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Estates for All

You are an efficient leader, Jin Wudi, and your capital of Luoyang can now expand to celebrate your greatness. Build yourself a large palace to show all your subjects the strength of your heavenly mandate.
Another sign of the divine blessing upon your empire are the 25 sons you have fathered. They all need fine estates in and around your capital city. Build opulent houses for all of them.
When these projects are complete, Luoyang will be a fine capital rivaling those of your Han ancestors. Will we then be able to put the strife of the Three Kingdoms to rest?

City - Luoyang
Starts Feb 275 CE
Starting cash carried over from Jin Wudi 1

Requirements:
  • Large Palace must be built
  • Population of 3000
  • 400 people in Humble compound or better
  • 6 Menagerie Animal Types Required
  • Treasury of 50000

Game Difficulty : Normal
Housing Limits : Ornate Apt (no tea), Impressive Compound (no tea or drama)
Food : Soybean (bean curd), Cabbage, Millet, Wheat
Resources : Hemp, Raw Silk, Clay, Iron
Products : Steel, Ceramics, Lacquerware, Silk, Paper, Carved Jade, Mint, Weapons

Welcome back to the capital, Jin Wudi! If you followed my advice in mission 1, you've already looked at the mission goals, particularly the housing and monument goals, and have left room to build. If not, you may be required to do a little "urban renewal". In other words, delete a few structures to make way for the large palace and all those elite houses. Although the mission briefing suggests that each of twenty-five sons should have a Humble Compound, if you look at the numbers you'll see that 27 Humble Compounds would be required. Or you could meet that requirement with 20 Impressive Compounds. I chose to do the latter. The leftover sons will just have to make do at the Palace.

Depending on what you did in the first mission, you may already meet a few of the goals. All of my industries were already in place from mission 1, so money wasn't an issue. I placed an additional small common housing block to meet the population goal and to provide workers for some of the new buildings. Since I had already built one elite housing block in the first mission, I laid out another one to complete the housing requirements. Place the Large Palace as soon as possible as it will take a while to build. I put the new trading station to Chizhou near it, since they will sell you wood. Buying from them also will lessen the need to micromanage wood deliveries to the monument. I planned for the Large Palace to be placed next to the Splendid Temple, so I could use the same monument construction buildings from mission 1. You'll eventually need a mason's guild. I also added another labor camp.

You have the same trade partners, plus Chizhou and Jiankang. You no longer have vassals; they're allies now. Jiankang sells stone, which you will need for the monument, but doesn't really buy much of anything. I never placed that trading station. In the third year (Apr. CE 278) they gifted me 8 blocks of stone, more than enough for the monument.

The rest of the mission is basically making sure you have enough goods to support your new housing and making sure the work on the monument keeps progressing. To this end, you may want to bring Xi Wang Mu to the city. She will speed up work at the monument, plus she can capture animals if you haven't already started filling up your menagerie. Since there are animals on the map, this is a pretty simple goal to meet. In fact, you may want to make it more interesting and get all 9 animals, rather than settle for 6. You can capture a panda and a salamander from your map. Once you have a local animal, send it to a city in both an arid and humid region. They will return the favor. Send one of these new ones to another temperate city and they will send you a pheasant. Also send the arid animal to a humid city and the humid animal to an arid city. They will each send you an animal. Repeat again with the new animals and you will have all 9 animals.

With your new housing blocks, you should be able to meet your population and housing goals. Your palace menagerie should be full and if you're selling 36 silk and 24 lacquerware a year, plus tax income, you should be well above the treasury requirement. The only thing you'll be waiting on is the monument.

As far as events, there is an earthquake (!) somewhere around the fourth year (Dec. CE 279). I say somewhere around because it seems to vary. Playing again from an old save, it didn't occur until the sixth year (Dec. CE 281). Don't worry; if you have good inspector coverage (upgraded towers in your housing blocks) there should be little or no damage from it. The Xiongnu will demand silk in the second year and every 3 years thereafter. I gave them what they wanted, but if you're feeling martial, refuse their demands.

Finished : June CE 283 (8½ years)
Population : 3358 in 46 Ornate Apts. and 23 Impressive Compounds
Monument : Large Palace with 3 labor camps, 1 carpenter, 1 mason and 1 ceramist
Menagerie : 9 of 6 animal types
Treasury : 265869 cash
Military : 2 infantry, 2 cavalry

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