Chapter 966 High-quality Population

Zhou Xu's words, spoken with a smile, instantly struck Zhou Yifei as if struck by lightning, and he froze in place.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"

Zhou Yifei lost the ability to think all of a sudden, but it did not affect his next actions at all.

With a 'thump' sound, Zhou Yifei knelt down with his legs straight.

Looking at the other person's dull expression and the way he knelt neatly, Zhou Xu suddenly felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"What are you doing? Come on, get up."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu personally helped the man up and patted Zhou Yifei on the shoulder.

"Work hard. I told you I won't treat you unfairly."

After saying that, Zhou Xu did not stay any longer. He turned around and took Silk and the others back to the camp, leaving Zhou Yifei standing there, still in shock.

At this moment, he had already made arrangements for this area in his mind.

Zhou Xu didn't know how many times he could summon the old god's altar. To be cautious, he decided to cultivate to the bottleneck period before summoning it.

After all, the stronger the power of the mantra, the more options you have when summoning.

And he can clearly feel that he is still in the rising stage.

After returning to the camp, although they felt that the possible primitive tribes in the surrounding area were not enough to pose a threat to them, if any extraordinary creatures appeared, it would be difficult for the exploration team left here to deal with them.

If you are not careful, you can easily pay a heavy price.

In response to this situation, Zhou Xu felt that he should have a chat with his older son.

"Chitose, this is what happened..."

Zhou Xu did not hide the whole thing and his thoughts on it, and told it all.

The way he and Chitose get along has always been based on consultation.

He would explain things clearly and let Chitose make her own decision.

Of course, up to now, Chitose would basically agree to anything he proposed.

This time was no exception. After listening, Qiansui nodded and expressed his willingness to stay here to ensure the safety of this place.

After all, it had not yet decided whether to stay in the grassland or return to the palace with Zhou Xu. Now that it is needed here, it might as well stay. Qiansui is such a sensible child.

Whenever Zhou Xu encounters problems in the future, he will still discuss them with it. This is a matter of attitude.

Zhou Xu was happy with Qiansui's cleverness and understanding, but at the same time he felt a little inexplicably melancholy.

Originally, he planned to sleep on Qiansui's body for a night after a long time and spend more time with his big son. After all, they would be separated again soon.

But it's too hot...

I swear to God, it’s already summer!

Although Qiansui's hair felt good, Zhou Xu really couldn't bear to lie down.

In the end, we just lay on the side and chatted casually.

Mainly Zhou Xu was talking and Qiansui was listening.

He had this habit before. When he was the leader of the tribe, there were many things he had no one to tell, and Qiansui was the best person for him to confide in.

The same is true now.

The next morning, Zhou Xu began to make arrangements before leaving.

In addition to explaining relevant matters to the garrison here, there is another very important thing, which is to let Zhou Yifei draw the equipment needed for collecting and refining oil in the form of a blueprint.

According to the craftsmanship of their Great Zhou craftsmen, no matter how it is made, it will definitely be better than what is in front of us.

This was not difficult for Zhou Yifei, who had already tinkered with a simple device.

All in all, it took less than an hour.

After finishing all the things that needed to be dealt with, given how busy Zhou Xu was, he naturally had no plan to stay here any longer. After saying goodbye to Qiansui, he set off on the return journey with Silk and the others.

The group rode at full speed all the way and soon passed through the grassland pass of their Great Zhou and arrived at the grassland city.

When Zhou Xu arrived here, the first thing he did was to send more troops to the new area.

Three hundred soldiers are indeed more than enough to slowly carry out the task of exploring and incorporating the primitive tribes.

After all, the new area is not the focus of their Great Zhou at this stage.

But considering that there is now an additional oil production point and an altar of the old gods there, in order to ensure that everything is safe, he thinks he should send more troops to be on the safe side.

Zhou Xu gave the order and without further ado, the grassland side immediately dispatched another 300 troops from the area and sent them to the new area.

Next, the construction of the oil refinery and the front-line fortress over there will require the mobilization of engineering teams.

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This is more troublesome.

It’s not that Zhou Xu cannot be transferred, but basically every engineering team within their Great Zhou is fully booked with engineering projects, and none of them is idle.

If you want to assign them new tasks, you have to follow the process step by step. Otherwise, with so many engineering projects lined up, it will be easy for things to go wrong.

Zhou Xu directly assigned the specific transfer task to Zhang Xiaoshan, the director of the Black Moon City Administrative Department, and also asked someone to take Zhou Yifei's design drawings back and hand them over to the Equipment Department for manufacturing.

Let’s not talk about the factory for now. Once the equipment is in place, related work can actually be done first.

Just like Zhou Yifei refines oil directly in his own camp.

In addition, development personnel and some staff also need to be sent over.

Obviously, Zhou Xu did not intend to let the members of the primitive tribe develop there directly.

According to the usual procedures of the Great Zhou, he will issue an immigration announcement within the Great Zhou and introduce corresponding preferential policies to encourage everyone to immigrate there and live and work there.

The indigenous people there, that is, the tribal members, were sent to work as coolies as usual.

It’s not that Zhou Xu doesn’t value them. On the contrary, Zhou Xu actually attaches great importance to those tribal populations.

As we all know, the tribal population is often simpler than the population of large forces.

If you give them a good life, they will really work hard for you.

From this point of view, Zhou Xu even felt that the tribal population could be equated with high-quality population.

However, they have always lived in primitive tribes and have never been exposed to the social environment here, and they basically have no special skills.

Letting them work as coolies first not only provides them with cheap labor, but also gives the tribal members a chance to slowly adapt to the social environment here. It can be said that this kills two birds with one stone.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning here that tribal populations like these are now all the key missionary targets of the state religion.

Therefore, the National Religious Propaganda Department would go to factories where the tribal population was concentrated every now and then to distribute eggs and promote the doctrines of their national religion at the same time.

As of now, the missionary effect on the tribal population is much better than that on other groups.

There were even quite a few who performed well and, after completing their hard labor, became official members of the state religion.

Don't underestimate this identity. It is equivalent to a civil servant of the Great Zhou, and the benefits are good.

(End of this chapter)