After returning to the village with the hunting team, Chu Tian found that the people's popularity increased by 1 point, reaching 76. Probably because the hunting team provided meat for the village, the villagers' satisfaction increased.

While Chu Tian was out hunting for half a day, more than a dozen refugees appeared near the village. The number of villagers in the village reached 163, including 61 Xiangyong.

The source of income for the village is taxation, the current tax rate is 20%, and the villagers must turn in grain or copper coins.

The initial grain output of Xia Village is 200 units/year, which can feed 200 people for a year. The 20% tax rate means that 40 units of grain must be handed over to the lord.

These 40 units of food are resources that Chu Tian, ​​as the lord, can control. This amount of food can only feed 40 soldiers.

Fortunately, Xiangyong does not need to pay for food and salary from the lord, otherwise Chutian would not even be able to support the current Xiangyong troops.

Due to the participation of refugees, the idle farmland in the village has been utilized and the output has been increased.

There are many attributes that affect agriculture, and there is a dedicated agriculture panel.

【Territory】:Xia Cun

【Used farmland】:60

【Idle farmland】:40

[Basic unit yield]: 10 (affected by geographical location, seed quality, crop type)

【Production efficiency】:10/100

[Water Control]: 70/100 (affected by climate, rivers, and water conservancy projects)

[Soil Fertility]: 70/100 (Each round of harvest will reduce fertility, which can be improved through fertilization and fallow)

【Disaster】: None

【Harvest】: None

[Annual output]:70x10x(1+0.1)x0.6x0.70=323.4

[Annual tax]: 64.68

Chu Tian was a little surprised to see that there was still free farmland in the village. When the free farmland was full, Xia Cun would try to cultivate new farmland.

There is no shortage of plains in the Yihe area, and there are rivers passing through it. The water and soil are excellent, so it is not difficult to cultivate new farmland.

"We only collect 65 units of grain a year, which means we can only feed 65 professional soldiers. No... we have to feed ourselves and Hua Mulan..."

Chu Tian discovered that he and Hua Mulan did not produce food. Hua Mulan was a professional general, not a country warrior who was half civilian and half soldier. Chu Tian was a lord. How could a lord personally go to the fields to farm... Some of them were just for show.

Win people's hearts.

In other words, the current tax revenue can only support 63 professional soldiers.

Recruiting professional soldiers requires a barracks.

There are no barracks in first-level villages.

In addition to food, Xia Village's annual tax also includes copper coin income from economic buildings such as grocery stores, and iron ore income from first-level mining sites. These incomes are not as high as food income, and only account for a small part.

Villages are no more important than towns with prosperous commerce. Farmland is the most important. The collected grain has to be converted into copper coins, which are then used to buy weapons, armor, war horses, and for other purposes.

From this point of view, the food collected by Xiacun could not even feed 63 professional soldiers, because it did not include the monthly salary paid to professional soldiers.

Xia Cun's development is very slow with his own strength, so other means must be used.

Chutian sold the pieces of meat he obtained from hunting to the villagers and received a few hundred copper coins, which was considered as extra income. The wild boar skin could be used to produce leather armor.

"It's not easy to become a qualified lord. Just the problem of money and food is a big headache."

Chutian was worried about money and food, and also considered upgrading Xia Village to a second-level village. Several conditions must be met to move from a first-level village to a second-level village.

The first condition is that the population reaches 80% of the upper limit, that is, 240 villagers.

The second condition is that the village prosperity reaches 50.

The third condition is that public support is greater than 50.

The fourth condition is that public security is greater than 50.

Xia Village has met the second, third, and fourth conditions. The population of the first condition is still short of 77 people. As for the second condition, the prosperity of the village, the current prosperity of Xia Village is 55/50, which is very exaggerated.

But when did the prosperity of Xia Village become so high? In the morning, the prosperity level was only 10 o'clock. Apart from accepting 63 refugees, Xia Village didn't seem to have changed much.

Chutian carefully examined the sources of territorial prosperity. Territorial prosperity is closely related to agriculture, commerce, culture, military, population, roads, and buildings.

According to the changes in Xia Cun, the prosperity level will not rise from 10 points to 55 points.

No, because of Hua Mulan's joining, Xia Village's military rating skyrocketed, so its prosperity also increased indirectly.

"In other words, as long as we try to recruit 77 more refugees, Xia Cun can be promoted from a first-level village to a second-level village!"

Chu Tian's eyes lit up, and he didn't expect that the king-level generals would have a bonus to their prosperity. This helped Chu Tian save a lot of effort in the early stage.

Refugees will appear from time to time near the village. According to Chu Tian's calculations, it only takes two or three days for Xia Village to meet the population requirements and be successfully promoted to a second-level village.

Chutian checked the player rankings again. All systems in the game were normal, and the ranking system was no exception.

The first ranked lord is still "God will bless you" in the Holy See District, with a total prosperity of 142.

The second ranked lord is "Jiujiao Lao Qin", the first lord in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is further away from the first place, with a total prosperity of 70.

Ranking third is "Nobunaga's Ambition", the lord of the Sengoku District, with a total prosperity of 67.

Ranking fourth is the lord of the Persian region, "Commander of the Undead Army", with a total prosperity of 65.

Ranking fifth is the "One-Eyed Pirate" in the Viking District, with a total prosperity of 65.

…

Lord of the Eastern Han District "I just want to farm well", ranked 786th, with a total prosperity of 55.

The player whose ID is "I just want to farm well" is Chu Tian.

Because of a king-level general, Chu Tian successfully squeezed into the rankings, ranking 786th.

"And there's a hero ranking?"

Chu Tian saw that in addition to the prosperity ranking list, there was also a hero ranking list, which ranked heroes based on their overall attributes.

Ranked first is Edward, the special imperial hero of the Holy See District, the "Black Prince".

And second is Hua Mulan, the king-level special hero from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The third one is Shiro Amakusa, a diamond-level special hero from Japan's Sengoku District.

…

There are many lords in the world, so other lords are lucky enough to get special heroes through recruitment orders.

The number one hero, Edward the Black Prince, defeated about 40,000 French troops with about 10,000 English troops at the Battle of Crecy in the Hundred Years War between England and France. He suffered less than a few hundred casualties and killed tens of thousands of enemies. The English longbowmen became famous far and wide.

The third hero, Amakusa Shiro, was the leader of the rebel army during the Tokugawa shogunate era. He set off the "Shimabara Rebellion". The shogunate mobilized more than 100,000 feudal troops to besiege the rebel army for several months, and suffered tens of thousands of casualties before they captured the city held by Amakusa Shiro.

Chu Tian seriously suspected that the imperial hero Black Prince had been recruited by the number one player in the Holy See District, "God Will Bless You", otherwise his territorial prosperity would not have suddenly increased as much as the second player.

"There is no need to envy him. The hero of Xia Cun ranks second and has surpassed countless lords."

Chutian closed the ranking list and looked at the achievement system he had obtained. One of the achievements was "Four Heroines", with a completion rate of 25%.

In addition to the Four Heroines, there are other achievements. However, most of the achievements are difficult to complete, such as the Seven Wonders, which require collecting the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Colossus of Olympian Zeus, and Mausola

Seven special buildings include the Mausoleum of St. Petersburg, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
Chapter completed!