Transmigrator's Guide to Conquering Another World-Chapter 472 - 436: City Selection

Forty thousand spirit stones for a city of ten thousand people.

This is the basic trade intention reached between Ma Ning and Yang Bolin—or rather, between the rabbits and Ziqiong City.

Of course.

The specific division of which cities, division deadlines, handover matters, and other more complex practical issues.

Were postponed by Ma Ning under the pretext of needing to seek higher authority opinions.

"....Above is roughly the situation of our discussions."

After seeing off Yang Bolin.

Ma Ning immediately contacted the command center in the back hall of Taihe Building:

"Initially, my psychological expectation was around forty-five thousand spirit stones, but I didn't expect Yang Bolin to start with a price of forty thousand spirit stones.

Obviously, he thinks we might need to consume quite a bit of defensive resources or food expenses.

Although it seems we could still haggle on the price.

But considering our current relatively close cooperative relationship with Ziqiong City, I directly chose to agree."

In the video opposite him, Lin Li gave him an approving look:

"Professor Ma, your approach was very correct.

We are in long-term cooperation with Ziqiong City; there's no need to take further advantage after getting a good deal.

This meeting was a bit rushed, thank you for your hard work."

"Oh, it's nothing, it's nothing, making contributions to the organization is all in a day's work."

Ma Ning smiled and waved his hand, simultaneously retrieving a piece of parchment from his body.

"Captain Lin, this is the list of exchanges given by Yang Bolin, I'll pass it to the command center now."

Exchange list.

Lives up to its name.

Refers to the list of cities the Yang Family intends to use to offset with spirit stones, which is the core of this trade.

Therefore, Lin Li did not waste words and immediately said:

"No problem, I'll get the control center to free up bandwidth right away."

Beep beep beep——

Taking advantage of the interval during machine scanning and imprinting, Ma Ning explained:

"Captain Lin, Ziqiong City has given us forty target cities to choose from, all located around Chixian City.

However, there are more distributed in the west and north directions.

After all, the southeast sides of Chixian City are close to the Celestial Moon Mountain Range, so the number of cities there is inherently small.

Additionally, I inquired Yang Bolin.

The cities directly under or affiliated to Ziqiong City within the southern region are nearly a thousand, very vast numbers, and he subtly revealed a continuous cooperative attitude."

It was mentioned a long time ago.

Earth in the Damo Realm corresponds to Earth, the southern region does not correspond to the homeland but rather to Asia.

Therefore, it's not particularly unusual for Ziqiong City to have thousands of cities under its name.

For instance, during the Warring States period on the homeland, Haida Province.

Besides the Qi and Lu kingdoms, there were over 50 various large and small feudal states within the province (another account suggests 44).

Haida Province spans 721.03 kilometers east to west, and 437.28 kilometers north to south.

If a city is assumed at the center, its range would be a circle with a radius of 300 kilometers centered on it—whereas both north and south need to exclude significant portions of the area.

The previously mentioned nearest city to Chixian City being fifty kilometers away doesn't imply the gap from each city is fifty kilometers.

You could look at a regional map for specific town-to-town distribution:

The linear distance from Town A to Town B is 20 kilometers, from Town B to Town C it's also 20 kilometers, but this doesn't imply the linear distance from Town A to Town C is just 40 kilometers. (Today, there's an intern reader in the comments section writing long essays, insisting A to C is 40 kilometers, sprawling hundreds of words. Once again, I've explained that the southern region corresponds to Asia rather than the homeland, yet there's still thoughtless countering....)

Returning to the original focus.

Having introduced the general information, Ma Ning continued:

"I did a simple inquiry into these forty cities, the population of the smallest is seven thousand eight hundred people, and the largest is nearly ten thousand.

Oh.

The city with ten thousand is Linyuan City where we previously established the flying ship transfer station, it's always been a cheerful delivery point.

However, if we want to trade for Linyuan City, we can only trade for two more cities of about fifty thousand people."

According to the previously reached agreement between the parties.

The rabbits can altogether exchange for fourteen cities with populations of ten thousand, but this doesn't represent the total population of exchanged cities being fourteen thousand.

This calculation is mainly based on the size of the city, geographical environment, and existing facilities, among other aspects.

As for the population...

This is a rather volatile figure.

Especially as the impending grain shortage approaches, the number of displaced people will surely increase.

If one puts in some effort.

Gathering three to five thousand people a day wouldn't be considered difficult.

"Linyuan City is certainly something we must acquire, but not immediately."

Upon hearing Ma Ning's introduction, Lin Li immediately responded:

"The command center's idea is to form a fan-shaped radiation area with Chixian City at the center and gradually complete the semicircle.

And Linyuan City is indeed a barrier we must encounter in external expansion.

Additionally, there is a very convenient large official road outside Linyuan City, connecting everywhere.

It can be considered the main thoroughfare in the southeastern area of the southern region.

Therefore, whenever possible, we definitely need to secure it.

But it's nearly three hundred kilometers away from us, so there's no need to consider this issue in the short term.

Like this.

Once the specific city list and information are fully transmitted back, I'll organize an expert discussion meeting, then finalize the list."

Ma Ning nodded understandingly upon hearing this.

This matter is evidently not something Lin Li alone can or is qualified to decide, as it involves too wide a scope.

Having discussed the key topics, Ma Ning suddenly thought of something and asked somewhat curiously:

"Captain Lin, what's this grain shortage situation all about?"

Upon hearing the term 'grain shortage,' Lin Li's expression immediately became quite serious.

He hesitated slightly and explained:

"This intelligence was obtained by colleagues from the information team yesterday.

You should be aware.

The southern region has seven hegemonic-level giant cities, among which Chixian City is situated in the southeastern range, equivalent to the homeland's Min Province and Zhejiang Province area.

Whereas the grain shortage arises in Biyou City central to the southern region, approximately the Shan Province and Xiangchu Province area.

This locust disaster seemingly features numerous traces of second-order locust demons, with the overall number of locusts being extremely large, also accompanied by some hidden context.

However, due to the lack of detailed image data, we cannot ascertain the specific scale yet."

Ma Ning nodded thoughtfully.

Second-order locust demon beasts correspond roughly to Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators.

But unlike ordinary second-order demon beasts.

Second-order locust demons don't attack cities, but only erode cultivation areas outside cities.

To safeguard cultivation areas, city's cultivators must leave the city and physically face the swarming insect horde.

Admittedly.

This task is very simple for Ziqiong City, and straightforward enough for the next lower Celestial Fate City.

But how many cities with Core Formation Realm cultivators does the southern region have?

......

Note:

Seven helmsmen and one alliance leader have participated in the event, the steward looks like it's a bit of a stretch, only realized there have been over fifty helmsmen unwittingly...

But don't worry if you missed out, there are ten slots every month.