Text Seventy-fourth: New Economic Vitality
In addition, teams of survivors have been forming teams to plant crops in the fields outside the walls. Among them, the largest planting area is the Zhenye Agricultural Company, which is organized by Wang Zhenye and several Chinese, and a few of them have planted a batch of cabbage and carrots in the open space adjacent to the wall.
Several of them were the first to get out of the siege of the base, and the seeds of cucumbers and tomatoes had already been sown, although it was too late, and there was always a little harvest. In particular, most of the corn and potatoes that had been abandoned in the field by their original owners were ripe, and these corn and potatoes also brought the first pot of gold to Zhenye Agricultural Company, and the survivors were happy to have boiled corn and other foods instead of almost tired canned food, which of course needed to be exchanged by them. Although the supporter behind Zhenye Agricultural Company is the Standing Committee of Xiaolou, an important part of the company has stimulated more survivors to go out of the city after completing the construction site tasks assigned by the base.
The entire base of the small building is being restored to life.
At dusk, the weather is already slightly cool. Busy people put down their work and gathered in front of the cafeteria, lined up, and waited for dinner.
The staple food is still rice.
The canteen is a large room of more than 100 square meters, and the tables, chairs and cabinets are all new goods bought by the Civil Committee from the furniture store in the market with stones, and these furniture are of course obtained from the city by the survivors who have entered the city, and with the efforts of the Civil Committee, the market economic activities of the base are developing steadily.
In the cafeteria, Ali, the captain of the security brigade, personally led more than 20 subordinates to maintain order, and just joined 48 people today, he didn't dare to relax a little, if this 48 people who didn't understand the rules had any mess, it would be unlucky for him, the captain.
Because many survivors have moved to new homes, and many of them also have a certain amount of private property, so there are already many survivors who no longer get three meals a day from the canteen through labor, so the large canteen prepared for more than 10,000 people seems a little empty, and the workers who came down from the construction site have noticed the new survivors, which makes them have a housing crisis, because many of them are not in a hurry to buy a house, because more than 10,000 people, according to the construction process of the construction site, there will always be more than 10,000 houses, That's the price of housing will definitely go down! They didn't want to contribute to the housing bubble of the Civil Council with stones that would strengthen them, but it wasn't until today that they realized that as new people slowly joined, housing resources would become more and more strained.
However, there are also many workers who are starting to think about how to make money with these new entrants, and the workers are eating their own food thoughtfully, and now that they are more powerful, the efficiency of the construction site has increased, and their daily working hours on the site have been halved, and they can go out tomorrow.
At the dinner table of the new entrants, more than a dozen policemen surrounded them, they didn't care at all, they gobbled up their own food, and a big man gulped the food in the bowl and said vaguely: "Hmm! It's delicious.. It's been almost a month and it was my first hot meal."
“hi! Nabs! How? Is it tasty? At this time, a veteran employee who had been laid off from the construction site sat down at the table of the new survivors with his own food.
The sturdy survivor looked at the man who seemed to have come close to him with bad intentions, and craved the rice bowl into his arms, speeding up the pace of eating.
"Hahaha, don't worry, you see, I can also give it to you!" The old employee smiled and pushed his share of food over, and the strong survivor looked at him in surprise, "How?" Do you want a job? ”
The strong survivor hadn't reacted yet, and the other old employees in the cafeteria had come over, oppressing labor was always the best way to accumulate wealth, so the forty-eight new survivors were divided up by this group of old employees before they finished eating.
The Morgan family's SEA01 base has established a radio transmission system and has begun to spread Houston on a large scale to provide shelter, and the Xiaolou base is just on the northern outskirts of Houston City, just on the way into Houston from the north, during this time, more and more refugees are coming along the road.
Almost every day, strangers pass by on the road.
Since the civil committee in the base subcontracted the tasks of the construction site, human resources have become the most scarce resource in the base, so every day those survivors who have completed their tasks have run to the road to pull people. But these people are often going to the Morgan family in Houston, and it is not simple to pull them, but driven by interests, the effect of those old survivors pulling people is very ideal, and the survivors in the small building base soon exceeded 15,000 people, which stimulated the prosperity of the real estate market in the base, of course, people think that when the 1,500 rooms have been sold out, a Jingtao real estate company with a large number of houses for housing sales and leasing has emerged in the base. The office of Jingtao Real Estate Company is on the first floor of the police station, and the owner of the company is Chen Jing, the wife of Li Tao, the minister of public security.
A lot of people started to insult, but they could only insult, and the civil council had free tents to sell if they wanted to improve their housing.
The large increase in the number of team members has accelerated the construction of the base. After the completion of the second phase of the construction period, there is only one third phase of the base, that is, the construction of the city wall, which is tall and thick.
With Li Tao's assistance, Chen Ying injected everyone with immunity drugs, and no one knew that this thing was actually the blood in Jiang Sen's body.
For the food and drink of more than 10,000 people and the prosperity of the market economy, Jiang Sen has been transporting food from the warehouse of the refuge behind the small building, and Zhenye Agriculture, which has Jiang Sen's shares, is also busy harvesting crops in the fields that no one manages this autumn. Jiang Sen had already found the time travel machine in the most underground part of the shelter, and he hesitated many times, but he didn't turn it on.
Zhenye Agricultural Company has collected more than a dozen agricultural machines. Not far from the city walls, the cultivated land has been leveled and opened up for the next year.
Of course, many of the survivors no longer have to work for two hours to get the three meals a day provided by the base, and for them these four hours they can get more valuable than the three meals a day, although staple foods such as rice, potatoes, and flour need to be purchased from the base trading company, but other foods they occasionally get. There are also people who go down to the river to fish in their spare time, go up to the mountains to hunt, and the kitchen often wafts the strong smell of broth or fish soup.
Everyday life is monotonous and exciting.
In addition to labor, everyone must be trained in combat and shooting on time. The base of more than 10,000 people has an assessment every day, and only those who pass the assessment can halve their daily working hours. The survivors of more than 10,000 people have basically stepped into the first step of strengthening. As for why Jiang Sen dared to let more than 10,000 people share the secret of the stone, he couldn't tell, anyway, so far, more than 10,000 people have not revealed the secret of the stone.
As soon as the day dawned, the construction site within the camp walls was already busy. The mixer drum rotates constantly, and the evenly mixed concrete is directly transported by the cement pump to the underground steel base for watering. In the distance, gaps in the tall walls had closed.