People are always constrained by habitual thinking.

Opening up a suitable area for human survival in the Gobi is a problem that is difficult to solve in the world where Zhao Gao lives, and there are too many factors to consider comprehensively, and it is extremely difficult to put it into practice.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is not a question of whether it is enough, but whether it is cost-effective.

If it costs a lot of money but can only make a few acres of thin fields with low yield, the cost performance is too low and too low.

From the perspective of objective conditions, there is a perennial shortage of water in the Gobi, and there are only a handful of rainy days in a year, lacking the basic conditions for crops to grow. There is almost no soil on the surface of the Gobi, and the sand and gravel particles are large and small, so it is not easy to maintain the loss of water and soil in farming. The Gobi is located in a bitter cold land, and the temperature drops below zero in October of the lunar calendar, but it does not begin to warm up until March, and even if it is cultivated, there will only be one harvest at most in a year; Not to mention the lack of vegetation cover, even creatures like camels struggle during the year-round sandstorms, and the occasional unpredictable snowstorm or hailstorm can make a hard year's work unyielding

——It's such a desolate and desolate place that no one wants it, Zhao Gao actually said that he wanted to farm!

What's even more infuriating is that he is not just talking, he is really starting to practice, and it seems to have a certain scale.

In the absence of competition, I have to say that the progress of the old clan is very fast, but Honghua is not envious in his heart. In her opinion, all this of the old people is just a castle on the beach, which seems to be magnificent, but whether it is a human or a wave of nature, everything will come to naught and return to its original shape.

She didn't advise, just the attitude on her face already said it all.

"In fact, in the end, it's just a problem for man and nature." Zhao Gao didn't explain too much with Honghua, there are differences between people and people's visions, this kind of strategic thing, if she can understand it, then Zhao Gao will not stop it if she can read the original friendship, if she says no, then Zhao Gao will not go out of his way to explain anything, just sighed and said that this is the end of Honghua's visit.

This question, even Lao Ba and Mai Linglong, may not have no doubts in their hearts, but Zhao Gao has been the architect of the team's macro design for a long time, and after explaining the feasibility of the plan in detail, no matter what they think in their hearts, they will do their best work.

More critically, they could not answer a question raised by Zhao Gao:

"This world is made up of four legendary emperors, what is their purpose?"

The answer seemed to be obvious at a glance, but when the two of them began to think about it, they would find that the answer that was on their lips at any time could not be said.

The historical epic opens the world, and the historical legend is immortal. In this enchantment, it involves the macro judgment of the fate of the four legendary emperors and the three empires, and dozens of historical epics and independent forces are struggling.

The only thing they could choose was the path that Zhao Gao had already chosen for them.

A road that is destined to be long and difficult.

"You just let her go?" I don't know how long he has been standing on the arrow platform, and the people standing next to him have changed from safflower to Mai Linglong, Zhao Gao still looked into the distance, a place without focus.

Hearing Mai Linglong's voice, he came back to his senses. Just that period of time, the unique class of the stacker, the "brick movers", successfully completed the bottom of an arrow tower, and only the relatively advanced "plate builders" only needed to complete the follow-up works, and this direction could be expanded by dozens of meters to form a larger defensive circle.

"There's no point in keeping her right now." Zhao Gao didn't have any expression on his face, for him, these arbiters were of course powerful, but at this time, they were actually no more valuable than the one with the title of "Stacker".

Mai Linglong said noncommittally "hmm", turned her head and handed over a set of statistics to the eighth child, with a rare look of admiration on her face.

"There are more than 200 displaced people compared to last month." Zhao Gao only looked at the last column of conclusions, the data will not deceive, this is a result that has been stable for most of the past six months.

The old clan has already divided the core territory, and all the displaced people can't actually enter the territory brought into this world by the old guy's team, at most, they can only do the most basic reclamation work on the grassland border brought by the old clan.

Mai Linglong looked at those homeless people who had just become a little angry on their faces, even if it was just a few acres of thin fields, which seemed to give them the courage and confidence to live.

"These are the people who escaped from the war - they were able to cross the vast Gobi Desert to get here, in addition to their own good qualities, their luck was also quite good." The old eight strode up. The content he is responsible for is different from Mai Linglong, and the workload of maintaining the vassalage explorer forces and the early investment and construction of the original few territories on this side is not much easier than that of Mai Linglong.

His words seemed casual, but the cruelty in them was not less than half a point. The most injured in the war are often civilians, and only a few tenths of them can go to the territory of the old clan, and those who can make them sacrifice their lives and choose this path can be predicted how cruel the war outside has become.

It's just that there is another sentence he didn't say, that is, the Gobi has become a natural screening machine for the old people, and those who have no value or not enough value will be eliminated naturally.

"This is a war between empires and empires, and there will be no substantial progress in a few decades, and we have many days like this—we are different from others, we will plant fields for twenty or thirty years before we talk about anything else." Zhao Gao smiled reluctantly, and at the end of his gaze, a vague line of figures slowly appeared along the horizon, everyone looked sluggish, and their clumsy movements were like zombies, moving in this direction step by step.

It was supposed to be a small tribe, but after passing through the Gobi, there were only dozens of people left, leading a few shapeless animals, looking forward for the slimest hope.

I probably saw a large arrow tower here, and the men in it actually staggered onto the backs of the animals, their mouths wide open but they couldn't make any sound, and the only thing that shone was the little sunlight refracted from the scimitars.

In response to them, several arrows from the arrow tower with a long range were inserted in their path.

"The rules of the steppe, the strong have everything. So even though they didn't even have the strength to walk, they still made a fighting posture. Mai Linglong sneered, and continued, "But it doesn't make any sense at all, now they can be your slaves in peace." ”

Zhao Gao didn't speak, facts speak louder than words, a few people from the old clan went over with ease, easily brought these people back, gave some water and food casually, and placed them behind the newly built arrow tower.

One tribe disappeared and became part of the old clan.

"That's the value of the Arrow Tower, deterrence is greater than everything." Lao Ba nodded as if he had realized something, there were only a dozen people who came this time, everything seemed so simple, if it was a powerful tribe of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, the value of the arrow tower would be even more prominent.

Crossing the Gobi means that there is no way out, once it is faced with thousands of arrow towers stacked in circles, it will not make much sense to break through several or even dozens of layers, and at that time it will be the best result to surrender directly and be annexed.

The essence of farming is time, and arming farmers to continuously accumulate resources and population is the best way to continue to grow and develop.

The only thing to worry about is whether these fields can support the material needs of the expanding power.

"It shouldn't be a big problem - you have science, I have magic. Although the Explorer's skills are not as effective as the original Earth's transformation of nature, it is still barely enough to maintain a basic harvest. Mai Linglong sighed, Zhao Gao's thinking is not unique, but being able to think of it and practice it has already opened up a gap with those arbiters.

Zhao Gao nodded, this result was expected for a long time. They all believe that nature limits everything, so they will only conform to nature and use nature to maximize their value. But in the constant battle, he has forgotten that in addition to fighting with people, man also has the ability to transform nature to serve himself.

Explorers, no exception.