Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1953 The Arrival of the Elves
Kong Daqian and a group of elves led by Wright were the first to board the ship. Out of responsibility for his people, Wright also planned to take this opportunity to visit this border city of the Great Zhou Dynasty and, incidentally, to confirm the working and living environment of his people.

Having made preparations well in advance, they naturally had nothing to fear.

Border cities naturally have relatively few factories, and considering that the elven forest, where the elves reside, is located next door, as well as subsequent plans, further considerations are needed.

At the time, Zhou Xu simply waved his hand and shut down nearly 70% of the production factories in the city.

The rapid improvement in the city's air quality and natural environment is not only due to the efforts of the staff of the Environmental Greening Bureau, but also to a major reason: daily exhaust emissions have been reduced by nearly 70%.

Of course, Zhou Xu didn't just blindly call for a halt.

The factories he ordered to shut down were basically factories that their Great Zhou didn't need.

The most typical example is the goblin armory. You see, Zhou Xu didn't intend to let the goblins join the army, so there was naturally no need to continue producing goblin-sized weapons.

A complete halt would not only have no impact on them, but could even reduce internal pressure and pollution emissions.

Only by taking this two-pronged approach can the city's environment be greatly improved in a short period of time.

Inside the goblin airship, Wright was quite interested in this aerial vehicle capable of flying at high altitudes, and even couldn't help but ask a question...

"Minister Kong, how exactly did such a huge and heavy instrument fly into the sky?"

Kong Daqian chuckled twice in response...

"Your Majesty the Elf King, you've stumped me. I'm mainly in charge of diplomacy and foreign trade, and I'm not particularly familiar with the principles and development of airships. If Your Majesty is truly interested, I can send someone with relevant knowledge to inquire."

As Kong Daqian spoke, he waved to a staff member in the distance.

Those who can work on airships must have received professional training and mastered the relevant knowledge.

The staff member did know, but Wright simply lacked the relevant common sense and knowledge.

Even when the other party explained the underlying principles to him, Wright was still completely confused and felt a little embarrassed.

Having noticed this, Kong Daqian spoke up at the opportune moment...

"Thank you for your explanation. We won't disturb your work any longer. Please go ahead and get back to work."

The goblin airship did not fly directly into the city. Given its large size, the airship needed sufficient space to land, and it was more convenient to land outside the city.

Incidentally, the elves' workplace is not far from the city.

"Your Majesty the Elf King, please look over there. That woodland is our logging camp. Some of the elves will be assigned to logging work here."

"That's a quarry."

Stone is undoubtedly an important construction resource. Given the elves' current status, apart from basic gathering work, they can only be assigned to some simple assembly line factories.

For example, they work as assembly line workers in factories such as timber processing plants and stone processing plants.

In this round, Kong Daqian introduced the quarry and logging camp first because it was on his way.

Wright didn't have any particular thoughts when he saw this, since these two jobs would be pretty much the same for them.

Until the 'thump thump thump' sound came from the quarry.

The loud noise attracted the attention of many elves, including Wright.

Then, a huge machine billowing thick smoke came into view, causing many of the surrounding elves to gasp in surprise. "Minister Kong, what's that?"

"That's a steam-powered stone crusher, its main job is to break up a whole piece of stone."

The elves still have to rely on pickaxes and hammers for related work, while in the Great Zhou, these operations are all handled by machines. The efficiency of the machines in two strokes is higher than what the elves can do in a whole day.

The situation was similar at the logging camp.

"That's a steam saw, used for cutting down trees."

These scenes had a significant impact on Wright.

"Minister Kong, these stone crushers and steam saws have already completed all your work. Do you still need any other workers?"

In Wright's view, these machines simply did everything themselves.

In response, Kong Daqian could only say that His Majesty the Elf King had very limited knowledge of these matters.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. After all, he's the Elf King. It's already good enough if he has some understanding of these basic tasks. You can't really expect him to know everything.

With this in mind, Kong Daqian patiently began to explain...

"Of course we need them; these machines only help us with part of the work."

"Take the stone crusher for example. The stones crushed by the stone crusher still need to be transported and loaded onto trucks by quarry workers. Some of the stones are still too big, but the stone crusher is no longer convenient to operate, so the workers need to break them up with hammers."

"The same applies to steam saws. After the large tree is cut down, workers need to haul it away, remove the branches, and then load it onto a truck."

"After loading, it will be sent to specialized stone and timber processing plants for further processing. These plants also provide job opportunities for you."

Kong Daqian only gave a general overview of these points, but it was enough for Wright.

"But before we go to those factories, let's go to the dormitory first."

"dormitory?"

"It's a place for workers to live. The dormitories are usually communal dormitories, with eight people per room. Of course, they can also rent single rooms, but that would require paying rent. The dormitories are provided free of charge to the workers."

This wasn't hard for Wright to understand.

As they were talking, a commotion arose among the accompanying elves, and tall concrete buildings came into view in the distance.

Buildings of this size were unbelievable to the elves.

You should know that the houses that elves usually imagine are treehouses. Treehouses are basically single rooms and are not very big, usually only about ten to twenty square meters.

As for the Elf King's Castle, it was passed down from the old civilization.

The concrete buildings they saw before them were, to put it bluntly, even taller and larger than the Elf King's Castle!

At the same time, although the color of the cement house was somewhat monotonous and plain, the elves saw it as having a kind of inexplicable simplicity and refreshing quality.

The main reason was that this type of house was so new to them; they had never seen anything like it before.

Upon learning that this was where they would be staying, they were all incredibly excited!
(End of this chapter)