The initial completion of Winterfell allowed Luo Ji to successfully free up a group of manpower, which he planned to devote to the construction of various military fortresses.

It is worth mentioning here that this military fortress is not something that can be built by just finding an open space.

If you build a military fortress on a flat piece of land, it doesn't make any sense at all, and a dozen cannons can be pushed over from the opposite side, and you can be blown into ruins.

Choosing the terrain is a very particular thing, take the Beishan Fortress of the Ten Thousand Worlds Civilization as an example, it is directly blocked at the pass of the entire Beidi Mountain Range, and there is a large canyon outside, this is the terrain!

The Black Mountain Fort on the side of the Dwarven Province is also in good shape.

The construction engineering department is confirming the blueprint, not to mention the Yangtze River fortress that is ready for construction.

In this wave, once Luo Ji expands his territory, when the time comes, the enemy who invades on this side will be able to directly block the other party on the other side of the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River fortress will directly block the main road, which can be called a natural danger!

For a building like a military fortress, you have to choose this kind of terrain to build!

The progress reports of various projects continue to be sent, and before the winter of this year, the construction engineering department has officially presented the design blueprint of the Yangtze River Fortress to Luo Ji's eyes.

After all, they hadn't built any ports before, and now Luo Ji asked them to design a Yangtze River fortress that would combine the fortress and the port, which really took them a lot of work.

After Luo Ji saw the design blueprint, he directly waved his pen, and the project of the Yangtze River Fortress officially began.

This winter, the civilization of the world is not calm, there are many more roars of steam engines, and the whole civilization is completely about to enter the industrial age.

Leaning on the hall of the council covered with earth dragons, Luo Ji, who had finished reviewing the report in front of him, stretched his waist vigorously, then picked up the hot tea in his hand and drank it slowly.

Just now, the latest report told him that another coal mine vein had been hollowed out.

At present, there are actually many coal mines in his Ten Thousand Realms Civilization, and the output is also quite high, and the depletion of a mineral vein will not have much impact on him.

However, Luo Ji is a person who is prepared for danger in times of peace, and next, the development of his civilization in the Ten Thousand Worlds is about to enter the industrial age, and the consumption of coal will inevitably increase exponentially, or even more than ten times, and he can't relax.

As soon as he thought of this, Luo Ji decisively wrote down this matter in his notebook.

He is actually a person with a good memory, but he is busy with government affairs and there are too many things, which leads to some things that may be forgotten, so he developed the habit of taking notes very early.

And during this period, this winter is undoubtedly cold for the gray elves who have just returned.

Obviously, it wasn't so cold in previous years, but this year it was only early winter, and it was already so cold that Teller was wrapped in several bloated coats inside and out, regardless of his demeanor.

The fire in the castle was clearly burning, but even if they were close to the stove, Teller and Sierra could still clearly feel a chill that they couldn't resist at all.

By the way, it is worth mentioning here that Luo Ji did not intend to occupy the castle of the gray elves, but directly changed it to the city lord's mansion of Sunset City, allowing Terrell and Serra to continue to live there.

At the same time, he didn't take those magic crystals, magic cores, and spell books in the castle's treasure house for nothing, he gave Teller a huge sum of money.

As for how much is this huge amount of money?

To put it simply, even if they don't do anything from now on, eat and wait for death every day, they can live a prosperous life for decades, and for ordinary people, it is estimated that they can live a lifetime without worrying about food and clothing.

For this huge amount of money, Teller and Sierra basically didn't take it seriously.

What do they have? Where is this needed?

At that time, only Mia knew the value of this huge sum of money, so when the reward was handed out, Mia received it.

The door to the castle hall slowly opened, and Mia, who walked in from the outside, couldn't help but look at her mother and brother, who were so frozen that they almost lost their demeanor, and just wanted to huddle by the fire to bake the fire.

"How did you freeze like this? Didn't you wear the clothes I sent you before? ”

"It's too cold this winter, and those clothes are so thin, what's the use of wearing them?"

As he spoke, Terrell turned his head, looking at what his sister was wearing at this time, he was almost stunned.

"Mia, you're really crazy, you can't wear so little just to be pretty, you're going to freeze sick like this!"

At this moment, Mia is only wearing a white turtleneck shirt that looks quite thin, Terrell admits that the dress is very good-looking, and Mia is also very beautiful, but the problem is that this is inevitably too thin, right?

As a mother, Serra apparently thought the same thing, and quickly pulled Mia to the fire, and prepared to take off her coat and put it on Mia.

In this regard, Mia showed a helpless look on her face, and at the same time sighed softly......

"I'm really not cold, I don't believe you."

Helpless, Mia directly held her mother Serra's hands with her own hands.

At that moment, Sierra could clearly feel that unlike them, whose hands and feet were cold, Mia's hands were unexpectedly warm......

Looking at her completely confused mother, Mia is also quite distressed, how to explain this kind of thing?

She can't say that she is wearing thermal underwear inside, and this one is a very expensive but warm cashmere sweater outside, right? Her mother and brother probably still didn't understand that.

In the end, he simply urged them to hurry up and change the clothes they bought.

Serra and Terrell couldn't help but be amazed at the amazing comfort, they couldn't figure out what the whole thing was about this dress, it looked so thin, but it was warmer than their coats.

And just as they were thinking this, the chief of the Lille guard walked in from outside.

After the conversion, the elven mages and griffin knights of their gray elf clan were officially incorporated and joined the army, but the silver armor guards left them behind, and are currently responsible for the security of the gray elf castle.

"Mia Gong, Miss, the courier has been delivered."

"Is it finally delivered?"

Mia breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this.

Before the winter, she deliberately rushed to the nearby wood elf city to buy a lot of things.

However, there were no roads on the road to Sunset City, the roads were difficult to walk, and the carriages were not fast, so it was only now that they were finally delivered.

"Let's move in."

At Mia's suggestion, one thing after another kept moving to the Gray Elf Castle, and in just a few moments, half of the hall was already piled up, but the things had not yet been moved......

Feeling the gaze of her mother and brother, Mia introduced it quite dryly.

She bought a lot of things because she felt that there was a lack of everything in the Grey Elf Castle.

For example, the mattress and futon, she had never found it before, the bedding in the castle was not warm at all, and when she slept these days, she was wearing pajamas and wrapped in the futon, and she could still feel the obvious chill.

In addition, there are a series of utensils and daily necessities such as stoves, pendulum clocks, soap, toothbrushes, etc., anyway, my mother and brother who are standing next to me are already a little dizzy.

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