Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 186 Population Boom, Valley Planning

April 20th, the first year of Daxia
Exactly one month has passed since Xia Hong integrated the six departments.

Seventeen days had passed since the exchange meeting.

The valley where Daxia was stationed had undergone earth-shaking changes.

After nightfall, people came out of the two temporary wooden houses in droves. There were fully armed hunting teams, adults who went out to cut wood in groups, women carrying wooden buckets to collect snow, groups of teenagers who went to the square outside the wooden houses to practice boxing, and children under the age of six who made an appointment to play together...

Anyone who is attentive will find that there are many new faces in the valley, including almost all men, women, young and old, and the overall population active in the valley is much more than before.

After everyone walked out of the wooden house, they would subconsciously look back and take a look at the wooden building being built behind, with a look of deep longing on their faces.

"The wooden building should be ready soon. Ordinary laborers are no longer needed. The more than 100 people in the craftsman workshop have been busy in it these days."

"Of course, it's already in the final stages. I heard they're decorating the rooms on the third floor. Yesterday I saw a lot of nice furniture being moved in. Wow, they were all wrapped in animal fur. I guess they're going to be put in the leader's room."

"I saw it last night, too. It was a chair with its back and seat covered in animal fur. Even the legs were carved from animal bones. There was a frost wolf head carved on each armrest. It was so beautiful."

"I saw it too. That chair is really beautiful. I asked my friend in the Artisan Department, guess how many contribution points I need to exchange for that chair?"

"How many?"

"How many?"

"70 points!"

"Tsk, 70 points, enough for a day of training at the martial arts hall."

"There's still 20 more points."

"A whole set of clothes is only 155 points. This chair is worth half of the clothes."

"Only the leader can afford it, right?"

"That's not the case. I heard that the hunting team members have also placed orders, and the craftsmen's department has accumulated a lot of orders."

"That's just an ordinary chair. The wooden bed, lampstand, brazier... everything in the chief's room is of the highest standard. Yesterday I saw a magnificent throne carved with more than a dozen patterns of cold beasts. I heard it was painted with gold powder from a slightly ground Jinlin tree. It must be for the chief."

"Needless to say, in our Great Xia, who else is worthy of sitting here except the leader?"

"The wooden building has been closed these days, and no one is allowed in."

"It should be when the construction is completed. I don't know if those of us who came later can get a house."

"I've asked the people in Daxia, and everyone can get a share, but it depends on your marital status. Married people can get a single-family residence by family, and unmarried people will live in a room for ten men and women."

"Oh, that's great. I have to find a wife right away."

"Hahaha, can you find a wife just because you want to?"

………………

Currently, the hottest topic of discussion in the camp is the wooden building.

The reason is very simple. Since the night of April 3rd, more than 5,000 people from the three camps of Xiaohe, Tongling and Sanhu were merged at one time. After that, it seemed like there would be no end. Every two or three days, a new camp would be merged. The population of Daxia thus ushered in an extremely exaggerated surge.

With such a large population, two wooden houses are totally insufficient.

If it weren't for the high temperature in the valley, the mine on the south side could still accommodate a large number of people. I'm afraid many people wouldn't even have a place to sleep.

Therefore, the new residence became the most concerned issue for everyone.

This is true whether it is the people from Daxia before or those who joined later.

…………

As everyone walked out of the wooden house, a large group of people were sitting in the main hall on the left. Except for the main seat which was empty, there were more than twenty people sitting on the left and right sides below.

Xia Chuan was standing next to the main seat, listening to Yue Feng's report below.

Yue Feng was holding a leather booklet with many tiny words written in coal pencil on it. He was reading the population growth of the camp with an excited look:
"In the first year of Daxia, on the third day of April, a total of 5219 people from the three camps of Xiaohe, Sanhu, and Tongling were merged."

"In the first year of Daxia, on the sixth day of the fourth month, a total of 1821 people from the Xifeng and Anping families were incorporated."

"In the first year of Daxia, on the eighth day of the fourth month, a total of 2521 people from the Jiuhe and Gukou families were incorporated."

"In the first year of Daxia, on April 2712, a total of people from the three families of Qujiang, Pingdong, and Yingkou were incorporated."

………………

As the data were reported one by one, the expressions of the other people present became more and more excited, just like Yue Feng.

On the other hand, Xia Chuan, who was in the lead, looked calm and just kept nodding.

After all, in the past half month or so, he was responsible for deploying manpower to help the people in these camps migrate here, and he had heard almost all of these numbers before.

After the exchange meeting ended, except for the two camps in Xiaohe and Tongling, the remaining nine medium-sized camps in Wuyuan Mountain sent people to visit Daxia the next day.

The effect of the visit was similar to that of the Xiaohe Camp.

The conditions at the camp in Wuyuan Mountain are indeed far inferior to those in Daxia.

As long as you are not stupid, basically no one will refuse to join.

Subsequent developments have indeed confirmed this.

Not only did these camps agree to merge, they even took the initiative to help Daxia find several other small camps, and took them with them to merge together one after another.

Of course, this process was not that simple. During this period, Yuwen Tao himself and the entire hunting department had no time to rest. They had to take people to survey the route almost every night. After determining the time, they would escort the people in the camp all the way to the Daxia Valley.

With previous experience in mind, Xia Chuan certainly did not dare to be careless about the large-scale population migration. In fact, if he had not been so cautious, the annexation of the Wuyuan Mountain camp would have been much faster.

Snapped……

While Xia Chuan was thinking, Yue Feng on this side had also finished his report.

Yue Feng closed the animal skin book in his hand. On the cover of the book, five big characters "Daxia Chronicle" were clearly engraved.

"Reporting to the Secretary, Lord, Yuwen Sizheng has already set out at nightfall. If nothing unexpected happens, the 1821 people from the Zhuhe camp will also come tonight. If this is calculated, the total population of our camp is now..."

Yue Feng had obviously already calculated it. He paused for a moment, looked around at everyone present, and finally shouted to Xia Chuan: "23231 people!"

hiss…………

The twenty or so people present gasped in surprise at the same time.

Even Xia Chuan, who had been mentally prepared, couldn't help but look excited, with a hint of excitement flashing in his pupils.

More than 23,000 people.

This is the result of merging the entire Wuyuan Mountain camp!

Leaving aside Da Xia’s current territory, the population size alone is already twice as large as the previous Jingxian Camp, and even more.

Who would have thought that just over a year ago, Daxia was just a small camp with a population of less than 200 people, on the brink of destruction at any time.

"More than 23,000 people. The population standard for a village camp is only 20,000. Is this the number for Daxia?"

After a long silence, Yuan Cheng, who was sitting below, couldn't help but speak.

When everyone heard this, their expressions couldn't help but become moved.

A camp with a population of over 500 is medium-sized, 2500 is large-sized, over 5000 is giant-sized, and over 20000 is a real village-level camp.

Daxia, without realizing it, has reached the population size of a village-level camp!
"It's just that the population has arrived, but the number of strong people is not enough. I once heard Chief Yuwen say that if we want to become a real village-level camp, we must have three kinds of mid-level spiritual objects to suppress the garrison, so as to achieve the effect of deterring the monsters..."

Meng Yi remembered what Yuwen Hu had said before he died, and stood up to speak. However, before he could finish his words, he saw the Lieyang Cauldron in the center of the main hall and stopped immediately.

The others, including Xia Chuan, also reacted and looked at the Fiery Sun Cauldron in the middle of the main hall with excited expressions.

They don’t understand what spiritual objects are.

But if they just want to scare away the monsters, with the Fiery Sun Cauldron, they don't need any spiritual objects at all.

"That means, starting today, we can call ourselves Daxia Village?"

Hearing Yuan Cheng's words, everyone became excited.

Meng Yi frowned, but thinking that what he knew about the village camp was what he heard from Yuwen Hu, and that he only had a superficial understanding of it, he did not say anything else.

From the perspective of deterring evil spirits, Daxia has indeed arrived.

I just don’t know if there are any other standards for a real village-level campsite besides this one.

"Let's not talk about this for now. As long as our strength is steadily improving, even if we haven't reached that point yet, we will reach that point in the future. Qiu Peng, tell me about the registration situation at the Supply Department!"

Xia Chuan glanced at Meng Yi and paid attention for a moment, but did not ask in detail. He turned to ask Qiu Peng next to him.

Qiu Peng was obviously well prepared. He also took out a roll of animal skin book, walked to the middle of the main hall, and began to report the situation to Xia Chuan.

"During this period, there are too many people joining the camp, and there are breakthroughs every day, so we can only report the latest data. In addition, the roster of Zhuhe Camp has been delivered in advance, so it is also included in the statistics.

Up to now, the total number of people who have registered their contribution value is 4113, including 431 people in the Digging Realm and 3712 people in the Logging Realm.

The remaining number of reservists over the age of six who have not yet broken through to the logging level is a total of 15231; there are 3887 children under the age of six.

These are the current population figures of the camp!"

After finishing speaking, Qiu Peng thought of something and immediately added:
"Sir, during this period, the number of people in the reserve force who broke through to the Woodcutting Realm has basically exceeded a hundred every day. The number of people who broke through from the Woodcutting Realm to the Digging Realm is about ten on average every day, and sometimes there are even twenty or thirty people, so the data fluctuates greatly every day."

Xia Chuan nodded. Of course he knew all this.

If I remember correctly, there were only 231 people in the eleven medium-sized camps in Wuyuan Mountain. There were 110 people in Daxia before, but with the death of Liu Zhuang and Tian Yu, there were only 108 left. If there were no breakthroughs every day, the number of people in the Digging Realm would not have reached 431. Not to mention the Woodcutters Realm, since the environment has gradually stabilized, they have been popping up like mushrooms after rain.

However, it should be said that the vast majority of people who have made breakthroughs so far are basically the more than 1,000 people who first formed Daxia.

This is normal. It has only been a month since the Mirror Fairy Camp was incorporated, not to mention the people from the Five Ape Mountain. Their integration was only a matter of about half a month. The breakthrough of this group of people will definitely take time to develop.

Although the martial arts hall is powerful, it can only accommodate 200 people every day. When the contribution points of latecomers are not enough, the people from Da Xia will definitely have priority. Recently, the contribution points of Jingxian's group have started to increase, and some people can enter.

As for the more than 10,000 people who came to Five Ape Mountain later, if they wanted to go in and practice, they could only spend some time accumulating contribution points.

"In addition, according to what the adults said, everyone's household registration has been registered in separate books. Married, unmarried, family members, including orphans, have all been carefully distinguished and all have been put into a register, which is here."

Qiu Peng said as he handed over the list.

Xia Chuan took the list, glanced through it briefly, and showed satisfaction on his face. He returned the list to Qiu Peng, then turned to look at Luo Yuan below and said with a smile: "Yuwen Tao is not here tonight. I should have told you about this, right?"

Luo Yuan stood up and nodded, and took out a beast skin book from the side.

"Sir, the hunting department has established eleven new teams during this period. Together with the original thirteen teams and minus the disbanded Xuanwu team, there are currently a total of twenty-three hunting teams..."

Seeing Luo Yuan talking freely and adapting to the position of deputy director of the Hunting Department so quickly, Xia Chuan showed a hint of satisfaction in his eyes, and thought to himself that Yuwen Tao was a sensible man.

With the incorporation of various major camps, the number of people in the Digging Territory has increased, and the affairs that the Hunting Department has to handle have also increased day by day. When Yuwen Tao approached him a few days ago and proposed to add a deputy director, Xia Chuan was not surprised.

What surprised him was that Yuwen Tao did not mention his own people, but instead proposed that Luo Yuan be the deputy chief.

Hong Guang's Xuanwu team was disbanded by his elder brother, and he could no longer compete for the position of director of the pioneer department. Xia Chuan thought at the time that Yuwen Tao had some objections and deliberately nominated a deputy director to let his own man take the position. He didn't expect that it was his villain this time.

"Hong Guang's incident was all his own fault. He killed Tian Yu and Liu Zhuang. I am also very angry. The chief's handling of the matter was very fair. I have no opinion. To be honest, I don't really agree with him. He went to compete for the position of the chief of the pioneer department, but I couldn't do anything about it. Now that such a big thing has happened, I am also responsible."

Thinking of what Yuwen Tao said the day before yesterday, Xia Chuan nodded slightly, put aside his thoughts, and continued to listen to Luo Yuan's report.

"Sir, can you please relax the requirements for forming a hunting team? There are nearly 200 people who cannot join the hunting team!"

Xia Chuan was stunned when he heard Luo Yuan's last proposal, but he quickly realized that the hunting team was not enough.

Currently, all 23 hunting teams are low-level and according to regulations, they can only have a maximum of ten people. That is to say, there are only 230 Diggers in the team. But now there are 431 Diggers in the camp, and there are 199 without a team.

The problem is that Yuwen Tao originally stipulated that there were conditions for individuals to create a hunting team: first, the creator must have a basic strength of more than 20,000 kilograms; second, there must be four members; and finally, they must hunt five low-level cold beasts of different species.

Yuwen Tao's rule is still very reasonable. With a basic strength of more than 20,000 jin and four digging-level warriors, even if they cannot defeat the low-level cold beasts due to lack of experience, at least they will have no problem saving their lives.

The regulations are reasonable, but the current quality of personnel cannot keep up.

There are too few Digging Realm warriors in the camp with a basic strength of more than 20,000 jin.

Xia Chuan also knew that among the eleven newly emerged teams, seven were created successfully only after the previous members of Da Xia reached the Digging Realm standard. Among the more than ten thousand people who came from Five Ape Mountain, only four reached the standard and successfully created a team.

Therefore, Luo Yuan proposed to relax the conditions, otherwise nearly two hundred people would not be able to participate in the hunting work, which would indeed be a bit of a loss.

Xia Chuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then finally shook his head and said:
"The regulations have only been out for a month, so we can't change them now. The 20,000-jin threshold is reasonable and there's no need to change it. If we relax the conditions, the hunting teams will be mixed and casualties will occur, which is not good.

How about this! We will keep the existing 20 teams, but you can discuss with Yuwen Tao and change the current team size limit. The low-level team can be expanded to people, but correspondingly, the mid-level and high-level team size limits will also need to be changed, and the monthly minimum hunting quota will also need to be changed. "

Luo Yuan's eyes lit up when he heard this and he nodded immediately.

If the 23 teams are expanded to 20 people each, a total of 460 people can be accommodated.

Not only did he make use of the remaining Digging Realm, but more importantly, the second thing he had wanted to say, regarding the recent increase in population in the camp and the increasing demand for animal meat, was also solved at once.

Xia Chuan solved the problem of the hunting department and finally turned his attention to Mu Dong.

Mu Dong understood what he meant and immediately stood up, bowing and saying, "Master Si Cheng, the wooden building has been basically completed and everyone will be able to move in tomorrow night."

Upon hearing that the wooden building was completed and could be occupied tomorrow night, everyone, including Xia Chuan, couldn't help but smile.

They are really crowded during this period.

But before they could be happy for long, Mu Dong continued:

"But sir, the current population of the camp seems to be a little too large. More than 23,000 people. The newly built wooden building can accommodate them, but it is not possible to allocate rooms to each household like we did before!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, including Xia Chuan. After thinking for a while, they all reacted immediately.

The wooden building being rebuilt now is different from the previous one only in the materials used and has much higher defensive performance, but the internal layout is still the same, with 360 rooms on the first floor, 280 rooms on the second floor, and 100 rooms on the third floor.

In the past, when Daxia had only a population of more than a thousand people, as long as one was married, one could basically get a single room, while unmarried people lived in rooms of ten people according to gender.

There are more than 20,000 people in the camp now. It is impossible to divide it in the same way as before.

Qiu Peng also stood up at this time and said, "Sir, excluding special orphans and single men and women, there are currently 5821 registered families in the camp. It is totally insufficient to allocate rooms as before."

5821 households. Xia Chuan frowned. There were only 740 rooms in the wooden building. Even if divided by household registration, an average of eight households could live in one room, not counting orphans and single people without family registration.

Housing has become a problem again!

This isn't really a big problem.

After thinking for a while, Xia Chuan's eyes lit up and he said:

"When the leader led us to discuss matters last month, I said that rebuilding the wooden building was only for emergency situations, such as the cold beast tide before. We need a place that can quickly gather everyone and has a certain degree of defense. Therefore, this wooden building itself is not for everyone to live in."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and remembered that Xia Chuan had indeed said this during the meeting last month. But the problem was that if they didn't provide accommodation for everyone, then where would they live?

"You all probably have an idea of ​​the effects of the Fiery Sun Cauldron, right?"

Xia Chuan suddenly pointed at the Lieyang Cauldron and asked.

Everyone looked at the Lieyang Cauldron and nodded.

During this period, the radiation range of the Lieyang Cauldron has been tested and it is within a radius of one kilometer.

The valley where Daxia is located is only three or four hundred meters wide from north to south, and more than one thousand five hundred meters long from east to west. The Lieyang Cauldron radiates almost the entire valley, even covering some areas on the periphery.

"After the new building is built, it will no longer be divided into rooms as before. 739 rooms, plus two temporary wooden houses, will be evenly distributed to everyone. This means that except for the leader, everyone else will have to squeeze in."

Even if the two temporary wooden houses were counted, the new building would have to accommodate at least five or six households, maybe even more. Five or six households would mean nearly twenty people. When everyone heard about so many people squeezing into one room, they were immediately shocked.

“So crowded?”

"How can we live here?"

"Twenty people squeezed into one room, that's unacceptable."

…………

Especially Yuan Cheng, he and Shi Lu have been in a hot relationship recently and they are about to live together. How can they live together without a room?

He immediately stood up and asked, "Sir, this won't work. It's too crowded. It won't be convenient for everyone, right?"

Seeing his impatient look, everyone knew what was going on and immediately lowered their heads and laughed.

Xia Chuan also laughed twice, but soon waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I've already said that the wooden building is for dealing with emergencies, not for you to live in. If you want to live in it, build it yourself!"

Build it yourself?
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, but they quickly reacted and their eyes lit up.

Yes, with the Lieyang Cauldron, the temperature of the entire valley is not a problem, and they can build other buildings in the valley.

Build a house that belongs to your own family?

Everyone's expressions instantly became excited.

Seeing that everyone was about to ask questions, Xia Chuan immediately waved his hand, signaling them to be patient, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet.

The space in the valley is limited, so not everyone can build a house. Therefore, not everyone is qualified to build a house. How to build, what materials to use, and how big a house each person can build also need to be specially planned and designed, otherwise problems will arise every other day.
Also, you are all in the Digging Realm, and you have your own things to do every day. It is impossible for you to devote all your energy to building a house. The construction materials, labor, and supplies needed, as well as the amount of contribution points required to exchange, must also be discussed by the Supply Department and the Craftsman Department together..."

Xia Chuan said a lot in one breath. Although everyone was confused, their expressions were still excited.

It's very simple. The more than 20 people present at the moment are all considered the senior leaders of the Daxia Camp. Since Xia Chuan intends to promote the policy of building houses, they are definitely qualified no matter what.

Only Mu Dong and Qiu Peng were present, and they listened most attentively. After all, their names were mentioned from the Craftsmen Department and the Quartermaster Department. And as they listened more, they realized that Xia Chuan was obviously assigning them tasks.

"That's all for now. Mu Dong, Qiu Peng, discuss it according to my ideas first, and show me the rules after you come up with them. Once they are passed, we can announce them."

"Yes, my lord!"

"Yes, my lord!"

It will definitely take some time to squeeze in. If you don't want to squeeze in, just spend your contribution points to build your own house. Thinking of the earliest members of the hunting team who always boasted that they had too many contribution points to spend, Xia Chuan laughed in his heart.

With the construction of the house, there is another channel to consume contribution points.

Moreover, it would require so much manpower and material resources, and the consumption would probably be considerable!

After solving the housing problem, Xia Chuan breathed a sigh of relief. Thinking of what Mu Dong Chengfeng said to him before he came here, he immediately asked the two of them.

"By the way, Mu Dong, Cheng Feng, didn't you say you had some new things that you wanted to show to the leader? Did you bring them?"

Mu Dong nodded first, a look of excitement appeared on his face, and he clapped his hands.

Outside the main hall, five people immediately walked in, each holding a tray in their hands.

Cheng Feng was also shocked and took out four bottles from his body.

Seeing that both of them were about to speak, Xia Chuan quickly raised his hand: "No need, I'll take you to see the leader, and besides..."

He turned his gaze to Shi Ping behind him and said, "Come too!"

Shi Ping was shocked when he heard this, and immediately followed excitedly.

(End of this chapter)