Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After seeing Kester, Ceylon City was basically done, and Zhou Xu was also going to return to Black Moon City.

Calculating the time, the season has already begun to enter summer, and Yarvet should be about to give birth. In addition, the importance of the project at the Railway Bureau is needless to say, and he will undoubtedly have to keep an eye on it.

After a night's rest, Zhou Xu set out early the next morning. After spending most of the day riding to the factory port, he took the waterway and only needed two hours to reach the Black Moon Port.

When they got off the boat, the sun had not yet set.

Without staying outside for long, Zhou Xu went directly back to the palace and took the opportunity of dinner to see Yarvet's situation.

At this time, Yarvet's belly was already quite big. According to her own estimation, the due date should be this month.

When it comes to giving birth, their female warriors have their own set of operations. In Yarvet's words, unless they are attacked, otherwise under normal circumstances, there is basically no risk for them to give birth.

This made Yalvette very stable throughout the whole process, without any pressure.

Zhou Xu thought that this should be due to the physical fitness of the female warrior clan's semi-god bloodline.

In any case, there was basically nothing for him to worry about in this area, and he would be done after the child was born.

In the next two weeks, Zhou Xu's main energy was invested in handling government affairs. In the past two years, they have been vigorously developing and developing within the Great Zhou, which has also increased their workload.

From the perspective of ability, Huo Qubing can actually handle these documents, but he will definitely have to work overtime.

When government affairs are not so busy, it is okay for him to be a hands-off boss, but now the Qinzheng Hall is so busy that it is unreasonable for him to not take care of things.

Therefore, during the busy periods every year, he basically focuses on the work of the Qinzheng Hall.

Opening a document at hand, a new mineral vein has been discovered in the southern border area where development and construction are being carried out.

Logically speaking, discovering a new mineral vein 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 cheeks painfully.

What is the most annoying thing for Zhou Xu and his team after all these years of development and construction?

It is that you have done all the planning and preliminary preparations, but as soon as you start the construction, you find something under the ground! Now the project is stopped directly, 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, Zhou Xu did ask Zhang Xuemei to explore the geology in the south in the early years, and try to determine the location of all mineral resources in advance as much as possible, so that they can avoid these resource points when making regional planning.

But after all, they don’t have any sophisticated instruments for exploration, and it is impossible to dig all the land. The whole work depends on Zhang Xuemei’s own professional knowledge and experience.

In this case, some mineral veins are too deep, and it is normal for her not to find them.

But once this happens frequently, it will undoubtedly be painful for Zhou Xu and his team.

This is not about stopping construction on that piece of land and continuing to build the surrounding area.

After the mineral vein is discovered, a mine must be built there, but if the surrounding area is planned to be a commercial area or a residential area or other facilities that are obviously difficult to put together, the planning of the entire area must be redone.

The first two times, Zhou Xu still had the energy to do so and thought that it would be done with a little adjustment.

As for now...

"Just stop construction in the entire area, and the discovered mineral vein will be used to mine the mine, and the remaining workers will go to other areas to assist in construction."

That's right, this is what Zhou Xu is doing now.

After thinking it through, I feel much better.

There is no need to follow the planned sequence piece by piece. When a resource point is found, construction will be stopped directly. There is so much land in the southern border, and are you afraid that there will be no place to use the freed-up labor?

As for the relatively frequent transfers, which caused a lot of waste of time and labor, Zhou Xu chose to ignore it directly.

There is no way to deal with it, and it is useless to entangle.

The core idea of ​​his approach is to build what can be built first, and put those areas that need to be replanned at the end.

Of course, things that should be done still need to be done, not to say that they don't need to be done at the end.

During this painful and busy period, the first steam locomotive of their Great Zhou was officially built!

On this day, it felt like the people of the entire city gathered at the train station outside the city.

Surrounding the train station, it was a sea of ​​people, very lively!

Anticipating today's situation in advance, while the Black Moon City Guards were all dispatched, they also borrowed troops from the grassland military camp to help maintain order on the scene.

Standing in front of their first steam locomotive of the Great Zhou, Zhou Xu was also full of emotion at this moment, and so was Qin Fen beside him.

At such a historic moment, Zhou Xu also specially dragged Huo Qubing and Li Bowen out of the Qinzheng Hall to witness it together.

For a big guy like a steam locomotive, its construction project itself is not a secret. In fact, to some extent, it was built under the eyes of the people of Black Moon City.

Not to mention that the Railway Bureau 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 the history of their Great Zhou!

"Woo--"

The whistle blew long, and after a simple speech on the stage, a group of people headed by Zhou Xu boarded the train one by one. In addition to the testers, they will become the first passengers of this steam train!

After the whistle, accompanied by the sound of "clicking", the steam train slowly moved amid the exclamations of countless onlookers.

In the eyes of the people, it is incredible that such a lump of steel that is completely untugged by animals can move by itself.

At this moment, even Huo Qubing and Li Bowen, who were sitting on the train, had completely unconcealed horror on their faces.

At the same time, they subconsciously grabbed the handrails at hand. Everything that happened in front of them at this moment completely subverted their original worldview.

In fact, not to mention them, even Zhou Xu and Qin Fen, who had been mentally prepared, were full of excitement at this moment, and even couldn't help laughing.

"Woo--"

At this time, another whistle sounded, as if officially announcing to the world that the wheel of civilization began to turn, and a new era had arrived! !