"Why don't you go to the city and collect these supplies?"

It's only the first year of the end of the world, so it shouldn't be that the supplies in the city will be consumed, right?

However, to Li Mu's surprise, the supplies were indeed consumed.

"After the zombies and strange beasts in the city were gradually cleared, the people from other bases collected these materials in large quantities, and there was not much scattered salt left for us in the city."

"There are five million surviving people in the imperial capital, scattered in various bases, and our Shuguang base alone has a population of about 500,000, and we checked the Wu family's account books, and from the beginning, the Wu family only collected 10,000 bags of salt."

"After a year of consumption, the Wu family doesn't care about replenishing supplies at all, there are only a hundred bags of salt left in the base, which is barely enough to support three days, if it weren't for the people who still have their own tasks to collect and store salt, I'm afraid there will be a shortage of salt in less than three days."

Li Mu's face was solemn.

If the salt shortage continues, the inhabitants of the territory will gradually develop various diseases.

When the time comes, in this last days when there is a shortage of medical treatment, it will be a fatal existence.

But he knew that the sea creatures would come ashore afterwards.

The idea of expanding the city to the coastline was rejected by him.

"If there is a shortage of salt, we can only build a base there, open up a salt-producing area, and it is still too dangerous to develop the city in the past."

Li Mu said.

He excused himself by saying that the expansion of the coastline was vulnerable to being attacked from the sea by human enemies.

Of course, this is also an aspect, but his main concern is marine life.

After the end of the world, mutated sea creatures came ashore as the water sources dried up, and some of them were so large that they were comparable to giant killing weapons, and any one of them was a headache for the Adepts.

Marine creatures that are not huge in size are abundant.

Their numbers far exceed the number of living things on land.

As a result, the harm caused by the tide of alien beasts after landing on the shore is far greater than that of ordinary alien beasts.

Urban areas that are close to the ocean are extremely vulnerable to devastating blows.

Of course, there is still a long way before the marine life comes ashore.

At least until the third nuclear power eruption, the coastline recedes, the water evaporates, and the Great Famine will come ashore.

It was the third and fourth year of the last days.

At this time, they were still in the first year of the last days, and they had Wang Ya's agricultural ability, and if they stocked up on food for a few more years, it would be enough for them to survive the great famine.

Zhao Heng had no opinion on his decision.

But soon a new problem arose.

"I've posted notices before asking for people who know how to make salt, and they've found them, but they're very rare, only eight people, and they don't know the traditional way of drying salt, they only use machines to make salt."

"If we want to make salt, we have to go to the machines they can operate, or we have to buy traditional salt drying methods from other bases."

Li Mu frowned when he heard Zhao Heng's words.

Now that the business alliance has just signed a contract, they can't get any capital out of their base itself, and the monetary system has not yet been established, how can they buy salt production methods with other bases? This will probably cost them a lot.

"Where is the machine they need?"

Li Mu asked, if he can not ask for people, of course it is best not to ask for people, he doesn't want to ask for the head of the central base because of this kind of thing, and add another personal debt.

"In a salt factory to the east, they were workers there before the end of the world, but that area was not our sphere of influence."

Zhao Heng said, took out the paper map in his arms, and pointed out the location of the factory to Li Mu.

Looking at the place marked by the red circle, Li Mu's brows deepened.

This is the sphere of influence of the Qingtian base.

I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.

They had a conflict with them at the banquet before, and now even the salt factory is in their domain.

Li Mu leaned back in his chair and pondered for a moment.

Even if he didn't know much about salt production, he knew that the traditional salt production method not only produced a small amount of salt, but also a poor quality.

Even if he spends a lot of money to buy the traditional salt making method from other bases, he needs to spend a lot of resources and manpower to produce, and it will take more effort to achieve the fine white salt state before the end of the world.

"What is the salt storage situation at other bases? Is there a salt factory? ”

Li Mu asked out loud.

Zhao Heng replied.

"Their salt storage should generally be enough for four or five years."

"Judging from the current information, I haven't heard that there are bases with salt factories, but I have heard that there are several bases with traditional salt production methods, but they have not built salt farms, after all, the good salt produced before the end of the world is still there."

Zhao Heng's words are not untargeted.

When he began to research, he counted the daily salt storage in the imperial capital and the situation of being swept away after the end of the world.

Exclude the plundering of some individual abilities and the direct destruction of salt by fighting all kinds of humans, alien beasts, and zombies on weekdays.

Optimistically, on average, in each base, they should have four or five years of stock.

And it is used for four or five years in a state of complete redundant use.

Li Mu nodded.

Zhao Heng calculates the average value, and in fact, there must be more bases and fewer bases.

In this way, after the unification of the imperial capital's currency points, there will definitely be bases with a large amount of salt hoarding, in order to earn points for foreign trade and export salt.

Salt can not only be used as a simple seasoning, but also as a part of simple chemicals, compound seasonings, and simple medicines.

When these fields are opened, there will be a steady demand for salt.

This will bring profit to his base.

It just so happened that there were still workers at his base who could use salt-making machines, and it would be a bit of a waste and a pity not to take that factory over.

It will also make him miss an opportunity to produce specialty goods.

In this way, he is bound to get his hands on that factory.

Even if it is the domain of the Qingtian base.

"This factory is right next to the coast, and it is located in this factory for salt production and seafood fishing."

"The only question now is how to take the plant."

Li Mu thought about it and decided to send someone to investigate first.

The people from the military department went directly to the past, which was too eye-catching.

So he said: "Let Hu Yiming release this detection mission in the Alien Guild, just let me see the strength of the Alien team in the base." ”

Zhao Heng nodded and took note of his order.

"One more thing, the first cabinet meeting in three days' time, we need to establish new laws and regulations."

Li Mu said.

He has gone all the way, and in his previous life, he has seen a lot of forces and seen a lot of darkness.

Now that he is in charge of the last base, he wants to increase the strength of the base and the happiness of the people as much as possible.

After all, he promised Hu Yiming and them to take them to a good life.