Chapter 6: Senior Shipbuilding Engineer

  But how can I get to the county town? The place where I am now belongs to Wanning County, Kuaiji Commandery, Yangzhou. It's still a long way from the county town of Kuaiji.

  If you only go to Shuining County, it's not too far, and I estimate it will take about 10 days to make a round trip. Shuining County is also a small city with a high-level military camp, which is enough for me to promote my big cow to a high-level general. This is already a strong general in the early stages. After all, as far as Yang Tian knows, no player has been promoted to a high-level general since the game was launched six months ago. That is to say, no player has reached level 30. Moreover, not all players can be promoted to generals. Each military camp has a limited number of general promotion quotas, and a city can only have one military camp at a time. If the military camp is destroyed and the generals who were promoted in this military camp do not have other military camps with remaining promotion quotas to rely on, they will all be demoted to soldiers of the same rank, and such soldiers cannot be promoted to generals again. And this promotion quota is first-come-first-served, once the quota is used up, you can only rely on the general's promotion order to achieve promotion, at that time, it will be hard to come by. If all players could be promoted to generals, then NPCs would not need to mix in.

  But now how to get out of this desperate situation is also a big problem, walking is not feasible.

  By air and by sea?

  In Western game zones, it is still possible to fly over from the air, after all, the West belongs to a magical world, and there are many things like magic beasts. Taming a flying magic beast is difficult, but not impossible. However, in Eastern countries, birds that can carry people in flight are only eagles, cranes, vultures, etc., and they are rare and hard to find.

  As for traveling by water, Baiyun Village's primary dock is still under construction! If you want to build a ship, wait first!

  Even if you can walk out, the cost of transferring to a military camp in a system city is not small. The initial transfer of a junior general requires 1,000 copper coins, and each subsequent promotion of the general's level requires a tenfold increase in fees.

  Yang Tian shook his dizzy head and finally decided to temporarily put this issue aside for now and return to the village first.

  "Great! It's almost dark, let's head back to the village!" Yang Tian ordered.

  "Ah!"

  ……

  Back in White Cloud Village, Yang Tian saw that there were already over a dozen people busy at work! It seemed the villagers' recruitment efficiency was quite good. He recalled that when he first built his ordinary small village, only 7 refugees had been recruited on the first day. Moreover, according to other players, an ordinary level one village would only refresh with 5-8 refugees per day.

  It's actually a hidden attribute of the high-level village construction order, after all, the resource growth rate is high, and the village has good hidden attributes, which naturally increases its attractiveness to refugees. Moreover, there is also the signboard of the second village in the world hanging there.

  Finding Wang Liu Sheng, Yang Tian asked eagerly: "Wang Lao! How is the situation in the village?"

  "Wang Liu Sheng said: 'Sir, our Baiyun Village is rich in products and has a strong spiritual energy, which is known throughout the world. Many refugees have come to join us, and now our village already has a lively atmosphere.'"

  "Oh? Tell me more about it!"

  "This afternoon, our village recruited a total of 24 vagrants, including one junior merchant and one junior tailor. What's even more surprising is that we also recruited a senior shipbuilder, which is a rare high-level talent!" Wang Liusheng said excitedly.

  "Actually recruited a senior shipbuilder?" Yang Tian was stunned, a senior shipbuilder, that's someone who can directly build mid-level docks, it seems like his goal of going out to sea is one step closer. He hastily said: "Where is he now? Quickly take me to see!"

  "Yes, sir!" Wang Lao said as he walked. "I had him take four villagers to build a dock. We now have 27 people in the village, and each villager needs one unit of food per day. Our current grain supply is only 500 units, which would last less than 20 days even if we didn't continue to recruit refugees, not to mention future recruitment and feeding soldiers. An ordinary foot soldier consumes three units of food per day. Today is the second day of the first month of Lingdi Guang's fourth year, and it will take until the end of the month for the crops to be harvested after planting on the fifth day. Our grain supply won't last that long, so I had Li Zhuang (senior shipbuilder) prioritize building the dock and constructing fishing boats. We are a coastal village with abundant fish resources, and one fisherman can obtain six units of food per day. In contrast, the basic yield of one mu of farmland is only 150 units of grain. The dock should be almost complete by now."

  Yang Tian was very satisfied with Wang Liu Sheng's wisdom, and it was indeed worthy of an SS-level NPC. The S-level NPC from the previous life would probably only make suggestions to himself in such a situation, unless he had no other choice. An S-level NPC would not take the initiative to solve problems. Although it seemed like there wasn't much difference, if one weren't within their own territory and encountered some problem, it would be quite troublesome.

  Taking advantage of the time, Yang Tian continued to ask: "What about other situations besides the dock?"

  Wang Lao said, "The tailor's shop and the grocery store have just started construction. The village head ordered the military camp to be built early, and it has already been completed. Four farmhouses have been built, and by nightfall, probably another one can be built. Each building has 4 villagers working on it, and Tailor Zhang and merchant Zhao Qian are also directing the villagers to build. The remaining 5 villagers I let them go open up wasteland."

  These small buildings only need four people to reach maximum work efficiency, such as a private house. If one person builds it in one day, four people can cooperate and build it in two hours.

  After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the riverbank. The originally empty riverbank had already built a dock. Yang Tian was very familiar with the shapes of most buildings in "Tian Xia", and knew that the building in front of him was an intermediate dock.

  At this time, only a middle-aged man in his thirties stood at the edge of the dock, carefully examining the newly built dock.

  "Old Li! The dock is built, isn't it? The village head has come to see you." Wang Liu Sheng shouted from afar.

  It seems that middle-aged man is indeed Li Zhuang, whom Wang Lao mentioned. As expected, upon hearing Wang Lao's voice, the man turned around and smiled: "Wang Lao! How did this busy person have time to come here? ... Is this the Village Chief? Li Zhuang greets the Village Chief, thank you for your kindness in taking me in!"

  Yang Tian smiled and said: "From now on, we are all one family, Uncle Li doesn't need to be polite. In the future, I will still have to trouble Uncle Li to take care of many things in the dock!"

  "It should be so! My lifelong wish is to build the best ships in the world, and I will not betray the trust of the village head." Li Zhuang said.

  Upon hearing Li Zhuang's words, Yang Tian's heart was filled with joy, and he hastily asked: "I wonder which ships can Uncle Li manufacture now?"

  Li Zhuangdao said: "Because I am a senior shipbuilder, the current construction is a mid-level shipyard, so now we can build cruisers and mid-range fishing boats. When the high-end dock is built, I can start manufacturing warships and high-end fishing boats. As for higher-level sailing ships, such as Lou ships, I haven't studied them yet."

  It's indeed the case that once I'm promoted to Senior Shipbuilder, I can manufacture a warship. For now, I'll just have to make do with this junk boat, which is still better than a raft!

  The rules of "Tian Xia": Generally, villages can only build primary buildings, towns can build intermediate buildings, small cities can build advanced buildings, large cities can build special buildings, and metropolises can build ultimate buildings. However, if you have blueprints, you can also build higher-level buildings, such as a complete set of military camp construction blueprints, which can quickly build an ultimate military camp with sufficient funds. But if your military camp only has primary generals, the training efficiency is still equivalent to that of a primary military camp. And if you have advanced generals, you can directly build intermediate military camps and fully exert their training effects.

  Yang Tian continued to chat with Li Zhuang for a while, and the sky was completely dark.

  Yang Tian went offline to a restaurant outside to treat his stomach and then returned to the game.

  Although you can't level up by killing monsters at night, it doesn't mean there's nothing to do.

  "Great! I'll take you to the military camp for training. Try to become a qualified soldier as soon as possible. Don't you want to be a great general on the battlefield? Becoming a soldier is the first step." Yang Tian took out Da Niu, who had just finished dinner. The military camp had torches, so it was still possible to train at night.

  The big shot indeed didn't say another word and excitedly followed over.

  The barracks will provide various equipment for the trainees, of course, these cannot be taken out of the barracks.

  The primary military camp can only train swordsmanship, knife skills and gunplay, that is to say, now you can only be a swordsman, a knifeman or a gunman. After training, you will master basic knife skills or basic gunplay. Of course, you can also learn both, but that's obviously a waste.

  The training efficiency of the primary military camp is extremely low, and only two people can be accommodated for training at a time. Moreover, all functional buildings in "Tian Di" strictly follow a 12-hour work schedule, basically from 8 am to 8 pm. Although the military camp can be entered at any time, the usage time is still limited to 12 hours. For NPCs, in order to reach a training degree of 1 in the primary military camp, they can only train twice a day.

  However, there is an advantage to training in the military camp. When you start training, your body automatically accepts system control, and you only need to feel and remember. If you think you can complete the training, cancel the system control. Then, practice against the straw man in the military camp, if there are no errors at all, the system will confirm that you have learned this skill and enjoy the skill bonus.

  Yang Tian, who had already experienced this in his past life, would not be defeated by this small training and did not need system control. He directly picked up an iron sword and started dancing with it. Soon the system prompted that he had completed the primary swordsmanship training and learned the primary swordsmanship.

  Yang Tian learned basic knife skills and basic gunplay twice as it was.

  After arranging for Da Niu, Yang Tian returned to the village chief's office. Wang Lao was living in the west wing of the courtyard, and the oil lamp in his room was still lit, so he was probably still busy.

  Yang Tian didn't go to disturb him either and returned to his own east wing room.