Chapter 106: Busy Farming in the Last Days

The small bases were just the beginning. Throughout the Lunar New Year, S Base took over more than ten small bases outside, and the overall area of jurisdiction expanded from the original S City to three adjacent districts.

With the successful acquisition, the entire territory now rightfully falls under the governance of S City. Consequently, the area of S City has also grown nearly threefold.

The population of the numerous small bases that were acquired exhibits considerable diversity. Collectively, these bases are home to over 7,000 residents, and approximately 1,000 of them were carefully chosen to become members of the original S city Base. Among the selected individuals, many possessed specific skills prior to the apocalypse, including tradespeople, educators, healthcare professionals, and more. This selection process has, to a certain extent, alleviated the shortage of skilled labour within S Base.

The remaining 6,000-plus people remained in their original bases, building new residential areas and walls with the help of the main base to ensure safety. This was for the stability and development of the local area.

Now with over 1,000 more people, it can be foreseen that the population of S Base will continue to increase in the future. The most important thing is that Ji Cha having to plan for the staple food.

As the center of the entire territory and the most heavily guarded place, the main S city base was absolutely safe even during the apocalypse. To increase food production, they certainly cannot touch the land of the main base. The food supply of the main base only needs to meet the usual consumption.

Ji Cha planned to open new planting and breeding areas in several newly acquired large bases. First, those bases have more people, and second, they are relatively far from the main base. Non-perishable items like rice, flour, and oil are okay, and they only need to be delivered once a month or once a quarter without worrying about spoilage. However, vegetables and meat cannot last that long, and they can still be delivered in the cold weather. But when the weather gets hot, it will be very difficult.

Moreover, most of the small bases outside have not yet restored their power supply. This is because electricity is now limited, and several large factories have been opened, and the electricity is mainly delivered to the industrial zone. The small bases have received less care.

The electricity problem will be solved in the future, but Ji Cha wanted to plan for breeding and planting while the weather is still cold, so that they can directly start working when spring comes. They can then wait for the harvest this summer.

As for the small bases that did not increase their planting plans, Ji Cha is planning to have them do some animal husbandry. After all, transporting live poultry is much more troublesome than transporting grains, so it’s best for each zone to be able to solve this on their own.

To facilitate distinction, the original names of the several small bases were changed and they were sorted according to their size. The main base is referred to as Zone 1, while the new area is designated as Zone 2, and so on.

The newly acquired areas are close to cities and there are not many people who know how to farm. Moreover, the environment has changed since the apocalypse, so even if they had experience in planting before the apocalypse, it has almost all been overturned now.

Many workers in the main base’s farm have been working for a long time and are already skilled workers, so Ji Cha assigned some of the workers from the bases to guide and assist in planting in each zone. The wages for these workers who go out will be higher than those who stay in the base, just like business trips before the apocalypse.

In addition to being busy with these tasks, due to the last time they took down Brother Qiang’s nest and found out that he was under someone, who turned out to be a relatively big shot who was originally in charge of affairs on the school side. This vacancy for the position has not found a suitable replacement yet, so Ji Cha temporarily took over.

During this time, the base school was still on vacation, but with the start of the new semester, there are probably over a hundred children in the newly acquired base who will come to the main base to study one after another. In addition, with the news that the education system has been restored in S base spreading to T base, Feng Hang and Ke Chenglei also had a plan to send the children from T base over to study. After some discussion and calculation, nearly a hundred parents were willing to send their children over to study, of course, there were still more people who were unwilling, after all, in T base, where their livelihoods were barely secured, many people were struggling to get by, and they didn’t have the same comfort as S base.

Not to mention S base, even those in the newly acquired base, after calculating the money they could earn from working hard every day and comparing it to their children’s tuition fees, they immediately made up their minds to send their children over to enroll, with only a few people still hesitating.

This almost meant that anyone who had any connection with S base suddenly had a better life.

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Feng Hang and Ke Chenglei are both far-sighted people, and they have a cooperative relationship with S base, so there is a certain discount for the children who are sent over. Except for meals and accommodation, the remaining tuition fees can be ignored.

Therefore, when many parents were unwilling to send their children to school, Feng Xing and Ke Chenglei wanted to mobilize people through loudspeakers and the people in the base.

Despite the cold weather, someone was speaking through the loudspeaker, and many people in the T base gathered under the pole to discuss it enthusiastically.

“I can’t afford to send my children to school, I haven’t eaten meat for so long. Where do I get the money from? I am not like the people in the S base who have such good luck and can eat meat and fish all day long,” a middle-aged man said with a depressed face.

However, someone expressed doubt about his argument: “Eat meat and fish all day long? Who told you that? Are they lying to you?”

The man snapped back, “Who is lying to me? I’m not lying to you either. My neighbor is a technician who went to S City. When he came back a few days ago, he brought back twenty pounds of pork and two chickens. I heard he bought them in the S base. He told me himself that the canteen in the S base had a lot of delicious food, and the meat and vegetables were fragrant. No one cooked at home, everyone ate in the canteen. It was cheap and delicious, and the portions were generous.”

Many people squatting on the ground were salivating at the man’s description.

There were also people who echoed him: “I don’t know about the technician, but my son is in the psychic team. I heard that the biscuits and meat sauce they brought with them last time they came to burn the ashes were particularly delicious. They said that not only ability users, as long as you work hard, ordinary people can eat like this too.”

For a while, the discussion became even more heated, and all the words were full of envy for the S base.

“That’s right, last time when their people came over, they were all smooth-skinned and tender. They don’t look like people who have suffered in this miserable life!”

Feng Xing and Ke Chenglei naturally knew about these discussions. They were not unaware of what ordinary residents were saying. Their position allowed them to be even more aware of the gap between the S and T bases. Instead of letting the people in the base become restless, it was better to make some changes based on this. Ke Chenglei and Feng Xing had some ideas in their minds.

For Ji Cha, after sorting out the agricultural arrangements, the remaining issue was about the school. Unlike the children in the main base who could return home every night, the children from the New Base and T Base would definitely have to stay somewhere else.

There weren’t many vacant apartment buildings left in the base, but it was enough to accommodate over two hundred people. After all, children living in dormitories were not living luxuriously, and eight to ten people in a room was acceptable since the original rooms were spacious enough, and it saved the trouble of dividing them. The bunk beds were also directly transported from the school site outside the base, which was very convenient.

After Ji Cha made these arrangements and assigned the work to others, he planned to go and check on the preparation of the apartment buildings. There were only two days left before the base would send a car to pick up students from various places. They couldn’t find out that things were not ready by then.

Unexpectedly, he encountered a drama halfway through.

Ji Cha rode his electric scooter through the middle area of the base and happened to run into two soldiers running past in a hurry. There were also crying sounds not far ahead. Ji Cha’s electric scooter turned a corner and followed them, ready to see what had happened.

More than ten people were gathered ahead, with two young men and a middle-aged man standing in the middle. The woman was crying, the young man was anxious, while the middle-aged man had a fierce look on his face, and he was still yelling, “I’m taking my own daughter away, who are you to stop me?”

The woman resisted: “I’m not going with you!”

The soldiers were called by nearby residents. Ji Cha listened for a while beside them and roughly understood what was going on.

The story was still a cliché. The young man and woman were lovers who met in the base, but the girl’s father didn’t like the man because his salary in the base was not high, in other words, he was poor. He wanted to take his daughter away and “marry” her to another wealthy middle-aged man who was almost the same age as him.

“We’re boyfriend and girlfriend, you can’t do this!” The young man was very anxious, although he was physically strong, he was hesitant to take action against the girl’s father.

The middle-aged man didn’t care: “What’s a boyfriend and girlfriend? Are you married? You’re just a fart if you’re not married!”

This is just being a hooligan, everyone knows that there is no marriage in the base now. Most of the couples in the base existed before the apocalypse, and they have naturally deep feelings for each other after going through hardships together. But for those who got to know each other in the base later, it’s different. Most of them are just living together as roommates. Marriage? The officials haven’t brought it up, so nobody really thinks about it or even has the time to fantasize about it. However, this farce has reminded Ji Cha that the issue of marriage that he previously discussed with Liang Jincheng can be put on the agenda and announced to the residents in the base.

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