Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Along with the transportation of these gold and silver, Zhou Xu also officially moved into the palace in Xianyang City.

[Looking back, the job of minting coins must be left to trustworthy people. There are probably no suitable candidates here. They have to be selected from the elderly people in Dazhou. 】

This is undoubtedly a job that requires sufficient loyalty. In Zhou Xu's opinion, this loyalty must be above 80 to be reliable.

But the problem now is that he doesn't know which of the old people have more than 80 points of loyalty when the job type is suitable.

The most trouble-free way at the moment is for him to go back in person and turn on the 'Peeping Eyes' to confirm.

But the mountains are high and the roads are long, and transportation is inconvenient. Although the overall situation has been decided, there are still many things left, which makes Zhou Xu a little unable to make up his mind.

At the same time, Zhou Xu also fell into deep thought regarding this situation.

[This trip, the most time-consuming thing, to put it bluntly, is the Gunshan area. As long as the traffic problem in the Gunshan area can be solved, the efficiency of movement on both sides can be greatly improved. 】

Zhou Xu knew what the problem was, but the problem itself was difficult to solve.

Let's just say that, let alone in this era, even in modern society, transportation in remote mountainous areas is still inconvenient.

If you want to fundamentally solve the problem of mobility in mountainous areas, the easiest way is to build roads!

We need to build a spacious mountain road that can be used by horse-drawn carriages to drive quickly!

However, the construction of mountain roads has always been time-consuming, laborious and expensive. Once started, the time span will be extended to at least five or ten years.

During this period of time, your funds will have to flow upward to this project.

The most frightening thing is that during this period, you basically can't get any profits, so you just throw money away.

At this stage, there are many places that need to be built. The construction of those cities alone will be enough for him to slowly carry out ten or twenty years. The most important thing is that compared with building mountain roads, this has faster results.

Take Huangsha City as an example. There is no need to wait for the entire city to be built. After a factory is built, it can be put into operation immediately. Will the benefits come?

In this way, unless they have so much development funds that they have no use, or other projects have been completed, under normal circumstances, the priority of mountainous area construction that is time-consuming, laborious and expensive is really low.

However, the situation here in Zhou Xu is relatively special.

Because this mountainous area connects the two important areas of their great Zhou Dynasty, it can be called a transportation artery. If this road is not opened, the development between the two areas will not be linked.

Of course, even so, it would be difficult for Zhou Xu to increase the priority of this project. Even letting the two areas develop independently would be more reliable than overhauling the mountain road at this stage.

After all, before he occupied it, this country was an independent country. If it was developed and managed well, it could operate independently. The construction of mountain roads should wait for a while.

As for the movement issues on both sides, he can actually improve the movement efficiency of a small number of people first, such as his own movement efficiency.

On this point alone, he still has some ideas.

[Mengdie is in Black Rock City now. She is still making city defense crossbows. I asked her to come over. It takes too much time to go back and forth. I'd better take some time and go to Black Rock City. 】

After adjusting his mood, Zhou Xu fell into deep thought. In his mind, he sorted out the next things to do and the approximate time required, so as to sort out the most efficient order.

[If we could go directly through Xishan City and rush all the way, we would be able to save five days. It would be really troublesome. 】

As this thought flashed through his mind, Zhou Xu's eyes subconsciously fell on the location of Xishan City marked on the map in front of him.

In fact, for him, taking Xishan City was just a matter of time, but considering Liu De, who was under the banner of benevolence and virtue, at this stage, if he used force to use weapons, it would be detrimental to his reputation.

It would be better to stick to the original plan and wait for the other party to get rid of it on their own.

[Speaking of which, where did that guy Kong Daqian go? I don’t know if he is still alive or not. 】

[Now the number of cities I have occupied has increased to four. If Kong Daqian was in these four cities, he would definitely come to me to return his life. 】

[This guy hasn't shown up yet, which means he's not in these four cities, or he's dead. 】

[Assuming that he is alive, there are only three cities left here that are not under my control. Apart from Xishan City and Anling City occupied by Liu De, there is only Feiyan City, which is controlled by Long Aotian. 】

[Feiyan City is unlikely. He followed Lao Jie into Blackstone City. No matter how hard he ran, he couldn't go to Feiyan City. It was most likely in Xishan City or Anling City. 】

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu raised his eyebrows.

[Wait a minute, does Liu De who jumped out have something to do with him? 】

Now Liu De dances the most happily, and Kong Daqian is most likely to be on Liu De's territory. In Zhou Xu's opinion, it is difficult for the two to be connected.

There are carrier pigeons here anyway, and the communication efficiency is still very high, which makes Zhou Xu more flexible in his actions here.

Although according to his original plan, he was going to study the mantra next, but now that there was a new situation, he had to put this matter aside. He now wanted to rush to Black Rock City to meet Zhuang Mengdie. Let’s discuss new projects.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu immediately called Xie Liancheng and Zhou Chongshan over and gave them some brief instructions. Then without any delay, he took the personal guards headed by Silk and rushed towards Black Rock City.

Basically, as soon as Zhou Xu left, Xianyang City received a letter from Feiyan City's Long Aotian.

Obviously, Long Aotian didn't know that Yan Sheng was dead and Xianyang City had fallen.

This made the flying pigeon biography fall into the hands of Jie Liancheng and the others as soon as it changed hands.

The content of the letter can be summed up in three words, that is, ‘please ask for food and grass! ’

At this point in time, Zhou Xu and the others had not gone far. After confirming the news, Zhou Chongshan hurriedly asked one of his soldiers who was trapped in the camp to remove his armor and reduce his weight. He pursued them as quickly as possible and successfully delivered the letter. In Zhou Xu's hands.

Now that the season has entered the end of winter, the temperature is gradually warming up, and spring is about to begin. As a border city, Feiyan City has more food and grass reserves than other cities, but now it has been almost used up after one winter.

Under normal circumstances, the follow-up food should have been sent as early as a month ago, but Long Aotian also knew that war broke out in the country, so he never mentioned it.

But now it is really unsustainable. If this momentum continues, the food stored in Feiyan City will definitely not last for half a month. Xianyang City must quickly send them follow-up food and grass to maintain it.

However, will Xianyang City send it?

Xianyang City might have been able to send it before, but it is definitely impossible now.

From Zhou Xu's perspective, he wished that his opponent would run out of ammunition and food and defeat himself without attacking.

"Reply a letter and say that we have started to prepare food and fodder, so we can calm them down first."

"yes!"