Chapter 370: More complicated than imagined (extra update for accumulating 300 monthly tickets)
Zhou Xu did have women under his command, but their number was very small.
The reason is very simple. They were all fleeing at the beginning, and the tribes they incorporated later were those that had experienced the baptism of winter and screened their population before they incorporated them.
In other words, the weaker populations died in the process.
This undoubtedly includes the elderly, women and children.
Some tribes even consciously kill the elderly, the weak, women and children in the tribe in order to increase their chances of surviving the winter, thereby saving food resources and reducing survival pressure.
Therefore, there were basically no elderly people or children under Zhou Xu's command, as they had all died before that.
As for women, there are some, but very few.
Under this premise, most women are concentrated in Zhuang Mengdie's equipment department.
In their Great Zhou, there is no doubt about how high Zhuang Mengdie's status is. Ordinary villagers dare not covet it at all. As a result, the status of the female employees in her department has also risen.
After all, he is protected by Zhuang Mengdie. If he doesn't want to do it, no one can do anything.
Therefore, in their Great Zhou, there have always been more wolves than meat.
Fortunately, they are all very busy at work every day and are exhausted at the end of the day. They fall asleep immediately after dinner and do not have much energy to think about reproduction.
However, among this batch of prisoners, there were quite a few women who were escorted here.
Basically, as long as there are suitable jobs, they will be sent to every village.
After all, based on the physical fitness and strength of normal women, they probably wouldn't be able to help much if they were sent to mines or logging teams, so these captives were usually arranged to work in places like weaving factories.
The appearance of this group of female captives undoubtedly brought stimulation to many men in the village, making them want to reproduce.
Regarding the issue of fertility, although they need more population now, Zhou Xu himself does not encourage having more children at all.
There is no doubt that the birth of new population is very important considering long-term development.
But you also have to understand what the situation is.
The current situation is that after the spring, they will most likely face the invasion of Lizardmen. For this reason, he needs a ready-made young and middle-aged population to supplement his military strength and labor force, rather than raising children.
Calculating the time, he was summoned in the spring of last year, and now it is the early winter of this year. All in all, it has been less than two years.
In less than two years, a child was conceived and born. How old is the child? And what use can it be?
The only effect is to cause trouble to them.
At the same time, don’t forget that in this era, medical standards are very low and having children often involves huge risks.
Without considering the possibility of accidental fetal death during pregnancy, we will assume that the pregnant woman can successfully carry the baby for ten months and give birth.
How can you ensure that you can give birth to the baby safely? If you are not careful, two lives will be lost.
Of course, let's assume that your child is born safely, but children are fragile and there is a risk of death before they grow up.
Even if they can grow up healthily and become part of the labor force, that will be many years later.
During the process of pregnancy, childbirth and raising children, women's labor force will be affected in a significant way, and they may even be unable to work.
Combining all the above reasons, Zhou Xu must have been crazy, so he wanted to have more children and make things difficult for himself.
It would be best for him not to let anyone get pregnant now so as not to affect their internal labor force.
Childbirth is a thing of peacetime, but now is not a peaceful time.
Of course, he had no intention of stopping it deliberately, so he just let it take its course.
After a brief inspection of the work in Black Moon Village in the morning, Zhou Xu rode directly to Salt Lake Village in the afternoon.
"Have the grassland elves that were sent yesterday been settled?"
"Reporting to the leader, everything has been settled."
Zhou Xu was not particularly concerned about the current situation of the grassland elves. He just asked casually after meeting Li Shitou, the village chief.
After that, he went straight to find Wang Dong and explained his purpose to him.
"Ancient Elvish?"
"I thought you would show a little more interest."
Hearing this, Wang Dong laughed.
"I'm a Chinese teacher, not an archaeologist."
As he spoke, Wang Dong's voice paused slightly.
"But I do have that interest, so I have no problem with that."
At this point, Wang Dong nodded and gave an affirmative answer.
"But according to you, Chief, this is someone else's program. You don't have the authority to dispose of it at will. In this case, can you let me use it?"
Wang Dong’s question hits the nail on the head.
"Let's not talk about the more complicated sample that even I can't peek at. This 'Primary Weapon Blessing' should be used by the craftsmen of the old civilization. It is considered a relatively basic thing in the old civilization period, and the authority is not high."
"After I extracted the sample from the Silver Steel Sword, I cast the mantra on the Silver Steel Sword, and the mantra on the Silver Steel Sword was activated again. However, the mantra sample is still in my body. What does this mean?"
Faced with this problem, Wang Dong thought about it and figured it out.
"This shows that this 'program' is actually replicable. What the other party added to the silver-steel sword is a replica, and what you got is also a replica."
“That’s right!”
Zhou Xu affirmed the conclusion drawn by Wang Dong.
"I pondered this question for a long time, and I found that adding this semi-permanent effect to a weapon is completely different from simply launching a mantra."
"The activation mantra is when I start the program, and the program gives me the expected effect. However, the blessing on the Silver Steel Sword is different. It is not just an effect, but a program is directly installed on it."
At this point, Zhou Xu's tone was clearly a little excited.
"So this action is essentially not as simple as starting a program, but directly giving the Silver Steel Sword a complete replica!"
The more Zhou Xu talked about this, the more unbelievable it seemed to him.
Because he discovered that the 'primary weapon enhancement', which he originally thought was just 'three-in-one', was actually much more complicated in structure than he had imagined.
There is also a difference between 'replicable and non-replicable', 'giveable and non-giveable'!
Those three combinations were only the core enhancements, but in fact, the "Primary Weapon Enhancement" also included many designs and enhancements that he couldn't see through! (End of this chapter)
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