Chapter 391 Good Days
"Is this the child named Wang Pengfei that you mentioned before, Chief?"
"Um."
Zhou Xu nodded.
"Before I traveled through time, I was a master of online arguing. I knew everything by typing away on the keyboard. Because I often argued in various comment sections, I unexpectedly mastered a lot of knowledge that is completely useless in modern times, but can be of some use here."
He did mention Wang Pengfei's matter to Wang Dong.
As a people's teacher, Wang Dong is probably the person who understands best that written theoretical knowledge and practical operations are completely different.
Not to mention that the knowledge Wang Pengfei possessed could not be considered as formal written knowledge. It was just some things he collected from the Internet, and it was hard to say whether they were true or false, or reliable.
Zhou Xu was of course aware of this, so he only used the information provided by Wang Pengfei as a simple reference instead of taking it seriously.
After that small episode when entering the village, Zhou Xu and Wang Dong, who arrived in Tieshan Village, took a short rest for a day.
Of course, although they were taking a break, neither of them was idle.
Wang Dong was busy checking homework, while Zhou Xu was busy inspecting the situation in Tieshan Village.
The arrival of the two made everyone in the village very nervous.
There have been quite a lot of changes in the village. After all, the engineering team has not been idle. The internal facilities have been much improved compared to before.
After a brief tour, Zhou Xu took two soldiers and rushed towards the Tieshan Mine.
The last time he came, the development work at Tieshan Mine had not been completed yet, but now, it has entered the mining stage.
Facts have proved that as long as there are enough people, many things in this world can be accelerated.
He could hear the sound of mining from a long distance away. After walking closer, a very busy scene immediately came into his sight.
Compared with the two mines in Yanhu Village, Tieshan Mine has a higher demand for manpower.
It is not just because mountain mining is difficult, the more critical issue is undoubtedly transportation.
At this stage, they simply do not have the conditions to build a mountain road inside the mountains that is flat enough for vehicles to pass.
In fact, they didn't even have a decent mountain road at the moment.
The transportation of iron ore can only rely on one person carrying it on his back, and the transportation efficiency cannot be improved at all.
The output and transportation at the Tieshan Mine can keep up at the moment only because Zhou Xu has assigned all the subsequent captives to work as laborers here. This is the efficiency achieved purely by manpower.
This arrangement also resulted in the fact that the grain production of Huangshan Village alone was no longer able to support the population here.
Of course, Zhou Xu already had an idea of this situation when he gave the order.
Therefore, he immediately turned around and gave another order, asking the Black Moon Village to send a transport team to transport food to the mountains.
The food problem that would affect the mountains was solved at the very beginning, leaving it no chance to have any impact.
However, this could not change the situation of food shortage caused by the large number of prisoners they had taken in.
In response to this situation, Zhou Xu's solution was simple. He would further reduce the food distribution for the prisoners, and then let the chicken farm and rabbit farm kill more chickens and rabbits. More importantly, he would let the fishing team work overtime.
At this stage, the natural fish resources are still abundant because they have not been fished on a large scale. Appropriate large-scale fishing will not have any impact on them.
After a day of adjustment, Zhou Xu and Wang Dong quickly entered work mode.
Considering the number of prisoners here, they also need a halftime break.
Another large group of "two-star legions" passed by. Among them, there were two prisoners with good talents who could be properly arranged and were noted down by Zhou Xu.
But because they hadn't found any talents, Zhou Xu and Wang Dong were a little exhausted both physically and mentally.
It's like you spent a few krypton orders, and then started to draw cards in the game card pool, but after hundreds of draws, there is not even a guaranteed minimum, and all you see is a "green ordinary". Wouldn't your mentality explode? This also made Zhou Xu and Wang Dong deeply realize that the proportion of ordinary people in the human race is much larger than they expected.
But think about it, if there were any difficult guys among them, they would not be wiped out so easily by the new recruits led by Li Tie.
When it comes to discovering talent, just approach it with a laid-back attitude.
As a result, after Zhou Xu lay down, he unexpectedly discovered a "mining expert" with three stars of endurance.
Although it is a living profession, Zhou Xu's demand for iron ore is high at the moment, so this "mining expert" comes at the right time.
It was during this period of time that the messenger came to report to him that there were some unexpected situations in the conscription order that had been issued previously.
"What? Those grassland elves went to participate in the conscription selection?"
When Zhou Xu heard the news, he felt both amused and helpless.
The reason is quite funny. It is because the grassland elves in Black Moon Village and Salt Lake Village felt that life was difficult. Later, after hearing the conscription news, they found that being a soldier would provide food and accommodation.
They thought, how could such a good thing happen?
So they signed up one after another, intending to solve their urgent needs by joining the army.
This time, the person in charge of recruiting soldiers was at a loss, so he quickly sent the messenger to ask the leader's opinion as quickly as possible.
And then we have this scene.
In any case, it is a good thing for him that the grassland elves are willing to serve as soldiers.
As a special type of soldier, their combat capability is quite guaranteed.
However, Zhou Xu did not plan to ask for more. After all, the grassland elves only had twenty silver-steel swords, which were important equipment. Considering that there were already ten elven knights led by Silk, he would just recruit ten more to make a total of twenty elven knights.
By the way, these ten grassland elves were not counted in their original conscription number.
After Zhou Xu issued the order, the conscription office opened the door conveniently for the grassland elves who had signed up.
It turned out that the number of grassland elves easily exceeded ten.
There is no other way, so we can only follow the old rules, take conscription tests, and select the top ten with the best scores.
After some internal competition, the candidate was quickly confirmed.
The ten grassland elves originally thought that good days were coming when they no longer had to worry about starving, but little did they know that their "good days" had just begun...
(End of this chapter)
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