Chapter 1143 The New Era
After seeing Kester, things are basically done here in Ceylon City, and Zhou Xu is also preparing to return to Black Moon City.
Calculating the time, the season has already begun to enter summer, and Yalvette should be about to give birth. In addition, it goes without saying that the importance of the railway bureau’s project is also important. Gonna keep an eye on it.
After a night's rest, Zhou Xu set off early the next morning. After spending most of the day, he rode horseback to the factory port and then turned to the waterway. It only took two hours to reach Heilongjiang. month port.
When they got off the boat, the sun had not yet set.
Without staying outside any longer, Zhou Xu went directly back to the palace and took the opportunity of dinner to check on Yalvette's condition.
At this time, Yalvette's belly was already quite big. According to her own estimation, the due date of delivery should be this month.
When it comes to giving birth to babies, the female warrior tribe has its own set of operations. In Yalvite’s words, unless they are attacked, under normal circumstances, they will give birth to babies. There is basically no risk to the baby.
This made Yalvette feel very stable throughout the whole process, without any pressure at all.
In this regard, Zhou Xu felt that this should be due to the physical fitness of the demigod bloodline of the female warrior clan.
In any case, there was basically nothing for him to worry about. He could just wait until the child was born.
In the next two weeks, Zhou Xu's main energy was devoted to handling government affairs. In the past two years, they have carried out internal construction and development in Zhou Xu, which also increased their workload significantly.
From the perspective of ability, Huo Qubing can actually handle these documents, but he will definitely have to work overtime.
When the government affairs were not so busy, it would be okay for him to be a hands-off shopkeeper, but now Qinzheng Palace is extremely busy, and it would be unreasonable for him to ignore things.
Therefore, during the busy periods every year, he basically focused on the work at Qinzheng Hall.
Opening a document at hand, I saw that in the southern region where development and construction was going on, new mineral veins had been discovered.
Logically speaking, discovering new mineral veins is a great thing!
No matter what mineral vein is discovered, the more resources the better.
But looking at the document in hand, Zhou Xu rubbed his cheek in pain.
After all these years of development and construction, what is the most annoying thing for Zhou Xu and the others?
You have already done all the planning and preparatory work, but as soon as you start digging, you discover that there is something underneath the ground! This is good, the project has stopped immediately, and the planning around this area has to be readjusted.
In the past two years, the development and construction of the southern region has undoubtedly faced this problem.
In order to avoid this situation as much as possible, in the early years, Zhou Xu did ask Zhang Xuemei to go to the southern border to explore the geology and determine the location of all mineral resources in advance as much as possible so that they could do regional planning. When planning, you can avoid these resource points.
But after all, they did not have any sophisticated instruments for exploration, and it was impossible to dig all the land. The entire work relied on Zhang Xuemei's own professional knowledge and experience.
In this case, it was normal for some mineral veins to be too deep for her to find.
But once this happens frequently, it will undoubtedly be painful for Zhou Xu and the others.
This is not a matter of stopping work on that piece of land and continuing to build things around it.
After the mineral vein is discovered, a mine will definitely be built there, but if the surrounding area is planned to be a commercial district or residential area or other facilities that are obviously difficult to put together, then the entire area will Planning will have to be redone.
The first two times, Zhou Xu could still have this strength, so he thought it would be fine if he adjusted it.
As for now... "Immediately stop work in an entire area. The discovered veins will cause the mine to be mined. The remaining workers will give priority to other areas to assist in construction."
Yes, this is what Zhou Xu is doing now.
After thinking about it, I felt much better.
There is no need to proceed piece by piece according to the planned order, and stop work immediately when finding resource points. There is so much land in the southern border, are you worried that there will be no place to use the freed up labor force?
As for the relatively frequent transfers, which caused a lot of waste of time and labor, Zhou Xu simply chose to ignore it.
There's no point in worrying about things you can't help.
The core idea of his approach is to build what can be built first, and at the same time, put those areas that need to be re-planned directly to the end.
Of course, you still have to do what needs to be done, it doesn’t mean you don’t have to do it until the end.
During these painful and busy days, their first steam train was officially built!
On this day, it felt like people from the entire city had gathered at the train station outside the city.
There is a sea of people surrounding the train station, and it is very lively!
Having anticipated today's situation in advance, while all the Black Moon City Guards were dispatched, they also specially borrowed troops from the Grassland Military Camp to help maintain order on the scene.
Standing in front of their first steam train in Great Zhou, Zhou Xu was filled with emotions at this moment, as was Qin Fen beside him.
For such a historic moment, Zhou Xu specially dragged Huo Qubing and Li Bowen out of the Qinzheng Hall to witness it together.
The construction project of a big thing like a steam train is no secret. To a certain extent, it was built under the eyes of the people of Black Moon City.
Not to mention that the Railway Administration had already tested it before today.
But this obviously did not affect the enthusiasm of the people.
This is destined to be a day that will be recorded in their history!
"Woo——"
The whistle blew. After a simple speech on stage, a group of people headed by Zhou Xu boarded the train one after another. In addition to the testers, they will become The first passengers of this steam train!
After the whistle blew, accompanied by the sound of "click, click, click", the steam train slowly moved amidst the exclamations of countless onlookers.
In the eyes of the people, it is simply incredible that a lump of steel like this can move on its own without being dragged by animals.
At this moment, even Huo Qubing and Li Bowen, who were sitting on the train, had completely concealed horror on their faces.
At the same time, they subconsciously grabbed the handrail at hand. What happened in front of them at this moment completely subverted their original world view.
In fact, let alone them, even Zhou Xu and Qin Fen, who had been mentally prepared, were full of excitement at this moment, and they could not help but laugh. The sound comes.
"Woo——"
Another whistle sounded just at this time, as if to officially announce to this world that the wheels of civilization have begun to turn, and a new era has arrived! !
(End of this chapter)