Chapter 567 Development Restarts
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. On the plain, with the opening of the energy channel, Zhou Xu embarked on the return journey with the carriage transporting supplies.
Counting the days, it hasn’t been long since he left. Prairie Village is still the same, and nothing has changed.
Without intending to stay longer, he just made a brief inspection here and took a short rest, Zhou Xu led the team to Black Moon Village.
This season, the scene here in Black Moon Village is much more spectacular.
On the large farmland outside the village, cattle and farmers are busy there.
Following the dirt road in the middle and passing through the farmland, Zhou Xu arrived at the entrance of the village. After receiving the news in advance, the village chief Zhang Xiaoshan, who had been waiting there, naturally welcomed him in quickly.
It was getting dark now. Zhou Xu returned to his residence and went to bed early after dinner.
Early the next morning, key ministers from surrounding departments gathered in the meeting hall and held a court meeting.
Different from the previous time when they were debating whether to take the initiative or to temporarily cease fighting and recuperate, now thanks to the strength of the lizard people, the pressure within the Great Zhou Human Race has been greatly reduced, and they can be considered safe and sound. Had a solid winter.
At this time, the topic in the court meeting has shifted to various aspects of their internal development in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The internal development that has been stagnant for such a long time is finally running again, making everyone very energetic at the moment.
However, there are not many new projects launched at this stage. Most of them are old projects that were forced to stop due to the outbreak of the war and insufficient labor and resources. Now they are being restarted one after another.
Of course, there are also new projects, that is, the research on brick-burning technology and the establishment of brick-burning factories.
As for the content of burning bricks, Zhou Xu had already sorted out his ideas when chatting with Wang Pengfei. From the current point of view, there should be no difficulty on the technical level. The focus is still on the proportion of ingredients. superior.
After things are arranged, if you spend more time on research and testing, you should be able to get the results.
As long as the brick-burning technology is researched and a brick-burning factory is established, with the advent of stone bricks, their architectural level in the Great Zhou Dynasty will also be raised to a new level.
This affects not only civilian buildings, but also military facilities and even defense facilities including city walls!
The two armies are fighting. As the defender, the strength of the defense facilities is crucial.
In the age of cold weapons, a sufficiently powerful defense facility could even withstand an attack that exceeded ten times the strength of the defenders!
While the city wall is the main component of defense facilities, it is also the core carrier of most 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, it is also important to look at building materials, and bricks, which form the main body, are naturally the top priority.
If nothing unexpected happens, after the bricks are successfully developed, the first thing Zhou Xu will do is to build a wall on the southern border of the lizard people.
On the premise that their 'neighbors' will exist for a long time, this can further alleviate the threat posed by the Ratmen to them, making their southern border more stable and their internal development more comfortable.
In Zhou Xu’s simple explanation, all the key ministers undoubtedly clearly understood the importance of the brick-burning factory, so the project surrounding the bricks successfully gained the support of all employees. , and the arrangements were made smoothly.
Of the many projects they negotiated during this trip, most of them will involve one department, and that is the Construction Engineering Department!
If they want to develop internally, the contribution of the construction and engineering department is indispensable.
Now, if the lizard people in the New World want to carry out construction, they will undoubtedly need to dispatch manpower from the Construction Engineering Department.
As soon as Zhou Xu's intention came out, the meeting hall suddenly fell into a strange calm. A group of people were standing in the hall. Now you looked at me and I looked at you, but there was no sound.
In the end, Zhang Xiaoshan was more responsible and stood up bravely.
"Your Majesty, according to the current workload of the Construction Engineering Department, it may be difficult to redeploy manpower to the New World."
While speaking, Zhang Xiaoshan gave the current situation of the Construction Engineering Department. I said it roughly.
If you think about it carefully, since Zhou Xu established the construction engineering department, this department has been in a state of continuous rotation, basically without any serious rest time.
At the same time, it is precisely because the workload that this department needs to bear is too huge, so many of the hard laborers that will be recruited by Shi Lei will be given priority to them.
According to the latest statistics, the total number of members of the Construction Engineering Department has reached 279!
Of course, not all of the two hundred or so people were gathered in one place.
Instead, branches of various construction engineering departments were established in each village, each responsible for the projects in each village.
However, many times, when the tasks are heavy, each branch will often be asked to borrow people. The mobility of employees between various branches is still very high.
For example, right now, there are nearly a hundred people, led by the original minister Wang Dashi, who are busy inside the mountains.
The fundamental reason is that while Shi Lei was recruiting people, he occupied one mountain after another. They couldn't just throw away the people after collecting them, right?
In this way, if they want these hills to become their territory in the Great Zhou Dynasty, then they have to build villages on those hills.
At that time, this report was sent to Zhou Xu. At this time, it is estimated that there are still two mountain villages under construction.
After all, there is still a camp stronghold on the lizard people side. On the other side of the mountains, the latest occupied areas are only simpler primitive tribes. There is no need to say which side is more anxious.
At the same time, even if the construction of those mountain villages is completed, the mountain villages in the mountains tend to be crude, and there is still work to be done in the later stages of construction. Wang Dashi and the others cannot leave at all.
As for the other branch members scattered in various villages, none of them are idle.
After the restoration of development in Dazhou, the projects they are currently busy with are all the projects that were previously stopped due to the war.
These projects have been suspended for a long time due to the war. Will they be interrupted again this time because of the lizard people? This is unjustifiable.
Zhou Xude admitted that what they said was very reasonable.
Fortunately, Zhou Xu had some plans in advance before raising this matter.
"Otherwise, the lizard people themselves also have certain technical capabilities. You must have seen the green lizard craftsmen working in the polishing department now. Although their technology is backward, but The craftsmanship is exquisite, and there are similar craftsmen among the lizard people in construction projects."
After hearing this, many people at the scene have already reacted.
"I can exchange these lizardman craftsmen with the existing craftsmen from the construction engineering department. I only need to replace a few experienced old craftsmen to lead the team there. How about that?"< br>
In the Construction Engineering Department, the value of an experienced craftsman is undoubted, but they have been working on projects for a long time, and they have now accumulated a group of experienced craftsmen.
Under this premise, it would not be impossible if the lizard people could provide a sufficient amount of labor force for exchange.
(End of this chapter)