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Zheng Guo’s Canal

Royal Administrator of the Kingdom of Qin: As you are aware, not long ago Zheng Guo, emissary and chief architect from the lecherous state of Han, arrived in our capital of Yong seeking an audience with our leader, King Zhuang Xiang. Suprisingly, instead of being summarily executed, this Han vermin actually had his request granted. In fact, he evidently convinced our normally wise leader of the importance of some construction scheme -- a canal linking the Luo and Jing rivers. According to this yak-brained emissary, such a canal would facilitate moving produce and supplies north of unnavigatable portions of the Wei River.
The decision has been made. The canal shall be built! Thus it is that our noble king, trusting in your abilities, wishes for you to oversee construction of the canal in the mountainous Haunxian region. Engineers have already dug a pass through one high ridge, and marked the canal's path, but a lot of excavating work is still to be done. You must establish work settlements and keep the peasants' noses in the dirt. Luckily that region is known to be rich in iron ore; producing weapons and training some troops is advisable. Both are likely to be needed, as our borders are still in flux.

City - Huanxian
Starts Feb 260 BCE
15000 starting cash on Normal

Requirements:
  • Grand Canal Section must be built
  • Produce 18 bars of iron in one year

The first thing you will want to do when getting set up for this map is plan out your population. You will need to have a decent enough population to produce the workers needed to fill the labour camps. In addition to this you will need to plan out an area for iron production and stone production. Cash should not be a real problem for you, as you will be able to trade off the iron that you produce.

Cabbage and wheat may be farmed and you will have the option of building hunters tents as well. Hunters are a good plan for early on in the mission to get your food supply going. As the game evolves you may want to buy millet and possibly one load of 12 weapons for security. All of this may be done in the one trading post needed for the mission to complete.

I planned out my housing block in the lower right portion of the map. I found this gave me good access to farm lands and allowed me to mine ore in a good and timely manner. The other side of the canal may be set up for wood, stone and your canal work sites. A fort may also be a handy thing to have in the upper portion of the map to protect you against any possible invasions. If you plan well, you will have enough cash on hand to bribe any would be attackers.

This one housing block held a population of well over 2000 people and provided all the needed labour to fulfill the goals of the mission.

I placed all of my iron mines below the canal in the upper left portion of the map. Labour camps were placed north of the canal in both the left and right side of the map. You will need to produce a few weapons yourself to fulfill a request from Yong for weapons, but later in the mission you will be gifted in return. Have fun with this one.

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