"So you came back empty-handed this time?"

Xia Qi's tone was calm, but the more he did this, the more pressure he put on the members of the exploration team.

"Actually, it's not like coming back empty-handed."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Xia Qi turned his head to look at Rowling who said this.

"Back to Your Majesty, although there is no way to confirm the originally scheduled resource points, along the way, our exploration team has found some other ores and resource points."

These ore exploration teams did not bring them, and even if they did, it would be impossible for Xia Qi to come forward to check them.

He is the emperor, and it is impossible to check what these ores are one by one, and just hand them over to the Ore Research Institute.

"Thank you for this hard trip."

Xia Qi's tone softened a little, and then gave the members of the exploration team a large reward.

As for the construction of the city, Xia Qi didn't say it, and Rowling didn't ask them.

Because strictly speaking, their mission was a failure, and since it was a failure, then don't mention the matter of building a city.

The reason why the expedition team came back this time, in addition to the presence of people in the bitter cold land, another reason was that it was approaching winter.

According to their state, it is impossible to survive this winter in the bitter cold without sufficient resources.

Therefore, it is the best choice to withdraw before the winter.

But even so, the exploration team still killed a lot of people on this trip to the bitter cold land.

Regarding the issue of the bereavement pension for the deceased's family, Xia Qi has already ordered someone to arrange it properly.

The next task of the exploration team is to sum up experience, and then wait for the spring of the next year to continue to carry out exploration tasks in the bitter cold land, and mark all the locations with mineral resources one by one.

Although there is no shortage of mineral resources in Great Xia, who has too many mines?

It didn't take long for the Ore Research Department to loosen the research report on these ores, which were molybdenum ore, aluminum ore, lead ore, and manganese ore.

This made Xia Qi realize that the straight line of groundbreaking in the bitter cold land contained extremely rich mineral resources.

However, this meal has to be eaten bite by bite, and the road has to be walked step by step.

When he started expanding the scale of North Wind City this year, he was actually preparing to expand his territory to the bitter cold land.

According to his development plan, the next step should be to occupy the northland mountains and forests that connect Great Xia and the bitter cold land, and build a mountain city in it.

Then, using that mountain castle as a bridge, they continued to expand towards the bitter cold land.

If it weren't for the fact that the mountain stream in and out of the bitter cold land was too narrow, Xia Qi even wanted to build a fortress between the mountain streams.

There is no doubt that this is a big project.

It was much more difficult to build a city in the mountains than in the plains, and even before that, he had to build a wide enough mountain road for the mountains and forests of the Northland.

Otherwise, the transportation of building materials and materials for the construction of the city is a big problem.

Time continues to flow, and as the days go by, the temperature in the summer becomes colder, and the season is gradually moving into winter.

Recently, a lot of news has been sent from the grassland.

Kree, along with Hawk and Slan, have been exterminating horse thieves lately, and so far, they have eliminated five horse thieves' dens.

This action caused a lot of horse thieves in the entire outer grassland, and even a few groups of horse thieves simply fled back to the depths of the grassland.

The other news was sent back by spies who went deep into the grassland.

Deep in the grasslands, the big tribes on the grasslands did not move for the time being.

In terms of time, if the big tribes want to migrate to the periphery for the winter, they should start as early as the beginning of the month, or even the last month.

There has been no movement so far, which means that they plan to spend this winter honestly in the depths of the grassland.

On the contrary, those small tribes, probably because the large tribes have taken up the grassland resources, making it difficult for them to continue to survive in the depths of the grassland, and they all began to run outside.

During this time, many small tribes have migrated outside.

Faced with this situation, Silan asked Xia Qi in the letter for instructions on whether to liquidate these small tribes or incorporate them.

In this regard, Xia Qi's answer was to keep those small tribes at a safe distance from them.

In other words, everyone does not interfere with the river water.

The threat of a few small tribes, Xia Qi didn't pay attention to it.

But at this point in time, if he chooses to incorporate those small tribes, it will undoubtedly increase the food consumption and burden of the grassland city.

But if it is ended, it is easy to cause a strong backlash from other small tribes.

It can be said that this matter is indeed a bit troublesome.

The harsh winter is coming, for the current people, the cold winter is really not good, the people of Daxia are fine, but other forces, tribes, and many people will die every winter.

If those small tribes know each other a little bit and keep a good distance from them, it is fine for everyone to spend this winter in peace, but if they don't know each other, then don't blame Daxia for being rough.

After writing the warrant, Xia Qi ordered people to send it to the grassland tribe.

The first goose-feather snow of the winter quickly fell, and the temperature plummeted below freezing.

At the beginning, everyone was a little panicked, for fear that the heavy snow would be endless.

Thankfully, it had only been snowing for less than two days, which was a relief to everyone.

After the snow stopped, as far as the eye could see, the houses and streets outside were covered with a layer of snow.

The people who experienced the snow disaster last year have already had experience, and there is no need for Xia Qiduo to say, as soon as the snow stopped, the people who lived in the house had already set up ladders and began to clear the snow on the roof.

On the streets, snow plowers are also busy at work.

Putting aside the ice and snow outside the city for the time being, inside the Great Xia City, it is a different scene.

Because of the snow, some outdoor work could not be carried out, so I simply took a vacation.

People who have a holiday, especially some young people who are not yet married, will invite their friends to go to the restaurant for dinner.

A group of people were eating hot pot and singing, which was really unhappy.

In the service hall, because of the existence of the fire dragon, the four seasons in the hall are like spring.

Xia Qiduan sat behind his work and looked at the reports sent by various cities.

At present, there have been no serious losses in the cities of Great Xia, and there have been no casualties, and it seems that people have learned enough experience in the snowstorm last year.

Goblin King City, Jin Ming looked at the heavy snow outside, bored.

Compared to Great Xia City, Goblin King City is really a bit boring.

There is no good food, no delicious drinks, and no interesting people.

Looking at the green goblins on the street, Jin Ming couldn't help but sigh.

In the Goblin District, he is the noble Goblin King, and every Goblin respects him.

But these are not what Jin Ming wants, he would rather gag with those drunks in the bars of Great Xia City.

"I heard that there is an orc called a cat man in Daxia City, which is less than a meter tall and not as tall as a goblin, so I really want to go and see it......"

As he spoke, Jin Ming walked outside.

I don't know if he was distracted, he accidentally stepped on the snow on the steps, and then rolled down.

Jin Ming's guards, who were almost frightened when they saw this, ran forward with a shout, looking at Jin Ming, who had become blue and swollen, and the guards were even more frightened and knelt on the ground and shouted forgiveness.

Looking at these idiots, Jin Ming sighed helplessly.

"Bring this king back to the palace, and then go to the Imperial Doctor and the Minister of Governorship to see me."