Transmigrator's Guide to Conquering Another World

As Lin Li returned to the base to report, Director Shi Zehong stationed in Chixian City hastily sought out Wei Fan.

The two quickly met in the reception room of the Wei Mansion.

Wei Fan, the burly man who had gained fame in the camp during the Xiaolianzi Mountain battle by carrying a Gatling with one hand, returned to Chixian City and transformed back into the image of an elegant and affable Clan Leader.

Everything seemed normal—at least on the surface.

As for his secret meeting with Lin Ziming to discuss using his private savings accumulated over years to forge a Gatling Magical Artifact, that remains undisclosed to outsiders for now.

After their meeting, they exchanged pleasantries, and Shi Zehong revealed the purpose of his visit:

"Clan Leader Wei, it's time to conduct a population census."

Upon hearing this, Wei Fan looked confused and said:

"What population census?"

Shi Zehong smiled and explained to him:

"Clan Leader Wei, it's been over ten days since the return of the trade caravan, and the convoy of cars we sent out has brought back a batch of refugees one after another.

Currently, apart from our personnel, Chixian City has over fourteen thousand native residents and refugees who fled into the city before the beast tide, and more than thirty-seven thousand refugees accepted after the beast tide.

The total is more than fifty-one thousand people.

Of course, this is just an approximate population count, with many refugees having very incomplete personal information.

It's nearly time to build new villages, so the population census is very necessary."

Just as Shi Zehong said.

At this point, nearly a month has passed since the rabbit's refugee integration plan was initiated.

When Lin Ziming and others first returned to camp, Chixian City's total population was just over thirty thousand, and now, after more than ten days, the rabbits have taken in quite a few more refugees.

After all, according to the rabbits' estimation, the number of refugees within a three hundred-kilometer radius could very likely exceed two hundred thousand.

Basically, every time the helicopter goes out, there's something gained.

With a batch of more than five thousand refugees recently gathered, the total population of Chixian City has exceeded fifty thousand.

This is already a standard population base for a small county capable of self-sufficiency.

It's the kind of nascent city that, with proper regulation, could potentially become self-sufficient.

Additionally, within a 150-kilometer radius of Chixian City, there are still some refugees not yet gathered, but these are mostly small groups of less than thirty people, rarely medium or large groups of more than a hundred refugees gathering.

This means there's no existence of large teams with relative clan blood ties or complex interpersonal relationships.

This indicates that the timing for the concept of 'villages' clustering is suitable for planning.

Some might wonder why the scale of uncollected refugee camps must be considered when dividing villages?

Actually, it's not difficult to understand.

In turbulent times of previous years, the rabbits couldn't manage it and couldn't afford to handle it.

But now that the rabbits have arrived at Chixian City, the division of villages must surely center around 'stability' as the core development concept.

For refugee-formed villages to stabilize, besides security guarantees, blood ties, and interpersonal relationships must also be chosen.

This is prioritizing familiar people being allocated to one village, and having familiar neighbors allows one to relax somewhat.

The rabbits' old production teams were in such situations long ago:

People from Xiangnan go to Liu Family Gully, those from the Northeast to Gaojia Village, and those from Min Province to Ma Family Village while avoiding too close proximity to the gathering place of people from Guangdong Province to prevent being overtaken...

Indeed, this is often referred to as the concept of rural kinship.

If village construction takes place while there are still large refugee groups uncollected around, a certain situation might occur:

An A Village formed by some clan kin mixed with half external refugees, having planned regions and fields.

On the day after the village is established, it's suddenly found that another batch of a few hundred collected refugees are clan relatives with A Village.

In this case, inserting the new batch into the village or not becomes a dilemma.

If inserted, the original village committee system needs reelection; not to mention whether there's available land.

The lands of the Damo Realm, unlike those on Earth, lack fertility in many areas.

Not inserting them is unreasonable too; clan unity is a fundamental requirement, especially notable in the Damo Realm's environment.

Hence, village construction must happen after gathering the refugees.

Like now, when large refugee groups have been collected, the occasional arrival of ten to twenty people is much easier to settle even if they have blood ties.

The reason for village construction is even simpler—if no farming is done, what would city people eat?

Chixian City aims to form a closed-loop self-supply chain, requiring sufficient grain output.

Otherwise, relying solely on rabbits to supply grain for Chixian City, how can it be called self-sufficient?

And since there will be village construction, a population census is an indispensable step.

Although the rabbits had previously made simple population counts while integrating refugees.

Such disaster relief nature population statistics are too prone to loopholes, and too unstable.

After all, what the rabbits are managing is not a military camp system; while safety regulations exist, population mobility is equally high.

"Clan Leader Wei, the camp's opinion is that our side will lead this population census, and it's expected to be completed within two days."

Shi Zehong explained the whole plan to Wei Fan, and seeing Wei Fan had no objections, continued to ask:

"Clan Leader Wei, do you have any projected plans for village locations? I remember according to Damo Realm's customs, this should have been prepared quite early, right?"

"Village locations?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Fan wasn't sure what came to mind, hesitantly shook his head with slight embarrassment:

"Uhm, Director Shi... there's no plan for that yet."

As the ruling family of Chixian City, Wei Mansion should have prepared for village planning in advance, a standard procedure over previous years.

Or rather, one of the standard procedures for all cities in the Damo Realm.

Without the grain provided by affiliated villages, various productions within the city couldn't continue.

After all, the Damo Realm doesn't have the integrated comforts like Earth, and the primary grain income of the city relies on the output of affiliated villages.

At most, some cities might produce more grain through secret techniques at times for commerce.

Therefore, normally, most cities will pay close attention to affiliated villages.

In previous years, Chixian City did likewise.

However, with the appearance of the rabbits now, Wei Mansion discovered a big advantageous connection.

If the Damo Realm were a prosperous era, with cultivators as the elites above others, Wei Mansion's attitude might not be so welcoming.

But in the current Damo Realm, beast tides occur every few years, and material and spiritual lives are so-so.

Plus, the profound ancestral instructions left by Wei Siming and Cheng Shiqing made Wei Mansion and other transmigrator families in Chixian City quickly cling to this advantageous connection.

Didn't you notice the Wei Mansion's beginner education has started singing "My Motherland and Me"?

So, in such a situation where everything is led by influential figures, Wei Mansion completely forgot what they should do themselves.

Fortunately, the rabbits were prepared for this. Shi Zehong took out a map from his pocket.

"This is the map of the surrounding eight kilometers... let's say it's sixteen 'li' within three directions—east, south, west—since the camp is north."

Shi Zehong briefly introduced the map's situation, then pointed to several spots marked with blue circles and said:

"Here, there…. and here, these six zones are the pre-designated village locations we've outlined.

According to analysis by our geographic and chemistry teams, the soil in these pre-designated locations hasn't been depleted, with strong fertility.

Additionally, they are all within ten 'li' of Chixian City, and once roads are built and transport further develops, even carrying grain back and forth between the city and village will be easy."

Wei Fan carefully looked at the map, then asked a few questions.

Finally, he arranged a time with Shi Zehong for a personal site visit.

On the day after their separation, the village construction and population census news began to be publicly announced...