total war rise of empire

Chapter 150 Army Expansion and Attack

Lei Zihao finally understands that when the main city is upgraded to level 5, no matter whether it is an officer or a general, it will become an existence that can be directly mass-produced just like the army!
It can be said that in this way, the bottleneck of Lei Zihao's expansion will disappear without a trace. No matter how huge the territory is or how backward the communication is, as long as enough troops are placed far away from the center of Lei Zihao's power, the generals and affairs officers who are loyal to him The civil servants cooperate with each other in management to ensure that the huge empire will not fall apart!

[Black market (city level 5 buildings): city tax increases by 15%, city security decreases by 10%.Corruption in cities is on the rise. 】

This building is one of the few functional buildings that can be built in occupied cities. In the future, it can effectively increase additional tax revenue in many occupied cities!
[Casino (city level 5 building): Taxes increased by 15%, city security decreased by 10%.Urban corruption is on the rise. 】

This building is similar to the black market, and it is also a functional building that can be built in any city.

[Museum (city level 5 building): faction military, civilization technology point +2.Only green cities can be built. 】

This building is more interesting. It can be regarded as pointing out to Lei Zihao a way to increase civilization technology points and military technology points without limit. A temple of love that increases people's loyalty and promotes religious ideas!
[Monument of Heroes (city level 5 building): You can spend a lot of gold coins here to "train" level 5 army soldiers, improve the courage of the army, and make its loyalty evolve into a loyal one. The number of gold coins and training time required for each army Different, an army with too low loyalty cannot evolve into a loyal army!Only green cities can be built. 】

This is a functional building to upgrade Lei Zihao's low-level soldiers and mercenaries recruited after conquering special areas in the future, and increase their loyalty. If you encounter good mercenary units in the future, this thing is quite useful, die Loyalty is very attractive!

[Manor (city level 5 building): The personal security of the generals stationed in the city has been improved, and the probability of the generals' defection has been greatly reduced. 】

Looking at the manor's introduction, Lei Zihao couldn't help but be a bit dumbfounded, the total war system is really thoughtful...

[Royal Bank (city level 5 building): Generate lending business, and get an additional 50% gold coin income. Only green cities can be built, and a large amount of currency needs to be stored. Once the city is broken, a lot of wealth will be lost. A city with a Royal Bank will attract foreign enemies greedy attention. 】

"It's another functional building to increase fiscal revenue, but this time the increase is really gratifying, and it won't be limited to the main city. With it, there will be basically no problem in the future financial resources..."

Lei Zihao rubbed his chin with his palm and said to himself.

Nowadays, the Golden Dragon Kingdom occupies very little territory, and other expenses are almost negligible except for military expenditures. However, after the expansion of the Golden Dragon Kingdom's territory, various administrative expenses will increase exponentially. Lei Zihao devoted all his efforts to the output of the army, he couldn't turn his country into a big army camp!
If he does that, what will the huge army eat and wear?
No matter what kind of social system it is, the number of producers must be far greater than the number of the army. The army will not produce daily necessities. Even if they don't need military pay, they still need to live!

Therefore, to maintain a huge empire, various expenditures will increase greatly as the territory expands. Limited by the backward communication technology of this era, this expenditure will cause a great loss in material transportation and exchange!
This is also an ancient empire in the history of the earth. Whenever it expands to a certain extent, it will inevitably face the dilemma of fiscal expenditures exceeding its income. Then it is to reduce fiscal expenditures and give local governments some autonomy, and then...the empire collapses...

Even if local autonomy is not given to reduce fiscal expenditures, under the long-term fiscal deficit, the country will be poor and poor, and will eventually be overthrown by careerists!
Of course, Lei Zihao doesn't need to think about this issue yet. After checking the buildings and units, he checked some of the technologies displayed in advance:

[Long bricks (civilization technology requirement 3): Long bricks are used in urban buildings to increase the durability of buildings and reduce the lethality of fire, which is a prerequisite for building stone city walls.

深层开采（文明科技需求6）：矿产开采效率增加100%。施肥（文明科技需求9）：所有完成农田等级3的城市农产增加10%。

Filter pool (civilization technology needs 12): city health +10%.

New shipbuilding method (civilization technology requirement 15): Shipbuilding efficiency increased by 50%, and all new wooden hulls are more durable.

Fishing grounds (civilization technology needs 20): Coastal cities with docks get variable income.

School of Affairs (civilization technology needs 25): The cost of recruiting followers and civil servants is reduced by 20%.

Wooden Crane (civilization technology requirement 30): The cost of all city buildings is reduced by 20% and the construction time is reduced.

Professional midwifery medical knowledge (civilization technology needs 40): urban population growth rate increased by 50%. 】

Compared with the architectural functions and powerful units that shocked Lei Zihao before, these technologies really did not interest Lei Zihao, so he quickly turned his attention to using these gold coins!
First, start building the only Altar of Wealth and Altar of Love that have not yet been built!
As long as the gold coin resources are in place, Lei Zihao can directly build a level 3 wealth altar and love altar!
[Congratulations to His Majesty the King for starting to build all the temple series buildings. The Altar of Love will produce a High Priest of Love who can satisfy all your desires, and the Altar of Wealth will produce a High Priest of Lori with super intelligence. Please be mentally prepared! 】

Lei Zihao was taken aback, and used his great willpower to forcibly hold back the option of speeding up the construction. The gold coins should be used to recruit troops first...

Lei Zihao compared the mountainous terrain of the lower Jinlong Peninsula and the Balkans, and gave up the idea of ​​recruiting a large number of cavalry troops, but only recruited a thousand-man cavalry archers as a 'power search battalion' in a symbolic sense.

Afterwards, 4 heavily armed gold shield soldiers, [-] imperial guards, and [-] gold coins were squandered...

The remaining gold coins were used to recruit some archers who were used to suppress firepower, but whose armor-piercing ability was not ideal, as well as a large number of siege vehicles, torsion catapults, large catapults, and ballistas!

At the entrance of the Golden Dragon Peninsula, more than [-] human servants left behind by the Night Elf Empire used the difficult terrain to build a large number of fortresses. In the future wars, the Golden Dragon Kingdom will focus on city siege warfare!

It just so happened that these main battle armies, combined with the [-] Crusaders prisoners of war cannon fodder and a large number of siege equipment, made Lei Zihao full of confidence in the future siege war!
What's more, before he attacked, he would also receive gold worth 50 gold coins from the Orc Empire to attack the Night Elf Empire!

As long as there are enough gold coins, Lei Zihao no longer has to worry about excessive damage to the army!
Soon, the Golden Dragon Kingdom led by Lei Zihao will show its true fangs to this world!

(End of this chapter)