The buildings in the Yicun territory have developed to a certain extent at the first-level and zero-level stages. Although there are still constructions from time to time, they are no longer the main consideration for Qu Mao and others.

Judging from the development of the Yicun territory, the current core development bottleneck is the number of territorial residents.

Among the current population of less than 1,900, the number of soldiers is still as high as over 400. Even after the second-level and lower military camps are built and they start to transfer and retire, the military-civilian ratio has always been maintained at about 1:2, which means that every two

Every citizen needs to support a soldier, which has a great impact on the development of Yicun.

Although some soldiers can be temporarily arranged to participate in the construction of some buildings and the on-duty production of resource mines, the attribute bonus of soldiers is ultimately in combat, not in production and construction, so a reduction in efficiency is inevitable.

Another invisible condition is that the food consumption of soldiers is much greater than that of ordinary citizens. Even those who have just been transferred from soldiers to retired soldiers will have a sudden reduction in food consumption to the same level as ordinary citizens.

Another point is the gender structure of the residents in the Yicun territory. Qu Mao purchased too many warrior recruitment coupons from Lai Diezi, which caused a serious imbalance in the male-to-female ratio in the Yicun territory. For the residents who were recruited using resident recruitment coupons, the gender ratio between men and women was barely balanced.

The ratio can be maintained to 3:2, but the warrior recruitment tickets recruit almost all male warriors.

Qu Mao opened 73 treasure boxes on the outlying islands at once, used the citizen recruitment coupons he obtained, and distributed the recruited citizens directly to the outlying islands and empty islands on the spot.

However, almost all of the warrior recruitment coupons issued at the same time were brought back to Yi Village for recruitment. Although first-level and second-level warriors can transfer and retire from the corresponding military camps and become citizens to participate in the construction and development of the Yi Village territory, third-level warriors

and fifth-level warriors must be retained.

If you want to continue to develop next, you must send Wang Ping and Zhao Pan out as quickly as possible to continue picking up treasure chests on the outlying islands and surrounding islands.

Even exploring the entrance to the folded space is not as important as picking up the treasure chests. The first priority is to collect all the treasure chests on the outlying islands.

After completing the first priority, Qu Mao would not mind Wang Ping and Zhao Pan continuing south to search and pick up treasure chests on new islands as long as the personal safety of the soldiers could be guaranteed.

After inspecting the buildings on Yi Island, Qu Mao immediately began to reorganize the exploration troops.

This time two troops will be sent there at the same time. Each troop does not need too many people, only some capable manpower. After all, the first time we went out was to take into account the task of conquering the folding space, this time it was mainly to pick up

The battle is not difficult to get the treasure chest.

Pulling Zhao Pan, Wang Ping, Kong Ming and Su Yan, Qu Mao quickly arranged the team.

Wang Ping's troops, the fifth-level troops include the fifth-level junior earth magician Gandhi Madhu, the fifth-level ascetic Amar, 5 fourth-level divine crossbowmen, 5 fourth-level guards, 4 fourth-level monks, 40

A third-level princess guard, 2 medical staff accompanying the army, and 20 citizens as logistical auxiliaries. Among them, Su Yan’s assistant Mafei Trani has led the other 19 citizens since her loyalty has risen to 50 points.

Serve as the logistical auxiliary for Wang Ping's troops.

Zhao Pan's troops, the fifth-level troops include fifth-level priest Adela Green, fifth-level heavy cavalry Brent Caesar, 10 fourth-level divine crossbowmen, 6 fourth-level light cavalry, and 40 third-level princess guards.

One medical staff accompanying the army, led by an elite-level qualified citizen named Zhao Yixia, led 19 ordinary citizens to serve as logistical auxiliaries. Chai Fidel joined Zhao Pan's team as the captain of the fourth-level divine crossbowman.

In this way, Wang Ping's troops have a total of 79 people, and Zhao Pan's troops have a total of 80 people. Qu Mao handed over the hero treasure space bag to Wang Ping for equipment, and put some combat consumable materials such as arrows, bamboo, etc., all at Wang Ping's place.

Qu Mao asked Zhao Pan and Wang Ping to take their respective troops and drive two sea ships to the outlying island early the next morning. After arriving at the outlying island, the two troops split up to explore and pick up the treasure chest.

, Qu Mao asked Wang Ping and Zhao Pan’s troops to explore and mark the suspected entrance to the folded space at the same time.

Qu Mao will naturally assign the corresponding permissions to Wang Ping and Zhao Pan, such as the right to pick up treasure chests, etc.

After discussing the composition of the troops, Qu Mao asked Wang Ping and Zhao Pan to set off early the next morning. They had to help Franklin King transport the mined stones to the folding space from the sky island, and they had to take the sky island to mine.

The surplus stones that come out will go to the outlying islands, and they must arrive at the outlying islands before lunch.

Wang Ping and Zhao Pan still had to form troops according to the number of people selected by Qu Mao, and they became nervous instantly.

Only less than 60 Tier 5, Tier 4 and Tier 3 troops were arranged, but Qu Mao was not worried at all that Wang Ping and Zhao Pan would suffer losses on the outlying islands, even if they encountered a purple gold treasure chest guarded by Tier 3 monsters, it was the first time that Zhao Pan suffered such losses

Big losses are simply caused by underestimating the enemy and being careless.

In theory, third-level monsters cannot threaten Wang Ping and Zhao Pan's troops, but they can still run away if they cannot defeat them.

All the non-meat food on Yi Island had already been transported to the empty island, and the logistical preparations were much easier. However, Qu Mao still took some troops to hunt the elephants once, and the carcasses of 13 elephants were all

Instead of decomposing it, it was given directly to Wang Ping, who took it to empty islands and outlying islands for decomposition. After decomposition, the meat was given directly to Franklin King and Jia Sixie.

Early the next morning, Qu Mao personally went to the civilian dock outside the small village of Minggang to see off the two troops who were traveling to pick up the treasure chest. He hoped that Zhao Pan and Wang Ping could return to Yi Island in about a month, preferably six weeks later.

Qu Mao wanted to open a large number of treasure chests before setting off to Yancheng again, so that he could obtain some gold coins and provide greater confidence for the trip to Yancheng.

Wang Ping and Zhao Pan naturally would not refuse Qu Mao's request, and both said that before Qu Mao left for Yancheng, they would definitely return to Yi Island in time with a large number of treasure boxes.

After seeing off the two sea-going ships, Qumao returned to Minggang Village and met with the newly appointed village head of Minggang Village, Yukdodo Yuri, a well-qualified citizen who had previously engaged in agricultural planting with Franklin King.

When returning, Qu Mao did not go directly back to Yi Village, but took a detour from the Fisherman's Village, because the new village chief of the Fisherman's Village, Victor Lass, had just been promoted to the village chief, and as a lord, Qu Mao would not be suitable to meet him.

After doing this, Qu Mao returned to Yicun.

At this moment, the system prompts: In order to ensure that the territorial buildings do not take up too much space, buildings of the same nature and different levels can be integrated. Higher-level buildings will have all the functions of lower-level buildings.

In short, the three military camps in Yicun can all be upgraded to the second level. When building second-level wooden buildings, they can be directly upgraded without rebuilding.
Chapter completed!