Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2018: The Plantation Outside the City!

Headquarters Base of Dazhangshu.

Buffer city.

An open space outside the mission hall.

Xie Weishan sat in a chair, comparing the people who came to register.

Besides him, there were five other staff members who helped with the registration and verification.

"What's your name? What's your phone number?"

After comparing the real person with the photo on the computer and confirming that it was indeed this person, Xie Weishan said:
"Okay, no problem, you can go to the right."

Due to the large number of people, everyone pushed forward, and the order became chaotic at one point.

Upon seeing this, Wang Xin, the captain of the 25th Detachment of the Armed Forces Department, quickly picked up a loudspeaker and shouted:

"Everyone line up! Don't push! Those who have registered, please stand on the right!"

Seeing that those people remained unmoved, Wang Xin became somewhat angry.

"Anyone who cuts in line again will be disqualified from this construction trip!"

Upon hearing this, the residents immediately lined up automatically, and the once noisy square became much quieter.

Looking at this group of people who only responded to force and not persuasion, Wang Xin complained:

"Damn it, you won't listen to me when I talk to you nicely, you just have to make me lose my temper, huh?"

After a barrage of criticism, order was eventually restored.

Half an hour later, the recruitment of 3000 workers to build plantations outside the city was finally completed.

Then they began to check the list of workers who dug the trenches.

At the recent high-level meeting in Dazhangshu, one of the key points was to vigorously develop the planting industry.

It is not appropriate to enclose additional land outside the headquarters of the Dazhangshu base.

The headquarters base is surrounded by mountains, making it too difficult to convert it into greenhouses. Greenhouses are better suited to be built on flat ground.

However, natural disasters continue in the end times, especially torrential rains and floods, which can easily submerge low-lying areas.

In particular, the plantation walls they built were only ten meters high, which was not very effective at preventing floods.

Therefore, it is important to choose locations that are not easily flooded.

After searching for nearly a week, Ding Jiu, who was in charge of the construction project, and Cai Zhongxi, a geography expert from the Institute of Natural Disasters, finally found a suitable location outside the base.

This place is about 15 kilometers away from the camphor tree base, and it is a neighboring town.

Qiaotou Township.

It's not far from the headquarters.

The terrain, land area, and other aspects are quite suitable for their needs.

The entire open space is about 20,000 mu in area, and it is located in the middle of the mountains.

Moreover, the terrain here is relatively high, so the plantation will not be flooded in the event of heavy rain and flooding.

Although this location is surrounded by mountains, and rainwater from the surrounding forests will converge here during heavy rains, it is still just rainwater from the mountains, and the rainwater will be absorbed by the soil in the mountains, so it will not form a sudden and particularly large flood.

If it is in a low-lying area, it will not only have to receive rainwater flowing down from the mountain, but also floodwaters flowing in from other higher places because of its low elevation.

According to authoritative geography expert Cai Zhongxi, building the No. 1 plantation outside the city of Dazhangshu Base here, based on past natural disasters such as torrential rains and floods, would at most cause floods up to five meters high.

The key is to make preparations for flood discharge and drainage.

Xu Zhen, who was in charge of the drainage project at Dazhangshu, was very troubled by this.

The base is now implementing intelligent and electrified transformation. The newly built planting park outside the city aims to achieve intelligent drainage.

Drainage has always been a major problem during torrential rain disasters.

If the base is built on a mountaintop, there is no need to worry about floods from outside entering the base, nor about water being drained out of the base.

The sewers in the base are opened, and the water flows downhill, while the water on the mountaintop flows outwards.

Initially, the inner city of the Big Camphor Tree Base was located on a relatively high flat area atop the surrounding mountains, so drainage was not a problem.

However, as the base has continued to expand, it now covers an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres, and the outermost wall has even been built to the side of the national highway.

In the midst of torrential rain and floods, both of these problems must be addressed simultaneously.

1. How to deal with the water flowing into the base from outside?

2. During the heavy rain, the water level in the city rose rapidly. How can the water be drained?
The first problem is easy to solve; it's simply a matter of using the wall to block the flood.

The second problem has two solutions: elimination and introduction.

The drainage system relies entirely on water pumps.

The "yin" method involves building water storage ponds in relatively low-lying areas of the base to store rainwater and prevent water accumulation in other areas.

To drain the water, you need to pump it from low to high, from the ground up the wall, and then spray it out from the wall.

He needs to lay the pipes in advance and set the water level line at the reservoir. Once the water level line exceeds the warning value, the water pump will automatically turn on to quickly pump out the water in the reservoir of the planting area.

Xu Zhen will also be going there this time; the laying of the drainage system will be the first thing to start.

"Manager Xu, we're starting now, please hold on tight," the driver in the front of the bus said to Xu Zhen in the back.

Xu Zhen put away the design drawings in her hand, rubbed her temples, and asked:
"Have all the personnel been counted?"

The driver nodded and replied, "All accounted for."

"Okay, contact Guangsha and ask them to bring me the second plan later."

"Okay, Manager Xu."

The large water conservancy engineering department did not consist of only Xu Zhen; he had two hundred employees under his command.

The drainage system at the headquarters base in the camphor tree is the most complete. Xu Zhen had to travel over to provide guidance when the drainage systems in the oil city and the northern border were modified.

In addition, many of his men are stationed in the North and Oil City year-round.

Many construction workers boarded electric trucks and drove in a long procession toward Qiaotou Township.

The convoy also included large cranes, excavators, and other vehicles.

Next, Qiaotou Township will be extremely busy.

On an electric truck.

A young man in his early twenties looked at the convoy with curiosity.

He came from Hunan Province after seeing the promotional advertisement for the camphor tree base. Today is his fifth day in the camphor tree base.

Upon arriving at the camphor tree base, he was immediately struck by its sheer size.

He never imagined that in the apocalypse, there would be a force that could develop to this extent.

Guided by the people entering the city, he borrowed five points in the buffer city, bought food, and even stayed in a ten-person room.

Although the house is crowded and there are many people, at least we have a place to stay.

Even more fortunately, he got a new construction task not long after joining, so he finally found a proper job.

"Just joined?" A voice came from the side just as the young man was thinking.

He turned his head and saw a dark-skinned middle-aged man who looked quite kind.

Chu Fei sensed that the man meant no harm, and having just joined the camphor tree faction, he also wanted to learn more about the area.

He nodded slightly and said, "Yes, I just arrived a few days ago."

"Where are you from?" the dark-skinned man asked.

"Hunan Province," Chu Fei replied directly.

"Oh?" The dark-skinned middle-aged man's eyes showed some interest. "Where in Hunan Province?"

"Longhui County, Shaoyang?" Chu Fei replied. He also noticed that the dark-skinned man seemed to be from Hunan Province as well, so he asked, "Are you also from Hunan Province?" *Slap!*
When the dark-skinned middle-aged man heard that he was from Longhui County, he excitedly patted him on the shoulder.

He said it directly in his hometown dialect of Shaoyang:

"You're so awake!"

"I'm also from Longhui County, Shaoyang. What a coincidence! Which part of Longhui County are you from?"

Chu Fei was immediately excited when he heard the man speak authentic Shaoyang dialect.

Meeting an old friend in a foreign land, especially from the same county, and in these apocalyptic times, is truly a rare and precious thing.

“From Beishan Town.”

"Holy crap, what's your dad's name?" The dark-skinned middle-aged man looked at him with surprise.

He couldn't believe it. He was just bored in the car and saw that this young man seemed to know nothing, so he wanted to chat with him. He never expected that this young man would be from the same town as him.

Moreover, they are all still in the town.

What a coincidence.

The man's question also revealed to Chu Fei that the man was also from Beishan Town.

Chu Fei quickly said, "My dad sells pork at the market, and everyone calls him Old Pig."

"Hahahaha!" the middle-aged man laughed, patting the young man on the shoulder as he spoke.

"So you're Old Pig's son! What a coincidence! I know your dad. I used to buy meat from your store all the time. My house isn't far from yours; I used to own a motorcycle shop, the Emma Electric Bike Shop."

"Is your dad nicknamed Pigsy (Zhu Bajie)? I know your dad quite well, you can just call me Uncle Zhao."

Chu Fei remembered it, but he had never been inside the store.

Perhaps they had actually met before, but just didn't recognize each other.

Chu Fei was extremely happy to meet someone from his hometown in this unfamiliar place, and the person even called out his father's nickname, which immediately made him feel very close to him.

When he was a child, he would get very angry if others called his father that nickname.

Although it was meant as a joke, he still felt embarrassed after hearing it.

But hearing the man mention this nickname made him somewhat happy.

Because this man must actually know his father.

So he shouted at the man without hesitation:

"Uncle Zhao!"

Zhao Zaixing was overjoyed to meet Zhu Bajie's son and put his arm around Chu Fei's shoulder, saying:

"Xiao Chu, although your Uncle Zhao isn't a high-ranking member, I've been with the Big Camphor Tree Base for a while now. From now on, if there's anything you don't understand here, you can ask me. I'll look after you!"

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Zhao." "Uncle Zhao, what level are you?" Chu Fei asked.

Zhao Zaixing said with a smile:

"It's not high, only level four, but the housing discounts in the buffer city are quite substantial."

"By the way, where's your dad? I remember Old Pig had three sons, and you have two brothers, right?"

Upon hearing him ask this question, Chu Fei's expression immediately turned sorrowful.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Zaixing quickly understood the reason.

He had seen this kind of scene far too often in the apocalypse.

Those who are generally unwilling to mention something usually represent someone who has died.

Zhao Zaixing comforted him:

"People can't come back to life after they're dead, but at least we've survived. Now we're even luckier than before. If we follow the big camphor tree, we'll have no problem having enough to eat."

Chu Fei raised his head and asked:
"Uncle Zhao, are you alone too?"

Zhao Zaixing shook his head and said, "No, I escaped with my daughter. She should be a little younger than you. As for her mother, she left six years ago."

"Oh, oh." Chu Fei nodded and fell silent.

Zhao Zaixing said again:
"It's alright. From now on, you'll be working with Uncle Zhao. Although Uncle Zhao isn't a high-ranking official at the camphor tree base, he knows some really powerful guys."

“Look ahead, that’s my buddy, the one with the gun from the militia brigade.”

Upon hearing this, Chu Fei said with a face full of admiration:

"Uncle Zhao is amazing, he even knows people from the Minwu Brigade."

Zhao Zaixing chuckled, "I also know a guy from the patrol team. He used to be in the army and joined the camphor tree base with me."
Another one works at the Ministry of Agriculture and is doing quite well now.

My lowest level is only four, but they still gave me face.

"Uncle Zhao, when did you join the camphor tree base?" Chu Fei asked.

Zhao Zaixing raised his head, thought for a moment, and replied:
"It's been over a year, I haven't counted the exact number, but it feels like a long time has passed."

"Hmm." Chu Fei continued, "Uncle Zhao, I heard our mission this time is to build a plantation outside. Why is that?"

"I see so many greenhouses in that buffer city! Why build so many? And they're so far from the base, they're not easy to manage, are they?"

After pondering for a moment, Zhao Zaixing said:

"Well, I don't know much about it either. It was decided by their higher-ups. Besides, the Big Camphor Tree faction doesn't just have this one headquarters; it also has three other branch bases, and they're all quite large."

In the north, there is a northern border.

There is an oil city in Henan Province.

There is a Northwest Base in the Northwest.

I heard from my friend in the militia brigade that the population of the Oil City branch base is several times larger than that of the headquarters base, numbering in the hundreds of thousands!

With so many people, it's natural to need to develop new areas for farming.

Chu Fei was shocked to hear this. He had been astonished by the number of people at the headquarters base in the camphor tree when he came in a few days ago.

But he didn't expect that the camphor tree base was just a headquarters, and there were three other large bases.

The power of the giant camphor tree is indeed terrifying.

In the apocalypse, there must be no more powerful force than it!
Shocked, he asked Zhao Zaixing some more questions, and Zhao Zaixing shared everything he knew with Chu Fei.

The camphor tree base is different now than it was two years ago.

People living at the bottom of society, as long as they have hands and feet and are willing to work hard, will generally not starve.

People who used to live at the bottom of the big camphor tree would sometimes fight and scheme against each other for a single task.

But things are different now.
During periods of rapid development, there are many infrastructure projects and various departments are expanding their staff.

Infrastructure construction is underway everywhere, and every department is short-staffed.
These survivors who joined from outside also had more opportunities to earn points.

In addition, the camphor tree has a rich history and profound cultural heritage.

With the large-scale development of greenhouses, grain output has reached new highs year after year.

Food can be sold to these people at a relatively low price.

Compared to the corn tortillas in Oil City, the price in Oil City is 0.25 points.

However, the camphor tree base only requires 0.18 points.

The two chatted, and before they knew it, the electric truck had brought them to Qiaotou Township.

It was the plantation site outside the city that Ding Jiu and Cai Zhongxi had chosen.

Wang Xin, the captain of the 25th Brigade, jumped out of the vehicle.

Looking ahead at the vast expanse of land, and all around, there are towering mountains.

He clicked his tongue in admiration:
"This place is indeed excellent. It is spacious and flat, making it ideal for building walls and growing crops."

(End of this chapter)