The Three Kingdoms Online Overlord
/ The Three Kingdoms Online Overlord Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Sweet Potato
System announcement: "Congratulations Three Kingdoms China server player Searing Sun for building the first village- 'Mountain Village'. Searing Sun has been specially awarded 200 Fame and the title "First Village under the Heavens" has been awarded to the village. An additional special crop has also been awarded!"
Yang Rui was slightly surprised by the system announcement. After some consideration, he finally chose one.
"Sweet potatoes has been selected."
The rewards that the system gave were expected. War of the Worlds placed heavy emphasis on balancing, so it is natural that the rewards were low.
The true meaning of negligible is the 10% increase in special villager spawn rate! The Special villager spawn rate is extremely low, the forums in his past life estimated it to be around one in ten thousand chance of spawning. With such a base spawn rate, a 10% increase is hardly worth anything.
For example, the recruitment rate of settlers is around 10 person everyday (not including special events, missions, or selected periods in history*). The First Village under the Heavens gives an additional 10%, meaning just 1 more than the rest. The difference is not that big.
*TL notes: the game follows actual recorded history.
The only thing that caught Yang Rui's attention was the special crop. Potatoes, peanuts and sweet potatoes; These three kinds of crop was very commonly seen in real life. However, the game classifies these crops as foreign crops to the Three Kingdoms era, causing many players to be in a serious dilemma over the choice given.
Yet, Yang Rui quickly remembered an entry regarding China's population growth. If he was not wrong, the introduction of sweet potato greatly increased the growth of population! They were easy to grow, adapts quickly and has a high production rate. Yang Rui chose it because of these reasons.
During the late Han dynasty, food was extremely scarce. Although it was still at 180 AD, it was only 3-4 years until the Yellow Scarf rebellion. However, famines have already become very common. Food production would undoubtedly be a priority, when looking at future development.
Just as Yang Rui selected sweet potato, a bundle of 3000 sweet potato sprouts appeared in the storage of Mountain Village. Expires in 3 days!
"Sweet potato: Foreign crop. Method of planting: Stem cutting."
A Beginner-grade village has a system storage of 100 blocks. Each block can hold 1000 items. This is a lot more than a player's inventory. Yang Rui stored all the equipment like mineral ores and misc things into the village storage.
Village name: Mountain Village = Beginner-grade village base.
Title: First Village under the Heavens. A well-known location, increases recruitment rate of settlers by 10%, settlers with talents recruitment rate increased by 10%
Level: low
Village population: 4/50
Happiness: 80%
Public order: 80%
Special Attributes:
-Settler spawn rate increased by 10%.
-Settler with special talent increased by 10%
Resources:
Food – 200 units
Stone – 100 units
Wood – 100 units
Money – 1008 copper coins
Level-up Requirements:
Food – 2000 units
Stone – 1000
Wood – 1000
Money – 20000 copper coins
Village area: 1 square kilometer
Total Territory Area:
20 square kilometers (Normal territory area is set at 10 square kilometers. Area has been doubled as compensation for poor soil quality.)
Existing building:
1x Village government building
1x Residential building (Low grade straw house; Capacity: 5 people)
Skimming through the village info, Yang Rui had already guessed most of it. The only interesting point was the increase in village territory. The soil quality was really bad, if it was not the system will not give them a 100% increase as compensation!
The soil quality is split into 3 tiers: fertile -> average -> infertile.
Each tier can also be split into sub-tiers. A village with average quality soil would be awarded 10 square kilometers of farmable land. The system adjusts the area given according to this benchmark.
To actually be compensated twice the normal area…
"Commoner Cheng Li (Cheng Pin) greets his Lord!" Cheng Pin and Cheng Li greeted at the same time.
Two figures walked out from the Village Government building and bowed to Yang Rui.
"No need for such courtesy. The development of Mountain Village will rely on each of you, so I hope you will give it your all!" Yang Rui returned the gesture and replied. Then he also took the opportunity to check Cheng Li and Cheng Pin's attributes.
"Us brothers come from a farming background. We only have our strength to offer. If the Lord has any requests, we will fulfill it even if it costs us our lives!" Cheng Li, Cheng Pin replied earnestly. Wang Hai merely waved at them as a acknowledgement, but remained silent the whole time.
“Name: Cheng Li
Identity: Villager of Mountain Village
Quality: A grade
Loyalty: 80
Talent: Beginner level General
Life skills: None
Occupation: None
Fame: 0
Achievement: 0
Level: 10
Strength:30
Intelligence: 6
Politics: 5
Leadership: 9
Gold: 100 copper coins…"
Looking at Chen Ping and Chen Li's attribute points, Yang Rui became speechless. What kind of villagers are these? Aside from the Beginner level General talent, none of them had any inclination towards politics or management. It didn't make any sense!
Yang Rui looked at Wang Hai standing beside him. The weird attribute distribution might be due to him! Most of the time, the system assigns 2 beginner villagers; a scholar and a warrior.
Perhaps due to Wang Hai's presence, the system recognizes him as the scholar?
Although he felt rather sour about it, Yang Rui didn't mention it. He began assigning tasks to Cheng Pin, Cheng Li and Wang Hai.
The 10 daily new settlers do not arrive together, instead they trickle in alone or in pairs once in a while. When they arrive there has to be someone to recruit them, and help them with changing their citizenship. Hence, total manpower was lowered to only 4 people.
Since manpower was quite low, Yang Rui could not afford to assign roles to anyone just yet. Any work was to be done together. As long as the village head remains online and adjusts the tasks accordingly, the village would grow very efficiently. Yang Rui has already built a straw house and was close to completing his second one. He had to build a few more, or he would lose a few settlers if there aren't enough accommodation.
Aside from this, farming was also of utmost importance. After the straw houses were done, and new settlers were assigned to them, Yang Rui assigned more people to the fields to prepare the soil. Within 3 days, the 3000 sweet potato seeds should be planted. In such poor soil conditions, probably only sweet potatoes could be grown here. Yang Rui has already decided to use all available soil to plant sweet potatoes.
Ignoring Yang Rui's recent efforts in village development, the game forum was filled with news about the 'First Village under the Heavens' achievement.
Everyone's reactions were huge, but most people were only focused on Yang Rui's levelling speed and the rate he was building the village. They were all unaware of the difficulty in acquiring a Settlement Order, or its rarity.
Of course, there were many people that sent friend requests to Yang Rui. Some looking for allies, others wanting to recruit him. There were a few odd requests as well like offering their 'services'. These were all ignored by Yang Rui, who has decided to just turn his friend request list off.
After the assassination incident in his past life, Yang Rui no long held any trust in the players within the game.
However, there were people who were aiming for the 'First Village under the Heavens' as well.
USA:
A soldier with a five-star armband was talking to his men, "George, have you heard? The village set up in the Taishan region, is the government involved? Verify it. Jack? Has your team found any information regarding the geography of that village?…"
Saudi Arabia:
A man wearing a huge hat had a grim expression on his face, "Peter! Peter! Oh, why is the progress so slow! The goal was right there, how come no any actions were taken? Have you seen it? Have you seen it! The First Village under the Heaven was taken by someone from PeK! Do you think you still deserve to wear that blue suit?"
Japan:
A man wearing a kimono was shouting at a group of men.
"Useless! Stupid! I'm giving you three days to find out everything regarding that village! Or prepare to receive your punishment! Also, the Second Village must be ours! Or you better prepare yourself for punishment! Now get out of my sight! Now!"
Once everyone was out of sight, the door was locked. He tore off the kimono of the woman beside him with fervor. Releasing his anger the only way he knew how.
Translated by doodlebleh
Edited by Sage
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