Chapter 808: The nouveau riche's aura is fully revealed
It is obviously unrealistic to let Manxianglou move to the wood elf village.
Not to mention that Manxianglou is a state-owned property and is not for sale. Even if it can be sold, Manxianglou can be moved to the Wood Elf Village. Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the daily food supply problem, how can this problem be solved?
Faced with the wood elves' bizarre idea, Xiao Li, the receptionist, simply asked a question and made them give up the idea.
As summer approaches, the daytime hours are longer and there are still an estimated three hours before dark. They certainly had no intention of sitting around, so they got on a carriage and headed straight for the market, apparently preparing for a shopping spree.
During this period, Xiao Li just gave a friendly reminder.
"I personally suggest that you don't buy any large items like furniture this time. It's not convenient to transport them in the forest, and it's also a problem how to move them back."
"Our construction team has already started repairing the road. When the road is finished, we can pay some tolls and have the carriage deliver the goods directly."
After listening to Xiao Li's words, the wood elves, including Locke, all nodded subconsciously, thinking that what he said made sense.
However, even without buying large items, their enthusiasm for shopping did not diminish in the slightest. In less than two hours, the things they bought had filled up two freight carts, and their shopping for the day came to a temporary end.
It’s not that they have already bought everything, but that their wallets are empty now.
After all, the purchase is based on the population of the entire village, so the quantity is very large.
Even if the price of an item is only one copper coin, if you buy 100 pieces, the price will directly rise to one silver coin.
Not to mention that most of the things they want to buy are not cheap enough to be sold for one copper, and the quantity is not just one hundred pieces.
During this time, looking at the two fully loaded freight wagons, Xiao Li once again issued a friendly reminder.
"Since these two carriages are full, why not hire two drivers to deliver the items in these two carriages first? Otherwise, if they are delivered all at once, the workload will pile up and it will be difficult to move them."
"That makes sense. Let's hire two drivers to send those two carts back first. Also, I think the carriages for transporting goods may not be enough. We may need to rent five more!"
Apparently, even the wood elves themselves underestimated their own shopping abilities.
It turned out that the five freight wagons they had rented before were indeed not enough. When they returned, the purchased items filled up fifteen freight wagons. Looking at Xiao Li, who had accompanied them throughout the journey, he couldn't help but wipe away a cold sweat.
During this period of time, the wood elves really spent money like water. This crazy purchase, plus daily expenses, as well as the cost of renting a house, a car, and people, cost at least tens of thousands of silver coins.
Even Xiao Li, who had prepared himself mentally in advance, couldn't help but feel a little jealous at this moment.
He felt that he would never be able to earn back as much money as the wood elves had spent during this period of time.
But there's no point being jealous, because the other person really has a mine at home, so he will become rich overnight, right?
Now the aura of a nouveau riche is fully revealed, even Locke, the chief of the wood elves, who had been restrained at the beginning, has completely let go.
At night, lying on the dry and comfortable bed, Locke looked relaxed.
During this time, a sound came from the bed next door.
"Chief, how about we stay a few more days?"
"Well, stay a few more days..."
Hearing this, Locke, who was lying there, agreed subconsciously.
The time he spent in Da Zhou was indeed very comfortable and peaceful. He now finally understood why those guys didn't want to go back. Not to mention them, even he himself had the urge to just stay here.
But he was still the chief after all. Thinking of the tribesmen who were still waiting for them to return to the village, Locke reacted and immediately said something unhappily...
"Stay longer? Including the time spent on the way back and forth, we have been in Da Zhou for almost a month. No, we have to go back. We will set off early tomorrow morning. Go to bed early tonight and stop thinking about unnecessary things!"
Nothing happened that night. The next morning, under Locke's urging, the wood elves had their last breakfast at Manxiang Tower, then boarded a carriage and officially embarked on their return journey.
When Locke and his team arrived outside the basin forest, the logging team that was busy there had just finished logging in the area.
After that, the construction team will carry out some repairs on the ground here, and a simple dirt road that can accommodate horse-drawn carriages will be completed.
As for the wood cut down during this period, all of it was sent to Green Forest City, where there is a ready-made wood processing plant. After processing, it will be sent here and can be directly used in the construction of subsequent mining sites.
If there are any extras, they will be sent to the surrounding mountain camps, as some materials are needed to build the camps there.
The work here is going smoothly. I believe that the mining site here will be able to officially start operations before winter.
At the same time, in the mountainous area, without the threat of wind weasels, the exploration team quickly completed the exploration of the remaining mountainous areas, updated the map, and delivered it to Zhou Xu.
Looking at the updated map, it is not difficult to see that if you explore the mountainous area to the south, the outermost circle of mountains is one of the mountains surrounding the basin forest. The two areas are connected to some extent.
Of course, the mountain wall facing the basin forest is too vertical and steep to go down. If you want to enter the basin forest, you can only go through the canyon outside Green Forest City.
Zhou Xu was not too surprised by this update of intelligence.
As early as when he discovered the basin forest, he had already had some guesses in his mind looking at the surrounding mountains. Now he can only say that his guesses have been confirmed.
After that, time passed quietly, and we went through the hottest summer of the year. With the temperature gradually dropping, the season entered the autumn which symbolizes harvest.
In recent times, grain harvest reports from farms across the New World have been sent to Zhou Xu one after another.
According to the latest statistics, the New World's grain harvest this autumn is enough to achieve self-sufficiency under normal circumstances.
Simply put, based on the grain production here, there is no problem in maintaining the daily consumption of the people, but it is not possible to save much grain.
This is closely related to the improvement in people's living standards after Zhou Xu came to power.
After all, when Yan Sheng was in power, many people might only have one meal a day, and might not even be full.
But since Zhou Xu came to power, the people in the New World have basically had two meals a day and were full every time.
Such a life is undoubtedly wonderful for the people, but it also leads to an increase in food consumption.
The current situation has been formed...
But this is not a difficult task for Zhou Xu.
Anyway, there is no problem with food production in the Old World. There is no food reserves in the New World, so we can just transfer food from the Old World.
Under this premise, the complete recovery of grain production capacity in the New World will undoubtedly further reduce the grain transportation pressure on both sides.
This will allow him to free up more manpower to be used for development, which is undoubtedly a good thing.
(End of this chapter)
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