Throne of Vientiane Civilization

When passing by Salt Lake City, Zhou Xu made a brief inspection. It was almost visible to the naked eye that the scale of several factory areas had become larger due to the injection of new population and sufficient labor force.

However, they are not worried about the population accommodation problem at all. At this stage, their territory is vast and sparsely populated. They have plenty of land and need a labor force that can assist them in development.

There is not much road to go from Salt Lake City to Black Moon City, it can be reached in a short time by horseback.

According to Zhou Xu's subsequent development plan, the two cities are too close to each other. As the areas of both cities continue to expand, Black Moon City and Salt Lake City will be directly merged together in the future, which is an inevitable outcome of long-term development. .

Unlike Salt Lake City, which is dominated by various factories, the life here in Black Moon City has a heavier atmosphere.

As always, I made a brief inspection first and listened to Zhang Xiaoshan talk about the situation this year.

Overall, the development throughout the year has been quite smooth.

Although they have been at war in the Zhou Dynasty, because the location of the war was not within their own territory, and because of their high food production, the negative impact of the war on them was not great.

Not to mention that as soon as Zhou Xugang passed, the population of Huangsha City opposite was emptied at the beginning of the year, supplementing their internal labor force and greatly increasing internal productivity.

From this point of view, others are getting poorer with more aggression, but they are getting richer with more aggression.

This is actually related to Zhou Xu's strategic decision-making.

To put it simply, Zhou Xu never fights uncertain and unprofitable battles.

If the outcome of this battle is that both sides suffer losses, or if our side loses miserably, this battle will be unwinnable in Zhou Xu's eyes.

Yan Sheng is a typical negative example. He just ignores these things and only has four words in his mind: "Let's fight!" ’

His idea is probably to pacify the world first and then develop slowly, or he may just be stupid and arrogant.

Anyway, the final result was that Zhou Xu solved it effortlessly.

Listening to Zhang Xiaoshan's report, Zhou Xu went all the way to the Civilian Forging Department.

On this trip, he was here to arrange the minting of coins.

Minting itself is not a complicated task. Normally, after making the mold, it is done with continuous pouring. At most, the rough edges and corners are polished twice, which does not have much technical content.

This kind of job can be easily filled by craftsmen from the Civilian Forging Department, but the important thing is loyalty.

To a certain extent, the civilian forging department is busier than the ordnance forging department at this time, because during the spring plowing period, the demand for agricultural tools is very large.

Before he even got close, the forging sound of "ringing bells" had penetrated into his ears. A large number of forging furnaces were operating at the same time, which caused the temperature in the area to rise significantly.

Although Zhou Xu had not shown up for a long time, the head of the Civilian Forging Department still recognized him at a glance and hurried over to salute him.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu waved his hand.

"Go and mind your own business. I'll just stop by and take a look around."

Because Zhou Xu's style has always been like this, the minister who heard these words was not surprised at all. After apologizing, he immediately went to work.

In this process, Zhou Xu had already opened his 'eyes for peeping into secrets'.

Most of the people who can work here are old people from the Zhou Dynasty, and their loyalty cannot be lowered. From a glance, they are basically above 80 points.

What surprised Zhou Xu during this period was that the green lizard craftsmen who were doing polishing work nearby found that their loyalty levels were all above ninety points.

[Good guy, is this the power of faith? It's terrible. 】

As early as when he first conquered the lizardmen, in order to reduce the work pressure in the weapon forging department, he transferred a large number of green lizard craftsmen from the lizardmen to separate the work of polishing weapons and formed a Sanding Department.

After that, with the internal development, more green lizard craftsmen with polishing skills also came to work in Black Moon City, making Black Moon City the place with the most lizard people besides the lizard people.

Nowadays, they can be seen even in the civilian forging department.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that while confirming the loyalty of the green lizard craftsmen just now, Zhou Xu certainly did not forget to confirm their life levels.

Then he acquired a new vocabulary, God created life!

Zhou Xu can basically understand this.

God-created life should refer to life forms created by gods, rather than creatures produced by natural evolution. The lizard people were created by the dragon god Ceylon. He had known this information for a long time.

At this moment, Zhou Xu already knew something about coin minting, and these green lizard craftsmen were the best choice!

Zhou Xu did not immediately transfer the needed green lizard craftsmen at the scene, but arranged for Zhang Xiaoshan to handle the matter after leaving.

No rules, no standards.

Now within their big week, each department has rules and regulations, and there is also a process for personnel transfer.

It is the easiest way to leave the matter to Zhang Xiaoshan.

As for Zhou Xu, after simply arranging this matter, he turned around and came to the freshwater lake outside Black Moon City.

At this moment, many fishermen were rowing their fishing boats and casting nets on the lake.

But I didn’t dare to run too far, because this freshwater lake is quite large, and it feels like the Dongting Lake before crossing.

At this stage of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the development of shipbuilding is average. They only build some small fishing boats so that fishermen can catch some fish on the lake. If they row a boat for a long distance, they may not be able to get back before dark.

At the same time, after testing, the freshwater river near Prairie City flowed all the way down and was connected to this lake.

Standing by the lake, looking into the distance, I saw that the other side of the freshwater lake was also surrounded by green mountains.

From this point of view, the location of Black Moon City is really a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers.

During this period, Hilke and the others, who arrived at the lake in advance, had already reassembled the hot air balloon.

There is no need to say more about what Zhou Xu will do next.

He wanted to take this opportunity to fly over this freshwater lake in a hot air balloon. While using the aerial view to observe the depths of this freshwater lake, he also wanted to observe the other side separated by this large lake.

"Your Majesty, the hot air balloon is ready."

After several previous assembly and disassembly sessions, Hilke and the others were quite familiar with assembling the hot air balloon, and now they quickly assembled and inspected it.

After confirming that it was correct, he reported to Zhou Xu.

After hearing this, Zhou Xu walked into the bamboo basket of the hot air balloon without any delay.

"Okay, let's go!"