"Welcome back!"

There are so many meanings in this sentence.

The surveillance of the northwest base by the new Beijing side has long been lifted. The specific reason is not very clear to the Yellow River and Tian Guangyao.

When Liu Tianming left the Northwest Base last time, he agreed with Tian Guangyao on a signal to contact again. That's a very special, camouflaged electronic frequency band that's enough to fool any surveillance.

Huang He and Tian Guangyao waited for a long time in the northwest base, but they never got Liu Tianming to appear.

They only got a telegraph reply last week———— which was very surprising that the source of the signal was in Xi'an. Of course, Huang He knew who Xie Kun was. After a brief communication, Huang He decided to let Li Jiexin and the newborn child stay at the base, and he and Tian Guangyao each flew a helicopter to Xi'an.

One more aircraft means more supplies of weapons and ammunition. There is no shortage of these in the northwest base, but the companions who are far away in Xi'an need them very much.

The welcome party was simple and there weren't many people who were qualified to attend. In addition to He Chao, there are two other acquaintances who Huang He knew before. They were all the first followers of the team, who were broken up in the Battle of Xi'an, and later gradually closed up by Xie Kun. Of course, their reliability has been determined, and that is a test from all sides. Based on their current status, they are fully eligible for the immunization agent and become the new core member of the team.

He Chao slaughtered a yellow dog———— cooking still followed the old method, scalding off the dog's hair with boiling water, and then scraping the surface clean with a knife. The sleek skin turned pale in the light, the effect of the dog's blood being drained from the throat.

There are not many edible amounts of water on dogs, and He Chao cannot be regarded as a qualified cook. He used the simplest method, directly emptied the inner cavity of the whole dog, chopped the dog meat into small pieces, boiled it several times with boiling water, skimmed off all the blood foam, and then put in ginger, star anise, grass fruit and various condiments, and re-added water to simmer. By the time Huang He and the others walked into the room, the whole room was full of strong incense, and the boiling pot was full of milky white soup, which made people salivate just by looking at it.

There is no shortage of wines, from spirits to red wines.

A few people chatted while eating, telling each other stories that had happened after they left.

"The city is ours now."

Xie Kun's personality is not ostentatious. But when he said this, he showed a somewhat smug expression on his face.

He did have a reason to do so.

According to the logic of the old times, it was simply impossible to control the entire city. First and foremost, the biggest problem is that there are not as many residents———— the city's population has been drastically reduced by tens of millions of people after the virus outbreak, starvation, disorderly chaos, and fighting between various gangs. This is also due in part to the train full of munitions. If it weren't for those weapons, I'm afraid that the situation in Xi'an, like other cities, would be controlled by the murderous corpses.

Xie Kun's management method is somewhat similar to the ancient armor protection system. He first counted the number of residents in the control area, let people freely combine, and based on the zoning of the residential area, everyone carried out joint insurance. Although this approach cannot fundamentally solve the problem, it can effectively prevent the infiltration of the subordinate army.

Huang He was very curious about this: "I said, how much population do you actually control now?" ”

Xie Kun glanced at He Chao, who was sitting opposite, and the latter nodded knowingly: "Four hundred thousand." This is a number that was just counted last week. There may be some discrepancies from the actual amount, but the error is not very large. ”

"You're not kidding, are you?"

Tian Guangyao was completely shocked by this number, and even a piece of cooked meat sandwiched on the chopsticks fell into the pot: "My God, how do you feed these people?" The amount of food they consume every day alone is staggering. How exactly do you do that? ”

"We've built a couple of new farms outside the city. Speaking of which, we have to thank those water conservancy projects that were built in peacetime. Otherwise, there won't be enough food on the farm. ”

Xie Kun said it lightly, as if these things had nothing to do with him.

This is certainly not the case.

He Chao explained seriously: "Not everyone is willing to cooperate, they are only obedient on the surface, and there are even people who are secretly instigating rebellion." Seriously, personally, I don't really want to worry about these things. I also made a suggestion to Xie Kun to streamline the administration. But he insisted that the whole city be brought under control. ”

Huang He turned his head and looked at Xie Kun with an inquiring gaze.

He agreed with He Chao's statement———— if the purpose was to control the city, Liu Tianming would not have taken everyone so far. Of course, there is also the main factor of the relics left by Song Jiahao.

"I'm not a saint, but I can't watch them starve to death."

Xie Kun picked up the wine bottle and took a sip, spitting out the hot smell of alcohol: "Too many people have died, and it is a kind of luck to be able to live until now." If the city remains the way it was, the way it was when we first came over, then I wouldn't be nosy. ”

"We are the ones who have caused the change here. We took out Rocket Storm and then Iron Fist. Now, everyone in the city knows that there is only one gang here, and that is "Raging Thunder". ”

"There is a complete business circle here, and all kinds of infrastructure are also very complete. The power plant is functioning normally, and the farm output is sufficient to sustain consumption. There is also a military factory in the nearby mountains, where individual weapons can be mass-produced...... All in all, this is by far the best city we've come across. If you give up in vain, you will definitely regret it in the future. ”

"There must be some guys on the farm who are disobedient, and not all of them are willing to obey orders. The response is very simple, kill one by one, and the reason why the joint sitting system is implemented is to stabilize the order. As long as they are killed, killed, and killed, and all the bad guys are killed, then the remaining people will be honest and obedient. ”

Xie Kun obviously drank too much, and when he was drunk, he naturally talked more.

Tian Guangyao frowned: "How many people have you killed?" ”

He Chao still looked at Xie Kun with an inquiring gaze, and his face showed a faint worry at the same time.

Xie Kun obviously didn't care about any of this. He licked his lips and said lightly, "Even the batch of guys killed yesterday is about three thousand." ”

Huang He was taken aback: "So many? You...... You're too good at it, aren't you? ”

Xie Kun glanced at him, and a sneer suddenly appeared on his indifferent face: "You don't know what those people do." ”

Not everyone willingly accepts domination.

These people have a very strange thinking, on the one hand, they ask Xie Kun to give regular rations, and on the other hand, they are unwilling to take responsibility. They would rather stay in the city every day with nothing to do than work. Many of the previous rebellions on the farm were for the same reason. If it weren't for Xie Kun's extremely brutal killing, I'm afraid the city would have been short of food and starving.

Initially, there were only about 200,000 residents in the city who needed to be fed. Mass migration waves have emerged as the corpses evolve. Survivors from other places began to migrate to Xi'an in large numbers to escape the murderous corpses. It was at that time that Xie Kun added a large number of farms.

Now, the day-to-day work of the individual farms is on track. Xie Kun gives great power to every farm manager. They can kill people on the farm without having to report it. As for whether these administrators are competent, it is still up to Xie Kun to evaluate them in the end. The criterion of achievement is food production. Xie Kun didn't care what these people usually did, and simply based on the grain paid for each harvest season. If that's enough, there's a reward. Conversely, your farm manager has also done the trick, not only to be replaced, but also to be tortured, ranging from flogging to shooting, depending on the severity of the crime.

There are no laws in this era. But everybody is afraid of death. With bloody examples in front of you, anyone who wants to act in private must first weigh whether they have the ability.

"It's not as good as you think."

Because of the return of his old friend, Xie Kun said much more today than usual: "This place is full of liars, thieves and robbers. Although they are cleaned up every day, and a few can be caught every day, it is impossible to control them at the source. ”

He Chao has a deep understanding of this: "Although we can ensure food supply, we do not have enough jobs. To put it mildly, we're just a bunch of garbage right now. There are a lot of useless people in the city. We don't know what to do either. ”

400,000 is too many.

It's not like it used to be.

Although Xie Kun has vigorously developed construction in the city, the scale of business has not been able to rise. There are many reasons for this: the type of goods, production efficiency, currency issues, transportation and warehousing, etc...... In the city, there are also bars and hotels, and the old business of the major gangs has been preserved, but many people don't know what to do.

Socialization is not something that can be explained in a few words.

"I can't guarantee that everyone will say I'm good, but I've at least taken care of most of the people in the city."

Xie Kun put down the wine bottle and stared at the boiling broth in the pot: "On the streets and in bars, there are women everywhere struggling to live. You know what I'm referring to. I didn't look down on them in the slightest, and I knew that some of them were actually capable of manual labor. I can give them food rations, and I would like to see them live as they are. Erosive, debauched, and unrestrained, he moves between different men every day, emptying men's pockets with his body and rhetoric. ”

(End of chapter)