Warhammer: Starting with Industrial Revolution

The construction of the lower level of the nest city began as scheduled the next day.

Olga's gang was large and extremely cooperative; with their help, the factories buried under various kinds of garbage and ruins were dug out in just a few days.

Victor sent a priest from the Mechanical Church to conduct a thorough inspection of the machines in the factory.

Most of the machine tools were completely scrapped, and under the priest's direction, the workers began to dismantle them and recycle the useful parts.

Fortunately, the furnaces in some of the factories still retain basic functionality. With a little repair, although the efficiency is relatively low, they are not completely unusable.

Ronin and Olga walked through the streets of the Lower Nest District, where dust kicked up by the construction was everywhere, mixed with a stench that made it almost impossible to breathe.

"Lord Olga, these furnaces will be vital to the lower hive district, and I intend to entrust them to you." Ronin looked at the factory before him. Although the factory buildings were dilapidated, this was the core of the future hive district reform plan.

The items collected from the garbage dump can only be smelted here before they can be transported back to the upper levels for further use.

Olga listened to Ronin's words and nodded gratefully. "Thank you, Assistant. The middleman will certainly complete his mission."

"Your gang is strange; it always seems out of place in this world." After listening to his words and looking at the workers in front of him, Luo Ning couldn't help but say.

Unlike other gangs, Olga's gang members are mostly not very burly; they look like a group of thin, ordinary people gathered together.

The thin man and the equally thin female worker worked together on the construction site, looking nothing like gangsters.

Olga smiled slightly, "We, the middlemen, are not actually a gang in the strict sense. We've just known each other from the beginning, and we're all struggling to survive. We're just helping each other out."

Hearing his words, Ronin could hardly believe that he could hear such words as mutual assistance in the Warhammer universe.

But the scene before them proved that Olga was not lying.

The ability to gather these refugees was not achieved through military force or coercion.

Olga is a very capable man. If he hadn't been born in the Lower Nest District, he probably would have achieved great things.

"Are you interested in living on the upper levels?" Luo Ning couldn't help but ask. Actually, he was a little reluctant to leave, since having him on the lower levels would lighten his burden considerably.

However, he really didn't want to let such a capable person go unnoticed.

Unexpectedly, Olga simply shook her head slightly. "Thank you for your kindness, but this is my home, and I cannot abandon them."

Luo Ning nodded. This was good; his abilities could be fully utilized here.

But when Ronin looked up at Olga's head, the green round light that had been there before was no longer visible.

Not only Olga, but no one else could see her either, as if Slaanesh had taken back his blessing.

But there was no time to think about those things now. The allocation plan for the Lower Nest area was quickly finalized. Olga's gang middlemen were in charge of the smelting plant, and the mining rights for the garbage mountain near the smelting plant were also given to them.

This area is also the largest garbage dump in the entire Lower Nest District. After all, Olga's gang has a large number of members, and he himself is extremely capable, so he deserves to receive more resources.

As for the remaining garbage dump, Luo Ning distributed it equally among the remaining gang leaders who had signed up for the plan on the day of the meeting.

Meanwhile, near the freight elevator, Ronin built a new factory to be used as an official recycling center, with a portion of the secret police led by Delaman in charge of the work there.

Furthermore, it was strictly required that the items collected by the recycling center be classified, and that any metals that did not meet the requirements be rejected outright. It was also required that the center maintain constant contact with the Chaodu factory.

In the central area of ​​the Lower Nest District, Luo Ning established a light industrial production base. According to his plan, equipment that could be handcrafted could be produced here, such as various military uniforms and backpacks.

This could greatly reduce the Governor's Office's expenses, and it might even become another industry on their planet in the future.

From the day the factory was established, a constant stream of people came to apply for jobs.

The recruiter often sits outside the factory for the entire day, but when he looks up, the line of people still seems endless.

In just one week, nearly 100,000 people entered the factory!

Compared to the relief food that could only be waited for and was not guaranteed to arrive on time, the treatment in the factory was much better. Every worker received a food ration, although it was still disgusting corpse starch, but it was a world of difference from the previous life of sometimes being hungry and sometimes full.

A large number of planetary defense forces have been stationed in the lower-level hive cities to carry out armed suppression of any gangsters, thugs, and cultists who do not obey orders.

Luo Ning planned to re-establish the police department once the situation stabilized, which would allow the defense forces to withdraw.

However, the defense force's enthusiasm was exceptionally high. After all, under Luo Ning's leadership, the factory's welfare and benefits improved, and work efficiency increased accordingly. The defense force's equipment was finally replenished in large quantities. The ammunition they had previously struggled to obtain when facing heretical invasions or space pirates could finally be poured into the enemy.

In less than half a month, the entire bottom layer of the nest city had undergone tremendous changes. The former lifelessness and evil that permeated every dark corner had disappeared. Walking on the street, everyone's eyes were filled with light once again.

Those gang leaders who didn't sign the Luo Ning plan immediately quickly contacted Luo Ning through various means.

Their old way of life was no longer viable. They could no longer oppress other people, and they had no source of income. After all, the junkyard had been allocated to someone else, and the planetary guards patrolled everywhere.

Of course, their illegal drug revenue was also severely cracked down on by Luo Ning himself. With the support of the people, the gang's strongholds had nowhere to hide, and one by one, the illegal pharmacies were eradicated, while the gang had no power to resist.

But when they tried to contact Luo Ning to cooperate with the authorities again, Luo Ning directly refused.

The reason is simple: Luo Ning only needs to say that he doesn't have time, and there is no work available for them to do right now.

Meanwhile, those gangs that cooperate with the authorities—no, they should now be called guilds—are also involved.

The various guilds quickly dismantled and absorbed their members, while the once-glorious leaders mysteriously and tragically died in the streets one by one, with no one caring and no official investigation or case filed.

In the end, they silently became raw materials for the food factory's corpse starch, just like the other nameless corpses in the Lower Nest District.

But amidst this thriving scene, Luo Ning received another piece of troublesome news.

Although the project was progressing well across the planet, the fact that more people were being enslaved in exchange for food rations raised another problem.

Their food production capacity is already severely insufficient.