"Lord Keen!!" A group of imperial soldiers came to the temple and stood upright in front of Jia Zhengjin.
"Well! Come to the altar." Jia Zhengjin greeted directly without any nonsense.
"Yes!!" The imperial soldiers stepped forward one after another and stopped in front of the altar.
"I want you to swear to join the Youshen Church and believe in the game goddess Liv!" Jia Zhengjin said to them, "Any questions?"
"No problem!!" the imperial soldiers replied in unison without hesitation.
After they all took the oath in front of the altar, the number and popularity of believers increased by the same value, proving that soldiers and generals recruited from the imperial camp can be used as a source of believers.
Very good!
Jia Zhengjin, who was depressed because werewolves and kobolds couldn't take effect, finally smiled at this moment.
Since the Imperial soldiers can do it, there is no need to worry anymore!
He himself obtained a large sum of gold coins from his monster spawning expedition some time ago, and later embezzled a large sum of money from the materials delivered by the Human Empire Allied Forces, so he should be able to recruit on a large scale.
Moreover, if the imperial soldiers are able, the town guards, thieves, and adventurers recruited should be able to become believers. As for the priests of the church, they themselves have faith, so it is impossible.
Because the imperial soldiers are relatively expensive, especially the elite ones. It is definitely not possible to use them all.
As for thieves, recruiting too many may also cause a burden on Holy Dragon City, because their leader is Adilili, who knows what kind of problems may arise.
Although town guards are cheap, with replacements costing only 10 gold coins each, and elites costing only 50 gold coins each, their combat effectiveness is quite low and cannot be compared with imperial soldiers.
If it is just to replenish the number of believers, of course it is best to recruit all the town guards as back-up. Each one costs 10 gold coins, and recruiting 1 million town guards as back-up only costs 10 million gold coins. For Jia Zhengjin now, it is completely small money.
The problem is that even if 1 million town guards are recruited, Shenglong City will not be able to build enough military camps and living places for them in a short period of time. Although the city has been expanded, it is still not a super-large city that can accommodate such a large population.
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Secondly, the rations consumed by the one million town guards every day are astronomical, and as the back-up of the town guards, they are actually not much more powerful than ordinary farmers. In such a dangerous Warcraft Forest, they are of no use at all. Food
There are so many, but what you can do is limited, which is a huge burden.
Forcibly increasing burdens for the sake of the number of believers is not a good thing for Holy Dragon City.
Furthermore, Holy Dragon City is currently managed by a group of civil servants led by Prime Minister Geis. We need to discuss with them to see how much of the army the current financial problems of Holy Dragon City can support and how many gold coins are needed.
Maintain military spending!
When the Human Empire Allied Forces fought against the Hai Clan, Jia Zhengjin saw with his own eyes the horrific consumption of tens of millions of troops recruited. Even if all the human countries united, it would still be a huge burden. It is impossible for a small Holy Dragon City to afford that.
A huge army. At least not yet!
So he needs to figure out what the upper limit of the population he can sustain is. At present, it seems that the church needs at least more than hundreds of thousands of believers. It may be difficult for the current city to accommodate the sudden increase of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. After all, there are not that many
We can't let all the 100,000 troops rest in the open air, right?
Then the food supply in the city can maintain a balance. If the balance is broken and it is necessary to purchase military rations from abroad, it will be very troublesome and a waste of money.
For this matter, Jia Zhengjin decisively went to the Floating City and sent people to find Prime Minister Geis and other civil servants to discuss.
Officials arrived at the floating city one after another, standing respectfully on both sides and waiting quietly.
About ten minutes later, Prime Minister Gass arrived belatedly.
He was sweating profusely, with a hurried expression on his face, panting and ran into the palace and came to Jia Zhengjin: "Lord Keen, I was dealing with internal affairs just now. I finished what I was doing and came over immediately! Please forgive me for keeping you waiting.
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"It's okay!" Jia Zhengjin nodded, "Please take a seat, I just have some small questions to ask you."
"If Mr. Keen has any questions, we will tell you everything we know. This is our duty, and there is no need to ask for advice!" Gass replied hurriedly.
Taking a look at the civil servants in the palace, there were many more civil servants than when he left, but the great scholar Megan was not among them.
Of course, Megan has not been officially appointed as an official yet, and because the language problem needs to be resolved, it is normal that she is not included in this list.
Gass came up the steps and sat down in the prime minister's seat on the left side of Jia Zhengjin. All the civil servants below took their seats on both sides.
When everyone was seated, Gass looked at Jia Zhengjin respectfully: "Mr. Keen, do you have any problems that you need us to solve today?"
"It's a small matter, don't be nervous." Jia Zhengjin said, "I just want to ask, if we in Shenglong City want to expand the size of the army now, how many people will there be? Can we have a stable supply of food produced by ourselves? Also, what about the newly expanded city area?
Can it be accommodated?"
"This..." Gass quickly turned his head and said to a middle-aged man with a mustache among the civil servants, "Jasper, you are in charge of this area, come out and answer the questions."
"Isn't my father-in-law in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture?" Jia Zhengjin asked softly.
"Lord Keen, Minister Bolint doesn't need to worry about such trivial matters." Gass replied, "Jasper is an excellent official in our Ministry of Interior, and he also does a little part-time work in the Ministry of Agriculture. He knows this issue best!
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"That's it!" Jia Zhengjin understood. Now that there are more civil servants, the work must be allocated from above. As a minister, it is impossible to do everything personally. The smartest way is to know how to employ talents. Besides, his father-in-law Bolint seems to have the same attitude.
He is only interested in planting and is indeed weak in management. Thinking of this, he immediately looked at the mustachioed official who stood up and said, "Your name is Jasper, right? Let's talk about it! At present, the food output of our Holy Dragon City can be maintained
How large is the expansion of the army, and what is the specific number of the expanded population that the town can accommodate?"
"Report to Mr. Keen!" After being asked, the civil servant named Jasper had a look of excitement on his face, as if he was honored to be questioned by Jia Zhengjin. He took out an account book he carried with him and opened it to look at it carefully.
Then he said, "According to data records, our Shenglong City's current food output, the daily supply of meat by the hunting team, and the output of the fishing team, plus the food transactions with the outside world, can currently maintain a new population of at least 350,000
increase. But the city will definitely not be able to accommodate such a large population..."
Hearing that grain production could sustain a new population of 350,000, Jia Zhengjin was delighted and hurriedly asked: "How many soldiers can the current empty rooms and military camps in the city accommodate?"
"Report to Lord Keen," Jasper replied respectfully, while quickly checking the account books and silently calculating in his mind, "Based on the existing vacant houses and military camps, it can probably... increase the population by about 80,000."
"Only 80,000?" Jia Zhengjin was a little disappointed, "Can't it reach 100,000?"
"If it has to reach 100,000, it's not impossible to accommodate them!" Jasper replied, "We can renovate the existing buildings, let some people live together temporarily, and then speed up the construction of new houses. It can barely be done.
