“Li Ru?”
Xia Tian was stunned.
Li Ru, Dong Zhuo’s primary strategist in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, possessed first-rate strategy and foresight.
Historically, he served as a Chamberlain for Attendants, overseeing palace guards, under Emperor Shao and King of Hongnong Liu Bian during the late Han dynasty. He later defected to Dong Zhuo and, on Dong Zhuo’s orders, poisoned Emperor Shao Liu Bian to death!
Evidently, it was precisely because of this experience that he condensed the extremely unique talent of “Poison Strategist” in the Eternal Land.
Good heavens, such a silver “Hero” actually appeared in his territory.
He had even already been “recruited” by him.
Even Xia Tian couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly at this moment!
“Wait a minute, Li Ru also has a ‘bond’ with a golden Hero. Who is this golden Hero? It can’t be Dong Zhuo, can it?!”
Subsequently, Xia Tian thought of another point.
However, he immediately denied this possibility.
After all, from the attribute information, even Li Ru himself was directly “thrown” into the Eternal Land by the Earth’s Will in the early stages because his “merits and demerits were difficult to assess.”
Given Dong Zhuo’s actions in history, he clearly wasn’t qualified to become a hero that various territories would “compete” for.
And this golden Hero, bonded with Li Ru, was none other than… 【Jia Xu (Gold)】
【Potential】 Top-tier
【Bond】 Li Ru (+1)
“Ha, it’s actually him!”
Xia Tian’s eyes lit up, and he was filled with pleasant surprise.
After gaining experience from Hua Rong’s “Little Li Guang,” Xia Tian immediately realized that this was due to Li Ru’s “title.”
Although Li Ru’s act of poisoning the emperor earned him the title of “Poison Strategist,” when it comes to the true owner of the “Poison Strategist” title in the hearts of most Chinese people, it is undoubtedly Jia Xu!
This Hero, as famous and popular as “Ghost Talent Guo Jia, Fledgling Phoenix Pang Tong, Crouching Dragon Zhuge Liang, and Buried Tiger Sima Yi,” also initially served under Dong Zhuo.
Therefore, Li Ru and he already had a connection, and coupled with both possessing the title of “Poison Strategist,” the “bond” formed, though not too strong, was enough for one use!
“The renowned ‘Poison Strategist’ Jia Xu, if I can recruit him into my territory, I should be able to handle most foreign races with ease, right?”
Xia Tian gazed at Li Ru with fervent eyes, but in his heart, he was thinking of the other “Poison Strategist.”
However, to recruit “Jia Xu,” the current Li Ru was also an important figure, as the “bond” was with Li Ru.
Besides Xia Tian himself, only Li Ru could enter Jia Xu’s challenge secret realm.
But since Li Ru used a pseudonym, it meant he intended to hide his identity. Xia Tian felt he needed to think about how to handle this matter.
After all, Li Ru’s own attributes were not bad, his potential was superior among silver-ranked Heroes, and more importantly, he possessed management abilities. He was precisely the type of internal affairs + strategist talent Xia Tian most desired right now!
“Why is this ‘Lord’ staring at me? And his gaze makes me feel as if everything about me has been seen through.”
Under Xia Tian’s gaze, Li Ru, though outwardly calm, felt a bit flustered!
“He couldn’t have already known my origins and what I’ve done, could he?”
Li Ru thought to himself.
On the way, he had heard a group of soldiers say that Xia Tian was an “immortal,” capable of creating things out of thin air and casting spells that made night as bright as day!
It wouldn’t be strange for such a divine being to possess the ability to see through his thoughts and origins.
And this couldn’t help but make Li Ru’s heart sink to the bottom.
The reason he used the pseudonym “Lu Ru” was because he dared not reveal his identity. Only after asking the people of Qingfeng Village did he discover that everyone came from Kyushu, China.
However, the people of Qingfeng Village were from a thousand years later.
Although ordinary people didn’t know much about what happened in the late Han Dynasty, many knew that Dong Zhuo was a rebellious and treacherous minister.
And Liu Zhai, as a scholar, was even aware of his act of “poisoning the young emperor” as Dong Zhuo’s subordinate and expressed great anger, stating that he should have his entire clan exterminated and be burned at the stake like Dong Zhuo!
“Indeed, one wrong step leads to a thousand wrong steps. I never thought I would be infamous for a thousand years.”
Li Ru smiled bitterly, even more afraid to reveal his identity.
After all, any superior facing someone who had betrayed their lord, or even poisoned them, would likely treat them coldly, or even with hostility!
Unless that person didn’t care much about imperial power and valued his abilities more than his character.
But, did such a person truly exist?
Even the “immortal” lord before him couldn’t escape convention, could he?
Xia Tian had no idea.
Just because he glanced at him, Li Ru’s mind had conjured up so much drama!
In fact, after confirming Li Ru’s identity, he temporarily ignored it. Poisoning an emperor was indeed an unforgivable crime in the eyes of ancient people, but in the eyes of modern people, it was just another historical event!
As for betraying one’s lord, others might be very worried, but he, possessing a weakened version of “Overlord’s Aura (Golden Terrace),” wouldn’t care even less.
At this moment, Xia Tian was checking the number of recruits through the territory panel.
【Lord Name】 Xia Tian
【Territory Level】 Village (Human shelter limit 622 / 1000)
【Territory Fortune】 7025 points
【Territory Resources】 Selectable resources 3000 units; Food 725 units; Wood 1030 units, Stone 540 units, Metal 412 units.
“The population has suddenly increased sixfold, which looks great. But the problems are also huge!”
Too many refugees arrived.
The area Xia Tian had planned yesterday suddenly became insufficient.
More importantly, with the addition of five hundred refugees, if they followed the original plan of building one residential house for every ten people, they would need to construct fifty houses!
The consumption of Fortune was fine; “rapid construction” of one residential house only consumed 40 points of Fortune, and even if all were just the lowest-grade ordinary white personnel, recruiting 10 people could provide 50 points of Fortune to the territory!
Therefore, there was a surplus of Fortune.
The problem was, resources were insufficient. A residential house built with a blue blueprint required 50 units each of wood, metal, and stone, which meant 150 units of resources.
Fifty houses would require a staggering 15,000 units of resources!
And the territory upgrade to “Village” provided 3,000 units of free resources, plus the resources collected these days, bringing the total balance to only about 5,000.
Undoubtedly, the problem of allocating houses to every ten people could only be put on hold for now.
Xia Tian planned to first build ten residential houses for some elderly and weak people. As for the strong residents, they could only be temporarily housed in the “training ground, quarrying workshop, and mining workshop,” where they could at least have shelter from the wind and rain for now!
Then, he would arrange for these people to go logging, mining, and quarrying.
He would try his best to build houses and some defensive facilities before the general protection disappeared in three days!
“However, while temporary housing can be solved, food is the current problem.”
Xia Tian scratched his head.
Because the village was burned down and they had to move urgently, these refugees couldn’t salvage much food. Even with the food in his territory, it would only be enough for six hundred people to eat for ten days!
In other words, the food crisis was a problem that had to be solved first.
Moreover, to attract the people of Qingfeng Village to relocate previously, Xia Tian specifically had Hua Rong and others spread propaganda that the territory could offer “good houses and unlimited meat.” Now that the refugees had indeed moved in, there were no houses at all. At least the meat supply should be met!
Otherwise, the hidden “public sentiment” attribute would probably drop quite severely.
However, due to the night activities of the ghost vultures and the previous sweep by the centaur army, the creatures around the territory were much sparser than at the beginning. Arranging people to hunt temporarily probably wouldn’t be enough to eat at all!
Xia Tian frowned in thought, considering how to solve this problem.
But he was temporarily at a loss, mainly because he didn’t have a “market” building. Otherwise, he could exchange resources for food with other lords!
“Hmm, I almost forgot that I already have a ‘strategist’ in my territory. I can totally ask him.”
Xia Tian, who was deep in thought, his gaze swept over Li Ru, who was still standing among the refugees, seemingly intending to conceal his identity and drift with the tide.