After Jill left, Lance ordered Heigang to take people to inspect the things Jill brought into the warehouse. As for those who came with him, all of them were sent back by Lance.

Although Lance lacks people now, Lance, who may turn his back on your back, still respects you. However, he sent these people to him. I have to thank him on the surface, and then Lance pretends to be righteous: "I want to change my past and become self-reliant!"

I don’t know if his words were heard back to his ears, and it made the old lord cry with joy.

Of course, everyone who knows him knows that this is not sincere, because Lance turned around and gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, such a group of lowest attributes are also C, where should I go to find it? It just can't be used. I really want to kill them..."

But Lance just complained. He was not so crazy that he could catch and bite whoever he was, otherwise he would not only offend his two dear brothers, but even his father's protection was lost.

There are truly valuable things better than nothing. Jill is really shameless. He said 30,000 gold coins, but it is indeed 30,000, not even a penny. Don’t he know his hobbies, and at least he has a beauty trick?

Looking at the pretty Layla beside her, a strange reaction appeared on Lance's face, but it quickly disappeared.

"What's wrong, Lord County?" Layla noticed Lance's gaze and lowered her head shyly.

Lance looked at the shy girl and shook her head: "Nothing."

Things are moving forward in an orderly manner.

Three days later, Lance's pioneering mission was finally completed, and the gray button at the bottom of [Interior Affairs] was unlocked. Lance finally got his wish and chose the upgraded territory.

The first thing that made Lance feel changed was not that the attributes of Lance's interface had changed, but that there was an earthquake without warning under Lance's feet!

Could it be that the unlucky crypt people are tired of living?

But it is obvious that this time was not - the group of cavemen led by Talma and Mosen were obediently following the orders of Lance and constantly mining crystals in the mine. This earthquake came from a more fundamental vein.

Lance opened the window and looked out. Unlike the civilians who thought that a disaster was coming and fell down to worship Tianwei, Lance only had surprise in his eyes.

Guess what he saw?

His territory actually doubled in an instant!

However, this metaphor is really inappropriate. To be precise, it should have doubled the living circle of Gululing - after all, Gululing is only one-tenth of the land that has been developed and utilized (it was one-twentieth before the implementation of Pioneer I).

But this is already amazing. After all, these are important plain arable land, rather than unusable wastelands and mountains. These can all be used to build cities or reclaim farmland.

It turns out that if the territory level is upgraded, will the territory area even increase?

Lance could not describe his mood at this moment, but he quickly looked back on the panel of his Demon Lord system.

Gulu Ridge (E-level town)

Population (28733), local finance (186698 gold), grain (67835 kg)

The proportion of races under the rule: 35.7% of mixed-sex humans, 15.4% of lower-sex demons, 34.9% of demon servants, 0.1% of higher-sex demons, 5.3% of cavemen, and 8.6% of others.

Public opinion index: civilians (45/100), gentry (31/100) [Fear], cave dwellers (50/100)

Special building: Canal LV3

Tax status: 12388 gold, 36783 kilograms (food and property are collected according to the head of the population every quarter, three times a year, and there are 2 months and 7 days left before the next collection.)

Local finances that need to be paid monthly: 0

In fact, after a series of developments, the most obvious change in Lance is the taxation sector. Its grain almost quadrupled and its taxes increased by half.

Of course, this little money is too small for Lance's investment. Lance doesn't want to maintain such a piece of broken land until decades to recover the cost. Although investment in developing cities needs to be considered in the long run, Lance doesn't have that much time.

He couldn't wait to hold an army that competes with his two older brothers. Obviously, after being promoted to E-level territory, Lance could unlock a very important function in the [Interior Affairs] system - architecture.

The E-class territory has a total of 6 unique functional buildings.

[Element Pool]: The basic building of legal facilities, providing 50 elements per week throughout the city.

[Military Battalion]: The basic building of the physics system facilities can transform civilians into militias. (It must undergo two weeks of training)

[Blacksmith shop]: a place to create weapons and ordnance.

[Market]: Promote the economy and attract businessmen to buy and sell goods resources.

【Public】: Provide information, and you can also recruit wandering adventurers here.

[Defense Tower]: City defense system that increases territory.

When he saw the usefulness of these buildings, Lance immediately realized that these six special buildings were essential for his territory, but it was unlikely to build them all in one breath.

Lance had several projects before upgrading the territory, and in a blink of an eye he spent a lot of money. Although Jill gave him money, the guy took away the big head he gave. The only 30,000 gold coins in Lance's hand. If you say that this money is enough to eat and drink, it is enough to let Lance have a good time for a while, but if you want to use it for construction, you will immediately tighten your belt.

Looking at Lance's finances, he still has 180,000 yuan of funds left, and the construction costs of each of the six buildings that can be built in the E-class territory are more than 30,000 yuan. From this point of view, it's not a good idea to just build a poor and useless person. But the problem is that Lance needs money to maintain the construction weekly and recruit soldiers and employees' salaries. If the money is spent, Lance will probably be very difficult for the next month (before tax collection).

There is a priority, and Lance also knew that he could not become a fat man in one bite, so he decided to choose some of the most urgent buildings to invest in. In Lance's view, he already has the support of [natural secondary crystal mine], and his dependence on [element pool] is not that great. The crystal mines supervised by the cavemen are enough for him to pay for the elements and weekly production costs required by [Shadow Wolf's Nest] and [Essence Treasure's Nest]. Now Lance does not have a higher spell building in his hands, so this can be put on first.

Similarly, the basic effect of the militia battalion as a physics building is the same. When there is no superior building, its construction has dropped significantly. The strength of the militia trained for two weeks is probably equivalent to those of the private soldiers of the squire. The E-level assessment is that Lance feels that it is better to recruit more shadow wolves or earthen figurines from the nest.

Of course, you can't say that militia is useless. After all, there are so many civilians, and Shadow Wolf and Earthen Demons can only recruit a few people a week. If there is such a batch of extra combat power during the war, it will still be of some help to the war. I can only say that Lance doesn't need it for the time being.

Next, Lance looked at the blacksmith shop. The importance of the blacksmith shop was self-evident. A warrior without weapons could not be called a warrior. The most accurate type of iron sword is better than a brick and a broken wooden stick to the battlefield. There is nothing to say about this, Lance simply ticks the system panel.

Once selected, the funds for the Lance panel began to shrink rapidly, and then in front of Lance - that is, in reality, a detailed design drawing about the blacksmith shop appeared, and the construction materials used to purchase buildings would automatically appear at the site where the site was selected and started.

However, when building, you must have someone who matches the [engineering] level to be supervised. I won’t go into details about this. The [engineering] level that matches the E-level building is also E-level.

After choosing the blacksmith shop, Lance's financial funds fell from 18W to 15W. He thought that he had to stop choosing two more items. When he looked at the interface, he had to pick three items left.

Markets, taverns and defensive towers.

The importance of the market is almost the same as that of the blacksmith shop. In fact, it has the highest priority among these buildings, especially when Lance saw that after building the market, he could still withdraw transaction taxes and increase taxes, he decided the first building without saying a word.

The same 30,000 gold coins were exchanged for a design drawing.

Lance has learned his lesson now. Although he has the B-level accelerated construction card of the [Gomin Rapid Construction Team], the group of green vampires are not affordable by Lance. They consume 1,000 gold coins in the entry and they have to charge 20% of the project payment when building. If there is no more than ten thousand gold coins at a time, they can't get it down. How can they be more practical than corvee service? For those recruited civilians, Lance is responsible for their meals a day, and each person will subsidize half a silver coin every day, and they will willingly work for Lance - although the construction time has been a little longer.

This account can be calculated as long as it is not a fool. Lance hired 1,000 corvee workers to spend 5 days to complete a project, and the money paid is only 250 gold coins. (1 gold coin = 100 silver coins)

Of course, the recruited corvee will make mistakes, so there will be overflows when building, but this number will never exceed 10%, far from the exaggeration of those goblins who do not make mistakes at all but charge an additional 20% of the project payment.

Not to mention this, Lance has focused on the remaining two options.

Reason told him that he should choose city defense and build a defensive tower, but in the end Lance still couldn't resist curiosity and chose [Public]. It was not that he really wanted to drink, but that he saw an attribute on [Public] - recruiting adventurers.

Don't forget that Lance lacks people.

After choosing three items, three construction design drawings appeared at Lance's hand, and at this moment, the long-awaited black steel door came in.

"Young Master, are you okay?"

Lance knew he was referring to the earthquake just now.

Of course Lance is fine. In fact, he is still very happy. No one will be unhappy because his territory has become bigger. Also, he has now gained the idea of ​​further developing his territory.

He waved to Heigang and handed over the three drawings in front of him: "Leave this to Aikiel, then call on corvee and tell them that the county magistrate wants them to start work!"
Chapter completed!