Chapter 177 Amazing Configuration
Just when Guo Hao completely subdued the soldiers of the entire coalition camp, the system prompt sounded.
[The second epic event in Huaxia District - the Battle of Hulao Pass ends]
"Ding! The court wins, and all court players receive a random green reward *1"
"Ding! Congratulations on being ranked first in the Merit Ranking. You will receive a random blue reward *1"
"Ding! The Merit Exchange Store is now open!"
As the big boss of the imperial court, Guo Hao was the one who basically acquired all the merits gained by generals like Lu Bu, and his achievements were simply unrivaled.
Guo Hao opened the merit ranking list and saw the numbers: individual, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million, ten million...
Guo Hao closed the ranking list and opened it again. It was really eight digits. Even Guo Hao himself didn't know how he got the achievement.
A total of more than 13 million merits, ten times as much as the last Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Without saying a word, Guo Hao directly opened the merit exchange store. Last time he saw a lot of good things but didn't exchange them.
First, there were the recruitment orders. Guo Hao took all the ones that could be exchanged without blinking an eye. A mere tens of thousands of merits were not worth the hesitation at all.
After purchasing the recruitment order, Guo Hao skipped over the drawings and other miscellaneous items and directly clicked on the wonders category.
The simplified and abridged was already a terrifying aerial aircraft carrier. He couldn't even imagine how many bugs there would be in the complete version of Wonders.
[Nine Cauldrons Production Blueprints – Merit: 10,000,000]
Buy it. If you don’t buy it, you’re not a human being. Among a series of wonders, Guo Hao fell in love with the Nine Cauldrons at first sight.
Not to mention the well-known reputation of the Nine Cauldrons, the fact that they symbolize national unity and prosperity is worth his purchase.
Originally, Guo Hao thought that the Nine Cauldrons were nine tripods put together and called the Nine Cauldrons, but he didn't expect that the Nine Cauldrons were actually one thing.
Originally, the Nine Cauldrons of the Xia Dynasty referred to a large cauldron engraved with a map of the Nine Provinces, so it was also called the Nine Provinces Cauldron, implying that the Nine Provinces belonged to one cauldron.
Moreover, the number nine is a paradigm word, which means unlimited territory.
What Guo Hao has in his hand now is the production drawing of an empty tripod. As long as Guo Hao can bind the national destiny and the tripod together, the size of the pattern engraved on the tripod will be as big as the Han Empire.
And as a spectacular building, it has three functions in total.
[Nine Cauldrons: Special effects: 1. Commemorate the heroic spirits, 2. Good weather and favorable harvests, 3. Suppress the national destiny]
The first terrifying function is to commemorate the heroic spirits. After the death of any soldier who fights for the empire, the heroic spirit will be collected by the Jiuzhou Ding. If the general is stronger, he may even appear as a heroic spirit within the territory of the empire.
The second function is rather mediocre, which is a weakened version of Chen Xi's spiritual talent of stabilizing the country. In other words, it can help the country improve its geographical location. If there is no Chen Xi, it is still quite useful, but with Chen Xi, it is basically a function that is better than nothing.
The third function is more metaphysical, which is to suppress the national destiny. In other words, it is to protect the national destiny. As long as the Nine Cauldrons are there, it will never happen again that Zhang Jue secretly destroys the national destiny.
Overall, Guo Hao was very satisfied with the functions of the Nine Cauldrons. The only question left was how to make this important wonder.
[Material: Soil from various regions of the empire, metals from various regions of the empire, meteorite iron from outer space, copper from Shouyang...]
The first two were easy, Guo Hao could understand their meaning and could do them, but he had never heard of any of the following ones.
Fortunately, there were some in the Merit Store. Guo Hao calculated that it was just enough to exchange for materials, so he put all the remaining merits in.
Then, Guo Hao was in trouble.
He didn't have any skilled craftsmen who could make the Nine Cauldrons. Not to mention anything else, just how to melt the metal was a big problem.
Guo Hao reluctantly put the matter of craftsman assessment first. After all, no matter what, the production of the Nine Cauldrons had great significance.
Afterwards, Guo Hao bought some more elixirs for Tuanzi and closed the store. After all, the wide range of goods formed a sharp contrast with his meager merit numbers.
"Report, sir, the battlefield intelligence has been completed, please take a look!" The guard handed Guo Hao a piece of intelligence.
This was the task that Guo Hao had assigned to Chen Xi before, to take stock of the losses and gains of the battle.
Guo Hao was well aware of the losses. Although he was the one defending the city, many soldiers still died in the allied forces' day and night siege.
Nearly 10,000 people were lost in Hulao Pass alone, and the Allied forces suffered even more heavy casualties.
Moreover, the vast majority of deaths on the coalition side were due to injuries, which was in stark contrast to the adequate medical conditions in Hulao Pass.
Speaking of medical conditions, the first thing Chen Xi did after the fight was to start working on plague prevention. After all, compared to the plague, war is like a child's play.
In a war involving millions of people, the casualties are no more than a few hundred thousand, but once a plague breaks out, the casualties can be counted in the millions.
Plague is something that humans cannot get infected with. Once it spreads, a whole village may be wiped out, while several counties, a state, or even the entire country may be affected.
When the Black Death was raging in Europe and the Middle East, it killed nearly 20 million people, and the population loss took nearly 150 years to recover.
Fortunately, Chen Xi started preparing early. After heading to Hulao Pass, he mobilized the people to search for medicinal materials. He also mobilized all the living players in Luoyang to identify the medicinal properties of the herbs. After all, as an effective means to prevent the plague, only players can execute it perfectly.
Most of the former refugees could not even recognize complete characters, let alone find medical books and identify medicinal materials.
Although the death toll was high, Chen Xi was well prepared and the plague was compressed to a very small range. Moreover, Li Ru was also rushing to Hulao Pass with the legendary genius doctor Hua Tuo. The plague problem should be solved thoroughly.
"Let me see, this time the harvest is really rich!" Guo Hao smiled happily holding the list of civil officials in his hand.
The embarrassing situation of having only a few civil servants under my command has finally ended. Look at how many civil servants are on the list.
Not to mention the well-known civil officials in the coalition such as Xun Yu, Xun You, Ju Shou, Shen Pei, Xu Shu, Guo Jia, and Xi Zhicai, none of them escaped, and all were captured by the competing Zhao Yun and Lu Bu.
What surprised Guo Hao even more were the civil officials hidden under the command of the princes players in the coalition, including Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Di Renjie, Wei Zheng of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Fan Zhongyan and Bao Zheng of the Song dynasty, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Tinghe of the Ming dynasty. Guo Hao was completely Spartan, he did not expect that the players had so many talents under their command.
No wonder the alliance between players was able to fight against Yuan Shao before. It turns out that the think tank behind it is really not simple.
Every one of the civil officials was a talented person who could be appointed as the chief official in a state. Some of them could even directly become the prime minister or one of the three highest officials in the central government.
To be honest, if the late Eastern Han Dynasty had not been the home turf of the Yuan family, allowing Yuan Shao to take the initiative and dominate the alliance, with the configuration behind the players, Yuan Shao might not be able to defeat this group of players.
