Chapter 605: Mountain Road
Considering the distance from the mountain border to this side, even if the messenger rode at full speed, it took nearly a month to deliver the news to Zhou Xu.
There is no way. After the expansion of the territory, in this era of inconvenient transportation, the efficiency of communication will inevitably decline.
He had previously thought about transferring one or two velociraptor riders from the Lizardmen to take on the task of transmitting communications between the two sides.
However, since the Lizardmen were not adapted to the environment there and suffered from severe acclimatization problems, this matter was not arranged smoothly.
It is even more impossible now. After all, in the southern border, we need the aerial vision of the pterosaur riders to improve the search efficiency.
Now that this has happened, Zhou Xu feels that he needs to make a trip.
He would undoubtedly have no peace this winter. After simply arranging things here and calling Boleven over to give him a few words, Zhou Xu set out for the mountain border early the next morning.
It would take nearly a month for a messenger to travel alone on horseback. As a king, Zhou Xu certainly could not go alone for such a long distance.
With a team of guards, the mobility efficiency is probably slower than that of a messenger.
They rode their horses all the way, and after arriving at the grassland city, they did not enter the city. Instead, they asked someone to change them into new horses with plenty of energy and continued on their journey.
It would take a lot of time to reach the border of the mountains. If we were to delay even longer, by the time we got there, it would probably be the beginning of next spring.
Maintaining high efficiency, the team led by Zhou Xu rode all the way to the post station at the foot of the barren mountain.
Looking at the barren mountain in front of him, Zhou Xu let out a long breath. He knew that this difficult road had just begun. Riding a horse was considered easy before.
After a short rest, Zhou Xu looked up at the sky.
"It's just past noon now. Don't dawdle here. Let's try to reach Huangshan Village to rest before dark."
"yes!"
While they were talking, the guide who was responsible for taking them up the mountain had already been waiting outside.
"Let's go."
Zhou Xu hasn't been to the mountains for a long time.
When he came here for the last time, there wasn't even a normal trail here.
Now, with more people stepping on it, and with the conscious widening of the road in the later stage, they have actually trampled out a walkable path up the mountain.
At the same time, this road is now paved with some gravel. This is done to reduce the slipperiness and muddiness of the wild mountain roads on rainy days, and it is also low-cost.
From Zhou Xu's perspective, when he was a child, some mountain roads in the countryside were almost like this. Some of them didn't even have gravel paved on them. They were not as good as this road.
These mountain roads were built bit by bit by the mountain people during their daily travels over the years.
With this road, their climbing efficiency can be said to have been significantly improved.
After climbing over the top of the barren mountain, we rested at the barren mountain outpost on the other side of the mountainside. The rest of the way down the mountain was much easier than the way up the mountain.
Before dark, we successfully arrived at the deserted village located in the mountains.
Under the winter sunset, the deserted mountain village located not far away is like a paradise far away from the world, and is covered with a layer of dreamy colors.
Outside the village, there are large fields, and from afar you can hear the "clattering" sound of the waterwheel turning.
There is a large chicken coop near the village. Outside the coop, a domestic wolf is lying there and dozing off. Its ears twitch from time to time, proving that it is not asleep, but is always paying attention to the movements around it.
After several generations of breeding in recent years, the wildness in the bones of domestic wolves has been largely eliminated, and now they can perform some tasks of guarding the house normally.
Wang Chuan, the village chief of Huangshan Village, came over and praised the wolf.
"My king, thanks to this wolf, our chickens that are kept outside have never been lost again."
Wang Chuan, who told this story, could not hide the joy on his face.
After humans occupied the mountains, the wild beasts had nowhere to go and couldn't find food, so they naturally set their sights on attacking human villages.
Animals such as foxes and weasels would often sneak into the village under the cover of night to steal their chickens. At the same time, many wild beasts would steal the fruits and vegetables in their fields.
Under the cover of night, even if there are people patrolling, it is difficult to completely eliminate the problem.
It would be fine if they just stole some food, but the most annoying thing was that while stealing food, the wild beasts would often damage their fences and fields, causing them losses far more than just a few bites of food.
Now that we have domestic wolves, the losses in this area can be said to have been greatly reduced.
As Wang Chuan spoke, he led Zhou Xu towards the village.
It is not convenient to develop in these mountains, so the villages are basically maintained.
In addition to farming and raising livestock, the villagers of Huangshan Village survive by picking some mountain delicacies or other resources in the mountains.
So over the years, there haven't been many changes within Huangshan Village.
As of now, Zhou Xu has no plans to upgrade these mountain villages, as doing so would be a huge drain on manpower and material resources.
Compared to spending time, manpower and material resources on upgrading the mountain village into a mountain city, Zhou Xu would rather invest all these resources in paving mountain roads.
At least once the mountain road is opened, the transportation efficiency within these mountains can be greatly improved, and at the same time, it can also lay a solid foundation for subsequent development and construction.
After resting for a night in Huangshan Village, the next morning, the group led by Zhou Xu had breakfast and replenished some dry food before setting off again.
Just as there is a simple gravel road from the post station at the foot of Huangshan Mountain to Huangshan Village, the same is true for the road from Huangshan Village to Tieshan Village.
After all, Tieshan Village is near the Tieshan Mine, which produces iron ore, which is very important to their Great Zhou. Even if it is just to facilitate the transportation of iron ore, this mountain road has a very high priority.
As Huangshan Village, which relatively speaking attaches great importance to development, has not developed much in recent years, Tieshan Village, which is more functional, naturally cannot develop much either.
The original purpose of establishing Tieshan Village was to store troops within the mountains, and later it also facilitated their mining.
Now, with the expansion of the Great Zhou's territory, Tieshan Village, like Caoyuan City, has lost its characteristics as a military camp and has become an ordinary mountain village mainly engaged in mining.
As Shi Lei expanded, the military camps of the Great Zhou in the mountainous areas were pushed deeper into the mountains!
(End of this chapter)
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