Chapter Ten Village Trivia

  Recruitment announcement for villagers will be released soon, and the system will refresh a number of refugees in the surrounding area. Some will directly enter the village to apply for membership as villagers, while others may wander around or join other forces if your development is too poor.

  Of course, the system will also refresh a certain proportion of thugs, thieves, and even small groups of bandits near the village, or brush out bullies in the village. This requires you to drive them away, eliminate them, or recruit them as villagers. Otherwise, they will increase day by day, and public security will decline.

  When the accumulated number exceeds a certain number of villagers in the village, it is possible that they will attack the village. If the village is defeated, it may become a den of thieves or a bandit's lair.

  In the village chief's residence, there is a stone tablet that records the various positions and villagers of the village. The stone tablet has a certain durability, and if it is broken, it means that the village has changed hands or been directly destroyed. The stone tablet also has a certain durability, and if it is not broken, it will slowly recover its durability over time.

  He also instructed Du Wei to patrol the village, and bandits and thieves would not be as abnormal as in other games with a bandit or thief label on their heads. However, bandits would harass and tease villagers, migrants, or travelers outside the village, while thieves would steal luggage and supplies from others. Bandits would rob, but since the village was newly built, they wouldn't refresh so quickly, only after some time had passed. Now that they've refreshed, what's there to rob? So, whether you have something to do or not, go out and deal with bandits, thieves, and robbers. You might get special good stuff, even special building blueprints. Some may surrender successfully and hand them over themselves, while others will hand over the loot they've stolen, robbed, or occupied. Although they are system-refreshed, the looted items won't be taken back by the system; whatever they've robbed is theirs to keep. Some might even become leaders, knights, or generals. In the Three Kingdoms era, many generals were former bandits, thieves, or robbers.

  The recruitment announcement was released for only a few minutes, and people with their families came to the village entrance in groups of three or five to apply to become villagers. Du Cheng, after all, was a strategist, and since the village had just been built, there wasn't much room for him to play a role yet, so he went to help with recruitment, or led those who became villagers to build thatched cottages, etc., which required basic resources such as wood and stone. To open up wasteland and plant crops, iron ore was needed to smelt into tools like hoes, of course, some refugees would bring their own living tools.

  Because Xiao Ying had 32 diamond coins and 320 gold coins from the "Kill Little Tiger" task, as well as some spare change from killing monsters, she set the tax rate to the lowest. The villager's heart on the village chief attribute panel immediately rose a small notch. It is very difficult to raise the villager's heart, unless you are willing to spend a lot of money or provide relief during natural disasters. Generally speaking, a villager's heart above 80 is considered very high, indicating that the area under your jurisdiction is peaceful and prosperous. Above 90 indicates that the people in your jurisdiction love and respect you. In theory, the villager's heart will never reach 100. When it exceeds 80, they will be very enthusiastic when recruiting soldiers or resisting enemies. If the villager's heart is below 60, it is generally difficult to recruit soldiers, and only forced recruitment is possible. However, the loyalty of forcibly recruited soldiers is low, and they are prone to desertion during battles. Training effectiveness is also poor, and their abilities are not good either. Recruitment requires spending money, while forced recruitment only requires military pay without spending money. Forced recruitment is essentially conscription, and the consequences can be imagined. Of course, if you have a lot of money, you can also recruit soldiers from NPC cities and bring them back, but the price will be several times higher than recruiting locally!

  When the village was first established, there were many trivial matters. Although it didn't take long for dozens of villagers to arrive, they all stood around discussing and chatting with each other, temporarily without houses to live in. This point can also be seen as a reflection of the high intelligence and virtual degree of 《yu望》NPｃ, which is not inferior to that of players. These villagers had nowhere to settle down and would not simply stand still waiting for arrangements like in other games. Instead, they would chat with each other, and some would even help out with tasks and offer opinions.

  Seeing so many things, everyone is busy, Xiao Ying also doesn't want to idle around and not do anything. The NPCs' intelligence is quite high, they will point and discuss. After walking over and reporting to Du Shou, she borrowed an axe from the villagers who had already become residents, led a few people to the nearby forest to chop wood. Trees won't turn into lumber if they're just cut down, you need to use skills on them, or directly use skills to chop trees. A few strong men went with Xiao Ying to chop wood, while some women started preparing to build a stove and cook, there were also many children playing around, feeling not much different from reality, only with more magical skills, virtual degree 99.999%. Of course, you can also XXOO in the game, it's okay with NPCs too, feeling about the same, just that the intimacy level needs to reach a certain level, otherwise you can only flirt and get some verbal benefits, if you force yourself, you'll be forced to stop and punished by the system. If you think you can withstand the system's apocalypse thunder, you can go try...

  Here's a note, NPCs can also be revived, but only if they are one of the five professions: military general, strategist, civil official, tactician, or knight-errant. The death penalty effect is the same as for players, the only difference being that players can recreate their account, while an NPC will disappear completely after dying ten times. Also, the names are different, generally you can't tell if someone is a player or an NPC unless they say so, 《yu望》 doesn't have identification skills like other games do, when you kill monsters or PK you can't see the opponent's level or abilities, you can only judge by their words and actions. Of course, for your subordinates or subjects under your jurisdiction, you naturally know who they are, and the system will also give hints on the attribute panel.

  Originally, Xiao Ying thought that chopping wood would definitely be faster than those newly joined villagers, after all, they were just ordinary villagers and didn't have any experience. But unexpectedly, not only was she not faster than them, but also slower than some of them. After thinking carefully, it's probably because her chopping skills were still at the beginner level and she didn't have much experience. The six basic skills that almost anyone can do a little bit of, it seems like she also needs to practice more when she has time. Relying on others is not Xiao Ying's habit, but what Xiao Ying is most eager to do now is to quickly develop the village and build a training camp to start training soldiers. Although Xiao Ying currently doesn't even grasp any ordinary soldier types, at most she can only train the most basic Pu Dao soldiers, but Xiao Ying has special soldier types Xuan Jia Hu Wei, which are on the same level as Hu Bao Qi, one of the strongest cavalry units in the game. As soon as they come out, they are already level 40, although currently, she can only bring 180 of them, it's better than nothing, at least it's enough to sweep away some bandits and robbers around the village.

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