Chapter 009 New activities, the road of development
New players are still awkwardly adapting to life in the game, while old players are already looking for quests all over the city.
The entire Guazhou City became obviously more lively after the players arrived.
In the newly opened meeting hall in the military camp, Cui Tao was making a report to Li Yan:
"Your Highness, Guazhou County is a proper lower county according to the Tang Dynasty's division of counties."
"The total population of Guazhou is less than 5,000 households. This includes the population in all rural areas near the county seat. They are mainly military households belonging to the Moli army."
"The emperor dispatched soldiers from various military towns in Longyou Road to serve the king at Yumen Pass. The entire army was wiped out in the battle of Tongguan, and Guazhou City lost many young men."
"Our current problem is that we have too few staff."
Now Zhang Xian has handed over the affairs of the Governor's Mansion to Li Yan, and every day he discusses literature with his subordinates in the mansion, reciting poems and writing poems.
Li Yan nodded. With a base, it naturally needs development.
The system requires luck points to recruit players, and Li Yan needs to occupy more territories in order to occupy more players.
Today's Guazhou City can only provide 100 luck points per month. Coupled with Li Yan's title of county king, he can earn 200 luck points a month.
A full battle is just a matter of recruiting a hundred players.
It's still too little. Now the whole world is in turmoil. The Tubo and Uighurs are eyeing Longyou with covetous eyes, and the Central Plains is in turmoil again and again.
This kind of player has no effect on the general trend of the world at all.
Cui Tao continued: "Our main task recently is to clear out the Tibetan soldiers and bandits outside the city and open up the road to Shazhou."
Li Yan nodded, Shazhou-Guazhou-Yumen Pass, this trade route is a very important artery on the Silk Road.
Cui Tao said: "It is already late autumn in November, and winter is about to begin. Now Tibet has no way to launch a large-scale offensive, and can only send a small force to harass Longyou. Now is a good opportunity for us to develop."
Li Yan asked Cui Tao: "Cui Canjun, what development strategies do you have?"
Cui Tao immediately said: "Your Majesty, my method is trade!"
trading?
Cui Tao immediately said: "The Central Plains are in chaos now, but the Silk Road has not been broken. The Great Food and even the further Great Qin (Rome) are in need of our products from the Tang Dynasty!"
"If the trade route can be reopened, then we can recruit refugees and develop Guazhou."
Li Yan nodded repeatedly, Guazhou is an important node on the Silk Road.
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty is in civil strife and the Central Plains is in chaos. Li Yan heard that a large number of merchants from the Western Regions were stranded from Shule to Shazhou.
These merchants brought a large amount of goods, but they were unable to enter the Central Plains.
If these trades can be continued? Li Yan's eyes shine!
If we could capture these trades, wouldn’t Guazhou take off?
Although the population of Longyou Road is not as large as that of the Central Plains, there are still 800,000 Han households.
As long as you have money and food in your hands, you can feed the flood victims of the Central Plains and develop in Longyou!
Cui Tao's plan made Li Yan very satisfied.
[Player Cui Tao’s Long You Ce was recognized by King Jianning! Reward 50 contribution points! 】
"Gan, Cui Tao has made meritorious deeds again?"
"This game is too unfair? That guy hangs around in front of NPCs every day, can he gain NPC experience by just saying a few words?"
"What's the use of being jealous? Why don't you quickly gain experience! I heard that many players have joined the governor's office as civil servants, and they have a fixed contribution point income!"
"Really? So powerful? You still get a salary for being an official?"
"Yes, I heard that there is a fixed contribution point of 20 points every month."
"Wow, it would be great to fix a few attribute points every month!"
"Hey, it's so annoying to be so popular, but I heard that the requirements for being a civil servant are quite high, and several first-beta players were kicked off the job after they went there."
After reading the discussion on the forum, Cui Tao happily walked out of the military camp and went into the governor's mansion.
Both NPCs and players and officials greeted Cui Tao warmly.
"How good is Cui Changshi."
"Where is the prefect?"
"The prefect is practicing calligraphy in the back office! The prefect likes Mr. Yan's latest copybook that he sent over last time!"
Cui Tao nodded. He found a copybook of the current famous minister Yan Zhenqing from the Internet a few days ago, copied it in the game and gave it to Zhang Mian.
Sure enough, Zhang Mian was ecstatic when he got this copybook. He copied it carefully every day and tried to figure out the true meaning between the strokes. He was so stunned when he wrote it.
Zhang Xian was originally a minister and was not good at managing civil affairs. After Li Yan came to Guazhou, he had to discuss everything with Li Yan.
Li Yan also took over the military and political power of Guazhou. For example, Cui Tao also served as the chief historian of the governor's office, and there was also an office in the governor's office.
Under Li Yan's recommendation, more players entered the governor's office and took control of various positions in the governor's office.
Nowadays, Zhang Mian goes to work at Dianmao in the governor's office every day, and then discusses literature with his subordinates, completely ignoring the general affairs of Guazhou.
Now that more players have joined, Guazhou City has begun to become lively.
Cui Tao's current position is the chief historian of Guazhou Governor's Office, and he can also be regarded as Zhang Xian's staff.
Under the Tang Dynasty, in Xiazhou such as Guazhou, the number of subordinates in the governor's office was thirty, among whom there were Zuoguanzhou Biejia.
Biejia was also a genuine official appointed by the imperial court, but now that Guazhou Biejia was vacant, Zhang Xian could appoint the remaining unqualified officials himself.
Chief historians and recorders were the assistant officers of the governor in the Tang Dynasty. These people were basically the team brought by the governor himself, or capable officials promoted by the governor from among the local officials.
In addition, the Guazhou Governor's Office also has the treasurer, chief of military affairs, chief of households, chief of justice, chief of affairs, etc. These officials correspond to the six central departments of the imperial court and are responsible for the specific affairs of the state.
Originally, a county government was to be set up in Guazhou City, but Guazhou is a border state with a population of less than 5,000 households, not even as high as Shangxian County in Guanzhong.
Moreover, the life outside Yumen Pass was harsh and far less comfortable than in the Central Plains, so Zhang Xian also "photographed county affairs on his behalf". The county government and the governor's office in Guazhou City also had the same team.
Nowadays, these old officials in the Governor's Mansion have been defeated by Li Yan's sugar-coated bullets. Players gradually enter the Governor's Mansion and occupy important positions.
On the one hand, Li Yan controlled Mo Lijun, and on the other hand, he controlled the governor's office, which could be regarded as controlling Guazhou.
But Li Yan also knew that he didn't have much time left for him.
On the one hand, when spring comes and the flowers bloom, the Tibetan and Uighurs have already had ambitions for the Longyou Road and will inevitably intensify their intrusion.
On the other hand, Lingwu knows that he is in Guazhou and will never let him go. After all, in the Tang Dynasty, we have a tradition of fathers being kind and sons being filial, and brothers being friends and brothers being respectful, right?
Whether dealing with Tubo and Uighurs, or dealing with spiritual and military black hands, force is the greatest guarantee.
Li Yan sat in the room, thinking about the strategy proposed by Cui Tao.
Master the Silk Road and accumulate wealth through trade.
As long as the Silk Road can be kept uninterrupted, supplies will continue to be available.
These supplies are Li Yan's capital.
But what are these players doing?
"System, look at what the players are doing."
【Generating player records, generation completed.】
After reading the records, Li Yan finally knew what these players were doing.
But now the players in Guazhou City are obviously divided into two groups.
Some of them are players like Yu Chixin, who practice in the military camp every day. Everyone is like a muscular man in the gym at Blue Star. The biggest pleasure of these guys is practicing martial arts and practicing formations in the military camp every day.
Some players, on the other hand, think that things like sword and gun battle formations are completely from a backward era.
We players just want technology to win!
Modern technology must be reproduced in this world! Only guns and cannons are the romance of men!
The greatest pleasure for these players is to tinker with various inventions in the game.
However, it seems that the former type of players who practice martial arts are still the mainstream. After all, most players can't even repair an alarm clock at home, let alone invent it out of thin air.
After putting down the record, Li Yan also felt that he needed to find motivation for the players.
Soon, all players received prompts from the system.
【New event! November event is online!】
[Activity 1: Martial Arts Competition! At the end of this month, a martial arts competition will be held at the martial arts field of the Moli Military Camp! This martial arts competition adopts a single-round elimination system, and the top ten players can receive corresponding contribution point rewards! 】
[Activity 2: Invention Contest! At the end of this month, Jianning King Li Yan will evaluate the players’ inventions, and the top ten players can receive corresponding contribution point rewards! 】
[The game test qualification redemption function has been opened. You only need 100 contribution points to redeem a game test qualification!]
[Game screen recording and live broadcast functions are under development, players please wait patiently. 】
King Gu is really a genius! Li Yan closed the system with satisfaction.
After the release of these two activities, they indeed caused a fierce response among players!
The dog planning of this game has finally started working! There is finally an official event.
But after seeing this event, many players started to curse.
Especially the new players, their bodies were created by Li Yan, and their four attributes only have five points.
This physical quality is a little higher than that of ordinary people.
However, although the attributes of the players in the first test are random, they are all higher than them.
This martial arts competition is nothing! Second test players have no chance at all!
But seeing the event rewards, players drooled again.
Contribution points have a new use! Redeem for qualifications for the next test!
Both groups of players are game enthusiasts, and many of the second-test players are top students in colleges and universities.
They all saw the potential of this game!
If it is open for testing, "Datang Fengyun" will definitely be able to crush many games and become the most popular game!
When that day comes, players who enter the game earlier will have an advantage!
This game is a gold mine! And this game is very cruel. Once you die, you will be cleared forever and leave the game completely.
So what’s the value of playtesting qualifications?
The eyes of many players are bright. This event is a must-attend!