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Song Jin - Millenium

Across the globe the Western world marks the one-thousandth year of the Christian era. But the West is still engulfed in disarray and bloodshed. It will be hundreds more years until those Dark Ages end.
With the West in chaos, it is here in China that the world's most civilized people live. Our new ruler, Taizong's third son, Zhenzong, makes sure that elegance, leisure and learning are all cherished and nurtured. Our cities grow quickly, as does our wealth.
Only the Khitan horsemen from the north threaten our idyllic existence ... and yes, seven years into Zhenzong's reign, our capital of Kaifeng is in fact overrun. The court flees, first south to the Yangzhi, then upriver to Chengdu.
Chengdu, capital of the isolated Sichuan province, is where you now find yourself my loyal councilor. Emperor Zhenzong himself is ready to lead the troops to retake Pingyao and Kaifeng. He has made it your job to supply him with an army strong enough to defeat the Khitan. Build your strength quickly, for they will find our temporary capital in this isolated region before long.
This region has great wealth: rice, salt, tea, iron, lacquer, silk and the great Panda bear all make Sichuan their home. The only thing we lack is copper to mint new strings of cash. But the great Song dynasty will not let a copper shortage stop our economy from blossoming like a lotus flower. Therefore, we have decided to print money directly onto paper using colored inks. It's a novel idea, one never before tried in this world, but we think it might just have some staying power.
So remember, build your strength; the Khitan will soon be here. Remember that they covet our wealth -- we should consider bribing them with cash or even submitting to them for a time, and paying tribute. Yes this plan is humiliating, but it will give us time, by satisfying their greed. Confucius teaches us to beware of greed, but these barbarians from the north have no such great scholar from which to learn.

City - Chengdu
Starts Feb 1000 CE
20000 starting cash on Normal

Requirements:
  • Produce 30 canisters of salt in one year
  • Produce 30 sachets of tea in one year
  • Rule 2 cities
  • Population of 3000




When deciding on the layout for this city I knew I would want some Elite housing for forts yet would still need to meet the 3000 population goal. I decided to build 2 blocks to achieve this, one mixed block of common and elite housing and one smaller one of just common housing.

As in the previous missions in this dynasty importing food in the first year seemed easier than growing it, and allowed me to use my workers to grow hemp, make weapons from imported steel and start steel production in the north west corner. By the time the first hemp was harvested I was able to turn off those farms and start growing some late season food crops. By the end of 1000 I also had the first paper produced and started taxing my people at Outrageous levels.

To produce enough salt and tea to meet the production goals needed 3 salt mines and 3 tea sheds but I put in 4 of each and had enough salt/tea to sell, use myself and to use occasionally as homage. Placed first of each late in the first year and met goals for both in 1001. During 1001 I also continued working towards getting enough weapons for forts and started producing silk and lacquer for export. I still made a loss this year but by the end of the year was starting to make money and made a large profit in the next years.

Again I decided to call Guan Di and he arrived in March 1002. The army was built up until early 1003 when Guan Di and 3 forts were sent off to conquer Kaifeng. They were victorious in April and once the troops returned in July they were sent back out to conquer Pingyao, with victory occurring in November.

A saved game from near the end of this mission may be found in the Emperor Heaven Downloads section titled Song-Jin 3 - Merepatra normal

Trade
CityBuysSells
Guangzhou (open)*Silk 24
*Salt 36
*Tea 36
#Carved Jade 24		Fish 24
Rice 24
Steel 12
Jiangling (open)*Wheat 24
*Cabbage 12
*Steel 12
*Weapons 12		Salt 12
Tea 24
Hemp 12
Wood 24
Lin'an (open)#Carved Jade 24
*Lacquerware 36
*Weapons 24		Fish 24
Salt 36
KaifengStone 12
*Weapons 12
*Steel 12		Ceramics 12
Wheat 12
Cabbage 12
Silk 12
Pingyao*Silk
*Tea
*Wheat
*Ceramics		Steel
Stone
Bean Curd
Game Meat

*Can produce
#Can produce if raw materials are imported

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