Chapter 130 Plain Development

At noon three days later, the sky was blazing with sunlight, and waves of heat were blowing in our faces, making people feel irritable and unbearable.

At this moment, outside the mountain base, on a plain a few kilometers away from the base, thousands of sweaty survivors carried hoes and turned the soil and leveled the plain under the scorching sun, removing the weeds on it so that the plain could be used for food planting.

Soldiers were monitoring around the plain. Although they were uncomfortable with the scorching heat, no one dared to be lazy, for fear of losing the job they had finally found.

Near the plain, Wang Jin stood on the roof of the Hummer and asked Zhang Zhouming under the Hummer: "Zhang Zhouming, when can the soil of this plain be turned over and the sweet potato seeds be planted?"

"Report to the city lord, with our current manpower, it can be completed within a week. Planting the sweet potato seeds will not delay our planting time."

Zhang Zhouming wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained to Wang Jin.

After receiving Wang Jin's appointment, Zhang Zhouming did not relax for a moment, and put all his energy into the plain, striving to get a good harvest as soon as possible, give Wang Jin a satisfactory answer, and also seek a good future for himself.

Wang Jin nodded after listening, and looked at many survivors who were shaky under the scorching sun, and said to Zhang Zhouming: "Since there is enough time, let these survivors rest and give them saliva to drink, so as not to die of exhaustion here."

"Yes, I will thank the city lord for their kindness."

Zhang Zhouming said from the bottom of his heart that these survivors had not eaten well after the end of the world, and their physical fitness was generally poor. They had been doing high-intensity physical labor under the sun, and it was really possible that survivors with poor physical fitness would die of heatstroke.

Zhang Zhouming was also a survivor before, and he knew the hardships of survivors, and he did not usually exploit them like this. Today, Wang Jin came to inspect, and Zhang Zhouming ordered the survivors to continue working hard in order to give Wang Jin a good impression.

Now with Wang Jin's order, Zhang Zhouming would naturally not refuse. He struck the gong twice, indicating that the survivors could rest.

These rules issued by Zhang Zhouming, one gong means starting work, two means finishing work, and three means eating, are very good for dispatching these survivors, without the trouble of shouting with a loudspeaker.

Hearing the sound of the gong, the survivors all exhaled and hurried to avoid the scorching sun.

Now is the hottest time of the day, the temperature can reach 36 or 37 degrees. These survivors are weak and it is very difficult in such a temperature. If it weren't for Wang Jin's reminder, many people would have almost fainted on the ground.

On the side of the plain, there is a simple pavilion, that is, a simple pavilion with wooden stakes on both sides and thatched roof.

The survivors received the order and quickly entered these pavilions and lay on the ground covered with dry grass to rest.

Wang Jin's system for them is to work at six in the morning and let them go home at five in the evening, with a two-hour break at noon.

In order to take care of them, Wang Jin set up a porridge distribution point here for the porridge distributed by the base every day. They can drink porridge every morning and noon, without running back and forth for several kilometers to delay work time. After work in the afternoon, they can get two taels of sweet potatoes to go home, which is considered to have completed a day's work.

Although it is hard and requires a lot of physical labor every day, none of these survivors complain. Compared with hard work, hunger is the most terrible torture.

I don’t know how many survivors in the base envy them. If they don’t do it, there will definitely be a lot of people rushing to take over their work.

Like now, there are many survivors on the outskirts of the plain who are constantly looking around, eagerly watching them work. These survivors pick wild vegetables and catch insects every day, and the food they get is not as much as two taels of sweet potatoes, and it is also very unpalatable, so they envy these survivors who can work as long-term workers for Wang Jin.

After observing here for a while, Wang Jin drove the Hummer to move forward. Not long after, he came to a larger-scale labor site.

This is the outskirts of the plain area. More than 3,000 captive soldiers are working hard with hoes and shoulder poles, digging fish ponds and a large ditch connecting the river.

Unlike the survivors, these soldiers have no rest time. Even at the hottest time of the day, they have to continue working. They have no sweet potatoes to receive, and they have nothing else to eat except two meals of porridge a day.

Before Wang Jin took control of the Lishan base, these soldiers had good living conditions and good physical fitness. They could persist in this kind of heavy labor and did not suffer from large-scale heatstroke.

If the survivors had a hard time turning the soil, it would be miserable for these captive soldiers to dig ditches and fish ponds.

The ground in the plain is soft, but here it is hard, and the captive soldiers have to keep digging deeper. The deeper they go, the harder the soil is, which makes it difficult for the captive soldiers to dig. It often takes several times more effort to dig the land.

Even many veterans complained bitterly. Their palms, which were covered with calluses from years of training, had blisters on them, and they were so tired that their whole bodies became weak. It can be seen how intense the labor is.

The emotions of a large number of soldiers continued to accumulate and deteriorate, and the slogans of strike became louder and louder day by day. Wang Jin had long been on guard against this group of violent soldiers.

Unlike the survivors patrolled by a few soldiers in the plains, this labor site is guarded by 300 fully armed soldiers, with tall sentry towers distributed around it. The muzzles of the machine guns on the sentry towers are aimed at the construction site to ensure that if there is a riot, it can be turned into a hornet's nest in the first place.

In addition, Wang Jin's insect swarm troops also have 500 patrols here, staring at the captured soldiers with ferocious eyes, so that they dare not escape and riot.

Noah is stationed here to prevent unexpected situations. Such high-end force monitoring can ensure that there is no room for error.

Although Wang Jin does not plan to keep these soldiers in prison, he must maximize their value before releasing them. Such good laborers can't be found in their entire base, and they don't have to pay food as wages. Where can such a good thing be found?

As for the riot, it is just a joke in front of Wang Jin's military power, not to mention that these soldiers are unarmed. They were defeated by Wang Jin when they had guns, cannons and armored vehicles, let alone now.

Wang Jin inspected accompanied by He Youxi and unexpectedly saw an old acquaintance, Lu Yuanhuai, the head of the Yuan Army.

He was now the chief of staff appointed by Wang Jin. He trained Wang Jin's new recruits in the Ministry of Public Security and made them lively and colorful. They were no longer lazy and gradually developed a tough style of military personnel. Of course, this was also driven by the new veterans.

Since Wang Jin asked Chen Dong to recruit a thousand veterans to join the Ministry of Public Security, Lu Yuanhuai also became the chief of staff. He just asked Wang Jin to lift the personal restrictions on Meng Quan and not embarrass this teacher.

Wang Jin agreed to his request. Except for the military camp, Meng Quan was not allowed to approach. He could go anywhere in the base, allowing him to become an old man who could enjoy his old age. Although he had no real power, he could spend his old age in peace.

Now Lu Yuanhuai came here to visit the working captive soldiers. For this reason, Lu Yuanhuai had petitioned Wang Jin many times, but was rejected by Wang Jin. He said bluntly that if you can help me dig the fish pond ditch, I will release all these soldiers, and only give them two meals of porridge a day, which made Lu Yuanhuai speechless.

In addition to suppressing the surplus value of these soldiers, Wang Jin also considered tempering the temper of these soldiers. In the future, these soldiers will not be released all at once, but will be released one after another as ordinary survivors, so as to avoid the gathering of these soldiers and cause bad effects on the base.