Tang Zheng placed the resource recycling bins according to the selected locations.
This is a warehouse with huge storage space. Once materials are transported to the warehouse, they can be directly used for construction.
After completing this construction, Tang Zheng already owned two formal buildings.
When his official buildings reach three and his troops are full, he can be upgraded to the battalion commander.
However, Tang Zheng is not in a hurry now. Rather than upgrading the battalion commander, it is more urgent to build the base first.
With the completion of the wind power plant and resource recycling station, this desolate area already has a bit of a look.
Tang Zheng immediately began to assign tasks.
This time, there were three combat platoons following Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng asked the first platoon and the second platoon to operate separately, each leading two engineering squads to collect construction vehicles and construction materials.
Guo Yun followed a platoon and went to collect vehicles. Because many vehicles were dead, the system's scientific research soldiers have mastered the vehicle's anti-acid technology and can start rust removing the vehicles.
The second row is heading to Qingquan County, which is further away, where there is a building materials market.
Research soldier He Xue followed the second platoon, and ten military trucks went with him.
Originally there were not so many military trucks, but now is an emergency period, so Tang Zheng directly added a few more.
The two combat platoons and the engineer platoon left, and the place became a little quieter.
The remaining engineers are doing simple work of cutting down trees and leveling the land here.
The cooking squad started cooking, and soldiers from the third platoon were already patrolling the surrounding areas.
Tang Zheng didn't have anything to do, so he sat down at the door of the resource recycling station.
Correspondent Wu Di put on the radio and started listening to local radio broadcasts.
After arriving here, Tang Zheng only listened to the scolding between Yong Linling and the International Base on the radio, and did not understand the distribution of forces here.
So he planned to take advantage of this period of time to understand the surrounding situation and be aware of it.
Turning on the radio, he began to listen to various speeches on the radio.
But he didn't expect that as soon as he turned on the radio, he heard shocking news.
A female voice is speaking on the radio.
"Hello everyone, this is the Northern Territory Alliance headquarters, and I am the announcer Wan Qing."
"The Northern Territory Alliance was established twenty days ago. It is currently composed of twelve survivor bases. Its headquarters is located at the Imperial Agriculture and Forestry University in the southern suburbs of Lombard City."
"According to incomplete statistics, the total number of members of the alliance currently exceeds 300,000, making it the undisputed number one force in the Northern Territory."
"The Speaker of the Alliance, Count Xie Jinshan of the Empire, was elected by the twelve members of the Alliance Parliament and is responsible for managing the affairs of the entire alliance."
"The Alliance Chief of Staff is a senior officer from the Second Army of the Imperial Royal Army. He is conducting formalized and militarized training for the armed forces within the Alliance."
"The Alliance is actively contacting the Empire, but due to network interruption, power loss, and traffic paralysis, the contact has not been successful."
"But the alliance was not discouraged. While constantly trying to contact the empire, it still based itself on the local area, starting from the western part of Lianghe Province in the east, to Fengcheng in Western Sichuan Province in the south, to the New Oasis City in Mobei in the west, and to the north of Lumba City in the north. Jingjiang, within a radius of several thousand square kilometers, is the current jurisdiction of the alliance."
"The purpose of the alliance is to unify management and command, gradually eliminate zombies in this area, and ensure the safety of all survivors."
"The survivor forces in the region do not need to join the alliance, but they must pay taxes to the alliance and obey the alliance's arrangements and must not violate them."
"Today, a heartbreaking incident occurred within the jurisdiction of the alliance. An unsettling incident occurred on the radio between the Imperial Earl Yong Linling, the leader of the manor base in the northern suburbs of Fengcheng, and the leader Jonathan of the international base.
Shameful scolding."
"According to preliminary understanding, it was the leader of Yong Linling who took the lead in attacking the team collecting supplies at the international base, which led to this unpleasant incident."
"Here, Speaker Xie Jinshan warns the two leaders, Yong Linling and Jonathan, that no matter what your status was before or what you are now, you must abide by the rules of the alliance to survive on this land."
"Speaker Xie Jinshan requires the two bases to exercise restraint and not to continue armed conflicts. If either base insists on continuing the conflict, the alliance will intervene in the matter with force."
"Speaker Xie Jinshan also gave a warning. Recently, some mercenaries have been active in the Northern Territory, and some foreign forces have even entered. Speaker Xie hopes that these people can restrain their anger after listening to the broadcast.
Please do not act recklessly for your own selfish desires, otherwise you will face the full force of the alliance."
"Finally, if there are survivors who have recently arrived in this land, after listening to the broadcast, please take the initiative to contact the alliance and report the population of your base, the number of weapons and equipment, the size of the base, etc. The alliance will send tax officials.
Go to your base to collect population tax."
"The specific tax standards are as follows: For adults, each person pays ten kilograms of grain per month, and the payment is half for those over sixty years old. For children, the payment is half. In addition to food, steel, fuel and other materials can also be used for tax instead of food."
"After paying taxes, these bases will be included in the protection scope of the alliance. If you encounter incidents such as man-made or zombie attacks, you can apply for support from the alliance, and the alliance will send rescue forces as soon as possible."
"If the base cannot maintain the basic living conditions for survivors, you can apply to join the alliance, and the alliance will consider joining as appropriate..."
Hearing this long list of broadcast contents, Tang Zheng was so surprised that he couldn't even open his mouth from ear to ear.
Unexpectedly, in this vast area at the junction of four provinces, a survivor alliance would appear.
This is obviously different from the progress in Qinzhou.
But counting the time, it has been almost fifty days since the end of the world. When Tang Zheng first came back to Qinzhou, Qinzhou was like this. There had been no progress and everyone was fighting.
But it's different here. Twelve large survivor bases have formed a Northern Territory Alliance here, and listen to the radio content, and there are also formal officers of the Imperial Royal Forces who conduct militarized training here.
There is no doubt that the strength of the survivors here is not on the same level as that in Qinzhou.
The power has become stronger and the people have become more domineering. Everything in this land is obviously regarded as a treasure by the Northern Territory Alliance.
What makes Tang Zheng especially uncomfortable is that this alliance actually wants to tax all bases here!
It also required reporting on the population, weapons and equipment, etc. This was unacceptable to Tang Zheng.
In the apocalypse, the population dropped sharply, but Tang Zheng knew that most of the survivors were actually scattered in various corners of the city and countryside.
Only a small number of people actually join the large base.
Therefore, a pyramid structure has been formed in this area, and the Northern Territory Alliance is undoubtedly at the top of the tower.
Bases such as Yonglinling and International Base should be on the second level.
As for someone like me, who has just arrived here and has not yet established a stable footing, and does not even have a base to recruit survivors, he is considered the third level.
Smaller survivor groups or individuals are at the bottom.
After listening to the domineering broadcast content of the Northern Territory Alliance, Tang Zheng turned off the broadcast directly.
Tang Zheng didn't care at all about the tax issue mentioned by the alliance.
Obviously, the Northern Territory Alliance has not received news from the Royal Military, nor does it know that the Fifth Army, more than a thousand kilometers away, has completed the recovery of a county.
What they are doing now may cause some trouble in the future.
After having a general understanding of the situation in this area, Tang Zheng temporarily put aside his affairs and concentrated on the construction of the base.
A few hours later, Guo Yun and a group of people came back.
Two squads of engineers returned with sixteen large vehicles.
These include forklifts, excavators, heavy trucks, cranes, road rollers, etc.
The vehicles came back slowly and leisurely, but with great momentum.
These vehicles are covered in rust, but they can still be driven back, which proves that Guo Yun has repaired their interiors.
After the vehicle returned to the base, it immediately started working.
The forklift directly leveled the ground, and the excavator began to dig holes where needed.
According to the sketches designed by Guo Yun, construction began in various places.
Next to it is Fengming River, and it is very convenient to get water.
As evening approached, the second platoon also returned.
Following the second platoon back, there were more than a dozen large trucks.
The car is filled with construction materials.
Carloads of red bricks, strips of stone, optical cables, wires, cement, steel bars, etc. were brought back.
The sand was not pulled from the outside because Guo Yun discovered that a large amount of sand for construction could be dug out near the mountainside, which saved a lot of train trips.
The car loaded with masonry and cement drove into the resource recycling station, unloaded it directly, and then came out from the back.
A new row of numbers appeared in Tang Zheng's system.
These numbers record how much building materials we have now. When the time comes to build the city wall, as long as there are enough materials, we can build it directly.
The engineers immediately began to lay the optical cable quickly. Because the planning had been completed, the process was very fast and there was no sloppiness.
By the time it gets dark, a long section of underground optical cable has been laid.
The soldiers built a temporary work shed in a clean open space, and Tang Zheng also rested here.
One by one, the electric lights came on in the work shed.
Today's work has come to an end for the time being. When he gets up tomorrow morning, Tang Zheng will be ready to start building a section of the city wall.
The food in the cooking class has been prepared and it's time to start eating.
Tang Zheng held a box of lunch and was about to eat when Yang Mu, the leader of the second platoon, came over.
"General, we have a situation."
"what's the situation?"
"Today when we went to the Qingquan County Building Materials Market to pick up building materials, we met several survivors."
"Oh, what kind of survivor?"
"They were two extremely ordinary survivors who came out to collect food. After seeing us, they stayed away from us. But when we left, those two people looked in our direction."
Tang Zheng paused for a moment, and then started to eat.
"Ignore him. When we came here, we didn't intend to keep it secret. Sooner or later, people would know about it. We would just show up one day earlier and one day later. But we have to speed up the construction as soon as possible. Don't wait for people to come to our door.
, the city wall hasn’t been built yet, so it won’t look good.”
"My subordinates understand that we will go to the building materials market tomorrow and try to make two trips to bring back more building materials."