Chapter 138: Market Formation

Zeng Qiang finished breakfast, and walked around without anything, and happened to see a bearded man in class with a group of children about a few years old in a clearing.

The content of his class is also very simple, simple literacy and writing, and after the end of the world, there is no need for much advanced knowledge, so that it is enough to be able to write and recognize.

On the other side of the beard, Xia Wei was idle, and he became a teacher for the time being, his students were all teenagers, and the things he taught were very practical, all of which were all kinds of zombies and related knowledge that were known so far.

Zeng Qiang nodded, these courses were all requested by him, Xia Wei's injury was not good, and he came to be a teacher, which was with him.

After more than half a month of construction, the defensive buildings of the camp were basically formed, the construction of the camp wall was completed, and the original construction personnel were divided into two groups, and the doctors ordered to build various buildings in the camp, such as canteens, bathhouses, classrooms, warehouses, dormitories, etc., and the other group assisted the women in leveling the land, digging wells and cisterns, renovating vegetable fields and placing greenhouses.

The tidal flats along the river were large and long, and the construction of the camp took up only a small part, and not far from the camp, a new market began to take shape.

The construction of the market was grasped by Zeng Degui, and Huang Guangwei personally planned and constructed it, and there was no one at the beginning, until Zeng Degui grabbed the two small forces in the gathering place and forced them to buy and sell a few times, and the two forces found that not only did they suffer losses, but also obtained a lot of materials that were in short supply in the gathering place.

As a result, some people began to trade in the market, and because of caution, the various forces that came to trade did not come to the camp to exchange food stamps, and they were willing to take the grain with them to trade, that is, the traditional barter.

Zeng Degui didn't care about this, Huang Guangwei told him that this was the distrust of those forces in the gathering place towards the camp, and that the camp food stamps had not yet reached the point of being strong, so he didn't need to worry, as long as the camp could pull back more supplies from outside, sooner or later the food stamps would turn into banknotes.

A week has passed, and the market next to the camp has indeed formed a scale, as Huang Guangwei said, with a shuttle of people coming and going, and self-improvement soldiers with rifles and armed personnel from Nancheng District managing the entire market.

Originally, Zeng Degui was reluctant to let the people in the gathering place participate, but Huang Guangwei told him that as long as the major forces in the gathering place were involved and let them taste the sweetness, the market could last longer, and the higher everyone's recognition of it.

So Zeng Degui personally found the heads of several forces in the gathering place, let them participate in the shares, and jointly manage, not everyone bought the olive branch thrown by Zeng Degui, and some people expressed doubts, the camp would be so kind?

But there are also those who are bold, such as Chen Jun and Zhao Liguo in Nancheng District, who gladly accepted Zeng Degui's invitation.

At the entrance to the market, there are people from both sides who register those who enter the market, they are not allowed to enter the market with any weapons, and those who carry large quantities of grain also need to store them outside the market or take care of them themselves.

All kinds of small forces bring all kinds of raged materials that they don't need and are reluctant to throw away, set up stalls here, and sell them in a big way, and there are also some poor people and hawkers who set up stalls here.

Huang Guangwei stopped Huang Guangwei from charging a fee for the management of the stalls, who believed that in order to attract vendors and itinerant people, the market should not only not charge any fees, but even more than the vendors who have set up stalls here for a long time, and should also give them certain preferential policies, such as giving them priority to exchanging some scarce materials.

Most of the people who come and go are the leaders of various powers, who bring their most beautiful women here to choose the goods and luxuries they need most.

There are also many poor people wandering in the market, staring at the ground seriously, and when they encounter some broken rice bags, they can always pick them up as soon as possible and collect them carefully.

In the market, it is not allowed to force people to buy and sell, it is not allowed to raise prices, and it is not allowed to take things without giving money, because of these stable environments, the people who set up stalls in the original slums have also attracted them, and even after the market has been open for so long, Yang San's black market auction business has been deserted for three layers.

Of course, there is also disharmony in this seemingly lively place, and in the distance, on the side of the road, there is a fenced area, where a dozen pillars stand, and a dozen people who are still alive are tied to them.

These are the people who cleaned up today to make trouble or steal things, for these people, Zeng Degui and Zhao Liguo naturally agreed to punish them severely, in order not to waste bullets, these will not be executed immediately, they are tied to a pillar, exploded in the sun, beaten by the wind and rain, until they die.

Zeng Qiang shuttled through the crowd alone, he deliberately avoided the team members who knew him at the door, looked around at the bustle, there was a place that aroused his interest, he found that in the northwest corner of the market, a circle of temporary tents was set up, and there were many women in different clothes standing outside the tents, these women scratched their heads like every passing man.

It was nothing, these women sold their bodies to survive, and he couldn't say anything, but what made him strange was that he found several people from his camp coming in and out of it.

None of them were members of the Self-Improvement Army, just some logistics staff, and they all had bad smiles, and when they fell in love with the woman, they pulled her into the tent.

Zeng Qiang watched not far away for a long time, and several women noticed him, and even took the initiative to come over and ask him if he needed service, but they were all frightened by Zeng Qiang's cold gaze and retreated, and they didn't dare to come again.

In fact, Zeng Qiang also understands that men always have needs, and he also turns a blind eye to them coming out to find these women, as long as he doesn't get sick or pregnant, he doesn't bother to care, he doesn't want to make the team members uncomfortable because of this kind of thing, so that there will be any rape and plunder.

After walking around a few times, Zeng Qiang found that most of the materials here are still camps, but the camps do not take the initiative to set up stalls, only do bulk material transactions, which is also the tone set by Huang Guangwei for the market.

Wandering until the end of the market, Zeng Qiang stopped at the last stall, a small stall with a rag full of books.

Zeng Qiang looked at these books with great interest, the particularity of this booth made it stand out from the crowd, few people cared about it, Marlos theory said that the most basic thing for people is the need for survival, and the last is spiritual satisfaction.

Zeng Qiang had an idea, he wanted to preserve the pre-apocalyptic civilization as much as possible, so these books were particularly important.