Chapter 286: Supply Transport Team
The Lingxu Gang is also poor now, but they are not to the point where they have to eat problematic cassava. However, Li Yu'e thinks that cassava has a high yield and is easy to preserve.
They planted some cassava and preserved it. Whether they took it out for trading in the future or kept it as a reserve food, it would be a good choice, so they bought more arable land to plant cassava.
Su Ran looked at Xia Xiaoman, "Sister Xiaoman, do you want to plant some cassava? If you want to, it's best to buy more land now before the land is completely divided, otherwise there will be no place to plant in the future."
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "If I plant, I will at most plant a few trees for myself. Forget about planting in large quantities. I don't have enough people to plant them manually."
"You can hire workers to do the farming. I heard that many people with points on their cards buy large amounts of farmland. Some buy it to farm themselves, and some want to start a farm. Sister Xiaoman, you can consider starting a farm and hiring others to farm the land."
Hearing Su Ran's words, Xia Xiaoman refused without thinking, "It's too troublesome, and I don't have so many supplies to ask others to farm." The main reason was that she was afraid that too many people in the family would easily expose her space.
Seeing that she really had no intention of opening a farm, Su Ran stopped discussing this topic and turned to other interesting things. After paying the land fee, Su Ran wanted to inquire about the new cassava, so he separated from Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman went back alone. When he was about to reach the gate of the camp, he found many people gathered above the gate. There were also some people behind him who seemed to know some news and were running towards the gate quickly.
There were too many people at the entrance, and it was not easy to squeeze in. Xia Xiaoman looked around, ran to the newly built wall next to him, and climbed up.
Standing on the wall, she saw that more than a dozen cars had arrived outside at some point, and a man in military uniform was whispering with the security team nearby. No one knew what they were talking about, but his brows were getting tighter and tighter.
After a while, the security team came over to evacuate the people, but few people were willing to leave, and they all stared at the dozen or so cars.
The security team had no choice but to shout, "Fellow villagers, this is a team coming from the capital to deliver supplies to us. Please make way for the vehicles to drive in and unload the goods!"
"From the capital? To deliver supplies to us? Is this true?" someone said in disbelief.
Someone complained: "It's been almost half a year since the earthquake, and it's too late to send supplies now!"
"What supplies? One for each person? Why are there only a dozen trucks? There are more than two million people here. How can a dozen trucks of supplies be enough?"
"Supplies? Is it food? Why unload the goods? Just distribute them here. Hurry up and move the supplies down. If you don't have enough manpower, I can help for free."
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Hearing that the dozen or so trucks were full of supplies, the situation on the scene became even more difficult to control. Many people kept pushing forward, trying to run onto the carriages to grab supplies, and some even wanted to climb over the wall to get out.
The security team didn't expect that his words would not only fail to make the crowd retreat, but would have the opposite effect. Seeing that the situation was gradually getting out of control, the security team pulled out their pistols and fired a warning shot into the air.
The chaotic scene finally quieted down after hearing the deafening sound of gunfire.
The security captain said coldly: "If you don't want to be shot, get out of the way!"
Hearing this, the crowd slowly moved back and made way. The man in military uniform directed the vehicles to drive into the garrison. After all the vehicles were inside, he and the security team followed the vehicles and walked slowly to inspect the floating city.
Suddenly, a woman rushed out, grabbed the arm of the capital officer, and shouted like a madman: "Why did you come now! Why did you come now! If you had come earlier, my daughter would not...would not have starved to death...She is only 18 years old, just an adult! Why did you come now, why!"
The woman asked again and again at the top of her lungs. The officer saw her expression and opened his mouth to explain, but he only said three words, "I'm sorry..."
The earthquake affected not only the floating city, but many other cities, including the capital.
However, the capital had already built earthquake-resistant underground cities and material warehouses in advance, and the shaking in the capital was not so strong. An earthquake of about magnitude 7 was detected, which did not cause much impact on the capital.
After the earthquake, they were busy with disaster relief and were not aware that other cities had also been hit by the earthquake.
It was later that the surrounding cities came to the capital for help, and they learned that earthquakes had hit not only the capital, but many other parts of Xia Country, with Yuancheng being the worst hit, followed by the surrounding cities close to Yuancheng.
It took them two months to learn about the earthquake situation in various parts of Xia State. After knowing that Yuancheng and its surrounding cities were severely affected, the higher-ups immediately raised supplies and sent people to deliver them to the severely affected cities.
The journey south from the capital was extremely difficult and they encountered many ambushes. In addition, due to the earthquake, many roads were blocked and they took many detours before they successfully reached the floating city.
There were 30 convoys heading south, each with 30 vehicles, heading to different cities. The convoy heading south to Fucheng traveled together with the convoys heading to surrounding cities, but even so, they lost a lot of vehicles.
Some of the lost vehicles were those that failed to escape when they were ambushed, some were buried by landslides or landslides while on mountain roads, and some were damaged and scrapped while driving, so they had to stop where they were and contact the nearest city for help in transporting supplies.
Generally, if a vehicle is damaged or scrapped and stops on the way, it is difficult to deliver the materials to the destination. They are either forcibly detained by the surrounding cities or robbed by nearby criminals.
It took them nearly a month of stumbling along the way before they finally reached the territory of the floating city.
When they were about to arrive at the floating city, they were still happy that they were about to complete the mission. But now, they just felt ashamed and guilty for not being able to arrive at the floating city sooner...
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The supplies shipped from the capital are all compressed food powders. If these dozen truckloads of supplies are used sparingly, they should be able to keep the people of Fucheng going until a new batch of food is grown, which can solve Fucheng's urgent needs.
In addition to food, there are also some medicines, which are the most commonly used medicines in the floating city.
The team transporting the supplies did not stay for long. They drove away the next day after the supplies were delivered, and took away some of the newly cultivated cassava.
Famine was not limited to Fucheng. Many other areas were affected. Cassava had a large production capacity. If it could be widely planted, perhaps the famine problem in various parts of Xia State could be solved within half a year.
It was a long time later that Xia Xiaoman learned that the cassava seedlings taken away by the supply transport team were originally intended to be sold to citizens.
Unexpectedly, the transport team appeared at this time and took away the seedlings, resulting in Su Ran failing to buy the cassava seedlings. He complained about this for a long time until the second batch of cassava seedlings were sold.
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