Chapter 253: Plans and Thieves

"There's something wrong with the data."

"Quarterly production reports and monthly production reports, that's not right."

Zhongshan tapped the paper and summarized the daily floating stone mining records on it. Three monthly production reports were spread out in front of him. They totaled only twelve pages, but they represented the relative flow of one-third of the territory's real estate value.

The combined data of the three monthly production reports will be processed into a quarterly report and filed in the archives.

Now middle-level cadres are already partially running some relatively simple production reports: such as occupancy statistics and grain production in each district. Chongshan only needs to accept the monthly reports submitted by the heads of each region, and then confirm the data summary...the workload is moderately reduced.

Nowadays, the highly educated personnel with limited territory are devoted to production and coordination of production. He has to bring these government personnel to meetings every week in accordance with Ji Lin's instructions, so that they can communicate and report their work difficulties at the meeting.

Exchange work experience.

Internally, it is completely handed over to the guard team and neighborhood watch organization headed by Wu Bai... Wu Bai leads the guard team of only 200 people who also serves as the police, street office, and market supervision.

He strongly called for another expansion of the police force.

Zhongshan shook his head. It was better to wait for the lord to make a decision on these matters. The manpower gap in his production department was also getting bigger and bigger. Then he looked at the three monthly production reports in front of him.

Theoretically, the monthly production is very stable, with two micro-ore veins and one small-scale ore vein, and one hundred and twenty units of floating stone raw ore.

Only so much floating stone raw ore is generated every month, and their miners can only collect so much floating stone raw ore.

Taking into account mining losses, it is possible that some losses occurred, but the refining work that caused the bulk of the mineral losses was not the responsibility of Kongdao. The raw ore collected by the garrison will be sent to the territory to be made into refined floating stone. Professional craftsmen will extract the part of the floating stone for use in the production of various floating stone equipment.

This is not difficult... Once the floating stones are separated from ordinary stones, they will automatically float slowly from the dust. If they are placed in the rune resonance field, they will fly higher.

A new project team is studying how to carry out the refining of pumice stone efficiently and in accordance with this distance and low loss.

Zhongshan took a sip of water, and a hint of coolness made his mind clearer. Chang Heng, who was responsible for managing Kongdao's production, was sitting opposite him and writing something in his notebook. The general took time off from Kongdao and came back to confirm with Zhongshan whether Kongdao's quarterly production report was normal.

At the same time, the two parties communicated about the production and construction work that will be carried out on the empty island in the next quarter, and how much resources the territory needs to allocate to the construction of the empty island.

They decided to increase the permanent population of Xiaokong Island to at least 500 people, expand the farmland to 1,500 acres, and provide some supporting living facilities... and build a standard airport on the super large island. , providing berthing, maintenance and supplies.

With an airport, the Territory Guard can deploy aerospace ships to designated areas on the island. Although the garrison on the super-large sky island found a location with higher terrain and flowing water and established their own camp, they have not launched an attack on medium-sized mineral veins so far.

Without him, during the deduction and observation, the officer and Chang Heng agreed that after being defeated, they would suffer heavy losses due to the inability to obtain timely supplies due to waves of attacks from the surrounding island creatures - there were no outposts directly connected to the territory for blood transfusions, and supplies would all depend on them. Aerial transport.

Discussing data is a very boring thing. No matter how enthusiastic you are, your enthusiasm will be worn out by the endless complicated data. This is a necessary project.

After all, the lords attach great importance to the rich resources that Sky Island can provide, and control and production are top priorities.

If it is due to mining losses, this percentage should show a trend as mining volumes change.

but...

The amount of floating stone produced varies in three months, with the highest volume in January and February. The third month is because the stored floating stone has been exhausted.

This is what makes Zhongshan confused.

Regardless of the amount of mining, there will be a loss of about 3 units of floating stone raw ore every month.

This is not right.

Except for the first month of three months, they did not completely control the sky island, but the loss of raw floating stone was relatively small.

"Could it be a production accident? I have not received any reports of mining accidents here."

Zhongshan rubbed his eyebrows, but even if it was a production accident, the loss of only three units of raw ore was still too little.

The guys at the School of Engineering waste more than three units of floating stone in a month, and the leftover floating stone over there is almost piled up. These stones are difficult to refine, but contain a small amount of pumice stone.

"No production incidents were reported at the outpost."

Chang Heng recalled that he was not a heroic unit specializing in internal affairs, but working for a long time in this territory had given him the potential to be a generalist.

Chongshan is a jack of all trades.

"I think there are some problems with this production. You should check the mining situation of the floating stone veins. If there is no problem, it can only be classified as unknown reasons. Write a report and keep it for your files."

Zhongshan closed the three monthly production reports on his desk and sighed.

When he thought that the winery would soon produce sugarcane wine, he wanted to go to the site for supervision and guidance. The pilot planting of new plants had reached the mid-term observation period. He had to thoroughly determine which plants were suitable for continued planting in the territory, and prepare for the summer harvest and summer planting in April and May.

His lord's workload was reduced, and he could even have two days off. When would he be able to be liberated?

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"Well, today's portion is also this much."

The young soldier put down his backpack and distributed the food rice balls in it to the hunting spiders waiting to eat.

Every time the soldier walked to an area, the hunting spiders would raise their heads and run over to wait for him to feed them today's food. Those large hunting spiders also raised their heads like the small hunting spiders. They no longer ran after picking up the food balls, but ate them safely on the spot like other hunting spiders.

Looking down from the sky, there were black spots on the green and soft grassland, distributed in small clusters, like black mushrooms growing in the grass. The large black shadows were occasionally mixed with some gray-white stone piles.

When did so many stones appear in the green field? He remembered... hunting spiders should not like to build nests with stones? However, there are always quite a lot of hunting spiders gathered around those stones. They seem to like to be close to these large stones covered with grass.

There are still nearly 800 hunting spiders on the small sky island. Ji Lin has no idea of ​​transferring these hunting spiders back to the territory. They have already been transferred here, and they will be transferred back when the time comes. Except for the monthly enemy attacks, they need to fight side by side with the garrisoned musketeers. At other times...

They just live a life of eating and sleeping on the sky island.

Even the local hostile biological groups that should have appeared in the sky island world, those creatures and elemental life have no signs of reappearing.

The forest of musket sentry towers on the small sky island suddenly became useless. The 150 soldiers stationed here suddenly became idle. In addition to mining, they went to the farmland they were responsible for to take care of various plants. There are also some special plants sent back to them by the garrison team from the large sky island. They are also trying to cultivate them in cooperation with the agricultural team.

If this continues, farming technology will surpass shooting technology.

The other 800 hunting spiders are fighting with 450 musketeers and cloud-dwelling creatures on the large sky island, trying their best to carve out a living space for themselves - they are not the only creatures that need water, and the establishment of the new camp also affects the drinking water of other creatures.

Without systematic construction assistance, they can only use the building materials brought by the airship and the resources collected locally to build temporary buildings.

The young soldiers heard that the garrison on the large sky island finally made concessions under the harassment, and specially dug out an artificial lake to lead it outside the camp for them to drink, which at least reduced the harassment against the camp by 50%.

Those predatory creatures will not think of contacting their camp after being beaten too much... The only thing that is more deadly is that the creatures in the air are not always very obedient.