Chapter 554 Everything is turned upside down

Chapter 554 Everything is turned upside down

Time flies, and more than a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

The current world of Shanhai Dahuang, the Ming Empire and the former Tang Dynasty have all undergone earth-shaking changes.

The reason why the original Tang Dynasty is mentioned here is because strictly speaking, the Tang Dynasty no longer exists.

As early as half a year ago, Wang Lang had ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the Shanhai Dahuang world, establishing the Dahuang Empire, also known as the Huang Kingdom for short.

The foundation of the nation was the Tang Dynasty.

So, the Tang Dynasty has disappeared, and now there is only the Great Wilderness Empire.

The current Great Wilderness Empire is very powerful. Its territory includes the entire Great Wilderness world of mountains and seas and the territory of the former Tang Dynasty.

As the foggy border moved outward again and again, the original territory of the Tang Dynasty had already expanded to about five million square kilometers.

This means that the territory of the Great Wilderness Empire has now reached more than 7 million square kilometers.

If the sea area is added, the total area of ​​the Great Wilderness Empire will definitely double or triple.

However, most of the land and sea are now occupied by lizardmen and monsters.

Of course, the same situation was also true for the Ming Empire.

The total population of the Great Wilderness Empire is now around 110 million, and its major cities include Dongshan City, Nanshan City, Zhongshan City, Dongdao City, Nandao City, Chang'an City, Luoyang City and Yangzhou City.

Of course, because East Island and South Island are too dangerous, there are not many people living in East Island City and South Island City now.

At the beginning, the Great Wilderness Empire had only more than 30 million people, all of whom were the former Tang Dynasty's assets.

The more than 70 million people who were added later were all originally from the Ming Empire. They were all attracted by the high welfare of the Great Wilderness Empire.

What, giving away money, houses, weapons, protective equipment, elixirs, etc., not to mention. Just the 20% tax rate for going out for adventure and exploration is enough to attract countless people to join the Great Wilderness Empire.

Because of this, Zhu Xiyue and the imperial family of the Ming Empire really made a big fuss. It was not until Wang Lang reduced the tax rate for all people in the Ming Empire to go out for adventure and exploration to 30% and raised the immigration threshold that the matter came to an end.

If Zhu Xiyue and the royal family of the Ming Empire had not caused such a big fuss, the Ming Empire would probably have soon been in name only due to population shortage.

The eight inhabited cities of the Great Wilderness Empire can almost be said to have completely transformed into modern cities.

Although the tallest building in the city is only eleven stories high, it can still be said that there are tall buildings everywhere.

The reason why urban construction is so fast is entirely because there is money, people and materials.

Think about it, among the more than 30 million people, except for the necessary monks who guarded the city and some children, all other men, women, old and young were involved in the construction of the city.

In addition, a large number of planning and design personnel, construction workers, decoration workers, etc. were hired from the Ming Empire.

In the end, there were as many as 40 to 50 million people involved in the construction of the city.

It can be said that when building a concentrated city, almost all roads, residential areas, commercial areas, and other construction sites are started at the same time.

If this is the case, how could the construction of concentrated cities be slow?

The number of major inhabited cities in the Ming Empire is greater than that in the Great Wilderness Empire.

Their main settlement cities include Beishan City, Xishan City, Beiping, Luoyang, Chengdu, Jinling, Suzhou, Nanjing, Kaifeng, Taiyuan, Xi'an and Linqing.

Of course, Beishan City and Xishan City do not belong to the Ming Empire, they are just places for their people to live.

It is relatively simple to build residential cities in the Ming Empire. Except for Beishan City and Xishan City, which need to build various buildings, other cities only need to place the Pillar of Creation.

Because these cities are already full of tall buildings and everything is ready.

In addition to the earth-shaking changes in the territory, population and inhabited cities of the Great Wilderness Empire and the Ming Empire, the number of cultivators and their overall cultivation strength have also undergone earth-shaking changes.

The number of cultivators in both the Great Wilderness Empire and the Daming Empire has reached more than 20 million. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them have talents below the lower grade, which is considered relatively poor.

However, after a long period of hard training, these people have achieved pretty good strength.

Even though their talents and qualifications are relatively poor, their cultivation strength has still reached about two to three thousand years.

Now they can easily face hundred-year-old monsters, and can also deal with thousand-year-old monsters.

Unfortunately, there is a shortage of weapons, protective gear, and exotic beast companions. Most people are still bare-handed and lack suitable weapons, protective gear, and exotic beast companions.

Otherwise, if they cooperate with each other, they will be able to fight against the ten thousand year old monster.

During this year and more, the foggy borders outside the Ming Empire and the Great Wilderness Empire have been constantly moving outward.

On average, we have to move at least one or two kilometers every day.

As the border of the fog moved outward and the area of ​​land and sea continued to expand, a large number of magical beasts also madly poured into the Ming Empire and the Great Wilderness Empire.

Almost every day, hundreds of thousands or even millions of monsters would rush in. After a long period of accumulation, the number of monsters living in the Ming Empire and the Great Wilderness Empire has already exceeded 300 to 400 million respectively.

That is why I just said that most of the territories of the Ming Empire and the Great Wilderness Empire are occupied by monsters.

Fortunately, the majority of these magical beasts are still ordinary magical beasts, which are hundreds and thousands of years old.

As for the monsters above the ten thousand year level, it is estimated that they only account for about 0.03% of them. There are only about one million of them.

Of course, there must have been a lot of lizardmen and monsters who entered the Ming Empire and the Great Wilderness Empire.

The number of lizardmen is relatively small, but there are at least hundreds of thousands of them.

During this year, there were thirteen major battles in which the Lizardmen led large numbers of magical beasts to attack concentrated cities.

However, most of the monsters they brought with them were ordinary monsters, monsters of the hundred-year and thousand-year levels. There were also monsters of the ten-thousand-year level, but their number was very, very small.

In every siege battle, apart from the Lizardmen themselves riding on magical beasts of ten thousand year level or above, there were at most two to three thousand magical beasts of ten thousand year level or above participating in the siege.

There is a very interesting question, that is, these free-range monsters above the ten thousand year level that participate in the siege will not only attack the barrier light shield, but also attack the monsters around it.

Even after encountering lizardmen, they would run over and attack them, and their attacks were very frantic, as if they had some great hatred.

This resulted in many lizardmen attacking the city not dying at the hands of human monks and their exotic beast companions, but instead dying at the mouths of these magical beasts that were over ten thousand years old.

Taking all these factors into consideration, the difficulty of defending densely populated cities is greatly reduced.

It is precisely because of this that the people of the Great Wilderness Empire and the Great Ming Empire have been able to live a relatively stable life despite being surrounded by massive amounts of powerful monsters and lizardmen.

Wang Lang was naturally very happy about this situation.

Originally, he had been worried that a large number of powerful magical beasts over the ten thousand year level would rush in crazily, and then directly lead to the mass extinction of mankind.

Now, this situation shouldn't happen anymore.

Because now both the Great Wilderness Empire and the Ming Empire are ready.

Although this preparation cannot be said to be sufficient, at least we will not be taken away by a large number of powerful monsters.

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