai City stood to gain from such a theory, Ouyang Shuo didn't find it something to be happy about. Since he started, he had already decided that his territory wouldn't accept a large number of players.

In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo brought Bing'er to the cemetery to clean their parents' graves for the last time as a goodbye.

Tomorrow morning, he was going to bring Bing'er and rush to Shanghai to meet with little aunt. As the migrant numbers were too big, Shanghai—which had 2.4 million people—was assigned to spaceships. Each ship could take 1.2 million people.

Of course, these spaceships were specially modified such that each person only took up a small amount of space. Basically, as long as it was enough to fit a game cabin, it was fine. Before they boarded, the players needed to enter the game cabin and the robots would transfer the cabins to a specific spot in the ship.

When the galactic spaceships took off, the game cabin would enter a deep sleep mode. The player would be completely frozen and only unfrozen when they reached their destination.

After they returned from the cemetery, Ouyang Shuo started to pack up their luggage. They decided to bring the items that they the most valued. The federal government would provide the other things.

In the end, Ouyang Shuo chose a framed family photo from when his parents were still alive. At that time, Bing'er was just a little kid that looked very cute.

As for Bing'er, she chose a cloth doll. It was already old, but she treated it as a gem. It was a birthday present from her Father.

At night, Ouyang Shuo got online as usual.

As they ate breakfast, Ouyang Shuo looked at Yingyu, "Yu'er, come to my office later. I have something to discuss with you."

"En." Yingyu thought it had something to do with work, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

10 a.m. Yingyu entered Ouyang Shuo's office.

Ouyang Shuo asked her to sit. Then, he gathered his thoughts,"Yingyu, you do know that Brother is different from you all and has a special way to contact the outside world, right?"

Yingyu nodded, "I know."

"I have friends in the Dali region, and I asked her to find out about your family's situation." Ouyang Shuo continued.

Yingyu's heart clenched, and she painfully asked, "Then? Did my family think I already died in the wilderness?"

Ouyang Shuo nodded,"You'er don't be said. it's also normal. After all, they haven't heard from you in half a year. Such a judgment is normal."

"Big Brother you don't need to console me, I understand." Yingyu tried hard to calm herself down.

"How about this. Allow my friend to contact your family. I need an item from you and also a handwritten letter. My plan is to allow your family to believe and confirm that you are still alive. Then, we can contact them through the cooperation platform in the advanced market. What do you think?"

In truth, Ouyang Shuo words were selfish.

If he wanted to, he could have found a territory near Dali region to ally with and send Yingyu there. Then, he could arrange a unit to send her back home to reunite with her family.

The reason why he didn't do that was because he also had his considerations.

Firstly, Ouyang Shuo didn't want to treat allying others as a game. An ally in Shanhai Alliance had strict regulations. Although Consonance City was in Yunnan Province, it was closer to Kunming.

After the 10 times expansion of the game map, Kunming was over three thousand miles away from Dali. Even if one used the speed of a Qingfu horse, it would take two months to rush there, which wasn't too practical.

Secondly, Ouyang Shuo couldn't bear to let her leave Shanhai City. Not to mention the relationship between them, Shanhai City needed this financial director. In the future, when Shanhai City had enough talents, Ouyang Shuo would consider sending her back.

Ouyang Shuo sometimes felt that doing so was a bit despicable, as this betrayed the trust she had in him. He said that as long as the time was right, he would protect her and send her back to Dali. He was really shameless.

However, this was the price one needed to pay as a lord who controlled power.

As a lord, the situation and future of the territory was the first thing he considered. Maybe only Bing'er was someone that couldn't be touched in his heart. Only that wouldn't have anything to do with profits and benefits.

Actually, to be able to contact her family was enough to Yingyu. Shanhai City had given her a platform, and it was a fortunate event to end up here.

"I think that's great. I'll finish the letter in the afternoon and pass it to you."

"Great!" Ouyang Shuo was expressionless.

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Chapter 183- Boarding the Spaceship

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In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo sent the item and the handwritten letter to Sun Xiaoyue.

Following this, he walked out of the lord's manor. Under the company of Zhao Dewang, he started to inspect the completed 2nd city wall.

It took around 40 days for them to finally complete the 2nd wall. The completed city wall included the city gate, city tower, archer tower, soldier hiding hole, and various other installations. These parts had all been built and could be employed.

The two city walls didn't form the typical square within a square. Instead, the outer square was a bit upward, which caused the inner square to flush down. Hence, the east and west gates of the second wall were on the same line as the north gate of the first wall. Thus, the east and west gates of both walls weren't aligned, which increased the defensive ability.

The south gate was on the same center line. However, there was an inner city river, and the two south gates were 3 kilometers apart. Defensively, it wasn't weaker than the east and west sides.

In the 7th month, when Sun Xiaoyue and the others teleported over, they would see a brand new Shanhai City and the biggest lord player's city in the world.

Ouyang Shuo returned to the lord's manor and stayed in his office. He read for a while.

After this upgrade to grade 2 city, Ouyang Shuo still had many things that planned. However, as the migration was coming, he had to deal with that. Ouyang Shuo didn't have much time to start these projects.

6 PM, Ouyang Shuo went to the backyard and got offline together with Bing'er.

After they exited the game cabin, the two of them ate their last breakfast.

"Baby, do you remember what brother told you?" Ouyang Shuo nagged.

Bing'er nodded," I remember. Don't tell anyone, including little aunt, about anything in the game. Brother don't worry, Bing'er is very well behaved."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and brought her and their small amount of luggage out of the door. The federal government arranged unmanned buses which went straight to Shanghai. As for their game cabins, the sending channel would directly transport them to Shanghai.

10 AM, Ouyang Shuo reached Shanghai and met up with little aunt.

After the met up, they had a simple lunch at her house. Then, they took a bus to the spaceport.

As there were too many people, they didn't wait until the 7th month, 1st day to board. From today onward, people would start streaming onto the spaceships.

Ouyang Shuo didn't want to stay too long at little aunt's house, so he decided to board the spaceship today.

Before they left, they had already changed into the federal-government-issued space suits. These space suits were very light and similar to sportswear.

As for the spaceport, it was already very full. Luckily, there was military personnel to maintain order.

Ouyang Shuo, Bing'er, little aunt Lin Jing, and Xie Siyun had joined the queue and prepared to board. At 5:30 PM, it was their time to board.

The machines directed them to lie in their own game cabin. These machines were in charge of transporting them to specific locations.

After he entered the game cabin, Ouyang Shuo directly logged into the game. In the near future, he would have no fate with the real world and would have to live in the game.

Ouyang Shuo walked out of his room and entered Bing'er's room.

Zisu stated in the room adjacent to Bing'er's. His arrival woke her up.

"Sire?" Zisu felt a little weird.

Ouyang Shuo nodded," I'm here to see Third Miss."

At this time, Bing'er got up from her bed on her own and ran out, "Brother!"

Ouyang Shuo was afraid of Bing'er being unable to adapt and purposely came to console her. When he saw that her emotions were still stable, he could finally relax and laugh,"Baby, for a long time, we will have to stay in the game world, are you afraid?"

"I'm not, I have Brother here. Anyways, Bing'er think it's fun here." This little brat really had no heart, maybe because she couldn't understand what galactic migration entailed.

While the two chatted, Zisu had already retreated out of the room to prepare hot water for Bing'er to bathe. She also asked the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

As Bing'er was okay, Ouyang Shuo returned to his own room. With Banxia serving him, he did a simple wash up. Then, he took the exquisite steel spear and started to practice.

This type of morning became the norm for the pair.

At 10 AM, Ouyang Shuo punctually appeared at the lord's office. He asked Bai Nanpu to call the combat logistics secretary Zhao Youfang over, as he had some things to arrange.

After Zhao Youfang entered, he appeared a little careful. Ouyang Shuo had frozen this secretary for a long time. Being called to see Ouyang Shuo at this time, he didn't know the purpose.

Ouyang Shuo sat at the lord's seat. He noticed how scared and careful Zhao Youfang looked, which caused Ouyang Shuo felt emotional.

Half a year has passed, and the smart and flexible-looking Zhao Youfang was unable to take up important tasks. The originally stiff-looking Zhao Dewang was able to manage the construction division well and Ouyang Shuo had rewarded him many times.

The first batch of people from Shanhai village had all taken up important positions, but they were pretty much at their limit.

Zhao Dexian being a city magistrate was already his max. After Qiushui City became a prefecture, Ouyang Shuo would have no choice but to change a person to become the magistrate.

Zhao Dewang becoming a secretary was also his maximum. At most, if there was a chance, he could be sent out to become a city magistrate. As the territories continued to upgrade, it would be hard to say if Zhao Youfang would be able to keep his secretary position.

Officials and generals were different. If a person didn't have the knowledge and only depended on training on the job, it was difficult to become good.

Ouyang Shuo passed the and the to Zhao Youfang and said, "Secretary Zhao, I will pass the production of these two to your division. In addition to the ladders, the combat logistics division needs to produce a large number of combat resources. The combat logistics division can work with the material reserves division to build a workshop to focus on such production."

"Yes, sire," Zhao Youfang said respectfully.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head and said warmly, "Youfang, this can't do, you don't have any elan. Where did the secretary that dared to voice out go? As for the building of the workshop, I want to hear your opinion and not your agreement."

These words stunned Zhao Youfang, and he seemed like he was feeling a lot of emotions. This period was a test for his emotional state, and if he could ride across, he might actually become a much better person and leader.

Zhao Youfang knew that his sire had given him a last chance. If he didn't take it, he would drop down the ranks.

In truth, after receiving the , Zhao Youfang had some thoughts, as production would require a workshop that took up a lot of space. After the new plannings of the city, each region had its own purpose.

Zhao Youfang thought about it, but he couldn't find a suitable place to build this workshop. Since inside the city wasn't possible, he turned his eyes to outside the city. The only thing that he needed to worry about was safety.

"Sire, do you remember the cave that the alchemical fire oil is stored?" Zhao Youfang asked.

Ouyang Shuo replied with uncertainty," You mean you want to build the military factory in the cave? Did you find a suitable cave?"

Since he had piqued Ouyang Shuo's interest, Zhao Youfang finally had some confidence," That's right. When we were storing the alchemical fire oil, we found many natural caves. These caves were of different sizes and heights. The big ones were the size of Shanhai Town, having high points of 20 meters while the average was 5 meters. There was also a river providing water and suitable ventilation. Hence, I feel that to build the military factory inside would be a good idea. We just need some slight modifications, and it'll be good to use."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. It seemed like he had not paid attention to this little fortune that hid in the mountain ranges. The earliest to use these caves were probably the wine workshop that used it to store the three flower wine.

At that time, he didn't pay much attention to it.

Afterward, there was the cave to store alchemical fire oil. As it was handed over to the combat logistics division, he didn't go to the ground to inspect it. He didn't know that such caves were so common.

Zhao Youfang was really a dedicated person, and his sharp senses found a strategic use for the caves.

"Not bad, Youfang. Your suggestion is good, and I'll approve it."

If they were able to build the military factory in the caves, then that would be the optimal choice. With that, they didn't need to care about the limited land and about the safety of the factory.

Moreover, the best part was that building it in the caves hid it well and away from enemy spies.

"Yes, sire!" Zhao Youfang replied loudly. This time, he was a lot more confident.

After Zhao Youfang left, Ouyang Shuo was still thinking about the caves. The way he saw it, there was a need to arrange the construction division to check and inspect the insides of the caves in the territory.

These caves in modern society would naturally be bomb shelters and the best military bases. It was very suitable in terms of both military production and weapon designing.

He couldn't be so careless and let such valuable resources go to waste. Of course, after learning more about the caves, there must be a systematic plan for the use of the caves. He couldn't use all of them for the same purpose.

After Ouyang Shuo thought this, he acted immediately. He wrote a letter to plan out all his ideas out. He asked the clerk to pass it to the construction secretary Zhao Dewang.

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Chapter 184 - The World Online

Translator: TeamTWO

Editor: Jun

On the 1st day of the 7th month at 4 PM, the last group of passengers boarded the galactic spaceship.

At 5 PM, the spaceships launched from all the space ports from all around the world. After they gathered in space, they formed a vast 1000 spaceship army and flew towards planet Hope.

The fleet brought the last hope of humanity and its thirst for a place of new life into the endless night sky into an unknown world. Based on the experience of the explorer squad, they needed at least 10 years before they could reach planet Hope.

At 8 PM, which was 8 AM in the game, a system notification sounded out.

"World notification: Earth Online has entered the state of the whole world being online. The game will undergo a huge patch, effective immediately. As for the specific changes, please go onto the official website to take a look."

Gaia had already set up the website in the game so players could visit it or the forums at any time to look for news. This was also the reason why Ouyang Shuo, who was an adventure player in the last life, understood so much about territory building.

On the website page, the top post wasn't about the new update but about a goodbye speech by the president to officially say goodbye to the Earth.

Most importantly, the president had revealed the secret regarding the asset tabulation.

During galactic migration, a significant portion of assets, houses, factories, machines, etc. were left on earth and were unable to be brought with them, so this caused many billionaires or famous people to become poor overnight.

The people of the world had in an instant become the same and had the same start. So when they got to planet Hope, how to measure one's assets was a crucial question.

If one didn't have any compensation, then it would be unfair to those who lost their fortunes, as these people had made so many contributions towards this galactic migration project.

The future planet Hope also needed this batch of entrepreneurs and artists to build a new society and contribute their strength. They couldn't exactly let an entrepreneur become a logger. This didn't make any sense and was a colossal waste of resources.

Furthermore, the fortune that they lost was caused by nature, and they couldn't have prevented it. The federal government had an obligation to compensate them for that.

Of course, they couldn't compensate them all the riches that they had lost. As this sum had already been left on earth, they needed to set up a new compensation system.

To make a logical and fair system, the federal government worked with many mathematicians and economists to come up with many numbers and ideas. They also had to debate with the financial groups and multinational corporations, and it was certainly not an easy task.

In the end, the federal government with the help of the brilliant calculation abilities of Gaia decided to compensate everyone. To make this system work, they also created a new term which was achievement value.

This meant that their personal assets were weighed against a compensation value and what they got wasn't financial data but an achievement value.

The reason why they didn't get new financial data was that most physical assets were left on earth and an economic system without fixed capital was a bunch of useless numbers which couldn't buy you anything.

Achievement value was going to play an essential part in planet Hope. It was similar to merit points, which players could use to buy different permission levels.

The federal government split the permission levels into SSS, SS, S, A, B, C, D, E, F. Nine ranks, different permission levels would get you different resources and different statuses in society.

The SSS permission level was unique, and only Gaia had it. To activate this permission meant one needed to check the core data of Gaia and one needed to get 75% agreement by the people before he could use it.

SS permission level was also unique, and it belonged to the president, and it was only when he was in power. When his term ends, the permission level will be passed to the next president.

Which meant that the max that ordinary residents could get was the S permission rank.

The F rank required one to have no less than 100 points, and up every rank, the points required will increase by 10 times. So for one to get an S rank, he needed at least 100 million achievement value.

The compensation lowest value was 0.01, and the highest was 0.0001. The higher one's assets, the lower the compensation value. If a resident had less than 10 thousand credit, he would get the 0.01 compensation value. If he had more than 100 million credits, he would have 0.0001 compensation value.

In other words, a person with 10 thousand credits would obtain 100 achievement value. A rich man with 100 million credit would get 10 thousand achievement value and obtain the D permission level. A person with 10s of billions would be able to get A million achievement value and get the B permission level.

In the whole world, only the father of the Free City Lord Jack Dawson, Yabu Dawson had 100s of billions of credit and could obtain 10 million achievement value and obtain the permission level.

The compensation value didn't only take into account one's assets but also one's occupation. Of course, this targeted scientists, scholars, researchers, artists, etc.

Based on the results from Gaia, out of the billion migrants, 200 million got the lowest F rank, mostly underage kids who could only reach the basic 100 achievement value.

For example, Bing'er only had 100 achievement value. Her smart pet, Xue'er, was considered a personal item as you could bring it on board and thus wasn't calculated into private assets.

The remaining 800 million were mostly E permission levels. Those that got a D permission level were only around a million people, who were those with 100 million in net worth, including scientists, researchers and political personnel.

Those that obtained the B permission level had only 500 people including billionaires, national treasure level scientists and high-grade officials in the federal government.

As for the A level, there were less than 10. Their identities were kept an enormous secret. As for whether anyone got the S level, it was an even bigger secret. Ouyang Shuo estimated that there would be no more than 3 people.

Ouyang Shuo had obtained the E rank with 2000 achievement value, mainly because of the 800 thousand credits in his account.

Strictly speaking, the compensation system was a massive disadvantage for the strong powers. Rich folk would only be higher than an average person in regards to their permission level.

When the system was revealed, it faced much disagreements from the strong powers. Both parties took a step back and agreed that Earth Online wouldn't make any promotions and would start a year early to give these big powers a lead.

So why did they pay so much importance to Earth Online? Was it just only because there were authentic secret manuals? No, the reason was that there was a second chance to obtain achievement value.

This was to give commoners a chance to come back and have a higher starting point in planet Hope. It was also to calm down commoners from being angry that the rich who had lost everything still obtained such high permission levels. The federal government set that before reaching planet Hope, Gaia would calculate all the player's assets and based on a specific ratio change it to achievement value.

Please take note that this change didn't have any reducing factors, meaning that the higher your assets, the more achievement value you would receive.

This was also Ouyang Shuo's end goal to obtain a lead and raise his permission level and as such forge a strong base when he entered planet Hope.

Apart from that, there was a bonus for lord game mode players.

Based on the data from the exploring squad, the area of planet Hope was 10 thousand times that of the Earth. The land was very vast, and 1 billion migrants wouldn't make any waves when entering planet Hope.

This was normal as in the universe the earth was considered a small planet.

Such a vast planet needed people to explore. At this time, lord game mode players could be sent into the fray. This was the real reason for Earth Online being so real.

To be able to survive in the game, fight for 10 years, and be destroyed by others, such a lord had the rights to be a pioneer in reality.

In reality, there naturally weren't any refugees spawning or a teleportation formation. These two were the two enormous insurances for lord game mode players to gain a footing in the wilderness.

However, the many robots could entirely replace the refugees. As for the teleportation formation, the skytrain wasn't that bad an alternative.

As for a management squad, the federal government had a way to solve it for the lords which was cyborgs.

The NPCs in the game all had their own minds, and the federal government could transfer those into the body of cyborgs and make them seem as real as actual humans.

This meant that as long as the lord game mode players had a high enough permission level, they could replicate their generals and officials in real life to help them continue to build their territory and become a pioneer in planet Hope.

This was because the cost of making a cyborg was very high, considering it was half machine. Furthermore, they were split into different ranks. The higher the rank, the higher the cost.

So, the fighting in the game was significant, and one didn't have even a moment to rest.

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