Chapter 1382: Start Work on the Spot

Going by water, the group boarded the ship smoothly at the Green Forest Port.

At this time, the temperature had stabilized at about 25 degrees, and it was a beautiful spring day. Zhou Xu was on the deck, enjoying the breeze and sun. The whole journey was very comfortable.

The ship docked at the port, and Zhou Xu did not stroll around the city after getting off the ship. He had not been back for a long time, and he was eager to go home, so he went straight back to the palace.

He did not even wash his face, and went directly to the Qinzheng Hall.

"Your Majesty!"

In the Qinzheng Hall, Huo Qubing and Li Bowen, who had received the news in advance, knew their Majesty. If nothing unexpected happened, the first thing their Majesty would do after returning to the palace would definitely be to come to the Qinzheng Hall.

As it turned out, their guess was indeed correct.

Their Majesty is essentially a workaholic, and he is the kind who will kill people without paying for it...

"No need to be polite, did anything important happen while I was away?"

As he spoke, Zhou Xu sat down at his workstation and went straight into office mode.

Huo Qubing and Li Bowen, who had long been accustomed to this, also reported one sentence at a time.

The content of their report was basically divided into two parts.

One part was what they could handle and had already handled, but because there were too many follow-up issues, their Majesty had to be informed so that they could make arrangements later.

The other part was beyond their authority and had to be decided by their Majesty.

This report took more than an hour, but Zhou Xu was not tired at all. His strong mental strength made him much more energetic than ordinary people.

At the end of the report, Li Bowen remembered something again.

"By the way, Your Majesty, the migration of the Wood Elves mentioned earlier has been successfully completed in early spring. The basin forest outside Green Forest City is now empty. What arrangements are to be made next?"

Zhou Xu knew about the migration of the entire Wood Elves, and he had been talking about it two years ago.

Under normal circumstances, those who stayed in the Wood Elves' land were basically the older generation of Wood Elves. Given their lazy and old-fashioned nature, it was basically unrealistic for them to abandon their original villages and move to other places.

But there are exceptions to everything.

Even Locke, the old patriarch of the Wood Elves, who was as old-fashioned as Locke, could not resist the temptation of the Life Spirit Tree.

That's right, the new land of the Wood Elves was arranged in the Qingshui Mountain, where a large number of Life Spirit Trees were discovered.

The Life Spirit Tree is the core material used by their Great Zhou to make the Life Staff of the Wood Elves Mage, and the Wood Elves Mage are very concerned about it.

They even wanted to transplant these life spirit trees back to the wood elf village to take good care of them, but the transplantation risk was too great, and the number of life spirit trees at this stage was limited. After changing the native place, if they died, the loss would be great.

Chief Locke, who also knew this, finally agreed to Zhou Xu's other proposal.

"The life spirit trees cannot be transplanted, but you can move to Qingshui Mountain!"

Locke thought about it and immediately felt that this made sense. He decided to move the whole tribe to Qingshui Mountain to take care of the life spirit trees!

However, it was not so simple to actually operate this matter.

The wood elves would definitely need a place to stay when they migrated. At least they would have to build a mountain village in Qingshui Mountain, right?

Don't expect these old stubborn people to do it by themselves. How long will it take?

At that time, the labor force in Da Zhou was basically concentrated in the southern and northeastern regions, which resulted in not being able to draw enough manpower to build a village in the mountains.

It was not until early spring this year that the work was completed.

In the Basin Forest, once the wood elves left, the original village was vacant.

They arranged a mountain village for the wood elves in Qingshui Mountain, so their original village was naturally handed over to the state.

Regarding this, they also discussed it with the old patriarch Locke in advance, and both sides reached a consensus.

When Zhou Xu passed by the Basin Forest before, he did not take a detour to the Wood Elf Village. It was not until now that he learned about this from Li Bowen.

The Basin Forest covers a large area. From the area alone, it is enough to open a city alone.

However, considering the distance, the Basin Forest is too close to the Green Forest City. It is meaningless to build two cities at such a close distance.

At the same time, considering the location of the Basin Forest, there is no need to build a city.

For this area, Zhou Xu obviously had a plan.

"Don't be too anxious about this. Let the logging team of Green Forest City go over and clear the forest land first, and then expand outward based on the original wood elf village and build a town called Qingshui Town to facilitate the resettlement of the staff at Green Forest Port."

In their Great Zhou, cities, towns, and villages are clearly classified. The most typical difference is that only cities have city walls, and villages do not have such defense facilities.

However, in contrast, villages and towns are generally established in safe areas. At the same time, apart from some special environments such as mountains, there must be a city of scale near villages and towns.

Because these villages and towns will be directly incorporated into the city after they develop to a certain scale, thus forming a better development.

This is Zhou Xu's idea at the moment.

Thanks to the huge economy formed by shipping, Green Forest Port has become extremely prosperous. For this reason, Zhou Xu specially built a small fishing village in that area for the daily living of relevant staff.

However, the land in that port area is too limited. The small fishing village is really very small. It can only accommodate two or three hundred people at most. With the continuous development of water transportation, the area soon became crowded.

Surrounding this port and the Qingshui Lake next to it, so many people rely on the work here to support their families.

However, with limited space, everyone can't squeeze in, and it is not realistic to live in the mountains.

It is even more outrageous to ask them to go back to Green Forest City at night every day and rush from Green Forest City to work here at dawn.

Although the two sides are close, this back and forth will waste a lot of time, which is a pure waste of labor.

Under this premise, if there is a town in the basin forest next to the canyon for them to live, then the whole situation can be quickly improved.

Although the current labor force is limited, the reconstruction of this town will definitely not be so fast, but don't forget that the village where the wood elves originally lived is still there.

With appropriate expansion, it can accommodate hundreds or thousands of people in a short period of time, which is enough to relieve the population pressure over at the Green Forest Port.

With Zhou Xu's order, the construction project of Qingshui Town was quickly arranged, and a large number of people were immediately overjoyed after receiving the news.