Chapter 183 Before Promotion

December, winter.

There was no snow in the territory, but the temperature around it dropped again. Except for the people who needed heavy physical labor, everyone wore new cotton clothes. The water conservancy project was completed before winter. The burned rice stalks turned into ash and merged into the soil. The new seeds were all sown.

There was no sugarcane in this batch of sowing. The ten thousand acres of fertile land developed by the water conservancy project were all sown with wheat and rice, two staple foods. Sugarcane, a species that is not very cold-resistant, is more suitable to be sown in the spring of next year. In this winter with a lower temperature, it is not suitable to plant sugarcane. Planting it is not worth the loss. It is better to use it to plant staple foods with higher yields.

The new seeds were selected by Miss Priest and Miss Elf. They are plants with high yield potential. Thirty-five possible high-yield plants were selected. The two spellcasters who are proficient in botany used their catalytic ability to obtain a large number of seeds that can be planted. The agricultural area selected 2,000 mu of these seeds for trial planting, and the remaining 8,000 mu were still the original rice and wheat.

After discussing with his deputy, Ji Lin felt that even if these plants had high-yield potential and showed a relatively high-yield tendency during the growth, the harvest under non-ideal conditions still needed to be observed. After all, crops are not just high-yield. If they have poor resistance to environmental changes and poor resistance to lodging, a rain may cause large tracts of fields to be harvested next year.

Risk-taking and gambling are not used to provide food for the people to survive.

Ji Lin sat in his office, thinking about the future of the territory. In front of him, the (15/15) technological requirements of the promotion era have been fully met. The territory has an engineering college and has started to operate stably, and the archives of the city hall have also been built.

When he pressed the era promotion and confirmed the start, the test from the system will also arrive at the same time.

If they fail, they must wait for a full year to accumulate resources for the next promotion.

A year is enough for them to lay a good foundation for their promotion again, instead of exhausting their resources and enthusiasm in repeated attacks. The system forces everyone to have a buffer period after failure.

It also means that they have left the first echelon of progress.

He is hesitating whether to cross the era with the territory that is now steadily advancing and arrive at the fourth era in advance.

Can his territory enter the fourth era in its current state?

Because there are such lords who hurriedly prepared their troops in the forum of the Emperor's Era, but failed and entered the cooling-off period due to different tests thrown by the system. They are indignant and post this experience of being harmed by the system on the forum.

As more and more people try to be promoted, the lords divide the tests of the system era into two types.

Two types of tests.

'Invasion' and 'natural disaster'.

Invasion is an attack by an organized army that can be resisted by military strength, military equipment and defense facilities.

Since the third era was promoted to the fourth era, natural disasters have come on stage.

Natural disasters are a new test that is completely different from military invasions. It directly tests the organization and mobilization capabilities of the entire society. Those lords who focus on the military but not on territory construction will basically have no chance of passing if they are unlucky enough to encounter natural disasters.

Floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, blizzards, they are called natural disasters by humans... The magic side needs to face special natural disasters from the magic side.

A little carelessness will lead to heavy losses in the territory. When the loss exceeds a certain value, the system will judge it as losing the qualification for promotion.

After two lives, Ji Lin vaguely felt that he had grasped the characteristics of the promotion mechanism of this era.

The system is training them, cultivating their resistance to natural disasters and military invasions.

So what is the real difference between these lords and their subjects, natives and invaders?

I don’t know, no one knows, asking the system about this kind of thing will only get a no-comment answer.

Natives can become lords under the judgment of the system. Are these lords really that different from others, or are they special?

It’s really a terrifying operating mode that makes people feel terrible when they think about it.

Responsibility and conscription.

Ji Lin shook off the chaotic thoughts in his mind and refocused his attention on the promotion button in front of him.

As long as he presses the button, he can start the impact of the colonial era, which is the biggest watershed in the low era.

There is a great advantage of being the first to be promoted to the colonial era. They can build long-distance facilities in advance to occupy the resource points in the area given by the system.

In the colonial era, the lords can finally leave their own territories and have the ability to travel far. Whether starting from land or sea, they can detect areas with multiple resources. And use the resources in the colonies to feed back to their own territories, forming a positive cycle and consolidating their own colonial areas.

Some blocks are rich in plant crops, some blocks are rich in minerals, some areas are rich in elemental crystals, and some blocks even have valuable populations that can be added to the territory.

All the resources missing from the territory can be supplemented by colonies. The territories located in the extremely cold land and the yellow sand land are extremely eager to obtain large tracts of arable land.

Of course, the lords are more accustomed to calling these areas world fragments, or broken worlds.

This is a truly unlimited war zone. It is an area outside the "safe zone" of the territory that can obtain a large amount of additional resources to make up for the lack of resources in the territory.

In the future, everyone will fight for these sunny lands without stopping.

In order to avoid great internal friction among lords in the fight for these areas, which is not the original intention of the system, the system considerately allocates a recall system for everyone.

Without this recall system, a territory with tens of thousands of people will lose 2,000 people every month due to war, and will soon kill its own population.

The first 2,000 people who die each month will be recalled to the territory, and the lost resources and items will remain in place. The system only helps you rescue human resources.

As for those who exceed this recall number...then they will really die. The system only allocates a lower limit of loss to everyone that will increase with the times.

The advantages of races with extremely high fertility rates are also particularly evident here. Low-end servants die when they die, and human resources are a part of their extremely cheap resources. Goblin priests will not shed a tear for the lowest-level goblins, and rat warlords will not have any more compassion for slave rats.

Ji Lin thought, tapping his fingertips on the table. He was ready for promotion. He did everything he could to deal with invasions and natural disasters.

The water conservancy construction was completed, and the water supply system of the territory had been replaced to the latest.

The work of the fishery area was handed over to Chang Heng. His ability was enough to temporarily serve as the manager of the entire fishery area. The dean and Ji Lin had established a suitable and stable system. The general could maintain the work of the fishery area as long as he followed the system. Chang Heng also put all military training on the seashore, so that he could train new musketeers while managing the fishery.

The dean engraved the structural strengthening runes on the gun barrels with peace of mind. The new batch of gun barrels, 200, was enough to organize two additional teams of 100-man musketeer shooters for the territory.

The only drawback was that there was no transparent glass manufacturing technology. With transparent glass, the scope, a technology that greatly increased the musketeers, could be used. Their musketeer team could have extremely deadly accurate shooters while increasing the effective range.

Three hundred technologically enhanced flintlock shooters, in this era he is confident that he can handle all possible enemy attacks,

Ji Lin pressed the promotion button for the era upgrade.

‘Do you want to start the test of promotion to the fourth era?’

Ji Lin raised his head and saw the light curtain that the system unfolded, which almost occupied his entire field of vision.

“Yes.”

Come on.