Xu Shenji's words strengthened Cheng Dalei's mind. He Shen's words may not be completely unacceptable. Whether you simply want to survive in this troubled world or compete with the princes for the world, you need enough strength.
At present, Toad City has reached its peak and there is no more room for development. It needs to open another base to support its subsequent development.
The current situation of Shuofang City is indeed very bad, but with proper renovation, it may not be impossible to make it prosperous again.
After Cheng Dalei firmly decided to develop Shuofang City instead of abandoning it, an image of a city lit up in his mind, and Cheng Dalei could now view information about Shuofang City.
City: Shuofang City (a dilapidated primary city)
Population:5000
Skills: Blessing of the Gods, Architectural Mastery, Rumors of the World
Cheng Dalei read the system information word for word and found that after turning on the siege mode, all cities had shared the same set of skills. In other words, the skills issued by one city could be used in all places, unlike the previous copycats where each copycat had
All have separate skills.
Du, there are less than 10,000 people in Shuofang City. Please expand the population to 10,000 as soon as possible. After completing the task, you can get system rewards.
At this time, Cheng Dalei received a system task asking him to expand the population as soon as possible.
Because there are experts in architecture, there is not much difficulty in repairing the city. The biggest difficulty is the people, or in other words, the food to feed these people.
If tens of thousands of refugees are really deceived, even if tens of thousands of them are asking for food from Cheng Dalei, they cannot let them use up the wealth that Cheng Dalei has accumulated.
This is the problem that Cheng Dalei is currently eager to solve.
By the evening of the next day, Heshen had already arrived with his grain transport team. Considering the distance between Toad City and Shuofang City, it would take about a day and a night to go back and forth. Heshen could arrive so quickly, probably because Liu Facai had just handed over the news.
Ready to go.
He Shen's work efficiency is extremely high, which Cheng Dalei also has to admire.
Cheng Dalei set up a porridge pot on the street, and first gave a bowl of rice to the people who were temporarily staying in Shuofang City. These people had not eaten for an unknown amount of time. When they heard someone leaving porridge, they immediately started to move around, carrying the pot.
They came with bowls in their arms. If there were no soldiers to maintain order, they would have kicked the porridge pot.
This was the first time for Cheng Dalei to see the people under his rule. When he entered the city yesterday, no one paid any attention to him.
He wanted to say something about everyone working together and a better life is just around the corner, but no one would probably pay attention to him.
Cheng Dalei directly entered the main procedure. The soldiers kept order and registered these people. The account book left by Song Bokang was of no use at all. Cheng Dalei wanted to burn it with fire, and Cheng Dalei had to start everything from scratch.
Cheng Dalei also roughly identified the main components of these people. Most of them were lazy people, some were aggressive and ruthless, and the rest were old, weak, women and children who couldn't walk.
After seeing that the porridge preparation work at the gate of the city lord's mansion was on track, Cheng Dalei, Xu Shenji and He Shen walked into the city. He still had something to discuss with He Shen.
He Shen was very excited, which could be seen from the expression on his face. He may not have noticed the difficulties in Shuofang City, but he was very happy to be able to expand his territory. Cheng Dalei finally stopped hiding in Toad City and took a step forward
The first step to conquer the world.
"Master, I have just seen that the current population of Shuofang City is about five thousand. As for them, those who are willing to leave can be allowed to leave, and those who are willing to stay will not be ignored by us."
"What arrangements will be made for those who remain?"
"It is best to move the old, weak, women and children to Toad City. After all, reputation is important and we cannot let them die in front of our eyes. We will take in the remaining men who are willing to join the army, and those who are not willing to join the army will farm outside the city. As for them, we will take them in.
Some criminals who commit crimes must not be tolerated and should be used to establish military power with the power of thunder."
He Shen talked eloquently and made arrangements for these five thousand people.
Cheng Dalei nodded lightly: "The main difficulty now is that there is no one. Do you have any way to gather the popularity of Shuofang City?"
He Shen frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "I'm afraid it won't be easy to handle."
Even He Shen said it was difficult to handle. It seems that this matter is indeed not easy. He Shen did not say something directly. In fact, the reason why this matter is so difficult to handle has something to do with Cheng Dalei.
Cheng Dalei's reputation is terrible. He offended many people by killing many people in Bingzhou, which earned him the reputation of being cruel and easy to kill. As for the incident in Langya City in the East China Sea, it was rumored that Cheng Dalei set fire to the library, which offended him again.
Scholars all over the world.
Now Shuofang City is looking for talented people, but if Cheng Dalei, the Toad King, is given the banner, he probably won't get anything except a bunch of spitting stars in exchange.
Cheng Dalei held his chin in his hand and sighed: "People's hearts are a good thing."
No wonder the population of Toad City has not expanded. It turns out to be this reason. Why was Li Xingzai able to recruit troops quickly in Xuzhou and gathered a large number of people under his command? He was the serious King Xiaoyao, the son of Emperor Ming. There are also rumors that Emperor Ming was the
The original plan was to spread the rumors to him. No matter whether the rumors were true or false, some people would still believe them, and no one would feel ashamed to do things for him.
No matter what, the other princes and princes were granted the title by the imperial court, so their banners were also useful. But Cheng Dalei started out as a bandit. In order not to bring shame to their ancestors, people generally would not seek refuge with a bandit.
Cheng Dalei could have used the fear value to summon a group of people, not asking about quality, only quantity. But fear value is a good thing, and Cheng Dalei felt that it should not be wasted on this matter.
"When it comes to recruiting people, you can always find a way if you think about it slowly." Cheng Dalei said: "What I am embarrassed about is, if we really have people, how will we support them. Only when we have food at home can we not panic. The food and grass in Toad City cannot
moveable."
"In my opinion, this matter is not too difficult to handle." He Shen said, "We can't grow food, so we can rob it."
Cheng Dalei was startled. He had forgotten his old profession. He started out as a bandit. If he didn't have food, he could rob it from other places.
"But is there any place we can grab?"
"Liangzhou City?"
"We have just taken a city from someone else, so it would be inappropriate to rob them again. Besides, Zhao Zilong is still in Song Bokang's army, so it is not convenient at the moment."
"Bai Li Sheng?"
"Bai Li Sheng won't live for a few more days. His food and grass are all provided by the imperial court. He is currently poorer than us."
"If neither of these two places works, then the only option is to take action inside the pass."
Toad City is located at the northwest border of the empire, while Shuofang City borders Jingzhou and Yizhou. Yizhou is also relatively poor and has a majority of barbarians. Jingzhou is the land of abundance, so if you want to take action, Jingzhou is a good choice.