In the center of the camp, the Dragon Emperor arranged a large open space according to the custom of military camps, and built a house that was taller than other wooden houses as the main tent.
But now this place is regarded by Chen Mo as the administrative center of the camp. He is sitting at a rather rough wooden table at the moment, listening to Jill's report.
"The current supplies in the camp are quite sufficient. I suggest that the open space outside the trench be reclaimed as farmland. Otherwise, no matter how much food we have, there will be a day when we run out." Although Jill is not Chinese, she is at least not Chinese.
We also know that if food can only go out but not go in, it will definitely be eaten up.
Therefore, it has become an inevitable option to arrange for people to farm and reclaim land so that food can be self-sufficient.
If the land is not reclaimed and planted with food while the food reserves are still sufficient, everyone will be hungry when the existing food reserves are used up.
As for the urban areas of Los Angeles or San Fernando, there must be food in stock, but going to the urban areas to collect food is undoubtedly much more dangerous than reclaiming wasteland.
Of course, Chen Mo would not object to this suggestion: "This is a very constructive proposal, but how are you going to reclaim the wasteland outside?"
As Chen Mo spoke, he picked up the cup on the table and took a sip before continuing: "Although the zombies around here have been cleared away and it is still safe for the time being, there are still some risks in reclaiming wasteland.
, how do you ensure that someone is willing to go out to reclaim the wasteland, and at the same time ensure that the people who reclaim the wasteland will not encounter danger? "
In fact, there is another problem that needs to be faced when reclaiming wasteland, which is the problem of insufficient yield caused by the soil becoming gradually poorer.
The survivors in the small town that Chen Mo and the others met on the road could make a living by farming. This was because there were only a dozen of them and they could fill their stomachs no matter how they farmed.
But Chen Mo and the others have about 2,000 people here. Although they have a large number of people, if they want to feed so many people, they will undoubtedly need to cultivate a large area of wasteland.
However, this question did not stump Jill. She spread out a very rough map in front of Chen Mo, which seemed to be a map of the surrounding area of the camp.
"This is the map around the camp that I had people draw before. It is surrounded by a valley. We can have people build watchtowers on these mountains to monitor the surrounding area." The strategy Gil came up with is not very clever, but it is very practical: "
As long as a few watchtowers are deployed, they will be enough. If there are large-scale zombies, they will be discovered by the watchtowers in advance, and a small number of zombies can be dealt with by the sentries on the watchtowers.
In addition, we can also set up patrol teams to patrol around when farmers are working, responsible for protecting their safety.
With this two-pronged approach, I think we can still ensure the safety of the surrounding farmland. As for if an accident still occurs under such double protection, it can only be said to be a pity."
Obviously, even Gill would not expect to be able to protect everyone's safety in today's environment.
She now serves as the manager of the camp, and being able to make most people live in a less dangerous environment as much as possible is the limit of what she can do.
In other words, she clearly knows that if she wants to protect the safety of more people and at the same time maintain the lives of most people, some people must bear the risk.
Just like in the past, the police and the army were protecting the people, and this is still the case now, but the police and the army have been replaced by sentries and patrols.
"Sounds good, Dragon Emperor, what do you think?" Chen Mo didn't think there was any problem with this, so he asked the question to Dragon Emperor, who was the most experienced in this field.
Jill has not officially joined Chen Mo's staff yet. She is only temporarily acting as the manager of the camp, so she is not very familiar with Dragon Emperor and thought "Dragon Emperor" was his name.
But she also knew that Dragon Emperor was a very experienced person, and when Chen Mo asked for his opinion, she naturally turned her attention to him.
Facing Chen Mo's inquiry, the Dragon Emperor looked at the map and thought for a while, then pointed to several points marked on the map: "Fortresses can be built in these places to station some military forces. Based on this, sentry towers can be widely deployed around them. Then you can control the surrounding area and resist the enemy's invasion."
Dragon Emperor didn't understand English, and all his conversations with Chen Mo were in Chinese. Of course, Jill couldn't understand what she was saying.
So she looked at Chen Mo and asked him, "What is he talking about?"
"What he means is to establish a stronghold in the surrounding mountains and then build a watchtower around the stronghold. This will control a larger area and effectively resist the infiltration of zombies into this area." Chen Mo slightly translated the Dragon Emperor's words. After a while, he repeated it to Jill.
After listening to Chen Mo's retelling, Jill thought about it for a moment and understood the benefits of doing so.
But after thinking about it, she still frowned and asked: "But in this case, we will need more manpower, and we will have to disperse some of the people to the surrounding mountains. Isn't this inappropriate?"
Jill knew very well what state the survivors in the camp were in now and what they were thinking.
If we just reclaim wasteland and set up watchtowers, we can still do this with some means. After all, we go out to work in the fields during the day, and then we can return to the camp at night and enjoy a peaceful night.
Although the watchtower is a little more dangerous, the sentry guards must adopt a shift system. As long as the time of each shift is not particularly long, these people can still accept it.
But asking some people to leave the camp and stay in the surrounding strongholds for a long time is undoubtedly not something everyone is willing to do.
"If the surrounding strongholds are built more firmly and can resist zombie attacks, and if the people stationed there are equipped with enough weapons, the problem will not be too big." Chen Mo said to Jill, with a somewhat indifferent expression on his face.
Chen Mo didn't care what these survivors thought. To him, he just needed survivors to survive and be used to rebuild the world and provide faith for Anubis and the others.
As for the surviving survivors, are they the group he saved, or other survivors still alive on the earth at this moment, or even a bunch of clones after obtaining the cloning technology of the Umbrella Company...
For Chen Mo, this is the same, or it is not that important.
As long as there are enough living people, Chen Mo doesn't care who survives.
But now, since he has rescued these two thousand people, Chen Mo will not really push them to die. He will still provide them with the safety and living security they deserve.
