Chapter 100: The General (100 Chapters for a Monthly Pass)
Although the living situation in Tianhe City is tense now. But the top floor of almost every building was requisitioned by the military. Various anti-aircraft weapons were erected on the roof, which was to defend against the fourth-level birdmen that could appear at any time.
The place where Chen Taotao lives is only a little more than 1,000 meters away from the military building, which is a resettlement area for ordinary civilians. Along the way, Liu Mei could see crowds queuing up for water under every residential building. Although the waterworks can still operate normally, since the crisis of the awakened, production has been damaged quite severely, and the raw materials needed to produce tap water have long been discontinued, and one qiē can only rely on inventory. For the sake of long-term planning, the production of even ordinary tap water is now limited. Under the conditions of the wartime planned economy, the daily water consumption of ordinary civilians was strictly controlled.
Although the crisis of the awakened has led to the almost halt of human industrial production, the pollution caused by industrial civilization to the water environment in the past will not be able to recover according to the forces of nature for a while and a half, and it will take a long time for the river water to reach the standard of direct use without treatment.
As the two sisters walked down the streets, they saw civilians waiting in line with buckets of water. The water supply to all buildings has been stopped, and only a few dedicated taps located under the residential buildings of the complex provide clean water on a regular basis.
The absence of running water, electricity, green vegetables and fresh fruits, and the absence of televisions and computer networks all indicate that the glorious era of industrial civilization is far away. Humanity will return to the wilderness.
"Sister, it's terrible, when will this qiē end!"
Looking at this qiē, Liu Xue sighed.
"At least we're much luckier than they are."
Liu Mei touched a few citrus fruits in his clothes, if this thing is taken out now, it can definitely make countless people crazy.
In the days of Fengdi, Lin Feng deliberately collected a large number of citrus from the supermarket that could be preserved for a long time. In today's world where transportation and production are broken, fresh fruit is simply hard to buy.
At that time, it was not in vain to stay in Fengcheng for a few more days, and before leaving the city, Lin Feng carried out a large number of supplies that might be in short supply in the future
Collected in large quantities, among which the most scraped are vitamin pills. Even though it was Lin Feng's family, they left Fengcheng to sweep and hoard a large amount of supplies, but after more than ten days, many women also felt the change in food from the dinner table.
Fresh meat disappeared, and then the supply of fruit was also limited - after Bai Ju and Liu Mei discussed, most of them would be used as "favors", precious "gifts" to win over the families of the evolutionaries or some important military figures. Although she can't help Lin Feng fight on the battlefield, Liu Mei also wants to take on the responsibilities of a housewife as much as possible where she can. Now most of the women rely on taking vitamin pills every day to supplement the various trace elements needed by the body - fortunately, when he was in Fengcheng, Lin Feng, who was half a medical scientist, had already foreseen it, and the awakened person who ate everything at that time did not have the habit of taking (you crab) medicine for the time being, so he lightly collected a large number of vitamin pills from pharmacies in the city, and the amount was enough to eat for several years.
What Liu Mei didn't know was that the occasional supply of seafood and fish to ordinary citizens in the past few days was about to be cut off - just this morning, several fishing boats that had gone out to sea were sunk by Class 4 fishmen in the open sea. Just as General Ouyang Hua feared: after the appearance of the fourth-level fishman, the sea control fell into the hands of the awakened overnight. For quite some time to come, fish, meat, eggs, vegetables. will disappear from the dinner table of the vast majority of people.
The roar of machinery can be heard on the streets of the city, the sound of large excavators digging underground tunnels. Since moving to Tianhe City, this sound has never stopped. Countless machines are working around the clock at several locations in the city. The official narrative is to provide shelter for the winter of refugees who have migrated from other places, but it is unclear whether this is really the case.
Tianhe City now implements strict military management, and Commander Ouyang Hua has issued extremely harsh military orders.
"Grab the food, shoot!"
"Those who embezzle civilian rations, shoot!"
"Whoever commits the ** crime, shoot!"
"Whoever steals property, shoot!"
A large pool of red blood remained around the corner of the street, and the sisters deliberately detoured as they passed. The bloodstains were left by a group of prisoners who were shot dead after yesterday's public trial here -- some of these prisoners were officials who had been found to have embezzled the food quotas allocated to civilians in the past few days, including officials at the level of bureau chiefs and division chiefs, as well as a group of low-level officials, and of course some wealthy businessmen who had colluded with officials, and the other part of the prisoners who had committed many crimes such as robberies during this period. In order to have the effect of killing chickens and monkeys, Commander Ouyang Hua deliberately shot these people in batches, and yesterday they happened to be executed in this neighborhood.
After crossing this street, Liu Mei met the public trial meeting that was taking place at the next street entrance.
It used to be the parking lot of a large supermarket, but now a temporary platform has been erected. There were thousands of people around the stage, and dozens of people on the stage had signs hanging around their necks. The men with their hands tied behind their backs, their heads bowed, and their faces like ashes were all in Tianhe City in the Taiping Era, calling for wind and rain, and holding local power officials or wealthy businessmen.
When the Liu Mei sisters passed by, the scene was crowded, and the loudspeakers on the side were counting the crimes of these officials one by one. Every time a person is introduced, the young man who wears a green military hat and a red armband on his right hand and presides over the public trial will question the audience:
"Should this person be shot?"
In response to him, the word "should" was neatly written.
After each reading of a person's guilt, the host waved his arms and chanted a slogan.
"Down with the embezzlement of the people's rations!"
or "Down with Zhang Moumou who took advantage of the fire to rob and scrape the people's fat and ointment", or "Shoot Lin Moumou who occupied women".
Then, the crowd in the audience will follow him and do the same actions and shout the same slogans. The scene of "all the people are united, all the mouths are the same", denouncing the same person in unison, made Liu Mei, who was a bystander, couldn't help but recall the old footage of the red era seen on TV forty years ago.
Liu Mei didn't know that Commander Ouyang Hua, who had planned this qiē, was now on the roof of a building that was only a thousand miles away from her, watching this scene coldly.
Do not suffer from widowhood and inequality, do not suffer from poverty but suffer from anxiety!
As a person from the old era, Ouyang Hua has understood what the city needs most. So he used the most powerful weapon of the great man of the past era, the mass movement. In just a few days, he not only calmed down the resentment in the hearts of the vast majority of people in the city, but also firmly held the hearts of the people and the army in his hands at once. Although a strict supply system is now in place. But the resentment of the people is not great, and the law and order in the city, suppressed by his means of using the mass movement, is better than before the disaster of the Awakened. Traitors, bullies, and bullies disappeared from the city almost overnight.
Most of the officials he was about to shoot were former Tianhe city officials, and in a sense, it was a purge – of course, the dead themselves were not innocent. As for the replacements, the city lacks everything, but the most important thing is the officials, because the officials who fled from the province are now gathered in Tianhe, and there are many replacements.
He was the only one in the office.
Thousands of people shouted a slogan at the same time, and the sound shook the sky, and the glass was slightly shaken. Looking at this scene directed by himself, the old general's blood gradually began to boil.
He whispered to himself in his heart:
"I've brought fairness back to the city!"
He opened the window, letting the louder and louder trumpets into the room. The old man closed his eyes and tilted his ears sideways, revealing a gesture of listening. Then, slowly, he raised his right hand and stuck it out the window. I made a palm push motion.
"It's a dragon, you have to coil it for me, it's a tiger, you have to lie on my stomach! As long as I'm here, it's not your turn to perform right now! ”
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Liu Mei pulled her sister and quickly walked through the somewhat hysterical crowd. The younger Liu Xue was a little excited when she saw this scene before, and wanted to stop and watch it many times, but she was forcibly dragged away.
Although Chen Taotao's residence is also a residential community of the same residential building, the number of residents in each house is still the same. But it is three times that of Liu Mei. Two bedrooms, one living room and one bathroom, the actual area is only more than 70 square meters of small suites, but there are 15 people. Not only are the two bedroom suites with dried tofu stuffed, but even the living room has a family.
Every time they came here and knocked on the door, the strange smell of the oncoming smell made the sisters very uncomfortable. Entering the doorway, the sisters cautiously walked through the living room full of clutter. Living in the living room is a family of five of three generations, and when the door opens, the two young men and women of this family are staring at the sisters, with envy and jealousy in their eyes.
The sisters were not used to these eyes, and after saying hello, they went straight to Chen Taotao's residence. When the Awakened disaster broke out, Chen Taotao's family and Wang Tingting's family were lucky. Delin Feng informed them all to escape from Maple City. The resident in the living room is actually a relative of Wang Tingting. The house was stuffed with fifteen people, all of whom were related to each other.
Getting such a "humane" arrangement is entirely due to the combined effect of Chen Taotao's personal diplomatic means, Lin Feng's face, and the appropriate "gift" offensive. Under the control of the mass movement and the supervision of the masses launched by General Ouyang Hua, the officials at the bottom did not dare to openly show favoritism when allocating residences, and at most they only dared to play some small "side balls".
According to the standard, 14 to 15 people are required to be stuffed in a suite, and no one dares to violate the iron law -- the consequence of favoritism and violation of the law by those in charge of distribution is to be shot directly. However, what kind of people can be adjusted, but if there is no Lin Feng's "face", in the troubled times, how can the officials in charge of distribution have the mood and energy to make such a "humane" arrangement?
Let's write here first, I'm so tired that I can't open my eyes, and I'll continue to write tomorrow.
I'm finally done today, and from tomorrow, no accident, I should be able to do two shifts a day.
But to be honest, two or six thousand words a day really affects the quality of writing. Especially now that the plot is gradually written to the climax...... Let's do it......
Continue to ask for a monthly pass, everyone will work hard to give tickets, and frogs will also work hard to write. These two chapters are only temporarily laying the line, don't look like they are explaining some small things around the area, but in fact, these are all important to the subsequent development of the story.
Frogs do not seep water. That's my promise