Chapter 293 Dazhou
At the same time, Zhou Xu is certainly not idle. Once the war starts, he will most likely have to stay in the grassland village for a long time before the battle is over.
While the battle has not yet begun, let alone the Barren Mountain Village and Tieshan Village, like Black Moon Village and Salt Lake Village, he still plans to make a trip and make some arrangements. In case the battle starts, he won't be able to take care of this side.
“The enemy this time cannot be underestimated. We must keep up with the food supply. Regarding this matter, Xiaoshan and Zhao Geng, you two must confirm the specific arrangements with the transportation team as soon as possible and send out the follow-up food supplies. Send it to Prairie Village."
"Please rest assured, chief, there will be no mistakes in food supply!"
In Zhou Xu's own residence in Heiyue Village, he was seriously giving instructions on the transportation and mobilization of food supplies to Zhang Xiaoshan, the village chief, and Zhao Geng, the minister of the Ministry of Agriculture.
From Zhou Xu's expression, Zhao Geng could clearly feel that the enemy this time was probably far greater than any they had encountered before.
You know, even when their leader faced the Manshi tribe before, his expression was not so solemn, which made Zhao Geng tense up.
After arranging things here, Zhou Xu turned around and went to the forging department.
Over at Tieshan Village, the village was initially completed when he left. But now, how long has he been away? The iron ore mines are far from being developed.
At present, iron ore is still mainly picked up in the surrounding areas.
But before, they only looked for red hematite, but ignored iron ore of other colors. Until Zhou Xu discovered this problem, the amount of iron ore that was sent one after another was really impressive. Just a lot.
"How about it? Is the iron ore accumulated so far enough to cast a spear?"
"According to the originally designed size, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult, but we can make appropriate adjustments and make a slight The size of the gun head should be reduced a bit, and the quantity should be enough."
"Okay, let's do it. Although this batch of weapons is urgent, there is absolutely no room for quality differences, do you understand?"
"Understood! Make sure to complete the mission!"
Zhou Xu had handed over the design drawing of the spear to the forging department a long time ago.
But according to the situation at the time, the iron ore was too large. In addition, their focus at that time was on the mountain side, and in the complex mountain environment, there was basically no room for spears to play.
So the long gun has never been put into production, but now the situation is obviously different.
The Lizardman's sudden appearance disrupted Zhou Xu's original plan to a great extent.
Since the main battlefield is on the grassland, the cavalry is the absolute core.
In the era of cold weapons, if there is any powerful attack method, the group charge of the cavalry is definitely one of them. It is a major killer weapon in the era of cold weapons!
This is also the main reason why Zhou Xu was so anxious to equip the cavalry with iron guns.
While improving the strength of his weapons, he must completely unlock the ultimate move of 'Cavalry Charge'!
After watching Zhou Dachui, the director of the forging department, pat his chest and accept the task, Zhou Xu turned around and talked about another thing.
"Although the distance from Black Moon Village to Prairie Village is not that far, when the war breaks out, if the damaged weapons have to be sent back to Black Moon Village to be repaired, a lot of time will be wasted on the way back and forth."
< br>After briefly explaining the reason, Zhou Xu quickly said what he meant.
"So I plan to establish a branch of the forging department in Prairie Village, specifically responsible for repairing damaged weapons. Do you have suitable candidates in your forging department?"
Established Branch, their Black Moon Village forging department will definitely lose some manpower. From the perspective of their forging department, this is not a good thing no matter how you think about it.
But as the head of the forging department, Zhou Dachui is also a person who can handle things clearly.
Knowing that it is urgent to establish a forging department in Prairie Village.
"Chief, please rest assured. I will arrange for the manpower of the branch in Prairie Village to come over once these batch of spearheads are forged."
"Okay! I'll do this for you. "
Zhou Xu's strategies for treating Prairie Village and Barren Mountain Village are obviously different.
Prairie Village is different from Barren Mountain Village. Barren Mountain Village can produce its own food. Under this premise, if they are allowed to have the ability to forge their own weapons, once they are out of his control, the potential threat will be great. .
However, Prairie Village basically does not have much grain production capacity. On weekdays, it mainly relies on Black Moon Village and Salt Lake Village for food supply.
Under this premise, even if Prairie Village has the forging ability, if something goes wrong, Zhou Xu can still use food to contain the opponent.
After arranging things here, Zhou Xu turned around and went to the neighboring Salt Lake Village. Regarding the issue of food supply, he first talked to the directors of chicken farms and rabbit farms.
If soldiers want to have the strength to fight, they must not just eat vegetables, they must also keep up with meat and eggs.
In front of the leader Zhou Xu, the two field directors naturally followed suit.
After settling the matter of food supply, Zhou Xu approached Wang Dong, who was busy guiding work in the weaving factory at the time.
Since he is here, there is no reason not to see how his weaving factory is doing.
"Teacher Wang!"
"Wang Dong, see the leader!"
When he saw Zhou Xu coming, Wang Dong quickly saluted.
Zhou Xu does not hate Wang Dong's behavior, which shows that Wang Dong has placed his position very correctly.
It has only been a few days since the weaving factory was established. However, since all the preliminary preparation work has been completed long ago, Zhou Xu glanced at the weavers. They've all started.
Looking at the pieces of linen that had been woven, Zhou Xu suddenly thought of something and immediately said...
"By the way, Teacher Wang, wait for the first batch of linen. It’s been woven, please help me make some flags out of linen and help me design them.”
"Flag?"
At that moment, Wang Dong thought a lot.
Zhou Xu didn’t hide anything, and simply stated the matter of naming his force ‘Great Zhou’.
After listening, Wang Dong suddenly understood.
“Is the leader preparing to establish a country?”
"Establishing a country?"
Zhou Xu laughed.
"What kind of country should I build now? How many people do I have under my command?"
Unexpectedly, Wang Dong shook his head when he heard this.
“Chief, what you said is wrong. Whether or not to establish a country is not determined by the number of people. In our original country, which has the smallest population in the world, there are only about 600 people and a territorial area of only zero. Forty-four square kilometers ”
"The population is not much larger than ours, but the territory is larger than ours. How can we say that?" There are even more small countries with a certain population.”
Wang Dong paused at this point.
"Now that the size and composition of the territory under your command can no longer be described as a 'tribe', what's the harm in simply establishing a country?"
"..."
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Wang Dong's words actually left him speechless.
If he said, 'The population is not much larger than ours, then it is still larger than ours! ’
That is pure bullying, and you will be beaten to death.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu pondered for a moment.
“Well, since Teacher Wang has said so, let’s establish a country! The country’s name will be ‘Zhou’!”
(End of this chapter)