Lords Trying to Survive: Strategizing from a Rundown Yard

As the saying goes, "burning" books feels good for a while, and "burning" books keeps feeling good.

No matter how many times he did this kind of operation that could directly improve his attributes, Zong Shen would never do it too much.

Since his normal attributes entered the legendary level, he has entered a new round of hard work in accumulating attributes.

He is invincible under demigods, and 50-50 above demigods.

Of course, this 50-50 draw refers to the situation where some of the trump card abilities are activated.

In fact, he himself doesn't know much about the combat power of a demigod.

After all, there is a lack of sufficient reference data.

After completing a new round of attribute improvements, Zong Shen quickly focused on the next mission reward item.

In addition to the 1.5 million team experience points that can be distributed at any time, he took out a special recruitment scroll with his backhand and left the hall of the Lord's Fortress in a flash.

When he reappeared, he came to an open space outside the fortress.

At present, the core circle with the Lord's Fortress as the center point has been initially established.

All the previous three circles of city walls were moved to the borders of the core circle.

Since the radius of the planned area has been greatly expanded, the original city wall is only barely enough to surround the core area.

The wonder-level, special-level and some barracks and academic buildings in the territory have also been relocated and are planned and placed around the lord's fortress.

Several solid stone roads have also been laid. The width of each road is planned to be 22 meters, which can accommodate five to six carriages and baggage trailers.

[White Stone Street Lamps (Blue)] were also installed in key areas (back to Chapter 736).

The lighting principle of this kind of street lamp is very simple. The light source uses mana crystal after the mana energy is exhausted, which is also called white crystal or white stone. However, it requires additional consumption of mana energy when using it.

The white stone functions as a "light bulb" and the magic energy acts as "electricity".

The consumption of each [White Stone Street Lamp (Blue)] is not large, and only one [Elementary Magic Crystal] is needed to light it continuously for 720 hours.

Coupled with the territory quick permissions previously redeemed, internal affairs heroes can turn on and off street lights at regular intervals.

At this stage, [white stone street lights (blue)] are gradually replacing campfire lighting.

The territory at night also lost a bit of the smoky and unpleasant smell.

These are all changes in the territory in recent days.

However, he came outside at this time not to inspect the territory, but to directly complete the recruitment.

Compared with other types of recruitment scrolls accumulated on hand, the recruitment scroll he holds now can be put to use almost immediately.

This recruitment scroll that gave him high hopes was one of the mission rewards [Proficient Miner Brigade Recruitment Scroll (Yaoguang)].

The entire recruitment scroll shines with beautiful light in the dark night, which is also a characteristic of brilliance-level items.

When compared horizontally in the recruitment roll, it can be considered a relatively rare high-end product.

This type of recruitment rolls are all written by the lord system, and those banned are professionals and warriors in related fields who have "died once".

He raised his hand and stared at the recruitment scroll in his hand, and soon lines of information emerged.

[Proficient Miner Brigade Recruitment Volume (Yaoguang)]

[Quality: Brilliant Grade]

[Effect: After use, a standard brigade can be recruited, a team of skilled miners totaling 1,200 people, with proficient skills in relevant majors]

[(Click to recruit)]

[The recruitment process of Dimensional Singularity takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete]

[Please ensure that the recruitment location has enough space to expand the Singularity Portal]

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After the introductions one by one, Zong Shen decisively chose [Recruitment].

He is no stranger to this recruitment process, and can even be said to be quite familiar with it.

The standard brigade-level recruitment means that more people are recruited at a time, but there is not much difference in other aspects.

When he completed the activation, the recruitment scroll in his hand immediately turned into light and flew away from his hand.

As the leap progressed, the light state condensed into a sphere, with the diameter eventually changing from tens of centimeters to tens of meters.

Finally, it landed in an open space five or six hundred meters in front of Zong Shen.

A huge ball of light bloomed, and in an instant the sky not far away was as bright as day, and an egg-shaped oval cocoon of light suddenly appeared on the spot.

This scene also attracted the attention of all the people in the territory who were still working the night shift.

Construction work in the territory these days is basically in two shifts.

It is an acceleration state where people stop and work does not stop.

The vast majority of the people in the territory have been assigned a certain amount of work tasks, and there is no idle situation at all.

Before the free people's reforms, this could be regarded as the last wave of free prostitution labor.

You must know that Zong has high hopes for the reform of the free people. Even though the Endless Continent is a world of swords and magic, its productivity is not seriously lagging behind.

The extraordinary power under the magical system of swords and magic is not something that everyone can master.

They are like castles in the air, they look magnificent, but in fact they have nothing to do with most ordinary people.

Coupled with the aristocracy and the huge amount of land that is so vast that the farming form is abnormal, as well as the dangers and various alien races that may appear at any time in the wild, the underlying productivity of this world has always been restricted.

Zong Shen's essential goal is to release personal productivity as much as possible and improve the quality of unit development in the territory.

For example, the year before the advent, the annual grain output of China on Earth was 682.85 million tons, including cash crops such as oil extraction and feed (in addition, there are some imports, such as soybeans and corn, which are mostly feed and oil crops). It utilizes 7% of the world’s arable land and revitalizes 22% of the total population.

If it were the Endless Continent, it would probably take 500% of the land to feed 100% of the scattered population.

To put it simply, unit productivity is low, and total production depends on almost unlimited arable land per capita.

Magic only accounts for a small part of the total food supply.

After all, the food produced by natural magic only exists as a reserve food.

According to the information Zong Shen learned, the Endless Continent is a world where many forms coexist.

There are also many free trade city-states and a few feudal principalities with relatively open policies in the mainland, and the economic level among them is generally better than that of most territories governed by the nobles of the kingdom.

As long as per capita productivity can be revitalized and the underlying economic level improved, Zongshen's population of one million will be worth the population benefits brought by the population of 10 million aborigines.

The jump in territorial development speed brought about by this as a basis is also huge.

Now that we know the root of the problem, it is not advisable to just save trouble. At least the future potential of the two is completely different.

Moreover, Zong Shen is pursuing both. In addition to striving for the development potential of the territory, he has not given up the pursuit of personal force. To be honest, these two development strategies do not conflict and can complement each other to achieve hand-in-hand progress.

(Why are we emphasizing the reform of free people again? Because recently, a new reader in the background has been frantically scrolling this question)

So before the thorough reform, let's spend a few days free of labor, and at least establish the prototype of the territory's urban planning.

After lowering his head and thinking for a while, the light cocoon in front of him has entered the "pregnancy" state.

Before the light cocoon transformed into a space singularity portal, he left his original position again.

Five or six minutes later, he arrived here with more than twenty domestic heroes.

Today's territory has no shortage of heroic talents, and their task is to act as a "container" of command points.

In fact, in the past few days, the training of heroes in the territory has not stopped.

Under Zong Shen's instruction, Favid and Doris formed several leveling teams.

Take those fighting heroes to level up specifically to obtain enough attribute points and skill points.

As for internal affairs hero-level talents, they enter the high-level training ground in shifts every day.

Levels before LV15 are relatively easy to improve.

Hero-level talents also have the authority to overlord passive skills.

Therefore, in the early stage, points will be added in different directions according to the different focus of talents.

Combat-type heroes have enhanced agility attributes, and their passive skills include main combat skills such as [Strong Attack] and [Strong Bow].

The few combat heroes who are responsible for leading the team need to add some intelligence in order to add some team-boosting lord-level passive skills.

As for internal affairs heroes, add wisdom and charm, especially charm and [control], and try to increase the general control value to a certain value first.

Therefore, the current ruler of the territory is relatively wealthy.

When he arrived, Zong Shen was still a little worried that his command points were not enough.

But later he felt relieved because he found that every time he got a certain amount of population, there would always be an appropriate proportion of heroic talents.

After these heroes have been upgraded for a few days, the attributes of all parties will be in an overflow state.

After bringing in enough domestic heroes to accommodate this batch of 1,200 elite miners, Zong Shen had nothing else to worry about.

He waited peacefully for the light cocoon to be formed and open the corresponding recruitment portal.

A few more minutes passed, and soon new changes occurred.

The light cocoon not far away quickly converged, and then expanded into a rippling teleportation light gate.

This is why Zong Shen feels that the light cocoon is nurturing the portal.

As the portal took shape, miners filed out one after another wearing dark gray suspenders and leather boots.

They formed lines spontaneously without making any noise, and seemed to be in good order.

These miners are all human miners, and their height is generally between 165 cm and 175 cm.

In addition to standard clothing, each of them also carries two tools.

They are a sharp-nosed ore pickaxe and a four-claw iron rake.

Hanging from his waist was a white stone miner's lamp and two animal fur-style towels.

Apart from this, there are no other tools and labor protection facilities.

Includes hard hat and gloves.

Due to the existence of rune technology, various mines are often reinforced with large runes when opening the mine tunnels.

Such is the case with the Azshara Mines.

Therefore, labor protection tools are not so important.

As long as unknown mining areas are not excavated randomly, mining accidents usually rarely occur.

Unless there is a sudden external attack.

Therefore, Zong Shen was very satisfied with the equipment brought by these master-level miners.

Enough to save a lot of money.

The team of 1,200 people was divided into 12 long queues and walked out of the portal with a diameter of more than 30 meters.

It took several minutes to complete the team's assembly and form a brigade-level miner phalanx in the territorial sense.

It looks far more impressive than the mining team of hundreds of kobolds.

Moreover, these miners seem to have received some kind of paramilitary training, and they have a fairly good level of order whether they are lining up or marching.

Even comparable to the most well-disciplined wolf cavalry in the territory.

As for those spell casters who are lazy every day, it goes without saying.

When all the mines were lined up, they suddenly shouted in unison.

"Earth Pulse Mining Association, the 27th Standard Mining Brigade reports to you!"

"May the earth bless you!"

The chorus of 1,200 people shouting in unison was quite impressive.

Zong Shen didn't respond to this, and he didn't need to shout out.

Just thinking about the "Pulse of the Earth Mining Association" mentioned in these miners' words.

Before conducting the relevant background investigation, he waved the internal affairs hero behind him to move forward and complete the work of accepting the command value first.

Then the miners were sent to the mines overnight, and the kobold chief Dutra was responsible for their resettlement.

It just so happened that all the dormitories in the mining area occupied by spider web monsters had been cleared out.

Those dormitories are carved directly into the rock formations. If the mines are immortal, they will be immortal.

As long as some simple bedding and blankets are distributed, these miners can be quickly accommodated.

The corresponding materials will naturally be handled by specialists, so there is no need for someone to follow up and worry about them.

Now he just needs to be in a high position, which is also a necessary stage for a lord.

The movement of thousands of people caught Mariel’s attention.

She followed the flash of the space mage Rhys Ulysses.

The latter has now become the "flash taxi" in the territory, either following Mariel or Vereesa, assisting them in traveling quickly throughout the territory.

"Brother, are these miners newly recruited?"

Mariel trotted over from Reiss Ulysses.

She has completely given up calling Zong Shen "Sir" and changed it to a more intimate brother.

Zong Shen smiled and turned to Mariel, habitually stretching out his right hand to hug her slender waist.

He nodded and said at the same time.

"Yes, there are twelve hundred elite miners here."

"Although they are all human miners, they all have rich mining experience."

"The mining efficiency will definitely not be lower than that of the kobolds in the mine."

Zong Shen is quite satisfied with the addition of these new forces.

After the Azshara Mine was cleared, there was a lack of sufficient labor.

This group of elite miners came at just the right time.

When Mariel heard what he said, she also smiled happily.

"In this way, the daily output of the mining area will soon be increased several times."

"But it depends on the labor efficiency of these miners."

Zong Shen naturally understands this problem.

He believed that skilled human miners would never be inferior to mine kobolds.

After all, these people are professional miners, not comparable to those guys Zong Shen had temporarily trained before.