Cultivation: When you do things to the extreme

After bidding farewell to the exhausted two girls, Xu Yang left the training ground and began to inspect the territory.

Compared with the ruins after the siege three months ago, his territory is now completely new and even turned upside down.

Whether it is the core island or the outer grassland, it is now covered with buildings, various facilities have been rebuilt and further expanded.

In addition, two new terrains have been added to the east and west sides of the grassland, one is a mountain range and the other is a plain, which is the result of integrating territory fragments.

There are mineral resources in the mountains, which can be used to mine stone, iron ore, copper ore, and precious metals of great value. The plain is a good place for farming, and a large amount of land can be cultivated to obtain food resources.

Xu Yang did the same thing. He built a large number of mining sites in the mountains and cultivated a large amount of farmland in the plains to strengthen the resource development and economic construction of the territory.

In addition...

"Lord!"

Soon after Xu Yang left the training ground, he saw a general leading a Yellow Turban team: "Just now, another elite Han cavalry came to harass us, and we have wiped them out. This is the captured stuff."

As he said that, he showed a pile of spoils, as well as a few prisoner cards.

Xu Yang nodded: "Store them all in the warehouse, and Zhang Yan will come over and let her deal with them."

"Yes!"

The general retreated in response, and Xu Yang also turned to the center of the island.

In the center of the island, behind the Yellow Turban camp, a large number of Yellow Turban farmers were busy building a new building.

Taiping Temple (Construction progress 98%)

Because of sufficient resources, Xu Yang completed the reconstruction of the territory less than two months after the siege, and a large number of people burst out, and began to build the Taiping Temple, a wonder of the Yellow Turban civilization.

The construction of the wonder of civilization went smoothly. Although a Han army squad would appear from time to time to harass and destroy, with Xu Yang's current strength, these harassments were just like sending food to the door. They were all like throwing meat buns at dogs and never returned.

He didn't even need to take action himself. With only the guard troops of the territory and heroic generals such as Hua Mulan and Lu Qiling, he could easily eliminate these Han army squads.

Lord: Xu Yang

Territory civilization: Yellow Turban

Territory buildings: Yellow Turban camp x1, Yellow Turban training ground x30, fish market wharf x100, Wuda restaurant x1, lumberyard x20, mining field x50, blacksmith shop x100, Jin Guo blacksmith shop x1, Jurchen horse ranch x3, well x300, tower x400, city wall x8000, city gate x4, farmland x2400, fish farm x400, civilian house x20000, Taiping Temple (under construction)

Territory troops: 54333 (18000 Yellow Turbans (elite), 18000 Yellow Turban infantry (elite), 17000 Yellow Turban spearmen (elite), 425 Yellow Turban infantry (strongmen), 298 Yellow Turban Spearmen (Strongmen), 200 Mulan Heroine Archers (Elite), 200 Mulan Heroine Archers (Elite), 40 Mulan Heroine Archers (Hundred Battles), 90 Mulan Heroine Archers (Hundred Battles), 80 Wuda Cooks)

Territory resources: 885,000 food (215,000 salted fish, 535,000 wheat, 30,000 pancakes, 24,800 Wuda pancakes, 1,200 secret Wuda pancakes, 79,000 others), 12,500 wood, 51,200 stone, 71,100 iron ingots, 11,500 copper ingots, 2,100 metal ingots, 187,850 fodder, 5,000 spirit stones, 1,850,620 Tongtian coins.

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Three months of hard work, the fruits are borne!

Needless to say, although there are no new buildings, all kinds of basic buildings have to be expanded massively, whether it is the Yellow Turban Training Ground for military training, or the logging and mining fields, blacksmith shops, horse ranches, farmland, water wells, and houses for civil production and economic construction, the number of buildings has to be greatly increased.

These basic buildings guarantee the military, livelihood, economy and other aspects of the territory, and are the cornerstone of development and the foundation of strength.

It is also relying on this foundation that the territory's military strength has been greatly enhanced, from the more than 800 people who survived the siege three months ago to more than 50,000 people now, 99% of which are Yellow Turban soldiers.

The "Yellow Turban" stunt that has been useless has finally been brought into play, increasing the highest attribute of all Yellow Turban soldiers by 12% (one for a hundred at the level of a strongman). Although it is better than nothing, it is a good start anyway.

Fifty thousand new Yellow Turban troops, plus eight hundred elites who survived the siege, and four hundred female guards newly trained by Hua Mulan, the military strength of the territory is needless to say. Xu Yang can jump into the top ten of the rookie list in such a short time, which is inseparable from their help.

Finally, let's look at the resources. A large number of basic buildings provide a large amount of resources, nearly one million foods, and a large amount of wood, stone, iron ingots, copper ingots, fodder, spirit stones, Tongtian coins, etc., which can support the territory, support the troops, and carry out a large-scale war.

As we all know, war is a matter of logistics. If the logistics supply cannot keep up, no matter how strong the frontline troops are, they will not be able to continue.

So resources are very important. It is the foundation for maintaining war and an important support for defeating the opponent.

Buildings, military strength, and support, the combination of the three has created a powerful war system. This is the current situation of Xu Yang's territory.

This is just the current situation, not the final one, because the wonder of civilization is about to be completed. By then, Xu Yang can also recruit special troops such as Yellow Turban Warriors and Yellow Turban Warlocks to further enhance his reputation and strength and launch an attack on the "Newcomer King".

So, those who work hard will be rewarded!

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The construction progress has reached 99%. Xu Yang did not go anywhere else, but supervised the work and waited for the completion of the Taiping Temple.

But again, when there are no accidents, accidents will happen.

A white light flashed, and a person hurriedly walked out of the Yellow Turban camp. It was Zhang Yan who had used the "Alliance Order" to formally form an alliance.

As early as two months ago, after regaining the territory for the two of them, Xu Yang asked her to buy a battle order (alliance) and a battle order (merchant alliance) in the Babel Tower.

War Order (Alliance)

Item level: Level 1 (top quality)

Item effect: Alliance (forms a military alliance after use, which can be joined by up to ten first-level lords. The lords can freely enter and exit the alliance territory, and will be notified when the ally territory is attacked)

Item introduction: There is strength in numbers!

War Order (Business Alliance)

Item level: Level 1 (top quality)

Item effect: Business alliance (after use, a business alliance is formed, which can be joined by up to ten first-level lords. The lords of the business alliance can freely enter and exit each other's territories for commercial trade, and the transaction tax is reduced by 30%)

Item introduction: The more people, the more money!

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Needless to say, a military alliance is a must-have for establishing power. Without a military alliance, only a verbal agreement is regarded as pie-in-the-sky.

The business alliance is also very important, because the Babel Tower collects taxes from all transactions between lords, and the higher the level of the traded units, heroes, items, and equipment, the higher the taxes.

What, a gift?

Don't think about it. This is reality, not a game. The Tower of Babel is like a supreme god. There are no loopholes in the specified rules, and there are loopholes that He allows.

Therefore, there is no such thing as a gift between lords. You can give people heroes, items, and equipment for free, but the Tower of Babel will also charge you taxes. The amount of the tax depends on the level of the transaction, and has nothing to do with the price of your transaction. .

This is why, despite all the major forces spending a lot of money to cultivate new talent, Xu Yang suddenly emerged and broke into the top ten of the rookie list.

You are a big force. You can give the new people you cultivate a lot of troops, legendary equipment and even mythical equipment. The premise is that you can afford the price. After all, you have to pay a tax once, and you have to pay another tax when you transfer it back. One time is enough to make your body ache.

Although the big forces can afford it, they must consider the cost-effectiveness in everything. Paying ten times or a hundred times to win the reward of the New King is a very irrational behavior, not to mention causing an arms race and malicious competition. Risk, in the end everyone loses, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Therefore, a business alliance is as important as a military alliance. It can effectively reduce the transaction taxes between lords. As Xu Yang’s butler, Zhang Yan sells trophies with her superb charm attributes and trading skills. If a business alliance is not formed, then The losses will be enormous.

In fact, the most cost-effective thing is to cultivate transaction-type heroes yourself, but Xu Yang currently does not have such heroes. In more than three months, Wu Da Restaurant has attracted several ordinary heroes of the military general type, and there are no heroes from the Zhimei style at all. Can be trained into a trading hero.

As for Hua Mulan, she is Xu Yang's commander-in-chief. How could she invest important attribute points and skill points in business transactions? Xu Yang would not do this kind of thing.

Anyway, there is a business alliance, which can effectively reduce taxes. Zhang Yan can support it for a while, and then replace it after recruiting trading heroes.

"Xu Yang!"

Zhang Yan came over in a hurry, with a slightly anxious look on her face: "A senior sister from the student union has come and wants to negotiate with you about the new king. Do you want to..."

"not see!"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xu Yang.

"..."

Such words and gestures made Zhang Yan silent for a while. After a long time, she said carefully: "Let's meet. After all, we are both from the campus and trained by the college. It would be bad if we had a falling out."

Xu Yang glanced at her, his expression calm and unruffled: "For things that are meaningless, all your efforts will be in vain."

These words made Zhang Yan silent again. She wanted to persuade but couldn't.

Xu Yang ignored it and stared at the progress of Taiping Temple, waiting for the completion of this civilized wonder.

It’s not that he’s unreasonable or unsophisticated, it’s that he’s seen too much, and to put it bluntly, when some people stick their butts out, he knows exactly what they want to do.

What kind of negotiation, to put it bluntly, is coercion and inducement to make him withdraw from the competition for the new star.

As I said before, competing for the ranking is a huge investment, especially the competition between the major forces and core seeds. If one mistake is not made, it will turn into an arms race. The major forces compete maliciously and use all possible means. In the end, both sides suffer losses, and the gains outweigh the losses.

This kind of thing happened too much, and the major forces couldn't stand it, so it gradually turned into a "peaceful" ranking competition. The major forces rotated the rankings. This year it will be me, and next year it will be you. Everyone has something, no need to compete. Avoid heavy investment and bloodshed.

These are the rules for rankings formulated by Tongtian Academy and other major forces.

But Xu Yang did not intend to comply.

If it were in the regular world, then he would definitely choose to be conceited and conceding, trying to develop and then replace him when he was just starting out, instead of challenging the underlying rules of major forces, overturning the table, and breaking the situation.

But this is not a regular world, but a world of lords with alienated data, suppressed by the two supreme beings, the Babel Tower and the Ten Thousand Demonic Abyss.

They have already formulated the rules, and what the major forces do is just adding rules to the rules.

Therefore, Xu Yang was too lazy to waste time with them, because the lords' campaigns were restricted by the Tower of Babel and the Ten Thousand Demons Abyss, and high-level lords could only wage war against lords one level lower than themselves.

Xu Yang was now a first-level lord. Even if the Tongtian Academy tore its face with him, it could only send a second-level lord to conquer him.

There were also restrictions on this campaign. Let's not talk about anything else, just the number of troops. The high-level lords' campaigns against low-level lords were restricted by the Tower of Babel, and there were ten times the commander and morale penalties.

Take Xu Yang as an example. Because of the effect of "The Way of Kingly Hegemony", he can now lead more than 2,000 people to go out to fight.

But these 2,000 people can only be first-level troops. If they are second-level troops, they will be subject to ten times the commander and morale penalties. In the end, they can only lead 200 people to the campaign, and the morale will be consumed ten times.

The same is true for high-level lords to low-level lords. With ten times the commander and morale penalties, plus the advantages of territory workshops and home field battles, Xu Yang is not afraid of the conquest of second-level lords at all.

So, why bother with him?

Come and fight if you have the ability. He just needs to strengthen his strength through war. It is not easy for him to attack the territory of a second-level lord, but if a second-level lord takes the initiative to come to the door, the situation will be different.

This is the rule of the Tower of Babel. He has built a development environment and competition order with appropriate intensity. There is really no need to abide by the rules of the major forces.

If the major forces want to suppress him and keep the throne of the newcomer king and double champion, they can only restart the original competition mode, increase investment, keep the ranking, and suppress him with the foundation and financial resources.

War?

He is eager for war!

Seeing Xu Yang like this, Zhang Yan didn't say much, so she could only smile bitterly and said, "Then I will reply to them like this."

"Yeah!"

Xu Yang nodded, his expression and attitude remained unchanged.

Zhang Yan had no choice but to turn around and leave.

However, as soon as she turned around, she saw...

"Hua La!"

A yellow light flashed, and everyone retreated. Zhang Yan looked back and saw a Taoist temple rising from the ground.

The Taoist temple was not big, with only three floors, but it was sacred and solemn, with yellow light everywhere and incense curling.

"You have successfully built the wonder of civilization - Taiping Temple!"

"The morale of the Yellow Turban troops in the territory has been greatly improved!"

"The effect of the Yellow Turban buildings in the territory has been slightly increased!"

"You can recruit/train the special troops of the Yellow Turban civilization in Taiping Temple."

"Because you built the Yellow Turban wonder, the Eastern Han court called on the army of heroes to conquer you."

"The Eastern Han general "Gongsun Yang" will lead the army to attack your territory in three days!"

"The Eastern Han court has issued a bounty, and all lords of the Han Dynasty civilization (same level) can launch an attack on your territory."

"..."

The prompts of the Tower of Babel sounded one after another, but Xu Yang didn't care at all, and walked towards the Taiping Temple in front of him.