Chapter 567 Development Restart
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. On the plain, with the energy channel opened, Zhou Xu set out on the return journey with the carriage carrying supplies.
Counting the days, it has not been long since he left, and the grassland village is still the same, with no changes.
He didn't plan to stay long. After a brief inspection and a short rest, Zhou Xu led the team to Black Moon Village.
At this season, the scenery in Black Moon Village is much more spectacular.
On the large farmland outside the village, oxen and farmers are busy working.
Following the dirt road in the middle and crossing the farmland, Zhou Xu arrived at the entrance of the village. Having received the news in advance, the village chief Zhang Xiaoshan, who had been waiting there, naturally hurried to welcome him in.
It was getting dark, so Zhou Xu returned to his residence and went to bed early after dinner.
The next morning, ministers and key personnel from surrounding departments gathered in the meeting hall and held a court meeting.
Unlike the previous time when they were debating whether to take the initiative to attack or to temporarily cease fire and rest, this time, thanks to the Lizardmen's military strength, the internal pressure on the human race in the Great Zhou was greatly reduced, and they were able to spend a peaceful winter.
At this moment, the topic of the court meeting has shifted to the development of all aspects within their Great Zhou.
The internal development that had been stagnant for such a long time has finally started to move again, making everyone full of energy at this moment.
However, there are actually not many new projects launched at this stage. Most of them are old projects that were forced to stop due to the outbreak of war and insufficient labor and resources. They are now being restarted.
Of course, there are new projects as well, namely the research on brick-making technology and the establishment of brick-making factories.
As for the content of brick firing, Zhou Xu had already sorted out his thoughts when he was chatting with Wang Pengfei before. As far as the current situation is concerned, there should be no difficulty on the technical level, and the key still lies in the proportion of ingredients.
Once things are arranged, if we spend more time on research and testing, we should be able to get results.
As long as they complete the research on brick-making technology and build a brick-making factory, then with the advent of stone bricks, the construction level of their Great Zhou will be raised to a new level.
This affects not only civilian buildings, but also military facilities and even defense facilities including city walls! When two armies are fighting, the strength of the defense facilities is crucial for the defending side.
In the era of cold weapons, sufficiently strong defensive facilities could even withstand an attack with a force ten times that of the defenders!
While the city wall is the main component of the defense facilities, it is also the core carrier of most of the defense facilities, and they all rely on the city wall to function.
Therefore, the strength and height of the city wall will greatly affect the strength of the defense.
Under this premise, what affects the strength and height of the city wall?
In addition to construction technology, the next thing to consider is building materials, and the bricks that constitute the main body are naturally the top priority.
If nothing unexpected happens, once the bricks are successfully developed, Zhou Xu’s first thing will be to build a wall on the southern border of the Lizardmen.
Assuming their "neighbor" exists for a long time, this will further alleviate the threat posed by the ratmen, making their southern border more stable and their internal development more comfortable.
With Zhou Xu's simple explanation, all the ministers and backbone cadres undoubtedly clearly realized the importance of the brick factory. Therefore, this project centered on bricks successfully gained the support of all employees and was smoothly arranged.
Among the many projects they discussed this time, most of them will involve one department, that is, the Construction Engineering Department!
If they want to develop internally, they cannot do without the help of the Construction Engineering Department.
At this point, if the Lizardmen in the New World want to carry out construction, they will undoubtedly need to dispatch personnel from the Construction Engineering Department.
As soon as Zhou Xu expressed this idea, the meeting hall suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
A group of people stood in the hall, looking at each other, and no one made a sound.
In the end, it was Zhang Xiaoshan who was more responsible and stood up.
"My lord, given the current workload of the Construction Engineering Department, I'm afraid it will be difficult to transfer more people to the New World."
As he spoke, Zhang Xiaoshan gave a brief account of the current situation of the Construction Engineering Department.
If you think about it carefully, ever since Zhou Xu established the Construction Engineering Department, this department has been in a state of non-stop operation, with basically no proper rest time.
At the same time, it was precisely because the workload that this department needed to bear was too huge, so a lot of the hard laborers recruited by Shi Lei later were assigned to them first.
According to the latest statistics, the total number of members in the Construction Engineering Department has reached two hundred and seventy-nine!
Of course, these more than 200 people are not all gathered in one place.
Instead, branches of the construction engineering department were established in each village, each responsible for the projects in each village.
However, in many cases, when the task on one side is heavy, we often ask various branches to borrow people. The mobility of members between branches is still very high.
For example, at this moment, led by the original minister Wang Dashi, nearly a hundred people are busy inside the mountains.
The fundamental reason is that while Shi Lei was recruiting people, he occupied one hill after another. They couldn't just recruit people and then abandon them, right?
In this way, if they want to make these hilltops the territory of their Great Zhou, they have to build villages on those hilltops.
At that time, this report was delivered to Zhou Xu, and it is estimated that two more mountain villages are under construction now.
The Lizardmen still have camps and strongholds, but on the other side of the mountains, the latest occupied areas only have more crude primitive tribes. It goes without saying which side is more anxious.
At the same time, even if those mountain villages were built, they were still relatively simple and needed further construction, so Wang Dashi and his team couldn't leave at all.
As for the other branch members scattered in various villages, none of them are idle.
After the Great Zhou resumed its development, they are now busy with the projects that were previously suspended due to the war.
These projects had already been suspended for a long time because of the war, and now they were going to be interrupted again because of the Lizardmen? This was totally unreasonable.
Zhou Xu had to admit that what they said made a lot of sense.
Fortunately, before bringing up this matter, Zhou Xu had already made some plans in advance.
"How about this? The lizardmen themselves have a certain level of technical ability. I believe you have all seen the green lizard craftsmen working in the polishing department. Although their technology is backward, their craftsmanship is exquisite. In the field of construction engineering, the lizardmen also have similar craftsmen."
After hearing this, many people at the scene have already responded.
"I can exchange these lizardmen craftsmen with the existing craftsmen in the Construction Engineering Department. I just need to send a few experienced craftsmen to lead the team. How do you think?"
In the Construction Engineering Department, the value of an experienced old craftsman is unquestionable, but after all, their Great Zhou has been engaged in engineering for a long time, and now they have gathered a group of experienced craftsmen.
Under this premise, if the Lizardmen can provide a sufficient number of laborers for exchange, this is not impossible.
(End of this chapter)
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