The snow was falling, the winter was getting thicker, Zhao Hao stood proudly on the bow of the boat, looking straight ahead, and the light of wisdom flashed from time to time in his deep eyes.

The ox plough has been successfully trial-produced, and he has also arranged a large number of people to rush to work, in the spring of the next year, with the promotion of the ox plough in the Western Qin Territory, other territories in Nanhua will be popularized sooner or later, and the food problem is finally not to worry, and then he can rest assured to go hunting, and constantly improve his strength.

He was considering whether to continue east along Garuda or further south along the Netherworld.

In these two directions, the density of the existence of the alien beast and the near-divine beast seems to be about the same.

It's just that if he continues to advance eastward along the Jialuo Fort, it is better to be closer to the Haotian Prairie, and it is more convenient to deploy personnel and materials, as long as he builds a bridge near the Haotian Fort to connect the two sides of the strait, the elite on the Haotian Prairie can directly hit the horses to reach the Jialouluo Fort, and the time spent in the middle is not even a day.

If you continue to explore further south along the Netherworld, you will have to transfer people and supplies by large ships.

However, there are also advantages to the south, at least, the waterway is ready-made, but the speed of transporting personnel and materials by the waterway is a little slow, if he builds a fortress by the Haotian River in the early stage, there is basically no need to work hard to open the road, and it is different to go east, if there is no waterway, he can only explore on foot, and it is inevitable to spend the night in the mountains of the Nanban.

So, is it going east or south?

At this moment, a fortress suddenly appeared in the mountains on the east bank, and they were about to pass the first newly built fortress between Zhennan Fort and Haotian Fort.

Ji Rushuang looked at the fortress on the shore, and then at Zhao Hao, who was staring straight ahead, and couldn't help asking: "Husband, are you really going to give up the piece between Zhennan Fort and Haotian to our Ji Zhou clan?" ”

Zhao Hao said without hesitation: "Of course, if it weren't for your grandfather's lack of preparation, I would have removed all the guards in these four fortresses." ”

At this time, he actually stationed two hundred new guards in each fortress, and he didn't send any of the masters with a strength of more than 10,000 catties, because the Great Elder of Nanhua had already recruited a few young masters of the Ji Zhou clan to sit in the four fortresses, and he happened to concentrate all the masters to explore the areas east and south of Haotian.

If it weren't for the agreement between him and the Great Elder of Nanhua that the forts would be delivered after the beginning of spring, so that the Great Elder of Nanhua did not prepare enough elite soldiers to guard these fortresses, he would really have withdrawn all the guards and completely dumped these four fortresses to the Great Elder of Nanhua.

When Ji Rushuang heard this, she couldn't help but say with a complicated face: "Are you really so generous? ”

Zhao Hao smiled slightly: "There is a little bit of generosity, but I also have other purposes for doing this." ”

When Ji Rushuang heard this, she was surprised and said, "Oh, what other purpose do you have." ”

Zhao Hao continued to smile and said, "You should know the approximate location of Xue Manbu's hometown, right?" If you continue to the east along these four fortresses, sooner or later you will encounter the people of the Xue Man's Tribe, and our Haotian Territory will not be able to withstand the full attack of the Xue Man's Tribe, so I can only ask your grandfather to take action. ”

I see.

Indeed, judging from various intelligence, the place of Xue Man's tribe should be to the east of these four fortresses.

If they continue to advance eastward along these four fortresses, they will be approaching the old nest of the Xue Manbu, and at that time, if they are discovered by the people of the Xue Manbu, a big battle may be inevitable.

Zhao Hao's idea of avoiding his edge is understandable, because the current Haotian Leader alone is indeed not the opponent of Xue Man's Department.

Moreover, he is not pit Nanhua Great Elder like this, after all, Nanhua's main opponent is Xue Manbu, and they are afraid that sooner or later there will be a battle.

Anyway, you have to fight sooner or later, and what's the difference between starting a war early and starting a war later.

What's more, the Great Elder of Nanhua still has such a large piece of alien beast resources, and they don't suffer a loss.

Ji Rushuang's question made Zhao Hao set the next direction of exploration.

He decided to continue exploring south along the Haotian River.

Because the location of Jialuo Fort is actually a little close to the hometown of Xue Manbu, if he continues to advance eastward, he may also meet the people of Xue Manbu, and at that time, if there is a conflict with Xue Manbu, the large area from Zhennanbao to Haotian Fort will be given to the Great Elder of Nanhua in vain.

If they continued to explore south along the Netherworld Valley, there would be no such problem, and they would only get farther and farther away from Xue Manbu's homeland, not closer and closer.

After figuring out this question, Zhao Hao's mood couldn't help but brighten, and he even began to think about Menglan and Mengbao.

At this time, the dark flower in the Netherworld Valley should be blooming again, I don't know how these three guys have evolved.

The fleet continued to move forward, and a few days later, the group finally arrived at the dock of the Netherworld Valley, and at this time, Ah Yun and Ah Yue, who had already received the news, were already waiting on the dock.

Husband and wife are naturally happy to reunite after a long absence, and the charm of it is not enough to be humane with outsiders.

Zhao Hao repaired in the Netherworld Valley for two days, and then sent someone to the Haotian Prairie to give an order, ordering Ah Hua and Ah Shan and others to quickly bring their elites to discuss the plan to explore the south.

At the same time, he also sent someone to Zhennanbao to give an order, ordering the three thousand guards on standby there to quickly assemble in the wild jungle opposite the Netherworld Valley.

This Haotian prairie is thousands of miles wide from east to west, and even if Ah Hua, Ah Shan and the others rush over, it is not a day or two that they can gather.

As for the three thousand guards in Zhennan Fort, it only took a few days for them to take a boat to the wild jungle opposite the Netherworld Valley, but the number of big ships was limited at this time, and it was impossible to pull the three thousand guards over at a time, and it was estimated that it would take a month to go back and forth in several trips.

During this time, Zhao Hao did not wait in the Netherworld Valley, and after the order was issued, he took Ji Rushuang and Ji Wei and his wife and began to explore the south directly.

This time, they didn't take a boat, Zhao Hao chose to hike over the mountains and mountains, and carefully clean up two to three hundred miles south of the Netherworld Valley and fifty miles on the east bank of the Haotian River.

He wanted to find a path to the south before Ah Hua and Ah Shan and the others arrived.

There are a lot of elites he can use this time, and his personal guards alone have gathered more than 3,000, plus the elites brought by Ah Hua and Ah Shan, it is estimated that there will be tens of thousands of people.

With so many people, the speed of road construction is naturally amazing, as long as he takes Ji Rushuang and Ji Wei and his wife to carefully clean up the mountains near the riverbank, and hunt all the strange beasts and the existence of close to the divine beasts, Ah Hua and Ah Shan They can take people to sit in boats, disperse, and start construction at the same time.

Tens of thousands of people worked together, divided into eight sections, and it is estimated that the road of two or three hundred miles can be repaired in less than ten days.

Once the road was repaired, they would be able to transport supplies by land, and the distance from the newly built city of Garuda to the site of the first fortress to the south of them was about 500 li, which was much faster than by water.

Zhao Hao was even thinking about whether to build a city directly in the wild jungle opposite the Netherworld Valley, and then transfer a part of the clansmen from his subordinate territories to produce clay bricks and other materials there.

In this way, the delivery of materials is faster.