Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 183: points, third-level technician, recruitment
To produce 35mm grenades, 150 grams of metal and gunpowder are needed. With the raw materials currently on hand, one ton of metal is missing, and about 6,600 grenades can be produced.

The production efficiency is 200 pieces per hour, and 4,800 pieces can be produced per day, so there is no need to worry about delivery issues.

After Lin Feng finished introducing his products, the leaders of Shuguang Village present were all shocked.

Unlike the dozens of grenades in the backpack, the number of ammunition described by Lin Feng was in the thousands!

Dozens of grenades can only be used for personal self-defense.

Thousands of grenades can arm a small or medium-sized force and form a company of 100 people with firepower.

Although it is only a one-time thing, it is the best way to save itself considering the current turbulent situation in Oasis Town and the lack of strength in Shuguang Village.

As long as we have enough artillery shells, we can not only win the final victory, but at least we can keep the enemy out and minimize the losses caused by the turmoil.

Moreover, if the Li family wins afterwards, everyone will be happy. If they are defeated in the end, it is still unclear whether Shuguang Village will flee with them.

In fact, the three major villages that launched the rebellion were not united.

Apart from the Li family of Nongzhuang Village, who are staunch rebels, only the Motorcycle Village of the other two villages is willing to join this long-standing rebellion.

The predecessor of the Motorcycle Village was a group of robbers on the migration route, an airport gang driving shabby modified cars. In the first hundred years of Oasis Town, they were dealt with by the church and the Li family, who absorbed the members who were willing to surrender, and gradually formed the current Motorcycle Village that specializes in assembling car frames.

The staff are mixed and their quality varies.

He often goes in and out of city ruins, carrying a bandit-like air.

Shuguang Village was established the latest, and to date, it has less than a thousand members, and most of the recruits are workers and technicians from the old Earth period.

The average educational level is higher and people are more rational.

Apart from Shengquan Village, Shuguang Village has the fewest people and usually does not need to go out to search for supplies, so in terms of strength, it ranks at the bottom.

But correspondingly, they are not impressed by the Li family's ambition to rebel and seize power.

Even the chief had to agree to Li Hao's request to resist the Shengquan Cult because he had received favors from Li Hao, the head of the Li family, and the livelihood of Shuguang Village required the support of Li Jiayan's wildebeest industry.

But before he left, he also instructed his trusted subordinates to try not to get too deeply involved in the rebellion.

Shuguang Village, which has no ability to protect itself, may be destroyed if it is involved in the incident regardless of whether it wins or loses.

That's why Chengshan slid down on his knees under Lin Feng's threats and inducements, and chose to lose money to avoid disaster.

However, at this moment Lin Feng gave them a way to safely survive the crisis.

Cheng Shan calmed down and handed the shotgun in his hand to his men. Then he took the initiative to step forward with his bare hands and looked up at the little giant who was over two meters tall.
"Excuse me, Mr. Lin, what do you need in exchange?"

"Points, or the photovoltaic panels and brushless motors we developed?"

Lin Feng reached into his backpack, grabbed several grenades, and threw them to the man in front of him:
"The bottom floor of the shelter ruins is a sealed environment. I've tested it and it's all intact. It's powerful enough to kill a first-stage mid-stage Evolver. Even if they're wearing armor, it can break through their defenses. It also has a certain lethality against late-stage Evolvers."

"But you also know that all shells are prohibited from sale. Even within the guild, only registered hunters are eligible to redeem the limited amount of shells."

"According to the guild's restricted sales list, a grenade of similar power costs one hundred points each. I have a 35mm general-purpose howitzer with an effective killing range of less than two meters and a range of up to 180 meters. I'll only sell it to you for two hundred points each. Isn't that too much?"

After listening to Lin Feng's simple analysis and quotation, Chengshan began to think secretly.

The production of a grenade launcher is very simple. There is also a small solar furnace in the village. The temperature of thousands of degrees can melt molten iron and forge a batch of steel pipes of the same caliber. Add a firing device and a return rod to make a simple automatic grenade launcher.

This type of area-of-effect weapon does not require much shooting accuracy or service life. Just like a shotgun or a shotgun, anyone with a little technical knowledge can make one by hand.

There are also many large-caliber rifles and grenade launcher accessories in the village.

In this way, there is no need to consider the issue of usage, and the only thing left is the most difficult issue of ammunition reserves.

The price Lin Feng offered was two hundred points.

If you calculate carefully, one thousand grenades require two hundred thousand points, which is indeed a bit expensive, equivalent to a level twenty Rockhorn Essence.

When Chengshan was young, he took a pilgrim convoy to visit the holy city. He saw that in the weapons store there, the price of 35mm standard grenades was only 150 points each, and there were discounts for large quantities.

A large order of one thousand coins can be reduced to a price of just over one hundred, which is quite cheap.

Of course, you must have a registered second-level evolutionary identity to be eligible to purchase artillery shells.

Because of this, the price of small grenades on the black market actually has a high premium, far exceeding the marked price.

Two hundred points per ticket is not expensive nowadays.

In addition, with the advent of the rebellion, the prices of evolution meat and weapons and equipment are rising...

It is actually necessary to use 200,000 points to buy peace of mind that you can hold in your own hands.

Under the same circumstances, spending two hundred thousand to hire a second-stage early-stage evolver for protection may not be as effective as a thousand grenades.

After all, the former is too busy to take care of all aspects of the Dawn Camp and is not controlled or arranged by the employer, while the latter has real lethal force.

The remote oasis town is full of unruly people, and the black muzzles of cannons are more intimidating than the identity of a second-level strongman.

Although Shuguang Village has made average profits in recent years, not as much as the Li family in Nongzhuang Village, it is much better than the Motorcycle Village and has some assets.

Thinking of this, Chengshan held the grenade in his hand, gritted his teeth, nodded and agreed:
"Okay, two hundred is two hundred. We need one thousand, but can the payment wait? We need to sell a batch of goods to the guild first to get the two hundred thousand points."

There are a thousand grenades, which requires at least fifty grenade launchers. Dawn Village has to buy a batch from the guild.

At the same time, there are not 200,000 points in the account, and a batch of photovoltaic panels and motors must be sold at a low price to make up the transaction price.

Lin Feng smiled:
"Why should the guild earn double the money? If the points are insufficient, we can use photovoltaic panels and motors to pay for it."

"In addition to the sixty photovoltaic panels and four motor systems I paid as compensation, I also need two hundred photovoltaic panels, twenty motors, and four hundred battery packs."

"The photovoltaic panels are worth 40,000 points, the motor is worth 20,000, and then there's the 40,000-point battery, which makes 100,000 points."

"There are still 100,000 points left. You can use one heavy truck and five transport vehicles as deductions."

"That leaves a balance of 25,000 yuan."

"If possible, I would like to exchange them for ten of you, engineers and mechanics, to be responsible for the daily maintenance of my team."

Hearing this, Chengshan's pupils shrank slightly, and the sun behind the armor became dazzling.

As the village chief of Shuguang Village, in order to ensure the development of the village's industry, he has recruited a large number of technical personnel over the years. He even hired several employees who were dismissed from large factories from the Holy City, as well as various means of production.

To ensure that the village's industries would not be eliminated, at least the various spare parts shipped to the Holy City would be competitive. City dwellers might not value them, but small-scale forces and towns outside the village, as well as settlements in other areas, would still be willing to purchase Oasis products at a lower price.

The reason for this is that the labor cost in Oasis Town is much lower, and a large number of skilled workers can be hired with only a tiny profit and a meal.

Another point is that these technicians cannot escape from Oasis Town. They have no ability to survive outside the oasis. If they want to find a big city to stay in, they have to flee to the holy city thousands of kilometers away alone.

For hundreds of years, through the closed environment, knowledge and technology have been continuously passed on and iterated, allowing the industry to flourish and thus creating new ways to make money for Shuguang Village.

In the form of labor dispatch, skilled workers are sent to the Holy City to earn points or advanced electrical technology.

Although it is nominally labor dispatch, it is actually human trafficking, which is equivalent to the buying and selling of high-level slaves.

Moreover, as the market demand in Oasis Town approaches saturation and the scale of the entire industry reaches its upper limit, the money earned from labor export is growing at a higher rate than manufacturing production.

In recent years, there has been an increasing call in internal high-level meetings to shift the main business direction from producing electric vehicle parts to cultivating skilled technical workers.

The transaction request put forward by the second-level strong man at this moment made Chengshan more convinced that exporting technical jobs is the future way out for Shuguang Village.

After all, in addition to factories, everyone in the wasteland, from the royal city of a first-rate force to a fleet of a hundred people, needs mechanics for their vehicles.

This will be a brand new blue ocean market.

So he immediately said:

"Master Lin, the remaining 25,000 points are only enough to buy five level nine enhanced maintenance workers."

"It takes at least two years to train a skilled repairman. The food cost alone is as high as 2,000 points. Add in the teacher's lessons and the repair materials, and the cost will be at least 4,000 points..."

"We divide technicians into three levels based on their abilities. Level three is a two-year apprenticeship, capable of repairing the tram's photovoltaic panels, motors, and batteries to ensure the tram can operate. The cost is only 5,000 points."

"Level 2 is for skilled workers with more than six years of experience. They can not only repair trams, but also other parts, such as car air conditioners and refrigerators. They have strong hands-on skills and can also assemble new motor systems and debug machines. The price is 20,000 points."

"And the highest level, the first level, starts with thirty-year veterans. They are also first-level evolvers, with lifespans of up to two hundred years. They have the highest technical abilities and can repair most electrical appliances, even build mobile castles, and develop some electrical weapons and equipment. Their responsibilities are very broad."

"However, at this level, we do not force them to leave. If they voluntarily go to other forces, we will only charge a symbolic transfer fee of 50,000 points."

After listening to Wanchengshan's introduction, Lin Feng realized that Shuguang Village had established a mature technical worker export industry with a clear value division.

The lowest-level third-level apprentice is an ordinary maintenance worker who can only handle basic trams and has no other experience. His products will be sold to some production or maintenance factories, or small fleets of only a dozen or so vehicles. They are equivalent to cheap mass-produced finished products.

Just like the piglets in the technical school in the previous life.

The second-level skilled workers have been in Shuguang Village for more than six years, which is an entire wasteland year. They have rich maintenance experience. Tram problems are no longer difficult for them, and they have begun to expand their technical scope.

But the price is also expensive, selling for 20,000 points, which is four times that of an ordinary third-level apprentice.

But relatively speaking, it is the most cost-effective.

As for the first-level masters, they have thirty years of maintenance experience and are evolvers, which is equivalent to the professor level in Shuguang Village. They are all supported by the village.

This level is equivalent to formal villagers, who have certain autonomy and rights, and naturally will not be sold like pigs.

If you want to impress them, you have to offer satisfactory conditions and pay a transfer fee of 50,000.

But the price is actually not high.

A master craftsman with thirty years of experience and a remaining lifespan of hundreds of years can at least train hundreds of third-level apprentices and a large number of skilled workers.

Therefore, if you have to make a choice, you must choose a first-class master to join the team to lay the technical foundation for the future first-class force.

For example, another second-level evolver in the Savior Army is a tall woman named Ma Li. She is the team's mechanical maintenance technician and has a very high status, second only to Bai Ye.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately said:

“How many first-level workers are there in the village right now?”

Cheng Shan hesitated for a moment, then faced the pressure from the second-level expert and slowly spoke:

"Not many, maybe thirty or forty people."

Lin Feng nodded silently. It was a little less than he imagined, but it didn't matter.

Then he looked up at the people at the gate and said loudly to them:

"For a first-level craftsman who is willing to come, I will help him advance three levels on the spot. Within six years, he will be promoted to a second-level evolver."

"Please rest assured, I have more than one Level 20 Essence in my hands. Furthermore, I have a firearms expert under thirty years old. As long as you devote yourself to the team, the power, status, and technical knowledge you will gain in the future will be far beyond what you can achieve by staying in Oasis Town."

"And I have a plan to build a mobile fortress within three years. Whoever is willing to come will be fully responsible!"

When Lin Feng finished saying this, everyone was in an uproar.

Whether it is the improvement of strength, power and status, or even technology and fame, it all hits their hearts directly.

Especially the latter, for an aspiring technical expert, is more attractive than the evolution level.

Lost alien technology from the Old Earth era...

A fortress city built by hand...

This is an honor that will last forever, and in their opinion it is far more important than a thousand years of life.

Before Lin Feng and Cheng Shan could continue discussing the details of the transaction, several members of Shuguang Village stood up and wanted to join Lin Feng's team.

Lin Feng smiled and stretched out a finger:
"Sorry, funds are limited. I can only recruit one person, so please ask the member with the strongest technical ability to come, or you are willing to redeem yourself and pay a transfer fee of 50,000 points."

After saying this, Lin Feng, who had completed his dream in a few words and achieved a transformation in status, said to Chengshan:

"Other requirements remain the same. The heavy-duty truck that can be exchanged for 50,000 points can be converted into the transfer fee for a first-class worker."

"There are 25,000 points left. I need five apprentices. The specific personnel arrangements will be made after the first-level worker arrives and he will personally select them."

Lin Feng patted the Shuguang Village chief on the shoulder:

"One thousand grenades, delivered to you in five hours."

"As for now, return my motor and battery, including the compensation I was promised."

(End of this chapter)