Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely Chapter 1317 - 430: Leaving Seclusion, Adding Hairpins and Botched Schemes, Glorious Great Xia and the Eve of the Boom (Part 4)

"Defender Peng Bo of Outer City North Sixth District pays respects to the Lord!"

"Defender Lin Ye of Outer City North Seventh District pays respects to the Lord!"

"Defender Li Yuankun of Outer City North Eighth District pays respects to the Lord!"

East City boasts all 18 districts filled up, while North City has stretched to 8 districts now, bringing Xia City's total to 26 districts.

"No need for formalities, rise!"

[Population: 2,782,762]

Xia Hong launched the camp system, and spotting the population stats, a sharp glint sparked in his gaze as he waved the trio below to their feet.

"Update me on the Camp Supply, Armament, and Hunting departments' conditions."

Qiu Peng, head of the Camp Supply Department, advanced first, saluting with cupped fists before delivering his report:

"To the Lord, following the Three Towns merger, countless hunting squads have pushed into Muyin and Jiangxia over the last year, crossing those towns to hunt and forage in Moao Mountain. This has sharply lightened the load on our Camp Supply Department's resources. Low-level beast meat holds firm at 5 contribution points a pound, and refined salt, spiritual wine, dan medicine, weapons, plus other supplies keep their prices steady too;

Next, Hongmen has delivered at least 15 million taels of silver in monthly revenue to the camp since opening more than a year back.

With the massive Three Towns Martial Arts Tournament underway, inflows have surged since April: 31.58 million taels in April, 48.21 million in May, 50.21 million in June, 50.18 million in July. A minor drop might hit August, but projections hold above 40 million taels.

Camp Supply Department's silver stockpiles now total 676.2 million taels. The camp's silver exchange rate stays at 100 contribution points per pound, restricted to internal use as always, with personal limits tied to cultivation realm and noble status;

Last up, resource overview.

Jiuqu Water Area joined last year, plus He Yin Village's gateway to Moao Mountain. The Three Towns fusion unlocked fresh hunting grounds in Muyin and Jiangxia. Factoring in new outposts along Xing River North Bank and Bashang, Great Xia runs 65 outer stations, paired with Xia City's 26 districts for 91 in all.

Daxia's Seventh Year annual earnings value clocks in at 1.397 billion.

Great Xia's full-year earnings value last year reached 2.387 billion. This year, January to July already sums to 2.792 billion, set to blast past 4 billion by year's end."

Wow...

Qiu Peng's closing words on surpassing 4 billion in this year's earnings value sent the whole hall erupting in thrilled uproar.

The exalted Xia Hong at the high seat betrayed a flicker of exhilaration too.

Earnings value debuted in Da Xia's Third Year under Xia Chuan, capturing the surplus generated by stations. Put simply, it's the resources stations feed into Xia City, gauged mostly by contribution points.

Six-plus years of earnings value in Great Xia means every top brass here knows its weight.

That 2.792 billion earnings value, swapped fully to matching contribution points, yields 27.92 million pounds of silver—14,000 tons.

Sure, the swap's rough, mirroring resource worth only partly or skewedly, but it serves as a solid gauge.

The vital bit: it's earnings value!

Value from surplus, not raw production totals.

Meaning, this 14,000 tons of silver marks only the one-sided resource flow from every station to Xia City through seven months.

Factoring Great Xia's huge populace, fueling station ops and all cultivation demands must devour multiples—even dozens of times—this sum.

"Territory growth, booming hunting spots, trade windfalls, camp power surge—these four drivers make the earnings value explosion a no-brainer!"

Diverging from the crowd's gasps, Xia Hong pinpointed the drivers of recent years' earnings value boom, swept his eyes over Great Xia's vast territory map behind the dais, and felt exhilaration swell faintly.

Seizing the entire southern slope of Moao Mountain would propel Great Xia's total earnings value to multiply by at least several folds.

"Who proposed the idea behind the Three Towns Martial Arts Tournament?"

Steadying his surging emotions, Xia Hong promptly inquired with a broad smile about the Three Towns Martial Arts Tournament that Qiu Peng had just brought up.

The instant those four words reached his ears, comprehension dawned on him. Still, eager to uncover the mastermind, he posed the question intentionally.

Qiu Peng flashed a quick smile and pivoted toward the gathered crowd.

"Reporting to the Lord, it was my idea!"

Lin Kai advanced from the group, his voice laced with fervent excitement as he cupped his hands and pressed on, "Last year, the Lord spoke of hastening the Three Towns’ integration. Staging an annual martial arts tournament in Great Xia offers the perfect chance to boost interactions among the youth. At first, I only extended invitations to Muyin and Jiangxia Towns. Then it hit me—since outsiders were coming anyway, why not fling the doors wide open? Thus, while it's dubbed the Three Towns Martial Arts Tournament in name, folks from towns all across Moao Mountain's southern slope actually joined in..."

As Lin Kai laid out the origins and progression of the Three Towns Martial Arts Tournament, the admiration etched on Xia Hong’s face deepened noticeably, while his regard for Lin Kai swelled with greater contentment.

To insist he hadn't pondered such notions would ring utterly false.

Yet if every scheme demanded his personal invention, how would present-day Great Xia set itself apart from the Mud Slope days over ten years past?

Xia Chuan, Yuwen Dao, Qiu Peng, Xu Ning, Yuan Cheng, Yue Feng, Lu Yang, and now Lin Kai too—these talents have not just surged in power, but their foresight and knack for managing matters have leaped forward before everyone's eyes.

Now, he finds himself able to pour ever more time into nothing but cultivation!