Chapter 787: Change of Plan

None of their territories within the Great Zhou Dynasty are near the sea, and at most they are near a large lake.

When fishermen go out fishing, they basically go out in the morning and come back in the afternoon, fishing nearby, and a small boat is basically enough.

If you want to transport a large number of people and sail for several days, you will need a larger ship.

Zhou Xu had already come up with this idea when he first returned to Black Moon City.

However, after Zhou Xu put this project on the agenda, it is still in the queue stage, and personnel, materials and funds have not yet been raised.

It's already winter now. Roughly estimating the time it will take to build this first large ship from scratch, it will take until the second half of next year at the earliest.

This also forced Li Ce, who received the latest report, to quickly change his original plan.

"Let the hot air balloon explore the route first, and let the exploration team focus on exploring the surrounding mountains and recruiting primitive tribes."

"yes!"

After arranging things, Li Ce took out a piece of white paper and began to write a report, reporting the latest situation here.

The support efficiency of the hot air balloon is still relatively high. Just open the map, confirm the direction, increase the speed directly from high altitude, and fly over directly.

But after completing the reunion with the exploration team at the front line, some of them waited.

There was no other way. This flight had basically exhausted their fuel. If they wanted to explore the other side of the lake, they had to wait for the subsequent fuel to be delivered.

Considering that the road is not smooth, it is obviously difficult to improve efficiency.

However, the exploration team did not plan to be idle during this period. When the hot air balloon joined them, it also brought Li Ce's latest orders. Next, they will directly explore the surrounding mountains and incorporate the primitive tribes hidden in the mountains.

Exploring unknown areas has always been a dangerous task, so the strength of the exploration team is naturally not weak.

Although there are not many people, considering the size of the primitive tribe, there are only about a hundred people at most. In their opinion, there is basically no pressure.

"Let's go to that mountain first."

The tribe members they saw at that time should have come out to fetch water. Taking this into consideration, even if the tribe was not located at the foot of the mountain, it would definitely not be too far away.

Sure enough, after entering the mountain, we easily found traces of the primitive tribe's activities, and followed the traces to find the tribal camp opposite.

When facing primitive tribes, they are too lazy to say a word of nonsense.

Just take action, demonstrate your strength, intimidate the opponent, and then recruit them and that's it.

But their work obviously doesn't end here.

"I've finished asking questions. There is more than one tribe in this mountain. According to the information provided by the tribe members here, there is another primitive tribe nearby if we go further east."

In these pristine mountains, the roads are rugged and difficult to walk on, and sometimes there is no road at all. The efficiency of ordinary people moving on foot alone is very limited. Even if they spend a whole day, they may not be able to climb over a mountain.

Therefore, as long as there is a mountain of a certain size, there is a possibility of the existence of multiple primitive tribes.

At the same time, under normal circumstances, the activities of this kind of primitive tribe are basically confined to the vicinity due to the constraints of food and mobility efficiency. Unless they encounter major changes, they will not risk leaving their camp area.

This also meant that although they had always been neighbors with the wood elves, they were unaware of the existence of the wood elves.

For the people of the Great Zhou, the tribal era was not far away from them, so they had a general idea of ​​what the tribes were like and did not feel much surprise.

According to the original plan, all the recruited tribal populations were to be sent back to the Old World to be used as cheap labor.

Even though a primitive tribe only has that many people, this mountain range is quite large, and there are mountains next to each other. If they could recruit all of them, they could at least add a few hundred cheap laborers to their Great Zhou, which is quite good.

On this side, the exploration team was busy with the two tasks of "mountain exploration" and "tribal population incorporation". At the same time, Zhou Xu, who was in the Qinzheng Hall, had also received a report from Li Ce.

Unlike Shi Lei's side, which is relatively stable and will not take any action for the time being, Li Ce has been carrying out actions all the time, so reports from Green Forest City have been sent out quite frequently recently.

"Another big lake?"

After passing through the canyon on the other side of the basin forest, they discovered another large lake. However, the flat land area was very limited. At this stage, they had no way to fill the lake or level the mountains. This geographical environment was not conducive to development and construction.

At the same time, the road leading to that side is blocked by rocks, and sufficient manpower is needed to clear it.

"Now it seems that the shipbuilding project needs to be brought forward appropriately."

There was a large lake near their Black Moon City that needed a large ship to explore, so Zhou Xu was naturally not in a hurry.

Now their pioneering route is blocked by the great lake, which undoubtedly increases the necessity of developing large ships in advance.

Although the report also mentioned that you can try to go around it through the nearby mountains.

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But taking a detour would be easy if the terrain was flat enough for riding horses and the carriage could pass smoothly, but going around the mountains would be very difficult no matter how you think about it.

In comparison, once large ships are built, they will directly connect the two sides, which will greatly improve their movement efficiency.

In addition, although there are rivers in the New World, the fishing industry has always been underdeveloped because there are no decent large lakes.

Now that we have this big lake, we can develop the fishing industry in the future.

Although the flat terrain is limited, it would be nice to build a fishing village if we put in some effort.

However, we should not always think too highly of such things.

If this big ship is to be launched, it is impossible for it to be built in Green Forest City and then carried here, right?

This is not realistic, so shipbuilding is often carried out near ports.

Simply put, they had to mobilize manpower and materials to build docks and ports there before they could start building ships.

As a result, the total investment began to rise sharply.

In response to this situation, Zhou Xu thought about it.

[How about this, let Black Moon City build a shipyard first, and then explore the big lake over there. ]

Compared with the Basin Forest, carrying out this project in Black Moon City could save a lot of money just on transportation costs.

Not to mention that the fishing industry in Black Moon City is already doing quite well, with a ready-made fishing port. It's just a little crude, but it can be used if tinkered with.

In this case, the cost over there is lower and they came first, so there is no reason for Zhou Xu to let those who came later cut in line.

(End of this chapter)