Eye of the Wasteland

Chapter 248 Productivity of Strongholds (Part [-])
Seeing the expressions of Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang, Zhang Hongwei smiled with satisfaction.

Then, he said to Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang: "Just after our blacksmith shop was built, before Old Tang had taught a few apprentices, there were so many orders that they couldn't finish them 24 hours a day."

"Coupled with the huge demand for reloading bullets, we expanded two more blacksmith shops in just two months, and added an additional [-] bullet reloading stations."

"If it weren't for the consideration that winter is coming, many building materials may be in short supply, and the construction of buildings in winter may have quality problems, we have follow-up expansion plans."

Looking around at the current scale of the surrounding industrial areas, Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang looked at each other in surprise again.

Judging from the size of the previous industrial zone, it can already accommodate at least 200 people working at the same time, and there are follow-up expansion plans... How far is this expansion going?
And Ding Shiyang took the lead to ask Zhang Hongwei: "Old Zhang, are you addicted to building houses?"

"The scale of the industrial zone in our stronghold is sufficient. Is it too exaggerated for you to expand?"

Zhang Hongwei smiled and said to Ding Shiyang and Wu Yunhao who was looking at him: "Actually, when Cao Chengan told me about the first expansion plan of the industrial zone, I thought so too."

"However, I can show you the business orders received in the recent industrial zone after a while. We do all this not because we are addicted to building houses, but because we really urgently need to increase production."

"Taking the homeless strongholds around us as an example, the current backlog of orders already has [-] machetes and [-] daggers."

"At the same time, we still have more than 200 sets of old clothes that have not been mended, and we have to make [-] sets of camouflage uniforms for the nearby homeless strongholds."

"By the way, there are [-] rounds of reloading ammunition, and there are even more firearms sent over for maintenance, at least a thousand."

"And this is already the clearing of many orders that we have rejected in consideration of production capacity, otherwise the number of these backlog orders will only be exaggerated."

"Not only the nearby homeless strongholds, but also the nearby survivor towns are preparing to give us a lot of orders."

"Do you know how much money we have earned from these orders during this time?"

"Let me tell you this, regardless of winter transportation, construction materials, and supplies, we can rebuild a Xinshan Village stronghold of the current scale, and even save a little money."

Wu Yunhao didn't know how much it cost for the reconstruction and expansion of Xinshan Village.

But when he was chatting with Chen Xiaojia earlier, he learned that if it weren't for some income from the Peace Hotel and the outer city of Fuyuan City, the financial problems of the Xinshan Village stronghold would have been in trouble.

It's just that after a series of incidents in the outer city of Fuyuan City, and the confrontation between the Wasteland Ranger and the Dragon Hunters and the preparations for the establishment of the Wasteland Fist, he didn't ask about these things again.

However, a few times later, he saw that Chen Xiaojia and the members of the Wasteland Ranger were relatively generous, which proved that the Wasteland Ranger was not short of money.

But Wu Yunhao really didn't expect that the Xinshan Village stronghold could receive so many orders and earn so much money in a short period of time.

Speaking of this, Zhang Hongwei hesitated for a while and asked Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang: "Mr. Wu, Lao Ding, there is one more thing I want to discuss with you."

"I discussed this matter with the captain before, but because there were a lot of things in the outer city of Fuyuan City, we didn't bother you for the time being."

"Now, in addition to the Xinshan Village stronghold, we also control five large homeless strongholds."

"Combined with the homeless people who are about to migrate to those large homeless strongholds, we will have nearly 1 people under our command."

"However, in addition to Fist of the Wasteland, there are also many large and small forces and homeless teams in the Xinshan Village stronghold and the five large homeless strongholds."

"Previously the captain said that he would integrate these forces and the homeless team, but then he established Fist of the Wasteland..."

Zhang Hongwei paused while speaking, and he observed the reactions of Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang before continuing.

"Mr. Wu, Lao Ding, we are all on our own, and let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart."

"Although with our current forces, it seems that integrating these forces and the homeless team is not a big deal."

"However, I think it would be better for these wanderers after integration to join the Wasteland Ranger, or another large wanderer team can be formed."

"I know that the Fist of the Wasteland is our own, but the Fist of the Wasteland is nominally the guard of Fuyuan City, not a wanderer on the wasteland."

Hearing Zhang Hongwei's true thoughts after hesitating for a long time, Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang looked at each other curiously.

Then, Wu Yunhao asked Zhang Hongwei: "Joining the guards of Fuyuan City, at least you can enjoy the firearms, ammunition and food provided by Fuyuan City."

"If you just maintain the establishment of the homeless team, then you need to be responsible for the firearms, ammunition and food. These alone are a huge burden on the entire homeless stronghold."

Zhang Hongwei nodded with a smile and replied, "I know. Let's take the Xinshan Village stronghold as an example. It was built brick by brick by our wasteland rangers and the wanderers who followed."

"We bought everything from the outer city of Fuyuan City with the money we earned. We have never received a single bit of favor from them."

"We can cooperate with them, or stand on the side of Fuyuan City at critical moments, but we can also choose not to join them and become a part of them."

Although these words sounded a bit awkward, Wu Yunhao still understood what Zhang Hongwei meant.

At this time, Ding Shiyang on the side smiled and said: "Okay, Lao Zhang, we know what you mean."

"It's just that the captain and the others haven't come back yet. This matter is not a trivial matter. We'll wait for the captain and the others to come back and discuss it together. What do you think?"

Zhang Hongwei nodded to Wu Yunhao when he heard the words, and then said with a smile: "Okay, Mr. Wu, Lao Ding, the stronghold is almost there, let's go back."

Because Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang have already left the Xinshan Village stronghold to live, their original houses have been remodeled and redistributed to the homeless who subsequently entered the stronghold.

Therefore, Zhang Hongwei arranged the two of them in the meeting hall, but this was nothing to Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang who had long been accustomed to living in the wasteland.

Just as Zhang Hongwei signaled the two of them to rest here and call him after dinner, Wu Yunhao asked Ding Shiyang, "Zhang Hongwei... seems to dislike Survivor City?"

Ding Shiyang replied to Wu Yunhao with a smile: "We wasteland rangers didn't follow you to the outer city, more or less they all hate people from Survivor City."

(End of this chapter)