Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, two months had passed.
During these two months, Old Zhu had been thinking of ways to obtain information about the Initial City.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers had been waiting at the border.
And the Starting City was changing rapidly.
The number of subjects increased rapidly.
The citadel was completed one after another.
The fertile farmland continued to expand.
The army continued to increase.
The speed of development was absolutely stunning.
The Starting City was like a newborn giant beast, crawling on this vast grassland.
The main city became its body.
The citadel became its limbs.
It made the entire Starting City look so majestic and domineering.
This was the 230th day since Zhu Xiong had attained the Dao system.
The number of people in Starting City had increased to 23,000.
The population increased by 1.75 million.
The population of the entire Starting City had already reached 2.7 million.
This was definitely an extremely terrifying number.
One had to know that the entire Starting City, including the citadel, was less than a hundred square kilometers.
On this 100 square kilometers of land, there were 2.7 million people living.
It was obvious that the population that the entire Starting City could support was about to reach its limit.
Even though Zhu Xiong was mentally prepared, he had built eight defensive cities to share the pressure of the main city. He had also planned the entire Starting City in great detail, and all kinds of supporting facilities had been perfected.
However, the problems faced by the entire Starting City were still endless.
In a city of millions of people, eating, drinking, sleeping, and defecating were all problems.
Moreover, this problem was increasing as the number of subjects increased every day.
The resources around the Starting City were also limited.
The simplest resource was wood.
The construction of houses, weapons, and cities all depended on wood.
However, the trees around the Initial City were extremely limited.
At this moment, all the trees within a hundred miles of the Initial City had been cut down.
With the sharp decrease in wood, the Initial City finally reached a bottleneck.
Even if Zhu Xiong tried his best to use pure iron to forge weapons, he still couldn't avoid the problem of using too much wood.
In addition, the army's food consumption was also very high.
Ever since Ming's envoy group left, Zhu Rong had been expanding his forces to prevent Old Zhu from finding trouble with him.
In two months, Zhu Xiong had expanded the number of soldiers in Starting City to around eight hundred thousand.
It had expanded by four times.
These 800,000 people consumed more food than the other subjects.
After all, to train ordinary subjects into elites, the amount of training was undoubtedly huge.
Normally, no one would only need a catty of grain or two taels of meat a day.
And the consumption of the army was definitely two to three times that of ordinary people.
This actually increased the pressure on Zhu Rong.
The daily consumption of the 800,000 soldiers was equal to the daily consumption of the remaining subjects.
In other words, the amount of food consumed by the entire Starting City every day had already reached three to four million jin.
Fortunately, Zhu Xiong had reclaimed three hundred thousand mu of land outside of Starting City.
Among them, 200,000 mu was planted with potatoes.
The remaining 100,000 mu was planted with all kinds of vegetables and even fruits.
The seeds of these vegetables and fruits were also exchanged from the system's shopping mall.
With the help of the ripening fertilizer, he could basically harvest once a month.
However, this was the limit of what the Initial City could do.
The area of farmlands that were reclaimed was almost twice the size of the current Initial City.
It was very inconvenient for the subjects to farm every day.
Some of them even had to take a carriage and walk for half a day to get there.
Every day, Zhu Rong would send out a large number of troops to patrol and protect the people who were cultivating outside the city.
In fact, these questions were not the most important.
Most importantly, the entire Starting City already had a surplus of manpower.
Even though Zhu Rong tried his best to arrange jobs for these subjects, there was only so much work in the entire Starting City.
The scope was only so big. Other than joining the army, everything else had basically reached the point of overcrowding.
As a result, many subjects, especially female subjects, wandered around the city because they were not arranged to work.
Although these subjects would not cause trouble.
However, this was undoubtedly a waste of human resources.
At this moment, Zhu Xiong had to choose between two paths.
First, continue to expand Starting City, expanding the entire city to 500, or even 1,000 square kilometers.
The premise of doing this was that the Eight Protectorates that he had painstakingly built before would be completely wasted.
Moreover, the 300,000 mu of land that had already been planted was not easy to plan.
More importantly, the resources within a hundred miles were clearly insufficient.
Especially the wood, it was already insufficient to support the construction of the Initial City.
The second was to build another city outside of the Starting City.
And this city could not be too close to the Starting City. It would take up the resources around the Starting City.
They could not be too far away from the Starting City either, in case they were in danger and could not get the support of the Starting City.
Moreover, they needed sufficient resources and easy to cultivate fields.
This required a site selection.
Moreover, there was a huge risk.
What if the Mongolians or Old Zhu's people accidentally discovered it?
If he chose the second option, he would definitely need the protection of the army.
Actually, there was basically no choice between these two paths. Everyone knew that they had to take the second path.
It was also because of this that Zhu Xiong had expanded his army by four times in just a few months.
Other than to prevent Old Zhu from causing trouble.
In fact, it was also to prepare for the construction of the city again.
In order to manage these 800,000 people well, Zhu Xiong spent 12,000 points in one go to exchange for 12 military talents from the system store.
However, this exchange made Zhu Xiong's jaw drop.
This was because the person who had exchanged for it was not a famous person in history.
They were characters that only existed in folk opera legends.
He did not know if it was because he had exchanged for twelve talents in one go that caused a chain reaction, or if the system was playing a joke on him.
This time, Zhu Xiong had actually exchanged for a whole family of loyal soldiers!
Hmm…Strictly speaking, he had exchanged for a widow!
They are the female generals of the Yang family that only exist in opera and folklore
They were Matriarch She Saihua, Crimson Flame Marshal Yang Paifeng, Silver Flower Supreme General Yang Bamei, Aunt Zhou Yunjing, Second Mother Big Saber Geng Jinhua, Third Mother Divine Shooter Dong Yue `e, Fourth Mother Divine Power Meng Jinbang, Fifth Mother Rakshasa Ma Sai Ying, Sixth Mother Golden Flower Princess Chai Xichun, Seventh Mother Du Jin` e, the most legendary daughter-in-law of the Yang family, Mu Guiying, and Mu Guiying's daughter, Yang Jinhua.
To be honest, Zhu Rong was speechless when he saw the twelve female generals of the Yang Sect that he had exchanged from the system.
Not only were they all female generals, but they were also the kind with four generations of grandparents and grandchildren.
This was actually a small problem. The key was that regardless of whether they were old or young, all the female generals that were exchanged were women in their twenties.
Most importantly, they still had their original memories.
They still retained their original address.
This made Zhu Xiong's scalp tingle.
It would be fine if they didn't know their status and seniority.
But Zhu Rong knew!
A young and beautiful Great-Grandma with a group of young and beautiful daughters-in-law, granddaughters-in-law, and great-granddaughters.
This scene made Zhu Rong panic.
But no matter what, since it was a talent that had been exchanged, Zhu Xiong naturally immediately made arrangements.
There were a total of 800,000 soldiers in the territory, excluding Qin Liangyu's 100,000 and Qi Jiguang's 100,000.
There were still 600,000 people left.
Thus, Zhu Rong gave these 600,000 people to She Saihua to distribute.
As for how they would be distributed, Zhu He didn't care. He believed that with She Saihua's understanding of the female generals of the Yang Sect, she would definitely be able to distribute them reasonably.
After that, Zhu Rong didn't care about anything else and placed the 600,000 troops and the 12 female generals of the Yang Family in the Wei City.
How to arrange defense, training, patrolling, and how to use the Eight Great David Cities to deploy the battle, these Zhu Xi were all packed up and thrown to the twelve female generals to study.
Zhu Rong himself started to organize people to find a place to build a new city.
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