From refugee NPC to mythical general

Chapter 95 Exploding Gold Coins

Be it Zhang Zhao, Guo Tu, Pan Feng or Zhong Hui, in fact, in their hearts they had already determined that Zhuge Liang was the lord of Daming Town.

It's just that Ning Mengya is still the nominal lord of Daming Town. However, Ning Mengya took into consideration that more civil and military officials would be recruited in the future, and they might recognize her as the lord instead of Zhuge Liang.

That's why she wanted to give power to Zhuge Liang.

She has a clear understanding of herself. Although she is a player lord, compared with the NPCs in the game, especially Zhuge Liang, she actually has no sense of existence.

There are Zhang Zhao and Guo Tu in terms of decision-making, and Pan Feng and Zhong Hui in terms of military generals. If she gives the position of lord to Zhuge Liang, she can witness with her own eyes Zhuge Liang's struggle for hegemony step by step in the court, which will also be a happy thing for her.

Zhuge Liang shook his head and rejected Ning Mengya's proposal because many NPCs in Daming Town needed Ning Mengya to recruit and upgrade cities and territories, and he did not have such ability.

However, Ning Mengya insisted, and finally Zhang Zhao proposed that Daming Town should have two lords, with Zhuge Liang in charge of all external affairs and Ning Mengya making decisions on internal matters.

Although Ning Mengya couldn't make any decisions, at least she wouldn't make things difficult for Zhuge Liang.

And everyone knows that with Ning Mengya's personality, she would not cause any unpleasantness or power struggles. If Ning Mengya really valued power, she would not listen to Zhuge Liang in everything.

In this way, if civil officials, strategists or military generals are recruited in the future, they will be loyal to Zhuge Liang, while Ning Mengya's position as the lord of Daming Town will be retained.

Kill two birds with one stone.

"That's it," Ning Mengya said happily, "Zhuge Liang, you have to work hard. Whether our Dameng Town can truly become the Dameng Dynasty depends on you!"

Zhuge Liang nodded heavily: "Okay!"

……

The next morning, Zhuge Liang dispatched Pan Feng, Zhong Hui and five hundred other soldiers to the areas previously controlled by the Xia Dynasty, and deployed one hundred soldiers in each area to temporarily guard the safety of the city.

At the same time, all funds and food in the new territory will be transported back to Daming Town.

The total amount of grain stored up by the Xia Dynasty was 51389, and the amount of coins was innumerable, of which 3148 were converted into gold coins!

Since the Xia Dynasty had been constantly fighting wars to support the war without any rest, these gold coins had not yet been used.

If the ruler of the Xia Dynasty had not been so greedy and had proceeded step by step, putting all those gold coins to good use, developing domestic affairs, and then slowly making plans to annex other countries, he would not have been defeated so quickly!
After obtaining 3148 gold coins, the total financial resources of Dameng Town reached 3206 gold coins, 69 silver coins and 78 copper coins.

In the meeting hall of Daming Town.

A huge map was hung on the wall. Daming Town had almost occupied half of the territory in the north. There were four military defense zones in the territory of the former Xia Dynasty. As long as city walls were built in all these areas as the first buffer zone for defense, the security of the territory could be guaranteed.

It costs 5 gold coins to build a 500-meter-high wall in each place, and a total of 2000 gold coins are needed for the four places. This is not enough, and a moat must be dug in front of the wall to ensure the safety of the four territories to the greatest extent. Each city needs 100 gold coins for the moat, and a total of 2400 gold coins are needed!

These are all things that need to be done urgently. Only by defending all these conquered territories can these places be considered the territories of Daming Town. Otherwise, these places are so remote from Daming Town that they will always be in danger of being attacked.

Zhuge Liang transferred Pan Feng and Zhong Hui to guard Yuhuang Town and Jiming Town respectively, and stationed 200 soldiers in each of the four cities, totaling 800 soldiers!

After everything was arranged, Pan Feng and Zhong Hui went to guard their respective territories early the next morning. At the same time, Zhuge Liang also took Ning Mengya to the territory. Ning Mengya spent a total of 2400 gold coins to build city walls and moats in the four cities!

The treasury of Dameng Town now has 806 gold coins, 69 silver coins, and 78 copper coins. Because the Xia Dynasty's conquest was too fast, many people in the territory were displaced and even had no houses to shelter from the wind and rain.

So Ning Mengya spent another 100 gold coins to build houses for these people in various places.

After conquering these territories, the total number of people under Ning Mengya's jurisdiction reached 6153!
706 gold coins may seem like a lot, but as the number of people increases, various medical, educational, commercial and other facilities also need to be built up bit by bit.

All these internal development issues were handed over to Zhang Zhao and Guo Tu. Fortunately, because of their presence, Zhuge Liang could worry less!
There are many small player territories throughout the north, and all of them need to be conquered bit by bit in the future.

However, having learned the lesson from the Xia Dynasty, Zhuge Liang does not plan to launch an invasion war for the time being. He will give enough time for everything in Daming Town to develop first.

……

In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed. The development of Daming Town has tended to be stable, and the legacy problems brought about by the last war have been completely resolved in this half month.

All areas under the jurisdiction of Daming Town have begun to develop in an orderly manner, but the most acute problem facing Daming Town at present is still the lack of talent.

Ning Mengya still hasn't recruited any useful civil and military officials.

Although Ning Mengya was not very good at recruiting NPCs, she was really lucky.

Early this morning, outside the city of Daming Town, a military general came to surrender.

An eighth-rate general, an eighth-rate general defected? !

Ning Mengya immediately took Guo Tu and Zhang Zhao to greet the other party, only to find out that the other party was actually Huang Gai!

Daming Town is in need of talents the most, and suddenly an eighth-rate general defected. Everyone is naturally overjoyed. When Zhuge Liang learned that Huang Gai had defected, he went to greet him in person.

"With General Huang joining us, there is no need to worry about our Great Dream Dynasty not prospering!"

However, Zhuge Liang was very curious and asked Huang Gai why he came to Daming Town.

Huang Gai explained that he had been wandering in troubled times and had been unable to find a wise leader. When he saw the rapid development of Daming Town, he came to seek refuge there.

But even with this explanation, Zhuge Liang still felt something was wrong.

His clothes were ragged, as befitted a wandering refugee in troubled times, but his boots were intact, indicating that he had not walked very far, as if he had deliberately come to join Dameng Town.

It was not known whether Huang Gai had ulterior motives for the time being, and Zhuge Liang did not question him directly. He quickly arranged for Huang Gai to be the vanguard officer in the army and asked him to lead the soldiers in training.

"Mr. Guo, Mr. Zhang."

When Zhuge Liang found Guo Tu and Zhang Zhao, the two counselors immediately said to Zhuge Liang: "My lord, Huang Gai's purpose of surrendering is not pure. If he really was wandering in troubled times, why are his boots so intact?"

It seems that these two guys also noticed the problem, but neither of them pointed it out to my face.

Zhuge Liang nodded: "Let's see what his purpose is first."

(End of this chapter)