Chapter Eleven: Advancing Internal Energy

  After some thought, Yang Tian still decided to keep the mountain stronghold for now, after all, he had just received a windfall and wasn't lacking in resources.

  The whole village had nearly three hundred people, most of whom were carrying things, so the speed was not fast, but fortunately, most of them were young and strong, children and old people were either carried or supported to move forward, a large group of people finally returned to Baiyun Village before dark.

  It was already pitch black when they returned to the village. Yang Tian had originally planned to let everyone camp out for a night, after all, they were now considered villagers of their own village, and it was only one night's time, so there was no need to worry about them running away.

  But Wang Lao saw that the village had suddenly increased so many villagers, he was excited and insisted on pulling everyone together to build houses. For the villagers, it was of course better to live in a house, so they all rushed to help, even the elderly and children were helping to light fire torches on the side. As the saying goes, "many hands make light work", indeed it's not bad. 60 houses were built up in just two hours. Baiyun Village was filled with laughter.

  After arranging these people, Yang Tian finally had some free time.

  "Your Excellency, today's village situation is not bad. We have newly recruited 14 villagers, including one intermediate farmer who has doubled the arable land and output compared to ordinary farmers, equivalent to the efficiency of four ordinary villagers. I have already assigned him to open up new land for farming. As for resource collection, each villager can cut down 5 units of wood per day. Today, 10 out of the 14 new recruits participated in logging, but since they didn't work the whole day, we only collected 20 units of lumber. Adding to the 10 people who went this morning, we have a total income of 70 units of lumber today. The two scouts also found a suitable place for quarrying stone in the north of the village. This afternoon, six people started quarrying, but due to the distance, it affected efficiency and we only harvested 10 units of stone. Additionally, we built two more houses this afternoon. That's roughly the situation."

  Yang Tian didn't expect that he would actually recruit a mid-level farmer today. Why couldn't it be a mid-level pharmacist instead? Yang Tian was being quite greedy.

  But having a mediocre farmer is better than nothing at all, Yang Tian comforted himself.

  After some thought, Yang Tian said: "Today I captured this mountain bandit's lair and brought back a lot of resources, including an intermediate blacksmith. Tomorrow morning, we'll first build the primary market and primary blacksmith shop. This will be our village's main source of income in the future, so we can't be careless! Although once the market and blacksmith shop are built, we'll be able to upgrade to a secondary village. But if we do that, we won't be able to build the infirmary until the village is upgraded to a town, which will take some time. Therefore, I plan to hold off on upgrading the village for now and wait until all the buildings are complete before doing so."

  Wang Lao laughed and said: "Master is wise! It should be so, even if Master didn't say it, I would have suggested it to the village chief."

  "What wisdom is there? It's just that I've already experienced it once, so I'm more familiar with these pitfalls of the system. He said: "Our village now has a population of nearly 300, and Wang Lao must make good arrangements tomorrow. The sowing time at the beginning of the month has already passed for three days, and we must seize the time! If we miss it, we'll have to eat fish all next month."

  "Tianxia" has many hidden elements that players need to discover on their own, such as a territory with diverse food sources will slightly increase the morale of its people. The higher the morale, the higher the efficiency of labor. During siege battles, the probability of villagers helping defend the city is also higher.

  Yang Yang smiled and continued, "Tomorrow, arrange 9 C-level and 1 A-level villager to go to the tailor's shop as apprentices. After the blacksmith's shop is built, arrange another 10 villagers in the same way to go there as apprentices. And for the dock, arrange 18 PC and 2 A-level villagers to go in." Yang Tian also wanted to send more people to be apprentices, but a primary building can only hold up to 10 apprentices, and an intermediate building can only hold 20 people.

  As the deputy village chief, Wang Lao could see the information of the villagers that Yang Tian could see, and he also knew the qualifications of the villagers. After listening, Wang Lao frowned and said: "Master, we can't build a primary school now, and the villagers can't get basic education, so they can't learn primary skills."

  Yang Tiandao said, "Let them go first, it's always good to cultivate early. When the time comes, a well-built school will enable our villagers to learn skills and save a lot of time. The production building of Manchu people can increase work efficiency by 100%."

  "Alright! My lord, I will arrange this matter tomorrow."

  Yang Tian continued: "As for the other A-level and B-level villagers, don't move them for now. I want to turn them into soldiers. Our village is located in a remote area, surrounded by alien tribes, and without excellent soldiers, it's impossible to survive. You can arrange the rest of the villagers as you see fit. Also, yesterday I hunted some more tiger skins and put them in the warehouse. Tomorrow, ask Zhang Danni to take them out and make them into leather armor."

  "Yes! My lord!"

  ……

  Another night passed in meditation, and it was around 5 am again when Yang Tian ended his practice. His internal energy had finally leveled up, and since his internal energy was synchronized with reality, his internal energy in reality also reached the second level. However, this initial internal energy of the second level seemed to be of little use.

  He took a look at his own attributes:

  Name: Sunshine

  Occupation: Mute Fame: 250

  Identity: Village Head of White Cloud Village

  Merit: 0

  Level: 19 (7%)

  Commander: 9

  Military Power: 49

  Intelligence: 10

  Politics: 4

  Specialties: None

  Skills: Gathering Art, Primary Inner Strength (2nd stage), Basic Swordsmanship, Basic Marksmanship, Basic Knife Techniques

  Equipment: Iron long spear, leather armor

  Money: None

  After all, it's only been three days since the game started, and Yang Tian is still very satisfied with his attributes. I estimate that most players have only reached level 10 by now, and the stronger ones can reach level 12.

  Anyway, with nothing better to do, Yang Tian browsed through all the villagers' information and found that Wang Lao's loyalty had increased by 4 points, reaching 89. As long as it reaches 90, the NPC will basically not betray him. After two days of busy work, his level finally reached 5, politics rose to 60 points, and wisdom also rose to 19 points. Now his occupation has become a junior official, and an additional skill has been added:

  Persuasion: Increase the daily refresh amount of refugees by 10%, and increase the probability of special attribute NPCs appearing by 1%.

  It's a very practical skill, but Yang Tian knew that this wasn't unique to himself. All S-level NPCs given by the system who became low-ranking officials would receive this skill. It's just that his own deputy village head was SS-level, with more free attribute points gained per level, and he had obtained the skill much earlier than others.

  If Wang Lao's upgrade was expected, then finding a novice carpenter was unexpected.

  This carpenter was also subdued in the mountain stronghold, but his aptitude was only C-level. It's not easy for this carpenter, with his original D-level aptitude, to have grasped the primary skill by that one-in-a-thousand chance. Yang Tian didn't even look at the C-level aptitude NPC at the time, so he didn't discover it. And Wang Lao was busy all last night, probably not aware of it either, and didn't remind himself.

  It seems that today's construction has added another primary woodworking house. Only a primary doctor is needed, and the village can be upgraded to a secondary village.

  After having breakfast, Yang Tian logged into the game once again.

  As he walked out of the village director's office, Yang Tian saw Wang Lao arranging today's work for the villagers again. Now that the village had just been established, everything was complicated and there were many things to do. Once they got on track and each industry formed its own system, it would be much easier.

  But Yang Tian was also lucky to have obtained an SS-level administrative NPC, otherwise if it were S-level, many things would come to ask for his instructions, that would be annoying!

  Looking at his village, in just two days, from only three people to over 300 now, Yang Tian still felt a sense of accomplishment. The village finally looked like a real village, with songs and laughter everywhere.

  He walked to Wang Lao's side and mentioned the carpentry house, but unexpectedly, Wang Lao had also discovered it and was arranging for repairs. Yang Tian felt a bit helpless: Was he really somewhat redundant?

  But Yang Tian rather enjoys this redundancy, especially since he's very busy today.

  First, he brought two A-level NPCs to the military camp for training. Although Yang Tian now has a special-grade general, which can upgrade the military camp to an advanced military camp, upgrading mid-level buildings is four times that of building primary buildings, and upgrading high-level buildings is again four times that of upgrading mid-level buildings. The resources required are still unbearable for Yang Tian at present. However, all this will not have to wait too long, everything will change after the market is built.

  Afterwards, Yang Tian set off with Da Niu and Wu Ma, bringing along the remaining five A-level NPCs and all 25 B-level NPCs.

  His task for today was to level up, and the main attacker would be himself, of course. As for Wu Ma, although he was a mid-level general, this was just a title, his combat value had not reached that level, and being a mid-level general meant nothing. Yang Tian also didn't plan on letting those thirty NPC villagers take action, if one of them got hurt or killed, he would be heartbroken for half a day, it's better to wait until they become soldiers before doing anything.

  Although they didn't intend to take action, everyone was still armed and wearing leather armor. The A-level NPCs all held long spears, while the B-level NPCs were split between holding long spears and carrying pu dao.

  Yang Tian and the other two were equipped with iron long spears, while Big Cow and Wuma wore chainmail armor, greatly increasing their defense. Yang Tian was not interested in this iron ring-covered clothing; there was still a three-star tiger skin in the village's warehouse. Yang Tian planned to go to the system city to find a master-level tailor to make a set of Tiger King armor for himself. With such high-quality tiger skin, the leather armor would have at least 50 points of defense, making it top-tier white silver equipment. Under equal combat power, it was difficult to pierce with an iron long spear. (Iron Long Spear: destructive power 30-40, Pu Dao and Long Gun sharpness value are both 20-30, Iron Sword sharpness value is 10-20, ordinary leather armor defense value is 1-10, chainmail armor defense value is 10-20. If the defensive value of the equipment exceeds the sharpness value of the weapon, it can basically not be broken through. However, since "Tian Xia" is a game close to reality, even if you wear full-body armor with an extremely high defensive value, a giant boulder falling from above could still shock you to death.)

  Lei Yun Hu had just died for less than three days, and the remaining prestige was still there. The village nearby did not refresh high-level monsters, and the highest was only a 20-level wild dog. However, after walking out of the village for more than 10 miles, wolves, bears and other high-level monsters above level 30 would gradually appear, and even level 60 tigers would appear.

  But today Yang Tian did not dare to provoke those guys, with 30 pale 0-level villagers following behind him!