"Do you know what to do now? Which job is the most important?" Elder Muba looked at Zhou Jiping meaningfully, as if he was taking the exam.
"Oh, of course it's food. Food is the most important thing. There is a saying in China: 'Food is the most important thing for the people'" Zhou Jiping answered carefully.
"Food is the most important thing for the people." Elder Muba whispered a few words and nodded and said, "These sentences are very good, but you should know that only food, but people who do not eat food, are food still useful?"
When he heard Elder Muba ask himself this, Zhou Jiping blushed, but he understood that Elder Muba seemed to be teaching him, so he smiled with shame and said, "Indeed, the elder is right, you won't see how to solve it."
That's good?"
Seeing Zhou Jiping asking him humbly, Elder Muba smiled satisfied and explained to Zhou Jiping seriously: "The first one is the person, the second one is the food, and the third one is the passerby.
Only enough food can build a road for us to use for a long time in the future.”
Seeing Zhou Jiping nodding thoughtfully, Elder Muba continued to explain: "The Bushmans will give the tribes returning to the grassland for one year. They can bring a group of them back to the grassland first. At this time, you will be the chief.
We need to organize a special road construction army. These tribes that have returned to the grassland will not be hungry at least in the first year, but you have to think about how to arrange them, including the issue of food storage."
"How do you plan to store so much food?" Seeing Zhou Jiping's relaxed expression, Elder Muba threw another question and smashed Zhou Jiping faint
This problem really made Zhou Jiping faint. In the past, all tribes stored their own grains. Most of the potatoes were dried and preserved. The meat was marinated into jerky meat with salt. Most of the others were distributed to the ministries and the residents to save them in large quantities now
How to preserve the food in the wet rainy season and keep it from deteriorating is a troublesome
Seeing Zhou Jiping worried, Elder Muba showed a kind smile: "Dig a hole! Dig a hole on the sunny side of the mountain. There are such warehouses on the five mountains around Mount Engro."
Oh? Zhou Jiping was first surprised by the elder's prompt, and then suddenly realized that Elder Muba was expressing his trust in himself in this way, and even told him about the important news of the location of the warehouse. It seems that Mu
Elder Ba really didn't treat himself as an outsider
"Save enough people to build roads, and then the tribes who return to the grassland will walk over here one by one; the returning tribe army eats up how much food the roads will build roads, and the tribes behind will make up for the roads.
There will be no expense, and it will save a lot of manpower on the road ahead." Elder Muba explained seriously: "Then there are tools, tools for road construction workers, production tools prepared for each tribe, and then
It's daily necessities..."
It was not until this time that Zhou Jiping realized that his tribe was really poor and needed to buy everything from iron shovels and picks to needles, threads, brain soaps and toothpaste - the grassland tribe had nothing at all!
Zhou Jiping was a little overwhelmed, there were too many things in front of him, and his head was thumping for a moment. He couldn't tell which thing was more important. If it weren't for Elder Muba's explanation, he would probably have to think about it for a night before he could figure it out.
The clues are now revealed after Elder Muba’s lecture, his mind has become clearer
According to Elder Muba, the first batch of goods supplied to the grassland must be transported in the first two months of the rainy season. Otherwise, Zhou Jiping will be worried about the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people during the rainy season. This period is the most concentrated grassland infrastructure construction.
During this period, it is not easy to solve the housing problem of hundreds of thousands of people in this stage.
Although it is easier for these people to find a place to settle down on the grassland, it is not easy to find a living place with a convenient transportation, not too far from the Suoyou period, not flooded during the rainy season, and guaranteed water resources during the dry season.
In line with the domestic saying: If you want to be rich, you can build a road of 300 kilometers first. Even if Zhou Jiping only built half of it, with the current production level of the grassland tribe, how can you build a road of 300 miles in the short term?
The road? Even if this road is just the simplest soil and rocky road
Fortunately, Elder Muba gave Zhou Jiping an idea first: when the first batch of road construction troops headed towards Suo Ai, they chose a suitable location along the way, and then began to repair roughly and then purchase goods; after all the tools for building the road were all arrived,
Then carry out detailed construction work so that road construction can be built and purchase goods can be carried out simultaneously. Only in this way can we make full use of time and transport enough materials to the grassland tribe before the rainy season.
As for the first goods, based on Oliver's second estimate, 75% of the 7.5 million US dollars, the grassland tribe will get nearly six million US dollars in goods. However, don't think how much of this goods are actually calculated.
After buying weapons and daily necessities, there is really little money left.
With the help of Elder Muba, Zhou Jiping quickly sorted out the list of materials that needed to be exchanged for this diamond transaction. Damon purchased the first time, in addition to some weapons, there were also food (for road construction workers), tableware, and livestock.
Daily necessities, medicines, fabrics, agricultural tools, iron wires, iron nails and other messy things. In addition, there are two freight cars specially designed for transportation, with good off-road performance and a small tanker truck.
Why buy three cars? The answer is not simple yet. Now there are only three people who can drive in Soyo. Zhou Jiping, Frank, Eric, Of course Emma and François may also drive, but Zhou Jiping hasn't thought about it yet.
Take them in
In addition, under the comfort of Elder Muba - construction machinery, power generation equipment, radio communication equipment, computers that can access the Internet wirelessly - these expensive and unpractical things were rejected by the elders. Of course, Elder Muba also agreed.
"Send" a satellite phone to Zhou Jiping as a tool to connect the grassland and Engro Mountain in a straight line
In the eyes of Elder Muba, things like construction machinery are luxury goods. They are far less big and useless than buying large amounts of arms that can be used to save lives after settling down the grassland tribe. As for the materials needed by other grasslands, they need a large amount of funds.
Anyway, there is a diamond transaction between the two parties to ensure that as long as Zhou Jiping sends someone to send the additional list, the Bushmans can order the diamonds first and wait for the diamonds to be cashed out, and the two parties will confirm the cancellation of the account. This will also save the most
Valuable time cost
With the help of Elder Muba, Zhou Jiping quickly listed the required goods list to check the time. It was already past 1:00 a.m. at that time.