Chapter 85 Change of Plan
According to the original plan, the grassland camp was a springboard for them, and its main value was to facilitate their access to the resources on the grassland.
Therefore, Zhou Xu did not pay special attention to the early development of the grassland camp.
After the most basic infrastructure is completed, the manpower and material resources here will be invested in the collection of various grassland resources.
However, the collection of grassland resources requires large-scale exploration. However, the appearance of the centaurs and the potential threats they carry prevent Zhou Xu from continuing to implement the original plan.
There is no choice but to change the plan, suspend external exploration, and instead prioritize internal development, strengthen the construction of the camp, and deploy resisting horses around the camp as a defense facility to create a military stronghold on the front line.
The reason is that when the time comes, even if they really confront those centaurs, they can hold on to the camp and prevent them from being easily defeated.
Even through tenacious holding tactics to persuade the opponent to retreat.
Although when he left the prairie camp before, he told Ye Jinghong that if he really faced off, he would leave the camp alone and run away, but the camp was finally built, and he would definitely be able to hold it. It is better to hold on.
Abandoning this camp would be a huge loss for them.
The next period of time will be a gamble for Zhou Xu and the others.
Bet on whether their grassland camp can develop stably until all the defense facilities are completed.
This whole efficiency is honestly not fast.
After all, their current transportation capacity is so little. Before the subsequent wooden carts are manufactured, the limited two wooden carts are simply not enough for them.
Taking the current situation as an example, under the premise that the two wooden carts are all used to help the grassland camp transport the wood used for making horses, the logging team at the Black Moon Camp has no wooden carts to use. , As a result, the work efficiency of the logging team will be significantly reduced.
Therefore, in order to keep up with the wood, after the first trip, they also ordered a wooden truck from the logging team to improve their work efficiency, otherwise there would not be enough wood in the camp.
In addition, the wood cut by the logging team is not delivered directly. Making the wood for Juma requires a considerable degree of polishing, and one end must be sharpened. Increase the deterrence and lethality of the horse.
And for this job, we have to rely on the equipment department to put in more effort.
The newly added polishing work and the obvious increase in the loss of stone axes have put great pressure on the equipment department recently.
During this period, Zhuang Mengdie and the others, who were making the third wooden cart, were so busy, naturally not to mention.
It seemed like a simple thing, but it actually made the Black Moon Camp extremely busy.
This situation was slightly relieved after the third wooden cart was successfully produced.
At least one wooden cart can be reserved for the exclusive use of the logging team. As long as the wooden cart improves transportation efficiency, the work efficiency of the logging team can be guaranteed.
Of course, even so, Zhuang Mengdie’s project of making wooden carts has not stopped.
During this period, for their tribe, the more wooden carts the better, not only in the grassland camp but also in the salt lake camp.
At present, these three wooden carts can only be used to make ends meet.
According to Zhou Xu’s idea, if the transportation capacity of the grassland camp is to be sufficient, at least five wooden carts are needed.
This is not just because the wood needs to be made now, and the wood is bulky and difficult to transport. In fact, wood is used in many places in camp development, and it is considered one of the basic building materials for camp development.
Even if we no longer refuse horses in the future, in order for the grassland camp to obtain sufficient development resources, the transportation capacity of five wooden carts is still needed.
Under this premise, and considering the Salt Lake Tribe and some departments that also need wooden trucks to improve work efficiency, building ten wooden trucks can only be regarded as a guarantee.
Every time a batch of wood is delivered, a horse is tied up and brought out. With the combined efforts of many people, it can be done in about an hour.
But the transport team would have to deliver this material for a day and a half just for the single journey.
This does not take into account the situation at the Black Moon Camp where the logging team or the equipment department cannot keep up with the work efficiency and the materials cannot be sent out immediately.
Of course, this does not mean that Zhou Xu and the others are at ease in the grassland camp.
Apart from the daily fishing work, Zhou Xu also quickly made a batch of lasso traps and set them near the nearby rabbit nest to catch hares and further increase their food supply.
At the same time, pick the right time to dig out the nearby berry bushes so that the transportation team can take them back along the way to increase the scale of red berry planting at the Black Moon Camp.
During this process, it was of course impossible for Zhou Xu to stay motionless at the grassland camp the entire time.
In fact, after the external exploration plan was hindered by the appearance of the centaurs, although there were some things that he needed to do personally at the grassland camp, staying here for a long time was a bit of a waste of time.
So during this period, Zhou Xu often stayed here for seven days and there for seven days.
It just so happened that he could handle matters in both camps relatively promptly, without any delay on either side.
And in the past seven days, he happened to be here at the Black Moon Camp...
"Huh——"
Zhuang exhaled a long breath, and the work at hand came to an end for the time being. Mengdie shook her sore hands.
Although the manufacturing of this wooden cart is very urgent, she is not made of iron after all, and polishing the parts is also very laborious. In order to avoid overwork injuries, she will take a break every once in a while to relax herself. hands.
During this period of time, Zhuang Mengdie usually chooses to confirm the learning results of the two apprentices, and then gives appropriate guidance.
But today, she did not do this. All her attention fell directly on Zhou Xu who was immersed in work at the side.
In the past two days, their leader has basically stayed in their equipment department during the day. The main reason is that their leader has also been polishing something recently, and in their equipment department, all kinds of polishing tools are quite different. It's complete and it's more convenient to stay here.
“Chief, what is this?”
It was a large round stone plate with some symbols that she could not understand engraved around the outside of the stone plate. In the center is a polished straight bone needle.
In the past few days, their leader has been polishing this thing, and now it seems that it has been polished, which allowed Zhuang Mengdie to finally ask his doubts.
"What are you talking about? It's called a coronagraph!"
Update sent, thanks to book friend 'Yiyue Leng' for the tip
(End of this chapter)