Chapter 188 Industrial System
After the war, Li Qing began to keep a low profile.
He demolished the original Wasteland City, leaving only a small mining base at the large open-pit iron mine, and a small troop garrison there.
The various forces did not covet the iron mine, except that they were wary of him, mainly because iron ore was not valuable in this plane. Both the Savage City and the Five Cities Alliance occupied such a large territory, with several iron mines in their territory, and they would not go to war with Li Qing for this iron mine.
The only valuable things in this plane are gold and silver mines, or refined gold and mithril mines, or some other rare minerals.
The reason why gold and silver are valuable is mainly because they can be used to mint coins and then traded with natives of other dimensions.
The basic currency of almost all indigenous civilizations in different planes is gold and silver coins. They only recognize these and do not recognize the monetary system of human civilization.
In addition, in the planes conquered by the war lords, the currency used internally is also a three-level system of gold, silver and copper.
Therefore, the demand for gold and silver mines is very large and their value is also high.
After defeating Wasteland City, Li Qing continued to hide as usual, but he could not be as quiet as before.
In this battle, he demonstrated extremely powerful strength, replacing the original status of Wasteland City, and becoming no less powerful than the Five Cities Alliance. He became an important force in the primitive wilderness plane and had the ability to change the overall situation.
One month after the war, the Five Cities Alliance sent a city lord to lead a delegation to Dragon City.
Yes, because of Li Qing’s own strength and the many giant dragons under his command, the city built by Li Qing at this time was called Dragon City by outsiders.
The purpose of the Five Cities Alliance sending envoys was to invite Dragon City to replace the original Savage City and join the alliance to fight against Savage City.
Li Qing himself had no interest, but the Five Cities Alliance appealed to his emotions and reason, carefully analyzed the current situation for him, and finally convinced Li Qing.
The key point was that one sentence touched him.
Without him, the Five Cities Alliance and Huanglong City alone would not be able to withstand the attack of Savage City.
If he is sure not to join the alliance, Savage City will immediately recall the troops and strong men originally used to defend Wasteland City and attack them with all their strength. They can resist once or twice, but not five or six times.
The gap in strength was too great, and the envoy of the Five Cities Alliance told Li Qing clearly that if he didn't go, they might not be able to hold out for five years.
It was because of this sentence that Li Qing changed his mind and decided to join the alliance.
Not to mention anything else, use the power of the alliance to resist the Savage City and buy time for your own development.
On the third day after the delegation left, Li Qing sent the three Xie brothers to lead an army of 10,000 to the Five Cities Alliance, including 500 steel golems, 1,500 space dragonborn, and 50 space dragons.
Although the number of people is small, the overall strength is very strong. Except for the lack of legendary strongmen, the strength is not inferior to that of Huanglong City.
The Five Cities Alliance was very satisfied with this and praised him for considering the overall situation and being sincere.
Li Qing just smiled after hearing that.
In the following days, he kept a low profile again, shuttling back and forth between the Divine Realm and Dragon City every day.
Although we have to keep a low profile, it doesn't mean there are fewer things to do. On the contrary, there are a lot of things to do.
The first thing was to take over the one million civilians that had been previously deposited from Gu Qiangu, and then take out 50,000 Imperial Infantry Promotion Cards and 50,000 Imperial Archer Promotion Cards, converting them into 100,000 troops in one go.
Most of them stayed in Longcheng, some were sent to open mines in various places, and then 20,000 were transferred to the three Xie brothers for command.
As the population increases, the demand for food also increases, and the current food production in the Divine Realm is definitely unable to meet the demand.
But at this time, the total area of Li Qing's divine domain had exceeded one thousand square kilometers. In addition to the main city that was expanded again in the center , and a not very large castle acropolis built in each of the four corners, most of the open space outside the city had been planned as agricultural areas.
The Crystal Palace, a divine domain building that had consumed 500 source points and was upgraded to the next level, was now able to control the formation of various severe climates within the divine domain, such as violent storms and rainstorms.
Through heavy rains, rainwater was evenly distributed on the newly created wasteland of the divine domain, and then his men were sent to reclaim the land.
He sent out many idle space dragons, many giant dragons, and used iron golems to pull plows, and turned over nearly a thousand square kilometers of wasteland.
The torrential rain soaked the ground, turning the turned soil into mud, and then a large amount of grass and wood from the wilderness outside the city was burned into ashes and mixed into the mud.
Phosphorus ash, feces, rotten plants, and various materials needed for soil cultivation are mixed into the mud to cultivate the soil.
This was done back and forth several times, and the deepest plowing depth was three or four meters. A large amount of phosphate rock and other materials were mixed in, turning the nutrient-free wasteland into fertile land.
This project lasted for a full six months, and many dragonborn and dragons were exhausted.
Li Qing is their creator and the ancestor of their bloodline. If it were someone else, not even the Dragon God would not be able to order his dragon believers to practice like this.
After the land was cultivated, they began to plan the farmland. Li Qing specially hand-made long stone slabs that were two meters thick, three meters wide, and one hundred meters long as the boundaries of the fields. Each field was 100 meters * 100 meters, divided into large plots of farmland.
The farmland area planned by Li Qing covers a total of 800 square kilometers, totaling 1.2 million mu of land.
Calculated based on a normal yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu, the output per season is 1.2 billion kilograms, and the total output for two seasons is 2.4 billion kilograms.
A population of 1.2 million consumes 3.6 million kilograms of food every day, with a total annual consumption of 1.3 billion kilograms, leaving a large surplus.
While cultivating the land, Li Qing was not idle. He mainly made a plan, and the specific implementation was presided over by his subordinates. He was busy doing other things these days.
For example, the construction of the Mage Tower.
It has been delayed for so long and I can’t wait any longer. I am going to build my own wizard tower in the divine realm.
It is worth mentioning that the money for buying back the lives of the eleven summer camp contestants has all been paid. According to their status and position, four of them need to pay two divine graces, and the remaining one, making a total of fifteen.
The price is not high, mainly because there are too many big guys in the plane who pay attention to it. If you encounter such a thing in the wild, you will have nothing to say if they give you a few punishments.
With so many divine favors in hand, Li Qing considered it and decided not to keep them for the time being.
Although according to the rules, these are considered spoils of war and are not prohibited from use.
Li Qing had very high requirements for his first wizard tower. The outer wall structure was made of refined gold as the core skeleton, and then filled with refined steel. The places where the magic array was drawn were directly drawn with mithril. The magic array was drawn on it and then buried in the refined gold frame to ensure that it would not be deformed even in the face of severe impact.
Not to mention the huge amount of steel consumed, what is mainly needed is a large amount of refined gold and mithril.
Fortunately, he had a divine building gold mine in his own hands, and a mithril mine under Dragon City, and a lot of it had been stored in the past few years.
In addition, I got some from the Wasteland City, and then used the spoils of war to directly exchange for refined gold and mithril.
Because everything was done by hand, and there was no one to help him, Li Qing had to do it all by himself, and the construction speed was not fast.
But he was not in a hurry because he had time now.
You don't even need to spend every day at the construction site. You can do routine meditation every day, build a steel golem, and then make some magic pattern constructs.
He has now stopped the production of construct knights. The previous battle has proved that this basic first-level construct knight is too weak compared to the construct knights of other war lords. Even with his abnormal talent bonus, he cannot beat other people's construct knights.
That is, a lot of resources were spent but the effect was not significant.
Li Qing planned to wait until he became proficient in constructing the second-level magic pattern, and then learn two third-level magic patterns. At that time, he would form a construct knight with the Terror Knight suit.
The Terror Knight set includes a set of eight magic patterns for the knight and five magic patterns for his war mount, a total of thirteen, two of which are third-level constructs.
Under standard circumstances, it is equivalent to the strength of the upper level of the sixth order.
But if we use space dragonborn as the basis to carry this set of equipment instead of normal human knights, the combat effectiveness can definitely reach the seventh level after promotion, and it will be the best among them.
And according to his guess, the carrying capacity of the Space Dragonborn's structure is at least over two hundred. After carrying this set of structures, there may be extra carrying positions, and some additional scattered magic patterns can be added at that time.
By that time, these construct knights with space dragon as the base material will definitely be the best among the seventh level.
What's even more exaggerated is that in addition to possessing various space-related innate spells, space dragonborn can also be promoted. Unlike human elite armored knights, whose rank is fixed at level five, they can be promoted from level five to level six, or even level seven or level eight.
The bonus of the magic pattern structure is a percentage bonus, and the stronger the strength, the higher the bonus.
As time goes by, the Dragon City in the Divine Realm is developing step by step, and the foundation of the Super Mage Tower in the Divine Realm is also slowly rising.
In the ninth month after the war, a major event occurred in the divine realm.
There were two space dragons, a man and a woman, who successfully gave birth to a new space dragon through natural reproduction.
There is nothing special about the bloodline of this new space dragon, and it is not the first naturally reproduced individual in the tribe. However, the significance it represents is very crucial, representing that this space dragon can already achieve self-reproduction and increase the tribe.
This was a very critical milestone. Li Qing looked at the newborn space dragon specially and promised that when it came of age, he would transform it into the first space dragon hero and bestow the blood of the ancient dragon.
With the first one, there will be a second one.
In the following days, more of his kind were born.
Although the total number of space dragon descendants is not large, and the number of reproduction is not large, the total number is less than one hundred, but this is a good start.
Less than half a month later, Li Qing received another good news that Xia Mang, one of his heroes, successfully created an iron golem.
She, Dai Lirong, Shang Yingxin and others all took the mage route. After being transformed into the upper-dimensional dragon clan, their strength increased by leaps and bounds, and their talent in magic also increased dramatically. After so many years of accumulation, they finally made great progress.
This means that Li Qing can be more relaxed next time, as the iron golems and the like in the divine realm can be left to them to make.
And this is just the beginning, because they are not the only ones who choose the wizard route in the divine realm. Many space dragonborns also work part-time as wizards or sorcerers, and many space dragonborns have already been promoted to the eighth or even ninth level.
With strong strength as a foundation, they grow very fast and it won’t take long for them to learn it.
By then, there will be hundreds of mages trying to make various war golems. Even if their efficiency is only one-tenth of Li Qing's, a round of hundreds of steel golems will have a much higher overall efficiency than his.
Ever since Xia Mang learned how to make steel golems, many mages in the Divine Realm also began to practice. Li Qing gave up making one steel golem every day and instead studied the more advanced diamond golem.
The Diamond Golem is a level 10 golem that is over 15 meters tall.
You can decide the specific size yourself. Theoretically there is no limit. If you have the ability, you can build a super golem that is 100 meters high.
But generally speaking, the larger the size, the more materials it consumes and the more difficult it is to make.
A super golem that is one hundred meters high can already be called a giant god soldier. This thing can almost ignore ordinary legends. The materials consumed and the difficulty of manufacturing are simply explosive.
Li Qing is just learning now, and of course he will start with the lowest level, which is fifteen meters high.
When I have a lot of things to do, I feel that my life is very fulfilling.
By analogy, while studying more advanced knowledge, this knowledge can also be used in other areas, thus improving his personal abilities.
Before I knew it, five years had passed.
In the center of the divine domain, a huge silver-white tower stands in the middle of the divine domain buildings.
At this time, the main structure of the giant tower has been completed, with a diameter of exactly two hundred meters and a height of about two thousand meters.
The entire body is made of steel, refined gold, mithril, and other precious magical materials. Not only did he use all the refined gold and mithril he collected, he also spent four divine graces to exchange for a large amount of refined gold and mithril to complete the main body of this thing.
After completing the main body, the next step is to layer and construct an integrated magic circle that runs through the entire wizard tower.
However, just as Li Qing was about to continue construction, a report from An Erqiu forced him to free up his hands and leave the divine realm.
The scale of Longcheng at this time is still the same as before, but compared to its original desolation, Longcheng is now much more prosperous.
Not only were the buildings and facilities in the city built, but the flow of people in the city also increased a lot, including many individual hero teams from the Savage City or the Five Cities Alliance, as well as neutral caravans.
They have not been idle during these five years. An Erqiu has continuously sent out giant dragons to disperse and search for mineral resources everywhere. They have indeed found quite a few and developed them.
The most valuable of these is a silver mine, which produces a lot of silver ingots every day.
Part of these silver ingots will be used to mint coins for use by civilians within the divine realm. After all, there are more than one million people, so it's time to establish a simple internal monetary system.
The other part is traded with other outputs of the Divine Realm to purchase various daily necessities from these chambers of commerce.
His divine domain is self-sufficient in food, but it is only food. Other daily necessities are basically unavailable and need to be purchased from outside.
It is not easy to be completely self-sufficient. That requires a complete industrial system. His divine domain is too small and there is not enough space to build a complete industrial production system.
