Chapter 1598 Gradual Governance
Facts have proved that the city center is indeed better, but it is limited to this.
The whole street is still dirty and messy. On both sides of the street, the glass of many shops has been smashed. It seems that they should have been patronized by robbers, but they are much better than the outside.
Wandering around, copying fluent Europa language, Luo Ji collected a lot of information calmly.
This port city has been in short supply of food as early as more than two months ago, and the price of food in this entire area has more than doubled in a short period of time!
However, prices are no longer important now, because the current situation, for ordinary citizens, has entered a point where you can't buy food even if you have money.
The scarcity of various materials has caused the Europa player's territory, even the currency to depreciate significantly, and even a large denomination note fell on the ground, just like the garbage and waste paper on the roadside, no one may pick it up ...
"Go, go in and have a look."
"Master, let's send someone over here to see it later."
Wang Kai, who was standing aside, said cautiously.
He and Luo Yunxi were naturally not afraid, but what if their Majesty had an accident?
In response, Luo Ji patted Wang Kai on the shoulder and said...
"Don't worry, it'll be alright."
After speaking, Luo Ji walked directly towards the alley in front of him.
The deepest open space in this alley is a black market. There are at least five or six such black markets in this port city. Luo Ji learned this news from a local old man.
As mentioned earlier, in this environment, the currency has depreciated significantly, and no one is willing to sell you materials even if you pay a price that is several times higher than the original price.
Today, the city's trading methods have returned to a mode of bartering, and the black market in this alley also exists for this reason.
There are quite a few people coming and going in this black market. The presence of Luo Ji and the three of them didn't attract many people's attention. Even if someone noticed them occasionally, they would just glance at them and continue to do their own thing. .
Many people who brought goods just sat on the ground and started business.
At the same time, it is worth mentioning here that these people who dare to enter this black market have a common feature, that is, each one carries a gun.
There are even quite a few stall owners who set up stalls, and directly put a loaded rifle under their noses. While protecting themselves, they are also deterring some guys with bad intentions.
This made Luo Ji have to sigh in his heart, it really deserves to be a free country. In his Myriad Realms Civilization, ordinary civilians, not to mention guns, are strictly controlled even if they are knives and crossbows.
In this black market, Luo Ji strolled around slowly, while Wang Kai and Luo Yunxi were on the left and right, following him every step of the way.
He didn't mean to take the initiative to talk to him, to get information in the black market, sometimes you don't need to ask at all, just listen.
From those exchanges between buyers and sellers, it is enough for him to obtain a lot of information.
After walking around in a circle, Luo Ji had a preliminary understanding of the entire black market.
It really sells everything, and even sells guns and bullets. Of course, the quantity is not large, and the bullets are still sold by the piece, and the price is not cheap.
However, in the black market, the most expensive and most sought-after items are undoubtedly food and medical supplies.
Even if there is no clear trademark on one board, you have to pay a lot of money to buy pills that are suspected to be produced by illegal factories.
And canned food that has quite good nutritional value and can be stored for a long time is even more popular.
Luo Ji saw a lot of people who lived fairly well before the war broke out. They took a jewelry necklace that was worth a lot of money at first glance, and wanted to change it for a can.
In the long run, some jewelry can naturally preserve their value to a certain extent, but the problem is that in the current situation, it is a question whether the day can survive. If it can't survive, then this jewelry necklace is meaningless. .
Luo Ji, who had a full understanding of the situation in the city once came down, after returning to the military camp as his frontline stronghold, he quickly issued an order to start dispatching troops to maintain law and order in the city. Happened again.
This port city, as his important frontline stronghold, must be well managed.
At the same time, if you want to restore the productivity of this almost dilapidated port city, the top priority is naturally to take over the various factories in the city.
And after having a factory, employees who have the corresponding technology and can provide labor are definitely necessary.
These employees must undoubtedly be found from the citizens of this port city.
As for pay, it's easy!
In this city right now, food is worth more than money, and Luo Ji's Myriad Realms civilization has never been short of food, so if you only need to make a promise to include two meals, there will definitely be a lot of people willing to come. work for him.
And the result was indeed the same. After Luo Ji ordered this matter, and then announced it through the city's radio and notices, the registration point set up was crowded by a large influx of citizens the next day.
Fortunately, he was well prepared and arranged enough manpower in advance, otherwise, he would not be able to handle it all at once.
As for the job of recruiting and arranging positions in the future, there is no need for him to worry about it.
After all, for these citizens, who can give them a bite to eat, who are their parents, and who cares about what camp or not?
Of course, some diehards weren't excluded, but Luo Ji didn't care at all.
That kind of guy is only a minority after all, and most of the people in this world will not have trouble living with their own lives.
And what he needs to do now is to contact his wife, and then trade a lot of food supplies.
The military camp's warehouse for hoarding food resources was actually quite large, but Luo Ji still felt that it was not enough, so he asked the soldiers to vacate a few buildings and use them all for hoarding food.
After freeing up the space, Luo Ji only had to go inside, open his backpack, and then throw out the grains he had traded from Ye Qingxuan.
In less than half a day, all the granaries in the barracks were full.
And for such a situation, the soldiers of Wanjie Civilization have long been accustomed to it. After all, since ancient times, no one has thought that their Majesty is an ordinary person.
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