Chapter 399 Base Life
Looking at the bustling base, Pei Chuan was a little worried, "If we let them all move in, will there be trouble?"
"It's okay. As long as it's managed properly, it doesn't matter how many people there are." Leng Yi smiled. "Look, we were at the military base before. There were nearly 100,000 people, and we were still doing well. Now we only have a few people here, a little over a hundred at most."
"Of course, I'll recruit more people later, thousands or even tens of thousands. I want to turn this place into a true apocalyptic base."
"But how much food is needed to feed so many people?" Pei Chuan said.
"So we have to start dividing the work now. Some people will grow crops, some will grow vegetables, and some will raise poultry and livestock. Once these grow up, we will be self-sufficient in the future." Leng Yi said.
"We definitely can't let these people eat and live for free when we recruit them. We can provide free accommodation for the first month, and then give them points based on their work. They can use the points to exchange for supplies and accommodation. Those who don't have points will be cleared out."
"Of course, so many people need people to manage and protect them, so we also need to establish a management team and a guard team."
"That requires a lot of supplies and munitions." Pei Chuan said.
"Isn't this ready-made?" Yang Qing smiled.
In fact, her space contained millions of kilograms of food, and there were also a lot of guns and ammunition. However, there were ready-made supplies and munitions in the Zeng family warehouse, so of course she would use them first. If the things in the space could be left untouched, they would be kept for use when she returned to the country.
"Actually, there is no need for them all to live in the manor, right? Let them live in the area under our jurisdiction outside like we did before." Wang Xiao said.
"In the past, only core members and people with special abilities from the three major families could live in the manor." Cheng Zheng also said.
Yang Qing smiled and shook his head. "But then everyone would lose a sense of belonging and feel like they're just staying here temporarily. The original intention of building this base was to give everyone a place to live and work in peace, a home of their own."
"And living together can help us better protect ourselves from disasters and monsters."
Leng Yi nodded, "We will strengthen the defenses everywhere, raise the walls, and add sentry boxes. This way, if monsters attack again, we will be able to resist and protect more people."
"As long as there are people, there is hope for humanity. After the end of the world, more people will come together to build our homeland."
Several people looked at Yang Qing and Leng Yi. They didn't expect that they had such lofty ideals and thought so long-term for humanity and its future.
In the past four years of the apocalypse, we have experienced too much. For a little bit of supplies, people can betray their families and friends, and fight to the death for a little bit of food. People have become more and more indifferent and selfish.
Everyone lives only for themselves and never considers others.
But they are thinking about all mankind, they are real heroes!
Everyone unanimously agreed to name the base "Bright Base", meaning that it is a human base with a bright future.
The base continues to recruit, this time mainly for management personnel. The requirements have been slightly improved, and those with higher education and management experience will be given priority.
All of a sudden, many people with doctoral and master's degrees came to apply for the job, and everyone realized that there were still so many highly educated people in the end times.
People with high education levels are mostly weak and frail. They are the most useless group of people in the apocalypse. They have no military power and no ability to withstand pressure. They are basically cannon fodder in the apocalypse.
They didn't expect that they would actually be useful.
These intellectuals were particularly grateful to be recruited into the Guangming Base, and everyone devoted their best to contributing to the base.
Then they recruited a group of security guards, giving priority to military personnel, to take charge of the base's security work.
Various undertakings of the base are also in full swing.
Yang Qing took out the rice seeds from the space, as well as chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, pigs, cows, sheep and other livestock, but he didn't dare take out too many for fear that someone would suspect their origin.
We took more than ten small animals such as chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, etc., and two each of pigs, cows and sheep.
First build a small farm, and then expand it slowly.
As more people were recruited, some of them had children, so Yang Qing opened a kindergarten and hired professional kindergarten teachers to help take care of the children, play with them and teach them to read, so that the adults could go to work with peace of mind.
There are no conditions to set up a school at the moment, but having a kindergarten is already very good.
Next, the base reclaimed one hundred acres of grain experimental fields, opened a vegetable plantation, and established a breeding farm.
Everyone used their strengths and exchanged their labor for a stable life. Everyone had a long-lost smile on their face and was happy to work.
Wang Zhenshan and Wang Yijun were shocked when they heard this.
Except for the supplies stored before the end of the world, most of the rest were surrendered or looted by people from outside the city. Who would have thought that the base could be self-sufficient?
Dongdi Island was not a place with developed agriculture. Before the end of the world, it mainly relied on tourism, so they had almost no idea in this regard.
I didn’t expect that those Chinese could actually develop the planting and breeding industries.
"I asked a friend to secretly take me inside to have a look. Their base is like a small city, with everything: a hospital, shops, restaurants, a kindergarten, and a security team."
"They don't need to leave the base, and basically all their living needs can be fully met."
"And we..." Wang Yijun looked at his own manor. It was spacious, luxurious, and covered with green grass, but there were few people.
Looking at other people's lawns again, I realized that these vast expanses of grass are really a waste. Apart from being beautiful, they are useless for any other purpose.
Actually, a manor of several hundred acres can accommodate many people, but they have never thought of letting civilians live in it, thinking that it would dirty their manor.
But they turned those castles into dormitories, hospitals, and canteens. They are very popular and make people feel that life is good just looking at them.
"They are indeed different." Wang Zhenshan sighed.
But he couldn't follow suit. Hadn't all these years of hard work been just to make himself superior, separate himself from the common people, and make himself different from others?
Do I have to return to the civilian population?
"To be honest, Dad, I'm really a little envious of them. There are so many people, working hard together, living together, it just gives me hope," said Wang Yijun.
"But how long can this thing last?" Wang Zhenshan shook his head. "Maybe there will be a new disaster or a new monster attacking soon. Wouldn't it be useless then?"
"It's different, Dad." Wang Yijun sighed deeply. "When the time comes, they will unite and fight hard, because that is their own home. They will fight for it."
"And here, if we don't hold them at gunpoint, how many people will hold on? Isn't it better to escape as quickly as possible?"
Wang Zhenshan was silent.
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