Chapter 622: Before Winter

The reason why the exploration team came back this time is obviously very simple.

That is approaching winter.

According to their status, in the absence of sufficient resources.

Obviously it is impossible to survive an entire winter in the bitter cold.

Therefore, it must be withdrawn before winter.

To avoid being buried in the cold winter.

But even so, the exploration team went deep into the bitter cold, and still many people died.

On the issue of pensions for the families of the deceased.

Luo Ji had already ordered people to make arrangements.

The next task of the exploration team is to sum up experience.

Then, after the spring of next year, continue to go deep into the bitter cold land to carry out exploration missions.

The area of ​​Bitter Cold is vast.

From the system map, Luo Ji could clearly feel that there was still a large area of ​​fog surrounding him.

These visions have to be slowly opened up.

At the same time, the locations with resources must be marked one after another.

This is all in preparation for his future territorial expansion.

At the same time, Luo Ji also went offline to check the ores brought back by the exploration teams.

If he is not mistaken, the exploration team should bring back 'tungsten ore', 'manganese ore' and 'titanium ore'.

It made Luo Ji clearly aware that the permafrost was extremely rich in mineral resources.

However, this meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the road has to be taken step by step.

He started to expand the scale of White River City this year, and in fact, he was already preparing for the expansion of territory into the Bitter Cold Land.

according to his development plan.

The next step should be to occupy the northern mountains and forests that connect the Central Plains and the bitter cold.

Build a mountain city in there.

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

This is one of Luo Ji's expansion plans for the next few years.

No doubt, this is another big project.

The difficulty of building a city in the mountains and forests is much more difficult than that in the plains.

Even before that, he had to build a wide enough mountain road for the northern mountain forest.

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

Time continued to flow, and as the days passed, the temperature of Wanjie Civilization became colder.

The season is gradually entering into winter.

And Luo Ji had already put on a warm cashmere sweater for himself.

Recently, on the grassland, Bai Ze's Xueyu and Brigude's Gege have frequently passed on books through flying eagles, sending a lot of news.

One of them, of course, is that the annihilation of the horse thief went very smoothly.

So far, they have taken down three horse thief dens.

Let the horse thieves on the periphery of the entire grassland be honest and safe.

Even a few gangs 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 grasslands.

In the depths of the grassland, the large tribes on the grassland have not made any movement for the time being.

According to time, if those big tribes want to migrate to the outer regions for the winter.

That was early in the beginning of the month, or even last month, when action should have been launched.

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

On the contrary, those small tribes.

Probably because the grassland resources were occupied by the big tribes.

It makes it difficult for them to continue to survive in the depths of the grasslands.

One by one they started to run outside.

During this time, many small tribes have migrated outside.

Faced with this situation, Bai Ze and Briggood are asking for Luo Ji's instructions.

Do you want to take out those small tribes, or incorporate them, before the temperature drops further.

To this, Luo Ji's answer was to keep those small tribes at a safe distance from them.

In other words, everyone doesn't make water from a well.

Luo Ji still didn't take the threat of a few small tribes seriously.

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 said to be removed, it is easy to create extra branches.

Caused a strong backlash from other small tribes.

Simply put, this is a lot of trouble!

Winter is coming, and this cold season will not be too good for the ancients.

If those small tribes are familiar with each other, keep a good distance from them.

Wouldn't it be better for everyone to spend this winter peacefully?

Of course, if they don't know each other, then take some time to get rid of it.

The task of sending the letter was naturally given to Glimpse.

Probably because of the bitterness last year.

This winter, Glimpse is obviously not planning to go out into the wild.

Honestly parked on the scaffold and dozed off.

Occasionally help Luo Ji pass a letter.

In this era of difficult long-distance communication, flying eagles should be the most efficient means of transmitting information.

Of course, not everyone can afford an eagle.

That's why Luo Ji has long started asking people to domesticate homing pigeons.

For this reason, I have been offline for a long time to check the information.

However, for now, the domestication effect is not very good.

In the few carrier pigeon training reports sent recently, there were often cases where carrier pigeons were lost and the letters could not be delivered to the designated location.

This will not work.

Luo Ji wanted to use them to transmit military intelligence reports.

Such unreliable results obviously cannot meet his requirements.

There is no other way, continue to train, what else can I do?

In comparison, the new discovery on the other side went too smoothly...

Pulling at the dirty looking thing in his hand that looked like a yellow leather rope, a hint of satisfaction flashed across Luo Ji's face.

This thing is rubber!

Of course, it is more accurate to say natural rubber.

It was found in the great forest in the south where the orcs occupied before.

Resin is one of the most important resources for their civilization.

One of the most direct functions is that it can be used to make hard leather, and then make leather armor.

Therefore, after finding a forest, the collection team will naturally rush to collect and confirm the resources.

As a result, after they cut the skin of some trees, they found that the trees exuded a milky white glue.

Also known as natural latex.

After processing the natural latex to a certain extent, there is the small piece of natural rubber in Luo Ji's hands.

The role of rubber is undoubtedly broad.

Take the military aspect alone, the three-bow bed crossbow, catapult, hand crossbow, these ordnance equipment can all be used for this.

In other words, these weapons and equipment of his Wanjie civilization can be further improved and strengthened.

As for civilian use, there are more places that can be used.

However, priority is given to military-related departments.

This natural thing, after all, is relatively limited in production.

It is not yet available in large quantities for civilian use.

For those trees that produce natural latex, Luo Ji simply named them rubber trees.

Artificial breeding has already begun.

In a few years, he should be able to obtain a more abundant and more stable supply of resources.