Chapter 512: Major Inventory Check (Seeking a Monthly Ticket)_2
Li Yu listened to Ding Jiu speaking like this and thought about how long Ding Jiu had stayed in the Inner City himself.
Moreover, he had recently married off one of his daughters to Li Hang.
All of Ding Jiu's relatives were those two daughters,
and his eldest daughter was pregnant with Li Hang's child.
This meant Ding Jiu had naturally bound himself to Li Yu and his people.
He was truly on the same boat with them.
According to Ding Jiu's view,
the small portion of land above ground that was being cultivated could be helped by the people from the Outer City,
but the parts underground, he felt, must be firmly under the control of the people from the Inner City.
Just like firearms, they had to be applied for before they could be temporarily used.
After use, they must be returned to the Inner City.
Li Yu felt as if he was understanding Ding Jiu for the first time.
As far as he knew,
Ding Jiu had also been in business for a while, had contracted to build a skyscraper, and ended up losing tens of millions.
He eventually bounced back and after two years, repaid some of the money.
Later, not knowing whom he had offended, he was sabotaged again.
In the end, he could only leave far away and then return to his hometown to contract some small projects, just scraping by.
He had a deep experience of human greed and the viciousness of human nature.
After carefully thinking it over for two minutes, Li Yu said:
"Your consideration is very good; neither Second Uncle nor I have thought of this, your suggestion is excellent.
From now on, you can be mainly responsible for the construction work in the base.
In addition, you can join in the discussions about major issues in the base."
Ding Jiu breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing that Li Yu had taken his advice.
By saying so, he was actually taking some risks.
But he did not have any other relatives, and his own interests were firmly tied to the Li Family.
His future grandson would also bear the surname Li.
Li Yu then said to Ding Jiu:
"Uncle Ding, let's do as you have just proposed. Once the construction plans are ready, show them to us."
Ding Jiu nodded and said, "Alright."
Then he climbed down from the wall.
Li Yu looked at the vast Second Outer City, suddenly felt interested, and ran back to the base,
found Li Yuan, and asked her to report on the current supplies in the base.
Li Yuan was sorting things in the warehouse when Li Yu found her.
Hearing Li Yu's question, she took out her computer.
She opened the spreadsheet and began to report:
"Let's start with the most important food.
The base's food reserves:
rice: 980 tons
flour: 30 tons
salt: 35 tons
Alcohol: 29 tons (including the recently potato-brewed)
edible oil: 2 tons
...
The total area of the base:
Total area: 255 acres
Inner City: 160 acres
Outer City 1: 30 acres
Outer City 2: 60 acres
Weng City: 10 acres (both combined)
...
Cultivation area:
Total cultivation area: 77 acres
Inner City cultivation area: 28 acres
Outer City 1 cultivation area: 20 acres
Outer City 2 cultivation area: 20 acres
Indoor cultivation area: 9 acres
...
Total firearms: 1290
Handguns: 400
Automatic Rifles: 200 of model 81
Automatic Rifles: 200 of model 03
Sniper Rifles: 100 of model 85
Machine guns: 100 of model 95
Rocket Launchers: 20
High-strength Compound Crossbows: 20
Arrows: 10900
Total bullets: 1.38 million (including self-made bullets in later periods)
Hand Grenades: 4000
Other crossbows: 121
...."
All in all, including the rice stored in the warehouses, as well as other staple foods, clothing, condiments, wine, tobacco...
weapons, medical supplies, and some other miscellaneous equipment.
Etc.
Li Yuan recited everything in one breath, and it took nearly an hour to finish; Li Yu stood by listening quietly.
Seeing his younger sister's dark circles had formed,
he said with pity, "I'll ask Yutong to help you so you don't have to work so hard."
Li Yuan looked at her big brother a bit resentfully, and said: "In the beginning, Mom would help me, but recently she stopped, saying it's too complicated.
But fortunately, Peizhen often comes to help me. As you said, big brother, we shouldn't let others get involved."
Li Yu nodded with a smile and said, "You've worked hard, my sister. I have some snacks on my side, do you want some?"
"Ahh, I knew you were hiding them! I asked you so many times, and you always said no, hmph!" Li Yuan puffed up her 'Baozi face', looking upset at Li Yu.
Seeing his sister like this, Li Yu apologized: "I'll bring it down for you tonight."
Then he added, "These are really the last ones, I'll give them all to you."
Li Yuan said, "I don't believe it."
Li Yu said with a wry smile, "Really, I'm not lying to you this time. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."
Li Yuan didn't dwell on it and after rolling her eyes, suggested, "Big brother, recently, sister Xiaozhu seems to be a bit unhappy. Maybe you should go see her."
Li Yu suddenly paused upon hearing that.
It was a bit awkward at the moment; in the base, officially, he and Yutong were a pair, but behind the scenes, Bai Jie and he were involved.
Bai Jie was easy to deal with, satisfying some personal needs without wanting anything else.
But facing Lai Xiyue who had been secretly in love with him, and Yang Tianlong's younger sister, Yang Xiaozhu who openly loved him,
he was somewhat troubled.
Every time he saw Lai Xiyue's cautious look, watching him from a distance, his heart ached.
And then Yang Xiaozhu, ever since he and Yutong went public, had been unwilling to give up, desperately looking for opportunities to get close to him.