Walking out of the Xinglong Military Academy in a trance, the excitement in Liu Weian's heart gradually receded, replaced by some apprehension, no matter whether it was from the simple school, the weird students, or the unreliable teachers, everything he saw and heard gave him a sense of joy. It's an awkward feeling, don't you just entered a liar's university, Liu Wei'an sighed slightly, if it's just a scam, it's fine, his current worth is not bad for this tuition fee, the key is that his dream Throw it in. When a thing that was expected to be very difficult is suddenly very easy to solve, there will be some concerns about gains and losses.
Hope tomorrow won't be too disappointing.
Successfully entering university, I should have celebrated it, but now I don't have the thought, I took a taxi and went home directly. Pushing open the door, there were actually people at home, Xu Ying, Zhou Jie and Zhang Yan were all there, and they were also very surprised to see Liu Wei'an, it was daytime, and it was not a weekend, this kind of situation was rare.
"Liu Wei'an, where have you been?" Zhang Yan's mouth was the fastest.
"Liu Wei'an, why are you so elusive recently, why don't you work?" Xu Ying looked at Liu Wei'an, she knew that he used games as a profession and didn't go out during the day.
"Uh...some things have been dealt with." Liu Wei'an was stunned for a moment, and didn't say anything about entering the university. If Xu Ying was alone, he would say it, but he didn't know Zhou Jie and Zhang Yan too well, so he didn't want to talk about it. Talking a lot, but wondering if the two girls don't have to go to work, or whether they are going on strike collectively. And Zhou Jie, who is driven into the game by Zhang Yan like a duck every day to make money, is actually there. Do you want to hold a family meeting
"The company's office is undergoing renovations, so it's three days off." Xu Ying seemed to see the doubt in Liu Weian's eyes, and pointed to the sofa and said, "It just so happened that you came back, let's sit down and chat."
Liu Wei'an changed into a pair of slippers and sat beside Xu Ying. The weather was too hot, unless wearing shoes was a last resort, and wearing them when he came back would be a crime.
"What are you talking about?"
"Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, we are discussing how to play, Liu Wei'an, do you have any suggestions?" Zhang Yan looked at Liu Wei'an, her peach-like eyes sparkled, she still had a good impression of Liu Wei'an. Zhou Jie twitched his lips, as if he was rather disapproving of Liu Weian's joining.
Dragon Boat Festival? Liu Wei'an was taken aback again. This seems to be a very distant festival. It seems that the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat rice dumplings. It is a festival set up to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan jumping into the river. However, because of the end of the Because of the war, this festival was interrupted again and again. With the improvement of living standards, this ancient festival was dug out again. I don't think about celebrating any festivals. In the past festivals, there is only one Spring Festival that has been integrated into my bones. The other festivals are the affairs of the nobles.
Don't spend money on eating, drinking and having fun. When Zhou Yan, who has always been frugal, will become generous, Liu Wei'an is a little puzzled, but thinking of the Dragon Boat Festival, he is also a little moved.
"Buy zongzi leaves to wrap zongzi and eat."
"What kind of suggestion is this? Zongye doesn't want money?" Zhou Jie objected immediately.
"I'll pay, can you make zongzi?" Liu Weian glanced at Xu Ying, who was a little bit excited, and felt a little strange. She is not such a stingy person. Her eyes narrowed slightly, and Xu Ying always dressed more at home. Casually, the top is a small blouse with strapless straps, the bottom is a floral skirt, the round and snow-white shoulders are like white jade, bright eyes and white teeth, still so beautiful, but between the brows, there seems to be an imperceptible worry hidden.
"Big atmosphere! However, Liu Wei'an, zong leaves and glutinous rice are not cheap. Are you sure you want to pay?" Zhang Yan half-jokingly said.
"Let's stay together." Xu Ying interjected.
"It doesn't matter. Since it's an event, it must be rich and powerful. I don't know how to wrap rice dumplings, so I have to pay. Don't be polite, everyone. We are so familiar. It doesn't matter who you are, just be happy." Liu Wei'an smiled and didn't care.
"Okay, this time it's Liu Wei'an, and the next event will be our husband and wife." Zhou Jie rushed ahead of Xu Ying and said loudly, happily making a decision. Zhang Yan quickly turned on the tablet.
Shopping nowadays is basically based on online shopping.
Looking at the items in the mall, Liu Wei'an understood what Zhang Yan meant by not being cheap. Zongye leaves cost 16 copper coins a piece, glutinous rice costs 300 copper coins a catty, red dates, peanuts, black beans, chestnuts, etc. are basically hundreds of copper coins a catty. Among them, lotus seeds are the most expensive, 1800 copper plates per catty. These can be used as zongzi stuffing, and there are some dried fruits needed for festivals, such as pistachios, almonds, walnuts, and nuts. The price is basically more than 3,000 copper plates, which is frighteningly expensive. If this kind of price is placed in the slave area, it is something that I dare not even think about.
"Why did the price increase again?" Zhang Yan asked with eyebrows, "Yesterday, I saw that glutinous rice was only 296 copper coins per catty, and there were chestnuts. I remember yesterday that it was 265 copper coins per catty, but now it has risen to 270 copper coins per catty. These days, I really can't live. Yes. The price of goods is getting higher and higher, and I guess I can’t even afford buns by then.”
For four people, buy according to the amount of twelve or three zongzi for one person. The material of about fifty zongzi is about 5,000 copper plates. Plus some snacks, a checkout, 12653 copper coins.
"I heard from my friends that it seems that the grain harvest has failed recently, there was a flood or a drought, and where did chicken plague occur, so the price of food has increased." Zhou Jie said.
Liu Wei'an glanced at Xu Ying thoughtfully. It seemed that when Zhou Jie mentioned 'chicken plague', her expression changed a bit, and her gaze was fixed on the tablet computer. Remember, compared with before, although it can't be said that it has doubled, the price has been greatly increased. Judging from the food shortage on Mars, Zhou Jie's news is not groundless.
Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little worried. Xinfeng City doesn't have to worry about it. No matter how the food crisis is, it won't endanger the city. As long as you have money, you will definitely not starve to death. The army usually stores enough food for the city for a year or two. What you need to worry about is The slave area, the foundation he worked so hard to create, if he was starved to death just after the improvement, it would be wronged.
During this period, Times Square and Liu Weian basically kept in touch every two days to ensure that Liu Weian could keep abreast of the developments in Times Square. With the investment of a large amount of manpower and material resources, Times Square has entered an era of rapid development, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the changes with each passing day.
Times Square is currently doing two things. One is an underground castle. Why build an underground castle? Without organization and discipline, the country doesn't matter, but once it is controlled by others, it will definitely be ruthlessly attacked by the country. Today, Times Square controls about 30,000 slave cores and 30,000 peripheral slaves, for a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses. It is not eye-catching in a slave area with hundreds of thousands or millions of people, but the fact that there are few people now does not mean that they will not recruit people in the future. It is necessary to plan ahead, and underground castles can be used to hide the number of people.
This is a security consideration.
The second thing is to build roads, to build a road leading to the Mayan Empire. The garbage mountain will be dug up one day. It is impossible for tens of thousands of slaves to be raised by Liu Weian alone, but there are no resources in the slave area. Xiaoyuan thought hard and finally thought of a way to make money.
The slave area is located in the middle of the three empires. No matter how bad the environment is in this three-way zone, the terrain is there and the transportation is convenient. For various reasons, the road has not been repaired. Once it is built, it will inevitably become a major traffic route connecting the three major empires. As long as a toll station is set up, it will be equivalent to an endless stream of money.
Although this plan was full of risks, but after careful consideration, Liu Weian agreed. Without him, there is really no other way out.
The only function of slaves is to serve as cannon fodder on the battlefield. Now that the war is over, slaves are useless. The second function is mining. Unfortunately, the planets currently occupied by humans do not have minerals. Third, do some of the hardest, most tiring and dangerous tasks, such as clearing the sewers and exploring unknown areas, but you don’t need so many slaves, the slightly useful slaves have long been picked up, and the rest are no one wants .
Therefore, slaves cannot find jobs, even if they don't need money, just for a meal, there are not so many jobs available to them.
Road construction is the only profitable project that can be thought of at present, no matter how risky it is, Liu Wei'an will grit his teeth and continue to do it.
Relying on the proceeds from the garbage, Fang Xiaoyuan made a budget, and was able to persist until the road was repaired and there was still a little surplus. Speaking of this, I have to thank the tens of thousands of slaves in the slave area. In order to have a full meal, they don’t need wages and are desperate. Many places where machinery can be used are replaced by manual labor. The steps are all completed by slaves. There are more people and more strength, and the speed is not much slower than machinery.
Although food is also a big expense, compared with using machinery completely, it is much cheaper. Among them, Zhao Kangcheng played a key role.
He is responsible for the talents and equipment, but he is not at a loss. In this era when even garbage is becoming more and more expensive, Times Square imports dozens of cars of garbage every day, making him a lot of money. position continued to rise.
Because of that massacre incident, Zhou Xingchen was promoted to a higher level. From being a member of the section chief, from being led to being a leader, Zhou Xingchen ascended to heaven in one step. Although he is still in charge of guarding the gate, he is still the leader of more than a dozen people. .
The higher the position, the greater the authority. Under his operation, almost 50 core members of Times Square have applied for the certificate of entering the city, and they have broken away from the status of slaves. From now on, he is also a person who can enter the city openly.
This is because of Zhou Xingchen's cautiousness. There are too many proofs for entering the city at one time, lest it will attract the attention of interested people.
The slave area and the city must be connected. Although Zhao Kangcheng is there to help, after all, Zhao Kangcheng's status is not simple. He is called to come forward for some major events, but it is not easy to trouble him for some small matters. It is necessary for someone to be active in the city.
It wasn't until Liu Weian paid the payment that Zhou Jie and Zhang Yan were relieved. They were worried that Liu Weian would not be able to pay because the price was too high.
Liu Wei'an ignored the careful thoughts of the two, and returned to the room. First, he checked the balance in the account, thanking Huangshacheng for his emotion, and there were still 1.3 billion copper coins. He took out the phone.
"Young master!" It was Maohou who answered the phone. As an elite of the transportation brigade, he became the first group of people to enter the city. Because of his shrewdness and ability, he was promoted to captain.
The descendants of the Lions had always called Liu Weian the benefactor, but Liu Weian disagreed, so they became sons.
"Buy food!" Liu Weian's order only had four words, and there were no extra words.
When the hairy monkey turned on the phone and looked at the series of numbers in the bank card prompt information on the text message, his eyes were almost dazzled, and he had to count several times before he could figure out how many zeros, 1.3 billion, he had never seen so much money in his life . Although he didn't understand why Liu Weian gave this order, he carried out Liu Weian's order unconditionally.
After twelve o'clock in the afternoon, it happened to be the time to eat at home. In Anyuan City and several surrounding cities, various rice shops, noodle shops, wholesale supermarkets, department stores... some mysterious figures appeared, and they began to frantically sweep the goods. A cart was delivered to a large trailer, and the cashier couldn't even scan the code.
The large trailer full of goods went directly to the city gate at the junction of Anyuan City and the slave area. Zhou Xingchen, who had already been notified by Liu Wei'an by phone, let it go without stopping.
The trailer drove out of the city gate and changed seats with another batch of large trailers waiting outside the gate. A group of empty trucks entered the city, while the large trailers full of food rushed to Times Square. Times Square originally only had dozens of scrapped cars, but because of the trouble of changing cars frequently, it bought more than 50 new cars in one go.
Scrapped cars cannot enter the city, and every time the equipment is purchased, it is transferred at the gate of the city.
It just so happened that more than 50 core members got their city entry permits, so they bought another 50 large trailers in one go, so that they could make a living in the city.
Counting, including scrapped cars, there are almost one hundred and fifty taels of cars in Times Square. However, these two big car purchases almost used up Times Square's savings.
The large-scale panic buying of food quickly attracted the attention of interested people. Many citizens joined the panic buying. People are blind. Once someone takes the lead, others will follow. At this time, the food crisis and chicken plague incidents broke out. , Panic spread at an alarming speed, and most of Tianfeng Province fell into the turmoil of rushing to buy food.
The lack of food on Mars is as serious as the lack of water. It has always been an unforgettable topic. At night, the entire Han Dynasty has fallen into a wave of panic buying. The prices of various foods have skyrocketed. Even so, it is not enough to stop the citizens' anxiety. Feelings, supermarkets are emptied of goods, wholesale markets are all emptied of items, small department stores, restaurants, hotels... wherever there is food, they are overwhelmed by crowds. Those who got the food were worried that it would not be enough, while those who didn't got it were very anxious.
"Who, who exactly leaked the news?" Tianfeng Province, the deputy governor in charge of food, was furious.