Chapter 130: Plains Development
Three days later, at noon, the sun was shining brightly, and a wave of heat was blowing in the face, which made people feel irritated.
At this moment, on a plain a few kilometers away from the base of the mountain, thousands of sweaty survivors are carrying hoes and leveling the plain under the scorching sun, removing weeds from it, so that the plain can be used for grain planting.
There were soldiers watching around the plain, and although they were uncomfortably exposed to the heat, no one dared to be lazy for fear of losing the job they had so hard to find.
Near the plain, Wang Jin stood on the roof of the Humvee and asked Zhang Zhouming under the Humvee: "Zhang Zhouming, when will this plain finish turning over the soil and plant the sweet potato seeds?" ”
"Report to the city lord, with our current manpower, it can be completed within a week, and the sweet potato seeds will be planted without delaying our planting time."
Zhang Zhouming wiped the sweat that was constantly oozing from his forehead and explained to Wang Jin.
After receiving Wang Jin's appointment, Zhang Zhouming did not relax for a moment, and devoted all his energy to the plains, striving for a bumper harvest as soon as possible, giving Wang Jin a satisfactory answer, and seeking a good future for himself.
Wang Jin nodded, looked at the many survivors who were crumbling under the scorching sun, and said to Zhang Zhouming: "Since there is enough time, let these survivors rest and rest, and give them saliva to drink, so as not to die of exhaustion here." ”
"Yes, thank them for their kindness."
Zhang Zhouming said from the bottom of his heart that these survivors have not eaten well after the end of the world, and their physique is generally poor, and they have been carrying out high-intensity physical labor under the sun, and it is really possible that there will be survivors with poor physique who die of heat stroke.
Zhang Zhouming was also a survivor before, knowing the suffering of the survivors, and usually did not squeeze them like this, today Wang Jin came to inspect, Zhang Zhouming in order to give Wang Jin a good impression, so he ordered the survivors to continue to work hard.
Now that he had Wang Jin's order, Zhang Zhouming naturally would not refuse, and struck the gong twice, signaling that the survivors could rest.
These systems issued by Zhang Zhouming, striking a gong to indicate the start of work, two sounds to call it a day, and three sounds to indicate eating, are a good dispatch for these survivors, and there is no need to shout with a loudspeaker.
Hearing the sound of the gong, the survivors exhaled in unison and hurried to escape the scorching sun.
It is now the hottest time of the day, the temperature can reach 36 or 37 degrees, and these survivors are weak, it is very difficult in such a temperature, if it were not for Wang Jin's reminder, many people would almost faint to the ground.
On one side of the plain, there is a simple pavilion, a simple pavilion with wooden stakes on both sides and thatch on top.
The survivors were ordered to quickly enter the pavilions and rest on the ground covered with dry grass.
Wang Jin's system for them was to work at 6 o'clock in the morning, let them go home at 5 o'clock in the evening, and have two hours of rest at noon.
In order to take care of them, Wang Jin set up a soup kitchen point here for the gruel distributed by the base every day, and the gruel can be drunk every morning and noon, so that he can not run back and forth for several kilometers to delay his working time, and he can get two or two sweet potatoes home after finishing work in the afternoon, which is considered to be the completion of the day's work.
Although it was hard work, a lot of physical labor was required every day, none of these survivors complained, and hunger was the most terrible torture compared to hard work.
There are many survivors in the base who envy them, and if they don't, there will definitely be a lot of people rushing to take over their jobs.
Like now, there are many survivors on the periphery of the plains, looking at them longingly, they pick wild vegetables and catch insects every day, and the food they get is not more than two taels of sweet potatoes, and it is also very unpalatable, so they will envy the survivors who can work for Wang Jin for a long time.
After observing here for a while, Wang Jin continued on his Humvee, and it was not long before he came to a larger-scale work site.
On the outskirts of the plains, more than 3,000 captive soldiers toiled with hoes and poles, digging fish ponds and a large ditch connecting the river.
Unlike the survivors, these soldiers had no time to rest, even when the weather was at its hottest in the middle of the day, they had no sweet potatoes to eat, and they had nothing else to eat except two meals of gruel a day.
Because these soldiers did not have very poor living conditions and good physical fitness before Wang Jin took control of the Lishan base, they could still persist in the face of such physical labor, and there was no large-scale heat stroke.
If the survivors had a hard time digging the ground, the captive soldiers dug ditches and fish ponds were miserable.
The ground in the plains is soft, the ground here is hard, and the captive soldiers have to dig deeper, and the deeper they go, the harder the soil becomes, which makes it difficult for the captive soldiers to dig, and it often takes several times the effort to dig up the plot.
Even many veterans are complaining that they are suffering for days, and their calloused palms have blisters on their hands that have been trained all year round, and their tired whole bodies are weak, which shows how heavy the labor intensity is.
The mood of a large number of soldiers continued to accumulate and deteriorate, and the slogans of the strike sounded day by day, and Wang Jin had long been on guard against these irascible soldiers.
Unlike the few survivors who patrolled the plains, the site was guarded by 300 heavily armed soldiers, with tall towers scattered around it, and the muzzles of machine guns on the towers were aimed at the construction site to ensure that anyone could riot and turn it into a hornet's nest at the first time.
In addition, Wang Jin's swarm troops also patrolled here with five hundred, staring at the captured soldiers with murderous eyes, so that they did not dare to run away and riot.
Noah is stationed here to prevent accidents, so that high-end force monitoring can ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Although Wang Jin is not prepared to detain these soldiers all the time, he must maximize their value before releasing them, such good labor can really not be found in addition to their entire base, and they don't have to pay food as wages, where can such a good thing be found.
As for the riot, in front of Wang Jin's military strength, this is just a joke, not to mention that these soldiers are unarmed, they were all defeated by Wang Jin when they had guns, cannons and armored vehicles, let alone now.
Wang Jin inspected accompanied by He Youxi, and unexpectedly saw an old acquaintance, Lu Yuanhuai, the commander of the Yuan Army.
He is already the chief of staff appointed by Wang Jin at this moment, and he is training Wang Jin's recruits in the Ministry of Public Security, training the originally lazy recruits vividly, sweeping away the previous appearance of being a hanger, and gradually has the rigid style of a soldier, of course, this is also driven by new veterans.
Since Wang Jin asked Chen Dong to recruit a thousand veterans to join the Ministry of Public Security last time, Lu Yuanhuai also became the chief of staff by the way, but he just proposed to let Wang Jin lift the personal restrictions on Meng Quan, don't embarrass the teacher.
Wang Jin agreed to his request, except for the barracks that Meng Quan was not allowed to approach, he could go to the place where the base was, so that he could become an old man who lived for the rest of his life, although he had no real power, but he could spend his old age with peace of mind.
Now Lu Yuanhuai is naturally here to visit the captive soldiers who are working, for this reason Lu Yuanhuai has petitioned many times, but Wang Jin refused, bluntly said If you can help me dig the fish pond ditch, I will let these soldiers go, and the food is only given two meals of gruel a day, so that Lu Yuanhuai has nothing to say in the end.
In addition to suppressing the surplus value of these soldiers, Wang Jin also took into account the temperament of honing and honing these soldiers, and in the future, these soldiers will not be released all at once, but will be released one after another to become ordinary survivors, so as not to have a bad impact on the base if these soldiers gather.
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