"Come over a little, a little more. Yes, right there. Lower it slowly!"
A new day had dawned. In the central region of the tropical island, their Great Zhou construction work was proceeding in an orderly fashion.
By now, a small village had already been established in the island's central region.
Unlike an ordinary village, this one possessed a certain military character, with numerous defensive installations deployed around its perimeter.
After all, from the very beginning, they had to consider the possibility that the Barton Empire's army might attack and force them to retreat deep into the island to make a stand.
But as things stood, their Great Zhou fleet had already gained a firm foothold at sea. This backup plan would probably never be needed.
At present, the small village had become the place where the various departments on the island lived and carried out their daily work.
Each department had confirmed its needs in advance, then simply planned the land and divided the areas, aiming above all to avoid interfering with one another in their daily work.
Autumn was a busy season for the Agriculture Department, and the Agriculture Department stationed on this tropical island was no exception.
In an area not far from the small village, they had already opened up a vast stretch of land. In fact, this was not even their first harvest.
Of course, for now, they were still a long way from achieving self-sufficiency. Even so, they could already effectively reduce the transport of grain from the rear and reserve the freed-up shipping capacity for supplies that were more urgently needed.
At this rate, they planned to open up even more fields and plant more grain over the coming winter.
For that, their current manpower alone was certainly not enough.
The simplest way