wasteland ranch

Chapter 171 Affiliated villages and towns
This so-called beauty pageant registration policy, of course, does not follow the principle of real beauty pageants, but prefers the lack of abuse:

Not for those with poor physical strength, not for those with severe radiation sickness, not for those without skills or craftsmanship, not for those with bad character,

Appearance, well, there is really no limit to this, but it will add a lot of points if you look pleasing to the eye. After all, there are still many positions in the city that belong to service posts. Putting someone who is more beautiful will make people feel better, right?
After all, the ratio of male to female in the wasteland is so different, there is no shortage of licking dogs.

However, in the process of recruiting people, it is inevitable that some refugees with families will come, but only one or two family members meet the conditions for entering the city.

Regarding this, Gui Xingchao didn't show mercy, and continued to follow Lin Guiyao's previous policy. Instead, he found another way and proposed another plan...

He provided these people with some of the most basic tools and materials, allowing those refugees who could not enter the city to establish a small village not far from the city.
In the end, they were asked to reclaim a large field outside the city to grow improved crops traded from other territories.

Once this satellite village is established, it will not only calm the grievances of the refugees who cannot enter the city, but also solve the problem that Hope City's food is too dependent on domesticated crops.
Although a large number of fertile crops have been planted on the dam, compared with the advantages of domesticated crops such as short maturity period, large harvest, less labor consumption, easy survival, delicious taste and rich nutrition, the enthusiasm of the villagers has decreased significantly.

Moreover, after the battle of the infected siege, most of the villagers were killed or injured, and the labor force was temporarily unable to keep up. This new village, called the Labor Village, could just make up for this shortcoming.

Moreover, according to investigations, since the land outside the outer city was originally an alluvial land, although the land gradually became dry with the abandonment of the dam, as long as the radiated soil on the surface is dug deeper and replenished Moisture will surely become a piece of fertile soil again.

As for the management of this affiliated village and town, Gui Xingchao pursues a free-range system:

The refugees who joined the villages and towns lived on their own, and the village chief elected them. How to manage production and life was also up to them. Hope City was only responsible for leasing the necessary production materials to them.
As a price, when the crops mature, City of Hope will collect [-]% of their harvest as taxes.

Seventy percent seems like a lot, but even farmers in the metropolis only get one-tenth of the value of the harvest as wages. Other territories don’t even have any income.

Therefore, the people in the working village are very satisfied and even have hope.

City of Hope will visit labor villages on a regular basis. As long as you meet the registration requirements, you will still have the opportunity to enter City of Hope.

As for those who have family members in the labor village, as long as they can be promoted to citizens or above, they can take their family members in, but only three people, and if they are found to be impersonators, they will be immediately labeled as criminals.

This policy only changed Lin Guiyao's family to go to the city but had to raise them by themselves, instead of bringing them into the city when they could raise them first. Although it was only a small change, it greatly promoted people's enthusiasm for work.

May I ask, who wouldn't want to bring their family members into a city with better conditions to live together earlier?
It’s just that in view of the looters coming soon, in order to avoid working in vain, the current labor village only asks them to make a prototype first and build a temporary shed to deal with it. They even arranged a temporary shed far away from Hope City. Shelter for wartime evacuation.

The current work in Laodong Village is mainly to open up fields and tamp the soil in the residential area, and try to plant some crops that mature quickly in a small area.

Most of the time, they are conscripted as Lao Fu, who do some hard work like grinding and carrying building materials like criminals, and get food and drinking water according to the level of labor.

Lin Guiyao sighed as he watched the refugees below the city, who were either suffering from radiation cysts or were as thin as mummies, gritting their teeth and pushing boulders.

These people don't even look down on slave traders, but their will to survive is not bad at all, but most of their endings are already doomed.

As it is now, every day in the working village, a large number of people die in large numbers because they continue to work due to hunger, thirst or disease.
Then the living people stripped off their only clothes and buried them in the refugee cemetery in the distance. There was not even a straw mat to wrap them around, let alone a tombstone that could prove that they had come to this world.

There is only a handful of wasteland, and a few tomb guards formed by people from the working village to guard their bodies and prevent them from being stolen by some small wild animals.

For this tomb guard team, Lin Guiyao knew that Chen Elong paid for the hire, and the people in Laodong Village couldn't get enough to eat, so they weren't in the mood to do such trivial things.

He did not object, however, and personally ordered that this task be replaced by a team of armed guards.

Respect for death is also an important part of igniting people's hope for life. As long as it doesn't hinder the living, why not be a little bit kinder?
"When the predators attacked, I don't know how many of them will survive."

Lin Guiyao shook his head. He had basically done everything he should and could do. If he was soft-hearted and brought them all into the city, they would immediately become a huge burden and disaster to Hope City, dragging down the development of the entire Hope City.

And he would never allow this to happen.

Sighing, Lin Guiyao returned to his own hut in Houshan. This hut was built not far from the two ponds. With the water droplets falling from the grown water bamboos, the temperature here is very cool.

In front of the house are two unknown broad-leaved trees that were transplanted, covering the strong and poisonous sun overhead, occasionally leaving a majestic tree shadow shaking on the ground.

As long as you lay out a deck chair under the tree and lie down comfortably, you can feel like you are taking a nap in the park. This is Lin Guiyao's favorite place when he usually relaxes.

The white jade lotus seeds not far away, after fertilization and growth during this period, have sprouted and grown into two or three fist-sized lotus leaves, as green as emeralds. When the breeze passes, there are slight ripples in the pond. .

Lin Guiyao pulled over a table and pulled out a red ledger and a thick draft paper. While looking at the accounts in the book, he wrote and drew on the draft.

Although most of the work was handed over to Gui Xingchao, as the lord of Hope City and the Minister of Agriculture, Lin Guiyao also had a lot to do. For example, he was currently taking stock of his agricultural assets.

He needs to know exactly how much his G coin income is, and when he can support his next system upgrade.

Because to upgrade to a gold-level core, the G coins needed are: 1000 million!

(End of this chapter)