Chapter Twenty-Four: Two More Weeks
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The trade of Big Rock City was successful, and for the first time, it exchanged guns and ammunition for a large number of zombie crystal nuclei from the major forces in Yangcheng, which increased the strength of the various forces in the entire Yangcheng, but on the whole, it still did not break the balance between them.
Hua Shaojin also opened a shop in Yangcheng Base City very smoothly, dealing in all the commodities of Big Rock City, and this nail of intelligence collection and making money can be regarded as completely driven.
And because of Chu Heng's open trade, the southern part of the entire Shannan region was shaken, and countless caravans of Big Rock City arrived at Donglin Base City, Fenglin Base City, Huancheng Base City and other places, dumping goods, in exchange for rare materials and crystal nuclei, what high-end wine, cosmetics, star anise and other spices, steel ladders, stationery and other things that are not sold in the logistics stores of Big Rock City, but also made Big Rock City a legend-like existence, countless people came together to want to take a look at Big Rock City, hoping to live in such a city where there is no shortage of materials.
However, Xiahou Xin had already received Chu Heng's instructions, because the energy coins and materials were limited, and the expansion of Big Rock City also needed to be carried out step by step, and it was impossible to recruit people uncontrollably, so except for those with special talents, only five hundred people were accepted every day.
Xiahou Xin has developed a kind of identity certificate, called a resident card, people who do not have a resident card are not allowed to work in Big Rock City, and everyone who comes to Big Rock City will be issued a temporary residence permit, this certificate will indicate the time of issuance and expiration of the certificate, once the overstay is found, they will be punished severely, including how long they cannot apply for a temporary residence permit and other penalties.
But all kinds of restrictions can't stop it, these people who have seen the benefits of Big Rock City want to stay, even if they are working for those caravans and shops, there are countless people who want to stay, after all, in Big Rock City, not only will they not starve to death, but as long as they have money, they can get all the items they want.
After all, in the last days, the vast majority of people in the city are not without money, or have nothing of value, but have a price, and there are many things that you can't buy if you want to.
It's different in Big Rock City, I can't afford a pack of cigarettes, I can always buy one or two, I don't have energy coins to go to the logistics store to spend, I'll barter with others, here, what you want, you will be rewarded for your efforts, not anywhere else, except for food and water, you can't get anything.
Therefore, the most attractive thing about Big Rock City is not that it has good treatment and good jobs, but that this kind of feeling of abundance and peace of mind is something that other base cities can't give.
And since learning that Big Rock City was careful about exchanging five zombie crystal cores for one energy coin, all the adventure groups moved to fight the zombies for the beef and beer that were placed in the window.
The rapid development of Big Rock City did not provoke the eyes of others, because Chu Heng's record of defeating Zhao Bingzhi's 8,000 people with 2,000 people had spread all over the Shannan region, and Chu Heng had also rapidly expanded his army after that, and had reached the scale of 10,000 standing troops, although it was unknown how effective it was, but the results of defeating Zhao Bingzhi were there, and it really deterred other people with bad intentions, after all, there was no one in the area who could be connected with Big Rock City stronger than Zhao Bingzhi.
It can be said that purely in terms of military strength, he Great Rock City has already reached the level of entering the big forces in this region.
The Shannan area is centered on the Qingzhou base city, the Shannan area is divided into two, the north and south two regions, in the southern area, there were originally six base cities, seventeen satellite cities, and now the big rock city has become an outlier between the Donglin base city and the Yangcheng base city, the population is more than the satellite city, but it is far inferior to the base city, but it has nearly 10,000 people, the strength is strong, the most interesting thing is that he is still an embarrassing identity, because the army of hope that occupies the big rock city has been nameless, It is occupied in the name of the adventure party.
You must know that the functions of the Chinese government in the last days will collapse again, and you still need a name, just like the system of the festival at the end of the Tang Dynasty, no matter how **, you are also the party of the Tang Dynasty.
But Chu Heng didn't care, he still went his own way, and attacked again and again, in the name of training the army, he swept several nearby towns and towns, cleaned up a lot of materials, and also emptied a few towns, if there were no special circumstances, except for Little Rock City within a radius of fifty kilometers from Big Rock City, the zombies would be cleaned up.
These lands in Big Rock City should not be let go, as long as they are official residents of Big Rock City, that is, those who have resident certificates, they will be issued with a few acres of land, and they will plant them without a job, and they will spend money to help them plant, because Chu Heng found that things like food and water consume a lot of money, and if you exchange energy coins, it is too expensive!
In fact, Chu Heng has long found that energy coins are very expensive to buy anything, of course, this is compared with the price of goods in peacetime, although it is not comparable, but it also makes Chu Heng understand a truth, that is, pure energy conversion cannot replace normal production, the more raw materials, the more expensive the price of the supermarket, the more high-tech, the supermarket is cheaper, with energy coins exchange, the price of a Dongfeng warrior can only buy seven or eight hundred kilograms of rice, this proportion gap is too big, equal to the price of rice of the same level of raw materials at the same time, It contains technology that supermarkets simply ignore and remember.
So, like grain, cloth or even pork and beef, it is best to be able to produce it yourself, because it is too expensive.
But how many towns and villages did Chu Heng sweep, and only got five pigs and four cows, as well as less than a hundred chickens, ducks and geese that added up, these poultry are now stocked by Chu Heng as treasures, and the six old farmers are in charge, and the logistics department even assigned a platoon of people to protect them.
Of course, Chu Chuheng has also been looking for a government affairs processor in order to liberate Xiahou Xin, he was lucky to find it, this person is called Quan Baisong, who is the president of Shannan University in peacetime, and has served as the county magistrate of Little Rock City, both in personnel and administration, and has rich experience in dealing with it, and what is more valuable is that this person is very decent and has done a lot of practical things, it is said that after the outbreak of the virus, there are nearly 2,000 people in the school who have not been corpsed, and this president Quan relies on his prestige and ability, Almost all of the two thousand students were brought out from Yangcheng, and this move also made him famous, but because he did not join the same stream with Zhao Bingzhi and refused to give advice to him to enslave the people, he was assigned to Zhongtang Satellite City as a political official, which was still because Quan Baisong's reputation at that time was really high, so he was given such a position, and after arriving in Zhongtang, he was guarded by the commander step by step, and three months passed, Quan Baisong faded out of the big stage, and no one knew this person anymore.
Chu Heng originally couldn't think of this person, he also saw Quan Baisong when he was a soldier in Yangcheng Base City, when Quan Baisong was in the limelight, he also gave a lecture, telling the people who came to listen to the lecture not to give up hope, to regain confidence, and unite to build a human home, he spoke very infectiously, and at that time, Chu Heng was moved enough, and he cried bitterly, which made Quan Baisong at that time also remember Chu Heng's face, but so much time has passed, and there is no news of Quan Baisong, Chu Heng is struggling on the line of life and death, I have long forgotten how I can think of such a person. It was a time when I was eating at the Fuquan Restaurant in Big Rock City, a few people at the adjacent table were also eating, these people happened to be the caravan from Zhongtang to Big Rock City, and they were the people who came to get a batch of crystal nuclei for cigarettes, and the business was doing well, and if they had spare money, they would come here to spend it, after all, even the residents of Big Rock City who could enter this Fuquan Restaurant were rich people this year, and the average soldier could not afford to consume, and a meal could eat half a week's salary.
When these people talk loudly, there is no one around, what they want to say, and when they talk about it, they talk about Quan Baisong, it turns out that Quan Baisong is now being hollowed out? is only named in the Zhongtang Government Affairs Department, and every month there are fifteen catties of bud rice noodles more than the people who receive relief food!
You know, Quan Baisong is very lucky, his wife and daughter are alive, from this group of people, I know that Zhongtang is not a granary, everyone only has twenty steamed buns the size of a baby's fist a week, if you want to think more, you have to do coolies to build houses and build city walls, Quan Baisong and his wife are both in their fifties, Quan Baisong also has arthritis, that can do physical work, how old their daughter is Chu Heng is not clear, but compared to the three of them, the life must be very hard.
Chu Heng took this matter to heart, after all, Xiahou Xin is really busy now, although the garrison headquarters has established a government affairs hall to help him deal with government affairs, but the number of people increasing every day, how many people are needed for various jobs, the issuance and change of temporary residence permits, and everything else, Xiahou Xin is really busy, and he is very clumsy to deal with, if it weren't for the fact that the population is less than 100,000 now, Xiahou Xin would have gone crazy.
Therefore, as soon as he told Xiahou Xin his idea, Xiahou Xin immediately agreed, for no other reason, Xiahou Xin knew Quan Baisong, and the two had a lot of friends when they were in Yangcheng Base City, and they also knew that Zhao Bingzhi could not win over the practice of exclusion, but he was powerless to stop it at that time, thinking that Quan Baisong had died silently in the hands of Zhao Bingzhi, I heard that Quan Baisong was still alive, and Chu Heng intended to recruit him to deal with the government affairs of Big Rock City, Xiahou Xin immediately agreed, and wrote a handwritten letter to let his captain named Dou Pingqing run a trip, because this Dou Pingqing used to know Xiahou Xin and Quan Baisong, this kind of thing is easier to explain clearly to people who know it.
Chu Heng also wrote a letter sincerely, gave it to Hua Shaojin, asked Hua Shaojin and Dou Pingqing to put on civilian clothes, and brought a bunch of people to invite Quan Baisong's family over.
As soon as Hua Shaojin heard that he was looking for a person with full authority to handle the affairs of Big Rock City, he immediately attached importance to this matter, you know, if Quan Baisong agreed, he would immediately rank among the top five powerful people in Big Rock City!
That's a giant!
How could he not pay attention to Hua Shaojin, he explained the matter of the reconnaissance battalion to his subordinates on the same day, and he picked a dozen guys who were good and smart, and went on the road.