Chapter 5: Sweet Potato

Yang Rui listened to the system prompt with considerable surprise, pondered for a moment, and then made his decision.

"I choose the sweet potato!"

The reward range indicated by the system prompt did not surprise Yang Rui. "World War" had always been controlling the game's balance, so a lower reward was quite normal!

For example, the daily refresh rate of ordinary vagrants in the game was only about 10 people (excluding special eras, mission periods, and special events). The first village in the world offered a 10% increase in the refresh rate, which meant just one more person per day, a difference that was not significant.

The 10% increase in the refresh rate of special talent vagrants was even less noticeable! The appearance of special talents was already a low-probability event, with a rate of about a few in ten thousand, according to forum statistics. Even with a 10% increase, it remained a low-probability event, almost indiscernible!

What surprised Yang Rui was the choice of three crops as a reward. Potatoes, peanuts, and sweet potatoes all seemed very familiar and were common in reality, but in the game, they were foreign species to the Three Kingdoms period, making it difficult to choose.

However, Yang Rui quickly recalled a record about the historical growth of China's population. The introduction of sweet potatoes had a significant impact on population growth! Sweet potatoes were known for their strong adaptability, easy survival, and high yield. Thus, Yang Rui chose the sweet potato without hesitation!

The historical background of the late Eastern Han Dynasty was most lacking in food. Although it was only 180 AD (the third year of Guanghe), the Yellow Turban Rebellion was still three to four years away, but famines were already widespread, and food production had become a critical constraint on the development of both NPCs and players!

As Yang Rui chose the sweet potato, a bundle of 3,000 sweet potato seedlings appeared in the village's warehouse, with a usage deadline of three days!

"Sweet Potato: Foreign crop. Propagated by cuttings, planted as seedlings!"

The system warehouse of a basic village had a capacity of 100 slots * 1000, much larger than the player's backpack! Yang Rui conveniently stored all the clothes, minerals, and other items from his backpack in the village warehouse.

"Village Name: Dasha Village (Basic Village)

Title: First Village in the World, a well-known territory, increasing fame and attracting 10% more vagrants, and 10% more special talent vagrants

Level: Low

Population: 4/500

Public Sentiment: 80

Security: 80

Special Attributes: 10% increase in vagrant refresh rate, 10% increase in special talent vagrant refresh rate

Resources: 200 units of food, 100 units of stone, 100 units of wood, 1008 copper coins

Upgrade Requirements: 2000 units of food, 1000 units of stone, 1000 units of wood, 20,000 copper coins; 8 basic buildings

Village Area: 1 square kilometer

Land Area: 20 square kilometers (standard territory is 10 square kilometers, barren land compensated by 100%!)

Existing Buildings: 1 village council hall, 1 residential building (low-level thatched cottage, housing 5 people!)"

After quickly reviewing the village's attributes, most of them were as expected by Yang Rui, except for the land area of 20 square kilometers, which made him realize how barren the land in the inner valley was, otherwise, there wouldn't have been a 100% compensation!

Land was generally divided into three grades: fertile, average, and barren, with each grade further divided into several sub-grades. A basic village with average soil quality would be allocated 10 square kilometers of farmland. Based on this standard, the land in Dasha Village's inner valley must have been extremely barren to receive a 100% land compensation...

"Commoner Chen Li (Chen Ping) pays respects to the lord!"

Two figures quickly walked out of the council hall, approached Yang Rui, and bowed.

"There's no need for such formalities. The future development of Dasha Village depends on the efforts of everyone here. I hope you all will put in extra effort!" Yang Rui also bowed slightly, speaking sincerely. At the same time, he checked the attribute panels of Chen Li and Chen Ping.

"Name: Chen Li

Qualification: A-level

Loyalty: 80

Talent:初级统帅 (Junior Commander)

Occupation: None

Reputation: 0

Identity: Dasha Village Resident

Achievements: 0

Level: 10

Strength: 30 Intelligence: 6 Politics: 5 Command: 9

Life Skills: None

...

Money: 100 copper coins..."

"Name: Chen Ping

Qualification: A-level

Loyalty: 80

Talent:初级统帅 (Junior Commander)

Occupation: None

Reputation: 0

Identity: Dasha Village Resident

Achievements: 0

Level: 10

Strength: 29 Intelligence: 6 Politics: 6 Command: 9

Life Skills: None

...

Money: 100 copper coins..."

After reviewing the almost identical attribute panels of Chen Ping and Chen Li, Yang Rui was a bit dumbfounded. The system had given him these two characters! It was truly frustrating, especially since, apart from the special talent of a junior commander, there was no one with political or management skills, which was not in line with the system's usual allocation logic!

Yang Rui couldn't help but look at Wang Hai again. The reason for the abnormal allocation by the system might be due to this old man! In most cases, the system paired a civil and a military assistant for the initial stage. Perhaps the system assumed that Yang Rui already had a "civilian" in Wang Hai?

Although he had some complaints, Yang Rui did not show them and started working with Chen Ping, Chen Li, and Wang Hai.

The daily refresh of about 10 vagrants did not happen all at once but appeared one or two at a time, requiring someone to go and recruit them and process their registration to officially become residents of Dasha Village. Therefore, including Yang Rui and Wang Hai, there were only four people available to work!

In the early stages, with a small number of people, there was no division of labor. Everyone worked together, and as long as the village chief was online and managed well, efficiency could be achieved. Yang Rui was already leading his three subordinates to build a thatched cottage, and they needed to complete at least one or two more today, otherwise, the vagrants would leave due to a lack of housing!

In addition to building houses, preparing the land for farming was the top priority! Once the thatched cottages were ready and more vagrants appeared, Yang Rui planned to lead everyone to cultivate the land and plant the 3,000 sweet potato seedlings within three days! On such barren land, perhaps only sweet potatoes could grow normally! Yang Rui had already decided to plant all the available land with sweet potatoes in the early stages!

Leaving aside Yang Rui's enthusiastic leadership of the villagers in the grand production, the establishment of Dasha Village, after being announced by the system three times, was known to almost all online players. Posts about Dasha Village quickly appeared on the forums.

While the reaction was enthusiastic, most people were merely amazed by Yang Rui's rapid level-up and village establishment, as they did not understand the difficulty of obtaining a village order or the scarcity of village orders.

Of course, many people sent friend requests to Yang Rui, some wanting to form alliances, some wanting to join, and some with peculiar ideas, such as offering to sell themselves or engage in intimate activities! Yang Rui, busy with construction, rejected all these requests and eventually locked the friend request function.

After the real-life pursuit incident caused by the game in his previous life, Yang Rui no longer trusted any player in the game.

However, there were indeed some people who were very concerned about the news of the first village in the world. The establishment of Dasha Village had a significant impact in various corners of the real world!

USA: A man in a military uniform with five stars on his shoulder was lecturing several subordinates, "George, do we have accurate information yet? Is the village in Taishan County, China, government-affiliated? What about the land deed, Jack? Has your team found any clues about the land deed yet?..."

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Saudi Arabia: A man in a red five-star cap with a deep expression, "Peter! Peter! Oh! Why is the progress so slow! Why haven't you taken action yet! See that? See that? The first village in the world was taken by PeK! Do you want to lose your blue uniform?"

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Japan: A man and woman in kimonos, along with a group of bowed yellow-skinned subordinates, "Bakayarou! You have three days to find out all the details about the first village in the world! Otherwise, Kousaka will have to apologize! Second, we must secure the second village in the world, and Watanabe must also be prepared to apologize! Now! All of you, get out!"

After everyone fled the scene and the wooden door was closed, the man in the kimono wildly tore off the woman's kimono! This was his usual way of venting!

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