Chapter 305: Eat Well to Go to the Front
Chapter 305: You can only go to the front line after you are full
[Frost and Snow, the front desk of the Merchants Guild: Recently, the trading price of copper ore in Honghe Town has fluctuated greatly. Affected by the increase in supply, the reserves of copper ore and sulfur in the New Alliance have approached the reserve limit. The purchase price has been reduced by 10% compared with the benchmark value, and the supply price has been reduced by 6%. Please pay attention to the risks, merchants. ]
[Chairman of the Merchants Guild Charlie: Warm reminder, the Merchants Guild provides NPCs with a trading level of 3 or above, which can help you get a better price in the transaction. If you are not confident enough in your negotiation and language skills, it is recommended that players hire 1~2 NPC followers]
[NPC followers with VM will be good helpers on your journey. Some of them are good at fighting, some are good at hunting or medical treatment, and their abilities can grow with you on the journey. However, serious injuries and death will cause them to leave the team permanently, so please be sure to protect their safety! ]
Official website forum.
Today is as lively as ever.
The first batch of caravans that went to Honghe Town have returned one after another. Thanks to the strategy written by Brother Mole, these first little players who tried it have made a lot of money.
Since the transaction was done early, they didn’t even feel the price fluctuations, and they had already exchanged the goods they brought back for silver coins.
Tail: “Huh??? The price of copper ore has increased?”
Sis: “Emm… It seems to have nothing to do with us. When you were discussing the price increase, we were already on our way back.”
In fact, she had expected this situation to happen, so she kept urging Tail to leave quickly, although in the end she was delayed by the team name.
Fortunately, they went at the right time and completed the delivery before the copper price increased. When they woke up the next day, the price had increased directly.
Thinking of this now, Sis couldn’t help but feel lucky.
Fortunately, she insisted on spot settlement at the beginning. If she was given a ticket at the time, or waited until tomorrow for settlement, they would have made at least 10% or 20% less on this trip to Honghe Town.
Makabazi: “Tell me the truth! How much did you make!”
Tail: “Not much, not much, just a few hundred thousand! Well, it’s a big step forward in the dream of the Mercenary Guild! (Proud)” As soon as
the message was sent out,
the post exploded instantly.
Silver Dad: “Hiss…”
Quit Smoking: “Hundreds of thousands?! Are you talking about RMB or silver coins?!”
Sis: “Ahem… Tail is talking nonsense, don’t believe it.”
Edge of the Water: “I can’t tell which one is more outrageous for a moment.”
Canyon Runaway Mole: “Wait, where did Tail get so many silver coins!?”
Tail: “Hey, this is a girl’s secret! (ゝω·)☆”
Canyon Runaway Mole: “Hey, what the hell! Tell the truth! (Going crazy)”
Debt Big Eyes: “I’m afraid there is a hidden PY transaction behind this!”
Stop Bullshitting: “PY transaction?! Where is it?”
Macabazi: “Pass it on! Tail is not clean!”
Lost Mengxin: “Woo woo woo, rich woman hungry, I don’t mind!”
Tail: “?! Σ(Д;)”
In the end, no one analyzed where Tail’s silver coins came from.
After all, no matter how you look at this guy, he is just an ordinary sand sculpture netizen, and he doesn’t have the temperament of a money player at all.
Sisi, Zhimahu and Rourou knew some of the truth, but they did not spread it everywhere. After being educated by her bestie in private chat, Weiba also slipped away from the post with grievance.
Compared with the first batch of players who were almost lucky enough to pick up money, the second batch of players felt a little uncomfortable.
When many people arrived in Honghe Town, the price of copper had already started to go uphill. Many people spent more than 1,000 blue tickets for a ton of copper in just one day.
But some people were very lucky and just caught up with the crazy shipments of major mining areas.
As of a few hours before the official website announcement came out, except for the trading station in Mati Town, almost all trading stations could buy copper ore at almost the same price as cabbage.
Investment needs to be cautious, and many rookies who are just starting out have been taught a lesson by NPCs.
The economic system of “Wasteland OL” is not just as sloppy as buying low and selling high. Especially when the copper price suddenly fell later, many people felt that an invisible big hand was affecting everything.
Canyon Mole on the Run: “Actually, I’ve always suspected that someone is buying up stocks before the expansion starts. I’ve thought about it for a long time. If there’s a war, the price of copper and sulfur will definitely go up.”
Lightning Mage Professor Yang: “Why didn’t you buy anything, buddy? (grin)”
Canyon Mole on the Run: “Well, I did want to, but this business can’t be done without tens of millions of silver coins, okay?”
The price of copper is almost ten times that of iron, and because it is more suitable for processing into bullets than steel, it is extremely difficult to find in the wasteland.
The market price for making a 100-kilogram pure steel breastplate is 100 silver coins, and if it is pure copper, it will cost 1,000 silver coins… although no one uses copper to make armor.
According to this calculation, one ton of copper costs 10,000 silver coins, and the NPC warehouse reserves start at 100 tons, and now it is said to have reached thousands of tons.
Ten million silver coins!
The silver coins in the pockets of all the players in the server are not that much!
This game has a loan function, but you can only apply for a loan for “production and business purposes” in the name of the enterprise. Once it is determined that the funds are used in violation of regulations, or there is suspected interest transfer in the accounts, the fine will be imposed to bankruptcy in minutes.
Unprofessional counterattack: “Fuck, now that you say that, the price is driven up by the NPC?”
Irena: “The NPC in this game is quite something, and they know how to cut the leeks of players. (Funny)”
The fluctuation of the copper ore trading price is just a small episode on the eve of the expansion pack, but many wealth myths are really envied by many people.
Especially now that there is an official silver coin consignment platform, not only players can participate in the transaction, but also cloud players can participate.
Looking at the posts in the entire gossip section predicting whether the silver price of the new expansion pack will rise or fall, Ye Wei, who was sitting in the classroom playing with his mobile phone, had a helpless expression on his face.
The main reason is that the topics these people talked about became more and more profound, and he couldn’t understand them a little.
”Aren’t you tired of discussing this on the forum every day?”
Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: “You don’t understand! This is also a kind of fun! (Proud)”
Ye Wei:…
Good guy.
This is completely unaware that he was treated as a leek by A Guang.
I heard that there is a cloud player named “Working Warrior” who has not entered the game yet, but already has 10,000 silver coins in his account.
However, this guy is smarter than other cloud players in that he flexibly uses the rule that “any form of virtual assets can be traded”.
He contacted players who are qualified for closed beta testing through the trading platform to register a company. He provided money and technology, and asked players who are qualified for closed beta testing to help hold shares on his behalf and produce inverters for converting DC to AC. He turned “Wasteland OL” into a simulation business game.
Although it is not a very high-tech thing, it sells surprisingly well and has received many orders from downstream manufacturers.
The official website recognizes the free disposal of “non-bound” assets in the game. Although people cannot enter the game, the legal rights and interests in the game can be guaranteed.
As long as you don’t use loopholes in the rules to maliciously brush money.
Ye Wei thought about it carefully. Although A Guang often paints pie in the sky with them, he is actually very friendly to the players.
Other game manufacturers treat players as family members, and only Brother Guang treats players as brothers. He has never cut their leeks, and even cuts the leeks of cloud players to give them benefits.
Thinking of this, Ye Wei couldn’t help but burst into tears.
Such a plan is too conscientious!
…
”A-choo!”
Chu Guang sneezed.
”Cold?”
Xia Yan, who was standing beside him, glanced at him.
”No, I guess someone praised me for being handsome behind my back.” Chu Guang rubbed his nose and muttered.
It’s probably the pollen problem.
Xia Yan rolled her eyes at him, and seeing that it wasn’t a cold, she stopped caring.
Today is the first weekend of April, and it’s also her first day off this month.
As the number of players gradually increased, the work in the weapon store became busier and busier. A certain black-hearted boss finally found his conscience and arranged a few more people to help her, and she finally got a day off every week.
On this day, she doesn’t have to go to work, and can fish openly.
With a rare leisure time, Xia Yan originally planned to stay on the sofa in the browsing room to read novels for a day, but Chu Guang fooled her out with a sentence “I’ll take you to see a treasure.”
This guy didn’t wear the iconic azure power armor for the first time, and he didn’t even wear a blue jacket. He went out very low-key.
Xia Yan was embarrassed at first, wondering what treasure this guy was secretly planning to take her to see, but she was stunned when she arrived at the destination.
Next to the refugee village, there stood a tall red brick mill, and behind a muddy ridge not far away, there was an endless expanse of emerald green.
The nearby residents were busy in the fields, and there were thick-shouldered two-headed cows next to them. There were also several rumbling tractors running on the road, pulling cargo boxes filled with bulging sacks.
This is the north of Shuguang City, on the west side of Changjiu Farm.
The scenery is pretty good, but…
is this the treasure he was talking about?
Xia Yan blinked, her expression a little confused.
Okay.
She admitted that this endless farmland was indeed spectacular at a glance.
It was just a little different from the tryst she had imagined.
She originally thought that this guy would take her for a walk by the lake, or go to the woods to pick bird eggs.
But at this moment, Xia Yan suddenly remembered that just three months ago, this place seemed to be a wasteland full of bushes and gravel.
It was incredible that it could become like this in just three months.
Xiaoyu, who had been curiously looking around behind Chu Guang, had an expression on her face as if she had discovered a new world, and pointed excitedly to the front.
”A lot of green wheat!”
”Hahaha!”
Chu Guang smiled and rubbed her hair, explaining with a pleasant face.
”That’s not called green wheat, it’s wheat. The pancakes made with wheat flour are much more fragrant than the dry green wheat pancakes!”
Xiaoyu swallowed unconsciously and looked up at him expectantly.
”Really?”
Chu Guang nodded.
”Of course! Not only pancakes, but also bread, steamed buns, dumplings and noodles made from wheat flour… In short, there are too many ways to eat it.”
After entering April, wheat will enter the heading and flowering period. At this stage, the young ears of wheat will begin to differentiate and grow rapidly. At
this time, it is necessary to ensure that there is enough water in the field, and the field needs to be topdressed and pests need to be controlled.
If these problems are not handled properly, the wheat fields will not only have yellow leaves and dry leaf tips, but may even age prematurely.
It is no exaggeration to say that whether the work at this stage can be done well directly determines the grain production in July and August this year.
At present, whether it is refugees or players, whether it is contracted fields, resettlement fields or collective farming fields, all use seeds cultivated by the shelter plantation.
Although the genes of these seeds are already excellent, if you want to get a higher yield, you still have to spend some time to take care of them.
Chu Guang allocated at least half of the pot-camel machine purchased from Boulder City to the irrigation canal in order to solve the water supply problem. The
fertilizer issue is a little easier to solve. There are a lot of bird and animal feces on the edge of Linghu Lake. These are all natural high-quality fertilizers that can be used directly after a little processing.
As for pesticides, the most widely used one in Changjiu Farm is an organic phosphorus, which is produced by a chemical plant in a nearby industrial zone.
It is said that the large plantations in the prosperous era all use integrated planting technology with an integrated infrasonic killing device.
Although long-term exposure to high-intensity infrasound can have a serious impact on human health, farmers in that era did not have to work in the fields like farmers in the New Alliance. They all used smart wearable devices to sow seeds with one click, so there was no problem of affecting health.
The New Alliance does not have this condition.
At present, only relatively primitive pesticides can be used to control pests.
”Over there?” Xiaoyu tiptoed excitedly, looking at another field not far away.
Chu Guang looked along her line of sight and said with a smile.
”Over there, it’s leeks.”
Leeks are also a good thing. Unlike other vegetables, other vegetables are only planted one or two seasons a year, but leeks can be eaten all year round.
And the most important thing is that leeks grow fast and can mature in more than 20 days, especially in early spring. The leeks are the most tender and fragrant.
After discovering the leek seeds in Shelter No. 117, he immediately asked people to plant them.
Thinking of leek scrambled eggs and dumplings stuffed with leek and pork, Chu Guang swallowed unconsciously and began to think about the recommended recipes on the official website tomorrow.
Just as his thoughts were drifting away, Old Luca, the head of the farm, walked towards him, looked at him in surprise and said.
”Mr. Manager? Why are you here?”
He has been in the fields almost every day these days because of the busy farming season. He almost moved his bed here.
Chu Guang looked at Old Luca and smiled.
”I’m just taking a look. Don’t mind me. By the way, how is the harvest of the farm this month?”
As soon as he talked about this, Old Luca’s face suddenly showed joy.
”3,000 acres of vegetable fields and 5,000 acres of early-maturing potato fields are already being harvested!”
”Thanks to the harvester you residents made, we hung the machine in front of the tractor, and then watched it push forward. Soon all the crops were in the basket!”
At this point, he couldn’t help but exclaimed.
”That harvester is so easy to use. It not only harvested the crops, but also turned the land over again! We don’t even have to turn the soil over again. We can just sow the new seeds and plant them!”
Listening to Old Luca’s excited talk, Chu Guang’s face also showed a happy expression.
”Great!”
The vegetable fields have a wide variety of varieties, mainly cabbage, Chinese cabbage and other leafy vegetables that mature quickly, basically they can mature in one or two months.
The only drawback is that these vegetables are not kept for a long time, and are mainly used to improve meals.
But the potato is very useful, not only is it nutritious and can be eaten as a meal, but the yield is not low.
Although they planted an early-maturing variety that matures in 60 days, and they planted it at the end of January, there is still a yield of two to three thousand kilograms per mu of land.
Calculating 5,000 mu of land, at least 5,000 tons of potatoes can be produced!
These 5,000 tons of potatoes can be said to have solved the urgent needs of the new alliance.
Players eat a lot, especially awakened power-type animals. The amount of food they eat in one meal is almost enough for three or four adult residents, and they can even eat as much as five people if they are not human.
With these 5,000 tons of potatoes, no matter whether his little players steam, fry or eat in various ways, Chu Guang no longer has to worry about the list of food inventory.
Potatoes are good in every way, except that they have a high water content, 70% of which is water. If you want to preserve them for a long time on a large scale, you have to either dehydrate them or make them into powder.
But in this way, they cannot
be made into seeds. Coupled with the debuff of continuous cropping and reduced yield, few countries will use them as staple food.
However, when there is not enough food, it is still very good to rely on potatoes for emergency.
Using high-yield potatoes and vegetable crops with a short growth cycle to meet the nutritional needs of the residents of the New Alliance in spring and summer, and to support the harvest of staple foods such as wheat, rice, and corn in July and August, this is the highest priority task Chu Guang has issued to the logistics department of the New Alliance.
Only when the granary of the New Alliance is full of grain can he absorb more NPCs and recruit more players.
Only then can life really get better.
”… Remember what I told you before, don’t keep planting the same crop in the same field. After planting potatoes, you can plant spring corn, and after planting leafy vegetables, you can switch to rice, and rotate water and dry crops.”
Although Chu Guang knew that Old Luca had written down everything he said in a small notebook, he couldn’t help but remind him again.
Old Luca replied with a smile.
”Don’t worry, sir. I will definitely not forget what you told me! In fact, when we worked at Brown Farm before, we usually planted a crop and sowed a handful of green wheat seeds, which would mature in one or two months. We kept half of the harvested crops for ourselves, half for livestock, and the remaining wheat straw was burned into ash and turned into the soil as fertilizer.”
”This should also be considered crop rotation!”
Chu Guang said with a light cough.
”Green wheat… Don’t plant it on a large scale in the future. Although it grows fast, the yield is too low, and it will affect the yield of wheat fields. For us at this stage, there are only disadvantages, and no benefits.”
The most important thing is that it tastes bad.
No matter how long it is cooked, the sour smell of grass can’t be removed, and the baked cakes are dry. Chu Guang has always suspected that it may have reacted with the alkali used for dough to neutralize and generate calcium salts or something else.
Since there is enough arable land, Chu Guang is more inclined to let his residents and players eat better things.
As for wasteland crops such as green wheat and yam, they are good for helping refugees, supplying prisoner-of-war camps, and pastures for tribesmen.
He heard from the people of the Frost Spear Tribe that two-headed cows fed with green wheat not only grow faster, but also produce more milk than those fed with grass. It is
okay to plant some in the pasture.
Old Luca nodded seriously.
”I’ll remember it!”
After not interfering with Old Luca’s work and letting him do his own thing, Chu Guang walked around the ridge of the field.
Admiring the lush chive seedlings in the field, Chu Guang’s mouth corners unconsciously curled up.
This thriving scene is really never boring.
If only autumn could come soon.
By then, the scenery of Linghu Lake. North Bank will definitely be more spectacular.
Xia Yan, who has been following Chu Guang, asked curiously.
”Is this how you spend your vacation?”
Chu Guang joked.
”Where do I get my vacation? Is there anyone else taking turns with me?”
Xiaoyu glanced at him with some concern.
”Brother Chu, you should also pay attention to rest, don’t be too tired.”
Chu Guang said with a smile.
”Don’t worry, although I don’t have a holiday, I don’t work 24 hours a day, and I can still squeeze out time for rest and collecting materials.”
However, it is true that he has been very busy recently. He came here to take a look around and squeezed out time from his busy schedule.
The day of the Northern Expedition is getting closer.
On the one hand, he has to discuss and formulate a specific offensive plan with the General Staff, and on the other hand, he has to coordinate the production of the industrial zone and develop the economy of the new alliance.
Although Xiaoqi helped him a lot, it is impossible for him to do everything for him.
Using AI to assist management is the municipal experience of the People’s Alliance era, but leaving it entirely to AI to make decisions is an unimagined path.
Xia Yan looked at Chu Guang in surprise and said nothing.
Seeing that Boss Xia was staring at his face motionlessly, Chu Guang subconsciously touched the tip of his nose.
”Is there something on my face?”
Xia Yan shook her head.
”No, I just feel a little surprised… How long are we going to stay here?”
Chu Guang guessed that she had no interest in farming, so he smiled and said.
”It’s just a side trip to come here… Let’s go, I plan to show you something good, it’s on the north street of Changjiu Farm.”
”Speaking of which, it’s already developed bigger than the market at the north gate of our base, let’s go shopping there.”
Xia Yan was immediately excited when he heard about shopping, and all the fatigue in his body was swept away.
”I want to buy clothes!”
”Buy!”
Chu Guang laughed.
”Anyway, your salary is paid to you.”
”Don’t ask me how you want to spend it.”
…
”…A copper mine was discovered in Yuanxi Town to our south? And it’s a million-ton mine?”
The department store in Qingshi County.
Shi Ya, who was sitting on the chair, was instantly filled with surprise on his face with thick eyebrows and big eyes after listening to his subordinates’ report.
Copper mine?
Yuanxi Town?
Is there such a thing?
”Are you sure the information is accurate?”
During the heavy snow last year, he stayed in Yuanxi Town for several months and didn’t find any copper mines. How come the group of blue coats found it as soon as they went there?
This is too coincidental!
Of course, it may also be that his subordinates don’t have that vision.
As the eldest brother, he knew best how stupid his subordinates were.
The plunderer kneeling on one knee at the bottom of the stairs lowered his head and said after a moment of hesitation.
”I’m not sure… but I heard that the whole Dawn City is talking about this, and it has even spread to Red River Town.”
Hearing this, the expression on Lion Fang’s face became uneasy.
Copper mine.
That’s a copper mine.
Even if he is stupid, he knows that copper bullets are better than iron bullets, whether it is an iron barrel rifle or an automatic rifle.
And the most important thing is that copper is much easier to make than steel. The
lack of steel production capacity has always been a concern for the Bone Chewing Tribe. Although they have taken over a large number of legion arms, it is definitely not okay to always eat other people’s leftovers.
The equipment is sufficient for now, but at least the bullets have to be made by themselves, right?
In fact, the Bone Chewing Tribe has tried to solve the problem of supply by themselves, but there are too few educated people in the tribe.
Even if there are some capable people among the plunderers, corrupt mercenaries, and bounty hunters who came from neighboring provinces to join them, the development of industry cannot be solved by a few people and a few maps.
The carrier of technology is people, and the foundation of industrialization is also people, and educated people, but it just so happens that this itself conflicts with the “organizational concept” of the Bone Chewing Tribe. What
they want to build is a country of plunderers, not a country of civilized people. Other plunderers ran to join them for this purpose.
That’s why.
Whether it is the Fang Clan, the Snake Clan, or other clans, they have done quite abnormal things in the matter of developing industry.
They manage factories in the way they manage slaves. On the one hand, they use large furnaces to make steel, and on the other hand, they use primitive forging technology to hammer on the anvil, using quantity to make up for the disadvantages in quality.
Lion Fang was too lazy to think about how bullets were made, but he knew that the tribe needed copper.
A copper mine with a reserve of one million tons, and it was discovered so quickly, it must not be too difficult to mine.
Thinking of this, a trace of greed appeared in Lion Fang’s eyes.
The loot of the plunderers always belongs to whoever takes it. If he can occupy the copper mine in the south, he can not only become a captain of ten thousand men, but also have his own clan flag.
Seeing the greed in Lion Fang’s eyes, the staff officer Bernie standing beside him frowned and reminded him in a low voice.
”This may be a trap.”
Lion Fang frowned.
”Trap?”
Bernie nodded.
”It’s possible… Those blue coats deliberately released the news to lure us out of Qingshi County.”
Lion Fang was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud.
”Just those blue coats? Even if they lure us out, what can we do?”
Bernie shook his head.
”It’s obvious that they are no longer the same people as a few months ago. Didn’t you hear those charlatans from the Death Coast say that they even have airplanes.”
After a pause, he continued in a serious tone.
”A few months ago, they didn’t have those things and could defeat the Black Snake. We’d better be cautious.”
Hearing this, Lion Fang calmed down.
Although he is greedy, he is not stupid.
Black Snake’s equipment is much stronger than his, and he even has a powerful tank, but even this has not been able to pull out the nail that was nailed to the north of Qingquan City.
But having said that…
that’s a copper mine!
Seeing that Lion Fang still couldn’t let go of the copper mine, Bernie said in a deep voice.
”The most urgent task now is to find out the truth of the intelligence. I suggest sending a team of scouts to find out the truth first.”
”In any case, we must first determine whether there is any, and if so, where it is, before we can make the next plan.”
”That makes sense! We have to find out the situation first!”
Nodding in agreement, Lion Fang glanced around at his men and casually pointed to the big-faced and big-waisted burly man on the left.
”Tonglu, your name contains the word copper, so you should know more about this. Take people there to take a look. If you find anything, come back and report to me immediately!”
The man named Tonglu was stunned, his face full of confusion.
Although his name contains the word copper, he knows nothing about copper mines.
What does a copper mine look like?
But after all, this was an order personally issued by the captain, so he did not dare to ask, let alone say anything, and quickly lowered his head and said,
”Yes, sir!”
(End of this chapter)
