Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 526 Above the court
After simply arranging things here, Zhou Xu did not stay here any longer, but walked towards the outside of the village.

In Black Moon Village, the studios of various departments are basically arranged in the work area, but there is only one exception, and that department is the Ministry of Agriculture.

Whether it is raising livestock or cultivating fields, it is destined that it is more suitable for them to stay outside the village.

After the autumn harvest, as the season enters winter, the work pressure on the Ministry of Agriculture will be much less, especially on the agricultural department as a subordinate department.

But this does not mean that the agricultural sector does not have to do anything this winter.

In fact, after the short holiday after the autumn harvest, members of the farming department should prepare for spring plowing in the coming spring.

It is still early to plow the land, but the work of reclaiming more land is about to begin.

After all, according to the news sent back from the front line, they have successfully annexed the lizard people in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although the tropical rain forest is rich in resources and the lizard people themselves grow food, judging from the situation, their food pressure will most likely increase.

In order to prevent problems with their internal food supply, they naturally need to cultivate more fields for farming.

"Okay, just stand here."

Standing on the edge of a piece of land being cultivated, Zhao Geng raised his hand and signaled the five lizardmen farmers who were following him to stop.

During this process, Zhao Geng didn't need to say anything. The attention of the five lizardmen farmers had already fallen on the working cattle and the human behind him who was holding a strange instrument.

The environment of the tropical rain forest is doomed to the fact that the lizard people have never seen a creature like a cow, let alone using a cow for work.

The scene before them was full of novelty for them.

"These are farm cattle, which are the main labor force in our agricultural sector..."

At this moment, as the Minister of Agriculture, Zhao Geng is undoubtedly introducing the farming and reclamation methods here to the five lizard farmers so that they can adapt to the work here faster.

Zhou Xu brought these five lizard farmers back this time mainly to try to plant newly obtained crops here. The lizard farmers were more experienced in this area of ​​work.

But they obviously came at the wrong time. If they wanted to study, they would have to wait until next spring.

But before that, Zhao Geng had no intention of leaving them idle.

Although the agricultural department has assigned a lot of coolies to help them work, the more manpower the better when it comes to land reclamation.

The more people there are, the higher the efficiency. From Zhao Geng's point of view, no matter how many people come, he can still arrange it, let alone these five lizardmen.

While Zhao Geng was busy bringing new people here, members of the Agriculture Department on the side accidentally glanced at Zhou Xu standing outside the field and quickly reminded Zhao Geng in a low voice.

"Minister, the king is here."

Hearing this, Zhao Geng was stunned for a moment, but he did not appear too panicked.

Because Zhou Xu has always implemented benevolent government, he does not like to put on airs, and is very easy-going and approachable to his people, so the people respect him but are not afraid of him.

"You just continue to watch here while I leave for a moment."

After admonishing the lizard people, Zhao Geng turned around and ran towards Zhou Xu.

"Subordinate Zhao Geng, please see your Majesty."

"Exemption."

After signaling Zhao Geng to waive the courtesy, Zhou Xu quickly got to the point.

"I came here this time to simply confirm with you the status of the new varieties of crops. Those brought back whole with the soil probably won't survive. However, there should be a few packets of seeds brought back together. Those seeds Have you kept it well?" "I reported back to the king that it has been properly stored. When spring comes next year, I will order someone to set aside a small piece of land and try to plant it."

Listening to Zhao Geng's plan, Zhou Xu nodded.

He originally wanted to talk about the lizard people, but now it seems that there is no need.

"Oh, by the way, the Ordnance and Equipment Department needs to borrow a stone mill to grind crystals. This matter is quite urgent. I need you to make some arrangements. The Ministry of Agriculture won't need the stone mill in the future, right?"

"unuseful."

Zhao Geng gave the answer directly.

"If the Ordnance and Equipment Department needs it, just use it. You just need to clean it for us after use."

Wang Dachui originally asked Wang Dachui to send someone to talk about this matter, but Zhou Xu thought he was going to come here anyway, so he just said it casually.

At the same time, through this incident, Zhou Xu estimated that the Ordnance and Equipment Department would probably need to use stone mills in many places in the future, so it was probably necessary to arrange a dedicated one for them.

With this idea in mind, Zhou Xu, who left the Agriculture Department, went to the Medical Department again, intending to meet Ye Yan, who was the minister.

When he went there, Ye Yan was immersed in studying the herbs in front of him.

These herbs were undoubtedly brought back by Zhou Xu from the tropical rain forest.

Ye Yan was so engrossed at this time that he didn't notice his arrival at all. Seeing this, Zhou Xu simply raised his hand to signal the members next to him not to disturb him, and turned around and left.

He brought back a lot of various herbs, and Ye Yan was probably very busy in the next few days.

Zhou Xu, who left the medical department, continued his inspection work.

On the first day back, he basically made this arrangement so that he could have a general understanding of the latest situation in the village.

Early the next morning, Zhou Xu went to court. While listening to reports from his ministers, he also discussed their development ideas for the coming year.

It was quite lively in the Tianchao Hall.

The core topic revolves around whether to continue to use troops to deal with the 'Rat Man' threat.

"This war has been fought for too long. The long-term investment has almost stagnated our development this year. Frontline soldiers continue to be injured and killed, and the population of official citizens is also declining."

"In addition, a large amount of resources are concentrated on the front line, resulting in a shortage of resources in the rear, some price increases, and the impact of long-term recruitment and training on our internal labor force cannot be ignored. These are not conducive to our internal stability in the Great Zhou Dynasty."

The one who is speaking now is Zhang Xiaoshan, the head of Black Moon Village. It is not difficult to see from his arguments that he is the group that advocates a temporary truce and recuperation.

At this moment, the voice of opposition quickly sounded.

"How could you just talk about losses? Why didn't you say that we successfully occupied the rainforest area rich in natural resources in this battle? While recruiting lizardmen to serve our Great Zhou, we also expanded the territory of our Great Zhou?"

At this time, it was Li Shitou who stood up and raised objections. In order to attend this court meeting, he came from Salt Lake Village on horseback early in the morning.

They used to be Zhou Xu's followers and had a good relationship, but they often had quarrels because of different arguments.

"Nowadays, the loss of the rat people should be quite large. This is the perfect time to seize the opportunity and solve this hidden danger in one go!"

"As for the population issue, isn't Lieutenant Shi Lei always leading the team to collect the population in the Kunshan area?"

(End of this chapter)