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Chapter 208 Industrial Upgrade
Lin Guiyao glanced at Chen Elong in surprise, but didn't say anything, Gui Xingchao waved his hand:
"Although these people are all heinous predators, no matter how stupid a pig can be slaughtered for meat, no matter how evil a ghost can be used for grinding, if there are too many of them as slaves, our sweatshops will basically no longer exist. Short of staff."

"Sweatshop?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Well, a sweatshop, to put it bluntly, is a place to squeeze people." Gui Xingchao explained.

"Our industry is currently mainly about the most primitive planting and food processing, plus a small amount of building materials manufacturing. It is very basic and does not require such a large population at all."

"Then why do we need so many prisoners?" Xiao Hong was confused.

"Because we are going to carry out an industrial upgrade, our cities will need a large number of workers at that time, and people are a very large productivity. If we rely on slaves to buy them, we may not be able to supply them."

There are two other reasons that Gui Xingchao did not mention. One is that the price of slaves is too high due to the secret bidding of the metropolis, and it is not worthwhile to buy them again.

According to Lin Guiyao's statistics, the probability of loyal villagers appearing among these slaves is higher than that of refugees. Naturally, the welfare benefits should not be too harsh.

But it's fine with captives, especially if those captives are also raiders who attack them.

"But they are predators, so it's good if they don't destroy them. Will they be obedient and work hard? If they fight and make trouble every day, I can't manage it." Chen Elong made an opinion.

As the Minister of Public Security and the defender of order in Hope City, these thorns will indeed make his job very difficult.

Gui Xingchao glanced at Chen Elong, and smiled faintly: "About this, you have to believe that when faced with life and death, most people will choose to live, even if they live as humble as ants, Minister Chen, I believe You can do it."

Chen Elong hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Let's talk about the upgrading of this industry." Gui Xingchao glanced at everyone and continued.

"The current Hope City has already solved the problem of food, and there is even surplus food to support our trade. Of course, most of the lords have other uses, but the rest is enough for us to support 6 or [-] people. "

"But we can't just be satisfied with being able to eat enough, we must also ensure that we can always be full, what do we rely on? We don't dare to steal it from others!

That requires us not only to have a strong city wall, but also to have an armed force capable of deterring all small towns.

And this, in addition to requiring a lot of money, also requires us to set up our own industrial system and build our own arsenal, so that when foreign enemies invade and the economy is blocked, our core army will not be restrained by others! "

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Take this defensive battle as an example, apart from Gui Xingchao's meticulous layout, in fact, it relied more on the scientific research results of the research department and the mysterious ability of the lord.

Just imagine, if there is no city wall that is comparable to a metropolis, no fear of tank bombardment, tunnel digging, hook climbing, and motorcycle leaping. Any mistake can allow the predators to break through the city wall and drag the battle into the predators' favorite place. Street fighting, when the time comes, I don’t know how many people will be sacrificed.

And if it weren't for the help of the rushing beasts, oil bombs, compressed air guns, and poisonous stingers, they would not have captured so many prisoners alive,
Especially those beast special forces, white bulls and donkeys charging into battle, black-backed wargs using flexibility to make up swords, bullet-swallowing frogs to defend against grenades, plus the flat-headed gorilla smashing sandbags and commanding with a crunch, this can be done with an incredible The small battle damage broke through the opponent's most heavily defended base camp in one fell swoop.

All of this, regardless of the factors of the lord's superpowers, the building materials for building the city wall, the filling of oil explosive bombs, the manufacturing of compressed gas tanks and airguns, the cutting and poisoning of stingers, none of them depend on their hardworking citizens. Made piece by piece in the workshop?

Industrial upgrading is to shift the focus to this, to better serve the defense of City of Hope.

"However, to complete the industrial upgrading of our City of Hope, it seems that the conditions are not yet fully mature," Gui Xingchao glanced at Gobling.

"Mr. Ge, your focus of work in the near future may be on the generator side first. Later, we will find a way to get a batch of new lathes back, and then we can greatly increase our production speed."

"Isn't it enough for the generator to boil the water? It's simple, but I heard from my younger brother in the Holy City that someone has made a radiation energy source, so I tried to research it, and the result was a tuberculosis gun instead. If you give me a little time, I think I can make a generator with a lot of power, which can save a lot of fuel costs." Ge Buling said.

At present, Hope City's labor mainly relies on manpower, supplemented by animal power, and there are very few simple machines powered by animal power, such as mills.

If a generator is made, then purchase or make some machine tools by yourself, it will greatly promote the industrialization of Hope City, and it can also improve the living standards of the people in the territory. At night, there is no need to be blind or suffer from the smoke of candles.

Lin Guiyao pondered for a while: "Two months, if your research has not made progress in two months, then honestly make me a traditional generator first, okay?"

"It's a deal." Gobling said confidently.

For two months, it happened that the territory also had a lot of affairs to deal with, so it didn't matter if it was left for Gobling for this period of time.

"Well, we have lathes and electricity, and we have to work harder on raw materials, especially minerals. The rebel army has a lot of mines, but now they are busy with the metropolis, and we don't know if we can survive. Water can't save the nearby fire, we may need to find a new mine, otherwise the source of this large amount of metal will be very troublesome." Gui Xingchao said.

Lin Guiyao waved his hand, and looked at Tie Wuya, who was listening attentively in the audience at the moment, and leaned drowsily on her shoulder with dark circles under her eyes in the past.

"Ah, if it's just iron, there's no problem. Our black iron ants can make iron."

After this period of practice, Tie Wuya's spoken English has become much more proficient and becomes more and more fluent.

Lin Guiyao took out a basketball-sized black bead from his backpack and placed it on the conference table. It was heavy and glowed like a pearl.

"This is the black iron ball obtained from the abdomen of those black iron ants. The research department has confirmed that its hardness and toughness are comparable to steel. The most important thing is that this thing can be obtained by raising it in captivity!"

"Captive breeding? Doesn't it mean that there is no need to mine?" Everyone was shocked when they saw the inconspicuous black ball.

(End of this chapter)