Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1143 A new era
After seeing Keister, everything in Ceylon City was basically done, and Zhou Xu was about to prepare to return to Black Moon City.

Calculating the time, it is already the beginning of summer and Yalvette should be giving birth soon. Besides, the importance of the project at the Railway Bureau is self-evident, so 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 on horseback, he arrived at the factory port and then took the water route. It only took two hours to reach the Black Moon Port.

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

Without staying outside for long, Zhou Xu went straight back to the palace and took the opportunity of dinner to check on Yalvette's situation.

At this moment, Yalvette's belly has become quite big. According to her own estimation, the due date should be this month.

When it comes to having children, the female warriors have their own set of procedures. In Yalvet's words, unless they are attacked, under normal circumstances, there is basically no risk in having children.

This allowed Yalvet to remain calm throughout the entire process, without any pressure at all.

In this regard, Zhou Xu felt that this should be due to the physical fitness of the female warriors' semi-god bloodline.

Anyway, there is basically nothing for him to worry about in this regard, all he has to do is wait for the baby to be born.

In the next two weeks, Zhou Xu devoted most of his energy to handling government affairs. In the past two years, their Great Zhou had been engaged in large-scale construction and development, which also increased their workload dramatically.

Judging from his ability, Huo Qubing can actually handle these documents, but he will definitely have to work overtime.

It would not be a big deal for him to be a hands-off manager when government affairs were not so busy at other times, but now the Qinzheng Palace was extremely busy, and it would be unacceptable for him to not take care of things.

Therefore, during those few busy periods every year, he basically focused on the work in the Qinzheng Hall.

Opening a document at hand, I found that new mineral veins had been discovered in the southern region, which was undergoing massive development and construction.

Logically speaking, discovering a new mineral vein is a great thing!
No matter what kind of mineral vein is discovered, more resources are always better.

But looking at the document in his hand, Zhou Xu rubbed his cheeks in pain.

After all these years of development and construction, what is the most annoying thing for Zhou Xu and his team?
You have done all the planning and preparatory work, but once you start digging, you find something under the ground! Now the project is stopped 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 go to the southern border to explore the geology in the early years, and to determine the location of all mineral resources as far in advance as possible, so that they could avoid these resource points when making regional planning.

But after all, they didn't have any sophisticated instruments for exploration, and it was impossible for them to dig up all the land. The entire work depended on Zhang Xuemei's own professional knowledge and experience.

In this case, it is normal that some mineral veins are hidden too deep for her to find.

But if this kind of thing happens frequently, it will undoubtedly be painful for Zhou Xu and others.

This is not a matter of stopping construction on that piece of land and continuing to create the surrounding area.

After a mineral vein is discovered, a mine must be built there. However, if a commercial area, residential area, or other facilities that are obviously difficult to put together are planned in the surrounding area, then the entire area must be planned again.

The first two times, Zhou Xu still had the energy and thought that it would be done with just some adjustments.

As for now... "Just stop working in an entire area, start mining the discovered mineral veins, 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 I let it go, I felt much better.

There is no need to proceed piece by piece according to the planned sequence and stop construction as soon as a resource point is discovered. There is so much land in the southern border, are you afraid that there will be no place to use the freed-up labor force?
As for the relatively frequent transfers, which caused a lot of waste of time and labor, Zhou Xu simply chose to ignore it.

There's no point in worrying about something that can't be helped.

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

Of course, we still have to do what we need to do. It doesn’t mean we can just leave it to the last minute and not do it.

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

On this day, it felt like the entire city’s population had gathered at the train station outside the city.

There were so many people around the train station, it was so lively!

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

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

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

The construction of a big thing like a steam locomotive is no secret. To a certain extent, it was even built right under the noses 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 sounded long, and after a brief speech on the stage, a group of people led by Zhou Xu boarded the train one by one. Except for the testers, they will become the first passengers of this steam train!
After the whistle was blown, accompanied by the sound of "clicking", the steam locomotive slowly moved amid the exclamations of countless onlookers.

In the eyes of the people, it was incredible that such a lump of steel could move by itself without any animals pulling it.

At this moment, even Huo Qubing and Li Bowen, who were sitting on the train, had expressions of horror that could not be concealed at all on their faces.

At the same time, they subconsciously grabbed the handrail at hand. Everything that was happening before their eyes completely overturned their original worldview.

In fact, let alone them, even Zhou Xu and Qin Fen, who had been mentally prepared, had excitement on their faces and couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Woo——"

At this moment, another whistle sounded, as if officially announcing to the world that the wheel of civilization had begun to turn and a new era had arrived! !
(End of this chapter)