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Silk and Spice

Attempts to keep the pestilant Xiongnu at bay with lavish silks and other coveted items have met with limited success -- and always appear as weakness on the part of our government. Efforts to locate their camps and exterminate the problem at ist source are even more difficult, as the nomads move like the wind, much swifter than our mightier, but more heavily laden, armies. It seems the only recourse is to continue the Long Wall, making it of sufficient height and width that the barbarians' horses cannot vault it.
West of the great loop of the Yellow River, along the Silk Road at a place called Jiayuguan, you are to establish a settlement and stretch the Great Wall westward once again. The weather is dry here, and the rains unpredictable. It would be advisable to keep an adequate supply of food stockpiled in case the crops should fail.
The hills and rocks hide lodes of iron ore, however. Using a new smelting process requiring more intense heat, and quantities of wood to stoke the flames, Steel, a new metal even stronger than iron can now be produced! Troops armed with potent steel blades will have a sharper edge with which to smite any foe

City - Jiayuguan
Starts Feb 106 CE
15500 starting cash on Normal

Requirements:
  • Earthen Great Wall must be built
  • 4 Trading partners
  • Yearly profit of 2000

Food : Millet, Wheat, Game, Salt
Resources : Clay, Steel
Products : Ceramics, Carved Jade, Weapons

Housing Limits : Elegant Dwelling (no acrobat), Modest Siheyuan (no acrobat)

The hardest thing about this mission is all the wood you have to import and all the different places you need to use it. Not only does the Great Wall need 186 wood, but the Steel Forges need wood to make Steel and the Tax Collector still uses wood. I used three separate, disconnected areas and micromanaged the getting warehouses in each area to control the flow of goods. Other than that, with 7 or 8 laborer camps and 6 carpenters guilds, the wall completedy relatively quickly.

Three cities will open trade with you in the beginning if you ask, leaving only one you have to work for. I started selling salt and steel and bartering silk, then since I was paying homage to Xi Wang Mu to speed up the construction on the Great Wall, I also built 10 carved jade studios, used the Hero to bless them full of raw jade, and exported the finished product so the profit goal was easily met as well.

Sample Events

  • Trade will open with Luoyang, Guangzhou and Chengdu if you ask.
  • Dec 106 CE Luoyang sells more wood
  • Mar 108 Gift of wood from Chengdu (8 wood)
  • May 108 CE Price increase for silk
  • Aug 108 CE Luoyang sells more silk
  • Mar 109 CE Kashgar buys less silk
  • Dec 109 CE Luoyang buys more Steel
  • Jun 110 CE Economic prosperity at Kashgar
  • Sep 110 CE Kashgar buys more Silk
  • Feb 111 CE Price decrease for Wood
  • Apr 113 CE Gift of wood from Luoyang (13 Wood)
  • Apr 114 CE Gift of Rice from Chengdu (24 Rice)
  • Oct 114 CE Finished with Perfect Harmony, 7 trading partners and a yearly profit of 12,022

Sample Industry Status : 3 Hunters, 4 farms, 6 salt mines, 5 steel forges, 3 clay, 2 hemp, 3 weapons, 6 ceramics, 10 carved jade studios

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