Now Chutian was still in the shock of being upgraded from a first-level town to a second-level town, and he had another gold-level recruitment order and a blueprint for the construction of the Loyalty Temple in his hand.

Chu Tian was very familiar with the gold-level recruitment, but this was the first time he saw the construction drawings of Zhongyi Temple.

【Name】:Zhongyi Temple

[Level]: Level 5 military, cultural buildings

[Effect]: The morale of the troops in the town to which it belongs increases, the negative impact of the death of soldiers on the territory is reduced, and the town's blessing value +1.

It was a very simple effect, but Chu Tian knew how tempting the three effects brought by Zhongyi Temple were.

First, the morale of the troops in the town increases. Morale is very important in "Lord". As long as the morale drops, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be seriously affected, and eventually they will be defeated or defection.

Secondly, the death of a soldier in battle is a huge blow to the family members of the soldiers. If there is a tragic victory or defeat, the popularity of the territory will drop significantly. With Zhongyi Temple and Li Kui, even if there is a defeat in the future, the popularity of the people in Xia Town will also be reduced.

It won't go down easily.

Third, the blessing value of the town affects the harvest, auspiciousness, and special products. There are few buildings that can increase the blessing value.

The Zhongyi Temple must be built.

Especially in the next epic battle "Yellow Turban Rebellion", Chutian estimated that a large number of soldiers and even heroes would die in battle. After all, he was not facing the Yellow Turban general Zhang Kai this time, but the level 80 Zhang Jiao.

, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and other big bosses of the Yellow Turban camp. Beside Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang and other Yellow Turban generals, there must be a group of experienced Yellow Turban soldiers, Yellow Turban chiefs, and even Yellow Turban warriors.

Therefore, building the Loyalty Temple in advance can increase the combat effectiveness of Xia Town's army and weaken the negative effects of the death of soldiers on Xia Town.

Chu Tian must carefully consider the composition of the troops participating in the "Yellow Turban Rebellion".

First of all, excluding the naval camp, the navy was better than nothing in the battle to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion. The decisive battles of the Han Dynasty to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion were mainly large-scale battles in the wild and fortified battles in large cities.

Secondly, due to limited financial resources and limited war horses, having 100 first-order light cavalry in the pass in the early stage would be a big deal.

Then we can only expand the size of infantry and archers.

"600 elite infantry, 300 Xuzhou archers. When the 200 soldiers stay in the town, a total of 100 cavalry, 200 archers, and 500 elite infantry, a total of 800 troops, can be sent to participate in the epic battle."

Chutian only left 200 professional soldiers. He was not worried about other lords attacking Xia Town during the period, because during the epic battle, all participating lords were in a truce period by default, and other lords who did not participate in the epic battle could not declare war on them. There were 200 left.

Professional soldiers are just to prevent the surrounding horse thieves, bandits, and water bandits from attacking the town.

There are only a handful of lords in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty who can send out 800 troops. Of course, this refers to professional soldiers. If there are 800 local warriors, a large group of lords can provide them.

But no one would take Xiangyong to fight against the fierce Yellow Turban Army. Xiangyong is the labor force of the territory. Only with labor force can there be output. If Xiangyong with little combat effectiveness is used to participate in the war, the military exploits gained will not be greatly lost.

After one battle, the future of a town was destroyed.

That's why the Chu genius would implement the policy of separating soldiers and peasants. Professional soldiers only occupy one population and can exert more powerful combat effectiveness than rural warriors. Even if they die in battle, the impact on the territory will not be as great as the death of a large number of rural warriors.

After sowing, some farmers' labor was released. According to the plan, Chutian dispatched labor from various villages and towns to the military camps in Xia Town or Lingyan Town for training.

All lords are making intense preparations for the first epic battle.

From September to December, the prototypes of each lord's territory gradually took shape, and they also had their own vassals. Some lords even started village wars, town wars, and annexed each other to strengthen their own strength.

Chutian is also expanding crazily.

He sent Hua Mulan, currently the strongest general in Xia Town, to lead the existing army to sweep the surrounding villages and bring these villages under Xia Town's control.

Xia Town completely controls Lingyan Town and has three vassal territories, so there are still three empty territory quotas. Lingyan Town is a first-level town, has three vassal villages, and has one empty territory quota.

Chu Tian asked Hua Mulan to occupy the nearby third-level villages and then turn them into vassal territories.

Because towns such as Xia Town, Lingyan Town, and Langya City exist and absorb the surrounding refugees like tigers and tigers, it is difficult for nearby third-level villages to have enough populations to be upgraded to towns.

It's not that the village chiefs of these third-level villages are incompetent, it's that they happen to be sandwiched between Xia Town and Lingyan Town and cannot develop at all. They also don't have the same army as Xia Town to plunder the surrounding population.

All that awaits them is the fate of being conquered, surrendering or having their village captured.

The territory of Xia Town-Lingyan Town with a population of 17,000 people is definitely not something that a third-level village can compete with.

Territory development is like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. It is said that the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. It is difficult to defeat the strong with the weak. The Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Feishui can be said to be examples of the weak defeating the strong, but

The gap between the weak side and the strong side is not too obvious. The territory of 17,000 people and the third-level village of 1,700 people are ten times the difference in strength.

Hua Mulan was sent to conquer nearby villages, while Chutian stayed in Xia Town to attack the third-level town, and then the world's largest city.

Originally, it was not easy for Xia Town to catch up with Liaodong Town, which ranked first in Donghan District. However, after directly absorbing Xiaozhu Village, which is a first-class town, Xia Town has the possibility of catching up with Liaodong Town.

The absorption of Xiaozhu Village directly added 3,000 people to Xia Town, a large number of economic buildings, special products, and the prosperity of the main city.

If Xiaozhu Village is not located near Xia Town, then Xiaozhu Village can only become a vassal village and cannot become part of the main city.

Now Xia Town has the capital and opportunity to pursue Liaodong Town!

Therefore, Chutian always supervises the development of the main town.

Mulan conquers the surrounding third-level villages in order to increase the total prosperity of the territory.

At the same time, Chutian established branch stations in the vassal villages and towns, issued decrees, and allowed various vassal villages to carry out large-scale construction projects.

"I still have a golden recruitment order on hand. Anyway, the possibility of recruiting historical heroes with the golden recruitment order is very small..."

Because Chutian was the first 100 lords in the Eastern Han Dynasty who were upgraded to the second-level town, he received a gold-level recruitment order. The gold-level recruitment order has a high probability of recruiting ordinary heroes, and a very small probability of recruiting historical facts.

hero.

After having Hua Mulan and Li Kui, Chu Tian's vision has become a little picky, so he doesn't pay much attention to the gold-level recruitment order. What interests him more is the historical hero recruitment order.

"Ding! By consuming one gold-level recruitment order, you gain the allegiance of king-level commander Zhou Yafu."
Chapter completed!