The north wind blew and the temperature dropped sharply overnight.
Northern Commonwealth.
Outer city.
In the tavern.
Business is very good tonight. The weather has gotten colder and more people are coming to drink.
The hall, which originally had only a few small tables, was full, and even the seats at the bar were occupied.
"Dawei, give me half a catty of wine." A man with a stubble on his face said to a young man at the bar.
"Okay, Master Feng, I'll serve it to you right now." Dawei was quick with his hands and feet, quickly used a funnel, measured out half a catty of wine and handed it to Master Feng.
This liquor is made from medical alcohol found while out searching, and then directly blended.
It tastes very bad, but you can get drunk on it.
This is enough for survivors living in the apocalypse.
"Here you go!" Master Feng threw a small package to Dawei.
Dawei quickly took it and weighed it with his hands. He felt that the weight was about the same. He grinned and said to Mr. Feng, "Did Mr. Feng make a fortune again this time?"
The bearded man said with some pride: "Compared with small hair, it's nothing."
Dawei praised it and handed the package to the bear next to him.
Then serve the next guest.
Barbarian Bear poured out the grain from the package and weighed it, which was almost five kilograms. Then he leaned into Dawei's ear and said, "That's right."
In the tavern, all that can be traded is hard currency.
Either food, medicine or cigarettes.
Food is the main medium of exchange.
The Northern Federation issued currency once before, but it was of no use at all.
Later, the use of gold was not recognized by everyone.
After all, in this precarious apocalypse, no one knows how long they can survive and how much food they have in hand to be safe.
After a while.
Ding Dang Dang~
The bell hanging on the door rang.
The door was pushed open by a man again. This man wore glasses and his clothes were in tatters.
He exudes the temperament of an old scholar all over his body.
The guests sitting around started joking after seeing this man.
"Lao Kong, why aren't you dead yet?"
"Lao Kong, I asked you to do a good job in bioengineering and agriculture, but you insist on running out to catch zombies for research. What are you doing..."
"I'm afraid of him. I'm just an old fool, hahahaha."
The man didn't pay attention to the people who laughed at him.
Instead, he walked straight to the bar.
"Warm up a glass of wine~" the man said to Dawei.
Dawei's eyes widened and he cursed: "You stupid old Kong, last time I had a soft ear and I borrowed two taels of liquor on credit. Give it to me right now!"
"Cough cough cough." Lao Kong coughed violently.
He said with a troubled face: "This time it's ready food."
Then he took out a small bag of grain from his arms.
Before Dawei could hand it over, he snatched it with his hands and weighed it.
There was a look of disdain on his face, "You don't have enough to pay back last time. Give me the food quickly, or I'll break your legs."
I threw the small bag in my hand to the bear, and after weighing it, it was only one and a half kilograms.
Lao Kong looked sad and said to Dawei almost as if he was begging: "Please, I only need one or two, and I will make up for the previous ones next time."
"No!" Dawei glared and said ruthlessly.
Then I scanned Lao Kong up and down and saw the Patek Philippe mechanical watch he was wearing. Before the end of the world, this thing was selling for six figures.
In the apocalypse, time is important.
This kind of mechanical watch does not use electricity, and can support the operation of the watch movement as it shakes.
This thing is actually a pretty good thing.
So he said to the bear: "Bear, take off the watch from his hand."
The bear didn't hesitate, walked over and pulled him up like a chicken.
"No, no, no, no, this is a gift from my wife, I can't give it to you!" The man stepped back in horror, not wanting them to take off his watch.
But how could he resist the savage bear? The savage bear's big hands clamped down on his hand like iron pliers and easily took the Patek Philippe out of his hand.
"No." Lao Kong watched desperately as the bear left with his watch.
It was a birthday gift from his wife to him. After his wife died in the apocalypse, this watch has always been in his thoughts.
I never thought about it and now I don’t think about it anymore.
The man cried and howled, trying to rush over with all his strength.
But he was pushed away by the bear.
He fell heavily to the ground.
Dawei eagerly took the Patek Philippe from the bear and put it into his pocket.
Then he raised his head and saw the guests around him looking at him with strange eyes.
After all, this is a tavern, and it needs to be open for business. There are some things that need to be paid attention to in terms of appearance, even if this is the end of the world.
So he coughed, then scooped out one or two pieces of wine from the wine vat and put it on the table.
"Old Kongtou, you still owed me half a catty of grain last time, and this watch will pay for it. In addition, I will give you one or two wines to offset it. Why don't you stop eating?" Dawei said with a threatening tone.
Lao Kong sat on the ground and was stunned for a long time.
Before the end of the world, he once had a wonderful family.
He is a very well-known expert in the field of bioengineering. He has a very good wife and a pair of twin children.
But all this was destroyed by the apocalypse.
His wife was eaten by zombies in order to save her children.
A pair of children also starved to death the year before last, leaving him alone.
Last year, he followed the refugees to the Northern Federation. After the Northern Federation learned of his identity, they gave him a position and asked him to contribute to agricultural hybridization.
But he refused. He only wanted to study zombies and develop a medicine that could solve the zombie virus.
However, the Northern Federation suffered a big loss in this area before, and later simply stopped the task of developing a zombie-killing potion.
The Northern Federation also established a zombie research institute before, but later due to negligence, the zombies studied escaped, and many people died that time.
Yuan Zhi was furious and suspended the research on zombie potions.
However, this old Kong is also stubborn and is unwilling to switch to bioagriculture technology.
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Lao Kong's face was sad, his eyes were red, full of despair.
He has big dreams, but the reality is very cruel. No one can understand him or sympathize with him.
He slowly stood up, looking haggard, as if he had no soul.
He knew he couldn't take the watch back from the bear.
He walked to the bar and picked up the bowl of wine on the bar.
Dawei sneered when he saw Lao Kong picking up the bowl of wine.
I guess you're a smart kid.
After drinking this bowl of wine, the watch completely went into his trouser pocket.
Lao Kong took the bowl of wine and walked to the corner of the tavern.
He slowly squatted down and huddled up.
Then he took a small sip.
"ha."
He held each sip of wine in his mouth for a long time, letting the alcohol completely numb his brain.
But one ounce of wine was not much, and he drank it all in just a few sips.
This kind of wine is blended with alcohol and goes up very quickly.
His face turned red, he stumbled open the door and walked out.
It's very cold tonight.
He walked to the edge of the inner city wall in a daze and touched the cold wall.
He murmured: "Life? Death? Ridiculous, ridiculous, so ridiculous."
A gust of cold wind blew, and he, who was already a little dizzy, tripped over a stone and hit the wall.
Blood oozed from his forehead and he fainted.
It's very cold tonight.
The lowest temperature reached minus 20 degrees.
Wait until the sun rises the next day.
A refugee passing by saw Lao Kong lying there motionless.
So he stepped forward and touched his nostrils. After finding that he was not breathing, he rolled his eyes and then took off all his clothes and shoes.
Half an hour later.
There were several men with sly eyebrows looking at the corpse with envy.
Then take the body away.
"Brother, let's eat meat today!"
"Isn't this Lao Kong?"
"you know."
"I know him. I heard before that he could go to the inner city. It seems he was kicked out for some reason."
"We know each other, how about... let's bake it and eat it. The weather is cold, and it's delicious when grilled!"
"Then our hiding spot must not be discovered by the guards."
"You're doing their shit, and they're not giving out food. They don't care what we do, they don't care whether we live or die. It hasn't been long since you joined the Northern Federation, don't worry, it'll be fine."
"All right."
........
Big camphor tree base.
After the jackals came back yesterday, the temperature dropped sharply again today.
They can look at the sun without wearing helmets.
The surface of the sun seems to be covered with a layer of something, blocking out the heat.
Although there is still sunshine, I can't feel the temperature of the sun at all.
The temperature during the day has dropped to about 10 degrees.
This is more than ten degrees lower than yesterday's daytime.
In the inner city.
The weekly meeting will be held as usual.
Li Yu sat at the upper table.
Looking at everyone, he said: "We just finished talking about the withdrawal of the satellite city garrison. Do you have any new topics? If not, then we will break up the meeting."
Anya hesitated for a moment, raised her hand and said, "City Lord, I have an issue."
"oh?"
Li Yu was a little curious. After all, Anya rarely spoke. Why was she suddenly so active today?
"Say." Li Yu said.
Anya stood up and glanced at everyone, then focused her eyes on Li Yu.
"This topic of mine was proposed to me by Zhang Qiwu. I personally think what he said makes sense. I would like to share it with you and see what everyone thinks.
That Zhang Qiwu suggested establishing an Academy of Engineering and upgrading the scientific research office to an Academy of Sciences. Through technologies such as plant engineering, genetic engineering, hybridization and genetic modification, we can continuously improve the disease resistance of seeds and the adaptability of crops to adapt to climate, soil and water.
and other natural environments to produce green agricultural products with high added value and high nutritional value.
The division of labor and cooperation between the two is not only beneficial to the research of zombies, but also beneficial to agricultural cultivation...
....."
After she finished speaking.
Bai Jie was a little surprised, why didn't she tell her about this?
Let each other breathe.
But this thing is actually a good thing.
Li Yu glanced at Bai Jie. If this matter was to be done, it would mainly involve Bai Jie and Li Hang.
After all, mechanical engineering is also part of the Academy of Engineering.
"Bai Jie, what do you think?" Li Yu asked Bai Jie directly.
Bai Jie stood up, thought for a while and said: "This is a good thing, I support it, but with our current size, it may be difficult to support the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Sciences, right? I think it can be used as an auxiliary institution.
There are too few of us now, and it is not suitable to fit them all into this framework.
It can be said that the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering are temporarily established first, but the main purpose is to promote communication and collaboration, and not to split the existing organizational structure.
....."
Li Yu understood what she meant, and her meaning was very simple.
It's like she is now working as a principal in the scientific research office, and then the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Sciences are working part-time.
This part-time job is just to promote their internal communication and enhance each other.
Li Yu thought about it, and then looked at his second uncle.
"Second uncle, what do you think?"
The second uncle flipped through the notebook and tapped the tip of his pen.
He said, "I have no problem with establishing the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering."
"Just talking about this issue of organizational structure, I suddenly remembered that our Da Zhangshu Base still does not have a formal organizational structure.
Since it was brought up today, I might as well say something.
Our Dazhangshu base has established a management committee.
It consists of the Military Department, the Interior Department, the Agriculture Department, the Industry Department, the Technology Department, and the Base Operation and Maintenance Department.
The Ministry of Military Affairs consists of: Internal Defense Department, External Operations Department...
The Ministry of Agriculture is divided into: indoor planting, outdoor planting, aquaculture, livestock breeding...
....."
The second uncle looked at the book and slowly spoke out a huge idea.
As soon as this statement came out.
Everyone in the conference room was a little shocked.
This is a big thing.
Obviously, the second uncle had already prepared, otherwise he would not have said it so clearly all at once.
In the conference room, everyone's expressions were different.
After all, there are so many positions, which means that the jobs of some of them will change.
"That's about it, I'm done." The second uncle stopped.
Click——
The third uncle was cutting his nails with nail scissors over there, his head lowered and he didn't seem to listen at all.
"Third brother, be more serious about the meeting." The second uncle frowned and said.
In the base, the second uncle is one of the few people who can talk to the third uncle like this.
The third uncle stretched and said:
"Let me tell you my opinion."
"A clear division of labor is necessary, but it would be inappropriate if it was too clear. There are so many people in the inner and outer cities, and it would be unreasonable to divide them too finely.
If the population of the inner and outer cities exceeds 3,000, then I think there is no problem at all.
But now, if we do not include those collaborators and non-staff personnel, our total number is less than a thousand.
In a word, I agree with restructuring the organizational structure, but I don’t recommend over-dividing it.”
After listening to what the third uncle said, the second uncle also began to reflect.
It seems to make sense.
But after listening to this, Li Yu was thinking about something else.
The reason why he has never been very clear about the division of personnel in the base is because he can change personnel positions at any time.
If we follow the second uncle's division, the level of position will be immediately reflected.
There is basically no distinction between the positions of the third uncle, the second uncle, and the eldest uncle. They form a balance. In the end, the unity is still in his hands, which makes his decision the most critical.
However, looking back, the matter mentioned by the second uncle really needs to be sorted out. At least it can be set at the department level.
It's just that he doesn't want to amplify one person's rights.
.......
This chapter has been completed!