Chapter 444

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

The West Continent has enough resources to build an airport. A high-grade one can't be built, but a small airport capable of handling light aircraft takeoffs and landings is very easy.

Liao Fou has too many reasons to build this airport, such as exploring the interior of the dense forest, patrolling and scouting the safety along the highway, transmitting important intelligence, or "I want to play with planes"!

Yu Weichao praised it highly.

The airport is a major project with many related projects. If an airport is really built, many problems can be solved in the process, such as high-grade highways and factory areas, high-level maintenance and upkeep personnel, and perhaps even missiles could be erected. Even the smallest airport could greatly improve the development level of the city fortress, just like a benchmark of a big city in later generations.

Yu Weichao spoke up; the resolution was passed unanimously by all present in the Rhombus Conference Hall. The attending Liao Fou was delighted, scratching his head and cheeks, saying: "When I go back, I'll start selecting a site, striving to have small aircraft take off and land within a short time. Who knows, one day we might even be able to take off and land fighter jets."

Actually, he also knew the difficulty of modern airports. Not to mention anything else, just laying the oil pipelines could make people worry until their hair turned silver. And Le Zheng, who had built an airport before, didn't build it alone. With the resources and level of West River Water Fortress, taking off and landing single-seat or two-seat propeller planes is the best choice; they can be used for reconnaissance and for transmitting intelligence.

"Liao Fou." Liu Xinyu's clear, cold voice interrupted Liao Fou's daydream. She asked soothingly: "If an airport is built, the railway must not be delayed, understand?"

"Ah, yes." Women are extremely rare on the West Continent. She is a big shot as soon as she arrives; no need to explain her identity. Liao Fou feared Liu Xinyu greatly.

Liu Xinyu saw him looking left and right, guessing he still didn't understand. She first curled her lips and laughed twice to make him relax, then said: "Everyone has some sense of the Lord's personality. If you propose building an airport, he might not oppose it, but he will definitely ask you first whether the railway's progress will be delayed. By then, you must have your answer ready."

Liao Fou understood now and said emotionally: "Sister Liu thinks thoroughly. I will definitely organize manpower well. Let the railway not be delayed in progress, while completing the site selection and design work of the airport first."

Liu Xinyu nodded without speaking.

Li Changning lowered his head, showing quite a bit of wariness. Before Liu Xinyu came to the West Continent, he was a resourceful Little Zhuge. Now who knows if he had become a Little Sima or a Little Zhou Yu—well, Zhou Yu at least, at least there was the possibility of rotating and uniting.

Yu Weichao coughed once, propped his hand on the cup, and said: "Since the railway situation has been mentioned, Liao Fou, you explain it in detail."

"Yes." Liao Fou tightened his legs, stood up in a urine-holding posture, and said while thinking: "Our railway construction conditions are still very good. First, the distance is short. The 10-kilometer length is mainly for the convenience of transporting goods, so the main consideration is heavy-load train transport, without passenger transport. Rails, sleepers, and even screws were transported from Earth. Our Infrastructure Team formed three construction teams, respectively carrying out road leveling, sleeper laying, and rail laying... After gaining experience in the future, this railway can first be extended to the Rubber Production Area..."

"What about locomotives?"

"Transported from Earth."

"What about equipment like gantry cranes and forklifts for loading and unloading? Oh, the freight yard also needs leveling, and warehouses for tens of thousands of tons of goods need to be prepared. In the future, there will definitely be many things that cannot be stored outdoors."

"Also transported from Earth; we assemble them with ready-made parts." Liao Fou said embarrassedly and added: "Now the transport volume is getting larger and larger. Various materials with C+ priority have all been sent over, so we adopted the fastest method. Moreover, cement made from volcanic ash is not suitable for large buildings like warehouses..."

Liao Fou spoke while paying attention to the expressions of the attendees. When he saw that most people showed uninterested expressions, he quickly changed the topic: "By the way, we plan to build a beef noodle restaurant and a supermarket inside West River City. Then we'll invite everyone to come for the ribbon-cutting. Our West Continent's first supermarket and restaurant for external business, operated by professionals, with even condiments transported from Earth."

This time, everyone in the conference hall became spirited, and questions came one after another: "Can the supermarket accept card payments?"

"......"

"Why not open a KFC first? Burgers and such are high in calories and fast too."

Liao Fou said with a bitter face: "This new professional, on Earth, sold beef noodles. If you want KFC, you'll have to rely on luck."

"Actually, we should still develop local dishes, like wild oxen, giant snakes—I think those are quite good..."

"......"

"If natives eat with us, will they catch some incurable virus?"

Finally encountering a meaningful question, Liao Fou hurriedly said: "No. We've all been tested. West Continent people are sturdier than oxen, especially those West Continent people who have cultivated body techniques. Their chance of getting sick is extremely small."

"That's good."

"What a pity."

The one who said "what a pity" was Li Changning, drawing a series of strange looks.

Li Changning had always fantasized about the brilliant results of biological warfare, but it was vetoed at the decision-making stage. Because in Chen Yi's eyes, everything that moves and doesn't move on the West Continent is his resource. Biological warfare is like poisoning sheep on his farm.

Chen Yi's view was Yu Weichao's view. This fellow knew clearly why he could sit firmly as City Lord, so he had struck Li Changning's enthusiasm for biological warfare again and again.

Now that Liao Fou used experiments to explain the problem, he found it even more boring.

Jin Douna had all the material information of the West Continent in her hands. At this time, she spoke fluent Chinese: "Recently, there are indeed quite a lot of materials, especially living materials and production materials. The warehouses and containers are all piled full. If there are too many bulk goods in the future, they can only be stored outdoors."

Yu Weichao touched his slightly glowing forehead and rubbed it, saying: "This is a problem. Let's calculate. Besides the materials we need to use, how many preparation materials besides construction are left?"

Jin Douna knew the accounts without looking and immediately said: "Over 20,000 tons."

"What do you all think?"

Li Feng raised his head, looked left and right, and said: "Sell them."

"Isn't that too hasty? What if they're needed later? The time spent judging which can be sold and which cannot is better spent building some new warehouses." She Lei represented the Old Third Phase Martial Arts School Faction. Although its own influence was decreasing, its influence's influence was increasing. When facing decisions, they often looked three steps ahead and took one step, belonging to an extremely conservative approach, the posture of true state-owned enterprise officials.

Li Feng slightly furrowed his brow and said: "The materials are all counted. Whether they can be sold or not can be decided by looking at the ledger. Then just send a few people to move them away for sale. Like cotton cloth, cotton clothes, down jackets—they obviously exceed the quantity we need. Also, some materials often used for sales might as well all be pushed to the market, such as salt, leather shoes, jeans, shirts, umbrellas, etc. Xima Market wants as much as there is. Giving them to them can also exchange for some gold coins."

Speaking of gold coins, Yu Weichao immediately became spirited and asked: "How many ships arrived at the wharf recently? Is there gold?"

Jin Douna shook her head and said: "Their temple war is said to last one or two years. The ships that used to do business with us have either gone to the battlefield or are transporting military supplies. Very few come even with money."

Yu Weichao pondered for a moment and said decisively: "Then we'll sell military supplies!"

Selling military supplies was actually just selling Earth materials in large quantities; it was just a different way of saying it.

She Lei didn't speak. People who came from Earth all knew the value of gold and platinum, and they also knew Yu Weichao's pressure.

Chen Yi transported over 10,000 tons of materials from Earth to the West Continent every week, meaning tens of millions in expenditure every week. This was something everyone knew. Although the mines on the West Continent had started operation, the number of natives and students was even greater. Just everyone's salaries added up was a huge figure.

Precious metals were currently the most rewarding materials for the West Continent. Even small fluctuations in quantity would cause Yu Weichao's emotions to change.

"Let's also build a supermarket in Xima Market, the warehouse type. Pile all the materials on it. It can be wholesale or retail." Li Feng made a suggestion and said: "Among the weapons used on the West Continent, I think consumables are better. Javelins, arrows, leather boots will definitely sell well."

Yu Weichao smiled and said: "Let them pay with gold, or other precious metals."

"Right, right." The people in the conference hall began to discuss heatedly.

Liu Xinyu was familiar with the domestic situation and also said: "China produces a large number of javelins and arrows, but we can produce arrowheads and javelin heads, then assemble them on the West Continent. Our wood is also cheaper."

"Javelins and arrow shafts need special machines to produce. That way the speed is fast."

"Why not just produce them on the West Continent? As long as we transport iron ingots and steel ingots over, our production speed will be even faster."

"Electricity is probably out of the question."

"Just use diesel engines. A bit of noise is fine."

Yu Weichao leaned back in his chair, relieved, and began to fantasize about a food street and the dazzling nightlife filling the streets.

For the gentlemen and ladies of the Diamond Office Hall, life on the West Continent was not bad at all, especially their spiritual life, which was extremely fulfilling; watching a city rise from flat ground under their own planning was a unique kind of heroism and joy. But if one spoke of material life, the West River Water Fortress, with a hundred wastes awaiting revival, was like China in the 1990s — not necessarily starving, but one could not have whatever one wanted. Of course, when luck was good, some high-end food and drink would still appear.

When the discussion was more or less done, Yu Weichao tapped his cup and said: "Same as always, draw up the plans. Also urge the Mine people again — all kinds of machinery are there, so why is progress still so slow."

"The 100,000 slaves are troublesome to manage, moreover the Mine's size is limited; right now more than half the slaves are doing subsidiary construction work..." The person responsible for the Mine was Dai Adi, so Da Yang answered on his behalf.

"No matter what, output must be brought up. Last month's ore output was 150,000 tons, surplus 50,000. This month's smelting ore requires 150,000 tons, at least another 50,000 tons of surplus is still needed." Yu Weichao felt he was only making demands without solving actual difficulties, so he turned and said: "I allocate you 500 casualty quotas — these are slave casualty quotas; students are not allowed to die. If the slaves still won't work, then suppress them!"

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