Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2020 Development Issues, Interconnected in Each Link

The Sun Also Rises.

The trading market, which had been quiet all night, became lively again.

The crowds were dense.

In the transportation and warehousing area of ​​the southern section of the trading market, Zhu Xiao and Li Qi led a convoy of transport vehicles out of the warehousing area.

They set off at dawn, fully loaded with car manufacturing equipment transported from M City.

Given the current industrial capacity of the oil city, it is not yet capable of manufacturing complete vehicles.

The headquarters base in Dazhangshu has accumulated considerable strength in the automotive industry over the years, but it has always been limited by the problem of vehicle manufacturing equipment, and has not been able to realize the manufacturing of complete vehicles.

Back then, the headquarters in Dazhangshu acquired a lot of battery raw materials, batteries, refining equipment, as well as motors and electronic controls from the original site of Ganfeng Motor Corporation.

In recent years, we have been converting gasoline cars into electric cars, using the frame of gasoline cars and embedding electric car systems inside.

Now, the Dazhangshu base has developed and mass-produced solid-state batteries, completely solving the problem of range anxiety for electric vehicles.

This batch of equipment hasn't even been transported yet, but the car manufacturing plant at the headquarters base has already started construction, working around the clock, all in order to put it into production as quickly as possible.

So after Zhu Xiao and Li Qi returned from M City, they stayed for one night and then led the second transport convoy back to the headquarters base early the next morning.

The first transport team remained in the oil city, as Zuo Ruxue and her team were not only transporting oil, but more importantly, taking people there.

But they haven't finished recruiting people to support the North yet, so they have to stay in the oil city and wait.

.........

Besides Li Qi and his group, Yang Tianlong and Li Gang led two combat battalions.

Since they were also returning to headquarters, they decided to go back with the Second Transport Brigade, which would also provide mutual support along the way.

The convoy left the trading market, drove out of the buffer city, and slowly disappeared from the sight of Cao Hu, the captain of the gate guard.

At the entrance of the buffer city.

"Brother Tiger, have you been to the headquarters base in the camphor tree?" A middle-aged man asked Cao Hu from the side.

Cao Hu laughed and said, "Of course I've been there! Don't say things like that! What's wrong, Zhou Dafu? You want to go to the headquarters?"

Zhou Dafu scratched his head and said:
"No, I'm just curious about what the headquarters base in Dazhangshu is like. After all, even just a branch in the oil city is so prosperous, I wonder what the headquarters base is like."

Cao Hu stroked the stubble on his chin, his eyes becoming deep.

"The headquarters base in the big camphor tree, I haven't been back for a long time, I don't know what it's like now."

He was qualified to attend the last high-level meeting at the Dazhangshu base, but he couldn't leave his gatekeeping duties in the oil city and had to stay here.

Seeing Cao Hu lost in his memories, Zhou Dafu didn't interrupt.

He is quite satisfied with his current situation.

He is satisfied with both his work and his life.

He had just come down from the Funiu Mountains two months ago.

After coming down from the Funiu Mountains with his twins and his wife, the four of them happened to run into a caravan returning from their campaign in the Northwest.

Because he said he had stayed on the mountain for many years without coming down, Li Yu became very interested in him after hearing this, so he met with him.

After a brief conversation, Li Yu learned that he was a retired soldier, so he let him ride back to the oil city.

He then participated in the assessment of the Minwu Brigade, passed it successfully, and became a member of the Minwu Brigade.

That's definitely a meteoric rise.

It went directly from level 6 to level 3.

It was only much later that he learned that the recruitment for the People's Armed Forces Brigade had long since stopped, but because he had met with Lord Li, he was given a chance to be tested out of respect for the lord.

He lived up to expectations and achieved good results in the assessment.

So they put him in the People's Armed Forces Department.

When the goalkeeping brigade expanded, Cao Hu selected him from among the militia members and transferred him to the goalkeeping brigade.

In the context of the pre-apocalyptic world, the job of guarding a gate is, to put it bluntly, a watchdog, and to put it more politely, a security guard.

but!

In a post-apocalyptic world, their job would be considered very impressive.

Some people want to do this job but don't even have the opportunity.

The reason is simple: the gatekeepers have the right to control everyone's entry and exit.

Although they must follow the rules, they cannot bend the law for personal gain, nor can they refuse entry to anyone they dislike.

However, if you offend the gatekeeper...
It's possible that they might deliberately hold you up, saying you failed the inspection, and then make you wait there for further inspection, dragging it out until evening, or until they have to close the door before letting you in.

The market has very strict entry and exit controls; residents are absolutely prohibited from bringing controlled knives or other prohibited items inside.

But some things are borderline.

It falls into a vague category, and the regulations for bringing goods into the city are not very clear.

So at this point, whether you can bring this into the city depends entirely on the guard's mood or how good your relationship with him is.

Zhou Dafu's journey from coming down from the Funiu Mountains to finding a guard job in the oil city was a meteoric rise.

Moreover, the guard job is highly regarded in the oil city, and it doesn't require going out to fight and risking danger, nor does it involve the kind of hectic work that the construction department does.

The job is very simple; all you need to do is use a scanner to check vehicles and people entering the city.

His points alone are enough to support his family on a regular basis.

However, he arranged for his two sons to work in the engineering team, and his wife to work in the textile factory in the trading market. All four of them were earning points and living a very comfortable life.

As he thought about it, a satisfied smile spread across his face.

Back when they were in the Funiu Mountains, they spent every day thinking about how to solve the problem of food.

They are weak and have to contend with natural disasters, hunger, and all sorts of unforeseen problems.

I never thought about anything else.

But now, with the powerful backing of the oil city, Zhou Dafu feels more confident.

He also began to imagine finding two girls for his two sons, so they could get married, have children, and carry on the family line.

After all, the stable environment in the oil city provides them with stable conditions, giving him the opportunity to consider other things.

Trading market.

Not far from the residential area in the East District.

Several buildings are under construction. Three of these buildings are teaching buildings, one is a library, and there is also a medium-sized gymnasium.

One of the key points mentioned at the last high-level meeting was to promote a free general education system within the influence of the Great Camphor Tree region.

Provide free education to all children within the Great Camphor Tree faction, so that they can learn useful and applicable knowledge and skills even in the apocalypse.

The design blueprints for these buildings were obtained from the headquarters base in Dazhangshu.

It can be used directly, so construction can begin immediately.

Nearly ten days have passed since the last conference, and these buildings are under construction simultaneously. The foundations have been laid, and construction is underway.

At the construction site, Xie Changshan was communicating with his subordinates about the details of these buildings.

After chatting for more than ten minutes, he hurriedly headed to the buffer city.

The buffer city is now undergoing extensive construction.

The construction of residential houses in the buffer city is not yet complete, but 100 residential houses have already been built.

They are all long, narrow houses, each with seven floors.

One building can accommodate 1120 people, and 100 buildings can accommodate 112000 people.

But now there are too many survivors flooding into the oil city, and the supply can't meet the demand. Almost every house they build is distributed to the survivors the very next day.

They moved in before even having water and electricity connected. They planned to connect the water, electricity, and other utilities while they were still living there.

Some of the newly joined survivors are now only able to live temporarily in the greenhouse.

Moreover, the buffer city has a limited area; at most, 300 more residential buildings can be built before the buffer city reaches its capacity limit.

The total population that the buffer city can accommodate cannot exceed 50.

Otherwise, it will squeeze the area of ​​industrial and agricultural planting areas.

As for trading markets, they have been developed in most places.

The remaining vacant land has other uses and cannot be developed further.

Moreover, the trading market already accommodates 400,000 people, making it extremely crowded.

Meanwhile, after arriving at the buffer city from the trading market, Xie Changshan quickly checked the progress of the factory construction in the industrial park.

After checking and finding no problems, he left Buffer City and traveled to Edge City to continue inspecting the construction progress and offer his opinions.

Construction of the outskirts of the oil city began two days ago.

The purpose of the edge city is very clear: to accommodate a larger population and to free up more space for the rapidly developing industry.

The outlying cities are not suitable for building greenhouses.

The area of ​​the outlying city is extremely wide, extending from Jigong Mountain in the south to Jinniu Mountain in the north, with mountains on both the east and west sides.

The oil city is surrounded by mountains.

The border city's area directly encompasses the surrounding mountains.

The original oil city was built on a vacant lot between Jigong Mountain and Jinniu Mountain.

The original oil city looked extremely out of place on this empty land.

However, as the oil city developed, the trading market occupied a larger area, and high walls surrounded the oil city.

Later, a buffer city was added, further expanding the scope of the oil city.

The straight-line distance from the buffer city to Jigong Mountain is less than 3 kilometers.

This time, the construction of the 60,000-mu peripheral city directly encompasses the entire Jigong Mountain and Jinniu Mountain.

Assuming the edge city is completed, the total area of ​​the oil city will exceed 10 mu.

This area is very large.

10 mu is approximately equal to 66.67 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of ​​1 standard football fields or the administrative area of ​​a small to medium-sized town.

The infrastructure construction campaign was a great leap forward.

The sun is shining brightly at this moment.

At the construction site of Edge City, crowds surged, with nearly 100,000 workers building simultaneously.

Along with this, countless transport vehicles shuttle back and forth at the construction site in the edge city, dumping building materials dug from outside at specific locations on the site.

The Edge City is a massive project; even with 100,000 people involved, it would take a very long time to complete.

Whether it's Ding Jiu at the headquarters or Xie Changshan in the oil city, they are both experiencing the busiest time of their lives.

Their feet barely touched the ground.

He shuttled between several construction sites.

It is precisely because of the start of the era of large-scale infrastructure construction that there are almost no idle people in the oil city and the headquarters base of Dazhangshu.

They are recruiting workers for all stages of the process and transportation every day.
Residents of the oil city and the big camphor tree can find work here if they want.

For the camphor tree faction, this was accompanied by a massive consumption of points.

But there's nothing we can do about it; large-scale infrastructure projects inevitably deplete credits.

The implementation of the points system is essentially a way of using the camphor tree and the oil city as backing to exchange the daily food given to the survivors for points, a virtual thing.

The survivors do not immediately exchange these points for food. They also have a limited amount of food they can eat each day, so they do not exchange all the points they receive that day for food.

Therefore, there is no particular pressure on food supplies at present.

However, according to the prediction of Huo Ci, an economist in Oil City, based on the current food consumption in Oil City and the food consumption of the newly added population, the food produced by the Great Camphor Tree forces, plus the previously stored food, can only last for four to six months.

If no new grain production is achieved in the coming months, the Great Camphor Tree faction will face significant problems with its food supply.

The food supply is insufficient to meet the current needs of the population, and may even trigger a food run prematurely due to the food shortage.

Therefore, building plantations outside the city as soon as possible became the core priority.

However, the oil city is still selecting a suitable site for the plantation outside the city, and construction can only officially begin after Ding Jiu, the Minister of Infrastructure Operation and Maintenance, personally confirms the site.

On the construction site of the outskirts of the city.

Xie Changshan was covered in sweat as he listened attentively to the reports from his subordinates.

Whether it was the construction of teaching buildings in the trading market city, the construction of residential and industrial buildings in the buffer city, or the construction of the edge city, he assigned relevant subordinates to be responsible for each of these individual projects.

Ding Wu was in charge of building the edge city.

At this moment, Ding Wu said to Xie Changshan:
"Chief Engineer Xie, there are many problems with the construction of the Edge City."

"The most critical issue is that building materials cannot support the material consumption on construction sites."

"Moreover, due to the large number of workers, management is extremely complicated, and many fights have already occurred."

Xie Changshan rubbed his temples and said:
"Besides our official building materials convoy, aren't there also civilian convoys? Even if we get them to join the search for building materials, it still won't be enough to support our daily building material consumption."

"Not enough!"

Ding Wu said helplessly:
“I even considered transferring some of the construction workers to transport building materials, but the problem is they don’t have vehicles. Relying on manual transport is too slow. Right now, there’s a shortage of vehicles in the entire trading market.”

"Moreover, the number of cars refueling at the gas station is increasing every day, and they've started limiting the daily supply of gasoline and diesel. I went to see Manager Liu Jinglue, and he said the daily fuel consumption is too high."
The daily oil production of the oil city is no longer sufficient to supply the entire fleet of vehicles in the oil city!

"Furthermore, the steel production capacity in the oil city is limited, leading to a shortage of rebar."

After listening to this, Xie Changshan felt a headache coming on.

Because he had no other choice.

The short-term solution to the vehicle shortage problem is:

To get auto repair shops to increase their efforts in assembling and configuring gasoline-powered vehicles, we need to get scavengers out there to find more scrapped vehicle parts, and specifically, useful parts.

As for the fuel shortage, oil needs to be transported from the northwest.

But how do we transport it?

Both the first and second transport fleets have transport missions scheduled for the next week.

The first transport convoy is about to take thousands of volunteers and oil to the North.

The second transport convoy, carrying the vehicle manufacturing plant equipment, is already on its way back to headquarters.

In addition, there is the issue of completely solving the fuel shortage problem by upgrading the headquarters base and using all electric trucks.

But the car manufacturing plant isn't operational yet, so there aren't that many electric trucks.

After pondering for a long time, Xie Changshan said:

"I will talk to Supervisor Li and ask him to appropriately increase the daily fuel allowance. I will also contact the auto repair shop and the mission hall to ask them to increase the search for vehicle parts and the delivery volume of vehicle assembly."

"As for the shortage of steel bars, I will go to the steel mill and talk to them to find a way to increase steel production capacity."

"Furthermore, Ding Wu, if all else fails, we can only slow down the construction speed. This will allow us to refine the details and slowly build a stronger and more solid wall!"

After receiving a reply from Xie Changshan, Ding Wu nodded and said:
"Okay, Mr. Xie, I know what to do."

Xie Changshan let out a long sigh, glanced at Liu Yu, and said:
"Have Dai Jiusheng and the other geography experts come over. Let's go and take another look at the site selection for the plantation outside the city. Chief Engineer Ding will be here tomorrow, and we'll show him all these places then."

Liu Yu straightened up and replied:
"Ok."

(End of this chapter)