Zhou Hang had even considered traveling to Beichen someday. Beichen's vast territory and abundant resources were no secret in the Western Zhou Dynasty. He wanted to bring Beichen's culture to Pingxing City. He also considered bringing seeds for fruits and vegetables that weren't available in the Western Zhou Dynasty to see if they could be grown in the fields near the oasis.

If he resigned from the position of prefect because of this battle, he might really regret it to death, after all, he had not found the opportunity to implement his ideas.

Now, Rong Chengxuan allowed him to continue serving as the prefect of Pingxing City. Zhou Hang was so happy that tears filled his eyes. Without saying a word, he knelt down and kowtowed three times to Rong Chengxuan.

He didn't make any promises or say anything nice. He just said to Rong Chengxuan, "Prince An, please give me six months. This six months will be the probation period that you gave me. Once the six months are up, if you feel that I'm not suitable for this position, you can replace me. I will absolutely not complain."

Rong Chengxuan nodded and said nothing more, which was considered as his agreement to Zhou Hang's proposal. But in fact, he had already decided in his heart that there was no more suitable candidate for the prefect of Pingxing City except Zhou Hang.

He had always been an accurate judge of character; Zhou Hang was an official who cared deeply about the people. Officials like him were rare in Beichen, and leaving Pingxing City in Zhou Hang's hands was a matter of confidence. Rong Chengxuan simply told Zhou Hang to do his best, then took Yun Wanwan's hand and began walking around the oasis.

Ever since Rong Chengxuan brought Yun Wanwan to the desert, he'd rarely been able to spend time alone with her like this. Zhou Hang tactfully stopped following her. He was far more discerning than the soldiers under Rong Chengxuan's command, and he didn't want to be a third wheel and annoy Rong Chengxuan.

Zhou Hang watched from afar as the two, dressed in the same white, walked by the lake in Pingxing City. Occasionally, they would playfully laugh and joke, but most of the time, it was the Princess who played the jokes while the Prince watched. Only when the Princess got too naughty would the Prince intervene.

Later, the princess was too tired to make such a fuss, so she simply asked the prince to carry her on his back and walk slowly along the lake. Even so, the princess did not seem to be very obedient and was still making a fuss on the prince's back.

Looking at Prince An and his princess like that, Zhou Hang felt a sense of happiness from the bottom of his heart. Perhaps through the two of them, he was reminded of the scene when he first met his wife. He suddenly felt that Pingxing City would have a better life in the future under the rule of Beichen than under the rule of Xizhou.

When Yun Wanwan was completely unable to make any more noise, she commanded Rong Chengxuan on his back to find a quiet corner by the lake, asked Rong Chengxuan to put her down there, and then took Rong Chengxuan's hand and sat down there.

The two of them just sat there, and from afar they could see that the soldiers were still tidying up the fields near the oasis, and some were directing the cleanup work in the city, and gradually the people joined in.

The people of Pingxing City had no resistance to Rong Chengxuan's army. They talked and laughed with them. It didn't look like a big battle had just ended and the city had just changed hands. Some people even invited the soldiers to their homes for lunch.

However, due to military regulations, the soldiers could not eat the food of the people in the city for free, and finally refused the kind invitation of the people of Pingxing City.

However, everyone invariably carefully avoided the place where Rong Chengxuan and Yun Wanwan were sitting, leaving enough space for the two to talk. They all knew that on the night of Prince An and Princess An's wedding, news of the Western Zhou attack on Beichen came from the front line.

I also know that in the past few months, they must have been apart more often than together, so I have to be more sensible and give the young couple some space of their own.

Yun Wanwan did have a lot to say to Rong Chengxuan, like something that had been on her mind for the past few days: "Rong Chengxuan, the further we advance into the cities behind us, the more severe the heatstroke symptoms the soldiers will suffer. What if they all collapse in the end?"

Yun Wanwan's concerns were not unfounded. They had only reached the third city of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and already nearly half of the soldiers had suffered from heatstroke. No matter how hard they tried, their adaptation to the desert's scorching heat was still not as good as that of the native Western Zhou people.

Although they were now able to fight swiftly, taking a city in under an hour, the subsequent cleanup work was a major challenge. Grenades, gunpowder, bombs, and mines were certainly useful, but they also had great destructive power.

Therefore, every time they captured a city, Rong Chengxuan stayed in that city for a long time. Firstly, he wanted to wait for the soldiers to adapt to the climate and relieve the symptoms of heatstroke. Secondly, he wanted to repair the city walls and damaged streets that they had destroyed during the siege.

Not to mention that the first two cities in the desert still had some parts that had not been completed, even the cities in the border areas that were captured by the Western Zhou people and then recaptured by Rong Chengxuan and his men still had some parts that had not been completed.

There were no civilians in those cities, and the soldiers of the Divine Fire Camp had just obtained grenades, gunpowder, and bombs, so they were more unscrupulous in bombing than they are now, and they did not hold back when they attacked.

Rong Chengxuan thought about it. Yun Wanwan's point was that they should first consider the serious problem of heatstroke. This was indeed the biggest problem at the moment. However, this problem was also the most difficult to solve. No matter what, their innate conditions were there. There couldn't be some magic medicine that would suddenly make them intolerant to heat after taking it.

Finally, Yun Wanwan made a suggestion, "How about we go back to Daxing City first? I still have some unfinished grenades over there, and it would be troublesome to have someone deliver the materials."

Rong Chengxuan had no objection. The two of them agreed to depart in three days, returning to Daxing City first. Yun Wanwan would then finish making the unfinished hand and land mines. These weapons were consumables, and the demand was high. After Yun Wanwan, no one else would make them.

Yun Wanwan had always been cautious. She hadn't even told Rong Chengxuan how to make hand and landmines, nor had she written them down on paper. Therefore, she was the only one who knew how to do this in this era. If she died, the secret would be taken to the underworld with her.

The two stayed in Pingxing City for another three days. On the morning of the fourth day, they left Pingxing City with their respective followers and a small team and returned to Daxing City.