Infrastructure Throne

This year's Dawn Calendar New Year is destined to be an unforgettable day for the people of Yuanliu City.

Early in the morning, when people were going to the market, the City Lord's Mansion suddenly announced: The whole city is on emergency alert to deal with the beast tide that may erupt at any time!

This explosive news, along with the notices posted by the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, instantly swept across the entire Yuanliu City like a hurricane.

"What? The beast slave is calling again?!"

"It's over! We are going to destroy the city!"

"I don't believe it! Life has just had some hope, why is it going to be a catastrophe again!"

Countless rumors spread like a virus, and in a blink of an eye, Yuanliu City fell into a raging panic.

Doubt, confusion, panic, and even despair quickly infected everyone's face. The cheerful atmosphere before was gone. The market square was even more depressed than the day of the strike, and there were terrified crowds, crying women and children everywhere.

People's uneasy emotions, after witnessing the nobles fleeing Yuanliu City overnight with their families, their savings reached the extreme, and a small number of wealthy families with relatives in Mingzhu City also secretly followed.

The hearts of the people in the city are floating, and the remaining civilians have nowhere to hide. The taste of closing their eyes and waiting to die makes them terrified all day long.

The city lord's mansion, the meeting hall.

"Master Officiant, is it really okay to tell the people everything?" Luo Xin's thick eyebrows were full of worry.

Jin Da couldn't help but whispered:

"When I was in the village, those villagers liked exaggerating rumors the most. An old dog died at the entrance of the village, and in the end it could turn into a plague and spread to the whole village. My lord, why announce the beast tide?"

Xiao Meng hesitated for a moment, and said, "There are rumors everywhere in the city, and the patrol team can't catch them. If we continue, I'm afraid the guards will also be negatively affected."

Fan Mizhou sat at the table calmly: "Regarding this point, the city lord and the chief priest have already expected it and are ready to deal with it."

In his hand was the newly transcribed notice and the stamped order of the city lord.

After rectifying the affairs office and transferring the leakers out of their posts, Fan Mizhou urgently summoned all the staff in the affairs office to transcribe hundreds of copies of the announcement requested by Shen Qingze overnight. This is an incredible efficiency in the absence of printing technology.

Fan Mizhou said: "We have urgently mobilized literacy personnel to form a preaching team, each responsible for a block, to read and explain to the public every edict that will be promulgated next."

"Do your best to ease the panic of the crowd."

Teng Changqing sighed, looked at the city lord on the main seat, and then at Shen Qingze, wondering:

"Most of the common people follow what others say. It may not be beneficial to tell such things. It is better to suppress them. It is also a white lie. The matter of defending the city can be left to our soldiers."

Yan Zui looked up from the snowflake-like document, frowned and glanced at him, and said coldly:

"Do you think the Light Guard can solve such a catastrophe? The nobles are all absconding overnight. Once the news leaks, it won't be able to stop it."

Shen Qingze stood in front of the window, looking at the people gathered outside the City Lord's Mansion from a distance, anxiety and fear were clearly written on everyone's faces.

"I made this decision not based on the naive reason that people have a right to know."

"As Yan Zui said, a huge disaster like the beast swarm cannot be resisted by relying solely on the army. Instead, it requires the whole city of Yuanliu City, from the city lord to the middle-level officials to the lower-level people, to work together and help each other."

Shen Qingze turned her head, her eyes glanced over the worried or surprised expressions of the people, and finally fell straight into Yan Zui's eyes.

"No matter how strong a person's strength is, they are limited in the face of natural disasters."

"Only by mobilizing the whole city and bringing together every seemingly insignificant force, can we fight for a chance in a desperate situation!"

"When they realize what they are going to face and what to do to save themselves and their families, I believe that in order to survive, even the cowardly and incompetent people can explode with inestimable strength."

Yan Zui got up slowly, came to his side, and together with Shen Qingze looked at the old withered tree outside the window, the last dead leaf was trembling on the branch, as if it might fall in the north wind at any moment.

Yan Zui said solemnly: "You put your hope on the people? But most of them are powerless, and it is difficult to train them into a militia."

"No." Shen Qingze shook his head, "They just need to do their best in their posts. For the rest, we and the guards will keep the enemies out of the city wall."

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The City Lord's Mansion issued an emergency mobilization order, and all public officials are not allowed to leave their posts without authorization, otherwise they will be punished as defection immediately if they are discovered.

The rest of the nobles in the city asked for the protection of the city lord's mansion, but Yan Zui mercilessly refused, packed up their things and fled to Mingzhu City. The rest of them couldn't leave, so they could only hide in the mansion and sigh.

With the absence of a group of laggards, the highly centralized Yuanliu City City Lord's Mansion burst out with unparalleled efficiency at this moment. From Yan Zui and Shen Qingze down, all major departments began to operate at high speed.

Several main roads in the city are not yet under martial law. Every main road and every gathering point of the people has a literate propagandist appointed by the City Lord's Mansion, holding a simple tin horn, and tirelessly read out the announcement over and over again.

In other streets, the patrolling guards will make a manual loop broadcast, explaining the estimated scale, time, and preventive measures of the beast horde.

The grain and supplies stored in the warehouses in the city are dispatched by Luo Xin, and sold through Yuanliu Ginza at a fixed price, with a daily purchase limit per person.

Gradually, it has become a regular routine for the people in the city to wait at the door every day to listen to the propaganda team read out new announcements.

Ordinary civilians have nowhere to go and can only stay in the city, waiting for danger to come at any time, but this does not mean that they have given up hope of survival.

The patrol team patrolled the city three times in the morning, noon and evening, the sound of neat horseshoes shook the streets, and the propaganda team repeated almost monotonous chatter.

There are also chief officials such as Xiao Meng, Teng Changqing, and even Yan Zui himself, who made public appearances in various places in the city, making everyone's panicked heart suddenly find a backbone.

The city lord and the chief priest did not abandon the people, the price of food did not increase, the supplies were sufficient, and the guards were actively preparing for battle...

Word of mouth spread among the people, and the rumors and rumors flying around no longer have a market. The facts are more convincing than arresting the rumormongers. The panicked people finally regained their cohesion.

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Suburban workshop area.

Compared with the gloom and gloom in the urban area, the workers in various workshops are more emotional than usual.

On the first day when the city lord's mansion declared a state of emergency, all the workshops received orders from the chief priest——

From now on, all workers in the production and construction team system must obey the deployment. Textile mills, armament factories, smelters, and honeycomb coal factories will work in three shifts, work non-stop for 24 hours, and their per capita wages will be tripled.

The rest of the workshops that were not needed during the war, such as porcelain kiln factories, etc., were all shut down, and manpower was added to the required positions.

Like Jin Da, no one cherishes what they have so hard to have more than them. The long-term institutionalized work, the workers have become accustomed to obeying the orders of their superiors.

The city lord's order was issued step by step. From the factory directors, to the middle-level managers, and to every worker, they were clearly told what tasks they were required to be responsible for and how important they could be in the future outbreak of animal hordes. effect.

In order to pay three times, and to protect their families and safeguard the construction results, the workers silently accepted the order and even worked harder.

Because they know that if they sweat more now, they and their family members will bleed less in the future.

Armament factories and smelters began to rush to manufacture steel weapons and armor day and night, and mass-produced a large number of arrows and steel arrowheads.

The technology research and development department in charge of Sera and the goblin orc brothers was divided into several groups to step up the research and development of various firearms.

The orders at the fair added a large amount of basic funds, and Shen Qingze finally had the money to build a junior medical center in the main city system.

After urgently recruiting enough doctors and medical apprentices, the first junior medical clinic in Yuanliu City started to be built under the personal leadership of Shen Qingze.

The main city system provides complete architectural drawings, lists of necessities, and primary medical and health books.

In the "Dawn Century" game, infrastructure such as medical halls and schools was originally a matter for players to confirm, but now, all of them need to be built brick by brick by civilians.

Under Shen Qingze's order, Luo Xin purchased a large amount of cotton from Beijicheng and Nanjicheng, transported it to a textile factory to make gauze, steamed it in boiling water for disinfection, dried it in the sun, and stored it for later use.

Some private workshops engaged in grain wine and grain processing were also temporarily recruited by the city lord's mansion to prepare a liquid called "alcohol" using potato starch as raw material.

The glass factory suspended the production of table and wine utensils, and all production lines were changed to containers for pharmaceuticals and medical chemicals.

The goblin orc craftsman team developed a more powerful large-scale "Zhuge Liannu" based on the Liannu arrows drawn by Shen Qingze. It can fire up to [-] arrows in succession. It has a fast firing rate and a long range. Semi-automatic individual repeater.

The construction team under Teng Changqing's command was not idle either, and truckloads of cement and concrete were brought in from the cement factory to reinforce the city wall.

And build multiple "bastions" on the battlements. Each bastion is equipped with two Zhuge Liannu, no more than ten meters apart. If any side of the city wall is attacked, it will inevitably be attacked by multiple bastions at the same time.

Xiao Meng openly recruits soldiers from the whole city, and Yan Zui visits the school every day to train with the soldiers.

A large number of cotton and wool military uniforms and leather caps were rushed out by female workers in the textile factory, and Teng Changqing personally presided over the distribution to every soldier.

In addition to intensifying their training, the guards specially mobilized a group of soldiers to form "engineers", armed with a military shovel produced by an iron factory, to dig trenches outside the city in the direction of the beast slaves' attack, cast barbed wire fences, and arrange them all over the place. trap.

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As Fan Mizhou speculated, the traces of beast slaves not only appeared in the misty forest outside Yuanliu City, but also along the Grand Canyon of the Northland, there were figures of beastmen from different tribes.

The ruling strata of the cities in the North have all discovered this terrifying fact.

But except for Yuanliu City, the city lord's mansions of all cities chose to hide the truth from the people, and there were only sporadic rumors about a small group of beast slaves plundering in the future.

Every day, nobles from all over the world donate half of their wealth and flock to Pearl City to seek refuge.

Those nobles and rulers who had to stay in the city, in order to ensure sufficient food supply during the beast tide, most cities adopted a conservative strategy of hoarding food and keeping their doors closed.

Not only have all the villages around the city been abandoned, villagers are not allowed to enter the city for refuge.

What's more, for example, the upper-class nobles in Beiji City, even the poor and beggars who had no permanent property in the city, were all expelled from the city, so as to prevent the crazy poor from besieging the noble mansions and looting food in disasters.

At first, Luoxin sent people to contact Lu's firm in Beiji City to buy a large amount of cotton, and even exchanged expensive luxury goods such as glass and porcelain, but was mercilessly ridiculed by the merchants.

After a while, Third Uncle Lu and Young Master Lu Xin looked at the mourning refugees everywhere, and they couldn't help showing sadness at the same time.

Apart from Mingzhu City, how many other cities can withstand this menacing beast horde?

Even if it is carried down, how many people will be buried in it?

All the cities in the northern region were filled with panic.

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Unlike other cities, the villagers outside Yuanliu City were brought into the city immediately.

Shen Qingze specially designated two areas in the west of the city and the east of the city, and set up simple shacks to accommodate these villagers. Although simple, they can at least provide shelter from the wind and rain.

The City Lord's Mansion provides them with a meal of rice porridge every day to ensure basic survival, and the rest needs to be exchanged for labor.

In Yuanliu City, which was on emergency alert, after just a few days, everyone was mobilized.

The city lord's mansion coordinates needs from all parties and allocates resources all night long.

The idle people in the city also joined the recruitment one after another, working as porters, porters, cement workers, doing everything within their power, helping the construction team transport materials and machinery, and ramming the city.

Batch after batch of guards sent scouts to the misty forest and even the Grand Canyon to patrol the city defenses and practice day and night.

The entire workshop area is brightly lit day and night, the hydraulic machinery roars non-stop, and the workers' chants soar into the sky.

The huge gears of Abyss City are built up one by one by tiny screws. Under the heavy pressure, they burst out with powerful power, running day and night endlessly.

The desperate atmosphere of imminent disaster was slowly dispelled by the fulfilling work.

People no longer indulge in complaints and resentment, but are actively busy in their respective posts, discussing with neighbors and family members what news the propaganda team announced today.

The price of food was suppressed by the city lord's mansion, and no businessman dared to make money in times of crisis. Instead, the people's income increased in a short period of time, and occasionally they could sneak in and have fun while they were busy.

As time passed, more and more animal slaves were found in the misty forest.

Seeing that the beast horde was approaching, what enveloped Yuanliu City was a kind of calmness after the boat was overwhelmed.

People complete their missions step by step. They have done everything they can do, and the rest is just a desperate fight with fate.