Chapter 736 The Other Side of the Lake
When passing through Salt Lake City, Zhou Xu simply took a look around. It was almost visible to the naked eye that the influx of new population and the abundance of labor had made the scale of several factories larger.
However, they are not worried about the problem of accommodating the population. At this stage, their Great Zhou has a vast area and a sparse population. They have plenty of land, but they need a labor force that can assist them in development.
There is not much distance between Salt Lake City and Black Moon City, and you can get there in no time by riding a horse.
According to Zhou Xu's subsequent development plan, the two cities are too close to each other. As the areas of the cities on both sides continue to expand, Black Moon City and Salt Lake City will be directly merged together in the future. This is an inevitable result of long-term development.
Unlike Salt Lake City, which is dominated by various factories, Black Moon City has a stronger atmosphere of life.
As usual, I took a brief tour around the place and listened to Zhang Xiaoshan talk about the past year.
Overall, the development throughout the year was quite smooth.
Although their Great Zhou was always at war, the war did not take place within their own territory. In addition, their own grain production was high, so the war did not have a big negative impact on them.
Not to mention that as soon as Zhou Xu arrived there, he emptied the population of the Huangsha City opposite at the beginning of the year, supplemented the labor force within their Great Zhou, and greatly increased the internal productivity.
From this point of view, others are becoming poorer the more they fight, but their Great Zhou is becoming richer the more they fight.
This is actually related to Zhou Xu's strategic decision.
Simply put, Zhou Xu never fought a battle that was uncertain or unprofitable.
If the result of this battle is mutual destruction or a slim victory for our side, in Zhou Xu's eyes, this battle cannot be fought.
Yan Sheng is a typical negative example. He ignored all these and only had four words in his mind: "Let's fight!"
His idea is probably to pacify the world first and then develop slowly, or maybe he is just simply stupid and arrogant.
Anyway, the final result was that Zhou Xu solved the problem effortlessly.
Listening to Zhang Xiaoshan's report, Zhou Xu came all the way to the Civilian Forging Department.
This time, he came to arrange the coin minting.
Coin minting itself is not a complicated job. Normally, after making the mold, you just need to keep casting coins. At most, you just need to polish the rough edges and corners a few times. It does not require much technical content.
This kind of work can be easily done by craftsmen in the Civilian Forging Department, but loyalty is important.
To some extent, the civilian forging department is busier than the ordnance forging department at this moment, because the demand for agricultural tools is very great during the spring plowing season.
Before he even got close, the 'ping-ping' sound of forging had already reached his ears. A large number of forging furnaces were operating at the same time, causing the temperature in the area to rise sharply.
Although Zhou Xu had not appeared for a long time, the Minister of the Civilian Forging Department still recognized him at a glance and hurried over to salute.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu waved his hand.
"Mind your own business. I'm just passing by and just checking it out."
Because Zhou Xu's style has always been like this, the minister was not surprised at all when he heard this. After apologizing, he immediately went back to work.
During this process, Zhou Xu had already opened his "Eye of Prying into Secrets".
Most of the people who can work here are old people from their Great Zhou. Their loyalty levels are not low. Looking at them all, they are basically above 80 points.
What surprised Zhou Xu during this period was that the loyalty of the green lizard craftsmen who were doing polishing work on the side was all above 90 points.
[My goodness, is this the power of faith? How terrifying.]
As early as the beginning, when he had just conquered the Lizardmen, in order to reduce the workload of the weapon forging department, he transferred a large number of green lizard craftsmen from the Lizardmen's territory, separated the work of polishing weapons, and formed a polishing department.
After that, with the internal development, more green lizard craftsmen with polished skills came to Black Moon City to work, making Black Moon City the place with the largest number of Lizardmen besides the Lizardmen’s territory.
Nowadays, they can be seen even in civilian forging departments.
By the way, it is worth mentioning that while confirming the loyalty of the green lizard craftsmen, Zhou Xu certainly did not forget to check their life level.
Then he acquired a new word, God created life! Zhou Xu basically understood this.
God-created life should refer to life forms created by God, rather than creatures produced by natural evolution. The lizard people were created by the Dragon God Ceylon. He had known this information for a long time.
At this moment, Zhou Xu already had an idea about coin minting, and these green lizard craftsmen were the best choice!
Zhou Xu did not immediately transfer the required green lizard craftsmen from the scene, but after leaving, he arranged for Zhang Xiaoshan to handle this matter.
Without rules, there will be no order.
Now, each department within their Great Zhou has its own rules and regulations, and there is also a process for personnel transfers.
The most convenient way is to leave the matter to Zhang Xiaoshan.
After Zhou Xu had simply arranged this matter, he turned around and came to the freshwater lake outside Black Moon City.
At this moment, many fishermen were rowing their fishing boats and casting nets on the lake.
However, I didn't dare to run too far, because this freshwater lake is quite large, and it feels like the Dongting Lake I traveled through before.
At the present stage of their Great Zhou, the shipbuilding industry is so-so that they only build some small fishing boats to allow fishermen to catch some fish on the lake. If they row too far, they may not be able to return before dark.
At the same time, after testing, it was found that the freshwater river near Prairie City, flowing downstream, is connected to this lake.
Standing by the lake and looking into the distance, you can see that the other side of the freshwater lake is also surrounded by green mountains.
From this point of view, the location of Black Moon City is indeed a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers.
During this time, Silk and his team, who had arrived at the lake in advance, had already reassembled the hot air balloon.
There is no need to say more about what Zhou Xu will do next.
He wanted to take this opportunity to fly over the freshwater lake in a hot air balloon. While using the aerial view to observe the depths of the freshwater lake, he also wanted to observe the other side of the lake that was separated by the large lake.
"My lord, the hot air balloon is ready."
After several previous assembly and disassembly experiences, Silk and his team were quite familiar with the assembly of the hot air balloon and now they completed the assembly and inspection very quickly.
After confirming that everything was correct, he reported to Zhou Xu.
After hearing this, Zhou Xu didn't hesitate and walked into the bamboo basket of the hot air balloon.
"Okay, let's go!"
(End of this chapter)
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