Chapter 810: Autumn turns to winter and how busy it is
By the time the report was delivered to Zhou Xu, it was already after the autumn harvest.
After reading the report, Zhou Xu was shocked at first, but then he quickly calmed down.
Based on the description alone, he could basically confirm that his plain farm was hit by a locust plague.
However, Zhao Geng is worthy of being a talent with four-star intelligence. When he suffered a locust plague for the first time, in such a chaotic situation, he was able to notice in time that chickens and ducks would eat locusts, and then he urgently drove out the captive chickens and ducks to solve the locust plague.
Without even realizing it, he had already mastered the use of 'biological weapons'.
He even conducted in-depth observations later and found that ducks have a bigger appetite for locusts than chickens. Chickens can eat at most dozens of locusts, while ducks can easily eat hundreds of locusts.
To this end, Zhao Geng specifically requested at the end of the report that every farm in the country raise ducks in captivity in case of emergency.
Even when there is nothing to do, you can let the ducks out to eat the insects in the ground.
This time, Zhao Geng undoubtedly suffered a lot.
This is also the biggest difference between ordinary people and talented people. Every experience enables him to improve himself quickly and effectively master more things.
Thanks to Zhao Geng's timely response, they suffered some food losses in this wave of locust plague, but the losses were not great.
Combined with the grain reserves stored in granaries across the country, there is not much of a problem with food.
Afterwards, this incident was reported by storytellers from all over the country as an interesting news item.
With the development of the profession of storyteller, their task now is not just to tell stories for fun, but now they also have to report the news.
The Propaganda Department organizes the content every day and then disseminates the information through storytellers.
It can also be regarded as further enhancing their publicity value.
A week later, another piece of good news came: the first large ship of the Great Zhou was officially completed! Before the shipbuilding department issued this report, they had already conducted a simple test to confirm that the large ship could sail normally on the lake, and then issued this report.
After confirming the contents of the report, Zhou Xu officially named the first large ship of their Great Zhou Dynasty as "Pioneer", the meaning of which is self-evident.
During this period, the basic training of the crew has undoubtedly been completed.
Otherwise, who would operate the big ship to sail on the lake? From the beginning of spring to the end of autumn, it took more than half a year. With the official launch of the big ship, his plan could finally move to the next stage.
Compared with the rafts used by fishermen in the past, this big ship is a real behemoth.
From the beginning of construction to its official completion, and then to test voyages, the citizens of Black Moon City have long been accustomed to its existence.
Especially for the fishermen in Black Moon City, the Pioneer could be said to have been built right under their noses.
But when the day came when the big ship was about to set sail, it still attracted many citizens to come and watch. Even Wang Dong, who had been busy with education, and Ma Guotao, who was at the grassland horse farm, were no exception and came over to join in the fun.
After all, this is a historic moment! On the contrary, Zhou Xu, because the distance is too far, and waiting for him to come over will take too much time, so he simply stayed in the Qinzheng Hall and didn't come over, and he was a little melancholy in his heart.
“Woo——”
The horn sounded, and amid the cheers of the onlookers at the port, the Pioneer officially set sail!
At the beginning, Zhou Xu took a hot air balloon to conduct an aerial exploration of the depths of this freshwater lake. After returning, he immediately drew a map.
Later, during the process of building the large ship, they did not stop the aerial exploration of this freshwater lake. Now, they have already mastered the specific distribution locations of the islands on the lake.
Now that the large ship was setting sail, it naturally had a clear destination, heading straight for the island closest to them.
Zhou Xu was still very relieved about the big ship setting sail.
After all, this wave is not going out to sea. Although the lake is large, it is also limited in size, not to mention that they have already figured out the route in advance using hot air balloons.
At the same time, according to observations so far, those living on the lake islands are all primitive tribes, which basically pose no threat to them.
The only possible threat is that the ship might break down.
In response to this situation, Zhou Xu naturally responded.
There are bamboo rafts inside the ship. If something goes wrong with the ship, the crew can escape on the rafts.
In addition, out of caution, from the day the ship set sail, the hot air balloon from Black Moon City would take off every day to check on the ship's condition.
Once they find that there is a problem with the ship, they can respond and launch rescue in the first time!
For this wave of operations, Zhou Xu can be said to have taken all aspects into consideration and reduced the risk of sailing to the lowest level.
This is also the biggest reason why he is so relieved.
During this process, the last bit of autumn gradually fades away, and with the gradual drop in temperature, the season quietly enters winter.
Before winter came, the wood elves came to their Great Zhou again and made a large purchase.
In addition to stocking up on supplies for the coming winter, the effort was also to purchase furniture for their tree house.
On the way back, he spent some money to rent the road built by their Great Zhou and had the carriage deliver the furniture all the way into the forest.
However, to reach their village, one still needs to walk a long way.
The only thing to be thankful for during this period was that the furniture store took the situation here into consideration, discussed with the wood elves, and sent the furniture in parts that were easy to carry, and then assembled it after it was moved into the house.
Then they charged a fee for the on-site installation.
All in all, over the past few months, the wood elves have been squandering the 100,000 silver coins like crazy.
Providing furniture for all the tribesmen is not a small amount of money, not to mention that they only buy good and expensive ones.
Adding on the regular purchases of daily necessities and earlier expenses, it is estimated that more than half of the 100,000 silver coins have been spent by now.
And their spending obviously doesn't stop there.
Zhou Xu, who received the latest news, smiled slightly and said nothing.
The more the wood elves spend money, the more they depend on the Great Zhou.
Not to mention the future, even now, if he cuts off these things from the wood elves, they probably won’t be able to bear it.
Invisibly, he has achieved most of his goal, and it all depends on how he proceeds.
In addition, their Great Zhou's mining site located in the basin forest has also been officially completed. According to the latest report, all the miners are now in place and have officially started mining the diamond veins.
(End of this chapter)
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