Lu Yuan nodded, then asked, "Okay, that's good. So, how many were planted in this batch?"
"Aside from experimental fields numbered one through five, we've planted about fifty acres in total! The plots on both sides of the hill are still under development. Because of the extremely cold weather, the progress is a little slow, but I can go and urge them on!"
Lu Yuan waved his hand and said, "Forget it, everyone has worked hard these past few days, no need to rush us. Let's leave it at that. Take good care of the things in the experimental field and report the data in a timely manner!"
After listening, the man nodded quickly. Then Lu Yuan walked around the field a few more times. Human intervention does have a very important impact on these rice plants. Without natural enemies, the rice grows very quickly.
After the man's explanation, the rice in the No. 1 experimental field was divided into five batches for control planting. The first batch of rice and the fifth batch of rice were planted only five days apart, but the first batch of rice was already heading, which was obviously much faster than expected in just five days.
However, there is a drawback: it requires artificial pollination, which incurs significant labor costs. Normally, pollination relies on bees and butterflies or wind, but now that bees and butterflies are unavailable, using wind pollination has a limitation: the wind cannot pollinate all the rice plants in a short period of time.
So this is the only way for now, but fortunately there are enough people in the new base.
With these fields, Lu Yuan's original worries were completely dispelled. However, he could not bring out more plants from the resource space, since those things were too harmful. The growth rate in the third-level land was dozens of times that of the outside world.
Now that there are many people and eyes in the base, if others discover my secret, the impact will be enormous. After all, Tan Qing from the survivor base in Jin Province has always been eyeing my territory, but he always feels that the time is not right.
With the year-end approaching, the granaries at the base are already full of grain, and there is also an abundance of poultry and livestock, so everyone can have a meat meal every few days.
On the last day of the year, Lu Yuan convened a ministerial-level meeting. The attendees were all elite leaders from various departments, key personnel carefully selected by Lu Yuan, and all of them were extremely loyal to him.
Lu Yuan gave a brief opening speech for the meeting, and then instructed his subordinates to begin their annual reports.
Chen Bin was the first to step forward. After all, as the minister in charge of personnel, he managed everyone in the base, so Lu Yuan asked him to be the first to come.
"Since September this year, the number of people in our base has more than doubled from nine hundred to seven thousand. The subordinate departments and branches have also been fully established. Except for a few unnecessary departments, the others are gradually being built..."
After listening to Chen Bin's report, Lu Yuan nodded in satisfaction. Chen Bin's contribution was self-evident. Without him, Lu Yuan's affairs and personnel would still be quite chaotic. Not to mention thousands of people, Lu Yuan might not even be able to manage a thousand people well. According to the old model, it would probably have collapsed by now.
"Our security work has been quite successful this year. After consulting with Supervisor Chen Bin, we established our security department, which now has more than 20 team leaders and 550 people, each responsible for protecting various security measures within our base..."
"Our medical department now has over thirty doctors covering various departments, and the number of nurses has increased from over one hundred to over three hundred, which is more than enough to meet the health and work needs of the people at the base..."
Next, other departments presented their contributions and tasks for the year. Each department did quite well, considering it's a new base where everything started from scratch. The current situation is already quite good, but maintaining this status quo will be challenging.
After all, people always yearn for a better life. Although everyone is now well-fed and clothed and no longer thinks about other things, Lu Yuan learned that once people are satisfied with what they have, they will think about a better life. He can only find some more things for everyone to do, but he doesn't need to worry about it, because there will be even more serious disasters waiting for everyone.
In the following period, Lu Yuan had the rocks on the nearby hills reinforced again, and he would also conduct occasional spot checks to prevent anyone from cutting corners in order to give false reports.
On New Year's Eve, although the base had electricity, there weren't many electrical appliances available. To accommodate everyone, Lu Yuan bought some televisions from outside for everyone to watch.
Lu Yuan originally planned to build an auditorium as well, but considering the building materials and staff, he had to postpone the project to a later date. After all, everyone had just finished their current work, and it might be too much for them to handle such a large project now. With the annual New Year approaching, everyone wanted to take a good rest.
The TV was still showing the gala program, but compared to the programs before the apocalypse, this time the program was quite rough. Although everyone performed various programs related to the apocalypse, mainly jokes and skits, there were more tears hidden behind the humor.
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