Chapter 307 New Official Takes Office
Zhang Yuxiong was removed from office, and the person who took over the position of mayor was Si Ruifeng, who was transferred from the capital.
The first three things a new official does when he takes office is to renovate the garrison.
The first order issued was that no one was allowed to own more than 5 mu of land. This was to prevent some people from being greedy and buying so much land that they would work from morning till night and die before the crops were grown.
Another reason is to prevent the people from focusing all their attention on farming, and to allow them to take time to collect more materials for building the underground city.
The most important thing at the moment is to build the dungeon. Everything else is secondary. Just grow enough crops to eat. If you plant too much, it will be useless if you can't preserve it.
The second order is that every citizen in the garrison must hand in 50 kilograms of metal or wire every week. The trading point will not take these metals for free, but will purchase them according to the corresponding points.
This is to prevent some conservative-minded people from just guarding the fields and doing nothing, thinking that as long as they have food, they are enough, and it doesn’t matter whether they enter the dungeon or not, and they don’t try to accumulate points.
If the time comes when you really have to go to the dungeon and you don't have any points, some left-minded people may make irreparable mistakes on impulse.
In order to avoid riots in the future, these people are forced to accumulate some points in advance so that they can have some hope in their hearts.
Don't ask why the ozone layer problem was not made public. The underground city has not been built yet. If the ozone layer problem is made public, it will definitely cause panic among the public and may even affect the progress of the underground city construction.
Some people would do anything to survive, so the ozone layer issue must not be made public unless absolutely necessary.
The third order was to conduct a census. This census was different from the previous ones. In addition to confirming personal identity information, the education level and skills acquired before the disaster were also required.
There are no restrictions on the so-called various skills, and it is not necessary to have formal learning to count. For example, learning to make pastries by yourself, learning to repair various electrical appliances by yourself, or learning how to cut clothes by yourself are all considered a skill.
When Xia Xiaoman saw that she had to fill in her skills, she guessed that the government wanted to screen out various types of talents through the census. She thought about it and wrote "none" in the column for skills.
The census staff took the form, looked at it, and prepared to leave when they saw that there was nothing wrong. At this moment, Maodan woke up and ran out of the house.
When the staff saw Maodan, they asked uncertainly, "Is that... a wolf?"
Xia Xiaoman looked back at Maodan who was stretching and said, "Yes, I raise him. He won't bite anyone."
Upon hearing this, the staff member took out a pen and wrote "Taming a gray wolf" in the remarks column.
Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman asked, "Do I have to write it down if I raise a wolf?"
The staff member nodded and said, "Well, those who have animals will write that down in the notes." After that, she put away the notebook and went to the next household.
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After the census, life returned to normal. Xia Xiaoman still stayed at home, and rarely went out except to collect saplings.
Li Yu'e would help her pick up the 50 kilograms of metal that she was required to hand over every week and use it as the cost of renting a tricycle.
Fifty kilograms of metal sounds like a lot, but the actual weight is accounted for by metal. A few manhole covers or spiral rods can make up fifty kilograms. Li Yu'e and her team can easily pick up these fifty kilograms of metal.
In comparison, it is much more difficult to find a pedal tricycle to transport supplies, so Li Yu'e was willing to give the 50 kilograms of metal.
However, there is one thing that is very strange. Logically speaking, the trading point collects at least tens of thousands of kilograms of metal every day. Over time, these scrap iron and steel should have piled up into a mountain.
However, there was no place to store metal at the station, and no vehicles were used to transport supplies. After the metals entered the trading point, no one knew where they were put, and there was no trace at all.
At the same time, the official released news about skin cancer, warning everyone to take precautions when going out and avoid ultraviolet radiation. At the same time, news about specific medicines was also announced.
On the day the news was announced, Chen Peiqiong and her family began taking special medicine. When Chen Peiqiong recovered completely and returned from the medical station, the crops in the fields had already matured.
Xia Xiaoman's family farmed three mu of land, and she needed to work for a long time to finish the work on the land. She originally wanted to hire someone to help harvest the crops, but as the sun was setting, she gave up.
The eternal night was about to come, and it would be impossible to plant the third crop. In this case, she was not in a hurry to harvest the crops. She would take her time and finish harvesting before the eternal night came and it became extremely cold.
It doesn't matter if other crops are harvested later, but the short-stalk corn must be harvested first. The stalks of short-stalk corn are like sugarcane, and the juice is sweet. If they are left in the field for a long time, she is worried that the moisture of the corn stalks will be lost.
Maodan also likes to chew corn stalks. When Xia Xiaoman was harvesting corn, it followed behind and bit off the corn stalks. It then lay on the ground, pressed the corn stalks with its front paws, took a bite and chewed them, and then spit out the residue in its mouth when it had no taste.
When Xia Xiaoman saw it like that, she felt angry and amused at the same time. She really didn't know how this wolf cub learned to chew corn stalks.
Bang, bang, bang——
There was a knock on the door. Xia Xiaoman saw Maodan eating corn stalks intently and knew that it was someone he knew outside, so he opened the door directly.
Outside the door was Su Ran, and the tricycle she had borrowed from her family. Su Ran smiled awkwardly and said, "Sister Xiaoman, I'm here to return the tricycle to you."
Xia Xiaoman asked casually: "Aren't you going to pick up metal in the future?"
Su Ran shook his head. "We still have to pick up metal, but it's hard to pick up metal now. Most of the metal in the floating city has been picked up. The amount of metal we can pick up in a day is not much, and we can carry the metal back by manpower. We can't use the tricycle for the time being, so Sister Yu'e asked me to return the tricycle to you."
Li Yu'e asked him to return the car because it was no longer cost-effective to rent a car with 50 kilograms of metal. Of course, there was another important reason.
"Besides, it's getting dark now. Sister Yu'e plans to take some people to Yancheng to buy some coal."
Xia Xiaoman was a little surprised when she heard this, "Didn't your car run out of gas?"
Su Ran nodded, "Yes, but some time ago, Zeng Rong, the elder sister who helped Sister Sun Qing deliver sea salt to the Fucheng trading point last time, we asked her to help get some gasoline back, so it should be no problem to make a few trips to Yancheng."
"Sister Xiaoman, do you want to go with us to Yancheng to buy some coal? The coal distributed by the government may not be enough."
Xia Xiaoman smiled and refused: "No, it's not easy for you to get this gasoline, I won't waste your gasoline. If I'm short of coal, I will find a way myself."
There was a lot of raw coal in her space, which she probably wouldn't be able to use up in her lifetime, so there was no need to make another trip to Yancheng.
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