Sure enough, after excluding Gram Village, a large open space between Gram Village and Qingfeng Castle can also be excluded.
The cost of building the fortress suddenly became much smaller.
The gold coins are still 20,000, the wood is 2,000 units less, the stone is 6,000 units less, and the working hours are 200 less.
But this is not enough. The previous Qingfeng Town was not well planned.
Before Xu Lai left, although it was roughly divided into several areas, the construction in these areas was still messy.
Fortunately, none of the buildings in the former Qingfeng Town and the current Qingfeng Castle were built by themselves.
In other words, these buildings are all controlled by the heart of the castle, including the corridors connecting the various buildings, which can be adjusted by Xu Lai.
Of course, this adjustment is not without cost. For example, the adjusted buildings need to be re-planned, which costs extra money.
The roads in Qingfeng Town are just ordinary stone roads. They are the advantageous terrain of the imperial camp, and the construction cost is extremely low.
Before building the fort, Xu Lai began a major adjustment of the entire town.
The layout is still no different from the previous one, but the center point is no longer where the Ministry of Interior is located, but has been moved to the Swan Lake.
In fact, Xu Lai's sphere of influence is centered on the heart of the castle, but town buildings do not need to be centered on this.
Moving the center point, of course, does not mean burying the heart of the castle into the Swan Lake, but means that Xu Lai wants to move most of the buildings to the west of the town square.
It is neither beautiful nor practical to simply divide a few areas and then throw the corresponding buildings into them as before.
There are too many twists and turns. Instead, we need to add more roads and increase the distance between the city walls.
Therefore, in the new layout, Xu Lai borrowed the Chinese idea of building cities and adopted a square structure.
In other words, Xu Lai wanted to build the new city into a square, but later in order to save more stone, he compressed the north and south directions inward a little and turned it into a rectangle.
In Xu Lai's plan, the outermost rectangle is the wall provided by the fortress.
The interior still needs to be divided into many different rectangles.
He first drew the largest rectangle with the north and south sides of Swan Lake as the upper and lower sides, the westernmost side of the town square as the left side, and the easternmost side of the senior training ground as the right side.
Then there was probably a distance of tens to hundreds of meters between this rectangle and the northernmost wall of the fortress. Xu Lai moved all the houses in the town here.
The second is the left side of the large rectangle and the westernmost city wall. Xu Lai also left a gap of tens of meters and moved all the shops including the blacksmith shop and grocery store here.
This is the future main street, with the residential area on the top, the manor, the town square and the church under the square in the middle, and the residential area below.
Yes, Xu Lai divided the residential area into two parts and placed all the houses to the south of the church, mainly for Wei Yihong, Tahan, and Yan Feng to rest.
Xu Lai’s original intention was not to create an area for the rich and powerful, or an area for the common people.
Although he is already trying to adapt, he is still not able to accept dividing people into different levels.
But the fact is that refugees are talkative and their families have no money.
The so-called poor people are of course just a slander. Rich people are more evil and more destructive.
But it is undeniable that when you have nothing, morality is really just a luxury.
After Xu Lai made such a distinction, he could invest all the limited security forces in residential areas, which would greatly increase security.
Sandwiched between the town center and Swan Lake is the original agricultural area. After Xu Lai hesitated, he finally decided to keep it as it is.
There is no open space left for planting in the fortress. If one day he is besieged, he will have no choice but to break out, otherwise he will starve to death in the city.
The scale of the agricultural area is still quite large now, but Xu Lai doesn't know whether it will be enough when the population of the fortress becomes more dense. In short, as long as he can still farm, it is impossible for him to starve to death.
Between the agricultural area and the military area, there is still a Swan Lake. There is also a dense forest planted by forest demons around the Swan Lake, which plays a good role in blocking the sight.
The east side of Swan Lake is the military zone. Before building the fortress, Xu Lai rearranged the various buildings in the military zone, giving priority to upgrading the gunner training camp and shooter tower.
These two training camps are now upgraded, and the extra spots can be recruited at the end of the month.
Swordsman Training Camp Xu Lai is not eligible for promotion. He has to upgrade his fortress into a castle, and there is a base camp in between.
By the way, Xu Lai also put down the crossbowman tower and the griffon fortress.
The attributes of the crossbowman tower are similar to those of the archer tower. After being put down, it can be immediately upgraded to a heavy crossbow camp. However, because there is no crossbowman tower in the wild, the recruitment quota is only 10 people.
Another Griffin Fortress is worth talking about, because this thing is a semi-hidden building.
What does it mean to be semi-hidden? The Griffin Fortress exists in the empire directory, but the entire empire is only found in the eastern region. The reason is also very simple. This thing is a relatively rare building that can only be built through architectural drawings. Unlike crossbowmen, archers, infantry, spearmen, even cavalry and mages, they will always appear when the town is upgraded.
Furthermore, the architectural drawings of the Griffin Fortress can only be obtained by destroying the building that is also the nest of the flying soldiers.
Ordinary griffons are at level 4, which means that at least the nest of level 4 flying soldiers must be destroyed before they can appear. The probability is not high.
At that time, High King Aled unified the entire empire and drove all the undead and demons to the corners of the world. At that time, there were not many architectural drawings of the Griffin Fortress.
In order to produce as many of these extremely helpful flying soldiers as possible, Aled decided at that time to build all the griffon fortresses in the empire to the east of the empire.
It is the hometown of griffons. The castle can be upgraded to a griffin castle, which can greatly increase the production of griffins.
For this reason, the Grand Duke Yuwenjia in the eastern part of the empire has always been known as the Grand Duke of Griffin.
The only and most elite Royal Griffin Legion in the entire empire is in the hands of the Duke of Griffin. The several marquis under his command also have their own Griffin Legion.
This is also why Yuwen Shaoguang of the Eastern Empire was able to withstand the entire undead camp with a quarter of the empire's power. The nobility of the flying arms can only be matched by at least a high-level mage.
Of course, after the empire split, no one would be willing to enforce the original rules.
After thousands of years, there is no guarantee that no other noble has a private collection of drawings of the Griffin Fortress.
But the empire has just been divided. Even if other nobles immediately build and upgrade, the number of griffins should not be enough.
And the human griffons themselves live in the east of the empire. The nobles in the east can tame wild griffins and use wild griffins to lead the griffin army.
Other nobles, even if they recruit a certain number of griffins, cannot lead the army independently. Even something like a captain's order has no effect on the griffons.
There is no thunderbird nest in the orcs' base camp, but there are several golden eagle nests, and even a roc nest.
As a destroyer, it is not surprising that Xu Lai happened to reveal a drawing of the Griffin Fortress.
[Griffin Fortress]: Provides 5 level 4 griffons every month. The construction cost is 5,000 gold coins, 200 units of wood, and 100 units of stone.
Note: This building is a heroic building...you can only own one.
Note 2: You can spend 10,000 gold coins, 500 units of wood, and 200 units of stone to upgrade this building to a high-level griffon fortress. It will provide 10 level 5 combat griffons every month, and you can spend gold coins to directly upgrade the building to level 4. The gryphon is upgraded to a level 5 combat gryphon, which requires a castle.
Currently, griffins can only recruit 5 units a month, and this unit is a biological creature, and the captain's order cannot make it speak.
To control a griffon perfectly, a griffin trainer and a griffin captain or a wild griffin are also indispensable.
For the time being, Xu Lai just recruited 5 of them to take a look.
This thing is extremely large in size and is a completely ferocious beast.
And unlike the golden eagle, its body is not big, but its wings are big. The wings and body of the griffin are big.
This thing is a combination of a lion and a vulture. Whether it is flying or on the ground, its combat effectiveness is quite fierce.
But because of this, this guy has a huge self-respect. Even if the knight takes off all his armor, it will be difficult for him to carry him to the sky.
However, Xu Lai heard from Archbishop Duer that after the Griffin Archduke and Bastion joined forces to fight against the undead, they seemed to be developing a new griffon unit.
Human knights, not to mention griffins, even fighting griffins cannot carry them. The 6th-level royal griffins can barely carry them, but they have no combat effectiveness at all after carrying the knights.
The combat effectiveness of a level 6 royal griffon plus a level 6 knight is worse than that of a militiaman. A single dive might destroy both himself and the knight.
But what if the Royal Griffin doesn't cooperate with the human knights?
It just so happens that there is a race in the barrier camp that is only half the height of humans, much stronger than humans, and only slightly less agile.
They are very strong, but only half the weight of humans. They are also good at forging weapons and armor.
Their rune armor, mithril armor, has the highest defensive power in the mainland, but is only slightly heavier than leather armor.
However, Xu Lai is not optimistic about the combination of dwarves and griffins. Although the dwarves are shorter and lighter, they are also shorter.
As we all know, the knight's charge has always been about who is longer. This is even more important than the level of both parties.
After even the Griffin Fortress was created, the entire military area was roughly laid out, and there was still a large open space that could be left for further use after the fortress was upgraded.
After everything was ready, Xu Lai began to invest gold coins and resources to formally build the fortress.
According to Xu Laixin's layout, the entire fortress will require 20,000 gold coins, 4,000 units of wood, and 12,000 units of stone after circling the city, which is more than half of what it was originally.
The most important thing is that Xu Lai estimated the area. Because there are fewer twists and turns, the actual area within the fortress area has not decreased much.
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