Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2152 Full of Confidence
One slap brought the man who had crashed into the barrier to his senses.

He looked up and around, becoming somewhat aware of his current situation.

"I...I didn't...I drank too much. I'm sorry, I'll leave now."

As he spoke, he turned to return to the vehicle, intending to escape.

But Chen Er grabbed him by the back of his collar.
"Damn it! You know you've gotten yourself into trouble? You crashed through two checkpoints and almost hit someone."

Chen Er tossed him to the militia members on either side, saying, "Take them both into custody!"

Ju Tianrui walked over, his face full of displeasure, and asked:

"What's going on? The leader is coming to inspect our Oriental Paradise today, and I already informed you. How could this still happen!"

Ju Tianrui had always had a good impression of Chen Er, which is why he put him in charge of this road clearing work.

Unexpectedly, Chen Er disappointed him by having a scavenger's vehicle block the convoy of officials.

Chen Er looked aggrieved and said helplessly:

"Director, there are too many people in Oriental Paradise, and the driveway is narrow. I have already sent people to check this road, but I did not expect that someone would still dare to break in."

We sent people to stop them, but this bastard almost knocked them over. These two were drunk, which is why this happened.

I also bear responsibility; I need to examine myself.

Ju Tianrui took a deep breath and said:
"Deduct 100 contribution points from you. Also, thoroughly investigate this car and find out if they deliberately blocked the car. If they did, find out who the real culprit is."

If it's simply drunk driving, then we'll punish it severely according to the regulations of our big camphor tree.

For Chen Er and his colleagues, contribution points are also very important. After all, if Chen Er wants to be promoted to a higher level, he also needs to reach a certain standard of contribution points.

In addition, Ju Tianrui mentioned the penalties under the management regulations for the large camphor tree.
They drove illegally, crashed into a checkpoint, and even collided with the leader's escort vehicle.

Furthermore, given Ju Tianrui's statement about severe punishment, these two people have only one fate: death!
Chen Er had no objections to Ju Tianrui's punishment and even breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, if this matter were to be discussed in a broader sense, it could be said to have affected the safety of the leader. He had no objection to the fact that 100 contribution points were deducted from his account.

As for the punishment of those two bastards, he knew after this incident that they were doomed to die.

"Okay, Director, I'll take the person away and investigate thoroughly right away."

"Wait!" he called out to Chen Er.

Chen Er quickly asked, "Director, is there anything else you need to instruct me on?"

Ju Tianrui said with a serious expression:

“If this happens again while the leader is staying at Oriental Paradise, you will be fired as the head of the militia brigade!”

Gudong!

Chen Er realized that Ju Tianrui was not joking, and he also realized the seriousness of the matter. He quickly nodded and said, "I understand, I promise this will never happen again!"

Ju Tianrui nodded with a gloomy face: "Go!"

Watching Chen Er's departing figure, Ju Tianrui felt a headache coming on.

The situation at Oriental Paradise is too complicated. It's different from the Oil City, the North, and even the Northwest Base we visited back then.

There are too many people here, over 100,000 residents.

However, there are only five militia brigades, which is far too few military personnel.

The wall alone requires two militia brigades, and there's also the need to manage the trading stalls, maintain order within the city, and even manage the order of the scavenging and points exchange center outside the city.
These places all need people!
He turned around and walked back towards the convoy. On the way back, he suddenly realized that this incident wasn't all bad.

This will allow the leaders to more intuitively understand that Oriental Paradise is short-staffed and indeed difficult to manage.

He then made a deal with the commander, asking him to send more military personnel to manage the area.

Back in the car.

Li Yu opened his eyes and asked calmly, "What just happened?"

Ju Tianrui didn't mince words and directly recounted what had just happened.

Then he said:

"Sir, there are too few military personnel here, and too many scavengers who are troublemakers and difficult to manage. So I think you could send more military personnel over."

Ideally, we'd have a full combat squadron!

"Combat battalion?" Li Yu frowned upon hearing this request.

The overall quality of the combat battalion members is indeed much higher than that of the civilian armed forces battalion.

but.

Currently, the entire camphor tree force only has 14 combat battalions.

Of these, eight are stationed at the headquarters base, and the commanders of these combat battalions are as follows:
The Book of Changes, Bi Tianxing, Xie Shangzhou, Yang Zhongshi, Li Gang, Yang Tianlong, Yu Ming, Chen Delong,

There are four units stationed in the oil city, and the captains of the combat battalions are:
Ding Meng, Zhou Tian (formerly Xiao Jun, Zhou Tian is temporarily replacing him), Dai Jiusheng, Dongfeng

There is one unit stationed in the northern border, and its captain is Wu Genhong.

One unit is stationed at the Northwest Base, and its combat battalion commander is: Dongtai.

Both the Air Force Headquarters and the Army Headquarters are located at the headquarters base.

Most of the combat battalions are at the headquarters base, but most of the civilian armed forces battalions are in the oil city.

After a moment's thought, Li Yu agreed to Ju Tianrui's request:
"Sure, I'll talk to the Minister of Military Affairs and send a combat battalion to assist you in managing Oriental Paradise!"

Hearing that Li Yu had agreed to the request, Ju Tianrui felt much more at ease.

The members of the combat team were all carefully selected.

Every member has extensive combat experience. Even those who were promoted later went through the process of becoming a reserve member of the militia, a formal member of the militia, and then being selected to be promoted.

In actual battles to stop zombies or fight against enemies, the combat power of one combat battalion member is equivalent to that of three or four militia battalion members!
Therefore, if Oriental Paradise had a combat team, it would be like having a stabilizing force!
"Thank you for your support, sir," Ju Tianrui said sincerely.

The dilapidated pickup truck in front was towed away, while the armored escort vehicle at the very front remained undamaged and continued driving forward.

Li Yu did not inquire further about the car accident, as he fully trusted that Ju Tianrui would handle it properly.

"Old Ju, please finish what you were saying earlier. You mentioned that you wanted my support."

Ju Tianrui recalled what he had just said, briefly organized it in his mind, and continued:

"The first thing is talent. I need Chief Engineer Xie Changshan to be transferred here to take charge of the Oriental Paradise project!"

"In addition, I need a second-level supervisor, Liu Benshan. He did a very good job in supporting the engineering projects in the Northwest, so I'll transfer him over as well."

"Besides these two people, I also need 3000 intermediate workers, 500 senior workers, 50 first-level supervisors, and 10 second-level supervisors."
With this group of people, I was able to recruit laborers within Oriental Paradise and quickly expand the construction team. Only with skilled workers could the various projects at Oriental Paradise be built!

Li Yu heard him specifically mention a name: Liu Benshan?

He felt like he had heard this person's name somewhere before.

It seems that Liu Benshan does have some ability; he secretly made a note of this person.

As for the more than 3,000 construction workers and management personnel at various levels that Ju Tianrui mentioned, it's not too difficult.

We can just draw some people from the various construction bureaus under the Construction Engineering Department.

"No problem, but are you confident you can recruit construction workers at Oriental Paradise?"

Li Yu was speechless when he said that.

Damn, back in the days when the camphor tree faction was in power, becoming a construction worker was no easy feat.

Now, this profession is becoming less popular at Oriental Paradise because the points accumulation is too slow.

The residents here may have only been part of the camphor tree faction for a short time and have not experienced natural disasters with the camphor tree, so they are not clear about the value of contribution points, do not know the benefits of a high level, and do not know how important it is to have a stable job!

However, with the current large-scale scavenging campaign in effect, the high-risk, high-return, but unstable scavenging work is becoming increasingly popular among the local residents.

To some extent, it's no wonder that the residents here are rather "short-sighted".

Thinking about this, Li Yu felt it would be better to give a benefit to the long-term residents of other branch bases.

"Here's what we'll do! Don't rush to recruit workers at Oriental Paradise. Since they don't want to do construction work, let people from other branch bases who want to do it do it!"

"I will conduct a public recruitment drive at all the bases of the Great Camphor Tree faction, recruiting 1 laborers!"

"In that case, even if Oriental Paradise can't recruit people, we can still recruit them at other branch bases."

"In addition, I will also arrange for you the workers and managers at the intermediate level and above that you just mentioned."

After listening, Ju Tianrui looked at Li Yu with some shock.

He had actually already come up with a solution to this problem.

That is to improve the treatment of the construction workers here:

For example, in housing, an area was designated for construction workers to live in, and their living conditions were to be better than those of ordinary residents.

Now the city lord is openly recruiting workers at all bases under the Great Camphor Tree faction. This... this...
The problem of construction workers was solved in one fell swoop.

Ju Tianrui couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praise:
"The commander is awesome!"

Li Yu glanced at him and said:

"Quickly tell me all the support you need from me, all at once!"

Ju Tianrui nodded and continued:
"I recently conducted some research on Oriental Paradise, and I feel that the current strategic positioning of Oriental Paradise based on its headquarters is still too narrow."

Currently, the establishment of a branch base is based solely on the strategic need for a branch base in the eastern part of Dazhangshu.

This is not enough.

If we only rely on the distribution of power in the camphor tree area and do not have a clear division of functions for Oriental Paradise, it will not go far, and it will always need other branch bases to provide financial support to Oriental Paradise.

If Oriental Paradise wants to achieve long-term development, it must rebuild its core industries from scratch.

When Li Yu heard Ju Tianrui say that, he immediately became interested.

He had never thought of this before, but he didn't expect Ju Tianrui to bring it up.

very good!

"Tell me."

Ju Tianrui coughed once and continued:

Oriental Paradise has several advantages.

1. This area was densely populated before the apocalypse, and even during the apocalypse, the number of survivors here is still relatively high given the large population base.

2. This area retains many pre-apocalyptic machinery manufacturing, electronics, and pharmaceutical factories, and there are many survivors working in these fields.

"Therefore, aside from the short-term natural disaster of sea fog, from the perspective of the long-term development of Oriental Land, I think we can develop Oriental Land into a:
A branch base for the machinery manufacturing and electronics repair industry clusters.

The area surrounding Oriental Paradise also has iron ore mines and numerous pre-apocalyptic electronics factories, which formed the foundation for Oriental Paradise's development.

Upon hearing this, Li Yu looked at Ju Tianrui with admiration in his eyes.

He truly deserves to be called a trusted general.
Perhaps it was precisely because he single-handedly built the Oil City, the Northern Territory, and the Northwest sub-bases that Ju Tianrui was able to have such a long-term strategic vision.

The development of a branch base can be considered from a closed-loop perspective.

That's really great!

In this respect, Li Yu even felt that Ju Tianrui had a longer-term vision than he had.

Li Yu sighed:
"Old Ju, I'm pleasantly surprised that you came up with this idea, and I support it."

What moved Li Yu most was a point that Ju Tianrui just mentioned:

Oriental Paradise was not established solely because Dazhangshu needed a branch base in the east, nor did it rely solely on other branch bases for funding.

It is not just a distribution center for collecting supplies.

It can also be developed into a place that can supplement some industries in other branch bases.

The North, for example, is positioned as a grain production base and also has heavy industry development.

In the northwest, there is grain production, livestock development, steel, and oil.

The oil city is a commercial center with the development of both light and heavy industries.

The headquarters base is developing in all aspects, with agriculture, industry, cutting-edge high-tech industries, and manufacturing developing simultaneously.

Now, after analyzing Oriental Paradise's advantages, Ju Tianrui has positioned Oriental Paradise's electronics repair industry and machinery manufacturing industry.

It's very pragmatic!

After hearing Li Yu's support for his idea, Ju Tianrui continued:

"Therefore, sir, I also need talent in related industries to start building factories here. Only with factories can there be employment here, and only then can these residents settle down."

There are too few industries in the Oriental Paradise area right now, so they all end up doing scavenging work.

"No problem, I agree to that!" Li Yu readily agreed to Ju Tianrui's request.

Ju Tianrui continued:
"Secondly, I need a large number of transport vehicles, as well as construction equipment."

There's a severe shortage of construction equipment and transport vehicles, which is causing the construction progress to be extremely slow.

After a moment of silence, Li Yu said:
“Okay, I’ll have all the construction equipment that headquarters has phased out be brought over then.”

I can't give you the one they're using right now.

Regarding transportation vehicles, I'll approve 1000 electric trucks for you, is that acceptable?

With the railway line connecting Dazhangshu to the oil city now operational, all supplies transported from other branch bases to the oil city and then to the headquarters can now be transported by train.

Moreover, the route from Dazhangshu to the oil city is the busiest of all transportation routes.

Therefore, opening up the railway line frees up a lot of vehicles.

Moreover, the daily production capacity of the car manufacturing plant at the headquarters base has reached 60 vehicles.

1000 electric trucks can be completed in less than 20 days.

Ju Tianrui was surprised that Li Yu was so supportive of him, and that the leader had fulfilled all the conditions he had mentioned.

And some of them even exceeded his expectations.

His confidence in building Oriental Paradise has grown even stronger.

So he made one last request:
"Sir, my last request is for sufficient autonomy."

"There are too many troublemakers here at Oriental Paradise, and I think it's not enough to rely solely on support personnel from other branch bases. We must give full play to the initiative of the residents here at Oriental Paradise."

"Therefore, I want to formulate some policies that can encourage these residents to participate in construction, join factories, and enlist in the militia reserve, thereby increasing their recognition and loyalty to the camphor tree faction."

When Li Yu heard this, he glanced at Li Haoran, who had been sitting in the back without saying a word, and thought, "Learn from this, bro!"

He did not immediately comment on this, but instead said calmly:
"Could you elaborate on what policies will be introduced?"

(End of this chapter)