Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 877 National Affairs
The next morning, Zhou Xu prepared to return. Before leaving, he made new arrangements for the deployment of troops in Pingyuan City and even the New North District, and took away a thousand garrison troops.

He transferred these one thousand garrisons because he naturally took into consideration that there were still ratmen in the southern border who needed to be dealt with and needed military support.

However, considering the location of Pingyuan City, we cannot slack off on our defense here.

In this way, he adjusted the number of garrisons in other cities in the New North District.

Unlike when he first captured the area, during this period of time, he continued to carry out large-scale population transfers to the New Taipei City to facilitate their population management.

Now that the cities have basically stabilized, the number of garrisons can be appropriately reduced.

The reduced part will be directly transferred to Pingyuan City to ensure that there are 1,500 troops in Pingyuan City.

Under this premise, there are nearly two thousand skeleton soldiers converted from the previous greenskin troops, as well as Big Bone and Two Bone, and the powerful general Jie Liancheng.

Judging from the battle strength, it is at least three thousand level! It can only be higher, not lower!
With a thousand troops, when Zhou Xu returned to Xianyang, it was already early spring. The journey was truly from winter to spring.

After returning to the palace, Zhou Xu simply washed up and went to the Qinzheng Hall first as usual.

Today, Huo Qubing has been fully trained in his position as an assistant official, and Zhou Xu is relieved to have him handle government affairs.

The reason why he rushed to the Qinzheng Hall now was that during his time in the New Taipei District, he had completely sorted out the entire subsequent development plan.

In addition, he was in New Taipei City at the time, so he had even directly given instructions for some arrangements.

Of course, the subsequent mobilization of resources and labor still needs to be coordinated with the relevant departments in the New South District.

Due to the distance between the two places, the transmission of this information can be said to be inefficient. Zhou Xu is undoubtedly planning to do it himself to speed them up.

"By the way, have you arranged things for Liu Jiefang?"

As the territory of their Great Zhou continues to expand, the workload of the "Telecommunications Department" headed by Liu Jiefang continues to grow.

There is no doubt that the New Taipei District also needs his help at this moment.

Faced with the question, Huo Qubing paused what he was doing.

"Your Majesty, I have already arranged it. Since the waterway connecting Black Moon City and Green Forest City was opened, the transportation between the two places has become much more convenient. Half a month ago, Anling City just sent a message saying that Liu Jiefang has left the city and is heading towards Shanguan City."

After understanding the situation, Zhou Xu nodded and said nothing more.

The New North District does lack carrier pigeons to improve the efficiency of daily communications between the two places, but the Old Continent area including Black Moon City also needs them.

There are also many cities there, and a sufficient number of carrier pigeons need to be trained.

This in itself is a lot of work.

Originally, Liu Jiefang was afraid that if he taught his apprentice too much, he would starve himself to death. In addition, Yan Sheng's behavior was very bad at the beginning, so he always held back, fearing that Yan Sheng would abandon him.

But now, the situation is obviously different. Compared with Yan Sheng, Zhou Xu's reputation is undoubtedly much better.

Because Zhou Xu is a person who abides by the rules to a large extent. As long as you don't commit any crimes, your life can basically be saved.

Even considering the relationship of being "fellow villagers", no matter how useless you are, he will at least arrange a suitable job for you. If you work honestly, you will not die.

This can be seen from Wang Pengfei.

This also made Liu Jiefang feel more at ease. In addition, with the increasing work pressure, he has slowly brought out his best skills in the past two years. He has taught five apprentices one after another to help him share the task of training homing pigeons.

At this moment, he also handed over the follow-up work of training carrier pigeons in the Old Continent to three of his apprentices, and he took the other two apprentices, received orders, and rushed to the New Taipei District to establish a branch of the "Telecommunications Department".

In no time, Zhou Xu finished all the tasks at hand. He glanced at his desk and asked Huo Qubing a question.

"Qubing, are there any urgent and important documents waiting for me to deal with during my absence?"

"Your Majesty, there are a few documents waiting for your review, but they are not urgent matters."

Zhou Xu listened and nodded.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow." Zhou Xu was very tired after the long journey. He was not made of iron. Since there was nothing important, he would talk about it after he had rested.

"Ah~"

Looking at the back of their Majesty leaving, Li Bowen couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.

Hearing the sigh, Huo Qubing, who was sitting opposite, raised his eyes.

"Why is Lord Li sighing?"

After entering the Qinzheng Hall, he and Li Bowen became colleagues.

It's not realistic for the two of them to sit there face to face every day without saying a word.

Over time, the two of them really became familiar with each other.

Now hearing Li Bowen's sigh, he asked casually.

Li Bowen had a lot of complaints at the moment but had no place to vent them. When Huo Qubing asked this question, he immediately poured out all his words to him.

"Lord Huo, you said that our emperor has been running around all year long, and often stays away for several months. This..."

Listening to Li Bowen's complaints, Huo Qubing looked at him strangely.

"Your Majesty, this is for the development of the Great Zhou. Some plans must be investigated on the spot before they can be finalized."

This truth was originally told to him by their Majesty, but Huo Qubing was too weak at first and could not withstand such hardship.

However, now that his health is improving, he has gradually started to conduct some field investigations while reviewing documents and handling government affairs.

"Sir Li, it shouldn't be that he doesn't even understand this principle, right?"

Facing Huo Qubing's rhetorical question, Li Bowen laughed dryly twice. He knew that his colleague was pointing fingers at him, telling him to speak directly if he had something to say and not to waste time beating around the bush.

Influenced by their Majesties, Huo Qubing also emphasized efficiency in doing things and did not like to beat around the bush.

Although Li Bowen knew it clearly, he couldn't change the habits he had developed over the years.

Thinking of this, Li Bowen couldn't help but cough twice.

"Ahem! The main reason is that our Majesty is always running around, and when he comes back he is busy with government affairs all day long. How can he have time to pass on his family line? Lord Huo, you see, His Majesty has been taking concubines for several years, but he has not yet given birth to a prince or princess. This is really not conducive to the stability of our Great Zhou!"

Needless to say, Huo Qubing agreed with what Li Bowen said.

Huo Qubing himself was deeply influenced by the education here, and naturally knew how important a descendant is to a country.

As a monarch, if you have no offspring, it means that the country has no successors.

What if something unexpected happened to their Majesty and there was no crown prince to succeed him, wouldn't their Great Zhou be plunged into great turmoil?
"Lord Li, this makes sense. Why don't you just tell His Majesty directly?"

Li Bowen looked embarrassed.

"My daughter is now the Consort of the Imperial Palace. I'm afraid it's not appropriate for me to tell His Majesty about this."

"..."

Although Huo Qubing was a little straightforward, he was not stupid and he quickly understood Li Bowen's concerns.

"So, Lord Li wants me to go down and give advice to His Majesty?"

"Your Majesty's family affairs are also national affairs for our Great Zhou. I can only ask Lord Huo for help!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)