Chapter 173: Encampment Integration, Territory Skyrockets (Part 1)

"The wooden house structure has completely collapsed, and many iron components are completely damaged and useless. In a short time, wanting to rebuild it is definitely impossible. We can only temporarily build a wooden house and make do."

The vast crowd of people entered the valley smoothly before dawn.

Seeing the temporarily built wooden house, the Mirror Immortal encampment group was still somewhat disappointed.

Xia Hong didn't care. Hearing Xia Chuan's explanation, he nodded and led the crowd directly into the wooden house.

Great Xia originally had over a thousand people. With three thousand-plus people rushing in, the wooden house instantly became overcrowded. Fortunately, Luo Yuan, Director Yu Wen Tao, and others led the evacuation, otherwise many people wouldn't even have a place to sit and could only stand.

This cold beast tide, although it didn't cause much personnel casualties, the devastation to the wooden house was very thorough, including the losses suffered by the encampment's property.

"Didn't know the Mirror Immortal people were going to merge in at first, this wooden house was only built fifty meters wide. This day, we can only make do and squeeze. After nightfall, I'll take people to expand it."

By the fire furnace, Xia Hong sat on the ground with others.

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Xia Hong waved his hand slightly and said: "No rush. The population has increased several times at once. It's time to plan the encampment properly. Whether to rebuild according to the old style or have any new plans, since everyone is here, let's discuss it......"

【Encampment: Great Xia (Level 0)】

【Lord: Xia Hong】

【Cultivation: Cold-Resisting Grade】

【Territory Population: 4621】

【Resources: Wood 120,000, Coal 145,000, Iron 210,000, Silver 0, Gold 0】

【Enabled Buildings 6: Iron-Smelting Furnace (Level 2), Wooden Dummy (Level 1), Medicine Boiling Pot (Level 1), Grinding Stone (Level 1), Green Bamboo Fence (Level 1), Marking Stone (Level 1)】

【Disabled Buildings 3: Yellow Land, Small Wooden Table, Thick Iron Chain】

Taking advantage of the crowd's contemplation, Xia Hong opened the encampment panel. Seeing the resource column values in the middle, his mood gradually became excited, experiencing the feeling of being a big household for the first time.

2.7 million jin of coal, 1.9 million jin of iron, have all been converted by him.

If it weren't for the consumption during his previous seclusion, these values should have been able to increase by tens of thousands more.

"Wood is easy to obtain, coal and iron are so much, enough for me to upgrade all the existing six buildings. This time, it really counts as getting rich!"

This is just the one-time gain, not counting the two iron mines and one coal mine Director Yu Wen Tao mentioned. The indirect resources are countless.

Of course, compared to the resource harvest, the skyrocketing population also surprised Xia Hong.

After the death of the two Earth-Digging Realm experts Li Yun and Li Ping, Great Xia's total population was 1086. Last night's cold beast tide killed 9, so there were 1077 left.

The number of people merged from the Mirror Immortal encampment this time was 3544.

Great Xia encampment's total population suddenly skyrocketed to 4621.

This is only 379 people away from the giant encampment standard of five thousand.

The population skyrocketed so much, what urgently needs to be replanned is not just this item of the encampment.

Whether the encampment's subordinate institutions need to be increased, the specific personnel configuration of each department, including the hunting team, woodcutting team, and collection team in the future, may all need to change.

For the changes about to happen in the encampment, everyone clearly had some premonition.

Not just the forty-one Earth-Digging Realm experts brought by Director Yu Wen Tao, but all the Earth-Digging Realm experts Great Xia had before also gathered by the fire furnace.

Of course, things still have to be discussed one by one.

The question of whether to rebuild the wooden house or not, everyone discussed for a while, and soon a result came out.

"Leader, the structure of the big house has completely collapsed, and many iron components are completely damaged and useless. Wanting to rebuild it in a short time is definitely impossible. We can only temporarily build a wooden house and make do."

Xia Chuan opened his mouth first, and a group of people including Yuan Cheng nodded in agreement.

Mu Dong, who was in the crowd, also followed and opened his mouth: "During the cold beast impact just now, I discovered many problems with the previous wooden house. As long as it is improved, the defensive ability will be stronger than before.

Moreover, I heard Leader Xia Chuan say that the encampment's iron ore might overflow in the future. If enough iron materials can be provided, then I have confidence to lead people to build a main house with ten times stronger defensive ability than before."

Hearing this, Xia Hong's eyes instantly lit up.

The number ten times stronger, Mu Dong clearly arrived at it after careful consideration. He took out a wooden board, on which a prototype of a giant building had already been outlined with coal stone, and many key parts that were thickened should be the ones using iron.

"According to my plan, the newly built wooden house, the size and internal facilities remain the same as the original, requiring about 800,000 jin of iron ore. If the whole encampment cooperates, the construction period...... can be controlled within two months."

Speaking of the last sentence, Mu Dong first looked at Director Yu Wen Tao and the group of people.

Hearing the construction period within two months, Xia Hong raised his eyebrows and scanned the crowd in the wooden house, nodding slightly.

The total construction time of the wooden house built earlier was seven months.

The new building design is clearly more complex than the original, and the iron materials used are dozens of times more, but it can't stand the fact that there are many people now!

Mu Dong's last glance clearly counted these people of his in. Director Yu Wen Tao naturally wasn't stupid and immediately clasped his fists to Xia Hong:

"Leader, we have a total of 3544 people here. There are 6 Earth-Digging Realm limits who have started remodeling the Skin-Membrane, 36 Earth-Digging Realm experts, 982 Woodcutting Realm experts, and among the remaining 2520, there are 1480 under fifteen years old."

Tsk tsk!

It is indeed a giant encampment. The number of Woodcutting Realm experts is indeed many.

Considering the extreme scarcity of cold beast resources in the Mirror Immortal encampment before, the number of Woodcutting Realm experts being so many is enough to prove their strength.

Xia Chuan and the others were amazed in their hearts, and the expressions on their faces naturally became more excited.

After all, these people reported by Director Yu Wen Tao will all become a part of Great Xia in the future.

"If there are so many people, the construction period can be shortened. I estimate that one and a half months is about enough!"

Mu Dong didn't expect that there were so many Woodcutting Realm experts in the Mirror Immortal encampment. After calculating in his heart, he immediately excitedly indicated that the construction period could be shortened.

"No need to be so anxious. The encampment won't have any situation recently, so we can take it slowly. The matter of rebuilding the wooden house is settled like this."

After finishing the matter of the wooden house, Xia Hong immediately looked at Director Yu Wen Tao and asked:

"I see that the Mirror Immortal encampment adopts a separate living method. How exactly do you build houses and divide houses? Tell me."

Xia Chuan and the others heard this and immediately became interested, looking at Director Yu Wen Tao.

The living conditions of the Mirror Immortal encampment, they all saw.

Centered on the bamboo building where He Yuanhun lived, there were four rows on the left and right, each row had five wooden houses, totaling forty wooden houses.

Those wooden houses all had two floors. From the area, living five or six hundred people was completely no problem. The twelve thousand-plus people in the Mirror Immortal encampment before should all have lived inside.

Whether from the activity space or the supply of coal and iron resources, the living conditions of the Mirror Immortal encampment were definitely better than Great Xia.

Xia Hong's intention to inquire was naturally to make early plans for the encampment's future separate living, first looking at how others did it.

Director Yu Wen Tao is a smart person, naturally understanding Xia Hong's meaning. After pondering for a moment, he opened his mouth slowly:

"Before, we divided the living area according to the hunting team.

The encampment had three levels of hunting teams before. There was only one high-level, three medium-level, and ten low-level. The personnel configuration of each hunting team was twenty or more.

These fourteen hunting teams can be considered the core strength of the encampment. Using them as a benchmark, the remaining ten thousand-plus people were dismantled into fourteen parts. Each part had two wooden houses to live in freely. The specific placement rights were all decided by the hunting team leader."

Speaking of this, seeing Xia Hong's unsatisfied look, Director Yu Wen Tao immediately understood and continued:

"Whatever resources we obtained from hunting, gathering, and mining outside before, after returning, we would first hand them over to the encampment, and then distribute them downward uniformly."

Dividing all ordinary people into fourteen hunting teams, the people at the top, except for allocating resources, basically didn't need to be responsible for the specific affairs below.

The most important thing in the entire encampment was the fourteen hunting teams. The two people at the top, He Yuanhun and Director Yu Wen Hu, only needed to grasp the hunting teams.

This extensive management should also conform to the actual management situation of most encampments in the Frozen Abyss world. After all, for the vast majority of encampments, people below the Woodcutting Realm have no use at all.

The Mirror Immortal encampment situation was even more special. They were extremely scarce in cold beast resources.

In this way, ordinary people not only had no use but would even share the cultivation resources of Woodcutting Realm and Earth-Digging Realm experts. Adopting this extensive management should also be considered a helpless move.

Xia Hong thought for a while and signaled Xia Chuan with his eyes.

Xia Chuan immediately understood the meaning, walked to the front of Director Yu Wen Tao and the group, and opened his mouth slowly: "Everyone has just come to Great Xia and doesn't know the operation mechanism of our Great Xia encampment. I will introduce it to you briefly here. We are all one family from now on. If you have any opinions, just mention them......"

Director Yu Wen Tao, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, and the group of Earth-Digging Realm experts he brought immediately became spirited, all pricking up their ears and listening attentively.

After all, this relates to their own lives and the lives of their relatives in

The operational mechanism of Great Xia currently has three most important rules.

The first rule targets members who have not yet broken through to the Woodcutting Realm:

Children under six years old have a monthly quota of five jin of cold beast meat;

Those over six, as long as they haven't broken through to the Woodcutting Realm, are all considered reserves; they are divided into two tiers based on whether their base strength is above 1,000 jin or 3,000 jin, with a daily quota of 1 to 2 jin of cold beast meat.

It was precisely this first rule that left Director Yu Wen Tao and the others stunned.

They looked up at Xia Chuan, thinking he had misspoken. But discovering that Xia Chuan showed no signs of error and realizing that what he said was true, everyone, including Director Yu Wen Tao, trembled in unison.

"As long as we haven't broken through to the Woodcutting Realm, we can receive cold beast meat for free?"

"Children under six, they can't eat cold beast meat, do they get it too?"

"Xia Chuan... my lord, what you said, is it true?"

………………

Director Yu Wen Tao, Hong Guang, and the other five had this reaction; the remaining thirty-six Earth-Digging Realm members of the Jingxian camp went without saying.

They couldn't help but speak up directly to verify the truth with Xia Chuan.

Zhu Ling, behind Director Yu Wen Tao, also couldn't help but ask; he had already begun reshaping his skin-membrane and his strength surpassed Xia Chuan's, so the title "my lord" was clearly added only after hesitation.

"Absolutely true!"

Xia Chuan answered the crowd with a smile on his face; he was not actually surprised by the reaction of Director Yu Wen Tao and the others.

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From the moment he learned that the Jingxian camp was short on cold beast meat resources, he had already anticipated this scene.

After finishing the first rule, Xia Chuan began to speak about the second.

The second rule targets members above the Woodcutting Realm.

In fact, it is the contribution point system that the camp has already been implementing for a long time.

After such a long period of operation, the contribution point rule has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Great Xia, and everyone is used to it, but for Director Yu Wen Tao and his group, it can be considered an extremely fresh concept.

They are no strangers to handing over all resources seized outside to the camp; the former Jingxian camp did the same.

The difference is that in Great Xia, according to the resources submitted, they can obtain contribution points belonging to the individual.

These contribution points can be used to buy cold beast meat, wooden products, animal hide products, clothing, ironware, weapons, or even to go to the Camp Supply Office to exchange for coal, iron ore, or other raw materials, and then go to the Artisan Workshop to order the supplies they want.

Hearing this, the eyes of the Jingxian camp members already lit up.

And when Xia Chuan roughly stated several ways to obtain contribution points and the exchange price for cold beast meat, their breathing became heavy.

Low-level cold beasts are worth 200 to 400 contribution points each; mid-level ones are at least 4,000 points or more each;

And the price of cold beast meat is one contribution point for two jin!

The forty-two Jingxian members who can gather here right now are all in the Earth-Digging Realm.

They certainly have no problem hunting low-level cold beasts.

For Director Yu Wen Tao himself, as long as there is sufficient personnel, hunting mid-level cold beasts is not too difficult a task.

Hearing this, Director Yu Wen Tao even felt it was a bit absurd; looking at Xia Chuan with wide eyes, he found it inconceivable.

A low-level cold beast yields over a thousand jin of meat, and the contribution points given can exchange for at most eight hundred jin; the camp only takes one-fifth, and the individual gets four-fifths. Compared to the camps he knows, this is already quite outrageous.

For mid-level cold beasts, taking the Snow Mane as an example, it yields about four to five thousand jin of meat.

According to the contribution points given by Great Xia, and then converting it to cold beast meat, the camp not only doesn't take a single jin but even pays out double. What is this?

If this continues for a long time, can Great Xia still sustain itself?

But soon, Xia Chuan's next words helped him resolve his confusion.

"The reason the price of cold beast meat is low is a benefit provided by the leader and the camp to everyone. Such supplies that can improve strength only truly play a role when they reach your hands and become strength; otherwise, no matter how much you keep, it's useless.

Of course, cold beast meat is just the price of one item; the Camp Supply Office has many other things, and the prices are all different. You can come and learn more about them later; I won't introduce too much today..."

After finishing this, Xia Chuan paused and continued:

"By the way, I forgot to say, all the supplies you exchange with contribution points—coal, iron, animal hides, wooden products, special materials, and even finished weapons—as long as you exchange for them, they will belong to you privately from now on. They have nothing to do with the camp, and you can dispose of them however you want!"

Once these words were spoken, the emotions of the Jingxian camp members suddenly climbed to a high point; Director Yu Wen Tao, Hong Guang, and others even couldn't help but stand up directly.

All supplies exchanged with contribution points belong to the individual.

Once in hand, it has nothing to do with the camp.

You can dispose of them however you want.

These three sentences echoed in their minds, and their pupils were full of shock.

Xia Hong sat above, taking in the changes in the expressions of Director Yu Wen Tao and the others, and had some guesses in his heart.

Compared to these people in Great Xia, Director Yu Wen Tao and his group have had some contact with the camps in the Pingxi Plains; in other words, their understanding of the outside world is greater than that of the people in Great Xia.

If nothing goes wrong, private ownership should be a very rare thing in the camps around the Pingxi Plains.

Otherwise, Director Yu Wen Tao and the others wouldn't have such a big reaction.

Thinking carefully, it's actually not strange.

Private ownership can only be born when resources are overflowing.

Weak camps are not qualified to implement private ownership; after all, resources are limited, and everything must prioritize collective interests, otherwise, the overall survival of the camp cannot be guaranteed.

The main reason Great Xia can introduce private ownership in advance is that the population scale is not large, and secondly, because of Xia Hong's existence, the camp has obtained many resources inconsistent with its current scale.

At the very rear of the team, seeing the performance of the Great Xia crowd, a look of deep approval rose on Xia Hong's face.

That so-called Longyou Alliance has a total of twelve camps.

If the Honeycomb camp, which is equal in strength to Jingxian, can get in, it proves that the strength of the other eleven camps is not much stronger.

This private ownership seems to have a lot of potential.

Perhaps, in the future, it will still be a sharp tool for recruiting personnel from other camps!

Xia Hong pondered secretly, and on the other side, Xia Chuan continued.

The third rule he wants to talk about is the management organization currently operating in the camp.

"The camp currently has six departments, and everyone who has broken through to the Woodcutting Realm must enter these six departments, without exception.

These six departments are the Hunting Team, Woodcutting Team, Gathering Team, Artisan Workshop, Camp Supply Office, and the newly established Land Reclamation Department.

There is only one Hunting Team, currently with fifteen people; to get in, you need the leader's personal appointment. The Artisan Workshop also requires Mu Dong to certify that you have artisan talent; the Camp Supply Office doesn't need that many people for daily operations.

Therefore, generally speaking, the three departments you can freely choose from are the Woodcutting Team, Gathering Team, and Land Reclamation Department."

The names of the six departments are concise and comprehensive; Director Yu Wen Tao and the others don't even need to ask. Just by listening, they know what these departments do.

At this moment, a look of admiration had already appeared on Director Yu Wen Tao's face.

He first looked at Xia Chuan, then shifted his gaze to Xia Hong.

It's not that these six departments are very high-level.

This is called "the sparrow may be small, but it has all the vital organs."

In Great Xia, with a population of just over a thousand, these six departments almost cover every aspect needed for camp management.

With the contribution point rule in place, even if the population expands in the future, it will only be necessary to continuously improve on the basis of these six departments.

"Alright, these are the three most important operational mechanisms of Great Xia currently. You should have heard them clearly; is there anything you want to ask?"

After Xia Hong signaled for Xia Chuan to sit down, he asked Director Yu Wen Tao and the others directly.

The crowd looked at each other for a while, and finally, Director Yu Wen Tao stood out, shook his head, and replied: "The leader worries too much. We were already homeless people; being able to join Great Xia is already a great fortune. We never dreamed we could have such good treatment. Besides thanking the leader, we have nothing else to say."

After speaking, he lowered his head and bowed respectfully to Xia Hong.

Hong Guang, Hong Tian, Meng Yi, Zhu Ling, and Zhu Yuan, the five Earth-Digging Realm limits, as well as the other thirty-six Earth-Digging Realm members, also stood up and bowed to Xia Hong in unison.

A look of satisfaction appeared in Xia Hong's eyes; he raised his hand to signal Director Yu Wen Tao and the others to sit down, then turned to look around at the crowd and spoke slowly:

"The six camp organizations will be uniformly called departments from now on, in order: Camp Supply, Hunting, Woodcutting, Gathering, Artisan, and Land Reclamation. Each of the six departments will have one Director specifically responsible for jurisdiction, and they only need to be responsible to me alone..."

As Xia Hong's voice fell, the crowd around the stove suddenly became quiet.

Especially the three department heads—Cheng Feng, Bai Dongying, and Mu Dong—whose expressions immediately became tense.

Xia Chuan also clearly sensed something, and his expression shifted slightly.

Xia Hong saw the expressions of the crowd, raised his eyebrows slightly, and continued:

"The population has quadrupled all at once, so the six departments of the camp should also have some changes. The first one will start with the Hunting Team..."

As soon as he finished speaking, except for Xia Chuan, the expressions of the sixteen members of the Hunting Team, including Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, and Yue Feng, also became tense.

(End of chapter)