total war rise of empire

Chapter 5 Start and Development

After establishing the order of development and construction and the reserved financial balance, Lei Zihao took aim at the military technology points and civilization technology points that suddenly appeared!
"What are the functions of these two technology points?"

"Faction military science and technology points can be used to exchange for military technology. Civilization technology points cannot be consumed. When a certain amount is accumulated, the corresponding civilization technology will be activated by itself! Please refer to the technology research and development list for specific operations."

There is not one technology point yet, so there is no need to think about it for the time being. Relying on the current gold coins in stock, it is impossible to build all the buildings that must be upgraded. Buildings such as water wells are certainly cheap, but the blacksmith shop of the Enlightenment School Hall is not. It's the big head of gold coins, each of which requires hundreds of gold coins!

Not to mention the village guards and temples!

That temple is powerful, and the price is really terrible...

Moreover, the prices of different types of temples are also different. The Temple of War is the cheapest, followed by the Temple of Love, and the most expensive one is the Temple of Wealth!

Lei Zihao thinks this price/performance ratio is very unscientific!

Since relying on his own strength, he couldn't upgrade, Lei Zihao naturally set his sights on the natives of this world!

He has already learned that the currency used in this world is also precious metals such as gold, silver and copper!

This time, Lei Zihao once again saw the convenience of the total war system. On the strategic map of the operation interface, he could clearly observe the movements around the village within a radius of ten miles!

Immediately, he was pleasantly surprised to find a river on the northwest edge!
The north of the entire village is the forest where he came, the south is the uneven grass plain and bushes, and the east is a small ravine, below which is the extremely valuable iron ore vein!

With sufficient water sources, timber, and iron ore, the development of the village is not a problem for the time being. This is the terrain, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it extends in all directions, and there is no danger at all!
And in the northern forest, there are countless alien and non-human creatures hidden!
Lei Zihao suddenly felt a sense of urgency!

The worried Lei Zihao opened the task list and saw that not only the main tasks were listed in detail, but also an extra eye-catching side task!

The main task of establishing a village guard house with at least a hundred people armed, the rewards given can be regarded as a solution to Lei Zihao's urgent need, and a free Enlightenment School will be given away!
This enlightenment hall is a building that is more expensive than a blacksmith's shop, and the construction period is as long as one year!
Although the price of temples and village health clinics is not low, the construction period is much shorter than that of the Enlightenment School!

The reason why the Enlightenment School takes such a long time to build is naturally not because the house is too big and needs to be built for too long, but that it takes a lot of time to train the Enlightenment teachers in it!

The rewards in the task list are the kind that appear directly out of thin air, as if an entire village suddenly descended into this world!
In addition to mission rewards, all construction and army training are linked to reality. For example, when Lei Zihao wants to recruit temporary militias (that is, armed citizens), he needs to consume the civilian population in the village, plus a certain amount of training time , in order to convert into a temporary militia!

However, the key point of the temporary militia lies in the word "temporary". There is no requirement for training time. In a critical moment, as long as the village chief's hall has enough weapons, all the young and strong can be quickly armed into a temporary militia!
Of course, how much combat power there is is a question worthy of discussion...

At the same time, the temporary militia can also allow the Spartan general guard to conduct long-term training, training the level of peasant spearmen and even phalanx infantry...

However, although Lei Zihao didn't have to pay the military salary during the training period, he had to subsidize enough food expenses!
Moreover, the morale of the temporary militia is very unstable. When defending their hometown, their morale is naturally high, but when fighting abroad...

Therefore, if it is not necessary, Lei Zihao does not want to train these unreliable temporary militiamen!
As long as the blacksmith shop is repaired, in a critical moment, he can explode enough temporary militiamen anytime and anywhere... cannon fodder!
The morale bonus of defending their hometown will also give them the strength to fight!
The biggest function of the temporary militia is actually to maintain the law and order of the city. However, the law and order in Longhan Village owned by Lei Zihao has reached the peak, and there is no need to raise a group of extra people who eat nothing!
As long as you complete this main mission, you can get rid of the Enlightenment School, which costs a lot of gold coins, and save some gold coins for the remaining buildings. The ones in the inventory may be enough!
Then... Lei Zihao can happily be stuck by the population upgrade conditions!
By the way, where am I going to get 4000 people!
This cheating total war system does not give the chance to change people out of thin air. No matter how much money you have, you can't change people!

Could it be that I want to go towards the goal of passing birth to all people?

but……

This super born...

Oh, it’s so difficult...

Even if Lei Zihao really shows his supernatural power and makes more than 1000 people under his command turn over a new leaf, concentrate on sex all day long, and increase the "hit rate"...

but!

It takes at least a year for human beings to conceive and give birth. According to the most scientific matching method, 1000 people are 500 couples. If the hit rate is 100%, the population will only increase by 500 people a year...

You can't expect that every family is full of twins, or even three, four, five, six, seven, eight... twins!

That's not a human, that's a sow!
How much Lei Zihao hopes that all his men can give birth like sows...

"It seems that there is only one way to plunder the population..."

After the total war system heard it, the mechanical voice replied bluntly: "Your Excellency, please rest assured that among the randomly generated tasks, there will be a high probability of rewarding refugees, which can generate a large number of people out of thin air!"

After Lei Zihao heard this, he closed his eyes on the unknown side mission: to conquer the dogs, oh no, it should be to conquer the kobold tribe...

Task rewards: Get some Kobold slaves, increase your prestige, get some 'Wow Wow Wow' translators...

Why does this side mission look so unreliable? !
What the hell is that?

And that 'woof woof' translator!

Lao Tzu conquered kobolds just to communicate with dogs? !
Well, the increase in prestige points is useful after all, and this side mission is not useless...

Hey, let’s think about doing the main quest now, the main quests are one after the other, unlike the side quests that appear randomly depending on the face, I hope the next main quest can give population!

After a little analysis, Lei Zihao understood what the most important resource in this era is, not iron ore or coins, but population!

Production needs people, construction needs people, and the expansion of the army depends on the population!
After Lei Zihao learned about the operation of the total war system panel, he immediately devoted himself to the road of development.

(End of this chapter)