Chapter 985: Full of Horse Flavor
"Fell asleep."
Looking at Jie Liancheng who had a nervous face, Zhou Xu explained.
"After Qiansui ate the blood essence, he slept for a long time before waking up. According to my guess, he should have absorbed the power contained in the blood essence during his sleep, thus prompting himself to complete his evolution."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he touched the liquid that overflowed from the surface of Lord Ma's skin.
Slimy, smelled.
"vomit--"
How should I put it? It's full of horse flavor.
This situation has never happened since Qiansui ate the essence and blood.
Zhou Xu also thought about this matter.
[This should be something like impurities in Lord Horse's body. The heat rising before was to expel the impurities. Qiansui was just born, so his body was very clean, so there was no need for this? ]
Just as Zhou Xu was thinking about this, Jie Liancheng's voice rang out.
"Hong, Your Majesty, how long will you sleep like this?"
Xie Liancheng was anxious and didn't pay attention for a moment, and almost called out Ma Guotao's name in front of him.
Zhou Xu listened and said casually...
"At that time, Qiansui slept for almost two or three months before waking up. You can refer to it."
He really couldn't tell how long Lord Ma would sleep.
During this time, Ma Guotao next to him had already started rubbing his hands excitedly.
After he died and traveled through time, he was very happy to be able to open a bigger horse farm here, raise more horses, and even raise war horses.
But when he thought that they had actually created a warhorse of exotic beast level, which might even be of extraordinary level, and that they would breed around this warhorse in the future, Ma Guotao couldn't help but rub his hands with excitement.
However, when he thought of Lord Horse's bad temper, he got a headache again, and he started thinking about the subsequent breeding plan in his mind.
Zhou Xu ignored him, turned around and called Jie Liancheng to go outside.
"After the horse king wakes up, considering his temper, I'm afraid the stable will need your cooperation to do some work."
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu pondered it again.
"But Lord Ma is still asleep now, so there's nothing for you to do here. Why don't you go back to Xianyang and bring your sister-in-law and Qihu over?"
It is too far to go back to Plain Fortress, and it is unrealistic to let Jie Liancheng run back and forth.
However, it wouldn't be a big problem if Xie Liancheng took advantage of this opportunity to bring his wife and children to Black Moon City and settle down.
When Xie Liancheng heard this, his eyes lit up.
This time he brought Lord Ma here, and although he passed by the Xinnan District, he did not go home to see his wife and children because he took the road to Anling City.
Counting the days, he hasn't been back for a long time.
Now that Lord Ma was sure that there was no serious problem, Xie Liancheng, who was completely relieved, was eager to go home after hearing what Zhou Xu said.
"Okay, I'll go pick them up right away! But before that..."
As he spoke, Xie Liancheng's gaze fell on Lord Ma.
"I need to clean up Lord Ma first."
Zhou Xu listened and nodded.
"That's great. I'm going to the city to inspect the situation. After the inspection, we'll go back to Black Moon City together."
Although there are new areas they are exploring in the northeast outside the grassland, the main task of the front-line troops in the past month has been to conduct reconnaissance of the surrounding areas and then cooperate with the construction team that arrived later to build a garrison camp.
The subsequent oil plant construction project is still under preparation.
He had already learned about this matter from the report sent in two days ago, and it was not worth his time to make that trip in person.
He wanted to inspect the situation in Prairie City simply because Prairie City was right next to him and close by.
Now that you're here, there's no reason not to take a look.
Prairie City is just a small city centered on a trade market, and it doesn’t take much time to inspect it.
After simply completing the work, Zhou Xu met with Jie Liancheng and they quickly rode back to Black Moon City together.
After arriving in Black Moon City, Xie Liancheng was eager to return home and had no intention of staying up another night, so he set off on a large ship at the port that same day.
After Zhou Xu returned to the palace, he simply worked overtime to deal with some work that had piled up during his absence, and then began to think about the subsequent development plan of their Great Zhou.
Just now, after confirming the population figures displayed on his attribute panel, he found that the total population of their Great Zhou had officially exceeded 150,000.
Because their Great Zhou had been relatively peaceful in the past two years, the people had enough food and clothing and did not forget to have children.
With a sufficient population base, the rapid increase in population was completely within Zhou Xu's expectations.
Even if nothing unexpected happens, the population within their Great Zhou will continue to grow at this efficiency in the next few years.
But it still cannot change the current situation of labor shortage in their Great Zhou.
This is because apart from the population that was directly incorporated when the New Taipei City District was annexed in the early days, the subsequent increase in population is basically due to newborns.
There are so many people, all of them are only one or two years old, or even a few months old. What can you expect them to do? It's good enough if they don't cause trouble.
They are the workforce of the future, but not of today.
Naturally, there was no way to help Zhou Xu solve the current labor shortage problem in their Great Zhou.
The most labor-intensive project at this stage is the large-scale construction project in the New Taipei City area.
Since the entire area basically needs to be adjusted and rebuilt, it requires a lot of labor and is extremely time-consuming.
According to the current progress, it will probably take another two to three years to basically complete the project. As for complete completion, it will take even longer.
At the same time, after the completion of the New North District, there was still a shortage of labor within their Great Zhou, as such a large area in the south was still waiting to be built.
In fact, the southern part is the most labor-intensive area, and its scale is simply incomparable to that of the New Taipei City.
Especially since the ocean has just been discovered recently.
Just for the sake of this sea, before starting large-scale construction in the southern region, he had to go to the seaside to build ports, docks, and then ships!
He even has to prepare to allocate some manpower to do this task now.
It’s not that Zhou Xu was in a hurry to go out to sea to explore, but he needed to first let their Great Zhou have the ability to protect itself in the coastal areas.
What if there are enemies on the sea, and those guys come by boat to kill them, plunder them, and then leave immediately by boat, and they have no means to fight back? In this case, even if it is for self-protection, he needs to build a ship there!
This is also the main reason why Mr. Zhou Xu feels that there is insufficient labor in their Great Zhou.
But think about it from another perspective. If he chooses to lie low, not worrying about the issue of development efficiency, and takes a slow development mentality, he can guard the existing territory and take it step by step.
Then, by spending ten to twenty years, they should be able to fully build up the Great Zhou.
(End of this chapter)
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