Chapter 905 The Big Project of the New Year

Leaving aside all kinds of small episodes, busy work is enough to make time pass quickly.

Before you know it, the annual "harvest day" has quietly approached.

In Mingjing City, the festive atmosphere had already permeated, causing Luo Ji to feel inexplicably emotional.

After all, he has been out for the past two years, and it has been a long time since the last holiday.

At the same time, on the other side, outside the western border of Wanjie Civilization, Guo Zhen and Du Yuanzhi's troops returned to Wanjie Civilization a few days before the harvest day.

When the Western Expedition came to an end, because a large number of orcs fled on the grassland, Luo Ji asked Guo Zhen and Du Yuanzhi to lead the soldiers under their command to temporarily stay on the savannah to clean up.

Now it seems that this cleaning job is obviously not easy.

The savannah was too big, and the orcs who fled were too scattered.

It took them a lot of time, and it has been tossing until now, and it finally came to an end.

In this regard, Luo Ji will naturally not be stingy with his praise.

At the same time, with a wave of his hand, he directly gave a rich reward.

Today, all directions of the civilization of the world are almost pacified by him.

The ability to activate the 'territorial adjustment' before has also greatly expanded his territorial scope.

In a short period of time, except for the orc threat that may appear in the bitter cold land to the north, there should be peace in several other directions.

During this period, the most urgent thing for him is to quickly develop and recruit troops!

Apart from the reservists who had simply served in the military, the matter of recruiting a 'regular army' had always been a headache for Luo Ji.

No way, the war was too hard a few years ago.

In a short period of time, it is really difficult to increase the strength of the regular army again.

Although there are still some troops in hand, they have to keep it for self-protection and can't just go out and wave.

However, it is not entirely impossible to imagine.

Among the hundreds of thousands of prairie people who were collected before, the group that performed particularly well thought that in a month or two, they would be able to finish their hard labor and get rid of their status as coolies.

After that, if they are willing to continue to work in construction sites and mines, of course there is nothing to say.

But if you want to change jobs, you basically have to find it yourself.

And now, Luo Ji can give them a way to go, and that is to join the army.

The treatment of Wanjie Civilization joining the army has always been good, and some people must be willing.

He intends to select some young and strong men from the prairie to join the army.

It can not only solve the follow-up resettlement of some grassland people, but also supplement the forces of Wanjie Civilization to a certain extent. It can also be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Time continued to flow, and after the harvest was fairly stable.

Within this year, Luo Ji undoubtedly has a big project he wants to implement.

Look at the barrel of black and sticky objects that emit an unpleasant odor at the same time.

Luo Ji squeezed his nose and nodded vigorously.

"Yes, this is it!"

Hearing this, Zhang Ze (the chief engineer of the goblin tribe), the new head of the engineering department, was relieved, but also a little strange in his heart.

I don't understand at all what their Majesty brought out this unpleasant thing.

And just when he thought so, a guard quickly ran over from the outside.

"Your Majesty, the Goblin King Gawain has arrived."

"Let him come in quickly."

As soon as he entered, the unpleasant smell got into his nose.

However, Gawain didn't make a fuss, and after rubbing his nose, he decisively stepped forward and gave a respectful salute...

"Minister Gao Wen, see Your Majesty."

In response, Luo Ji waved at Gao Wen without raising his head.

"Okay, come and see this."

Hearing this, Gawain didn't think much of it, and hurriedly took two steps forward and looked inside the vat.

At this moment, he could clearly feel that the unpleasant smell was emanating from this barrel.

At the same time, the smell was still a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had smelled it for a while.

"Your Majesty, what is this bucket of black stuff?"

Gawain vaguely felt that this should be a building material similar to cement.

However, although he is a modern person, he has studied liberal arts after all, and he has never studied architecture in a serious way. If he was asked to say something at once, he really couldn't say it.

Luo Ji was obviously not surprised by this, only listening to his rather straightforward statement...

"This is the bitumen that I just had the engineering department adjust to the recipe."

"asphalt……"

Hearing this word, Gawain was stunned for two seconds, and then quickly reacted.

"Your Majesty wants to build a road?"

While speaking, Gawain couldn't help rubbing his nose again, it turned out to be the smell.

That's right, the big project that Luo Ji is going to implement this year is to build roads!

To be precise, it is not the construction of roads in the city.

The roads in the city have already been paved with neat tiles, and he has no plans to repair them in a short period of time.

And what he is going to build this time is a highway between cities!

With the substantial expansion of the territory of Wanjie civilization.

The distances between the cities have also grown farther.

Under this premise, the only way Luo Ji could think of to improve the efficiency of support between cities was to build roads.

As long as there is a smooth and unobstructed road connecting each city, the efficiency of moving grain trucks, ordnance and troops will undoubtedly be greatly improved.

At the same time, among the resources he had gathered earlier, he just gathered the materials needed for paving the asphalt road.

This gave Luo Ji this idea.

There is no doubt that this is a truly mega project.

How much time it will take is completely conceivable.

Therefore, it is better to start work early.

At the same time, considering the priority and cost performance, Luo Ji plans to start from the border city.

Pave the road on the frontier first. In this way, when the cities in the back support the frontier cities, the efficiency will be higher.

During this whole process, Luo Ji definitely needed to send someone who knew something about asphalt roads to keep an eye on it, so as to avoid any gaps in the middle.

Gao Wen was obviously Luo Ji's chosen candidate.

Thinking of this, Luo Ji decisively handed Gao Wen a simple instruction and recipe.

While signaling him to take it, he said quite simply...

"So, the matter of paving the road is left to you."

In this regard, Gao Wen, who also understood Luo Ji's meaning, naturally knew that he couldn't shirk this matter.

At the same time, thinking about it carefully, I have been paddling for almost a year, and it is time to do something serious.

As soon as he thought of this, Gawain answered the matter quite simply.

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