Chapter Seventy-Eight: Development and People's Will

Li Lan did not know what the top leaders of China and the United States were thinking, and even if he did, he would not have time to pay attention to it.

For half a month, Li Lan did not stop for a moment.

In the first six days of the 113 model, the base's funds have been unable to make ends meet, and the construction work has been stopped. Fortunately, due to the daily capital income brought by the 113 model, the capital income and expenditure of the base finally reached a balance on the eighth day.

By the ninth day, the base's capital income had reached 100,000 and 50,000 per day, exceeding the daily expenditure of building the 113 model. Next, every day that passed, the base's daily capital income would be 15,000 more, and after another six days, the income obtained by relying on the ore refining plant had reached 180,000 per day. That's six times higher than when you had primary permissions.

It was also from the ninth day that Li Lan began to plan the construction of a new unit.

The wall was the first to start, but Li Lan did not build the entire outermost wall in one go, but slowly perfected the wall around the base.

In addition, we will put the future residential area, the main road, and the civil block, the commercial block, and begin to set up. Li Lan seems to want to plan the territory into a city that combines military and civilian use.

To this end, Li Lan also took out the graphics of the ancient Chinese Bagua Array to build it. In order to speed up the pace of planning and construction, in the past five or six days, Li Lan has also recruited more than 300 engineers and began to beat and beat in the wall.

Moreover, in order to give full play to the power of the Bagua Array, Li Lan strictly ordered the engineers that all civil buildings should be built the same, and all layouts should be unified, as should the layout of the road network.

This was by no means a whim of Li Lan, but considered the overall beauty and defense of the city in the future. As long as the city is fully built, then this is the biggest labyrinth in the whole Shijie, as long as you are unfamiliar, even if you are holding a map, as soon as you enter it, you will be completely lost. What's more, there is a base car, even if it is a satellite positioning system, once it enters it, it will completely fail. Not to mention, this building mode also has a certain electromagnetic interference effect.

However, it is not easy to accomplish this feat, it will take a long time, as well as a lot of manpower and material resources. Even if it is a construction unit owned by Li Lan, it will take at least one or two years to build this 800-square-kilometer area.

It is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is mainly reflected in the residential buildings, with an area of more than 800 square kilometers, and it is impossible for Li Lan to use all of them as military facilities, and in order for the base to develop, it naturally needs a large number of civilians to enter. Moreover, the city of Bossaso is very dilapidated, even if it is given to Li Lan, if you want to develop Bossaso, it will cost a lot of money, such as replanning and rebuilding a city.

At present, what Li Lan is troubled with is reinforced concrete, but fortunately, these are not strategic resources, and it is not difficult to obtain them in large quantities. And the construction workers, the engineers are more than competent. But some construction machinery is not so easy to get. It can't be all manpower! That's going to be built until when.

Territorial planning is only one aspect of Li Lan's busyness, and military development is the focus of Li Lan's busy work these days. After all the 400 engineers on the conscription list came out, Li Lan would need unlimited recruitment next.

Starting today, Li Lan will build a large number of barracks, and each additional barracks can reduce the time it takes for soldiers to be recruited, and in order to complete the target of high-level authority, he needs to reduce the time for recruiting soldiers to at least 20 minutes. In this way, 72 soldiers will be called out every day. Only with such speed can the rapidly expanding territory have sufficient defense capabilities.

Of course, it is also necessary to build a large number of barracks, otherwise the conscripted soldiers will have no place to live. According to Li Lan's calculations, in order to meet the number of soldiers with advanced privilege indicators, he needs to have at least sixty barracks. Not counting the barracks used by the armored troops, in order to meet the needs of the barracks used by the armored troops, Li Lan still needs to build at least dozens of barracks, and still build several barracks together, and then open them up, and then renovate them, so that tanks and armored vehicles have enough space for training, and add garages and maintenance workshops.

In addition to reserving a large number of vacant spaces for those construction units that have not yet been opened, Li Lan should also rationally allocate the building units that can be built at present in accordance with the city's planning.

In the past, when he was in the primary authority, Li Lan didn't feel it, but now that the territory is bigger and there is more work, he gradually feels the heavy task. However, this kind of heavy work can bring inner satisfaction, and he is intoxicated by the sense of accomplishment of creating a city with his own hands.

However, planning these things is not Li Lan's wisdom alone, but relying on hundreds of engineers to work together with him, and even Natasha is also interested in participating.

The large conference room next to the living room on the first floor has been in a state of unturned lights, and there are people drawing and discussing in it all the time.

On the other hand, Muhammadi had little time to stay at the base, and Li Lan put the 100 Chinese soldiers under his command and first eliminated all the checkpoints set up by the government army along the main road in Bossaso.

According to the usual practice, the two sides did not make peace, and naturally they were still in a state of war, and Li Lan naturally could not let these sentry posts along the road continue to exist. Because, under Farah's operation, a large amount of cement and steel will be transported to the territory through this road every day, which needs to ensure the smooth flow of this road.

At present, the situation in Bossaso is very tense, and there are a large number of conflicts every day.

Moreover, these days, Li Lan also asked Muhammadi to bring a lot of arms as gifts to the major shili, and the major shili were tempted by weapons, and in order to be able to concentrate on dealing with the government army, they all expressed their apologies for the previous conflict, so that every time Muhammadi returned, he could bring a lot of food and livestock.

Although this trick is very straightforward, the effect is very good, at least Li Lan has enough time to develop himself. When the strength in his hands is fully strengthened, then he will mercilessly put the two sides in the pot, of course, this is just his inner thoughts.

At present, everyone in the base is very busy, and Mohammadi is no exception, in addition to contacting the major shili and Farah, he also has to take on the propaganda work of the territory. For the inhabitants of Li Lan's territory, this very crucial issue falls on Mohammudi, the only native.

From the territory to Bossaso, there are scattered villages, as well as fishing villages that have been almost deserted, all of which are the main areas of Mohammadi's work.

This year's rainy season rainfall in Somalia has continued to hit record lows, and crop harvests have also been low, which has also brought a lot of convenience to Mohammudi's work.

Those villages that Muhammadi is more familiar with have already begun to relocate, and the villages that are a little farther away are also in the process of being wait-and-see.

In this regard, Li Lan specially instructed Muhammadi to focus on persuasion and propaganda, strictly prohibit any acts of force and coercion, and not be too radical for those who do not come.

And in this regard, Li Lan is not in a hurry, now he does not have enough jobs to arrange these civilians, even if they join the construction team, there are not enough materials for large-scale construction.

With a solid deal with Falah, with an income of 180,000 base funds per day, Li Lan is not short of wages. However, the development of the territory must be gradual and must not be rushed.

The main thing that Mohammadi is asked to do so is to create an image of haode in the hearts of Somalis so that they can accept him.

The Somalis are a strange people, they do not reject outsiders, as long as they can give them the benefit of life. This may be the result of chronic poverty. And Li Lan wants to take advantage of this to publicize his purpose in Somalia. Hopefully, more Somalis will be supported.

However, even if the Somali are no longer xenophobic, it will not be easy for him to fully win the hearts and minds of the people, not only will it require a lot of material contributions, but the road will also be tortuous and difficult, and it will require his unremitting perseverance.