Chapter 169 Return to Black Moon Village
Zhou Xu's action of lifting the basket was relatively gentle, and he also lowered it a little bit. The little guy in the basket was not frightened at all. He turned over and landed steadily on all fours.
Then he raised his head and let out an "Ah~" at Zhou Xu in a wronged tone.
Zhou Xuchun pretended not to see it, endured the soreness in his muscles, and stretched his tendons with all his strength.
During this process, the patrol team responsible for patrolling the outskirts of Black Moon Village was undoubtedly attracted by the movement here.
"leader!"
Thanks to Zhou Xu's natural abilities, most of the members of his tribe had good eyesight. They recognized him from a distance and quickly ran over.
During this process, their eyes often drifted towards the horses.
There was no way. Although these tribal members had seen cows, they had never seen horses. This could be said to be the first time.
This is a new animal for the tribe members who have never lived in the grassland area before, so it is normal for them to take a few more glances at it.
During this period, the presence of the little guy undoubtedly attracted a lot of attention, making the patrol members not know where to look.
Zhou Xu handed over the reins and motioned for them to help hold it.
Seeing this, the patrol team members immediately rushed forward to take the reins.
One of them reacted quickly and took the reins first. At the same time, he winked at his teammates beside him, looking quite proud.
Zhou Xu smiled, ignored them, and walked towards Black Moon Village on his own.
This place is close to the patrol area outside Black Moon Village, and not far from the village. It is a perfect opportunity for Zhou Xu, who has been riding a horse all the way, to take a walk and loosen up his muscles.
As a result, during this process, a system prompt suddenly sounded in his mind...
System prompt: Congratulations to Zhou Xu for successfully upgrading his territory, Salt Lake Camp, to the Village level! Zhou Xu had expected this system reminder, after all, he had already experienced the upgrade of Black Moon Village. After the Black Moon Village was upgraded, the construction team went to the Salt Lake Camp to work on the construction project.
Zhou Xu was not surprised at all that the Salt Lake Camp was successfully upgraded to a village. It was only a matter of time.
After the engineering team completed the project in Salt Lake Village, the next engineering task would undoubtedly be the grassland camp.
Compared with the barren mountain camp in the mountains, the grassland camp has a higher priority.
The reason why the upgrade was not prioritized before was that the grassland camp could be destroyed at any time. At that time, the tribal members who remained there would be forced to evacuate completely, so there was no need to invest too much energy in construction.
But now it's different.
Now, they have established a firm foothold on the grassland. Under this premise, strengthening the construction of the grassland camp will allow them to stand more firmly and confidently on the grassland! However, the construction task in Salt Lake Village has just been completed, and the construction team has not returned to Black Moon Village yet. Zhou Xu is not in a hurry to exploit their labor.
After all, he is not a devil, so he should be given some time to breathe, right?
As they walked along and got closer to Black Moon Village, the layout and scale of the village became clearer and clearer in Zhou Xu's field of vision.
At a glance, there are tracts of farmland, neatly arranged houses, and orderly breeding farms and work areas of various departments! As the person who built it, he is really familiar with this place.
And it is precisely because of this familiarity that Zhou Xu's sense of accomplishment at this moment can be said to be so strong that it cannot be surpassed.
Judging from the scale, architecture and layout of the village alone, it has long surpassed the level of the primitive era. In Zhou Xu's opinion, it is not an exaggeration to call it a small town.
But the system did not give this judgment, which made him ponder in his mind.
What is the difference between his Black Moon Village and ancient towns? It's probably the city wall, right?
But Zhou Xu didn't plan to build a city wall for Black Moon Village.
His territory itself is developing rapidly. At this time, allocating manpower to build city walls would not only waste labor, but also restrict internal development and construction.
In Zhou Xu's opinion, this idea was really stupid.
Not to mention that Black Moon Village is located in the central area of his territory, and the probability of encountering the enemy is relatively small. If he wants to build defensive facilities such as city walls, he should build them for the grassland camp first, so that the probability of them being used is greater.
As for not building the city wall, the system won't judge this matter...
He doesn't care.
He didn't care whether the system recognized his territory as a village or a town.
When it comes to the development of his own territory, Zhou Xu would definitely give priority to following his own ideas, and would not do this just to get the so-called "town" title.
Unless there's some benefit...
But as of now, no.
He returned to Black Moon Village after a long absence. Although he was exhausted from riding horses all the way, he was in good spirits.
After leaning back in the office chair in his residence, Zhou Xu sorted out the follow-up plans in his mind while beginning to summon the ministers from the Black Moon Village.
The first person summoned was Zhuang Mengdie, the Minister of Equipment Department.
"Mengdie, the rattan I asked you to process earlier should be almost done by now, right?"
"Yes, Chief, I'll follow your instructions and just take it out and dry it once more."
"Very good, since the weather has been nice lately, we can start this step. After that, we will start making the rattan armor."
Zhou Xu had already told Zhuang Mengdie about the concept of rattan armor.
Apart from the time-consuming processing of production materials, the production process is basically not a problem for the craftsmen in the equipment department today, and Zhuang Mengdie probably doesn't even need to do it herself.
As for the specific design, considering the upcoming battles in the mountains and forests, Zhou Xu still attaches more importance to flexibility and lightness. He did not plan to make the kind of rattan armor that covers the whole body, but instead planned to use a light armor design.
Each set of rattan armor is divided into eight parts: chest guard, shoulder guard, elbow guard, wrist guard, leg guard, knee guard, hip guard and helmet.
Under this premise, and also considering the mountain environment, long-handled weapons may not work well in the mountain environment with many obstacles, so he plans to make appropriate adjustments to the weapons.
Using rattan to make a single-soldier round shield and then matching it with a copper one-handed sword is the most suitable configuration he can think of at the moment.
The round shield was still handed over to the equipment department headed by Zhuang Mengdie for production, while the one-handed sword was handed over to the equipment department.
Zhuang Mengdie and others who took on the task left in a hurry.
Although according to their leader, the time for this task was not tight, after all he would not mobilize the troops until the beginning of next spring, but this did not hinder the arduousness of the task. They did not dare to delay at all and hurried back to their respective departments to make arrangements.
Just as Zhuang Mengdie and the others left, Zhao Geng, who had also been summoned and had been promoted to Minister of Agriculture, had just finished his work and had no time to pack up, but he hurried over, sweating all over...
(End of this chapter)
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