Imperial Palace, martial arts arena.

Locke and Chuck stand opposite each other.

"I remember you all use weapons, don't you use them?" Locke asked Chuck.

Chuck shook his head.

His gauntlet claw blade was too lethal, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hold it back when he fought later.

After all, it's just a contest, not a duel to the death.

Also, his gauntlets were sent for an upgrade and were not by his side.

Chuck stretched his muscles, then beckoned to him, signaling for him to begin.

Locke was bored with himself, and his mood was somewhat bad, but he didn't say anything.

In the next moment, the battle began.

After taking a sharp breath, Locke quickly took the lead, and his burly body burst out with the strongest power, directly towards Chuck to pounce!

He's going to make this arrogant lion man suffer!

In the face of this powerful blow, Chuck did not choose to fight hard, but moved his feet to dodge the past.

Then, sharp claws popped out of his paw pads, leaving four scratches on Locke's body.

This kind of attack is not painful or itchy for the rough-skinned Locke, but it makes him feel teased.

Next, it's Chuck's solo showtime.

Chuck waved his claws, using his nimble form to move around Locke's body, leaving blood marks on his body.

Locke, on the other hand, could only be beaten passively, and he couldn't touch Chuck at all.

"Roar!"

Locke became more and more aggrieved the more he hit, and let out a roar from his mouth, wanting to deter Chuck and increase his chances of doing it.

But such a move is completely ineffective for Chuck, who is a lion man.

In the end, Locke had no choice but to surrender.

Next, Locke, who had already tasted a big lesson, honestly swore allegiance to Xia Qi.

While accepting the other party's allegiance, Xia Qi also checked Locke's attribute panel.

Somewhat unexpectedly, Locke's bravery value was only four stars, not five stars as Xia Qi had guessed.

In terms of strength alone, Locke's strength has reached the standard of a human five-star warrior.

Perhaps, the division of strength between orcs and humans is different.

In addition to this, Locke's stamina value also reached four stars.

In addition, he also has a talent called Rough Skin, which can reduce the damage taken by 20%.

In addition, as soon as Locke swore an oath of surrender, his loyalty exceeded seventy, reaching seventy-two.

It can only be said that compared with humans, most orcs admit death, and as long as they can be recognized, they can be convinced.

For Locke's acquaintance, Xia Qi was still very satisfied in his heart.

Originally, if he was injured like this, he should have let Locke stay on the side of the main city and wait until he recovered from his injuries before rushing back to Luronse.

However, considering that there were still more than thirty bear men on Lu Longsai's side, Xia Qi still sent Locke back.

After all, the longer you drag it on, the more variables you have.

Locke's return to Luronsai was much faster than when he came to Daxia City, and the group was light and simple, and Locke rode in a carriage and returned to Luronsai in just over a month.

The bears, who had been held for months, were finally released.

It is worth mentioning that these bears are all Locke's henchmen, and as for those bears who do not speak to him, they have all died in the previous battle.

Now that Locke came back, they were naturally all released, and they officially returned to Great Xia.

In this process, there were no accidents, and after being locked up for so long, the bears were more or less mentally prepared.

In this way, the orc class stationed in Lulongsai has another bear man!

This made Ali's old fox life not very easy, who let him lead people at that time?

Come to think of it, that Locke must have hated him at this time.

So in a short period of time, Locke planned to hide from Locke for the time being, so as not to bump into Locke in the camp, and then the other party would directly kill him.

At that time, even if the white wolf punished him, it would have nothing to do with him.

Time continued to turn, and after summer passed autumn, summer entered winter again.

In the past ten months, the Western Expeditionary Army has not been idle.

During this period, Li Chuan wiped out nearly a hundred tribes, large and small, sometimes going through more than a dozen battles a day, but the final result was also very rich.

The number of the Western Expeditionary Army at this time has broken through to 30,000 at this time, and this is still the result of Li Chuan's careful selection, otherwise the number of the Western Expeditionary Army at this time is only afraid that it will exceed 70,000 or 80,000.

In addition, the number of slaves alone exceeded 300,000, plus the number of other barbarians, at this time, the Western Expeditionary Army had conquered more than 400,000 barbarians for Bactria and a large amount of land.

There are also a large number of resource points.

Fortunately, in recent years, the crops in Daxia have been bumper harvests, otherwise, the grain alone will be overwhelmed.

With such a large number of laborers, Xia Qi immediately waved his hand, and the plan to build a city outside Tianxiong Pass was officially launched.

Moreover, if Xia Qi didn't make a move, as soon as he made a move, the construction of five cities directly began at the same time.

And this is only a small part of Xia Qi's plan to build a city.

In short, Gao Shi, the minister of the engineering department, is already busy and crazy.

He was only forty years old, and because he often burst his liver, he had already lost a lot of hair at this time, and he became a greasy uncle in the Mediterranean.

Before I knew it, a winter had passed.

This winter, Xia Qi did not let the Western Expeditionary Army dispatch, but let them rest at Tianxiong Pass.

After all, the current volume of Daxia is limited, and the time to establish it is not very long, so it is already the limit to accommodate so many people at once in a short period of time.

What's more, the mountain castle that has been built until now was finally completed this winter!

Previously, because of the orcs on the side of the bitter cold land, the construction of the mountain castle was interrupted for a long time.

At the same time, it was also because of that war that the walls of the mountain castle were partially damaged.

In short, for various reasons, the construction of the mountain castle has been delayed until now.

The completion of the mountain city is definitely a great news for Great Xia, so that he can have a lot of manpower in his hands to invest in other construction projects in Great Xia.

For example, the cities on the south bank.

At the same time, the newly built mountain city can also share the population of some large and crowded cities in Great Xia.

But with that comes a huge and staggering amount of work.

After all, the layout and arrangement of this population, as well as the personnel of various departments that need to be transferred to the mountain city, need to be confirmed in detail.

This also made Xia Qi and his secretaries very busy in the next period of time.

By the time he came to his senses, it had been nearly a month since spring.

"Your Majesty, you need to personally review the documents, and Wechen has already sorted them out."

In the service hall, Du Ruhui presented a stack of documents while speaking.

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Lao Du."

Taking the documents, Da Xia quickly flipped through them.

During this time, Daxia had a peaceful and smooth life.

Not only did the player not open their eyes to invade, but the bear-man tribe entrenched in the depths of the bitter cold did not attack again.

In this, the inability to deliver messages should account for a large reason.

For the bear-man tribe, they had only sent a reinforcement to the periphery before.

After that, there was no news, and no news came back, which probably made Baker, who was the patriarch, a little unsure of what to do for a while.

In the absence of news, who knows what to do next?

So what happened to Locke?

Or did you take the opportunity to defect?

And what happened to his brother Bey?

If it continues to send out combat power, what if the bears sent out are not heard from again?

Although the individual strength of the Bear Human Race is strong, it is not a large clan with a large population, and it is simply unbearable to do such a thing as constantly mobilizing combat power outside.

Faced with this kind of dilemma, Baker is undoubtedly deeply entangled.

And this situation is a great good thing for Great Xia.

Now that the Great Xia Quartet is stable, coupled with the previous wave of territorial expansion, it can be said that it is a good time to engage in internal construction.

Within the territory, a large number of resource points have been discovered one after another, so that Great Xia can be very busy just collecting resources, not to mention the big project of building a city.

During this period, the total population of Great Xia was also flying all the way with the birth of the next generation.

In this regard, even Xia Qi, who had been mentally prepared, was a little dumbfounded when he saw the non-stop jumping total population figures on the panel.

Hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, if you don't pay attention, there will be hundreds of thousands of more people in a few years, who can afford this?

However, he also knew that the fundamental reason was that his Great Xia was still too young, and the previous generation had not died of old age, and the next generation had been born.

In this case, can't the total population snowball?

In terms of food, there is no problem.

He has a vast area in Great Xia, and the farming and animal husbandry industries are very developed, coupled with the blessing of the agricultural buff, the food production is completely able to keep up, so the focus is on the living space.

Now, because the newborn generation is still young, this problem of 'living space' has not been directly exposed.

But Da Xia has already keenly captured this hidden danger, and calculating the time, it is time for him to prepare slowly, so as not to be caught off guard by this hidden danger at that time.

Simply, with cement, the speed of construction of buildings has increased exponentially.

In the past winter, the first phase of the five castles has been completed, and more than half of the houses and other buildings inside have been built.

In a maximum of another month, the buildings will be fully constructed.

Under normal circumstances, even with the blessing of cement, it would not have been possible to build so quickly.

But don't forget, he still has more than 300,000 barbarian slaves.

Although it is impossible for these people to fight, it is still possible to go out to work.

With the help of these people, the speed of construction of the city was greatly increased.

However, their efforts are not unreported, as long as they do this for three years, they will be able to become an official Daxia countryman and enjoy all the treatment of the people of Daxia.

When they heard the news, these barbarian slaves burst into tears of excitement.

You must know that when they were on the side of the barbarians, they often went hungry and had to do heavy work, and they had to act as cannon fodder when they were fighting.

But what about now?

Just because they can fill their stomachs every day, they are willing to work in Daxia all the time, and they are willing to work until they die.

Not to mention that they don't need to go to war, and they can still be normal people!

For a moment, these former barbarian slaves felt like they were dreaming.

No, even if they were dreams, they couldn't dream of such a beautiful scene!

All of this is thanks to His Majesty the Emperor.

All of a sudden, these people's loyalty to Xia Qi was rising gradually.

As for the other barbarians, it's easy to do.

Either become a slave or join the army.

For the warlike barbarians, this is simply the easiest multiple-choice question.

Not to mention, almost all the eligible barbarians have chosen to join the army.

But not the Western Crusade, but other human armies.

And after the Western Expeditionary Army rested, the number of its soldiers also remained at about 10,000.

It's not that Xia Qi is suspicious of Li Chuan, after all, he has an eye of insight, and he can check Li Chuan's loyalty at any time.

As long as his loyalty has dropped significantly, Xia Qi can get rid of his military power at any time.

The main reason for this is because of material reasons.

More troops means more logistical pressure.

In terms of the current material escort capacity of Great Xia, it is most appropriate to maintain the strength of each army at about 10,000.