Chapter 740: Late Spring (for the leader's 'Dreamy Helplessness')

In the next few days, Zhou Xu also dealt with some internal affairs on the Old Continent.

However, it is obviously impossible for him to stay here forever. It is almost time to set off for the New World again.

As for the Lizardmen, I won't go to see them because I don't have time.

The main thing is that the core project there at this stage is the southern development.

It is said to be a core project, but in fact it is just a few batches of immigrants sent there as labor, and they are just slowly carrying out some construction.

Taking into account regional issues and various development factors, it is estimated that by the time the New World is almost fully developed, there will not be much progress in the large-scale development of the southern part. There will be nothing to see in this trip, and the road is so long, there is no need to waste time.

Zhou Xu had no choice but to deal with this situation.

These waves of their Great Zhou were forced by the situation. The population and territory expanded too quickly, making it impossible to develop all of a sudden.

This meal must be eaten bite by bite, and development must be done piece by piece. As for the order of priority, it is certainly not possible to follow the order of occupation, but to see which side has greater value and higher returns, and then develop that side first.

The first time is new, the second time is familiar. Zhou Xu and his team's hot air balloon landed outside the garrison camp at the end of the mountains.

After that, they planned to leave the hot air balloon here. It would be troublesome to carry the hot air balloon through the energy channel, so it would be better to leave it here and save trouble.

As for the hot air balloon operators in the New World, they are trained on new hot air balloons.

As long as the first one of this thing is successfully made, it won't be much trouble to make the second and third ones. Zhuang Mengdie doesn't even need to make them herself. It will be more than enough to leave it to her assistant. Zhuang Mengdie herself just needs to give it a little bit of supervision.

In response to this situation, when Zhou Xu returned to Black Moon City this time, he also specially transferred a group of people from the Ordnance Equipment Department to the New World to assist Zhuang Mengdie in the manufacturing of the city defense crossbow and hot air balloon projects, in order to avoid the situation where there were too many projects and the few people in the New World could not be arranged.

After passing through the energy channel, when Zhou Xu and his companions returned here, it was almost the end of spring.

Zhou Xu took the opportunity to inspect the situation in Huangsha City.

As of now, Huangsha City is the city where he has made the most reconstruction. Except for the city walls, all the internal buildings are basically going to be demolished.

Of course, he did not flatten the entire city at once. Instead, he divided the city into areas and then flattened and rebuilt it piece by piece. After one area was completed, he would move on to the next area.

Since the main labor force is recruited from the newly recruited population, the work efficiency is quite high when there are enough people. Currently, almost one-third of the area in Huangsha City has been initially rebuilt, and the corresponding factories have been built. In addition, the mines outside the city provide a large number of jobs for the internal immigrants in the New World.

It is no exaggeration to say that Huangsha City is now the largest workplace for the new population here.

The next busiest cities are Blackrock City and Greenwood City. The former relies on mines, producing stones while mining, while the latter produces wood, both of which are basic materials needed for construction.

Not only are they consumed a lot, they are heavy and large in size. If they are transported from the Old World, it will not only take time, but the transportation cost will also be skyrocketing. Therefore, all these development materials are collected and transported from the New World.

And it is precisely because of this that, under Zhou Xu's operation, such a supply and demand chain has been formed in the New World, so a large number of refugees in various cities have got jobs, received wages, and had food to eat.

From this point of view, Zhou Xu is like their adoptive parent to these refugees.

During this period, Zhou Xu did not forget to ask about the new currency.

Since the establishment of the new mint, according to Zhou Xu's request, they have been working day and night to continuously mint new copper coins. Calculating the time, the first batch of copper coins should have been delivered to Huangsha City.

"Reporting to the king, the first batch of copper coins has been delivered. The day before yesterday, when the salary was paid, the new copper coins were distributed to the workers in the city, and the old copper coins in their hands were also replaced. So far, everyone has cooperated very well and has no resistance."

This result is more in line with Zhou Xu's expectations.

At present, the currency replacement measure is only implemented in Huangsha City.

The newly minted currency is not enough to replace all the people. This is only one of the reasons. The more important reason is that the refugees who come to Huangsha City to work do not hold much currency from the old civilization.

Under this premise, when the people of their Great Zhou are paid, they must use the currency of their Great Zhou. At the same time, the canteens they set up will only accept the currency of the Great Zhou.

Once currency cannot be used, it has no value. This also invisibly paves the way for the subsequent replacement of old and new currencies.

During the inspection, Zhou Xu took the person in charge to an area full of construction materials.

These infrastructure materials were stacked neatly, but not far away there was a pile of carriages that were extremely messy, as if they were garbage, thrown in that corner, and they were particularly conspicuous.

At this moment, three workers were rummaging through the pile of broken carriages. After they found something, they began to dismantle parts from the carriages.

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Seeing this, Zhou Xu asked casually.

"What's going on over there?"

"Reporting to the king, the carriages piled there are all the carriages of the original carriages here. The size of their carriage parts is different from ours, so those parts cannot be used with our carriages."

Having said that, the person in charge said something respectfully again.

"I have written a report on this matter before. It was you, Your Majesty, who said that there is no need to produce parts of this size, so I had people abandon the broken carriages that cannot be repaired here, and then have people remove the useful parts for backup. The remaining useless parts will be used as wood for firewood later."

After the person in charge said this, Zhou Xu remembered it.

"I remember now, there was such a thing."

Thinking about it carefully, this should have happened in the early autumn of last year. It was essentially a trivial matter. After Zhou Xu reviewed the report, he quickly forgot about it until now.

In fact, similar things happened in many places, not just the carriages. Many things here were different in size from those in the Great Zhou, which resulted in the parts on both sides being incompatible.

Just like currency, these standards will definitely be unified in the future, so these things on the other side can only be used as consumables. If they are broken and cannot be repaired, they will be thrown away. There is absolutely no such thing as adding a production line specifically for them.

During this period, because Green Forest City and Black Stone City had to transport construction materials to Yellow Sand City, there were a lot of scrapped cars piled up in Yellow Sand City, and he happened to see them today.

(End of this chapter)