Throne of Vientiane Civilization

None of their territory within the Great Zhou Dynasty is close to the sea, and at most it is close to a large lake.

When fishermen go out to fish, they basically go out in the morning and come back in the afternoon to fish nearby. A small boat is basically enough.

If you want to transport people on a large scale and need to sail for several days, you will need a larger ship.

Zhou Xu had already had this idea when he returned to Black Moon City.

However, after this project was put on the agenda by Zhou Xu, it is still in the queue at this stage, and personnel, materials, and funds have not yet been raised.

It is already winter now. If we give a rough estimate of the time, if we want to build this first big ship from scratch, we will have to wait until the second half of next year no matter how soon.

This also made Li Ce, who received the latest report, quickly change his original plan.

"First let the hot air balloon explore the road roughly, and let the exploration force focus on exploring the surrounding mountains and integrating the primitive tribes."

"yes!"

After arranging things, Li Ce took out a piece of white paper and began to write a report again, reporting on the latest situation here.

The support efficiency of the hot air balloon is relatively high. You open the map, confirm the direction, increase the speed directly from high altitude, and fly directly over.

But after the exploration troops on the front line completed the rendezvous, there was still some waiting.

There was no way, this flight basically ran out of fuel for them. If they wanted to start exploring the other side of the lake, they had to wait for the subsequent fuel to be delivered.

Considering that this road is not smooth, it is obviously difficult to improve efficiency.

However, the exploration team did not intend to be idle during this period. When the hot air balloon met them, it also brought Li Ce's latest order. Next, they will directly explore the surrounding mountains and collect and hide them in the mountains. primitive tribe.

Exploring unknown areas has always been a dangerous job, so the strength of the exploration force cannot be weak.

Although there are not many people, considering the size of the primitive tribe, there are only a hundred people at most. In their view, there is basically no pressure.

"Let's go and take a look at that mountain first."

The tribe members they met at the beginning should have come out to fetch water. Considering this, even if the tribe's location is not at the foot of the mountain, it is definitely not too far away.

Sure enough, after entering the mountain, I easily found traces of primitive tribe activities, and followed the traces to find the tribal camp opposite.

When facing primitive tribes, they have always been too lazy to say a single word of nonsense.

Just do it directly, show your strength, intimidate the opponent, and then recruit them and that's it.

But their work obviously doesn't end there.

"I've finished asking. There is more than one tribe in this mountain. According to the information provided by the tribe members here, further east, there is a primitive tribe nearby."

In such pristine mountains, the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to walk, and sometimes there are even no roads. The efficiency of ordinary people's movement with their legs alone is very limited. Even if it takes a day, they may not be able to climb over a mountain.

Therefore, as long as there is a large mountain of a certain size, there is the possibility of multiple primitive tribes.

At the same time, under normal circumstances, this kind of primitive tribe is limited by food and movement efficiency, and its range of activities is basically limited to the vicinity. Unless they encounter major changes, they will not risk leaving their camp area.

This also means that although they have always been neighbors with the wood elves, they have never known the existence of the wood elves.

For the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the tribal era was not that long ago, so they generally knew what the tribes were like and didn't feel much strange.

According to the original plan, all the recruited tribal populations were sent back to the Old World to be used as cheap labor.

Although a primitive tribe only has a small population, this mountain is not small, and it is located one next to another. If they are all integrated, it will at least add hundreds of cheap labor to them, which is quite good.

On this side, the exploration troops were busy focusing on the two matters of 'mountain exploration' and 'tribal population recruitment'. At the same time, Zhou Xu, who was in the Qinzheng Palace, had also received a report from Li Ce.

Unlike Shi Lei's side, which has stabilized and will not take any action for the time being, Li Ce's side has been taking action, so the Green Forest City side has also been sending out reports quite diligently recently.

"Another big lake?"

Passing through the canyon on the other side of the forest in the basin, we found a large lake. However, the area of ​​flat land was very limited. At this stage, they were unable to fill in the lake and flatten the mountain. This geographical environment was not conducive to development and construction.

At the same time, the road leading there is blocked by rocks, and sufficient manpower needs to be sent to clear it.

"Now it seems that this shipbuilding project needs to be advanced appropriately."

There was a large lake on their side of Black Moon City that needed a big boat to explore, so Zhou Xu was naturally not in a hurry.

Now that their pioneering route is blocked by a large lake, this undoubtedly increases the need to develop large ships in advance.

Although the report also mentions that you can try to go around the mountains next to it.

But for things like detours, it would be easier if we could ride horses and have flat terrain that could allow carriages to pass smoothly. This detour through mountainous terrain would be very strenuous no matter how you think about it.

In comparison, once the large ships are built, they can directly connect the two sides of the strait, which is enough to greatly improve their movement efficiency.

In addition, although there are rivers in the New World, the fishing industry has been underdeveloped because there are no decent large lakes.

Now that we have this big lake, we can develop around the fishing industry in the future.

Although the flat terrain is limited, it would be a good idea to spend more time wandering around and build a fishing village.

However, this kind of thing cannot be thought too beautiful.

If this big ship is going to be launched, it can't be built from Green Forest City and then brought here, right?

This is unrealistic, so shipbuilding is often done near ports.

To put it simply, they had to mobilize manpower and materials to build docks and ports before they could start building ships.

As a result, the entire investment began to rise linearly.

In response to this situation, Zhou Xu's mind changed.

[Otherwise, let Black Moon City build the dock first and explore the big lake there first. 】

Compared with Basin Forest, implementing this project in Black Moon City can save a lot of money in transportation costs alone.

Not to mention that the fishing industry in Black Moon City is already very good. There is a ready-made fishing port, although it is a bit crude, but it can be used with a lot of effort.

In this way, the cost is lower over there, and those who come first come first. There is no reason for Zhou Xu to let the later ones jump in the queue.