Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 261 Construction bottlenecks, screening, and ideas for building an army
[Camp: Daxia (Level 0)]

[Lord: Xia Hong]

[Cultivation: Cold Resistance Mid-stage (Twenty-two Manes)]

[Territory population: 53129]

【资源：木820万煤752万铁416万银80金0】

【已开启建筑7：寒墟鼎（4级）、武道馆（3级）、炼药坊（2级）、炼器坊（3级）、黑土墙（2级）、英灵碑（3级）、黄土地（1级）】

[Unopened Building 2: Small wooden table, thick iron chain]

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In the main hall on the top floor of the main building, Xia Hong sat alone on the main seat on the high platform, checking all the resource data in the system with a mixed expression.

The good news is, of course, the skyrocketing growth of various resource data in the system, including population, over the past four months;
There are many things to worry about.

First of all, the system's judgment of the camp is still level 0.

"If nothing unexpected happens, they should wait until I open all nine buildings before they can determine the level of my camp."

Secondly, the conditions for opening the last two buildings are too difficult.

Small wooden table: Iron 10000, Silver 3000
Thick iron chain: Silver 1000, Gold 5000
Looking at the resources needed to open the last two buildings, Xia Hong couldn't help shaking his head.

The total of 400 kilograms of silver given by Longshan and Zhaoyang has been converted into the system's resource units. The conversion rate of silver is 5 kilograms for 1 point.

From coal to iron to silver, the conversion ratio is getting lower and lower. In the future, it is estimated that 2 kilograms or even 1 kilogram of gold may be exchanged for 1 point.

It takes 5 jin of silver to exchange for 1 point, which means that if you want to open the small wooden table, you must save at least 15000 jin of silver.

Under such a dangerous situation, the Longshan and Zhaoyang families could only take out 200 kilograms each to buy fire-condensing oil from Daxia.

This alone is enough to prove the preciousness of silver.

15000 pounds!
It would be impossible to get the money together without finding a silver mine.

The small wooden table was so difficult, let alone the thick iron chain.

"I still can't unlock these two buildings. The Yellow Earth and Black Earth Walls haven't been fully unlocked yet, so the upgrade conditions are not met. The remaining four buildings, the Monument to the Heroes, the Martial Arts Hall, the Cold Ruins Cauldron, and the Refining Workshop, all require silver to upgrade!"

In other words, even though there were enough resources, all he could exchange for were black earth walls and yellow land.

Without silver, these buildings will have to remain as they are.

"The only thing that can be upgraded is the Medicine Refinery!"

Alchemy Workshop (Level 2)
Upgrade conditions: 20 wood, 20 coal, 40 iron, 20 kinds of synthesis formulas

Xia Hong looked at the upgrade conditions of the alchemy shop, and finally checked the 31 current recipes of the alchemy shop, and finally felt relieved.

"Baiyin, Baiyin, we have to find a way!"

Xia Hong sighed, then waved his hand and placed the Hanxu Ding in the center of the hall.

He came back quietly. Many people in the camp didn't know that he was in the hall. Releasing the Hanxu Ding was a reminder to others.

Fire burst out from the Hanxu Cauldron, and a warmth immediately radiated outward from the hall. The radiation range of five kilometers warmed up the inner city, the outer city, and part of the outer city.

"Hey, why is the street getting warmer?"

"I didn't light the coal stove, but my house is warm."

"It's coming from the main building. Is the Holy Cauldron on fire?"

"It must be. The leader is back."

"Last time the leader took the Holy Tripod away, Master Zhu asked us to light coal stones to keep warm. The leader must have brought the Holy Tripod back."

...............

The heating effect of the Hanxu Ding was immediate, and many people immediately realized that it was Xia Hong who had returned with the Holy Ding.

"Meet the leader!"

The first person to arrive at the top floor hall was Qiu Peng.

"Meet the leader!"

After them came Zhu Ling who stayed behind in Xiacheng, Mu Dong, the director of the craftsmen department, and Cheng Feng and Bai Dongying, the director and deputy director of the logging department.

"The dew plague in Longyou has not ended yet..."

Xia Hong didn't waste any words and directly told Qiu Peng about the fact that dewdrops can invade the human body. He then ordered Qiu Peng: "To be safe, the camp supply department will immediately notify everyone. Currently, 53129 people in the camp, including you, will be screened with the Hanxu Ding. After the screening, I will put the Hanxu Ding at the gate of the outer city. All people coming from Jinggu will be screened."

"My subordinates will do it now!"

Knowing the seriousness of the situation, Qiu Peng did not delay. He bowed and left the hall directly to inform the rest of the people.

Mu Dong, Cheng Feng and Bai Dongying were the only three people left in the hall.

"Mu Dong, the weapon refining workshop seems to be very busy. Did you find something good?"

Just when Xia Hong returned to the main building, he heard someone making loud noises in the weapon refining workshop at the back. He guessed that something good must have been found, so he decided to ask.

Hearing Xia Hong's words, Mu Dong, as if he had been prepared, drew out a sword from his waist and showed it to Xia Hong with excitement.

The moment Xia Hong saw the blade, his eyes immediately lit up.

It was a horizontal sword with hundreds of forged silver lines on its sides.

An ordinary hundred-forged sword would naturally not cause Xia Hong to show such a reaction.

The key point is that the blade of the horizontal sword actually has a faint fiery red color. Even though it is five or six meters away, Xia Hong can clearly feel the high temperature emitted by the blade.

"The leader told us earlier that the weapon refinery can produce weapons with beast-suppressing properties. For such a long time, the craftsmen haven't produced any. I was so depressed. Today, thanks to the leader's great fortune, the weapon refinery produced one as soon as you came back. Hahahaha..."

Mu Dong was very happy. He had not been able to forge the beast-suppressing weapon that Xia Hong had mentioned for such a long time, and he was really depressed. He had never doubted Xia Hong, and had always thought that there was something wrong with his forging skills. Today he finally made one, which finally relieved his worries.

Xia Hong shook his head and chuckled, not taking his compliment seriously. He took the sword he handed over, touched the hot blade with his hand, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

As the name suggests, cold beasts like cold by nature. The cold light during the day makes them more energetic and violent, which proves this point.

So will weapons with beast-suppressing properties come with this strange heat?
Xia Hong stretched out his fingers and touched the blade, and found that its sharpness was no different from that of ordinary weapons forged by Daxia.

"Captain, this beast-suppressing weapon, like the cold-blooded knife on you, is designed for cold beasts. It is not very useful for humans. If all members of the hunting team can be equipped with this weapon, it will definitely greatly increase their hunting success rate."

Mu Dong obviously saw Xia Hong's intention to test the sword, and immediately explained. Xia Hong nodded, thinking of the description of the third-level weapon refining workshop, which said that there was a 1% chance of forging a beast-suppressing weapon, and immediately asked curiously: "You have forged quite a few weapons before, why did it take so long to produce one with the beast-suppressing attribute? Do you have an answer yourself?"

Mu Dong also knew about the 1% probability. He had obviously thought about it and answered with a guess, "I've thought about this too. If I'm not mistaken, only weapons that have been forged 100 times or more can have this beast-suppressing attribute. Recently, because the camp has been at war in Longyou, I've been mass-producing 100-forged weapons with the people in the weapon refining workshop."

correct!

The weapon must be forged at least a hundred times before there is a chance of it having the beast-suppressing attribute.

Xia Hong nodded and immediately agreed with Mu Dong's guess.

The number of ten-forged weapons produced in the weapon refining workshop is at least several thousand, even if there are not tens of thousands. According to the probability, there should be at least a few. He would not be so upset. Mu Dong's guess is obviously reasonable.

"How efficient are you in mass-producing Hundred Forged Weapons?"

When Xia Hong heard Mu Dong mention that the weapon refining workshop was busy with this, he immediately became interested.

It's no wonder that when he went to Longyou this time, he discovered that, not to mention compared with Longshan and Zhaoyang, even in the Beehive Camp, the popularity of hundred-forged weapons was much higher than that of Daxia.

Even now, among the 2,600 digging masters in Longyou of Daxia, 90% of them are still using ten-forged weapons.

This is the case with weapons, not to mention armor.

In terms of weapons, Daxia really needs to improve quickly.

"Not only weapons, but also armors are being forged as well. The weapon forging workshop currently supports a maximum of fifty furnaces for forging at the same time. The war is important, so we only have five furnaces left to forge other tools. The remaining forty-five furnaces, twenty of which are used to forge weapons and twenty-five to forge armors. Now all the craftsmen in the department are working in shifts, almost around the clock. In total, we can produce five hundred-forged weapons and two sets of hundred-forged armors every day."

This efficiency is really slow!
Although Xia Hong lamented the slowness in his heart, he also knew that this kind of thing could not be rushed.

The first ten-forged broadsword of Daxia, Jinghan, was forged by him personally. He knew very well how difficult it was to forge weapons.

Forging iron is not difficult, but the difficult part is to continuously hammer out the forging lines. This process cannot be skipped and can only be done by continuous hammering by manpower, so it is inevitable to consume a lot of time.

Armor is more complicated and complex than weapons, so it naturally takes longer to make.

This is still the bonus effect of Da Xia's weapon refining workshop. The speed of ordinary camps to forge hundred-forged weapons will only be slower.

"Don't worry, Chief. As the number of our Digging Realm craftsmen increases and their forging skills continue to improve, the efficiency will continue to rise."

Mu Dong obviously noticed that Xia Hong was complaining about the slowness, and immediately added a sentence.

"It's not that slow. Just do your best. I remember at the beginning of the year, you said there were 580 craftsmen in total. How many are there now?"

"There are 845 people now, including 320 in the Digging Realm. I heard from Qiu Sizheng that there are also many skilled craftsmen among the people coming from Longyou this time. There will be even more by then."

Almost a thousand people!
Xia Hong nodded slightly. After this round of population explosion, the camp's population would almost certainly exceed 10. By then, there would surely be a lot of talented craftsmen emerging from the camp, and it should be easy to exceed people.

"Cheng Feng, I have eleven kinds of medicinal herbs here. Take them to the alchemy shop for identification to see if any new elixir formula can be generated!"

After asking about the craftsmen department, Xia Hong immediately called Cheng Feng over, took out the eleven medicinal ingredients for boiling jade bones, and handed them to him.

Seeing the dazzling array of medicinal herbs in front of him, Cheng Feng’s eyes widened immediately.

He has been the head of the logging department for a long time and has seen countless types of medicinal herbs. He can easily tell whether a medicinal herb is precious or not.

He knew how precious the eleven medicinal herbs that Xia Hong took out were just by smelling them. Thinking that there would be several new recipes, he excitedly took Bai Dongying with him, took out the wooden box, and packed the herbs separately.

"You three are all chief officers after all. It's time to improve your cultivation. Is the camp short of beast blood recently?"

Xia Hong glanced at the three people and found that their basic strength had reached the limit of 30,000 pounds, but their skin membranes were still the same. It was obvious that they had never used animal blood. He immediately asked curiously.

Among the six chiefs of Daxia, there seem to be only four who have not yet broken through to the cold-resistant level. Apart from Shi Ping, the deputy chief of the Jurisdiction Department, there are these three.

"I have met Shi Ping in Wushuang. His basic strength is over 50,000. I think he is not far from a breakthrough. You guys should not fall further and further behind."

In the world of Bingyuan, strength is everything.

Although Xia Hong did not stipulate at the beginning that the strength of the six department heads must be stronger than others, at least they cannot lag behind by too much.

Including Peng Bo, Chen Yingyuan and four others, Da Xia's cold-resistant class has exceeded twenty, and with this round of territory expansion and strength growth, there will definitely be more and more cold-resistant class people.

If these three people fail to make a breakthrough, there is no guarantee that others will not have objections.

The three of them obviously heard the subtext of Xia Hong's words, and they all showed a trace of guilt on their faces. In the end, it was Mu Dong who answered:
"Leader, we are not short of beast blood, but since Si Cheng transferred a large number of troops to Longyou, we also know that the camp is in urgent need of manpower, so we try to save important cultivation resources such as beast blood for others who are closer to breakthroughs."

Hearing this, Xia Hong remembered that when he was in Wu Shuang, Qiu Peng mentioned raising the price of animal meat, and he immediately understood.

A large number of hunting teams have gone to Longyou, and the supply of animal meat has become tight, not to mention animal blood. All 32 intermediate hunting teams have gone to Longyou. It is estimated that the Quartermaster Department has no animal blood to receive, and all they have used is the stock.

Other ordinary people saw that there was going to be a problem with the supply of beast meat and began to run for it. However, the higher-ups in the camp like Mu Dongchengfeng and those with higher cultivation had obviously a much longer-term vision. Knowing that they were far from a breakthrough, they gave up their resources to allow others to break through first.

From the tightening of the two resources of animal meat and blood, it can be seen that the war in Longyou has obviously greatly affected the normal life in Xiacheng.

No, it’s not the Longyou war. In the future, any large-scale external war in Daxia will have a serious impact on normal life.

There is only one way to change this.

"Establish a regular army that can be deployed at any time!"

The vast military presence of the Blood Guard Army and the Longyou Army emerged in Xia Hong's mind. A hint of desire flashed across his eyes, and his expression fell gloomy again.

It’s unrealistic!

1. Strength exceeds the limit of 30,000 jin;

Second, each person shall be provided with a set of hundred-forged weapons and armor, and a thirty-crossbow;
Based on the soldier selection criteria of these two armies, Daxia would definitely not be able to do it.

Even if Xia Hong didn't study it in detail, he could roughly guess that at present in Da Xia, there were no more than 200 people in the Digging Realm whose basic strength reached the limit of 30,000 jin.

Moreover, these people are all captains of hunting teams. If they are all gathered together to form an army, their combat effectiveness will definitely not be low, and it will have a great impact on the hunting teams below.

"The most ideal situation is to let them develop and grow together, with the hunting team as the basic unit, and multiple teams jointly forming a large army. This will not only save a lot of time for running-in, but also will not affect their combat effectiveness."

The fact that only 23 people died in Wu Shuang's battle is the best proof of Xia Hong's idea.

"It will take time. I hope Longyou can stay peaceful for a while longer. Zhaoyang and Longshan should stop causing trouble for me!"

Not only time, but also resources must be available, especially animal meat and blood.

"Qiu Peng has already started screening people, you guys can go and help!"

Xia Hong noticed the movement of people below and knew that Qiu Peng had started to use the Hanxu Ding to screen people. He immediately sent Mu Dong and the other two away, then sat on a chair alone, constantly thinking about how to quickly improve his strength.

"The 1800 men will be back from Longyou soon, and the price of animal meat still needs to recover. In addition, martial arts halls, elixirs, salt, wine... these types of training resources should be supplied first to the Digging Realm and some of the Woodcutters who are about to break through. We should improve the number and quality of the core members of the camp as quickly as possible. The sooner the army is built, the sooner Longyou can be conquered!"

(End of this chapter)