Chapter 765: Publicly funded travel
The conversation with the hot air balloon operator not only gave Zhang Xuemei a new understanding of Da Zhou, but also relieved her nervousness from riding a hot air balloon for the first time.
Then, remembering that she was in heaven, Zhang Xuemei could no longer suppress her curiosity, so she stood up and stuck her head out of the bamboo basket.
All of a sudden, the rolling mountains below came into her sight. The shock at that moment was beyond words. Flying in the sky on a hot air balloon, she thoroughly experienced what it meant to "see all the mountains from a distance!"
However, no matter how stunning the scenery was, Zhang Xuemei couldn't just keep watching it. She sat back in the bamboo basket. With nothing to do, she simply started chatting with the two operators.
At this moment, even Zhang Xuemei herself did not realize that her mentality was undergoing subtle changes. Before, she would definitely not have the idea of chatting with the hot air balloon operator.
He just kept a straight face the whole time until the hot air balloon landed and then left.
"Go to the south? That's far away. Although I have never been to the south, to go there, we must first reach the rainforest. After we fly over the mountains and land, we will ride horses all the way from the post station at the foot of the mountain. It will take half a month to reach the rainforest. The south is even farther."
[It takes half a month to ride a horse, and we haven’t even reached the southern part yet?! ]
The operator's words undoubtedly gave Zhang Xuemei a new understanding of the territorial area of the Great Zhou.
Her riding skills were very average, and she obviously did not have the ability to ride a horse for a long time. Under this premise, the subsequent means of transportation arranged for her was naturally to take a carriage.
If riding a horse takes half a month, taking a carriage will only be slower.
It was already early autumn now. By the time she reached the rain forest mentioned by the operator, it would probably be late autumn, which was before she even reached her destination.
It took so much time just to get there on the road that Zhang Xuemei couldn't figure out what was going on in that emperor's mind.
If you just want to find mineral veins, there must be some in the mountains below. Why run so far?
If Zhou Xu were here, he could only say that the perspective of the ruler and the perspective of the workers are indeed different.
Zhang Xuemei's idea is still limited to "finding mineral veins", but for Zhou Xu, while looking for mineral veins, he also has to consider development.
There was a high probability that there were mineral veins in the mountainous area, and he could guess that even if it was just a guess.
However, mining in the mountains is inconvenient in every aspect, and the transportation cost is exponentially higher than that in other areas.
In this situation, even the infrastructure construction in the southern region is still in its infancy. Zhang Xuemei went there to point out all the mineral veins that could be found. In this way, when he made subsequent construction plans for the southern region, he could reasonably avoid these mineral veins.
This is to avoid the situation where you have already completed construction and then discovered there is a mineral vein underneath.
If you don't dig, you will feel uncomfortable. If you do dig, you will have to flatten all the facilities above, which is even more uncomfortable! It is equivalent to wasting all the construction funds invested previously.
In this way, Zhang Xuemei moved along the way, saw the mountains and deserts, and after arriving at Black Moon City, she saw lizardmen and elves that she had never seen before.
By the way, it is worth mentioning that Zhang Xuemei still doesn’t know that all the personal soldiers Zhou Xu brings with him are elves.
Continuing on her journey, she crossed the vast grassland again.
Even before the time travel, Zhang Xuemei, who had never been to the grassland, was attracted by the scenery of the grassland and wanted to stay for a few more days.
No one raised any objection to this request.
After all, when Zhou Xu first issued the transfer order, he did not urge the other party to arrive within a certain number of days.
At this stage, the development focus of the Great Zhou is on the New World. The southern region may not have the opportunity to carry out large-scale development in the next few years, so it doesn’t matter if Zhang Xuemei is a little slow.
It was during this period of time that Zhang Jingyan arrived and met Zhang Xuemei and her group who were preparing to set off in Caoyuan City.
The convoy responsible for taking them to their destination decided that Zhang Jingyan was alone, and there was still space for Zhang Xuemei and the others, so they simply let Zhang Jingyan go with their convoy.
In this way, they can save a carriage and some manpower. Considering the time, this may save a lot of transportation capacity for their Great Zhou.
After crossing the vast grassland, the group soon saw a huge plain farm. It was the autumn harvest season here, and compared with the mountains and grasslands, the scenery here was more spectacular in a different way.
However, he did not stay long. He just took a short rest and looked at the scenery before taking a carriage towards the Lizardmen's territory.
In order to facilitate development, a small path has been cleared in the rainforest area for horse-drawn carriages to pass through.
This tropical rainforest is a completely different scene compared to other areas.
In the surrounding rainforest, lizardmen riding velociraptors and giant lizards busy transporting goods would appear from time to time, making the group marvel at the wonder and open their eyes, forgetting the bumpy ride.
When we arrived at the Lizardman territory, the biggest difference between this place and other cities in the Great Zhou was that the number of Lizardmen had increased sharply.
On this side of the rainforest, humans are mainly concentrated in factories and farms, and the proportion of humans in the total population on this side of the rainforest is less than 10%.
After this, Zhang Xuemei and her friends will rest here for a few days as usual and do some sightseeing.
Along the way, Zhang Xuemei's mentality became better and better. She felt that all the depression in her heart had dissipated, and she was full of hope for life.
During this period, unlike Zhang Xuemei and others who were traveling on public funds, Zhang Jingyan's mind was full of Ye Yan and the tropical medicine garden.
According to his latest understanding, Ye Yan's tropical medicine garden is not in the lizard people's tribe, but deep in the rainforest. It is estimated that it will be impossible to meet Zhang Xuemei and others in the next few days.
So Zhang Jingyan took the opportunity to say goodbye to them.
Holding Zhou Xu's warrant and after confirming his identity, the Lizardman arranged a carriage to take him there.
After driving for a while, Zhang Jingyan got off the carriage. Looking through the not-so-high fence at the figures busy at work in the medicine garden, Zhang Jingyan couldn't help but take a deep breath.
He has traveled through mountains and rivers and has finally arrived at his destination. He is really a little excited at this moment.
"Excuse me……"
Walking into the medicine garden, Zhang Jingyan had just opened his mouth when a figure next to him immediately made a gesture to keep quiet.
Ye Yan was currently studying a new herb that had been transplanted recently. His attention was all on the herb and he did not notice Zhang Jingyan's presence at all. The department members working here naturally would not allow anyone to disturb him at this time and interrupt their department head's thoughts.
(End of this chapter)
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