Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1223: Chapter 409: The Dilemma of Two Towns, the Longyou Model, the Golden Order Prison Warden, Lin Kai’s Reminder_2

The only explanation is that Jiangxia is under immense hunting pressure, so much so that their low, middle, and high-level hunting teams have almost all been mobilized, using the entire 110-kilometer area along Moao Mountain, and hunting with extreme frequency. Otherwise, with Jiangxia’s limited number of hunting teams led by Baisong, they wouldn’t often run into the Great Xia’s hunting teams in the Snow Forest.

Many things in the world are interconnected.

A camp that is healthily and normally developing has its own set hunting frequency. Just like the Great Xia Hunting Department, which has set fixed monthly hunting quotas for all low, middle, and high-level hunting teams under its jurisdiction.

These quotas are not randomly set. Hunting incurs losses and inevitably involves personnel casualties, which means the pressure capacity of the hunting personnel must also be considered.

After all, hunting teams are made up of living individuals, and you cannot send them out to hunt endlessly without limits, right?

Therefore, if any camp suddenly faces increased hunting and gathering pressure, it’s basically for one reason — the camp’s resource reserves are insufficient, in other words, the supply system is malfunctioning.

The benefits of one person going out hunting and gathering normally, whether daily or monthly, are surely positively related to personal strength, so generally, the number of people that an Earth-digging Realm or a Cold Resistance Level can support, and the cultivation resources they can provide to the camp, have a general quantitative figure.

This is the so-called supply system.

The Great Xia camp has been developing for nearly ten years now, and since Xia Hong, the lord, pays close attention to the camp’s macro data, he had already assigned Civil Affairs Department Director Zhu Yuan to research and validate this data.

Of course, there are numerous variables, such as whether the surrounding environment is stable, the risk levels of hunting areas, the quality of life, the camp’s production conversion capabilities, the enhancement of the team’s collaborative hunting and gathering abilities, and so on...

After comprehensively considering these factors, Zhu Yuan, taking Great Xia as an example, concluded that, on average, an Earth-digging Realm, depending on strength, can support about 5 to 20 people, and over 30 is quite difficult; the Cold Resistance Level can support 30 to 100 people.

This is the approximate data derived from the current stage of Great Xia and cannot be directly applied to other camps, but it at least holds some reference value.

According to the latest information from Great Xia, to compensate for last year’s war losses, Jiangxia has been continuously moving people from surrounding village-level camps to the town since May this year. The town’s total population has now surpassed 900,000.

With less than 2000 Cold Resistance Level individuals and more than 70,000 Earth-digging Realm members needing to support over 900,000 people, this is the core reason why Jiangxia’s hunting pressure has dramatically increased.

Xia Hong even received secret reports saying that Lord Xiahou Zhang carries a big saber every night to the depths of Moao Mountain to hunt advanced Cold Beasts. This alone proves how dire Jiangxia’s current situation is.

Similarly, Muyin is not much better.

Like Jiangxia, to restore the population, Murong Chui also started moving people from village-level camps within his territory to the town in May this year. The total population of Muyin Town has now exceeded 750,000.

With more than 1500 Cold Resistance Level individuals and over 40,000 Earth-digging Realm members supporting 750,000 people, Muyin’s situation is even worse than Jiangxia’s.

Support here does not mean merely providing sustenance. If it was just about providing a mouthful of food to keep people alive, it wouldn’t be a difficult task for the town.

Support here means giving everyone a chance to cultivate and grow stronger, to have a decent life, allowing the town to sustainably develop in a healthy manner. Not increasing the natural population growth rate, but at least maintaining it, not allowing it to fall.

If it falls into negative numbers, then the town is equivalent to dying a slow death!

In such a situation, wouldn’t Jiangxia and Muyin be anxious?

Of course, they’re as anxious as ants on a hot pan.

Precisely because of knowing this pain point of the two towns, Xia Hong dared to propose the integration of the Three Towns and shared resource areas at this time.

If no conditions were attached and integration was directly proposed, it would clearly seem like Great Xia was bullying the two towns. Given the current situation of Jiangxia and Muyin, it’s impossible for them to send people to collect and hunt in Great Xia’s resource areas.

But with the condition of taking a share from the hunting teams, it’s completely different.

From the perspective of the two towns, they don’t need to do anything; they just need to open the resource areas in the mountain pass, allowing them to extract income from Great Xia’s hunting teams. This is a business with guaranteed profit and no loss.

As for Xia Hong’s initial proposal, which allowed people from both towns to freely exchange and purchase supplies from Great Xia’s Camp Supply Department, their immediate refusal showed that they clearly understood Xia Hong’s intent.

This is equivalent to Great Xia publicly trying to win over people from both towns. It’s unsurprising that even if Xiahou Zhang and Murong Chui don’t dare refuse Xia Hong, they will surely impose restrictions on their subordinates when they return. However, whether these restrictions will be effective ultimately depends on the loyalty of the Cold Resistance Level and Earth-digging Realm in those towns.

Murong Chui and Xiahou Zhang both clearly know how important this share income is to the two towns, so they engaged in a lengthy verbal battle with Xia Chuan and Qiu Peng, ultimately raising the initially set one percent by Xia Hong to two percent.

The two of them were even initially aiming to push it as high as two and a half percent. However, Qiu Peng angrily threatened to find Xia Hong to have the Three Towns integration decision withdrawn. Although Xiahou Zhang and Murong Chui could see through Qiu Peng’s act, given the urgency of this collaboration, which was more pressing for the two towns than for Great Xia, they ultimately agreed.