Chapter 865 A Blessing in Disguise

In the following period of time, Zhou Xu would stay in each city for one or two days to inspect and plan the future development ideas.

In this process, he clearly found that in terms of the number of cities, the New North District, which has six cities, is not much different from the New South District.

But in fact, it is much worse.

On the one hand, the scale of many cities is not as good as that of the New South District, and on the other hand, the distance between cities here is generally too close, and the distribution is a bit crowded.

[If there is a chance, we still have to adjust the city layout of the New North District on a large scale. There is no need for six cities. Four is not right. To be precise, it should be three cities and one fortress! ]

According to Zhou Xu's thinking, in the core area of ​​the New North District, grasping the position and properly arranging two large cities is enough to effectively occupy most of the land resources here.

After that, a city is arranged at the pass adjacent to Anling City. The overall distribution presents a triangular layout, which is convenient for the connection between the three cities.

As for Pingyuan City, he followed his and Shi Lei's previous ideas and changed it into a military fortress to improve its defense.

This is the effect Zhou Xu hopes to achieve most at present.

But it is obviously not that easy to do.

In fact, according to Zhou Xu's idea, the location of each city in Xinbei District is not so ideal.

If he wants to fully meet his expectations, he probably has to flatten all the cities here and rebuild them.

When Zhou Xu thought of this, he began to have a headache, and at the same time he began to sigh about the goodness of the South Territory. There is nothing in the South Territory, but there is no trouble. It is just a blank sheet of paper waiting for him to display.

From this point of view, it can be regarded as saving him trouble.

There are cities in Xinbei District, but they are not ideal.

Of course, sometimes development must be combined with actual conditions and make some appropriate compromises.

The amount of work in Xinbei District is not small. According to the current financial situation of their Great Zhou, if all of them are demolished and rebuilt, the Minister of Engineering and the Minister of Finance will probably hang themselves.

So some places are a little off, so there is no need to be too fussy.

With this mentality, Daliang City, Yuan City, Shanguan City at the pass, and the Pingyuan Fortress that is ready to start construction and reconstruction, the location is not bad.

As long as the flattening and reconstruction is changed to adjustment and reconstruction, the entire expenditure can be greatly reduced in an instant, and the same is true for manpower and material resources.

While Zhou Xu was holding his little notebook and thinking about the specific plan, the carriage he was riding had successfully arrived outside Pingyuan City.

"The humble general Shi Lei (Jie Liancheng), see your majesty!"

Hearing the movement, Zhou Xu poked his head out of the carriage and waved at the two.

"No need to be polite, get in the car."

"Yes."

After a response, Shi Lei and Jie Liancheng didn't waste any words and got into the carriage directly.

Then the carriage continued to drive towards Pingyuan City. During the period, Zhou Xu's eyes subconsciously looked at Jie Liancheng a few more times.

"How is your health?"

"Thanks to your majesty's concern, I have fully recovered."

After all, Shi Lei is still here, so Xie Liancheng still has to go through the necessary procedures.

"At the same time, this time I can be regarded as a blessing in disguise. My bravery star level has been officially upgraded to five stars."

Zhou Xu was also happy when he heard the news.

Having five-star potential and full five-star are two different things. Many people may not be able to fully develop their potential in their lifetime.

Now that Xie Liancheng has been upgraded, he finally has a real five-star general in his hands! How can Zhou Xu not be happy?

From this point of view, Xie Liancheng is really a blessing in disguise this time.

But at the same time, it also makes Zhou Xu more curious about the green skin who can force Xie Liancheng to that point.

You know, relying on his excellent martial arts, although Xie Liancheng was a four-star before, he is basically invincible even if he meets a general of the same level.

Even from Zhou Xu's perspective, Xie Liancheng could probably get a five-star rating.

In that situation, it was hard to imagine how strong that greenskin was to force Xie Liancheng into a desperate situation, and even almost killed him.

When this matter was mentioned, Xie Liancheng couldn't help scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.

"I also thought about that battle seriously afterwards, and later found that I actually had problems."

"..."

Zhou Xu didn't say anything, waiting for Xie Liancheng's next words.

"The situation was quite tense at the time, and my idea was to fight quickly, so I used Thunderbolt Slash right away, trying to kill that greenskin in one second."

At this point, Xie Liancheng couldn't help but slap his thigh in annoyance.

"Damn! Who would have thought that the greenskin would react so quickly? He could actually keep up with my Thunderbolt Slash?!"

Zhou Xu was also quite familiar with Xie Liancheng's Thunderbolt Slash.

It's no exaggeration to say that Thunderbolt Slash is a very contradictory move.

One of the contradictions is that when performing the Thunderbolt Slash, Xie Liancheng will be forced to abandon all his martial arts skills, because this move is too fast and he has no room to use any skills.

However, the powerful martial arts skills were Xie Liancheng's biggest reliance in the previous battle.

The second contradiction is that Thunderbolt Slash is difficult to crack, but also easy to crack.

The difficulty lies in that if you can't catch up with the speed of Thunderbolt Slash, you will basically die!

On the other hand, once you can catch up with the speed of Thunderbolt Slash, this move is basically useless.

Under this premise, performing Thunderbolt Slash will also bring a burden to the body, which is equivalent to pitting yourself in disguise.

"To put it bluntly, the green skin has very strong physical fitness and fast reaction. I shouldn't have used Thunderbolt Slash at that time. I should have fought him normally, and it might have been easier!"

When talking about this matter, Xie Liancheng regretted slapping his thigh.

"Oh, yes, there is one more thing! When the greenskin was fighting me, a layer of light similar to energy emerged from the surface of his body, and that light also wrapped around his weapon."

"The opponent's double swords looked tattered, but they were able to fight against my three-pointed two-edged sword many times and were not cut off. This is very abnormal!"

The three-pointed two-edged sword in Xie Liancheng's hand is not an ordinary weapon. After Zhou Xu took over the territory here, he took the time to upgrade Xie Liancheng to a crystal iron weapon. With Xie Liancheng's strength, it is very abnormal that he can't cut an ordinary weapon.

Just when Zhou Xu was thinking about this, Xie Liancheng spoke again.

"After the war, I picked up the two swords and tried them. Guess what? They broke with one cut!"

During the chat, Xie Liancheng gradually let go, but Shi Lei next to him didn't think it was strange.

After working together for a period of time, he also understood Xie Liancheng's temperament. At the same time, their Majesty was also a casual person and didn't care about such a small matter.

"I've thought about this carefully. It must be the energy that enveloped the two swords at that time. There must be something wrong with that energy!"