Three months later, outside Yancheng, men and prisoners of war were sweating and digging irrigation canals.

In three months, under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry, the first water conservancy project in the Xia Kingdom has made remarkable progress, and now there are as many as a dozen canals in use, and the irrigation area is more than 40 acres of land.

Last season's drought caused a massive reduction in corn production, and if it were not supplemented by potatoes, Xia would have ushered in the first famine year since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Wang Lang, who felt that he had escaped, began this season and required each household to plant different crops in equal amounts, and if only a single crop was planted, the risk would be too huge.

The dry season ended and the rainy season began, and from this season, the first horns began to be officially put into use.

Wang Lang was amazed by the efficiency of the ceratops, pulling the heavy ploughshares, and these strong ceratops seemed to be walking leisurely.

Wang Lang, who felt that he had underestimated the strength of these horned dragons, asked the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to change the ploughshares into double rows, but even so, the horned dragons were only a little difficult to pull.

In half a month, with the efforts of more than a dozen horned dragons, nearly 100 acres of land were reclaimed, and Wang Lang began to use these lands as public land.

All farmers in Yancheng must first complete the planting of public land before they can plant their own land.

Within a month, the crops in the public fields were already lush and green, and the increase was quite gratifying compared to the previous land.

Whenever people pass by the public field, they will show envy, and they know that this season will definitely usher in a bumper harvest in this field.

In terms of medical treatment, after Wang Lang only talked to them once, those wizards seemed to have completely untied the knot in their hearts, and seriously studied the use of draft medicine, and Wang Lang also taught them the method of alcohol disinfection.

At the request of Wang Lang, the young Qiyan began to experiment with the use of Penicillium with animals, but so far, Qiyan has not made much progress except for killing more than a dozen animals.

In the early morning of this day, to the east of Yancheng, the second expedition team was marching in the direction of Yancheng in rags.

It's just that the original team of thirteen people is now only eleven people left, and two of them were unfortunately killed in the attack of wild beasts, and those who survived were also extremely weak.

The expedition team supported each other, staggered on the grassland, and when they saw the Yancheng city wall, their tense nerves relaxed.

When Wang Lang heard the news of the return of the expedition that had been set off for half a year, it was already the next day.

Wang Lang, who learned the news, immediately sent someone to call Zhou Tianshi over.

After Zhou Tianshi saw Wang Lang, he bowed down and said, "Countryman, Zhou Tianshi has seen Your Majesty!" ”

"Zhou Aiqing, sit down!" Wang Lang said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhou Tianshi bowed and sat on the chair.

"Zhou Aiqing, but the first expedition team to come back, this trip is half a year, and it has been hard along the way!"

"Thank you Your Majesty for your concern, as a countryman of the Xia Kingdom, you can serve Your Majesty, this is what we should do." Zhou Tianshi said respectfully.

"Okay, if the people of Great Xia think like you, why worry that the country is not strong!" Wang Lang laughed.

"Your Majesty, we have made a new discovery in this expedition, and I believe that Your Majesty will be happy after hearing it." Zhou Tianshi said slowly.

"Oh! Tell me about it! ”

When Zhou Tianshi heard this, he cleared his throat and said slowly: "Our second expedition team has been walking east along the grassland for three months, and finally saw the sea that Your Majesty said!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Lang suddenly stood up from the chair and said in surprise: "This matter is true!" ”

"Zhou Tianshi didn't dare to deceive Your Majesty, after we walked out of the grassland, it took us half a day to walk through a piece of sand without a single grass and see the sea." Zhou Tianshi said solemnly.

"What does the sea look like?" Wang Lang asked.

"It's dangerous!" Zhou Tianshi said with palpitations.

Wang Lang was stunned, he knew that the sea was indeed dangerous, but he didn't think that the expedition team would run into the sea with a brain, and asked suspiciously: "What's going on, tell me in detail!" ”

"Your Majesty, there is a group of terrifying monsters living on the seaside, holding monsters that are extremely huge, and they can fly in the sky, we were attacked by that thing when we first arrived at the beach, if we didn't react quickly, some of our companions would definitely die."

Wang Lang frowned, he couldn't imagine what kind of bird would dare to attack such a big creature as human, looking at Zhou Tianshi's expression, that thing might not be too small.

"What does that thing look like?"

"The monster has a long mouth, very different from a bird, it has no feathers, and it flies like a bat!" Zhou Tianshi said slowly.

"Is it a pterodactyl?" Wang Lang was taken aback in his heart, this discovery is really amazing, although dinosaurs are very common in this world, but there are too few flying dinosaurs, if it is really a pterosaur, it is not strange, according to the science and education films he watched, this kind of thing likes to be active at the seaside, and it is indeed understandable that he has not seen them here.

"There's not much of that thing on the beach!" Wang Lang asked.

Zhou Tianshi shook his head and said, "It's not many, and we've only seen about a dozen, but this monster flies so fast that we can't shoot them at all!" ”

Wang Lang nodded, although the pterosaur was dangerous, but he now had a bold idea, the size of the pterosaur could fully bear the weight of humans, if it could hatch out, humans could even fly into the sky without inventing airplanes, this temptation was too great for him.

"What else did you find?"

Wang Lang's team became more and more interested in this expedition.

At this time, Zhou Tianshi looked at Wang Lang with a serious face, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the most important discovery we made this time is not the sea and those flying monsters, we found a huge wooden building by the sea. ”

"What! Wooden building! Wang Lang exclaimed.

This news really frightened him, with the current level of civilization of Xia Kingdom, it is definitely not small to be called huge by Zhou Tianshi, and the deeper meaning of this news is that there is a highly civilized human community by the sea.

Zhou Tianshi was taken aback by Wang Lang's surprised reaction, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, don't panic, the monsters in that building are already dead." ”

Wang Lang was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously, "Monster?" What a monster! Isn't it human? ”

Zhou Tianshi shook his head and described in detail what he saw that day to Wang Lang.

After Wang Lang listened, his expression was not only relaxed, but his face was gloomy as if he was about to drip water.