Aside from all kinds of small episodes, busy work is enough to make people's time fly by.

Before you know it, the annual 'harvest day' is quietly approaching.

In Spiegel City, the festive atmosphere has already spread, which makes Luo Ji feel a little emotional in his heart.

After all, he has been away 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 the Ten Thousand Realms Civilization, Guo Zhen and Du Yuanzhi's troops returned to the Ten Thousand Realms Civilization a few days before the harvest day.

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

Now it seems that the clean-up work was not easy.

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

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

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

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

Now the four directions of this civilization of the Ten Thousand Worlds can be regarded as almost pacified by him.

The skill of launching the 'Territorial Adjustment' before also allowed him to greatly expand the scope of the territory.

In a short period of time, except for the possible threat of orcs in the bitter cold land to the north, the other directions should be peaceful for a while.

During this period, the most urgent thing for him was naturally to hurry up development and conscription!

Aside from the reserve soldiers who have simply served in the military, recruiting the 'regular army' has always been a headache for Luo Ji.

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

In a short period of time, it is really difficult to re-increase the number of troops of one's regular army.

Although he still has some troops in his hand, he has to keep it for self-protection, and he can't go out casually anymore.

However, it is not impossible to think about it.

Among the hundreds of thousands of grassland people who had been accepted before, the group that performed particularly well pondered that in another month or two, they would be able to complete their hard labor and get rid of their status as coolies.

After that, if they are willing to continue working on the construction site and in the mine, of course, there is nothing to say.

But if you want to change jobs, you can basically find them yourself.

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

The treatment of joining the army of the Ten Thousand Worlds Civilization has always been good, and there must be people who are willing.

He planned to select a group of young and strong people from that group of steppe people to join the army.

It can not only solve the follow-up resettlement problem of some grassland people, but also supplement the strength of the civilization of the Ten Thousand Realms to a certain extent, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Time continued to pass, and after the harvest day, it was fairly peaceful.

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

Look at the pungent object that was black and sticky, and at the same time emitted a foul smell.

Luo Ji pinched his nose and nodded vigorously.

"That's right, that's it!"

Hearing this, Zhang Ze, the new minister of the Ministry of Engineering (the chief engineer of the goblin clan), breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little strange in his heart.

I don't understand what their majesty is doing by bringing this foul-smelling thing out.

And just as he was thinking this, one of the guards came running briskly from outside.

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

"Let him come in quickly."

As soon as he entered, the foul smell entered his nose.

However, Gawain didn't make too much of a fuss, and after rubbing his nose, he decisively stepped forward and saluted......

"Weichen Gao Wen, see Your Majesty."

In this regard, Luo Ji beckoned to Gao Wen without raising his head.

"Alright, come and take a look at this."

Gao Wen, who heard this, didn't think much about 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 a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where it had been smelled for a moment.

"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 studied liberal arts after all, and he has never studied architecture seriously, so he really can't say something when he is asked to say something.

Luo Ji was obviously not surprised by this, and only listened to his rather simple expression......

"This is the asphalt I just asked someone from the engineering department to mix according 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, Gao Wen couldn't help but rub his nose, it turned out to be this smell.

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

To be precise, it wasn't the construction of roads in the city.

The roads in the city have long been paved with neat floor tiles, and there is no plan to repair them again in a short time.

And this time he is going to build a road between the cities!

With the great expansion of the territory of the civilization of the world.

The distances between the cities have also become farther apart.

Under this premise, if he wants to improve the efficiency of support between cities, the only way Luo Ji can think of at present is to build roads.

As long as there was a smooth and unobstructed road connecting the cities, the efficiency of the movement of grain trucks, ordnance and troops would undoubtedly be greatly improved.

At the same time, among the resources he had gathered in the previous wave, he had just enough to gather the materials needed to pave the asphalt road.

This made Luo Ji rise to this idea.

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

You can imagine how much time it will take.

Therefore, it is better to start work early.

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

Pave the road on the border first, so that the rear cities can be more efficient when supporting the border cities.

And in this whole process, Luo Ji definitely needs to send someone who knows something about asphalt roads to keep an eye on it, so as not to make any mistakes in the middle.

Gao Wen is obviously the person determined by Luo Ji.

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

While motioning for him to take it, he said quite simply......

"So, I'll leave the paving 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, if you think about it, you've been paddling for almost a year, and it's time to do something serious.

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

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