Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 895 Smiling without saying a word

Now the wood elves and their Great Zhou have established a closer connection.

In order to facilitate transportation between the two places and also taking into account the convenience of daily procurement and transportation, Da Zhou also proposed with a sincere attitude that the wood elves should build a road outside the village.

The road is not long. It extends from the transportation route of their Dazhou Mine and is built to the entrance of the village.

In this way, any carriage that wants to go to the wood elf village in the future can go straight all the way, which will undoubtedly greatly improve the convenience of daily outings and purchasing and transportation, and by the way, it will also help to dig into the savings of the wood elves.

Faced with this proposal, Locke was a little hesitant.

"Does this cost a lot of money?"

Obviously, there is not much savings left in their village.

Looking at Locke who looked hesitant, Xiao Li from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs smiled.

"Chief Locke, think about it. The young people in the village are all working outside. There are not many young and strong people in the village who can move things. You go out to buy things every day, and when you come back, you still have to hire people to move the rest of the way. Doesn't it still cost money?"

"But if the road is built, it will be a permanent solution. When the time comes, the carriages carrying goods will drive directly to the entrance of your village. Once the carriages have arrived at the entrance of the village, it will only be a few steps away. You can move the things on the carriages as you like, and that's it. If you round it up, this will save countless transportation fees."

Locke usually doesn't think about this matter, but after Xiao Li's analysis, he suddenly felt that it made sense!
"You're right! Build the road!"

With a simple route plan, the transportation route from their Da Zhou mine to the wood elf village is estimated to be only about two to three hundred meters.

With such a short distance, a simple road can be built quickly as long as there is enough labor.

The wood elves go to Green Forest City every month to purchase daily necessities. After this road was built, they soon experienced the convenience of it.

Just as Xiao Li said at the beginning, the carriage carrying their daily necessities can now drive directly to the entrance of their village, and they can also come in directly by sitting in the carriage, which really saves a lot of effort.

However, when it really came time for them to move the things themselves, they did give it a try, but in the end they chose to spend more money and have the deliveryman help them move.

Of course, compared with before, because they have already reached the village entrance, the transportation fee is much cheaper, and Locke and the others can accept it.

Later, when they were chatting, Locke mentioned this matter to Xiao Li, saying that Xiao Li still didn't know them well enough and had only guessed half right. Xiao Li just smiled and said nothing, changing the subject with a hahaha.

On a new day, a carriage with the flag of the Great Zhou arrived at the entrance of the village.

In this midsummer weather, the wood elves who stayed here, including Locke, were enjoying the cool and chatting in the shade of the trees. The movement at the entrance of the village soon attracted their attention.

"Why is there a carriage?"

"Look at the flag, it's from the Great Zhou Dynasty."

"It can't be that those brats finally remembered to come back and take a look, right?"

"Bullshit! After those people left, no one missed home!"

"That's not true. In fact, they haven't been out for long, right?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene fell into a brief silence.

Indeed, for the elves who have a naturally long lifespan, let alone two or three years, even five, ten, or even ten or twenty years is just a moment in their eyes.

But they didn't know when it started, but they suddenly felt that time was gradually becoming longer.

Just as they were thinking this, a figure in military uniform walked down from the carriage.

"That seems to be an officer of the Great Zhou."

The other party was dressed neatly in a black military uniform with a copper-buckled leather belt around his waist and a wide-brimmed military cap of the same color on his head, with a steel badge on it. Engraved on the badge was the symbol of their Great Zhou, a seal-script character for "Zhou".

Noticing the other party's presence, Locke hurried out to greet him. "I wonder if you have anything to do in our village?"

Hearing this, the figure was stunned for a moment, then pushed his military cap up.

"Chief, it's me."

Looking at the face revealed from under the brim of the hat, Locke was dazed.

"John?"

There was a hint of uncertainty in the tone of this shout, which made John feel confused and amused.

"It's me, Chief. I haven't been back for just a few months. Can't you recognize me?"

"No. You have changed so much. Are you a high official in the Great Zhou?"

What Locke said was absolutely right. Several months of military training had changed John's temperament drastically. He was like a completely different person. No wonder Locke couldn't recognize him at once.

"I have now joined His Majesty's personal guards and served as a squadron leader, which is also a small official."

At the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, because the size of the army and the number of soldiers were limited, the military rank started directly from the rank of lieutenant.

But now with the expansion of the territory and the increase in the number of soldiers, Zhou Xu was given two more ranks, non-commissioned officer and private, under the rank of lieutenant.

After completing the recruit training, the soldiers who officially join the army are uniformly called privates, and the rank above privates is non-commissioned officers.

Non-commissioned officers are divided into corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant and sergeant major.

It stands to reason that in this peacetime, it is somewhat unreasonable to give John a promotion since he has no military achievements and no qualifications.

But considering the special situation that he was now leading a team of 100 wood elves, Zhou Xu still arranged a rank of corporal for him to make his position more legitimate.

Soon John was surrounded by the elders of the village. Feeling their surprised or curious gazes, John suddenly felt like returning home in glory and was quite happy.

But he did not forget what their Majesty had ordered.

After chatting casually with the elders in the village, he called the patriarch to the shade of a tree and started talking about business.

"Your Majesty asked me to come back this time because he wanted to ask you something..."

While speaking, John first talked about the spiritual attributes.

The main reason is that none of the wood elves are literate at this stage, so Locke couldn't understand the letter Zhou Xu wrote.

There was no other way, so he could only tell it to John orally and let John convey it.

John was afraid that as time went by, he would not be able to remember everything, so he hurried to tell the story first.

"You said that His Majesty now feels that the power of the truth in his body is so full that it is almost overflowing?"

"That's what your Majesty said. At the same time, whenever your Majesty looks at me, I feel a huge pressure and I dare not look at your Majesty at all..."

Listening to John's description, Locke nodded, obviously already knowing what was going on, but at the same time he was also full of surprises.

"I really didn't expect that your majesty's cultivation has reached this level."

　Thanks to book friend 'Yueti' for the reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)