Chapter 136 Opening the Situation
Following the system prompt, the Black Moon Camp was officially upgraded from a camp to a village, which undoubtedly announced that their tribe was gradually entering a new stage.
He now has four camps under his command, only one of which has been upgraded to a village, and the other three are still at the camp level.
Regarding this situation, Zhou Xu was not in a hurry to complete the comprehensive upgrade.
After all, even in the modern society before he traveled through time, there were still remote and backward mountainous areas. Even when development had reached that point, the problems had not been completely solved. How could he solve them now?
Even if he was willing to do it, considering the workload and the efficiency of the construction team, if he wanted to upgrade the other three camps into villages, he would probably have to work until winter.
Among them, Zhou Xu is not very willing to upgrade the grassland camp.
There is no need to explain the reason. The "neighbors" are more difficult to deal with than each other. They are on the grassland and can only focus on development in a low-key manner.
They dare not show up in places where there are resources, for fear that once they do, they will be discovered by their "neighbors" and bring about a catastrophic disaster.
This is a camp that is at risk of destruction at any time, so Zhou Xu has no plans to invest too much for the time being.
The most I can do is to occupy a spot like I am doing now. When I am strong enough in the future, I can use the grassland camp as a starting point and directly launch the development plan on the grassland.
From this point of view, apart from the grassland camp, the deserted mountain camp is too far away from the base camp. At the same time, other tribal members will appear from time to time at the border and disturb their peace, so there is no need to worry about the safety of the camp itself.
The biggest problem with construction is that the camp is on the mountainside. Construction in such an environment is more difficult than construction on the plains, and it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and dangerous.
Using the process of elimination, after thinking about it over and over again, the most suitable place to upgrade right now is the Salt Lake Camp.
As an important resource output point today, it is necessary to improve the livability of the camp so that tribal members can have a better rest environment.
With this idea in mind, the construction team immediately got a new job after finishing the situation in Black Moon Village.
At this moment, a whole team is loading building materials and tools onto wooden carts, and they will be able to officially set off before noon.
For this purpose, Zhou Xu also specially arranged a pair of straw sandals for everyone in the construction team.
Before this, most members of the tribe went barefoot, or at most wrapped in animal skins. But now the weather is getting hotter and hotter. When the temperature is over 35 degrees, it's so hot that your feet get burned when you walk on the ground.
In this way, Zhou Xu also found some time to arrange a new task for the equipment department, which was to weave straw sandals.
With the official departure of the construction team, the upgrade task of the Salt Lake Camp also began.
During this period, with the successful manufacture of the first two batches of crescent halberds and bows and arrows, fifteen professional soldiers were successfully armed.
This also meant that the demand for weapons within their tribe was no longer as urgent as it was at the beginning, giving the relevant production departments more time.
Under this premise, Zhou Xu, who would pay attention to the training situation from time to time, has recently felt that the soldiers' training seemed to have reached a bottleneck.
Each of them practiced quite well, and their posture and skills were much better than at the beginning.
But the problem now is that their improvements are getting smaller and smaller, and recently it feels like there has been no change.
The abilities of ordinary soldiers are limited, but this is definitely not their limit.
With this thought in mind, Zhou Xu knew that continuing to practice like this would not be very effective, and it was time for them to accumulate practical experience!
With this as a premise, Zhou Xu had thought about a camp in the deserted mountains. In fact, the first thing he thought of was a camp in the deserted mountains.
After all, Shi Lei had sent a message back before, saying that in order to obtain bamboo resources, the people at the barren mountain camp had expanded their border territory.
This also resulted in tribal members on the other side of the mountain appearing near their border area from time to time.
Zhou Xu had known about this news a long time ago, but he had no intention of asking Shi Lei to do anything.
Because the camp in the deserted mountains is too far away from their base camp, it is inconvenient to provide support. If anything goes wrong, Shi Lei can only fight alone.
If you are not careful, there is a risk of destroying the camp.
At this stage, they are defending the camp, collecting resources, and developing the business. Life in the barren mountain camp is also very easy, and there is no need to take this risk.
Moreover, given the mountainous environment of the deserted mountain camp, the crescent halberd could not be wielded at all, and the advantages that the bow and arrow could bring were also relatively limited. It could be said that they were restricted in every way.
In contrast, in the grassland camp, the grassland environment ensures that the advantages of their weapons can be maximized.
In terms of positioning, the grassland camp is mainly focused on defense. It is itself a camp with strategic value, which directly affects his subsequent development plans on the grassland.
But if we leave this point aside, the grassland camp is different from the salt lake camp in that it produces a variety of irreplaceable special resources.
At the same time, it is not like a camp in the deserted mountains. It can operate completely internally and be self-sufficient.
Although the rivers surrounding the camp can provide food to the members in the camp to a certain extent, the main food supply still has to be delivered to them by the Black Moon Village.
This also makes the members of the grassland camp relatively idle compared to the other camps from a work perspective.
There, they had nothing else to do except occupying the camp and carefully guarding against their "neighbors" on the grassland.
Although there aren't many people there, it's unexpectedly a good place to recruit and train soldiers!
Of course, leaving this aside, Zhou Xu had another very important reason, which was that the grassland posed too much of a threat to them! Although friction often occurred in the barren mountain camp, they were able to deal with it with ease. As long as they held the camp, Zhou Xu believed that the tribes on the opposite side could not threaten them at all, and at most they were just a little annoying, so he was not worried at all.
The reason for not exploring new areas is due to issues of distance and transportation efficiency.
It would be bad if he expanded too deeply and it became out of his reach and out of his control.
But it was different in the grassland camp. The tribal members led by Ye Jinghong lived in fear every day in the grassland camp, fearing that their "neighbors" would discover them.
It has not been discovered yet. On the one hand, it is because Zhou Xu consciously avoided the resource areas on the grassland in the early days. As long as there are no resources here, those "neighbors" will not come.
On the other hand, it was simply good luck.
But this luck will not last forever. In midsummer, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. This kind of weather will make animals consciously move closer to water sources to cool down and escape the heat.
Recently, many animals that came to drink water near Black Moon Village have become their meals. Even their fur, bones, fat and gelatin have been used by them.
This made Zhou Xu feel a sense of crisis, and the situation at the grassland camp must be the same.
Their grassland camp can avoid all resources and just occupy a piece of land to wait for the opportunity, but the only thing they cannot avoid is water sources, because they also have to rely on water to survive.
Once an animal comes to drink water, the corresponding predator will inevitably appear.
In this world, there is always a thief who can steal for a thousand days, so how can you guard against thieves for a thousand days? Although the rattan armor is far from being completed, it may be too much to wait for the rattan armor. Relying on the bow and arrow and the crescent halberd, Zhou Xu also intends to do something to open up the situation.
As long as they can obtain livestock from the grassland to improve transportation and mobility efficiency, the distance between their base camp and the camp in the barren mountains will no longer be a problem.
This situation can be revitalized directly! Update sent, there will be an additional update today, expected after 9:30 (end of this chapter)
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