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    "What a fart, you have raised your body without losing your mouth in the past few months. Look at them, many of them can't even get their full salary." He expressed extreme disgust at the lazy dog's easy talk of scalpers.  I also worked as a small worker in infrastructure construction, and I have a deep understanding of the physical exertion of this job.

    And the people he was referring to were the new laborers nearby. Some of them looked sallow and emaciated, probably because of long-term malnutrition. It was really not easy for each of these people to carry two square meters of wet soil every day.

    "Hey, what Lao Niu said is right. My partner is a newcomer. Even the clothes don't weigh more than 100 catties. I have to rest twice in the middle of lifting from below. It's not bad if I can get half of the salary. Here  , and there is only one steamed bun for lunch.¡±

    Scalper's argument was immediately supported by Fat Sheep. After listening to Hong Tao's arrangement, he deliberately stayed behind and didn't get a temporary ID card with everyone. Naturally, he became a loner and had to find someone else to join him.  .

    Looking in the direction of Fat Sheep's finger, a dirty man was sitting on the mound more than ten meters away.  The figure is about the same as that of a teenager, with thin arms and legs, and the thin cheeks are sucked in. He looks at least 30 years older, and he is holding a broken can and gnawing on steamed buns.

    "We may have killed the wrong person last night" Hong Tao looked at the person and said something suddenly.

    "" As soon as the words came out, several people around looked at each other, not quite understanding what they meant.

    "Give him this steamed bun!" Hong Tao didn't explain, and handed the steamed bun in his hand to Fat Sheep.  It's not that I have to pity others if I don't have enough to eat, but that there is no shortage of oil and water in my stomach, and I really can't eat so much in one meal.

    As for keeping it for dinner, there is no need to be so frugal now, especially after gaining a sum of ill-gotten wealth, eating and drinking will no longer be a problem for a long time.

    Thinking of those people who were killed last night, Hong Tao felt a little regretful, he shouldn't have made a hasty decision.  How should I put it, I am afraid that I have lived in a harsh environment for too long, and I am not used to the relatively relaxed environment. When I encounter a little trouble, I am used to killing to solve the problem.

    As everyone knows, the rules here are fundamentally different from those in Xinjiang Province. In many cases, it is no longer a situation of life and death, and it is possible to solve it with more gentle means.

    Although the practices of Youlong Labor Service Company are somewhat wicked, what they do is not all bad.  Take this person as an example, if no labor service company tricked him to come here, he might starve to death within a month or two.

    The labor service company should not be robbed by every new refugee. The reason is that my group carried too many packages and spent a lot of money to find connections to clear the customs. Even a fool can guess that there must be a lot of good things.  That leads to greed.

    That's right, the labor service company deducts part of the wages of the workers every month, 100% counting as parasites lying on the refugees and drinking blood.  But think about it the other way around, if there were no vampires, many refugees might starve to death, so it would be saving people again.

    Generally speaking, the work process on the first day was fairly smooth, and everyone except Fat Sheep earned enough work points.  Hong Tao didn't let anyone go over to help Fat Sheep, it was too eye-catching.  In fact, that steamed bun has already attracted the serious attention of the refugees nearby, and their eyes are full of puzzlement.

    But starting from the second day, Hong Tao and his group could not earn full work points. They only worked until noon and left after lunch.  Where to go in the afternoon, of course, to find building materials.

    ? Lu Wei'an was quite reliable in his work. It only took one day to complete the procedures for buying a house.  Although he has not obtained the real estate certificate yet, as long as he pays the purchase price of 3,000 yuan within these two days, this small building belongs to him in principle.

    Now that the house is in place, it is said that the next step is to decorate it.  But the new world is a bit different from the old world. Most houses are not rough houses but frames, and decoration alone is not enough to meet living needs.  So the first step is repairs, from the walls to the roof, and the doors and windows have to be installed.

    At first, Hong Tao wanted to go to the market to buy building materials, doors and windows, but he followed Lu Wei'an to the market in the north, and came back without buying anything except his eyes.

    Too expensive, that's why Hong Tao returned empty-handed.  Now he finally understands why no one has bought the small building for so many years. If the price in the market is calculated, buying ready-made windows and doors will almost catch up with the cost of half a small building.  Cheaper those profiteers.

    Isn't it just bricks, tiles, doors and windows? In such a big city with so many buildings, building materials cannot be said to be readily available. It is not difficult to dismantle some from the surrounding areas, so why are they so expensive?

    In fact, it is not true that rare things are more expensive, but due to some regulations of the alliance and the actual situation, there is a serious shortage of building materials.The only conflict is the division of the safe zone and the red zone.

    According to the regulations of the alliance, the area under the control of the control area is guarded by alliance soldiers and managed by security teams and administrative agencies. It is called the green zone, commonly known as the safe zone, and vice versa is called the red zone.

    The refugees living in the safe zone are obliged to abide by the rules and regulations formulated by the alliance, and then have the right to enjoy the services provided by the alliance.  For example, the provision of tap water, electricity, coal, oil and food for a fee, as well as security patrols, legal protection, education and so on.

    The refugees living in the red zone do not have to abide by the laws of the alliance, and of course they cannot enjoy services.  Not only do they have to face the test of nature, they will also be harassed and threatened by other refugees, and at the same time, they will be arrested by alliance soldiers for illegally invading the alliance-controlled area.

    According to Lu Wei'an's explanation, this regulation did not exist from the beginning. Although the safety zone was also delineated back then, it did not restrict the freedom of residence of the refugees. There was no restriction on where they wanted to live except within the moat.

    However, as the number of refugees increased, the fighting between them also intensified, and the casualties continued to increase. The alliance saw the situation was not good and hurriedly promulgated this regulation.  It is said that it also aroused the opposition of many refugees at that time, and tried to gather and fight for the right to choose only, but they finally had to succumb to the alliance army.

    In this way, the personal safety of the refugees has been greatly guaranteed, but there are always good and bad sides to everything. While the safety is improved, the building materials that were originally available everywhere suddenly become in short supply.

    Although the alliance has been expanding the scope of the safe zone as much as possible over the years, providing more livable houses and sources of building materials that can be demolished and diverted, it still cannot meet the growing needs of the refugees, and the price has been increasing step by step.

    If there is demand, there will be a market, especially when it comes to the necessities of human life, food, drink, housing, and transportation. Policy alone cannot stop it, so an industry has emerged in the refugee area, demolition, and its official name is freight company!

    They will obtain permits through various relationships, organize people reasonably and legally to fight in the ruins of nearby towns, search door to door, and bring back all available materials for sale, including building materials.

    It's just that in this way, several links were added out of thin air, and the cost also increased significantly.  Bricks, tiles, doors and windows that were not worth a few dollars have been increased layer by layer.

    If you want to ask why you can't go to the south and southeast of the city to find building materials nearby, Hong Tao knows the answer without Lu Wei'an explaining it.  This direction was exactly the path that the zombie wave attacked back then. Starting from outside the Fifth Ring Road, almost every street was full of traces of survivors fighting with zombies, including a large number of zombie remains.

    Even if the alliance does not prohibit the refugees, they are not willing to rummage in the pile of zombies. If they contract some disease, everything will be over.  Compared with life and death, living conditions are almost nothing.

    But if this is the case, why does the alliance insist on setting up a settlement in the southeast direction? The scale is still so huge. Isn't this obviously contrary to the policies formulated by them? Is it afraid of infection or not?

    To be precise, it is not that I am not afraid but that I have to.  The original refugee settlement was indeed established in the northern part of the city, and it was also very successful.  So far, the refugee settlement in the north of the city is still the largest grain-producing area and animal husbandry area in the capital.

    But, as the scale of petrochemical and smelting bases near Jinmen grows larger, together with the gradual recovery of mechanical processing, shipbuilding, and aquatic industries, a processing and manufacturing base mainly in the southeast of the city has emerged.
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