All Lords: I have an allusion system

"The population of your territory has reached the standard (1513/1500)."

"Your territory's commercial prosperity has reached the standard (155/150)."

"The agricultural prosperity of your territory has reached the standard (301/300)."

"The cultural prosperity of your territory has reached the standard (122/120)."

"Ding, all conditions of your territory 'Taoyuan Village' have met the standards and are in a non-war state. It has been officially upgraded to a large village."

"Ding, because your village has been upgraded to a large village, you will be rewarded with the second-level pawn shop blueprint, the second-level tea shop blueprint, the third-level blacksmith shop blueprint, the third-level farmland blueprint, and the fourth-level banker blueprint..."

The system rewarded a stack of architectural drawings, most of which were missing in Taoyuan Village.

The ground shook for a while, and the boundaries of Taoyuan Village expanded outward. The boundaries of the entire village expanded four to five times.

The wooden fence in Taoyuan Village has also been extended to the boundary of the village, and the height of the wooden fence has reached two meters.

The presence of wooden fences could effectively deter cavalry from attacking villages.

The small wooden house where Xiao Tian lives has been upgraded by the system into a brick house with its own small courtyard.

There is an additional record in the village annals of Taoyuan Village: In June of that year, under the wise leadership of the village chief Xiao Tian, ​​the village prospered and became a large village.

The village annals also record the time when various historical figures settled in the village, as well as events such as Xiao Tian's attacks on Baima Village and Jiangzuo Village.

The territory panel has also changed.

[Territory]: Taoyuan Village (large village)

[Lord]: Xiao Tian

[Affiliation]: Weizhou, Hebei Province

【Population】: 1513/10000

[Public support]: 90 (what the people want)

[Security]: 85 (calm and peaceful)

[Business prosperity]: 155 (1000 is needed to upgrade a small town)

[Agricultural prosperity]: 301 (upgrading a small town requires 2500)

[Cultural prosperity]: 122 (upgrading a small town requires 800)

[Strength]: Light Cavalry x112, Liangshan Soldiers x15, Archers x29

[Treasury Silver]: 1175 taels

[Granary]: 3020 stones

[City Defense]: Wooden Fence, Wooden Arrow Tower x2

[Existing buildings]: Level [-] Zhaowen Hall, Level [-] infantry battalion, Level [-] cavalry battalion, Level [-] tavern, Level [-] post station, Level [-] farmland, Level [-] logging field, Level [-] quarry, Level [-] mining site, Level [-] Level [-] Archery Camp, Level [-] Tailor Shop, Level [-] Medical Clinic...

[Special resource points]: Level [-] mines, Level [-] silver mines

[Specialty]: Tang Dynasty three-color glazed pottery (level six), Dukang wine (level five)

[Subsidiary Villages]: Baima Village, Jiangzuo Village

[Resident Heroes]: Lu Zhishen (Liangshan Heroes), Mu Guiying (Famous Romance General), Shangguan Wan'er (Historical General), Chunyu Qiong (Historical General), Lu Meng (Historical General), Ren Jun (Historical General), Zhang Shen, Zhou Long, Zhou Hu

……

After Xiao Tian's management, Taoyuan Village has a decent appearance.

But when Xiao Tian saw the basic conditions for upgrading large villages to small towns, he was stunned for a moment.

Upgrading a large village to a small town requires a population of 10000!

The combined population of Taoyuan Village, Baima Village, and Jiangzuo Village has just exceeded 3000 people. Even if the villagers of Baima Village and Jiangzuo Village are forcibly relocated to Taoyuan Village, the most basic population conditions will not be met.

It seems that upgrading a village to a town is a threshold.

Most villages do not have enough population and resources to be upgraded to towns.

"The commercial prosperity is 1000, the agricultural prosperity is 2500, and the cultural prosperity is 800. It seems that many buildings need to be built and upgraded to meet the conditions."

"Building so many buildings requires a lot of time, resources, and drawings. In two months, no one should be able to upgrade the village to a small town."

"The next step is to prepare for war and survive in troubled times."

"In addition to protecting ourselves, preparing for war can also rob copycats and bandit forces."

Xiao Tian thought about it for a while.

Normal development and upgrading the town require too many resources.

If you want to attack the No. [-] town in the world, following the rules will not work.

So Xiao Tian found another way to rob the village, and even the thieves who came next, to plunder resources and upgrade the buildings in Taoyuan Village.

"Taoyuan Village built six wooden arrow towers, increasing the number of wooden arrow towers to eight."

"Build another wooden fence outside Taoyuan Village. Even if one wooden fence is breached, there will still be another wooden fence that can be defended."

"Hunting traps are dug outside the wooden fence. The thieves don't know the location of the hunting traps. At least dozens of people can be killed."

Xiao Tian began to build city fortifications.

Wooden arrow towers, wooden fences, and hunting traps, although this level of city defense is a bit crude, it is enough at the village level.

The thieves are coming. If a small group of Yellow Turbans appears near Taoyuan Village, Taoyuan Village should be able to cope with it with these fortifications.

If it were the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang who were the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, then building more advanced city defenses would not help.

I shouldn't be so unlucky to directly encounter the main force of the Yellow Turban Army, right?

"The population has increased to 1500 people, but the food and grass supply has dropped to 3000 shi, and horses have to be raised."

"The food and grass problem in Taoyuan Village cannot be solved by dispatching food and grass from Baima Village and Jiangzuo Village, because these two villages also lack food."

"It looks like we need to rob the surrounding cottages."

Xiao Tian deployed troops in each village.

桃源村：120名骑兵、70名弓箭手、70名梁山军、10名剑客，合计270兵力。

白马村：20名骑兵、30名弓箭手、20名刀盾兵、30名长枪兵，合计100兵力。

江左村：20名骑兵、50名弩兵、30名刀盾兵、30名长枪兵，合计130兵力。

The strength of the three villages will reach 500 people.

When the life and death of the village was at stake, Xiao Tian could forcefully recruit hundreds more village warriors to defend the village.

Next, Xiao Tian sent Lu Zhishen and Chunyu Qiong to search for traces of the cottage.

Lu Zhishen and Chunyu Qiong lived up to their expectations and found a group of horse thieves near Baima Village, with about 50 and [-] people. They also found two cottages near Jiangzuo Village, each with [-] or [-] bandits.

"Guiying, let's go."

Xiao Tian took Mu Guiying, Lu Zhishen, Chunyu Qiong and most of the Taoyuan Village troops to attack these strongholds, leaving Lu Meng and a small number of troops to guard Taoyuan Village.

"Yes."

Mu Guiying wore relatively lightweight leather armor, which was enough to deal with mere bandits.

Mu Guiying would only put on iron armor when leading the cavalry to attack a large military formation.

Taoyuan Village currently only has a dozen sets of armor and does not have the financial resources to support heavy armor units.

Iron armor is expensive to build, and the recruitment cost for heavy infantry and heavy cavalry is several times, or even more than ten times, that of ordinary arms.

Of course, the combat effectiveness of the heavy armored troops is extremely powerful. This can be seen from the fact that Li Shimin led [-] elite cavalry to defeat Dou Jiande's [-] troops at Hulao Pass.

Xiao Tian only covets heavy armored troops. He will only consider heavy armored infantry and heavy armored cavalry when Taoyuan Village develops into a town or city.

In the early stage, a group of military generals with light armored troops is enough to deal with most villages and villages, because they do not have heavy armored troops.