On the top floor of the company's headquarters

Qin Feng stood by the railing, quietly watching the many soldiers and hired workers below busy, and under the command of a few officers, everything was in order.

In terms of population size, the Lie Shadow Company is three or four percent larger than the Mastiff Dragon Base, with more than 40,000 people in the inner and outer urban areas combined. In the surrounding area of hundreds of kilometers, there are also many small bases and settlements, all of which belong to the vassal forces of the Burning Shadow Company.

In normal times, the company provides them with a certain degree of shelter, and they provide all kinds of raw materials, metal ores, young girls and other resources to the company's headquarters cheaply, in exchange for food and drinking water, weapons and ammunition. In the wilderness, this is a fairly common mode of survival.

With Dong Feiying's cooperation, the Lilong Mercenary Group's operation to take over the remaining assets of the Burning Shadow Company was quite smooth. Therefore, he is now the supreme ruler of the land.

These tens of thousands of people belong to his subordinates, subjects, and even slaves, and Qin Feng has the power to kill and seize everyone among them at will.

The respect for the strong is vividly manifested in today's wilderness, especially when the number of evolutionaries appeared, the relationship between people began to change significantly, and the concept of equality of all beings in the old era rarely existed at this time.

Although there were also many inequalities in human society in the old era, there was still a veil of revisiting the relationship on the surface, and there were many examples of various unknown little people struggling to reach the top of the pyramid, and all kinds of inspirational chicken soup for the soul were popular.

No matter what the big names at the top of the pyramid think, at least most people at the bottom are willing to believe that as long as they have the right opportunity and enough dedication and struggle, they can also get ahead. Even if you can't do it yourself, your descendants should have a chance.

But in this new era after the Holocaust, power is everything, and without becoming an evolutionary, even the most basic survival is in question, let alone morality, human rights, dignity and the like. For most people, being able not to starve to death and to be alive to see the sun tomorrow is success.

"This ...... Is that my territory? ”

Looking at the old and dilapidated buildings in the distance, Qin Feng sighed.

The buildings in the inner city are quite decent, but as for the outer city...... With the exception of a small number of buildings, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are slums.

"This is already a very good territory, it has been in business for decades to have what it is today, and some places can't even compare to the Mastiff Dragon Base." The fourth lady, Tang Ning, turned around and gave him a blank look.

At a time when most people don't have enough to eat, it's a little unrealistic to expect them to repair their houses.

The headquarters of the Shadow Company was actually a small town in the old days, but because the damage caused by the catastrophe was not particularly complete, and there was a source of underground water that was not deeply polluted, so the surviving humans gathered here to live in the past few decades.

Later, a mercenary army discovered the place and formed the Shadow Company based on it. It wasn't until ten years ago that the previous president got in touch with the Feng family in the south and became a vassal force of the latter, so that he was able to develop more and more powerful.

Of course, the so-called strength is measured by the standards of this era. Being able to afford more than 500 soldiers, being able to maintain a settlement of tens of thousands of people, being able to have a number of small bases and settlements attached to itself, and having a strong enough backer behind it, it can be said that it is a very successful force.

By the standards of the old era, Qin Feng, the president, was just the level of a town mayor, the difference was that he could have his own armament, he could do whatever he wanted to the people under his rule, and he also had great power, looking more like a tribal chieftain.

Moreover, many advanced technologies in this era are highly valued by him, as long as he can get back to the main world, after proper operation, he can earn a huge amount of wealth and resources for himself.

"Alright, my lord of the city, what should we do next, do you have an idea?" Song Xueyao next to him hugged him and said coquettishly.

"Let's expand the army first, tentatively to a size of 1,000 people." Qin Feng said.

Tang Ning's beautiful eyes widened in astonishment, and he was about to question it, but he immediately remembered this guy's extremely rich net worth, and swallowed back the words to his mouth.

In the past, the Shadow Company and the Mastiff Dragon Base had only a few hundred people in size - not that they didn't want to raise more, but that they had limited resources and couldn't afford to raise too many people.

The clothing, equipment, weapons and ammunition, genetic medicines, wages and salaries, and most importantly, food and water required by the soldiers, are all expensive expenses, and with the economic development of this era, how can there be too many resources to support a group of people who only eat and do not work for a long time?

Therefore, being able to afford an army of hundreds of people is already a force that cannot be ignored.

However, with Qin Feng's current capital, raising an army of 1,000 people is really pediatric. It's just a matter of arming them to the teeth, it's nothing more than getting more clean food and pure water, and the rest of the resources can be exchanged for foreign trade.

"Manpower can be recruited in the city, weapons and equipment can be bought outside, and the factories in the base can also produce some, which can be completed in about two months." Song Xueyao pondered.

"Well, I plan to revise the previous system again, appropriately lower the entry threshold for citizens in the inner city, invest resources in transforming the environment in the outer city, lower the price of food and drinking water, and increase the quantity of supply. Attract more people to develop the company and make a living. Qin Feng continued.

"It's a good idea, but the investment is a bit large, and it doesn't have a significant effect in the short term." Tang Ning said.

"Rome wasn't built in a day, and I can afford to wait, and we can continue to expand and plunder the populations and resources of other powers to grow ourselves." Qin Feng said.

The development of any power organization is inseparable from people, and only with a sufficient number of people can a strong foundation be laid for the organization. If Shadow wants to expand its power and eventually rise in this post-apocalyptic world, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people are essential.

Of course, Qin Feng is talking about the kind of population with a skill, and at worst, a young and strong person who can sell his physical strength, and a garbage population who only consumes resources, he will not want it.

"You sort out all the information of those factories in the city, and then we will study and decide which profitable industries can be expanded, and which ones outweigh the losses, and the company should also have its own stable economic sources in the future." Qin Feng said to Song Xueyao.

There are many factories and production workshops in the inner city of the company, but they are not large in scale and look more like small workshops in the old days. The things produced include weapon parts, guns and ammunition, clothing, shoes and hats, daily necessities, etc., except for some of them for their own use, the rest will be exchanged with other forces, and some of them will be sold to the headquarters of the Feng family.

By the standards of the old era, this economic mode of production was inefficient and primitive, but in today's environment, it is helpless.

Qin Feng intends to use the resources in his hands to establish a stable and efficient industrial production system for the company, laying the foundation for rapid expansion in the future.

"I don't have enough management staff right now, why don't you support me more? The exchange price is negotiable. Qin Feng said to Tang Ning.

The fourth lady turned to look at him sideways, and said with a smile: "You don't plan to poach me over to help you, right?" That's not a cheap price! ”

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