The next morning, the Fishbone flag was raised on top of the Shenxiang town office, announcing that this place was officially part of the Fishbone base.
Under the supervision of twenty riflemen, two hundred survivors carried cement bags and steel to the Taipu river. They would be led by the twenty engineers sent by the Fishbone to build defensive facilities along the river.
Although they were still forced to do manual labor, Jiang Chen treated them much better than the mutated humans. Not only did he give them winter clothes bought from the Sixth Street, but he also didn't use whips to control them. As long as they weren't lazy, no one would starve because they couldn't complete the project.
When facing Shenxiang town, Jiang Chen adopted a completely different strategy compared to the Qingpu survivors.
Because it was located outside of the city, the zombie density was extremely low, far less than in Wanghai. After more than ten years of hard work, the zombies in the town were all cleared out. It could be said that they had a very comfortable life over the years. Compared to the survivors struggling in the city, their combat ability was much lower, so it was much easier to recruit them.
For example, the survivors in Shenxiang town were all farmers with hoes, while the survivors in Qingpu were all hunters with guns. For the scattered "hunters," Jiang Chen's strategy was to trade, then recruit, then assimilate. For the "farmers," his strategy was to directly recruit them with force.
All the survivors implanted with slavery microchips were directly promoted to management, and the construction of the infrastructure was handed over to the seven hundred people who joined. At this point, the structure of the pyramid had already been formed. Jiang Chen only needed to firmly control the people at the top of the pyramid, and there would naturally be people to take care of the things below.
To supervise the construction of the defensive facilities, Lu Huasheng personally led the team over.
The two hundred survivors were divided into twenty teams, each led by an engineer sent by the Fishbone base as they worked on the construction of the defensive facilities.
On the other side, in the wilderness to the east of Shenxiang town, two hundred survivors were hard at work on the barren land.
Jiang Chen's wisdom must be praised for always feeding the survivors in his base "green food". Regardless of whether or not it was because of this consideration, it finally came in handy now. If they ate the sticky nutrient supply, their urination would increase a lot, but they wouldn't be able to defecate for a long time.
When they saw a truck of dried feces being pulled to the edge of the farm and piled up into a small hill, the survivors who were reclaiming the wasteland were shocked.
Growing mutated crops consumed a lot of soil fertility. Using the flesh of mutants or zombies as fertilizer would cause the soil to be polluted (toxic), which was something that they would not consider since they were living here. They usually purchased industrial fertilizer from the Sixth Street to supplement the fertility of the soil.
How precious was excrement?
At first, Jiang Chen didn't think much of it, but he felt it had a huge impact on hygiene. It wasn't until some of the Qingpu survivors proposed that they wanted to contract the sanitation work of their base that he began to notice this problem.
On the wasteland, feces seemed to be worth a lot of money.
Wanghai was located on a plain with very limited mineral resources. Although nitrogen could be obtained through artificial nitrogen fixation technology, and potassium could also be extracted from seawater, phosphate was not so easy to obtain. The cost of extracting phosphorus from mutated organisms or plants was not low, and the main cost of fertilizer production at the Sixth Street was based on phosphorus.
But manure was easy to deal with as it was rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. They only needed to mix it in the ground and the seeds could be scattered.
Under Jiang Chen's direction, the size of the farm expanded from less than one hundred acres to one thousand acres. If all of it was used to plant Carm trees, it was estimated that the Fishbone base could provide one hundred tons of Carm tree sap per month. This way, not only would it satisfy the industrial needs of the Fishbone base, but it could also export to the Sixth Street. Based on the current price of 150 crystals per ton, the farm could bring in ten thousand crystals per month for the Fishbone base.
And the food for the seven hundred people, based on the calculation of two nutrient supplies per day for thirty days a month, with one nutrient supply costing 0.1 crystals, it would only be four thousand crystals.
As to the "expensive" food, after Sun Jiao's suggestion, Jiang Chen decided not to provide it to the newly joined survivors. As to the reason, it was not because Jiang Chen was stingy, but to strengthen his sense of hierarchy.
Different from the survivors implanted with microchips and sold themselves to Jiang Chen. If the precious food was provided too carelessly, not only would it not make the "outsiders" feel grateful, it would make them feel that it was too easy, and they might even feel disloyal.
After all, there were more than seven hundred outsiders this time, which was more than three times the population of the Fishbone base. And since the seven hundred people were from the same group, if Jiang Chen wanted to enslave them to work, he only needed to put shackles on their hands and feet. But if he wanted to "digest" them, he must first split them up.
The implementation was simple.
The seven hundred people would be split into two, one would stay here, and the other would be brought to the Fishbone base. The people brought back would either enter the factory to work in production or enter the boot camp for training.
At the same time, Jiang Chen announced that all of them were slaves, and they could only receive two nutrient supplies per day.
But if someone had an outstanding performance, then their status would be upgraded to lower citizen, and their daily ration would also be upgraded to two nutrient supplies and a piece of bread.
If they worked harder and were upgraded to middle citizen, their daily ration would be two nutrient supplies and a pack of instant noodles.
As for upper citizens, they could enjoy the same unlimited ration as the people implanted with microchips, which meant they were allowed to eat in the cafeteria. Other than not being able to enter management, the civil rights they enjoyed were no different than the people implanted with microchips.
When there was a difference in status in their small circle, they would naturally be split up. Those who were promoted would naturally stand on Jiang Chen's side to protect their own interests in order to further their promotion.
If there was a chance to climb up, most people would choose to stay where they were.
Also, to differentiate their status, all the survivors implanted with microchips would be awarded "Knight Medal" to encourage their contribution to the Fishbone base. Also, the "slavery chip" was renamed to "honor chip." Although it was a different name, it was just a different name. But Jiang Chen could clearly feel that when he announced this decision, the survivors who were promoted to knights all walked differently.
A sense of honor, if used well, could be much more useful than those chips.
Of course, there was a prerequisite. Only when everyone could fill their stomachs would people pursue the illusory honor.
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