Chapter 985: Full of Horse Flavor
“I fell asleep.”
Looking at Jie Liancheng, whose face was full of nervousness, Zhou Xu explained.
“After Chitose ate the essence and blood, they slept for a long time before waking up. According to my guess, they should have absorbed the power contained in the essence and blood while sleeping, thus promoting themselves to complete their evolution.”< br>
As Zhou Xu spoke, he touched a handful of the serum that overflowed from the surface of Lord Ma’s skin.
Gooey, smell it.
“Ugh——”
How to say it? Full of horse flavor.
This has never happened since Chitose took the blood essence.
Zhou Xu also thought about this matter.
[This should be impurities and other things in Lord Ma’s body. The heat was rising before to eliminate impurities. Chitose was just born and his body was very clean, so there was no need for this? 】
While Zhou Xu was thinking about this, Xie Liancheng's voice sounded.
"Hong, Your Majesty, how long will it take to sleep like this?"
Xie Liancheng was so anxious that he didn't pay attention for a moment and almost called Ma Guotao by his name in front of him.
After hearing this, Zhou Xu said casually...
"Chitose slept for almost two or three months before waking up. You can refer to it."
He really couldn't say how long Lord Ma would sleep.
During this time, Ma Guotao beside him had begun to rub his hands together excitedly.
After he died and traveled through time, he would be very happy to be able to open a larger horse farm here, raise more horses, and even raise war horses.
But when he thought that they had actually produced a war horse of the alien beast level, maybe even an extraordinary level, and that they would continue to breed around this war horse in the future, Ma Guotao couldn't help but get excited. Rub your hands together.
But when he thought of Lord Ma's bad temper, he had a headache again, and his mind had already begun to think about the subsequent breeding plan.
Zhou Xu ignored him, turned around, called Jie Liancheng and walked outside.
"After Lord Ma wakes up, considering his temper, I'm afraid you still need to cooperate with some work at the racecourse."
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu thought about it again.
"But now that Lord Ma is still asleep, there is nothing wrong with you staying here. Why don't you go back to Xianyang and pick up your younger siblings and Qihu?"
It was too far to go back to Plains Fortress, and it was unrealistic for Xie Liancheng to run in both directions.
But taking advantage of this time, it is not a big problem for Xie Liancheng to take his wife and children to Black Moon City and settle them down.
When Jie Liancheng heard this, his eyes lit up.
This time he came here with Lord Ma. Although he passed through Xinnan District, because he took the road to Anling City, he never went home to see his wife and children.
Counting the days, he hasn’t been back for a long time.
Now that Lord Ma was sure that there was no big problem, Xie Liancheng, who was completely relieved, immediately felt relieved when Zhou Xu said this.
"Okay, I'll pick them up right away! But before that..."
While speaking, Xie Liancheng's eyes fell on Lord Ma.
“I want to clean up Lord Ma first.”
Zhou Xu listened and nodded.
"Just in time, I'll go to the city to inspect the situation. When the inspection is over, we will go back to Black Moon City together." Although they mentioned the grassland, there are still new areas they are developing in the northeast, but after this month, the frontline troops have The main job is to conduct reconnaissance around the area, and then cooperate with the construction team that arrives later to set up a garrison camp.
The subsequent oil plant construction project is still under preparation at this time.
He already knew this from the reports sent two days ago, and it was not worth his time to make the trip himself.
He wanted to inspect the situation in Prairie City simply because Prairie City was right next to it, so close.
You are here, there is no reason not to take a look.
Prairie City is just a small city with a trade bazaar as its center. It does not take much time to inspect it.
After simply completing the work, Zhou Xu met with Jie Liancheng and quickly rode back to Black Moon City together.
After arriving at Black Moon City, Jie Liancheng was eager to return, and he didn’t want to rest for one more night at all, so he set off on the big ship at the port that day.
When Zhou Xu returned to the palace, after briefly working overtime and handling some work that had accumulated during his absence, he began to think about their subsequent development plan for the Great Week.
Just now, I checked the population number displayed on my property panel. Their total population of Dazhou officially exceeded the 150,000 mark.
Because their country has been relatively peaceful in the past two years, the people have enough food and clothing and have not forgotten to have children.
With a sufficient population base, the rapid increase in population was completely within Zhou Xu's expectation.
If nothing unexpected happens, in the next few years, their internal population will maintain this efficiency and continue to grow.
But it still cannot change their current situation of labor shortage in Dazhou.
Because except for the population that was directly incorporated when the New Taipei District was annexed in the early days, the population that subsequently increased was basically the new population.
A large number of people are only one or two years old, or even a few months old. What can you expect them to do? It's good if it doesn't cause any trouble.
They are the workforce of the future, but not the present.
Naturally, there is no way to help Zhou Xu solve their current labor shortage problem.
The most labor-intensive thing at this stage is the large-scale construction project in New Taipei District.
Since an entire area basically needs to be adjusted and reconstructed, it requires a lot of labor and is also extremely time-consuming.
According to the current progress, it will probably take another two to three years to be basically completed. As for complete completion, it will take even longer.
At the same time, after the completion of the New Taipei District, their internal labor force is still not abundant, and a large area in the south is still waiting for construction.
Even the south is the most labor-intensive area, and its scale is simply not comparable to that of New Taipei District.
Especially since the sea has just been discovered recently.
Just for this stretch of sea, before starting the massive construction in the southern region, he had to go to the seaside to build a port, a dock, and then a ship!
He even has to prepare to allocate some manpower to do this now.
It’s not that Zhou Xu is eager to go out to sea to explore, but he needs to let them have the ability to protect themselves in the coastal areas first.
What if there are enemies at sea, and those guys come by boat to kill them, and after plundering them, they immediately leave by boat. They have no means to fight back, so what's the point?
So and so, even for self-protection, he still needs to build a ship there!
This is also the main reason why Zhou Xulao feels that their labor force is not enough.
But think about it from another perspective, if he chooses to lie down and not worry about the issue of development efficiency, he will develop slowly and guard his existing territory step by step.
In the next ten to twenty years, they should be able to fully build up the internal affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
(End of this chapter)