Chapter 293 Great Zhou
At the same time, Zhou Xu was certainly not idle. Once the war started, he would most likely have to stay in the grassland village for a long time before the battle was over.
While the battle has not yet started completely, let alone Huangshan Village and Tieshan Village, he still plans to go to Heiyue Village and Yanhu Village to make some deployments, so that he will not be able to take care of this side when the battle starts.
"The enemy this time should not be underestimated. We must keep up with the food supply. Xiaoshan and Zhao Geng, you two must confirm the specific arrangements with the transport team as soon as possible and deliver the subsequent food supplies to Caoyuan Village."
"Please rest assured, Chief. There will be absolutely no problem with the food supply!"
In Black Moon Village, inside Zhou Xu's own residence, he was seriously instructing the village chief Zhang Xiaoshan and the Minister of Agriculture Zhao Geng about the transportation and mobilization of food supplies.
From Zhou Xu's expression, Zhao Geng could clearly feel that the enemy this time was probably far superior to any they had encountered before.
You know, even when their leader was facing the Manshi tribe before, his expression was not so solemn, which made Zhao Geng nervous.
After arranging things here, Zhou Xu turned and went to the forging department.
As for Tieshan Village, it was basically completed when he left. But how long has he been away? The iron mine has not been developed yet.
At present, iron ore is still mainly picked up in the surrounding areas.
However, before, they were only concerned with finding red hematite, but ignored iron ores of other colors. It was not until Zhou Xu discovered this problem that a lot of iron ores were delivered.
"How is it? Is the iron ore we have accumulated enough to forge a spear?"
"According to the original design, it may be a bit difficult, but we can make some appropriate adjustments and reduce the size of the gun head a little bit, and the number should be enough."
"Okay, let's do this. Although this batch of weapons is urgent, there must be no mistakes in quality. Do you understand?!"
"Understood! I promise to complete the task!"
Zhou Xu had already handed over the design of the spear to the forging department.
However, according to the situation at that time, there was too little iron ore, and their focus was on the mountains. In the complex mountain environment, there was basically no room for the spears to be used.
So the spear was never put into production, but the situation is obviously different now.
The sudden appearance of the Lizardmen disrupted Zhou Xu's original plan to a great extent.
Since the main battlefield is on the grassland, cavalry is the absolute core.
In the era of cold weapons, if there is any powerful means of attack, then the cavalry's group charge is definitely one of them. It is a major killing weapon in the era of cold weapons! This is also the main reason why Zhou Xu is in a hurry to equip the cavalry with iron spears.
While improving the strength of the weapon, he had to completely unlock the killer move of "Cavalry Charge"! After watching the Minister of the Forging Department, Zhou Dachui, patting his chest and accepting the task, Zhou Xu turned around and talked about another thing.
"The distance from Black Moon Village to Grassland Village is not far, but when the war breaks out, if the damaged weapons have to be sent back to Black Moon Village for repair, the round trip will waste a lot of time."
After briefly explaining the reason, Zhou Xu quickly expressed his thoughts.
"So I plan to set up a forging department branch in Prairie Village, which is responsible for repairing broken weapons. Do you have suitable candidates in your forging department?"
When setting up a branch, the Black Moon Village's forging department would definitely lose some manpower. From the perspective of their forging department, this is not a good thing no matter how you look at it.
But as the director of the forging department, Zhou Dachui is also a man who knows things clearly.
It is now urgent to establish a forging department in the grassland village.
"Don't worry, Chief. I will arrange for the manpower of the branch in Prairie Village to go there once this batch of spearheads are forged."
"Okay! Thank you for your hard work."
Zhou Xu's strategies towards grassland village and barren mountain village are obviously different.
The grassland village is different from the barren mountain village. The barren mountain village can produce its own food. Under this premise, if they are allowed to have the ability to forge their own weapons, once they are out of his control, the potential threat will be great.
However, Grassland Village has basically no grain production capacity. On weekdays, food is mainly supplied by Black Moon Village and Salt Lake Village.
Under this premise, even if the grassland village has the forging ability, if something really happens, Zhou Xu can use food to contain the other party.
After arranging things here, Zhou Xu turned around and made a trip to the neighboring Salt Lake Village.
Regarding the same issue of food supply, he first talked to the managers of the chicken farm and rabbit farm.
If the soldiers want to have the strength to fight, they cannot just eat vegetables, they must also have meat and eggs.
In front of the leader Zhou Xu, the two managers naturally obeyed his orders.
After settling the issue of grain supply, Zhou Xu approached Wang Dong, who was busy directing work at the weaving factory at the time.
Now that I'm here, there's no reason not to see how his weaving factory is doing.
"Teacher Wang!"
"Wang Dong, meet the leader!"
As soon as he saw Zhou Xu coming, Wang Dong quickly saluted.
Zhou Xu didn't dislike Wang Dong's approach, which showed that Wang Dong put himself in the right position.
It has only been a few days since the weaving factory was established, but because all the preliminary preparations had been completed long ago, when Zhou Xu looked at it, he could see that the weaving workers had already gotten started.
Looking at the woven linen, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of something and said...
"By the way, Mr. Wang, when the first batch of linen is woven, can you help me make a few flags with the linen and help me design them at the same time?"
"banner?"
At that moment, Wang Dong thought a lot.
Zhou Xu did not hide anything and simply explained the fact that he named his power "Da Zhou".
After listening, Wang Dong suddenly understood.
"Chief, are you preparing to establish a country?"
"Establish a country?"
Zhou Xu laughed.
"What kind of country am I establishing now? I only have a few people under my command."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Wang Dong shook his head.
"Chief, you are wrong. Whether a country is established or not is not determined by the number of people. In our country with the smallest population in the world, there are only about 600 people, and the territory is only 0.44 square kilometers."
"The population is not much larger than ours, but the land area is larger than ours. How can this be explained?"
"Even going back in time, back to the Middle Ages, there were even more small countries with little population."
At this point, Wang Dong paused.
"The size and composition of the territory under your command can no longer be described as a 'tribe'. Why not just establish a country?"
“…”
Wang Dong's words left him speechless.
If he says 'the population is not much larger than ours, then it is still larger than ours!'
That is pure argumentative behavior and the person should be beaten to death.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu pondered for a moment.
"Well, since Teacher Wang has said so, then we will establish a country! The name of the country is 'Zhou'!"
(End of this chapter)
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