Chapter 2 Building a Village
The player’s birthplace can only be selected in states and counties, and cannot be specific to counties.

Li Qian found himself randomly assigned to Xinye County.

Liu Bei once stationed troops in Xinye to guard the gateway to Jingzhou for Liu Biao.

Although Xinye is a small city, it has abundant light, heat and water resources. If it is well managed, it can produce a lot of grain.

Li Qian selected a plain on the right bank of the Baihe River and issued a village construction order.

“Ding, you have used the village building order, please name your village.”

“Tian Ce Village.”

Li Qian borrowed the title of “General of Tiance” from Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, and temporarily named the village.

Villages can be upgraded to towns, renamed, and even the capital can be moved.

A small village emerged on the flat land chosen by Li Qian, and a piece of farmland appeared around the village.

The village has about thirty thatched houses, and based on a family of four, the population is just over a hundred, including many old and young women and children. The village doesn’t even have a wooden fence, let alone arrow towers, walls, moats and other defensive fortifications.

Li Qian suspected that any random group of Yellow Turban troops could destroy the village.

Fighting for the Central Plains is a long and arduous journey…

Li Qian entered the village.

“Village chief, we are so happy to have you here. The villagers are counting on you to protect us in this troubled time.”

A scholar dressed in cloth and with white hair on his temples led the villagers to welcome Li Qian.

As a lord, Li Qian can see the character panel of this scholar.

【Role】: Zhao Xiancai

[Rank]: Not good enough

Age: 51
[Level]: 60
[Reputation]: 100
【Official Position】: None

Commander: 49
[Army]: 31
[Intelligence]: 57
[Politics]: 58
【Charm】: 68
【Loyalty】：? ?
[Features]: Village Sage [Politics] (D-level, makes decisions or supports decisions, more likely to gain support from villagers)
[Origin]: A local celebrity in Tiance Village, deeply respected by villagers.

sweat.

The local elders of Tiance Village were actually wearing cloth covered with pudding. This showed that the village was in financial difficulty.

Zhao Xiancai is capable enough and is more than capable of managing a village of a hundred people.

Loyalty is a question mark.

This is also a feature of “Global Warring States”.

Under normal circumstances, the lord cannot see the loyalty of his subordinates and needs to judge by their behavior. If he treats his subordinates harshly, he may be betrayed by them.

For example, like Boss Cao, if he has an unclear relationship with his subordinate’s aunt, he may also be backstabbed by his subordinate.

If the lord recruits generals such as Hou Jing, An Lushan, and Wu Sangui, he should be more careful.

This is a great test of the lord’s ability to control his subordinates.

Li Qian bowed and said solemnly: “As long as I, Li Qian, am here, our village will be safe and sound, and everyone will have enough food and clothing.”

“Ding, the villagers have sensed your determination. Popularity +1.”

“Ding, you have built a village and completed the D-level achievement task ‘Starting a Territory’, reputation +50, and three random building blueprints.”

“Ding, you have obtained the primary logging site blueprint, primary quarry blueprint, and primary infantry battalion blueprint.”

Any unexpected gains?

Li Qian didn’t expect that a casual remark could have such an inspiring effect.

No wonder in ancient times people would kill pigs and sheep as sacrifices before setting out on a mission. Some even went so far as to invite wizards to predict good or bad luck.

The blueprints needed for territory construction can be obtained by players with the lord profession by completing a series of “game achievements”, while free players of other professions can find government offices or NPCs in the city to receive tasks and obtain them through task rewards.

Lord players can also purchase various blueprints from free players to speed up territory construction.

Zhao Xiancai took Li Qian to visit the village warehouses and granaries.

The grain stored in the granary can only last until the next harvest.

In the game’s Nanyang County, grain is harvested twice a year.

When Tiance Village was established, it had 1,000 acres of farmland, but the yield per acre was less than the actual yield, and the various taxes were heavier. Tiance Village wanted to expand, but this amount of farmland was not enough.

There were only two oxen in the entire village.

This is the situation with the granary.

In the warehouse, there were only a pitiful one hundred taels of silver, a birch bow, five crossbows, ten ring-handled swords, ten wooden shields, twenty red tasseled spears, and some wood and stone.

This is already the entire assets of Tiance Village.

When Li Qian arrived at his own residence, which was also the residence of the village chief, he found it was also a mud-walled thatched house, which made anyone who saw it sad and anyone who heard about it cried.

Li Qian clicked on the territory panel of Tiance Village.

【Territory】: Tiance Village

【Lord】: Shengzuo a scholar (Li Qian)
[Level]: Small village
【Affiliation】: Xinye County, Nanyang County
[Specialty]: None [Population]: 129/1000
【People】: 71
【Public Security】：70
[Prosperity]: 35/100
[Internal Affairs Efficiency]: 20/100
[Agricultural efficiency]: 35/100
【Business efficiency】: 5/100
【Cultural efficiency】: 5/100
【Building】: Thatched House × 30
【City Defense Fortifications】: None

[Troops]: Militia x 45 (first-tier troops, attack 5, defense 5, speed 5)

……

Li Qian used the primary logging site drawings, primary quarry drawings, and primary infantry battalion drawings, and asked Zhao Xiancai to organize the villagers to use the stones and wood in the warehouse to build three buildings.

Not long after Tiance Village was established, the system refreshed a group of refugees near the village, about a dozen people. Li Qian took them in and let them build their own thatched houses.

Thatched huts and farmlands are the most basic buildings and do not require architectural drawings.

Taking in refugees and increasing the population is certainly a good thing, but it also means an increase in daily food consumption.

On the one hand, it is necessary to organize refugees to reclaim farmland. If conditions permit, oxen and farm tools can be rented to refugees, and then higher rents can be charged.

On the other hand, you can buy food from other players’ villages or Xinye City, or you can attack the surrounding bandits, Yellow Turban Army, and villages and plunder their food.

Because of the bonus of the Tang Taizong Li Shimin template, Li Qian obtained the “Fubing System” feature, which can quickly convert villagers into soldiers. Therefore, he can quickly build a large army in the early stage.

Attacking bandits and the Yellow Turban Army and plundering their money and food is undoubtedly a good choice.

So Li Qian was anxious to build a junior infantry battalion.

Primary infantry battalions can recruit sword and shield soldiers and spearmen.

Because of the effect of the “Fubing System”, the time for recruiting sword and shield soldiers and spearmen was shortened by 50%. As long as Li Qian had enough equipment, he could transform the militia of the entire village into sword and shield soldiers and spearmen.

The basic equipment of sword and shield soldiers is the ring-handled sword and wooden shield, and the basic equipment of spearmen is the red tassel spear.

If the territory is wealthy enough, you can also equip them with leather shields, armor, and even war horses.

Currently, the warehouse of Tiance Village has ten ring-handled swords, ten wooden shields, and twenty red tasseled spears, which means that a maximum of ten sword and shield soldiers and twenty spear soldiers can be recruited.

If you are unable to recruit archers or crossbowmen, you can let the hunters in the village temporarily serve as archers.

Arrange villagers to build sawmills and quarries to produce the wood and stone needed to build other buildings.

The next day, more than forty refugees joined Tiance Village, and the population of Tiance Village reached 180.

On the third day, perhaps because Li Qian’s charm was relatively high and the village was well located, sixty refugees joined in, and the population increased to 240, almost doubling.

As the number of villagers increased, food problems became increasingly prominent.

Zhao Xiancai did some calculations and went to Li Qian with a sad face: “Village Chief, in just three days, the number of villagers in Tiance Village has doubled, which means that the food consumption has also doubled. The food brought by these refugees is just a drop in the bucket. I’m afraid that the granary will run out before the next harvest. Should we stop accepting refugees?”

“continue.”

Li Qian had his own plan. He wanted Zhao Xiancai not to worry about food problems and to absorb as many refugees from the surrounding areas as possible.

If the refugees generated by the system flow into the villages built by other players and make the villages of surrounding players stronger, it will sooner or later become a hidden danger.

The larger the population, the more troops the government soldiers need to mobilize.

The food problem can be solved through plundering.

During the days of waiting for the establishment of the infantry battalion, Li Qian was not idle, but led the hunters in the village to hunt.

The hill near Tiance Village is not Hutou Mountain, so hunting certainly cannot solve the food crisis of the entire village. At most, it can provide some subsidies.

Li Qian’s goal is to improve his personal level through hunting.

“Ding, you shot a wild boar and gained 20 experience points. Your level is increased to level 5. You also get a random attribute point, Force +1.”

Players whose profession is Lord will gain a random attribute every time they level up.

Players whose profession is military general will also randomly gain a point of attribute every time they level up. The difference is that the probability of gaining command value and force value is higher.

On the contrary, counselors have a higher probability of gaining intelligence and political values.

Ranger players have a higher probability of obtaining force value.

Dancer players have a higher chance of gaining charm points.

李乾从1级到5级，获得四点基本属性，分别是1点统帅、2点武力、1点智力。

The lord player corresponds to the emperor, with relatively comprehensive attributes, but the disadvantage is the lack of outstanding single attributes.

However, the first-level Li Shimin template gives Li Qian +10 to each of his attributes. Currently, Li Qian’s martial arts value has reached 52 points. Even if he is not as good as the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, he is at the level of a centurion.

“With my military strength and the archery skills inherited from Li Shimin, and by using the ‘Fubing System’ to temporarily recruit a group of soldiers, I will be able to wipe out a small group of Yellow Turbans.”

Li Qian saw a C-level achievement “First Battle with Yellow Turbans” in the list of achievements of the lord players – the only achievement in the Huaxia region, becoming the first lord to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, which has a size of no less than 100 people, and the lord can only rely on himself and the troops of the territory, and cannot rely on the power of other players. Reward: Third-rate Recruitment Order × 1.

A third-rate recruitment order will have a high probability of recruiting third-rate civil and military officials, a lower probability of recruiting second-rate civil and military officials, and an extremely small probability of recruiting first-rate civil and military officials.

In the first few days after the server was launched, no lord had yet completed this achievement.

After all, all the villages built by the lords were as poor as Tiance Village, and they were unable to quickly raise an elite army.

There was a lord who overestimated his own capabilities and mobilized the entire village, taking dozens of militiamen to fight against the Yellow Turban Army. As a result, hundreds of ferocious Yellow Turban soldiers emerged from the mountains and not only were the entire army wiped out, but the village was also razed to the ground by the Yellow Turban Army.

The Yellow Turban Army couldn’t defeat the five elite Northern Army divisions of the Han Dynasty, and they can’t defeat a bunch of you militiamen?
On the fourth day, the population of Tiance Village was close to 300, and a primary infantry battalion was established. Li Qian used the “Fubing System” to train the thirty highest-ranking militiamen into ten sword and shield soldiers and twenty spearmen.

(End of this chapter)