Chapter 172: The Pioneer Has Arrived, the Development of Taiping Village

In the 514th year of Dawu, the Jade Dragon Cave Mansion had a new palace spirit, Saranzhu, which made the operation more efficient and more fun.

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The situation outside the cave mansion became more tense.

In March last year, Gu Ke used the blessing of heaven to convey the situation of the Eternal Ice Peak and the Giant Stone Kingdom.

The top leaders of the Four Kingdoms in the Court knew the seriousness of the matter better than the lower levels.

They didn't know the details of the Eternal Ice Peak.

But they also knew that it was not just a mountain located in the Far North Outer Region, but an important support for the survival of Dawu.

The collapse of the Eternal Ice Peak was accompanied by the destruction of the capital of the Giant Stone Kingdom.

Even if the Far North Outer Region is the area where the Tianling Sect has the deepest infiltration, this also proves that the crisis is huge.

At least the four countries dare not say that they can be luckier than the Giant Stone Kingdom and can withstand the impact of a large number of weird things.

After learning the news, the four kingdoms of Yiting sent out their martial masters to go directly to the Far North Outer Territory for on-site investigation.

Soon, these martial masters sent back intelligence - what Tiangong said was true, the Far North Outer Territory was being occupied by a large number of strange creatures, and was rapidly approaching the Northern Desert Kingdom.

Not long after, a small number of middle and high-level officials of the Stone Kingdom who had personally experienced the invasion of strange creatures and escaped by chance were brought back to the Northern Desert Kingdom.

Tiangong might lie, but several martial masters would not, and those foreign warriors who had personally experienced the attacks of strange creatures were even more ironclad evidence.

In fact, some of the strange creatures still attacked humans in the Far North Outer Territory.

At present, only a small number of "fast-footed" strange creatures came to the edge of the Northern Desert Kingdom and had a fierce fight with the humans there.

Even so, in less than a month, the number of villages and villages recorded in the official register of the Northern Desert Kingdom decreased by hundreds.

Counting those wild villages and wild villages that were not in the official records, more than tens of thousands of people died.

For a time, the number of people fleeing south exceeded 100,000.

If this trend continues, the loss of people in the villages behind Beimo will rise at an alarming rate.

The number of people fleeing south will rise to millions within a few months.

After all, the number of people in the villages is limited, and most of them can only resist a few strange creatures. It is difficult to fight back against dozens or even dozens of strange creatures that appear at any time.

They have no other choice but to flee.

By the end of last year, the real "vanguard" of the group of strange creatures from the extreme north arrived in Beimo, with a number of over 10,000.

At this time, a large number of people had fled from the villages in the north of Beimo.

Fortunately, the exotic food and basic martial arts given by Gu Ke have been spread to a certain extent.

Many people have stored some for their own families.

Compared with ordinary food, the weight and volume of exotic food, as well as the effect of replenishing blood and qi are much stronger.

Just bring a bag of exotic food weighing about 100 kilograms, which is enough for a family of three to chew for several months, saving trouble and effort when escaping.

Although the journey is difficult, it will not starve to death.

Many villages moved south as a whole, forming a group to protect themselves, and they could also bring a large amount of supplies besides food.

The government and sects of the Northern Desert Kingdom were a bit sad.

Their foundation industries were not all there, but at least 80% of them were in the Northern Desert. They couldn't just abandon them and run away.

But they wouldn't sit there and wait for death.

Under the order of Su Yulou, the Lord of the Northern Desert, the checkpoints were opened in various parts of the Northern Desert Kingdom, allowing many fleeing people to migrate all the way to the south, close to the Dawu Courtyard.

At the critical moment, the Lord remained sober enough.

Forcibly dragging these people to where they were was just to provide the group of strange creatures with abundant blood and food supplies along the way, a typical act of aiding the enemy.

And letting the people migrate south and preserve enough population, the Northern Desert Kingdom was just a reduction in territory.

Anyway, what Dawu lacked the most was land, and there were uninhabited wilderness everywhere, so the people who migrated south were not afraid of having no land to grow crops.

With the flood of exotic food, their lives will be worse at most, but they will never go hungry.

In this way, people have food and land, and even if the North Desert is reduced to one-tenth of its original size, it will only return to the beginning of the Dawu Kingdom, and it can continue to exist.

At the same time, this can also reduce the defense range, consolidate strength, and make it easier to resist the aggressive group of monsters.

On the other hand, Su Yulou, the lord of the North Desert, has sent a letter for help to Zhongting and the other three countries.

At this time, the enfeoffment strategy of Dawu Zhongting also showed its advantages.

On weekdays, the four countries are the outer defense circle of Zhongting, and they also have enough new territory to expand, and the conflict with Dawu Zhongting is not great.

Dawu Zhongting will also send reinforcements when the four countries are unable to solve some monsters and demons alone.

And the four countries rarely border each other, and there are fewer direct conflicts of interest, so they don’t mind providing help within a reasonable range.

If you don’t support the North Desert now, the next unlucky one will be Dawu Zhongting.

Once the strongest Zhongting fails, it will be difficult for the three countries of the southeast and west to withstand it.

This is not a fight between people, where you can't play the game of "fishermen gaining benefits" and "sitting on the mountain to watch the tigers fight".

Weird creatures will not negotiate with humans.

Even if they can join the Holy Blood Sect of the Tianling Sect, they are just running dogs and slaves in front of the monsters, without any dignity and status.

They don't need second-round masters or third-round strongmen to join them, but use them as blood food to cultivate powerful weird people and half-monsters.

As long as they are normal people, no matter how strong they are, they will not play tricks in resisting weird creatures, otherwise they will be the ones who will be unlucky in the end.

Therefore, the three countries in Yiting quickly sent reinforcements, each with several martial masters and hundreds of second-round masters.

This is not a large number, but the quality is not low.

Of course, it is not realistic to let these reinforcements go to the front line and fight for their lives.

These people went to the cities in the middle and rear of the Northern Desert Kingdom to eliminate the increasing number of strange creatures and bandits, and cleared a living space for the people who migrated south.

The troops of the Northern Desert Kingdom were all mobilized to the front-in fact, this is already the southern part of the Northern Desert Kingdom.

The defense was greatly compressed, and the defense line of the Northern Desert was greatly strengthened.

But everyone was still unsure.

The Northern Desert Kingdom was stronger than the destroyed Giant Stone Kingdom. Not only did it get the news in advance and make preparations, but it also had the help of the Court and Three Kingdoms to stabilize the rear and provide some supplies.

But the Giant Stone Kingdom was finished.

This also means that it did not test the upper limit of the strength of the group of strange creatures.

Assuming this is a test, the Giant Stone Kingdom scored 30 points, the Northern Desert Kingdom scored 100 or even 120 points, and the "question" of the group of strange creatures may be 200 or 2000 points.

But it is even more unrealistic to let the Court and Four Kingdoms go all out and fight a decisive battle in the Northern Desert Kingdom.

After all, no one knows how strong the group of strange creatures is.

If they are strong enough, it would be a big mistake to divide the troops and gather them in Beimo.

Strange creatures are not human beings. They move at an amazing speed and can recover by devouring flesh and blood. There is no such concept as supply at all.

Humans, animals, and even monsters are their supplies.

Therefore, in the court and three countries outside Beimo, the court sects and wealthy families are vigorously absorbing all available resources.

The exotic grains, meat, and precious medicines that were reluctant to use in the past were taken out one after another.

The exotic grains attracted the people and even encouraged them to grow.

This is not a compassionate heart.

If it is really necessary, wouldn’t it be faster to rob the people of the exotic grains than to grow them yourself?

As long as the military force in hand is strong enough, the people’s food reserves are the food reserves of these sects and wealthy families.

Meat is used in the backbone team of their own forces, and precious medicines are used on core members.

It was not used before because these resources were limited, and forces of all sizes were accumulating foundations, regularly selecting the best, and continuously generating blood.

Now that chaos is about to happen, if we don't use it to strengthen our own strength, we may be swallowed up by others with our skin and bones. It would be unfair for us to use all our years of accumulation to make wedding clothes for others.

All forces, big and small, must absorb the more talented people among the people as soon as possible.

Even if the first-round warriors are not good at killing monsters, they are better at running errands than large animals.

When a real war comes, whether fighting or fleeing, these forces will need a lot of manpower and material resources.

Second-round warriors who can fight monsters are even more in short supply. Various treatments are twice as high as before, but it is difficult to recruit people.

Many local gentry of small sects have already taken out relatively good middle-grade martial arts to attract and retain second-round warriors.

Of course, they did not give the full book, but only the entry-level, and will give part of it in a few years, and the full book within ten years.

This condition seems harsh, but it is a huge compromise for the sects and wealthy families who value middle- and upper-grade martial arts more than life and rarely outflow.

In the past, many warriors who barely made it to the second round would stagnate in the fourth round for decades, and might not be able to get a martial arts book suitable for themselves.

It was the ruling class such as the court, sects, and wealthy families that tacitly monopolized the path to promotion.

A warrior of ordinary origin, when he reached the second rank, either married into the wife's family, or hoped for a pie in the sky, and was lucky enough to kill a few people with middle and upper-grade martial arts, which would not affect the foundation of Dawu's rule at all.

Now? The group of strange creatures is attacking in large numbers, and if things go wrong, Dawu will be gone, who can care about these.

In a chaotic and busy state, under the anxious waiting of the middle and high-level people of the four countries in the court, the "vanguard" of the strange army finally engaged in a large-scale battle with the North Desert Kingdom.

Within a month, brutal bloody battles broke out in many cities on the new northern defense line of the North Desert Kingdom.

Not to mention those unregistered and quietly destroyed wild villages, dozens of large cities with a population of over 100,000 were completely destroyed.

Except for a small number of second-round, fifth- and sixth-turn warriors, and third-round martial masters, there were almost no survivors among the rest of the people.

Seeing such casualties, the court and four countries breathed a sigh of relief - this loss was still within their acceptable range.

Millions of people died, which was less than one ten-thousandth of the number for Dawu, which lived in a distance of more than 100,000 miles from east to west and from north to south.

The important thing is that this contact war tested some of the strength of the strange creatures.

The Northern Desert Kingdom did not collapse at the first blow, and it was not like the Great Stone Kingdom, where the royal family disappeared without even a message.

Overall, only some areas of the Northern Desert Kingdom in Dawu have entered a state of war.

In other places, only the major forces have increased their vigilance, and the people can still live normally.

No matter how fierce the strange creatures are, the Northern Desert Kingdom will not cause direct and huge losses to other places before it is destroyed.

The people have to live their lives after all, and it is impossible to stop running for the war far away.

But their good days have come.

The court, sects, and wealthy families who are busy preparing for war have no time, and can no longer suppress the growth of the people.

To put it more cruelly, every extra two-wheeled warrior among the people can attract a portion of the power of the strange army.

The large-scale migration of the people of Beimo to the south has been roughly counted, and the number exceeds one billion.

Adding the people who originally lived in the south of Beimo, the total number is almost 10 billion.

This is just Beimo, which has a harsh environment and is the second smallest country among the four countries.

The smallest is Xihuang, because the environment there is even worse.

The number of people in Donghai and Nanye is at least one or two times more.

Even if only one out of a thousand can be selected, there can be more than one million people who can practice to the level of second-round warriors.

The court, sects, and wealthy families are reluctant to send their core members to the front line, but sending some civilians is no problem.

Escape? Haha, if they really arrive at the military camp, they will have their own means waiting for these civilians, and the second-round warriors will have to stay honestly.

Once the big city is breached, the surrounding small towns and villages are just lambs and livestock to be slaughtered.

It would be better if they ran away at that time, so as not to increase the high-quality blood food for the opposite side's monsters.

Besides, the situation is not right, and the top leaders of various countries must be the first to receive the news.

Those second-round warriors who hid in the wild and did not want to participate in the resistance were ultimately passive victims, attracting the attention of the group of monsters.

This is the little thought of the upper echelons of the Great Martial Arts, which is not fully understood by the lower-level people.

Of course, how things will develop in the end is not predetermined.

Gu Ke's existence is a huge variable.

Like Taiping Village at this moment, with his support, it has entered the stage of full development.

Others grow exotic crops and have to find ways to get fertilizer everywhere.

Modern society can use artificial synthesis and large-scale industrial production, but there was no such condition in ancient times.

Even if the feces of people and livestock are collected, it is a drop in the bucket.

After all, many people are not full at all, and they want to poop more when they are not full. This kind of "perpetual motion manure machine" that does not conform to the law of conservation does not exist.

In this way, it is okay to grow a small amount of exotic crops, but large-scale planting will encounter the problem of fertilizer shortage.

Taiping Village will not.

Since the processing workshop has the automatic processing function, the two most commonly used ones are processing grain and processing fertilizer.

Too much grain is grown, and seed trading must be the main trading item.

Processing into non-seed grains such as flour, rice flour, etc. can greatly increase the number of transactions.

Secondly, after activating the livestock farm, the livestock and poultry in it have a large appetite, eat well, and poop a lot.

Composting must be processed to deal with their endless large amounts of feces.

After being processed into Jin Ke La, in addition to being used in ordinary fields in the cave, some are reserved for backup, and most of them are transported to Taiping Village through the mother-child Qiankun bag.

With the help of fertilizers, the scale of exotic grain cultivation in Taiping Village has expanded rapidly, and the harvest time is one-third to one-quarter faster than normal.

Other places in Dawu grow two rounds of exotic grains a year, and Taiping Village can grow three rounds if it is arranged, with an additional 30% to 50% of exotic grains.

At the same time, Taiping Village continues to absorb the surrounding refugee villages, extracting those with better qualifications and training them intensively.

The rest of the people still farm in the original place and become the branch of Taiping Village.

The main village will give the branch village exotic seeds and Jin Ke La, as well as the accompanying martial arts and farming instructors to guide them in martial arts and farming.

There are many ambitious and unconvinced people among the refugees, but when someone is partial to them and the people of Taiping Village who have been given natural martial arts many times, they are all like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Those who did not behave too badly could surrender and join, or take some of their private property and leave.

Those who behaved too badly were shot on the spot, paraded through the village, and their various evil deeds were read out.

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