Follow-up Plans

With the transport of the gold and silver, Zhou Xu officially moved into the imperial palace of Xianyang City.

As for the minting work, it still has to be entrusted to people I can trust. There probably aren't any suitable candidates here, so I'll have to choose from among the elders within Great Zhou.

This was undoubtedly a job that required sufficient loyalty. In Zhou Xu's view, that loyalty had to be at least eighty points to be considered reliable.

But the problem now was that, even if the workers were suitable for the job, he had no idea which elders had loyalty ratings above eighty.

The easiest solution at present was for him to return personally and use the Secret Peeping Eye to check them one by one.

But the journey was long and arduous, with inconvenient transportation. Although the overall situation here had been settled, there was still plenty left to do, leaving Zhou Xu unable to make up his mind.

At the same time, Zhou Xu sank into deep thought over this matter.

Going back and forth, the most time-consuming part is, in plain terms, the mountain region. As long as the transportation problem there can be solved, travel efficiency between the two sides can be greatly improved.

Zhou Xu knew where the problem lay, but the problem itself was far from easy to deal with.

To put it plainly, let alone in this era—even in modern society, transportation in those remote mountain regions was still inconvenient.

If he wanted to fundamentally improve the efficiency of movement through the mountains, the simplest solution was to build roads!

He needed to build broad mountain roads that carriages could travel along at full speed!

But building mountain roads had always been time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive. Once construction began, the