Most of the hired workers clearly expressed their desire to join Jiang Ye's town.
These regulations were also agreed upon, as they seemed reasonable enough.
However, a small portion of the workers questioned the legitimacy of these regulations, primarily focusing on weapons:
"Why ban guns? I only trust the gun in my hand. If someone tries to rob me, I can fight back with a gun!"
"I worked hard to save money to buy a gun. If I'm not allowed to use it, what happens to the gun? Will it be confiscated directly, or will I be compensated?"
"Didn't we have a war warning not long ago? There's something called 'water ghosts.' What if they attack without guns for self-defense?"
"Without guns, we'll be at the mercy of others. I dare not hand over my gun. At least let me keep a handgun!"
After reading through the various kinds of doubts, Jiang Ye racked his brain and typed out another statement:
"The ban on weapons is to ensure the safety of residents. If everyone has a gun, it can easily lead to casualties in neighborly disputes."
"Personal firearms can be stored at the police station and can be applied for and carried when traveling far. You can also sell your firearms, but private possession is strictly prohibited."
"Safety issues will be guaranteed by an experienced and heavily armed police force. In addition to the police force, there is a logistics center next to the town, equipped with a large number of mechanical soldiers, which is enough to ensure the safety of all residents."
"The detectors searching for water ghosts have not yet sent back any messages. If water ghosts or other beasts attack, the town is equipped with heavy weapons for defense, and automatic weapons will be temporarily issued to each resident at that time."
Jiang Ye copied and pasted these statements and sent them to every employee.
Most people expressed understanding after reading them.
For the few who still did not support the gun ban, Jiang Ye was too lazy to argue with them and directly removed them from the town's roster.
After a whole night of busy work, answering nearly a thousand questions, he finally reached an agreement with 91 hired workers. The final list of town members was released.
The three aspects of preliminary preparation: people, transportation, and industry. The first two have been finalized, leaving only the last aspect, industry, which in other words, is the job opportunities provided to the hired workers.
This part would have to wait until everyone arrived and be discussed face-to-face.
Anyway, with his level advantage, Jiang Ye was sure to provide many job opportunities, which would definitely earn them more than fighting alone.
Jiang Ye immediately contacted Xu Yan and, gritting his teeth, transferred one hundred million in cash!
Xu Yan: The construction team will be in place at 8 AM tomorrow.
Jiang Ye: Okay.
The account balance remaining was 25,006,000 yuan.
Jiang Ye gritted his teeth again and clicked "Base Upgrade"!
Twenty-five million yuan was instantly spent.
Only 6,000 yuan was left in the account, which was very meager.
This time, he had truly spent all his money.
It wasn't that Jiang Ye was impulsively spending; he needed to reach a higher level to unlock more goods and functions to promote the town's development.
Congratulations! Your base level has been upgraded to Level 19.
It's time for another choice. Please select the industry you plan to develop next from the following options:
Processing and Manufacturing: Secondary processing of raw materials, assembly line production, requires a large workforce, high investment, high returns, and stable profits.
Service Industry: Industries that provide special services, requiring a large number of relevant personnel. Service content ranges from watching movies to adult dolls, massage and dance, to online videos. Low investment, high risk, relatively chaotic, and requires paying a heavy tax of 50% to the Galactic Empire.
Transportation Industry: Building logistics transfer stations, rocket launch sites, and spaceship docking areas. Extremely huge investment, long return cycle, but persistent profitability.
Software Outsourcing Industry: Organizing software and computing talent to work online. Low investment, high returns, but requires a large demand for talent.
There were only these four types of industries.
Jiang Ye frowned and fell into thought.
The last time he chose industries, they were all things that could be completed by working alone. Farming, chopping trees, fishing, and so on.
The industries this time all required a large group of hired workers to operate.
After careful consideration, Jiang Ye clicked on "Processing and Manufacturing."
The service industry was too unreliable, and Jiang Ye had moral boundaries; he could not force women into prostitution.
The description of the transportation industry scared him. The investment was extremely huge, making it feel like a money-burning industry that he couldn't afford. Moreover, the return cycle was long, which in plain language meant it would take a long time to recoup the investment. Only a fool would do this.
The software outsourcing industry was even less reliable. Where would he find so many programmers?
Therefore, he could only choose processing and manufacturing. Build a factory, let everyone go to work, produce and manufacture, a modern era, quite good.
Processing and Manufacturing has been selected.
The new projects unlocked by this upgrade are:
The Galactic Mall has added 2 new items.
Added basic function: Build Factory. You can access it from the initial page of the panel.
Jiang Ye understood immediately. This newly added "Build Factory" function was the result of his choice.
If he had chosen the service industry, it would have been to build a red-light district. If he had chosen the transportation industry, it would have been to build a spaceship service area.
He casually checked the conditions for the next upgrade.
It was quite vulgar, still money:
Base upgrade to Level 20 requires an upgrade fee of 30 million yuan.
Jiang Ye closed the base upgrade function.
He first opened the Galactic Mall to check the two newly unlocked items.
The new items this time were unexpectedly useless:
Item: Green Radish
Item Description: A plant of the genus Ficus, a large evergreen vine, tenacious vitality, suitable for indoor cultivation, with good ornamental value.
Price: 100 yuan.
Item: Lucky Bell
Item Description: A small copper bell that is said to bring good luck when shaken. Often hung on doors with thin ropes, it jingles when the door opens.
Price: 100 yuan.
Jiang Ye almost spat blood.
He felt like he had been tricked by the system.
Closing the Galactic Mall, he returned to the initial panel.
The first thing he saw was the prominent new function button: Build Factory.
Without hesitation, he clicked it.
Lines of prompt information popped up:
This function will help you undertake outsourced factory construction for major enterprises.
When enterprises in your galaxy lack production capacity and plan to outsource factories, relevant information will be published here.
You can choose to build different factories and be responsible for their operation and production.
Jiang Ye nodded slightly, not fully understanding, and tapped the "Confirm" button on the screen.
Immediately, two factory information messages appeared in the center of the panel.
Jiang Ye read them carefully and immediately understood the logic of this function, which was relatively simple.
Factory Type: Carbonated Beverage Bottling Plant.
Factory Description: Covers an area of 10,000 square meters, includes two bottled carbonated beverage assembly lines, requires 10 workers. Operation is simple, and workers can be on the job after reading the manual. It can produce 3,000 bottles of carbonated beverages per hour, with a profit of 1 yuan per bottle.
Construction Cost: 10 million yuan.
Remaining factories needed: 26/100.
This was the first factory that could currently be built, producing soda.
The second factory information was quite intriguing.
Factory Type: Inflatable Doll Manufacturing Plant.