In the past two months, Brother Zheng had been thinking of ways to get information about Wannian City. Moreover, there were hundreds of thousands of troops at the border waiting for battle.
However, Wannian City was being built with each passing day.
The population grew rapidly.
The auxiliary city was also slowly being completed.
The fertile fields were also continuously plowed.
The number of troops was also increasing.
The speed of development was simply unexpected. Everyone would probably be shocked if they knew about this speed of development.
Wannian City was like a newborn beast, looking down on this vast prairie.
The main city was its body, and the sub-cities were its limbs.
Right now, the entire Ten Thousand Year City looked so majestic, vast, and domineering.
This was already the 230th day since Ying Jing had obtained this system.
Currently, the daily population of Ten Thousand Year City had already reached 23,000 people a day.
The population had also increased by 1.8 million.
Now, the population of the entire Wannian City was already more than 2.69 million.
This was already a terrifying number.
Because in the entire Ten Thousand Year City, including the Wei City, it was only a hundred square kilometers.
In this 100 square kilometers of land, there were more than 2.69 million people living.
It was obvious that because of the increase in population, the population that the entire Ten Thousand Year City could withstand was about to break through another limit.
Ying Jing was already mentally prepared. He had even built eight sub-cities to share the population pressure of the main city. He had also made an extremely detailed plan for the entire Wannian City. All kinds of supporting facilities were almost perfect.
But now, Ten Thousand Year City still had to face all kinds of problems.
The food, drink, toilet, and sleep of millions of people had to be solved.
Moreover, this problem would increase as the population continued to increase every day.
The resources around Wannian City were also limited.
For example, wood.
The construction of houses, the manufacture of weapons, and the expansion of cities all depended on wood.
However, there were restrictions on the wood around Ten Thousand Year City.
Now, all the wood within a hundred miles of the city had been cut down.
Even though Ying Jing had tried his best to use pure iron to forge weapons, it was still inevitable that he would consume too much wood.
Other than that, the army's food consumption was also very high.
Ever since the envoy group left, Ying Jing had been making preparations. He was afraid that Brother Zheng would find someone to deal with him one day, so he had been working hard to expand his military strength.
In two months, Ying Jing had expanded the military strength of the entire Wannian City to 800,000, which was four times the size.
However, these 800,000 people consumed more food than ordinary people because of their daily training.
However, if he wanted to build a strong army, weapons were definitely needed. However, individual ability and physical strength were also important. A large amount of training was a must.
Ordinary people only needed one catty of grain and two or three taels of meat a day.
However, the consumption of soldiers in the army was two to three times that of ordinary people.
This brought Ying Jing a lot of food pressure.
Now, half of the daily food consumption was for the 800,000-strong army, and the other half was for the other people.
In other words, the daily consumption of food in Ten Thousand Year City would reach three to four million catties.
Fortunately, Ying Jing had also reclaimed 300,000 mu of land outside Wannian City, of which 200,000 mu were potatoes and 100,000 mu were planted with various vegetables and fruits.
The seeds of these vegetables and fruits were also exchanged from the system.
Coupled with the auxiliary effect of ripening fertilizer, they could basically harvest once a month. This was also the limit of the current development of Wannian City.
The area of cultivated farmland was almost two or three times the area of the current Wannian City. Therefore, it was a little inconvenient for those people to go to the fields every day.
Some people might even have to take a carriage and walk for half a day to reach the land they were responsible for.
Ying Jing also sent out a group of troops to patrol every day to protect the people who were farming outside the city.
In fact, these were not the most important things. The most important thing was that the entire Ten Thousand Year City had already begun to have an excess of manpower.
Although Ying Jing had tried his best to arrange jobs for all the people, there were only so many jobs in Wannian City. The scope was so big, and the things that needed to be done were so big. Other than entering the army, the other jobs had already reached the point of overcrowding.
Therefore, many commoners, even female commoners, could only wander around the city every day because they had not had time to arrange jobs.
Even though these commoners would not cause any trouble.
However, this was definitely a waste of human resources. Ying Jing's heart ached.
At this moment, Ying Jing had no choice but to make two choices.
The first was to expand the city to 600 square kilometers, or even 1,000 square meters. However, if he did that, the eight citadels that he had painstakingly built would be wasted.
Moreover, there were still 300,000 mu of farmland here. How should he plan for this?
Moreover, the most important thing was that the resources within a radius of 100 miles were already beginning to run out, especially the wood. It was simply not enough to support the subsequent expansion.
The second was to build a new city outside of Wannian City. Moreover, this city could not be too close to Wannian City to avoid taking up the resources around Wannian City. It could not be too far away either. Otherwise, if there was a war, they would not be able to get the support of Wannian City in time.
Furthermore, they had to have sufficient resources and land that could be easily reclaimed.
He had to choose the place carefully.
Moreover, there was a huge risk in this. If they were targeted by the Xiongnu people or Brother Zheng's people and caused trouble again, what should they do?
If he chose the second option, he would have to choose an army to protect him.
In fact, Ying Jing could only choose the second option because he did not have enough resources for the first option.
Because of this, Ying Jing had expanded his army by four times in just a few months. It was to prevent the Xiongnu people and Brother Zheng, and also to lay the foundation for building a second city.
In order to properly manage these 800,000 people, Ying Jing generously used 12,000 points to exchange for 12 junior military elites from the mall.
But this time, like Mu Guiying, they were all fictional characters from folk operas.
He didn't know if this was a chain reaction caused by Ying Jing exchanging for twelve people in one go, or if the system was deliberately playing with him.
Because this time, he had actually exchanged all the Yang family's loyalists.
It could also be said that he had exchanged for a group of lonely widows.
They were the twelve female generals of the Yang family that had been passed down through the generations.
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