Chapter Fifteen System Function Integration

  Three months after the year, before and after Qingming Festival.

  It was just the time for planting melons and fruits, Li Zhong personally took action, bringing most of the people who stayed in the pasture, and fought in the fields for half a month.

  From the Spring Festival until now, more than three months have passed and all kinds of basic infrastructure construction in the pasture has been fully completed.

  Whether it is the stone slab road that stretches for miles, runs through the entire grassland and connects the farmland, or the fence around the 300 mu grassland, they all show vigorous vitality.

  At the same time, the vast beast-taming arena had also been completed. In order to meet the needs of synthesizing various war rides in the War Ride Hall, Li Zhong had the hunting team capture many types and quantities of wild animals. To accommodate these wild animals, the beast-taming arena was built as a supporting building.

  Although the beast-taming arena is not very grand, it covers a vast area. In order to avoid occupying the pasture, it was built in a stepped form on the hillside next to it.

  This building has nearly three hundred separate compartments, each surrounded by stone walls that are chest-high and topped with wooden roofs.

  At present, there are more than 30 kinds of wild animals living in the taming field. Half of the slaves in the entire livestock section are taking care of them.

  Although it seems to have gained a lot, these thirty or so wild animals are also a burden on the grassland. After all, these wild animals have different needs, and those that eat grass are fine, but those that eat meat, such as tigers and wolves, are not easy to serve.

  Moreover, due to lack of experience in raising some relatively unfamiliar wild animals, there have been many deaths during this period.

  Li Zhong didn't mind this point. In this era, there's nothing much else, just a lot of wild things!

  However, because of this, Li Zhēng has reduced the number of times the hunting team goes out. Although he doesn't care about the death of wild animals, for now, the demand of the War Rider's Hall is not that great, right? It can also save manpower!

  Apart from the Beast Taming Arena, which is associated with the Warhorse Hall, there are also four buildings that match the Armor Research Center: mineral refining and processing, forging, tanning and sewing, which are almost completed.

  However, due to Chunxi's reason, the last bit of work was left there.

  In the past year, the agricultural part of the household slaves opened up more than 300 mu of arable land. In the three months after the new year, they opened up another 300 mu, totaling around 700 mu of vast arable land.

  Such a vast area, to be completed before and after the Qingming Festival, with the help of rough tools, dozens of people can't do it at all.

  Fortunately, the pasture was not short of livestock, and Li Zhong also drew out a part of the workforce from other parts, which finally completed the spring sowing on time.

  The varieties of spring sowing are many, mainly including Astragalus and wheat!

  In Li Zhong's plan, it is not a waste of money to continue researching crops in the short term. After all, there are only so many people on the grassland now, even if the population increases several times to tens of thousands, the 700 acres will be more than enough based on the yield and rich energy contained in the wheat and barley.

  After finishing the spring sowing, Li Zhēng also broadcast the millet seeds.

  However, only thirty or forty mu of grass were planted in the pasture - and only the northern part of the pasture next to the stream had enough water for the grass to grow.

  However, more than 30 mu of grassland is enough to support the current number of herbivores in the pasture. Of course, the pasture will expand and the war horses will multiply, so Li Zhong must develop more water-rich pastures in the shortest possible time.

  However, no matter how the grassland develops and what trump card Li Zhēng has, the most basic thing is population! Now that the grassland is thriving and on the right track, the plan for a second recruitment of refugees has also been put on the agenda.

  This matter is entirely Zhao Wu's responsibility. Although Zhao Wu's ability is not particularly outstanding, in this era, refugees are everywhere, and they can be found anywhere. As long as the conditions of the pasture are mentioned, there will be countless people crying and shouting to get in.

  As for Zhang Shan, Li Zhong had another important appointment.

  During this period, although the grassland has been developing with its head down, Li Zhong is not indifferent to worldly affairs. With Zhao Wu as his 'eyes and ears', he has a good understanding of the general situation in the entire Liangzhou.

  Since Han Sui killed Beigong Boyu last year and annexed his subordinates, his power has grown more and more powerful. Almost suppressing the imperial power of Liangzhou to the point where it cannot lift its head, even the governor's residence has retreated again and again, almost moving out of Liangzhou and retreating to Longxi!

  At the beginning of this year, Zhao Wu received news from Fu's place that Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, was recruiting soldiers and generals to attack Han Sui and retake Liangzhou after the spring.

  It sounds quite inspiring, but those who know the inside story can only shake their heads and sigh.

  What is Geng Bi? A country bumpkin, a muddle-headed fool!

  Not to mention anything else, just talking about recruiting soldiers to immediately attack the rebels is a big mistake! The newly recruited mob, how can they defeat Han Sui, such an old fox? It's been two years since Han Sui rebelled and had dealings with General Huangfu Song!

  Others like Huangfu Yizhen can't even take him down, what are you Geng Bi doing?

  Moreover, as time went on, Han's army under his command also gradually became more elite. What can a mob do against them?

  However, after the spring begins, Liangzhou will inevitably have a major war. At that time, order will completely collapse, and for anyone, it is a huge change.

  What's more important is that Fu seems to be planning to move away from Lingzhou!

  Li Zhong was not affected by the chaos in Liangzhou for a short time. However, if the Fu family were to move away, it would be both advantageous and disadvantageous for Li Zhong!

  Shuai Li, Fu's clan moved away, so Lingzhou almost became a land without an owner, just in time to take advantage of the emptiness and enter.

  In terms of substance, Li Zhēn has always been under the protection of Fù Shì. Although not directly affiliated, Fù Shì protected Língzhōu, making it a safe place. After Fù Shì left, Língzhōu will inevitably become chaotic. With the current development of Cǎochǎng, it will inevitably attract envy from others.

  Li Zhong's hands were not strong enough, and without Fu's shelter from the wind and rain, he didn't know what would happen to him.

  If given enough time, after the grassland develops, no one will be able to control Li Zheng. But not now!

  Analyzed the information obtained from Zhao Wukou, a sense of urgency arose.

  Whether it is to pluck chestnuts from the fire or to get a share of the soup from Lingzhou, or for self-protection, the grasslands must quickly develop armed forces!

  Zhao Wu must quickly recruit refugees, especially young and strong men and artisans.

  Zhang Shan was going to start training cavalry with Li Zhuang.

  Currently, in the pasture below, due to the hunting team's efforts, the number of horses has exceeded three hundred. Excluding old and weak as well as young horses, there are nearly two hundred that can be used as warhorses.

  But there were only fourteen warhorses. Excluding the six that were already pregnant, there were actually only eight available for use!

  Even if all of them were formed into cavalry, Li Zhong's forces in his hands would be roughly the same as those of the smallest Xiongnu tribe.

  It's still too weak.

  But Li Zhong didn't back down because of this.

  However, it was to boost morale, and Zhang Shan summoned all 80 soldiers and 50 scouts to conduct cavalry training day and night.

  Cavalry warfare is not just about having men and horses; it also requires fine equipment!

  This part should fall on the Institute of Aeronautical Materials Research.

  Li Zheng assigned tasks to Zhao Wu and Zhang Shan, then immediately headed towards the Jia ZHUANG research center.

  Just walking halfway, suddenly footsteps paused.

  A loud ringing sound in his mind caught Li Zhēng's attention!

  Consciousness sank into the sea of ??thoughts, gathered at that light point, and a piece of information appeared in the mind!

  "Main system functions loaded, supporting facilities complete, does the host agree to enable function integration?"

  "Functional integration?"

  Li Zhong thought for a moment, and suddenly a burst of enlightenment surged in his heart!

  The system function loading was completed long ago, but now this prompt appears, so it has a great relationship with the matching settings in the prompt.

  It seems that those several buildings with matching armor research functions have just been completed a moment ago!

  "Yes!"

  Li Zhongmou silently recited.

  As soon as the idea arose, Li Zhēng immediately felt a warm current bursting out from his mind! A drowsy feeling surged up to his heart!

  No good!

  Li Qiangqiang suppressed this feeling of weakness all over his body and hurriedly quickened his pace, heading towards home.

  Li Zheng opened his eyes and got up.

  "Master, you've finally woken up!"

  In the side room, Xiao Cui and Xiao Liu transmitted overjoyed and tearful voices.

  "Master is awake!?"

  Outside the door, Zhang Shan's loud voice also rang out.

  "Come on, Big Mountain." Li Zhēn felt refreshed all over, light and airy, as if his body weight had been reduced by half. It was no different from when the system first started up. He thought that his body must have been strengthened again, which was a great thing.

  Zhang Shan pushed open the door, took a few big steps forward, clasped his fists and bowed, saying: "Master, are you alright?"

  Li Dang waved his hand and smiled: "What can I have?" He paused for a moment, then said: "There should be some changes outside, right?"

  "Yes, Master! It was just when you fainted at the entrance of our house, a huge light appeared!"

  Zhang Shan continued: "An hour ago, the entire grassland was filled with a blue glow... Master, is this..."

  Li Dang nodded: "This is also the reason why I fell asleep."

  "Oh."

  The three people present all let out a sigh of relief.

  As soon as Li Zhēng walked out of the house, he raised his eyes and saw that not far away, a row of tamed beast stages stood like stairs on the hills. However, he found that the originally simple tamed beast stage had changed greatly!

  Not only did each compartment become larger and higher, but they were also connected into a whole piece, exuding a cyan-gray metallic luster. It was completely incompatible with the previous shabbiness!

  "Ah..." Li Zhong let out a long sigh.

  It seems that the complete integration of this system function and supporting facilities marks the full opening of the system!