Throne of Vientiane Civilization

"Fell asleep."

Looking at the nervous Jie Liancheng, Zhou Xu explained.

"After Qiansui ate the blood essence, he also slept for a long time before waking up. According to my guess, they should absorb the power contained in the blood essence during sleep, so as to promote their own evolution."

As Zhou Xu said, he touched the slurry overflowing from the surface of the horse king's skin.

It was sticky and smelled it.

"Ugh--"

How to say it? It smelled like horse.

After Qiansui ate the blood essence, this situation did not occur.

Zhou Xu also thought about this matter.

[This should be something like impurities in the horse king's body. The heat was rising before, which was to eliminate impurities. Qiansui was just born and his body was very clean, so there was no need for this? 】

Just when Zhou Xu was thinking about this, Jie Liancheng's voice had already sounded.

"Hong, Your Majesty, how long will you sleep like this?"

Jie Liancheng was anxious and didn't pay attention for a while. He almost called his name in front of Ma Guotao.

Zhou Xu listened and said casually...

"At that time, Qiansui slept for almost two or three months before waking up. You can refer to it."

He really couldn't say how long the horse king would sleep.

During this time, Ma Guotao beside him had begun to rub his hands excitedly.

After he died and traveled through time, he was 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 created a war horse of the level of exotic beasts, and it might even be the extraordinary level, and that they would have to breed around this war horse in the future, Ma Guotao couldn't help but rub his hands excitedly.

But when he thought of the bad temper of the horse king, he had a headache again, and he had already started to think about the subsequent breeding plan in his mind.

Zhou Xu ignored him, turned around and called Jie Liancheng to go outside.

"After the horse king wakes up, considering his temper, the horse farm may still need your cooperation to do some work."

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu pondered again.

"But now the Horse Prince is still asleep, so there's nothing for you to do here. Why don't you go back to Xianyang and pick up your sister-in-law and Qihu?"

It's too far to go back to Pingyuan Fortress, and it's unrealistic for Jie Liancheng to run back and forth like this.

However, taking advantage of this opportunity, it's not a big problem for Jie Liancheng to take his wife and children to Black Moon City to settle down.

Jie Liancheng's eyes lit up when he heard this.

This time he brought the Horse Prince here. Although he passed by Xinnan District, he didn't go home to see his wife and children because he took the road of Anling City.

Counting the days, he hasn't been back for a long time.

Now that the Horse Prince is sure that there is no big problem, Jie Liancheng, who has completely put his heart at ease, is eager to go home after hearing what Zhou Xu said.

"Okay, I'll pick them up now! But before that..."

As he spoke, Jie Liancheng's eyes fell on the Horse Prince.

"I need to clean up the Horse Prince first."

Zhou Xu listened and nodded.

"It's just right. I'll go to the city to inspect the situation. After the inspection, we'll go back to Black Moon City together."

Although there are new areas they are exploring in the northeast outside the grassland, the main task of the front-line troops in the past month is to conduct reconnaissance around and then cooperate with the construction team that arrived later to build a garrison camp.

The subsequent oil plant construction project is still in preparation.

He had learned about this matter from the report sent two days ago, and it was not worth his time to go there in person.

He wanted to inspect the situation in Grassland City purely because Grassland City was just next to it and close.

Since he was here, there was no reason not to take a look.

Grassland City is just a small city centered on a trade market. It doesn't take much time to inspect it.

After completing the work simply, Zhou Xu met with Jie Liancheng and soon rode back to Black Moon City together.

After arriving in Black Moon City, Jie Liancheng was eager to go home and didn't want to rest for another night. He set off on a large ship at the port that day.

Zhou Xu, who returned to the palace, simply worked overtime to deal with some work that had accumulated during his absence, and then began to think about the subsequent development plan of their Great Zhou.

Just now, after confirming the population figures displayed on his attribute panel, the total population of their Great Zhou officially exceeded the 150,000 mark.

Because the Great Zhou has been relatively peaceful in the past two years, the people have been well fed and clothed and have not forgotten to have children.

With a sufficient population base, the rapid increase in population is completely within Zhou Xu's expectations.

Even if nothing unexpected happens, the population figures in their Great Zhou will continue to grow at this efficiency in the next few years.

But it still cannot change the current situation of their Great Zhou's labor shortage.

Because except for the group of people who were directly incorporated when the New North District was annexed in the early days, the subsequent increase is basically the new population.

A lot 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 enough if they don't cause trouble.

They are the future labor force, but not the current one.

Naturally, there was no way to help Zhou Xu solve the current labor shortage problem in their Great Zhou.

The most labor-intensive project at this stage was the large-scale construction project in the New North District.

Since the entire area basically needs to be adjusted and rebuilt, it requires a lot of labor and is extremely time-consuming.

According to the current progress, it will probably take two to three years to basically complete the project, and it will take even longer to be completely completed.

At the same time, after the completion of the New North District, the labor force in their Great Zhou is still not sufficient, and such a large area in the south is still waiting for construction.

In fact, the south is the most labor-intensive area, and the scale is simply not comparable to that of the New North District.

Especially since the sea has just been discovered recently.

Just for this sea, before starting large-scale construction in the southern region, he must first go to the seaside to build ports, docks, and then ships!

He even has to prepare to allocate some manpower to do this now.

It’s not that Zhou Xu is in a hurry to go out to sea to explore, but he needs to first let their Great Zhou have the power to protect itself in the coastal areas.

What if there are enemies on the sea, and those guys come by boat, plunder, and then leave immediately by boat, and they have no means to fight back?

In this way, even for self-protection, he needs to build ships there!

This is also the main reason why Zhou Xu Lao feels that their Great Zhou lacks labor.

But think about it from another angle, if he chooses to lie down, not to worry about the problem of development efficiency, and take the mentality of slow development, guarding the existing territory step by step.

Then it will take more than ten or twenty years for their Great Zhou to be fully built up.