Throne of Vientiane Civilization

The bison domesticated last year, after the successful domestication, can not only be used to pull carts and provide transportation capacity, but also has a very important role, that is, to cultivate the land and improve the efficiency of the field.

Leading the ox into the field and supporting the plow behind it, after Zhou Xu demonstrated a little, Zhao Geng's eyes burst into uncontrollable splendor.

Obviously, he has seen the value contained in this thing!

"The strength and stamina of this ox far exceed those of us. One ox may be able to equal the workload of five farmers in a day!"

Looking at the excited Zhao Geng, Zhou Xu smiled.

"Five farmers? Then you underestimate the ox and plow, it can be worth more manpower!"

The specifics have not been tested yet, so Zhou Xu naturally can't just say an accurate number, but he can be sure that the work efficiency of this ox and plow is definitely not comparable to that of five farmers.

"More importantly, only one farmer can operate a cow and a plow. While improving labor efficiency, it can also save manpower and free up manpower."

"The leader, how many cows do you plan to give us?"

Zhao Geng, who asked this question, looked nervous, which is undoubtedly the point.

You must know that cattle are also a very important resource here, and the transportation between various villages is now carried out by ox carts.

At this moment when the winter has just passed, the villages are in disrepair, and the barren mountain village has opened up new territories, requiring large-scale construction. Their internal transportation capacity is already tight. How many cattle can they transfer to their farming team?

In response, Zhou Xu stretched out a palm.

"Five, I plan to transfer five oxen first, and use them with plows for you."

After getting this answer, Zhao Geng immediately beamed with joy.

This number can be said to have clearly exceeded his expectations.

"Thank you, leader!"

"The remaining four oxen will arrive later, and you can receive them when the time comes."

Now that five cattle are deployed, the farming team naturally does not need to compete with other departments for hard labor, which is better than hard labor.

Of course, given the oxen and tools, Zhou Xu will definitely not miss the work that should be ordered.

"Zhao Geng, after collecting the population on the other side of the mountain, according to the latest statistics, our internal population has reached 379 people, but you know, the food that is only enough to feed this population is a big problem for me. not enough."

Having said that, Zhou Xu's voice paused, and then he looked at Zhao Geng seriously.

"I need you to grow enough food for 800 people!"

This was good, before he could be overjoyed for a while because of the help of the five oxen, the mission that came immediately after him smashed him with stares.

Then subconsciously remind Zhou Xu that so much food has been grown, but there is no way to properly preserve it. In the end, it is just a waste, not only a waste of food, but also a waste of manpower, material resources, and time.

But when the words came to his lips, Zhao Geng, who was obviously aware of something, swallowed the words back.

He remembered a conversation he had with the chief long before winter.

At that time they also talked about this food issue.

Because of the mobilization of troops to repopulate the population in early spring, the leader ordered him to reclaim the fields with 500 people as a prerequisite long before winter.

Facts have proved that their leader's judgment at the time was indeed correct. From the current point of view, they need a field of this size.

Under this premise, this new year has just begun. Who can guarantee that their leaders will not recruit more people in the future?

The leader asked him to grow enough food for 800 people, no doubt taking this into consideration.

They can't wait until the population is all included before they rush to start cultivating the fields, right? Where is there still time?

Things like this have to be done in advance.

At this moment, Zhao Geng is most fortunate that they have not been lazy this winter.

As early as winter, they had slowly reclaimed the fields with a size of 500 people. Now they only need to turn over the soil to start sowing.

Otherwise, as soon as their leader's new mission falls, he will have to explode on the spot?

But even so, the field reclamation work with the remaining 300 people still became their heaviest task right now.

It is completely different from the situation where there is already a field, but it is only plowed. Reclaiming the field is done on the wasteland, and the whole work is destined to be more laborious and time-consuming.

The five cattle they led were really not that easy to get.

"Zhao Geng, take orders!"

Right now he has no choice but to take orders.

Looking at the frowning Zhao Geng, Zhou Xu smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, I won't just ignore you like this. You should cultivate the fields first, and after a while, there will be something good for you!"

Zhou Xu's words refreshed Zhao Geng a bit.

Although their leader often arranges tasks to force people to their death, he has to admit that their leader is indeed a person who keeps his word and frequently surprises them.

For example, the oxen and plows in front of you.

Without them, let him grow food to feed 800 people right now? He just hanged himself from a tree with a crooked neck!

After leaving the farming area, for the next few days, except for rest, Zhou Xu mainly stayed at the equipment department.

Although the blueprint of the waterwheel had already been in Zhuang Mengdie's hands, and she had studied it for a long time, it was the first time she actually started making it.

In order for Zhuang Mengdie to improve efficiency and avoid detours, Zhou Xu felt that he still had to keep an eye on him, so that Zhuang Mengdie could ask him directly if he had any problems.

When he was free, Zhou Xu rested on the recliner beside him.

At this point in time, in order to test the effect of the new mantra 'endowed', the power of the mantra that he had consumed was far from being recovered.

After a little bit of busy work every day, my mind starts to get tired.

Here, it is worth mentioning that he took the time to use his mantra of 'skeleton soldier control' yesterday, and it turned out that the mantra was indeed still on him.

The effect of "endowing" is indeed just to allow the other party to obtain part of his own abilities, not to directly obtain this mantra.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for him, because it means that as long as he wants, he can let his subordinates have a certain level of mantra power!

It's just that it's really laborious to use this mantra, and after only casting it on Shi Lei once, it almost drained the power of the mantra in his body.

Now Zhou Xu only hopes that the situation will improve when his mantra power becomes stronger in the future.

With such thoughts in mind, Zhou Xu has already started to think about which mantra to give to whom.

Leaving aside ordinary members, those generals under his command must be arranged for them!