This spring lasted much longer than in previous years, and the temperature gradually became hot until late May. Athens' busy construction progress continued, and the resettlement and migration of nearly 240,000 people required a lot of time, manpower and material resources. In just three months, hundreds of villages have been established in the Athenian territory.

These villages are attached to the town, and the towns revolve around the city of Athens itself, all the land in the territory that is close to the Nidoria River is convenient for cultivation. Each village roughly maintains a population of about 1,200 people, with each village being about 2,300 households, and is built at a distance of ten miles apart. The land reclamation plains has such a natural advantage, that is, the land is vast and does not require logging and burning mountains, which facilitates the establishment of towns and the transportation of various materials.

As the population in the territory gradually shifted toward intensiveness, Murphy had to carry out a second urban planning.

The goblins, bear goblins, kowtows, etc. that were captured before, now they have a busy task, which is to dig out a river channel that runs across the city of Athens and the surrounding areas. The width of this river channel is about fifteen meters to twenty meters, and a length of about one hundred kilometers, which runs through the north and south areas of the Principality. Of course, the first step plan would not be such a large scale. Murphy's initial idea was to develop and improve the system of canal irrigation, and to combine it with various towns and villages near Athens.

The Nidolia River has tributaries flowing through towns and towns, so although this project is huge, it is not impossible to complete. It only requires digging out a river channel for diversion and guidance, and then using a layout similar to a spider web, it divides small river channels and ditches with a width of about three to five meters into the cultivated land. In this way, the canal irrigation system of the entire territory has been initially completed.

In the Athenian Duke, the number of goblin slaves was 40,000 to 50,000, and the number of dog-killer slaves was a scale of several operations. In addition to the bear goblin captured by Murphy, etc., the size of slaves in the city of Athens also exceeded 60,000. These slaves were all marked with spiritual imprints by the priests who led the temple. Unless they were left with no food to eat and starve, rebellion rarely occurred.

Because the earth was eroded by the filthy power of death, there are now food shortages everywhere on the road. There are already goblins feeding on the same species on the deserted stone highlands, and the situation is absolutely not optimistic. If Murphy is willing, he can even immediately obtain tens of thousands of goblin slaves from the deserted stone highlands to enrich the population. But Murphy does not have such an idea yet, because goblins are short and can't cultivate the land. Although they are a little clever, they do not have real wisdom. It is okay to let them be coolies, so the others are not very useful.

Now the number of Athenian goblin slaves is close to saturation, and if there are more, it will be a waste of food.

Although the output of Athens has been increasing in the past two years, the rapid increase in humans has also increased consumption. If you ask Murphy to help the Centaur tribe, you can exchange food for the fur in your horses in your hands. The food in the treasury cannot be considered very abundant. After all, food is prepared for any eventuality, and it is absolutely impossible to make more reserves.

Perhaps at this time next year, after successfully completing the farming reform of two-murder a year, Murphy will test Tang to increase the number of slaves.

After all, the river channel to be excavated in Athens is not the Grand Canal like the Earth in his previous life. It takes only a little longer to dig with more than 50,000 laborers at most. Murphy didn't care too much about this, as long as he could dare to get the canal irrigation system before August. There is still time to continue to open up these small river channels in the future. After all, the tributaries of the Nidolia River are there, and there are many ways to continue to expand.

The construction of towns and towns is in a busy and busy manner, and the expansion of Athens's city is also being further planned and arranged.

Since the establishment of the Principal of Athens, the number of citizens recognized by the "Total War" auxiliary system in Athens has gradually increased. Until June, the population of citizens recognized by the auxiliary system has reached 20,000. There is still a population difference of about 4,000, so we can start to prepare to transform Athens from a large city to a giant city.

Now in the city of Athens, the inner city and the port have been connected, and the land reserved by Murphy has basically been built.

If the city of Athens is to be upgraded to a giant city, it will need to be further expanded to the outside world, and the construction areas of commercial areas, residential areas, imperial guards and other buildings will be released. In the future, the Pantheon will also need to open up one by one.

The population accommodated by giant cities is about 50,000, which does not include the population of towns and villages around the city, but is limited to the population living in the city. Of course, the real population is actually far beyond this scale. It is expected that when the giant cities are completed, the total population in Athens can reach a scale of just 100,000!

In such an era when civilization has just begun to evolve, a city with a population of 100,000 is definitely a huge project.

If we compare a famous city in the past and contemporary era, it is the capital after the Roman Empire is built, that is, the city of Rome. Murphy intends to expand the scale of the giant city to reach the level of Rome, or even surpass the city of Rome.

This is a very huge project!

The time required is definitely not just one or two years. According to Murphy's prediction, it will take at least four to five years to complete the construction of a giant city. Among them, the final form of the Governor's Mansion, that is, the construction of the [Palace], will take more than one and a half years. This is the budget made when all aspects of material wealth are sufficient.

After the establishment of the Royal Palace, it not only means that this is Murphy's palace, but also means that the ruling system of Athens has been completely improved.

The ruling hall will be abolished, and a maximum space will be opened in the palace as an administrative place. At that time, the system of the cabinet parliament needs to be brought to the table, which basically means that a complete kingdom system has been established.

Maybe at that time, a crown would need to be added to Murphy's head.

"Dig a deep pit in the high-rise and deep land to accumulate grain and become king."

This is a sentence Zhang Liang gave to Liu Bang back then. Although it cannot be applied to Murphy, it is undoubtedly Murphy's plan and deployment. Athens has a strong military force, which is a solid city wall. The southern plains are located in a special place and surrounded by various races. Therefore, the core focus of Murphy's deployment is to accumulate food and become king.

Food is the foundation of everything. As long as Murphy can successfully reform the industry and earn twice a year, basically wherever he is, the people's hearts will be.

At that time, even if he completely turned against the noble parliament, there would not be many people standing in their camp. In this way, it would be equivalent to avoiding large-scale internal wars in the human city-state. All Murphy needed to do was to solve the stubborn members of the noble parliament who were unwilling to hand over power. It would not hurt the foundation of the human city-state and excessively damage the internal strength of human beings.

As for the 'relative king', although Murphy is now able to unify the southern plains by force, the Principal of Athens will suffer great losses.

And Murphy needs a little too.

That is to allow the lower civilians to more deeply understand the original energy and corruption of the aristocratic parliament, and even the middle and lower aristocratic classes to begin to oppose their rule. In this way, the ancient order that has been deeply rooted for thousands of years can be completely broken, and a new anaconda will be established according to Murphy's wishes. This increasingly corrupt system will continue to corrupt from the inside and accumulate people's dissatisfaction. When external pressure really comes, it will become a pure tofu shit.

Generally speaking, those who know a lot about history know a little.

It was very difficult to promote the new order, almost all of which were built from broken ruins.

Whether it was the massacre used by the Qing Dynasty to maintain its rule, or the ten years after the founding of modern history, the new order was almost all implemented with iron and blood.

Unless it is time to force it, Murphy does not want to use this bloody and violent way to reform it.

Because if one day he really needs to re-establish order in this way.

Then half of the indigenous nobles in the entire southern plains were pressed under his butcher knife! Because if these power-controlled classes were not killed, Murphy would not be able to stabilize his rule!

Time continues to flow, and the areas outside Athens are still in chaos. Fighting happens every day, and death is very close to everyone.

The decaying noble parliament still tried its best to support the three great dukes and maintained its weakening dominance. Faced with the rise of Athens, although they were determined to hinder or something, they were somewhat less powerful. Whether it was the fishmen who moved south, the undeads, the disputes in the southern wilderness, and the large number of cavemen who appeared, they were exhausted and could not free up any power.

I have to say.

Although the two stand opposite each other, the existence of the noble parliament still shared the pressure of Athens to a considerable extent, because the noble parliament was a barrier that blocked the fishman, the undead, the caveman, and the underground creatures in the southern wilderness opposite Athens.

Perhaps they were not happy to do this, but the geographical location of Athens made it possible for them to exist as long as they existed or not.

In July 377, the second era was on board.

After nearly two months, the Temple of Love was finally expanded, and Murphy was waiting anxiously...


Chapter completed!