Chapter 558 Population Composition
After Wang Pengfei left, Zhou Xu quickly dealt with several documents on hand, and then devoted his energy to the construction planning of this large new site.
This time, the territory they occupied included not only the large rainforest area that served as the Lizardmen's territory, but also the plains connected to the rainforest area and the surrounding areas where the Centaurs originally lived.
The area is so large that Zhou Xu estimated that it is probably two-thirds of the original territory of their Great Zhou.
This also indirectly illustrates how huge the workload Zhou Xu is facing at the moment.
In the next few days, he planned to conduct an overall inspection of these territories before making better plans.
Originally, this matter should be handed over to the Construction Engineering Department.
But unfortunately, at this stage their construction engineering department still lacks talents who can truly stand on their own.
Although Minister Wang Dashi can be considered an experienced builder at this stage, his experience and ability are limited to starting work with the design drawings given to him by Zhou Xu, or directly applying the previous template styles. However, if he is asked to do the planning and design himself, he is still a long way from being mature.
To put it bluntly, Wang Dashi, or the entire construction engineering department can only be used as a simple "tool man" at this stage.
This also means that the entire planning and design work has been personally handled by Zhou Xu up to now.
He wanted to train Wang Dashi and others, but the conditions did not allow it at the current stage.
The tight labor force and limited time cannot withstand the tossing and turning. He now has to avoid all kinds of mistakes that will increase their burden and pursue maximum efficiency.
At this stage, the Construction Engineering Department has not arrived yet. After all, Shi Lei has been recruiting tribal populations over in the mountains, and his territory is also expanding. Many hilltops are still waiting for them to build villages, which also makes the Construction Engineering Department have a huge workload over there.
According to Zhou Xu's plan, he was going to transfer them here after the spring. As for now, he would first complete all the plans here.
"Bo Levin, meet the king!"
Hearing the voice, Zhou Xu spoke without even raising his head...
"No need to be polite. I called you over here because I want to confirm with you the specific division of the Lizardman population."
If he simply wanted to confirm the population figures of the Lizardmen, Zhou Xu would only need to open his attribute panel and check the "Subjects" column to get the answer.
Currently, he has 6,732 lizardmen under his command! In addition to the lizardmen, the total population, including the centaurs and grassland elves, is 1,364. This is really thanks to Shi Lei's continuous recruitment of people.
Adding the total population of his Great Zhou up, the total population has now reached 8,096! The reason why he had not confirmed it before was because the Lizardmen were still fighting with the Ratmen on the southern border. During this process, the population figures fluctuated violently, so it was meaningless to confirm it at this time.
Now, the war between the two tribes has come to a temporary end, and the fluctuations in population numbers have temporarily stabilized, so this confirmation was made.
Under this premise, what Zhou Xu wanted to obtain from Bolevin at this time was obviously not the total population number. What he wanted to know was how many of these nearly 7,000 lizardmen were soldiers and how many were civilians.
If possible, it would be great if we could also report to him how many soldiers of each branch there are, and how many civilians of each profession there are.
But obviously, Bolevin was not able to grasp the division of the population within their Lizard People to this level of accuracy.
The only thing that can be provided is the number of soldiers.
"Reporting to the king, among these lizardmen, there are more than 4,000 soldiers in total..."
"Multiple?"
Faced with this ambiguous word, Zhou Xu expressed doubts.
Hearing this question, Bo Levin broke out in a cold sweat.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me! It was my fault for failing in my duty!!"
As the supreme ruler of the Lizardmen, Bolevin was usually only responsible for issuing orders and letting the Lizardmen do the work. He never really asked about such detailed population issues, and he didn't need to worry about them before.
He was able to report the total number of 'more than 4,000' soldiers because of the recent war with the ratmen. In addition, he had personally been to the southern border battlefield to command, so he had such a number in mind. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't even be able to report this number.
Zhou Xu felt it was an eyesore when he glanced at Bolevin's fat body that kept resonating.
"Forget it, let's put this aside for now. These 4,000-plus soldiers shouldn't be your regular force, right?"
"Yes, yes, your Majesty is wise."
Faced with this flattery, Zhou Xu rolled his eyes. He was not stupid. Among more than 6,000 lizardmen, more than 4,000 were soldiers. How could he afford to support them?
"Stop talking about these nonsense and get down to business."
"yes."
Zhou Xu did not pursue the matter, which greatly relieved Bo Levin. He then asked a question he knew the answer to, and with the intention of performing well, he quickly started talking.
"Our tribe had 3,000 regular soldiers before. 2,000 were concentrated on the southern border, 500 were stationed near the tribe, responsible for guarding against the Centaurs and the plains, and the remaining 500 were scattered in several other settlements."
"But later the war broke out and the pressure on the front was great, so we gathered all the young and strong men in the tribe and sent them to the front to fight."
Having said that, Boleyn glanced at Zhou Xu timidly.
The reason why they were under so much pressure was largely due to their king, but he didn't dare to say it openly.
It’s not that Zhou Xu couldn’t hear it, but he pretended not to understand and pondered the military strength in his mind.
[Three thousand standing troops are about right. After all, before this, the total population of the Lizardmen must have been much larger than this. In this wave, many Lizardmen died.]
Not to mention the battlefield in the south, there were quite a few Lizardmen who died here at the hands of their Great Zhou troops and the Centaurs.
These more than 6,000 are the current remaining population of the Lizardmen, not the population before the war.
Zhou Xu didn't care about how many people the Lizardmen originally had. That was already a thing of the past. To him, the most important thing was how to arrange the 6,732 newly recruited Lizardmen.
Taking into account the replenishment of internal labor, a group of soldiers must be retired first, but at the same time, considering the threat of the ratmen in the south, Zhou Xu pondered the previous troop arrangements of the Lizardmen, and thought that there must be two thousand permanent troops stationed on the border just in case.
As for the number of lizardmen soldiers scattered in the tribe and several other settlements, they can be reduced at this moment.
After all, the existence of these Lizardmen soldiers is to guard against the Centaurs on the one hand, and against possible enemies appearing on the edge of the world on the other.
Now, both of these requirements no longer exist, and in non-war times, this part of the military force is naturally not needed.
(End of this chapter)
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