Chapter 810: How Busy Autumn Is Coming to Winter

By the time the report was delivered to Zhou Xu, it was already after the autumn harvest.

Zhou Xu was shocked at first after reading the report, but then his mood quickly relaxed.

Based on the description alone, he was basically sure that his plain farm had suffered a locust plague.

However, Zhao Geng was indeed a talent with four-star intelligence. It was the first time he suffered a locust plague. In such a chaotic situation, he was able to notice in time that chickens and ducks would eat locusts, and then urgently drove out the chickens and ducks raised in the pen to solve the locust plague.

When he was completely unaware, he had already mastered the use of "biological weapons".

He even made in-depth observations later and found that ducks had a bigger appetite than chickens when it came to eating locusts. Chickens could eat at most dozens of locusts, while ducks could easily eat hundreds of locusts.

For this reason, Zhao Geng also applied at the end of the report to let every farm in the country raise ducks in captivity in case of emergency.

Even when he was free, he could let the ducks out to eat insects in the field.

This time, Zhao Geng undoubtedly learned a lot from the disaster.

This is also the biggest difference between ordinary people and talents. Every experience can help him improve himself quickly and effectively master more things.

Thanks to Zhao Geng's timely response, they certainly suffered some food losses in this wave of locust plague, but it was not big.

In addition to the stored food in granaries in various places, there was no problem with food.

Afterwards, this incident was reported by storytellers from all over the country as a news story.

With the development of the storyteller profession, their current task is not just to tell stories for fun, but also to report news.

The content is sorted out by the Propaganda Department every day, and then the information is disseminated through storytellers.

It can be regarded as further improving their propaganda value.

After a week, another new good news came. The first large ship of their Great Zhou was officially completed!

Before the shipbuilding department issued this report, they had already conducted a simple test to confirm that the large ship could sail normally on the lake, and then this report was issued.

After confirming the report, Zhou Xu officially named the first ship of their Great Zhou as the "Pioneer", and its meaning is self-evident.

The basic training of the crew has undoubtedly been completed during this period.

Otherwise, who will operate the ship to sail on the lake?

From the beginning of spring to the end of autumn, it took more than half a year. With the official launch of the ship, his plan can finally move to the next stage.

Compared with the rafts used by fishermen in the past, this ship is a real behemoth.

From the beginning of construction to the official completion, and then to the test voyage, the citizens of Black Moon City have long been accustomed to its existence.

Especially for the fishermen in Black Moon City, the Pioneer can be said to be built under their noses.

But when the day came for the ship to officially set sail, it still attracted many citizens to come and watch. Even Wang Dong, who has been busy with education, and Ma Guotao, who is in the grassland horse farm, are no exception. They came to join in the fun.

After all, this is a historic scene!

On the contrary, Zhou Xu simply stayed in the Qinzheng Palace and didn't come because the distance was too far and it would take too much time to wait for him to come. He was a little melancholy in his heart.

"Woo--"

The horn sounded, and the Pioneer officially set sail amid the cheers of the onlookers at the port!

Zhou Xu had taken a hot air balloon to explore the depths of this freshwater lake from the air. After returning, he immediately drew a map.

In the subsequent process of building a large ship, the aerial exploration of this freshwater lake did not stop. Now they have already mastered the specific distribution of the islands on the lake in advance.

Now the large ship is sailing, naturally with a clear goal, heading straight for the island closest to them.

Zhou Xu is still very relieved about the sailing of the large ship here.

After all, this wave is not going out to sea. Although the lake is large, it is also limited in size, not to mention that they have already used hot air balloons to figure out the route in advance.

At the same time, according to observations so far, those living on the lake islands are all primitive tribes, which basically pose no threat to them.

The only possible threat is that the ship may malfunction.

In response to this situation, Zhou Xu naturally responded.

Inside the big ship, there is a bamboo raft. If there is a problem with the big ship, the crew can escape on the bamboo raft.

In addition, for the sake of caution, from the day the big ship set sail, the hot air balloon on the Black Moon City side will take off every day to confirm the situation of the big ship.

Once a problem is found in the big ship, they can also respond and launch rescue in the first time!

For this wave of operations, Zhou Xu can be said to have considered all aspects in place, directly reducing the risk of sailing to the lowest level.

This is also the biggest reason why he is so relieved.

In this process, the last bit of autumn gradually faded, and with the gradual drop in temperature, the season quietly entered winter.

Before the winter, the wood elves came to their Great Zhou again and made a wave of large purchases.

In addition to stockpiling supplies for the upcoming winter, it is also to purchase furniture for their tree houses.

On the way back, they spent some money to rent the road built by their Great Zhou and had the carriage deliver the furniture all the way into the forest.

However, to reach their village, you still need to walk a long way.

The only thing to be thankful for during this period is that the furniture store took the situation here into consideration and discussed with the wood elves to send the furniture in parts that are easy to carry. After moving into the house, they will assemble it.

Then they took the opportunity to collect a fee for door-to-door installation.

In short, the wood elves have been squandering the 100,000 silver coins crazily in the past few months.

It is not a small amount to equip all the tribesmen with furniture, not to mention that they only buy good and expensive ones.

In addition to the regular purchase of daily necessities and the expenses before, the 100,000 silver coins are estimated to have been spent by now.

And their expenses will obviously not stop here.

Zhou Xu, who received the latest news, smiled slightly and said nothing.

The more the wood elves spend money, the more they can't leave their Great Zhou.

Let alone in the future, just say now, if he cuts off these things to the wood elves, they probably can't stand it.

Invisibly, he had already achieved more than half of his goal, and it all depended on how to proceed.

In addition, their Great Zhou mining site located in the basin forest was also officially completed. According to the latest report, all the miners were in place and officially started mining the diamond vein.