In the Apocalypse, Hoarding Supplies with the System's Hundredfold Critical Hits

For the countless survivors of the Radiant Empire, life was becoming increasingly hopeful.

After all, many people had genuinely accumulated a considerable amount of survival supplies through diligent manual labor and farming, including the universally recognized "legal tender," the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce points.

With extra money, people naturally spent it.

Consequently, more and more survivors came to Li Ming's market to buy electricity, vegetables, and fruits.

Although these vegetables and fruits were not cheap, survivors could occasionally buy a little to taste, and countless survivors ate these small portions of fruits and vegetables while fantasizing about the day the apocalypse would end.

After all, compared to the beginning of the apocalypse, these were already heavenly days.

Being able to eat enough and not feel so cold at night was already good enough; what more could one want?

However, human desires are endless. As the saying goes, 'With a full belly, one thinks of...' something else. Thus, the red-light district around Li Ming's market began to flourish rapidly.

Whenever Li Ming's Chamber of Commerce opened a new market, these red-light districts would closely follow, opening not far from Li Ming's market.

Some even created all-in-one services for eating, living, and entertainment, setting up nightclubs or various club-like establishments.

In fact, Li Ming wanted to crack down on these places, but he simply couldn't manage it all, so he could only implement standardized management.

With Li Ming's standardized management, the spread of diseases caused by male-female issues was controlled. After all, the fees he collected from these places were genuinely used on these people; medical treatment cost money.

Li Ming naturally wouldn't pay, so some of the one-time-fee romance workers had to pay themselves. In fact, some of these people were truly pitiful, while others were simply lazy.

For a time, many service industries around Li Ming's market flourished, indirectly providing many people with work and employment opportunities.

For those who opened shops, although Li Ming collected about 10% of the revenue each month as taxes, this money was well spent.

Firstly, this area was within Li Ming's sphere of influence, patrolled by Li Ming's army, ensuring safety. Moreover, the overall environment was stable. It could be said that as long as one could open a shop here, the income would generally be good.

Because many merchants from other places came to the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce market to purchase goods, they initially solved their own food and accommodation problems, but now they could find a hotel or inn to stay in.

Li Ming's market itself was also an office building, and several empty office buildings around it were converted by Li Ming into various facilities.

For example, hospitals were set up in these office buildings, with the office rooms transformed into wards, doctor's offices, and equipment storage rooms.

After a year and a half of development, the overall medical level of Li Ming's hospitals was close to the level of a municipal Grade III Class A hospital before the disaster, with both equipment configuration and doctor staffing approaching that of a Grade III Class A hospital.

Even better, the supply of various medicines was relatively sufficient, which also solved many people's employment problems, as some jobs, such as cashiering and accounting, still required professionals.

The doctors in these hospitals were basically rotated from Li Ming's medical base. The entire hospital was a 20-story building, with a light infantry battalion stationed inside to protect the hospital's security and maintain order.

Now, everyone in Marga City was very clear that if they wanted to enjoy medical services, only the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce hospitals could provide them. The medical level here was even comparable to some hospitals before the disaster.

The existence of these hospitals also drove many industries around the hospitals, such as catering services, accommodation services, and so on. Many people from other places also came here for medical treatment.

After all, the original imperial medical system had begun to collapse, and now, to survive, one could only come to the hospitals here.

Li Ming had established three large hospitals, six Grade II Class A hospitals, and 20 primary healthcare clinics throughout Marga, and it could be said that he had initially established a relatively reasonable medical system in the apocalypse.

There were many people seeking medical treatment in the apocalypse. It should be said that people who had survived to this day in the apocalypse had more or less some diseases, and the hospital business was very booming.

The entire hospital was open 24 hours a day. During the day, it was basically overcrowded, but although there were many people, no one dared to take any extreme actions.

A full infantry battalion was stationed in the hospital, standing guard in the hospital lobby with live ammunition, and a patrol team patrolled the hospital every hour.

If the hospital was attacked by armed forces, this battalion could defend the hospital, and reinforcements from the infantry regiment stationed nearby could arrive within 10 minutes, and air force support could arrive within 20 minutes.

Within an hour, reinforcements of four combined arms brigades and one combined arms division could enter the city.

No major force in the entire Marga city had any designs on this hospital, mainly because the hospital's backing was too strong, and another reason was that it was a hospital. Who could guarantee that they wouldn't need to go to the hospital in the future?

Now, if you destroy the hospital, what will you do if you get sick in the future and there is no hospital to treat you? You can only wait to die.

So this was also an important reason why no major force had any designs on Li Ming's hospital. Although the Zhongxing Chamber of Commerce's medical services were not cheap, this was the apocalypse, and the price of medicines was not a joke. It was expensive for a reason.

However, many survivors could afford to treat common colds and other minor illnesses. It could be said that Li Ming's cold-resistant potatoes solved the survival problems of countless people.

In addition to hospitals, Li Ming also built some service facilities such as hotels in these office buildings. Simple renovations could turn them into guest rooms, with electric heaters, electric blankets, and electric water heaters, powered by dynamic batteries. It could be said that staying in these hotels, you could take hot showers without any problems, and it was completely no different from before the disaster.

Of course, such good service quality meant that the price was also very high. However, many merchants from other places still chose to stay in the hotels opened by Li Ming, just because it was really comfortable to stay here. The saying "feeling at home" was not just empty words.

Li Ming was gradually controlling countless industries throughout the Radiant Empire, industries that were crucial in the apocalypse.........