Chapter 257: Intermediate cities
"Hope territory (intermediate city)
area: 1 million meters * 1 million meters
Population: 65106502/20000000
Others: omitted."
In order to upgrade the territory this time, in addition to a sufficient amount of energy gems and gold coins, Gu Mi sacrificed again The three lord-level props directly contributed all of her gains from the big bug.
She also did not expect that after the territory was upgraded to the city level, each level up would require an additional lord-level item.
Now their territory needs to spend at least four lord-level items to upgrade their territory from a middle-level city to the highest-level high-level city.
But the more you spend, the more you get.
Just look at the results of the expansion of the Hope Territory this time. It has directly expanded from "300,000 meters * 300,000 meters" to "1 million meters * 1 million meters". The length and width have expanded by more than three times, and the actual area is even larger. It is more than ten times larger.
According to the original size of the Hope Territory, it can accommodate more than 60 million people. Judging from the size of their current expansion, it is not a problem to accommodate more than 600 million people.
Fortunately, no matter how fast the population growth rate is, it is impossible to increase the number to hundreds of millions in one go, and 600 million is still a relatively distant goal. For the time being, Gu Mi and the senior leaders of the territory do not need to worry about how to manage a number of people. So many super large territories. However, from this moment on, they should also actively ensure that the population of the territory will gradually develop to that level, so the construction in all aspects still has to keep up. The most important thing is of course the military. All the premise of a territory's long-term existence is that it can 'live' for a long time in the invasion of various disasters. If the territory's military power is not strong enough, and the territory is destroyed, then there will be nothing left to speak of.
This is also the reason why Gu Mi has always attached importance to the development of the territorial military.
Today, the number of regular soldiers in their territory has exceeded 10 million, and the number of reserve soldiers starts at 5 million, but Gu Mi still feels that it is not enough.
This power is simply unable to resist the last endless beast tide.
"Continue to recruit troops in large numbers. The minimum standard is to make the number of official soldiers in our territory account for one-half of the total population." Gu Mi gave orders directly to several legion commanders.
"Yes, Lord Lord."
Several people answered in unison, and then each left to carry out Lord Lord's order.
"But Lord, there are too many soldiers, and the food reserves in our territory may not be able to support them." Zhang Rong handed the latest financial statement to Gu Mi, and calmly explained to her in a realistic tone.
She said this sentence just as a reminder of her duty, and had no other meaning.
"I know." With Gu Mi's control over the territory, she naturally understood the difficulties of the territory.
But there are some things that cannot be avoided because of difficulties.
Again, if they can't even keep their territory, then they'll have nothing.
"Continue to build fields in large quantities if there is not enough food. Even if there is not much food produced in the fields due to the influence of the weather, it has the effect of increasing the system construction, and it is not all output."
And they still have inexhaustible use. Depleted water sources can be used to irrigate the fields, without fear that the fields will suffer the effects of drought like other places, resulting in no harvest.
Gu Mi didn't say it in the last paragraph, there are some little secrets, it's good for everyone to know, there is no need to say it explicitly.
"I understand Lord Lord, sorry, I was the one who talked too much just now." Zhang Rong realized what Gu Mi meant, and was suddenly stunned.
Indeed, the lord is right, anyway, their territory has money, and they have just completed the upgrade and expansion, and even more land.
No food?
A lot of farming is.
As long as the number of fields is large enough, even if the output is not ideal, with the support of the large base of fields, it is always possible to grow enough food to support the entire territory, including the amount of food needed to support the troops.
It's really not possible, can't you still buy it?
You don't have to buy food, as long as it's something you can eat, no matter what it is, even in a situation where the whole world has been shrouded in the shadow of a hot and natural disaster for a long time, as long as they can afford the price, they should buy it. Eating is not easy?
If you can't buy it from the forces on land, you can also buy it from the sea.
Their lords have many diplomatic and trade channels.
"Knock-knock..."
"Lord Lord."
The knocking sound outside the door caught the attention of Gu Mi and Zhang Rong, realizing that they had stayed in Lord Lord's office for too long, which affected others to come in and report to the Lord Lord. At work, Zhang Rong immediately said goodbye to Gu Mi respectfully and left.
When she walked out, she happened to pass by the old village chief who came over, and both sides greeted politely.
"Mayor Mori."
"Minister Zhang."
Zhang Rong has been promoted to Minister of Finance.
Of course, the territorial finances that she can manage are only a small part of it, and most of the financial power is still firmly in the hands of Gu Mi, but some of the more fragmented financial affairs have been distributed by her, and a department has been established for this purpose. .
The current position of the old village chief is the mayor of the Hope Territory. Within a territory, the positions of the lord and the mayor do not conflict with each other.
The lord is the owner of the entire territory, and is like a king, even more powerful than the king. After all, she can completely control the entire territory, including everyone in it, every inch of land, etc.
The mayor is a manager who has been given more rights by the lord. If the territory is compared to a kingdom, then the mayor is similar to the existence of the prime minister.
He can have the right to manage various affairs in the territory, and his status is higher than other high-level managers, but he can never surpass the lord, and even if the lord has any dissatisfaction with him, he can unconditionally take back all the rights granted to him. .
Therefore, some arrogant lords will call them senior stewards.
But Gu Mi doesn't have this kind of thinking. In her eyes, as long as someone who can give her a good job without causing trouble is a good subordinate to her, as long as she doesn't make any principled mistakes, she will not take it lightly. Remove his post and withdraw the right to go.
The old village chief was in charge of the population affairs of the territory, and this time, he naturally came to report to Gu Mi about his work.
"After the new census, the total number of residents in our territory is 70,039,105, of which the number of survivors is 33,105,688 and the number of aboriginal people is 36,933,417. Now the number of aboriginal people is more than the number of survivors, but The two are still pretty much the same overall..."
Originally because of the last two survivors, I hoped that the number of survivors in the territory would be far more than the aborigines.
However, with the subsequent development of the territory and the increase of the foreign population, the aboriginal population began to gradually overtake the survivors, reaching the level that is basically the same today, but slightly exceeded.
The main reason is the location of their territory.
As I said before, there are many aboriginal tribes, gathering places, and a large number of aboriginal territories in the Ekra Great Forest.
So this itself is a more aboriginal area.
After discovering the existence of a large city-level territory around, in order to obtain safer shelter and live in a better environment, there must be many aborigines who came one after another, wanting to become residents of the Hope Territory.
Coupled with the influence of the whole forest announcement issued by Gu Mi before, the various ethnic groups living in the forest are aware of the existence of their territory, so naturally more people come.
In contrast, except for the two placements, the natural growth rate of survivors in the Hope Territory is relatively small.
First of all, it was still a geographical issue. The Ekra Great Forest was too dangerous, and not everyone had the ability to come in and find a territory in the vast virgin forest.
Second, although the Hope Territory is famous, they are not the only choice for the survivors. In addition to the Hope Territory, there are also various territories such as prosperity, Norton, and Democracy.
Therefore, under the influence of various reasons, it is an inevitable trend that the number of aborigines in their territory exceeds the number of survivors.
But it doesn't matter, because the original and core principle of Gu Mi's construction of the territory is equality.
In her eyes, no matter what race or identity a person is, as long as they are citizens of the hope territory, they are just her citizens, and there is no difference.
Every time the territory is upgraded, there will be a lot of things.
Not only military, food, population, etc., but also various other affairs that need to be handled by Gu Mi, especially as the territory develops, the more she needs to be busy.
By working so hard, you will forget the passage of time.
Therefore, when the bell rang at 12 midnight, she suddenly heard the system's world report, and was shocked to realize that the new year had come.
"World Bulletin: The darkness before dawn is getting deeper and darker. In the new year from this moment, the sunshine time around the world will be reduced by 3 hours on the original basis. I hope you will make persistent efforts to survive until the end."
"World Bulletin: Now for all The third round of announcements will be made for the ranking of survivor territories.
1. Hope Territory (intermediate city), lord Gu Mi, located in the Great Forest of Ekra, rewarding a high-level treasure chest*3.
2. Prosperous and powerful territory (primary city), built by the lord king, located in the Laki desert, rewarding an advanced treasure chest*2.
3. Paradise Territory (primary city), the lord Mederke Lekas, located in the North Plains, rewards a high-level treasure chest*1.
4. Democracy Territory (Advanced Town), the lord Song Wenchao, located in the Dongzhou Plain, rewards an intermediate treasure chest*3.
5. Super Territory (high-level town), the lord Marley Keton, located in the north of Longdon Kingdom, rewards intermediate treasure chest*2.
6. Brown Bear Territory (intermediate town), the lord Yekajilovsky, located in the extreme northern snowfield, rewards an intermediate treasure chest*1.
7. Civilized territory (intermediate town), leading the army, located at the junction of Dongzhou Plain and Ekra Great Forest, rewarding the primary treasure chest*3.
8. The deep ocean territory (primary town), the lord Zelaris, is located in the deep sea, and rewards the primary treasure chest*2.
9. Friendship Territory (primary town), the lord Bai Aai, located on an unknown island, rewards primary treasure chest*1. "
World News: Congratulations to the survivors and the aborigines for spending the new year together. All members will be rewarded with a chance to draw cards from the random level card pool*1." "
It's another year of changes, but it makes people feel a lot more heavy.
It's already their second year in the survival game? Its till the third year
In just three years, what happened during the period has been worth a lot . All that people have experienced in one's life, and this is not the end, the disaster is still going on, and those who are alive have to continue to endure.
It seems that since last year, Gu Mi found out that the system will report the world in the new year. At that time, the number of survivors was no longer reported.
I don't know if it was because the report would scare everyone away from the idea of survival, or something else, but just by looking at the changes in the survivors' territories, you can roughly know that there are many Many... many people who cannot be counted have been destroyed in various disasters.
Obviously, there were 13 Survivor Territories that were broadcast last year, but the number of Survivor Territories this year has not increased but decreased.
The four territories of Norton, Maya, Honesty, and Maple Leaf have all disappeared from the leaderboard. Actually, everyone knows what this disappearance means.
Even Gu Mi knew the specific destruction time of the Integrity Territory.
Just three days before the new year.
They were destroyed in a massive war, and with them were two large kingdoms.
Norton and Sayinger.
That's right, the original foundation kingdom of Harmony Trading Company was destroyed. Fortunately, they have relocated their headquarters to the Hope Territory. Therefore, even if the Sayinge Kingdom is destroyed, it will cause great damage to their business and property, but it is not enough. As for fatal.
