"In other words, are you back empty-handed this time?"

Xia Qi's tone was calm, but the more he did this, the more pressure he brought to the members of the Investigation Team.

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

"oh?"

Hearing this, Xia Qi turned his head and looked at Rowling who said this.

"Report to Your Majesty, although the originally scheduled resource points cannot be confirmed, our exploration team discovered some other ore and resource points along the way."

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

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

"Thank you for your hard work this trip."

Xia Qi's tone became a little more relaxed, and then he gave the members of the Investigation Team a generous reward.

As for the city construction, Xia Qi did not say anything, and Rowling and the others did not ask.

Because strictly speaking, their mission failed. Since it was a failure, don’t mention the city building anymore.

The reason why the Exploration Team came back this time was not only because of the bitter and cold place that it was attracted, but another reason was that it was about to pass the winter.

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

Therefore, withdrawing before the winter is the best choice.

However, even so, the investigation team still died in the cold and deep place.

Regarding the issue of pensions for the deceased's family members, Xia Qi has ordered someone to make arrangements.

The next task of the exploration team is to summarize experience, and then wait until the spring of the next year, continue to go deep into the bitter and cold places to carry out exploration tasks, and mark all the places with mineral resources one by one.

Although Daxia does not lack mineral resources, who thinks there are too many minerals?

Not long after, the Ore Research Department loosened the research reports of these ores, namely molybdenum ore, aluminum ore, lead ore, and manganese ore.

This made Xia Qi realize that the straight earth-breaking line in the bitter and cold land contains extremely rich mineral resources.

However, the food has to be eaten bit by bit, and the road has to be taken step by step.

He began to expand the scale of Beifeng City this year, and was actually preparing to expand his territory into the bitter and cold land.

According to his development plan, the next step should be to occupy the northern forests that connect Daxia and the bitter and cold land, and build a mountain city there.

Then use that mountain city as a bridge to continue expanding towards the bitter and cold land.

If the mountain stream that was not too narrow in the bitter and cold land, Xia Qi even wanted to build a fortress among the mountain streams.

There is no doubt that this is a big project.

It is much more difficult to build a city in a forest area than in a plain area. Before that, he had to build a spacious enough mountain road for the forest in the north.

Otherwise, the transportation of building materials and materials in the city will be a big problem.

Time continues to flow. As the days pass by day, the temperature in summer becomes colder and the season is gradually entering winter.

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

Krei, Hawk, Slan and others have been destroying horse thieves recently. So far, they have taken out five horse thieves' dens.

This action made the entire outer grassland more peaceful, and a few groups of horse thieves simply escaped back to the depths of the grassland.

Another news was sent back by a spy who went deep into the grassland.

Deep in the grassland, there is no movement in the large tribes on the grassland for the time being.

By time, if those large tribes want to migrate to the periphery for winter, they should take action as early as the beginning of the month, or even last month.

There is no movement yet, which means that they plan to spend the winter this year in the depths of the grassland honestly.

On the contrary, the small tribes, probably because the large tribes occupied all the grassland resources, made it difficult for them to continue to survive in the depths of the grassland, and they all started running outside one by one.

During this period, many small tribes have migrated outside.

Faced with this situation, Slan and the others asked Xia Qi to instruct whether to clear these small tribes or incorporate them.

In this regard, Xia Qi's answer is to keep those small tribes safely from them.

In other words, everyone will not interfere with the river.

Xia Qi didn't take the threat from a few small tribes seriously.

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 removed, it is easy to cause external troubles, causing strong backlash from other small tribes.

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

The severe winter is coming. For people nowadays, the cold winter is really hard. The people of Daxia are not bad, but other forces and tribes will die every winter.

If those small tribes are aware of each other and keep a good distance from them, it would be fine for everyone to spend this winter peacefully, but if they don’t know each other, don’t blame Daxia for being too harsh.

After writing the handwritten, Xia Qi ordered people to send them to the grassland tribe.

The first heavy goose feather snow in Daxia this winter quickly fell, and the temperature suddenly dropped to below zero.

At the beginning, everyone was a little panicked, fearing that the heavy snow would go on and on.

Fortunately, the snow only took less than two days, which made everyone feel relieved.

After the snow stopped, at first glance, the houses and streets outside were covered with snow.

The people who experienced the snow disaster last year have already gained experience. Xia Qi didn't need to say much. As soon as the snow stopped, the people living in the house had already set up ladders and began to clean up the snow on the roof.

On the street, snow shovelers are also busy working.

Not to mention the ice and snow outside the city, there is a different scene in Daxia City.

Due to snow, some outdoor work cannot be carried out, so I simply took a holiday.

People who have holidays, especially young people who are not married, will make an appointment with friends to go to the restaurant for dinner.

A group of people were eating hot pot and singing, and they were really happy.

In the Service Hall, because of the existence of fire dragons, the hall is full of spring.

Xia Qiduan sat after the work was done and looked at the reports sent by various cities.

As of now, there have been no serious losses in the cities of Daxia, and no casualties have occurred yet. It seems that people have learned enough experience in the blizzard last year.

In the Goblin King City, Jin Ming was bored looking at the heavy snow outside.

Compared with Daxia City, Goblin King City is really boring.

There is no delicious food, no delicious wine, and no interesting people.

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

In the goblin administrative district, he is the noble goblin king, and every goblin is respectful to him.

But these were not what Jin Ming wanted. He would rather play with the drunks in the bar in Daxia City.

"I heard that there was an orc called Catman in Daxia City. It was less than one meter tall and not as tall as the goblin. I really want to go and see it..."

While talking, Jin Ming walked outside.

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

Jin Ming's guards were almost frightened to see this, and shouted and ran forward. Looking at Jin Ming, who had become blue and swollen, the guards were so scared that they knelt on the ground and shouted for forgiveness.

Looking at these idiots, Jin Ming sighed helplessly.
Chapter completed!