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Six kilometers west of Westham Township, there is a valley.

This valley was originally a forest farm belonging to a certain noble family. Due to the continuous decline of Westham for 200 years, the wood became less and less valuable. This valley forest farm was also abandoned more than a hundred years ago.

Now, a hundred years later, this forest farm, which had been deserted for many years, is bustling again.

Half a month has passed since Hal Maxwell, Pansy, Wagner Pete, and Captain Kenn of the Sokri came to this valley with an engineering team composed of prisoners.

Over the past ten days, more than 6000 prisoners (including those in Westem and those in Innatrix) were under the guidance of several undead engineers, 120 Sokri mercenaries and more than 20 operatives under the threat of iron fists. Next, diligently felling logs, digging foundations and building houses, barely created the prototype of a station logistics transfer station in this valley.

Um... In fact, it is just a few rows of warehouses, two waiting rooms that are about the size of a cowshed on an ordinary farm, and five rooms that serve as the station dispatching room, conductor's lounge, police office, ticket office, information office and merchandise sales office. wooden construction.

The construction of the stations that can guarantee the provision of basic services is completed, and the railway construction project will officially start.

Early in the morning, Hal, Pansy, Wagner, and Ken, who were in charge of the prisoners, met and hurried to the cabin where the undead engineers lived.

Five of the seven undead engineers who presided over the project were active at the door of the wooden house, and the other two were scattered on chairs.

The four people present were not at all surprised by this phenomenon... These undead are all like this. They disperse into skeletons when they say they are scattered, and they don't respond to how they shout;

"Just as I was talking, you are here." One of the undead engineers waved to the four of them, "Come on, boys, come here, let's discuss the matter of the next team."

The voice sounded very old, and the four of them naturally wouldn't feel offended, and they all leaned over obediently...

After only getting along for half a month, these aboriginal tool people surrendered their knees to this group of undead engineers—although they often speak incomprehensible gibberish just like other Tarantan undead , but he is indeed very intelligent, especially in organizing prisoners to work.

Hal and Ken, the Sokri, are both team leaders. They know very well that the more people there are, the more troubles they will have and the more difficult it is to lead a team. Based on the experience of Wagner, who was a middle-level non-commissioned officer in the city defense army, he wants to let more than 6000 people Prisoner No. [-] is obedient and obedient to orders, and it is absolutely impossible to gain prestige without killing a few people.

But in the eyes of the undead engineers, these troublesome things seemed to not exist.

They first made a set of work schedules, clearly listing the working hours and rest time of the prisoners, so that the prisoners know what to do when the time comes, and let the mercenaries & operators in charge of the prisoners know when Just arrange what the prisoners do.

Afterwards, the undead engineers divided all the prisoners into several groups, and proposed the model prisoners in Westem who had been imprisoned for half a year to be the group leaders; During meal time, it not only avoids the trouble of maintaining order when thousands of people line up, but also stimulates the subjective initiative of the prisoners. Side dish (that is mustard vegetable stew)!

The unlucky ones don't even have vinegar!

Simplifying the point-to-point management of more than 6000 prisoners into point-to-group management of 216 groups of prisoners, the pressure has been reduced by not one or two points. It is no wonder that the four indigenous tool men obeyed the undead engineers so much.

The four sat down, and the undead engineer who spoke first explained to them the next project arrangement:

It would be a waste of manpower for 216 groups of prisoners to squeeze together to build roads. It is better to divide them into seven brigades according to the number of undead engineers. Thirty groups of prisoners form one engineering team, and advance the section from Westham to the junction of the Tarantan Wasteland at the same time. railway.

There are a lot of mountains in Westham. It is unrealistic to open a tunnel without heavy engineering equipment (the shield machine is too expensive and Yang Qiu can't afford it) and the blasting team. You can only lay rails on flat ground; For the part of the detour, from Westham to the junction of the Tarantan wilderness, a railway with a design length of about 147 kilometers needs to be built.

The lord Yang exchanged more than 400 kilometers of old-fashioned railroad tracks from Huaxia with wood (actually, they were abandoned freight rails in coal-producing areas in province G. As for the sleepers, now Westham does not have the conditions to make reinforced concrete sleepers. Fortunately, there are wild forests all over the mountains and plains where materials can be obtained locally... The engineering team only needs to dig the roadbed and bring in sand and gravel to pile up the road surface. , the construction difficulty is not high.

The only problem is that there is only one batch of engineering equipment provided by Lord Yang... and only undead engineers can operate it.

But this is not a big problem. During the survey period, these retired engineers have already calculated which sections of the road and which construction stages need to be assisted by engineering equipment, and they can be flexibly scheduled.

Regarding the arrangement of the undead engineers, the four native tool men have no opinion at all, including Hal, who has a rebellious bone in the back of his head... No way, he has tried his best to understand the arrangement intention of the undead engineers. Disagree, unless he is willing to shamelessly be a bully.

On the way the four of them split up to draw a team, Pan Xi couldn't help sighing, "If only all the undead of Tarantan were as rational as these engineers."

Compared with those undead with faulty minds, these undead engineers are as friendly as the elders of the neighbors—not only will they not harass and pester them, but they will also help them solve all difficulties wisely.

Hal was silent for a while, and said quietly: "If there are so many undead wise men, what's the matter with Tuttle?"

Pansy: "..."

Well, this guy is still holding a grudge.

When the whole valley became lively for the team, a group of farmers from nearby villages carried burdens and pushed carts, and entered the valley mightily.

These farmers are here to sell vegetables to the construction site.

It was the first time for Chris, a dairy farmer, to deliver food to his uncle’s house. When he entered the valley, he saw that there were many buildings in the valley that was overgrown with grass. He almost shocked the boy’s jaw: “My God, this place has become There are so many!"

"I told you that the place has changed a lot." The uncle who was walking ahead with the burden smiled and turned his head, "The people in the detention center and the prisoners who came back from the city half a month ago, all Working here, I saw Garcia Green when I delivered the food the day before yesterday!"

"Really? The elegant and dreamy boss Garcia?" Chris asked in surprise.

Before the arrival of the undead, Elegant Dream was the premier luxury club in Westham. The owner of Elegant Dream, Garcia Green, was a well-known local figure because of his violent personality and frequent murders. Even young people like Chris who lived in the countryside knew about it. This person's bad name.

"There are no big bosses now." Chris's uncle sneered, "That guy looks like a beggar on the street from somewhere. The prisoners in the group all despise it very much.”

"That's right!" Chris's eyes flickered with gossip, like the bad luck and misfortune of a guy with a bad reputation, he doesn't like to hear it so much.

"What is Garcia, I've seen even better ones." A vegetable farmer walking next to Chris boasted loudly, "I saw Cardo Gauld last time when I came to deliver food!"

The vegetable farmers who delivered the food suddenly exclaimed "Oh--".

The former captain of the militia, Cardo Gauld, has a much higher reputation and status in the eyes of the vegetable farmers than Garcia, the owner of the club. All the farmers who have sold vegetables in the town have not been kicked by the former militia captain. Baskets, those who have taken vegetables for nothing.

Yes, Mr. Gould has a high reputation in the town, and he is very popular with the former mayor, who the townspeople rarely see a few times a year, but these have nothing to do with the vegetable farmers... This former militia captain His enthusiasm and friendliness are not open to the people at the bottom, let alone vegetable farmers, whoever in the town wants their children to join the militia and have a stable job, there is no way to do it without giving enough gift money to Captain Gould It worked.

The vegetable farmer who told the news was very proud to see that everyone's attention had shifted to him. He talked endlessly about how he saw Cado Gould in a mess, and especially re-described Hal Marks How Mr. Weil punched and kicked the over-the-top former militia captain at every turn.

This Gould has had a smooth life for decades, and has been domineering over the people of Westham for decades. It is really difficult to adapt to the change of status in a short period of time. Even if he is reduced to a prisoner, he often It's normal to be targeted by Hal's violent temper.

During the cheerful chat, the vegetable farmers sent a large number of vegetables to the canteen on the construction site in the valley.

The construction site cafeteria, which consists of several simple sheds, does not have a formal chef, and all the operatives take turns to change shifts as part-time chefs... Cooking a dumpling and then stewing it really does not require any cooking skills.

"There are quite a lot of dishes today." It was the turn of the part-time chef operator Sam to see the vegetable farmers coming, and came out of the shed with a smile.

"Mr. Hank." Seeing that it was Sam who harvested the vegetables today, the vegetable farmers smiled very sincerely.

Next, the group of vegetable farmers lined up consciously and carried the vegetables they sent into the shed for weighing.

The canteen on the construction site doesn’t pick any type of vegetables. Potatoes, radishes, vegetables, and cabbage are all required. The only requirement is that the delivered vegetables must be washed, and can be put into the pot after tidying up... The operators don’t have the energy to wash vegetables.

After the scale is passed, the vegetable farmers can take away the "vegetable money" from Operator Sam - six catties of potatoes and radishes or three catties of green leafy vegetables, which can be exchanged for one catty of dumplings.

That's right, the canteen on the construction site has no money to buy vegetables, so they can only exchange dumplings and vegetable farmers...

Anyway, you can have as many of these ultra-low-cost dumplings as you want—as long as the consumption does not exceed the budget given by Westham Town Hall.

And this kind of exchange, vegetable farmers are [-]% happy - dumplings with fine white skin and meat filling can be exchanged with vegetables grown in their own fields, whoever is not enthusiastic is a fool!

Although the taste of this construction site dumpling is indeed a little worse than that sold in the undead deli in the town...but after all, it is a dumpling with meat filling wrapped in fine white dough!

Chris’s family runs a ranch. They planted a piece of pasture on the mountain where there is no way to grow food, and raised more than a dozen dairy cows. The family’s income usually depends on delivering milk to town residents and selling some cheese products by the way.

After Chris's grandfather passed away, his father's generation separated the family, and his uncle was unwilling to run the ranch, so he took away the family's money and "changed jobs" to become a farmer.

Usually uncle and aunt deliver food together, but today because aunt is busy, uncle called Chris to help.

Seeing with his own eyes that his uncle exchanged more than 30 catties of white flour dumplings with two baskets of vegetables and the potatoes he helped push, Chris' mouth was wide open.

He also ate the dumplings sold in the undead deli in the town. Fifteen small dumplings cost three copper coins, and the whole family tasted it!

The beaming uncle carefully put the white flour dumplings he bought into the basket. Seeing that his nephew couldn't close his jaw, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't be so stupid, I'll share a few catties with you when I go back."

"Thank you, Uncle." Chris smiled.

The uncle and nephew hadn't spoken a few words yet, when the operator Sam who collected the vegetables suddenly raised his hand and said to everyone: "Let me tell you, we don't need so many vegetables here from tomorrow on, so don't send them any more."

"what??"

The vegetable farmers who were beaming and waiting to change the dumplings suddenly burst into commotion.

"Don't worry, I haven't finished yet." Operator Sam smiled and pointed to the way everyone came, "The town is going to build a road from the town to this valley, and there should be an announcement tomorrow to recruit workers. You can go and have a look. After joining the road construction team in the town, you can eat dumpling on the construction site without delivering food, it’s free and you get paid for it!”