Of course, even so, Xu Lai still couldn't build a complete fortress.
Before, it was upgraded and newly built. The stone alone consumed thousands of units. Now, there are still more than a thousand units short of building the castle.
Relying on the quarry outside, it should be completed in about a week. This is when the house or other buildings are no longer under construction.
Xu Lai couldn't afford to wait for a week, but fortunately he didn't need to wait.
It’s not that he found enough stones, but that he doesn’t need to surround the entire town. How can he and the townspeople get in and out and fly out every day?
Therefore, he needs to have city gates and towers where archers can be stationed.
Xu Lai can open up to four gates in the four directions of southeast, northwest, but considering the defensive pressure, he only opened the gates on the south and east.
The east gate is located directly in the military area, making it easier to mobilize cavalry.
The gate on the south side does not rely on anything. When you enter, you will find the agricultural area and Swan Lake. The military area is also directly accessible by road, which is very convenient.
The most important thing is that as soon as the two gates are opened, the wood resources increase by 2000 units, but the stone resources suddenly decrease by 2000 units.
While Xu Lai is satisfied with the construction of the fortress, he still has a little stone left to sustain the current daily construction of wooden houses, wood upgrades, etc.
There is no way. Since Xu Lai has judged that there will be a large-scale migration of people, if he doesn't prepare in advance, will he drive people away when the time comes.
After reducing resources by half, the construction period was of course greatly shortened. It only required 500 hours, which is a full 100 hours of work by five farmers.
Of course, in Qingfeng Castle, there is no need to do this.
Since Su Ya took back the carpenters and quarryers, there are two types of farmers in Qingfeng Castle the most, construction workers and farmers.
There are almost 16 in the former and nearly 20 in the latter. The rest are farmers who have changed their jobs to carpenters, quarrymen or even horsemen, and they can no longer change their jobs back.
Constructors can build buildings 50% faster than simple farmers.
It’s not much, but with Su Ya’s manager bonus, the speed of all construction workers will increase by 70%.
Xu Lai selected the best among these construction workers and selected the six construction workers who were the first to transfer jobs. Two of them had already transferred to higher-level architects.
The speed of architects is 1.5 times that of construction workers, which is equivalent to 2.25 times that of ordinary farmers. With the 20% efficiency blessing of managers, it is not a problem for one to serve as 2.5.
The six construction workers in Xu Lai are equivalent to 11 farmers, and each of them only needs to work 45 hours.
After deducting 8 hours of sleep a day, Xu Lai was more humane and allowed 2 hours to eat and rest, which is equivalent to only needing 3 days to build the entire fortress.
Let Xu Lai hopefully see his family's fortress before rushing to study at the military academy.
Moreover, under Su Ya's arrangement, there will be farmers working the night shift, that is, when these six farmers have a rest, other farmers will take over at night.
However, there are not many farmers at night, and they cannot maintain the full construction speed.
If Xu Lai really can't wait, he can also find some villagers from refugees and Gram Village to help. They are not as efficient as recruiting farmers, but it is still no problem to help move stones and work hard.
All in all, if necessary, the fortress can be built within two days at the earliest.
If he is willing to invest, Su Ya can even help him build it in one day.
The key is that Xu Lai is really reluctant to part with it now. The spearman camp is worth 5,000 gold, the longbow camp is 6,000 gold, the crossbowman tower and heavy crossbow camp are 9,000 gold, the gryphon fortress is 5,000 gold, and the fortress is 20,000 gold.
In addition, the previously upgraded Interior Hall will cost 5,000 gold, and the Holy Church will cost 5,000 gold.
Before it was time for lunch, Xu Lai had already spent 55,000 gold.
That’s not all. It costs 1,500 gold to recruit 5 longbowmen, 5 level 4 spearmen for 1,500 gold, 10 heavy crossbowmen for 3,000 gold, 5 priest apprentices for 1,000 gold, and 5 level 4 griffons. 2500 gold.
This is another 8,000 gold, plus the 45,800 gold he just spent to advance in the morning, he has spent 108,800 gold since he came back.
And this is not the end.
After the fortress matter was settled, Xu Lai still had to seize the time to do a few other things together.
[Horse Stable]: It can be used to raise horses and speed up the recovery of their physical strength and health.
A war horse that rests in the stable for 8 hours will gain an additional state of "full of energy" and its movement speed will increase by 10% for 7 days.
Construction cost: 2500 gold, 250 units of wood.
[Cavalry Training Camp]: Provides 5 level 4 trainee knights 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: This building can be upgraded to a knight training camp by spending 10,000 gold coins, 500 units of wood, and 200 units of stone, providing 5 level 6 knights every month.
You can also directly upgrade level 4 trainee knights and level 5 knight retinues to level 6 knights by spending gold coins, which requires a castle.
These two things are really expensive, and they really need to be made.
I won’t say how important knights are. It’s rare that we can supply knights now. There is no reason not to build them. Even if we don’t upgrade the infantry and archers, we still have to build cavalry.
The stable is equivalent to a one-time construction with permanent benefits. Of course, the sooner it is built, the better. It can also share the pressure on the horse pen. At least Xu Lai's own horses, other cavalry, and knights' horses can all be sent to this large stable to rest.
Xu Lai had enough wood to build all these buildings, and there was still a lot of wood left from the stronghold base camp.
This is because all the storage space on his body is full. The trophies he captured from the battlefield were still carried back by the knights and archers when he left, including the horses that he abducted.
Of course, there aren’t many of the previous gadgets left, and the real high-level weapons from the past have to be collected when on the battlefield.
The weapons and armors distributed by Count Aini afterwards were only level 3 and 4 weapons and armors, which were used by ordinary orc warriors of level 4 and 5, and were not worth much money if sold.
Originally, Xu Lai didn't care about these trophies. The reason why he accepted them was simply because he didn't want people to think that he was hiding resources.
Otherwise, why would he look down on these low-level goods, so he had to carry them back to his home.
Now he just feels that he was too stupid at that time. In order to prevent those corpses from being damaged, his team's load was actually not full. He could have brought back hundreds more weapons and equipment.
No matter how worthless the hundreds of weapons and equipment are, even if they are re-melted into steel or iron, they are still worth at least twelve or eight hundred.
Looking at the current situation, it is impossible for the thousands of weapons and equipment he brought back to rot in the warehouse.
Xu Lai planned to take out all the high-level weapons he had secretly hidden and give them to Wei Yihong and the others to sell.
In addition to these weapons and equipment, the wood should still be worth some money now, and it can also be dragged and sold.
In addition, he still has two duplicate architectural drawings here, and he currently has no ideas or funds to open a second town.
If it really doesn't work, it doesn't mean that Wei Yihong can't take it and sell it for a piece, as long as the price is right.
The price is not right, so of course I should save some money and build it in a branch city.
Even if there is no branch city, it can still be built in Gram Town. It is just that every time Xu Lai needs to recruit, he needs to be accompanied by Lazi.
Apprentice knights are more expensive, the same price as griffons, and cost 500 gold each. After recruiting 5 of them, it will cost another 2,500 gold.
All of these add up to another ten thousand gold coins.
But even at this point, it is still not the end.
In fact, Xu Lai recruited far more soldiers than these.
Don't forget, there is a hidden artifact hidden in Xu Lai's town, the Foot of the God of War.
The God of War's Foot has three attributes. One is to get 500 gold every day. Even if Xu Lai goes out, the money is not small. It is no longer a small amount of money.
The second is that all troops belonging to the settlement with the Foot of the God of War will have morale +3, and when fighting within the influence of the settlement, agility +5.
At first, Xu Lai led the Temple Knights. They were not affiliated with Qingfeng Town, so the average morale of the troops was not displayed.
However, the third attribute can increase the growth rate of all level 3-4 troops in Qingfeng Castle by 50%.
In other words, Xu Lai could actually recruit a total of 8 spearmen, 6 longbowmen, 7 priest apprentices, 7 griffons, 7 trainee knights and 15 heavy crossbowmen.
And this is not the end.
There is one thing we must not forget. The reason why Xu Lai is so anxious to complete the construction of each building is of course because there are still two days until the end of the month.
To be precise, it is more than a day, because the recruitment quota will be refreshed at 24:00 in the middle of the night.
At that time, there are still 7 infantry, 15 spearmen, 16 longbowmen, 15 heavy crossbowmen, 7 priest apprentices, 7 griffons, and 7 trainee knights waiting for him .
Xu Lai took out his Vickery gold coin box. After spending so much time, there were not many gold coins left in it.
He carefully calculated that if he stopped spending money, he should be able to recruit all the soldiers in two days.
However, after recruiting all the soldiers, he would only have a few thousand gold coins left, not even ten thousand.
The only good news is that with another expansion of the army, a large number of military buildings have been constructed and upgraded. The most important thing is that the construction of the fortress has begun, and the progress is not slow.
The daily gold coins of the Interior Department have increased from the previous 280 gold to 360 gold.
I believe that after waiting for two days, taking out the remaining soldiers, and once the fortress is completely built, there will be a relatively large increase in the amount of 360 gold.
If Xu Lai can take advantage of the situation and purchase some more arrow towers, ballistas, ballistas, etc., the price will probably increase.
360 gold means that there is still a gap of 140 gold between Xu Lai and a top fortress owner.
‘No, that’s not how it works. ’
Xu Lai suddenly patted his head, and then said to himself in the confused eyes of Su Ya and Yu Lan:
"They absorb 500 gold every day because the Interior Department can only absorb 500 gold at most, and even if I can collect 500 gold, it only means that I can only collect 500 gold!"
"What's wrong with Lang Jun?" ?" Yu Lan frowned slightly.
Su Ya also had a worried look on her face and replied: "Is it possible that I spent too much money and got crazy?" (End of Chapter)