#918 - Chapter 918 Mission Department
February arrived.
Lvyuan, having finished celebrating the Spring Festival, returned to its rhythm of silent production and development.
Even the grip of winter couldn't halt Lvyuan's rapid progress.
During this time, Qin Jin lightly participated in the base's development, urging them to speed up the excavation in the underground of the branch base!
At this time, the planting area for super rice was still insufficient.
The planting department had been continuously breeding and cultivating seedlings since confirming the super rice last year, but they were limited by the planting area within the base and unable to plant on a large scale.
Using year-round temperature and humidity-controlled planting methods, they could completely achieve three harvests a year.
Last year, Lvyuan's rice harvest yielded over a thousand tons per quarter. If the planting area were further increased, with three seasons a year, they could completely reach tens of thousands of tons!
That way, super rice alone could feed hundreds of thousands of survivors!
Although Lvyuan directly controlled nearly ten thousand survivors, and there were over a hundred thousand external survivors trading with Lvyuan, it was still only a small fraction compared to the nearly one million survivors in Guangnan Province.
It wasn't that Qin Jin didn't want to expand the base's population.
It was just truly limited by food rations.
This was a real world, not a movie or novel where the protagonist could shout, "I want to build a base with a million people!" and achieve it in one step.
The apocalypse had only been around for less than a year and a half, and Qin Jin's ability to reach the current level had exceeded his initial imagination many times over.
He hadn't been rash in the entire development process of Lvyuan.
Initially, in his eyes, he didn't care how many survivors outside died.
He would even lead people to destroy any enemy that posed even a tiny threat to him with lightning speed!
Because he had seen too much of the darkness and cruelty of the apocalypse in his previous life. If he didn't want to become one of those wronged souls, he had to be even more ruthless than others!
He displayed the word "prudence" to the fullest.
It was only later, as the base continued to develop and the level of security became higher and higher, until most of the outside forces could no longer threaten Qin Jin, that this man with paranoia gradually restrained his ruthlessness and turned to accepting more survivors.
Now that the time was ripe, he would naturally promote the increase of population.
As more and more super rice was planted, the future grain harvest would definitely become higher and higher. More importantly, the appearance of the detoxification method allowed him to more aggressively promote population expansion!
Inside the main base's conference room.
Today, a group of Lvyuan's senior executives were holding a meeting for the base's major development in the new year!
"Recently, the outside temperature has gradually risen back to minus twenty degrees! I think it's time to reopen the trading branches in various places and let the survivors who have been hungry all winter come to trade and cooperate with us!"
Qin Jin sat at the head of the table, crossing his hands and speaking solemnly.
Yes.
The most severe period of the cold disaster had passed. Today, the temperature detection equipment deployed outside the base recorded a temperature of minus fifteen degrees!
At this temperature, people who had made preparations for the cold could be active outdoors for a considerable amount of time!
Some live zombies used for experiments within the base, which had been frozen, still maintained their original appearance. After Zhou Qihang and Elder Sun tested them, they found that the viral activity in these things' bodies was still maintained at a very low level.
So now was a good opportunity!
Take advantage of the zombies still being frozen to conduct a major sweep inside some buildings!
Most of the personnel in the Lvyuan base had corresponding jobs. Even if the official combat personnel plus the external collaborative team members numbered several hundred, close to a thousand, many team members needed to maintain order and be stationed in various places. Only a few could be truly mobilized.
"After we reopen the trading outposts, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of survivors will inevitably flock here seeking help! This is the best time to let these people go in and obtain those materials that originally couldn't be searched!"
Qin Jin remotely controlled with his right hand, and the screen behind him flashed with pictures of Zhou Qihang and the others testing the zombies, as well as scenes taken by some team members going out to other places.
Without exception, the zombies hiding deep in the buildings were temporarily frozen and motionless.
"It has been confirmed that mutated fish can be eaten after being treated with detoxification technology. This food source will greatly increase our food reserves, so I have decided to take out some of our original food reserves as trading chips! First, save those survivors who are about to starve to death!"
"Open the trading outposts for unlimited trading in the short term!"
"At the same time, establish a new department specifically for issuing tasks to external survivors! It will be called the Task Department! It will be responsible for collecting, arranging, and assigning base tasks to cooperating survivors! These survivors hired by us will accept our assignments to establish fishing outposts in coastal areas!"
"In the future, mutated fish will become an important food source for us, and it will inevitably be necessary to establish many specialized hunting and storage locations along the coast! This involves new engineering construction, security, and transportation issues!"
"In the new year, Lvyuan has ushered in a major development! This time, we will need to feed an even larger population! Ten thousand? Two hundred thousand? Or even five hundred thousand are possible!!"
"We have found many ways to solve the food problem in the past year. Since Lvyuan has the ability to feed more people, let's take a bigger step!"
"This year, Lvyuan will not be limited to Guangnan Province. We must step out of Guangnan and go to the surrounding provinces to obtain more resources!"
"I will temporarily appoint Wang Yang to be in charge of the Task Department! Zhao Ling will assist him in completing the initial personnel allocation and task arrangement work!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Yang, who was not far from Qin Jin in the conference room, stood up and nodded to the cadres present to show his respect.
He had obviously already received relevant information from Qin Jin, and at this time, he was just informing everyone present.
This chief steward of the base, who had been with Qin Jin since the earliest establishment of Lvyuan, had finally been promoted!
Don't underestimate this Task Department, because it will inevitably develop into an extremely terrifying department in the future!
Just imagine how much power Wang Yang, as the person in charge of managing this department, would have in the future when hundreds of thousands or even millions of survivors cooperated with Lvyuan!?
Not to mention the degree of mastery of technology, just the personnel involved would surpass all departments and become a behemoth!
So it can be seen how much Qin Jin valued Wang Yang!
He had been watching Wang Yang's hard work for the past two years. This middle-aged man, whose family lived happily in the base and had never made any mistakes, deserved this position!
Naturally, none of the cadres present would jump out to offer opinions.
Even though President Qin had begun to retreat behind the scenes some time ago, his power had not diminished.
Even more, because of the large-scale use of D-serum, his physical strength had been developing towards an unfathomable level, bringing more and more obvious pressure to the ordinary people around him.
Not to mention that he had been making correct decisions since the end of the world, making everyone who followed him speechless.
The Task Department was officially established!
(End of this chapter)
