Chapter 895 Smiling but Silently
Now the wood elves have a closer connection with their great Zhou.
In order to facilitate transportation between the two places, and also take into account the convenience of daily purchase and transportation, Da Zhou also proposed with a sincere attitude that the wood elves should build a road outside the village.
The road is not long. It extends from the transportation line of their Dazhou Mine and is built to the entrance of the village.
In this way, in the future, if a carriage wants to rush to the wood elf village, it will be able to go all the way. This will undoubtedly greatly improve the convenience of daily outings, purchasing and transportation, and by the way, it will also pay for the wood elves. of deposits.
Faced with this proposal, Locke was a little hesitant.
"Will this cost a lot of money?"
Obviously, their village does not have much savings.
Looking at the hesitant Locke, Xiao Li from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs smiled.
"Chief Locke, what do you think? At this moment, all the young people in the village are working outside, and there are not many young and strong people in the village who can move things. You go out for shopping every day and buy something. Don’t you have to hire someone to move your things the rest of the way back? Or do you have to spend money?”
"But if the road is built, it will be done once and for all. Then the carriages carrying goods will drive directly to the entrance of your village. The carriages have already reached the entrance of the village, and there are only a few steps left. You can just throw the things in the carriage around, isn't that the end of it?" Rounding it off, this saves countless transportation fees.”
Locke usually doesn’t think about this matter, but now that Xiao Li gave him such an analysis, he suddenly felt that it made sense!
"You are right! Build the road!"
A simple plan of the route, from the transportation route of their Dazhou mine to the wood elf village, it is estimated to be only two to three hundred meters look.
With this distance, as long as there is enough labor, a simple road can be built quickly.
The wood elves go to Green Forest City every month to purchase daily necessities. After having this journey, they quickly experienced the convenience of it.
Just like what Xiao Li said at the beginning, the carriage carrying their daily necessities can now drive directly to the entrance of their village, and they can also come in directly in the carriage. It is really a saving. A lot of effort.
But when it came time for them to move things by themselves, they gave it a try, but in the end they chose to spend an extra sum of money and let the deliveryman help them move it.
Of course, compared with before, because they have already arrived at the entrance of the village, the transportation fee is much cheaper, and Locke and the others can accept it.
During a chat later, Locke mentioned this matter to Xiao Li, saying that Xiao Li still didn’t know them well enough, and he only guessed half of them right at first, while Xiao Li just laughed and said nothing, hahahaha brought the topic to the past.
On a new day, a carriage with the flag of the Great Zhou Dynasty arrived at the entrance of the village.
In this midsummer weather, the wood elves who stayed here, including Locke, were enjoying the shade and chatting under the shade of the trees. The movement at the entrance of the village quickly attracted their attention.
“Why is there a carriage?”
“Look, the flag belongs to Zhou Dynasty.”
“It can’t be that those brats finally thought of coming back for a look. ”
"Shit! After everyone went out, no one missed home!"
"You can't say that. In fact, they didn't go out very long, right?"
This As soon as the words were spoken, the scene fell into a brief silence.
Indeed, for the elves who have a long natural life span, let alone two or three years, even five years, ten years, or even ten or twenty years, in their opinion, it is just that moment. time.
But they don’t know when it started. They suddenly felt that the time was gradually getting longer.
Just as they were thinking this, a figure in military uniform stepped out of the carriage.
“That seems to be an officer from Dazhou.”
The other party was dressed in a straight black military uniform, with a copper buckle belt tied around his waist, and a large-brimmed military cap of the same color on his head. There is also a steel cap badge on it. Engraved on the cap badge is the symbol of their Zhou Dynasty, a seal character 'zhou'.
Loke, who noticed the other party's presence, quickly came out to greet him. "I wonder if you have any business coming to our village?"
Hearing this, the figure was stunned for a moment, and then pushed up his military cap.
"Clan leader, it's me."
Looking at the face exposed under the brim of the hat, Locke was stunned.
"John?"
The tone of this shout was somewhat uncertain, making John dumbfounded.
"It's me, Patriarch. I haven't been back for a few months, and you don't recognize me?"
"No. You have changed too much. Have you become an official in Da Zhou?" "
What Locke said is absolutely right. Several months of military training have changed John's temperament drastically. It's like he's become a different person. It's no wonder that Locke doesn't dare to recognize him at this time.
“I have now joined His Majesty’s Guards Corps, and I have become a squadron leader in the Guards Corps, which can be regarded as a minor official.”
At the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, because of the army Due to the limited size and number of soldiers, the military ranks started directly from lieutenant.
But now with the expansion of the territory and the increase in the number of soldiers, Zhou Xu also added two more ranks, sergeant and private, below the lieutenant.
After the recruit training is over, the soldiers who have officially joined the army are unified into privates, and those above private are non-commissioned officers.
Non-commissioned officers are divided into corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant and sergeant major.
Logically speaking, in this period of peace, John wants military exploits but not military exploits, and seniority or not. It is somewhat unreasonable to give him a military rank.
But considering the special situation that he is now leading a team of 100 wood elves, Zhou Xu tentatively gave him the rank of corporal to make him more legitimate.
In a blink of an eye, John was surrounded by elders in the village. Feeling the surprised or curious gazes of the elders, John suddenly felt like he was returning home in fine clothes, and he felt quite happy in his heart.
But he did not forget what his Majesty ordered.
After chatting with the elders in the village for a few words, he called the patriarch to the shade of a tree and chatted about business.
"Your Majesty called me back this time because he has something to ask the patriarch..."
While speaking, John first talked about spiritual attributes.
The main reason is that none of the wood elves are literate at this stage, and Locke can't understand Zhou Xu's letters.
There was no other way, so he could only dictate it to John and let John convey it.
Along the way, John was afraid that it would take a long time and he would not be able to remember clearly, so he hurriedly told the matter first.
“You said that Your Majesty feels that the power of mantra in his body is extremely full now, almost to the point of overflowing?”
“That’s what Your Majesty said. At the same time, as long as Your Majesty looks at me, I will You will feel huge pressure and dare not look at His Majesty..."
Listening to John's description, Locke nodded, obviously already aware of it, but at the same time he was full of surprises.
“I really didn’t expect that His Majesty’s cultivation has reached this level.”
Thanks to the book friend ‘Yuewei’ for the reward!
(End of this chapter)