107 Don't Trick Yourself
When he came to Xiguan Town again, Gao Qi was quite moved. He almost died here, but the battle to assassinate Boss Qin was also the key to his change of fate.
Xiguan Town is basically the same, but this time it was morning and you could see pedestrians in the town, but Xiguan Town is still a typical gathering area for deserted people. It can be described in just one word, that is, destruction.
The houses are ragged, the roads are ragged, and the clothes on residents are all ragged.
Even though there is a underground rock and salt mine that can still be mined here, Xiguan Town is still dilapidated, but it has extremely rare popularity on the wasteland.
The only reason why thousands of people can gather here is salt.
In the wasteland era after the catastrophe, salt was basically equivalent to white gold.
Even though humans still have high-level technology, salt is still a shortage of materials for many cities, which is actually quite similar to ancient times. What caused this situation was the severance of roads, which made the logistics of salt-producing areas and areas that did not produce salt.
In Chaoxi City, salt is still at an expensive and acceptable level, but in the wasteland, it is too difficult for those wastelands to get salt.
So salt on the wasteland is hard currency, which can be exchanged for food, weapons and ammunition, and everything that can be exchanged.
So many deserted people slowly gathered near Xiguan Town, and then began endless mining, snatching, and exchanged. After countless small battles, Xiguan Town gradually formed a real town.
The appearance of Boss Qin brought order to Xiguan Town. He was a psychic and had the largest fist. After Boss Qin's strong rise, he really brought stability to this place.
Violence, money, or simply because of a stable life. No matter how order is maintained, order must be better than chaos. Therefore, Xiguan Town under the control of Boss Qin attracted a large number of nearby deserters to settle.
Therefore, when Boss Qin has a lot of labor, he can steadily mine salt, if nothing unexpected happens, he can use it to establish the largest force outside the city.
But Boss Qin still didn't understand the principle of guilt of possessing a treasure. The salt mine was a real treasure pot. If the Liu family had not controlled Boss Qin and then controlled the salt mine, then the salt mine would have been completely controlled by Chaoxicheng.
But now, Huang Fei killed Boss Qin and arranged for Wang Laohu to take over the salt mine. The salt mine belonged to Chaoxicheng in name, but in fact, it was from the Liu family to the Qi family.
As long as the city does not send troops to the salt mine for a day, the salt mine will belong to the family.
As long as the salt mine still belongs to the Qi family, then Huang Fei is the local emperor here, Huang Fei is the local emperor here, and Gao Qi is the old man.
It was Gao Qi's idea for Huang Fei to take over the management of the salt mine by Wang Laoda!
The car parked under the sign in Xiguan Town.
Gao Qi got out of the car. He was under the sign of Xiguan Town. In front of him were more than a dozen deserters holding guns. At this moment, they all put away the guns and stood respectfully on the side. They didn't dare to hold the gun in their hands, and it was even more impossible to point the gun at Gao Qi.
Of course, Gao Qi could drive straight in, but he didn't do that. Instead, he stood under the street sign in Xiguan Town, waiting for Wang Laohu to come out to greet him.
After standing under the street sign for more than ten minutes, four people quickly walked over from the town. Then, when they were still ten meters away from the height, the person who was walking in the front shouted: "Team Leader Gao! Team Leader Gao!"
After two loud shouts, Wang Laohu had already arrived in front of Gao Qi.
Wang Laohu's name is Huang Feiqi, which turned out to be Wang Laoshi. After seeing Wang Laoshi's appearance, Gao Qi was very curious about why there was a name Wang Laoshi.
From an image point of view, Wang Laohu's appearance is very intimidating. He is about 1.7 meters tall, but his figure is very strong. His round face is covered with horizontal flesh. Even if he doesn't look like a tiger, he will never have anything to do with a mouse.
Wang Laohu is still very young, in his twenties, but his face is fierce and he has a very strong bandit spirit. Gao Qi, he actually looks a bit too delicate.
Although he is more than 1.8 meters tall, he is a little too thin and his skin is a little too fair. His expression on his face is always calm and he has a smile. Even if he wears the black uniform of the superpower group and has a pistol on his waist, it will not bring any sense of crisis.
In general, the image of Gaoqi is very satisfactory to the ancient definition of a weak scholar, while Wang Laohu is very in line with the image of a bandit or bully.
But after the two met, Wang Laohu nodded and bowed very directly, and then said in unconcealed flattery: "Team Leader Gao, why don't you tell me first, I'm ready to welcome you."
Gao Qisheng smiled and said, "I'll come over if I want to go out of the city."
Wang Laohu immediately said: "Team leader Gao, get in the car, I will lead you in front of you."
Gao Qi came by driving. Wang Laohu didn’t dare to say that he could take the car to lead the way without Gao Qi’s invitation.
"No, I won't take the bus anymore. Let's take a walk on the road and see how your Xiguan Town is doing now."
Wang Laohu immediately smiled and said, "Okay, please, Team Leader Gao."
Gao Qi began to move forward, Wang Laohu was half a position behind him, smiling like a flower.
There were not many pedestrians on the streets of Xiguan Town, and Gao Qi walked in this small town formed by the deserted people. With his clean and neat uniform, a pair of leather shoes that were polished like a mirror, and the shiny pistol hanging around his waist, all of which reminded people of how good they were.
Everyone who saw Gao Qi quickly stood on the side of the road, and there were a few dressed in rags, but the young girls stood there staring at Gao Qi straight.
The last child, aged four or five, walked and watched the scenery as he walked and looked closer and closer to the high and high.
It was October and the weather was already very cold, but the child was wearing only a torn sweater with no color on his body, and it looked like a cloak on his body.
Wang Laohu waved his hand and said, "Go away, go there."
Gao Qi smiled and said, "Don't scare the child."
At this time, a young mother ran over, picked up the child and ran aside in a hurry. She was a little panicked when she ran away, but her eyes were staring at Gao Qi, without any concealing her envy and desire for Gao Qi.
It is true that people rely on clothes. Among all the ragged people, the handsomeness of high rise is infinitely magnified. The girls who should have youthful and beautiful lost their charm. The kid who should have been loved seems to be no longer cute, but will only make people feel pitiful.
Gao Qi would not show his power to a child, and Wang Laohu was not so vicious that he would kick a four or five-year-old child. However, the mother who hurried away with the child was watching Gao Qi too focused and hit the cement pole on the side of the road.
After a bang, the young-looking woman almost threw the child out, then she squatted down, hugged the child with one hand and covered her forehead with the other, making a scream of pain.
Gao Qi couldn't help laughing, but Wang Laohu and the others burst into laughter. Then the young mother was angry and said to Wang Laohu and the others: "What are you doing with laughing at? Then laugh and knock off the teeth in your mouth."
After cursing, Yiyi looked at Gao Qi reluctantly, the woman holding the child stood up, and hugged the child quickly walked into the alley with a grin. Looking at the woman's back, Wang Laohu and his men once again burst into unscrupulous laughter.
Gao Qi suddenly found it very interesting.
Wang Laohu finally stopped laughing, and then he shouted to Gao Qi: "Team Leader Gao, look at these little girls, they all have hooks in their eyes, and I wish I could take you home, hahaha."
After laughing complimentedly again, Wang Laohu said in an extremely envious tone: "It's too hard to find a wife, but you are different from Team Leader Gao. If you like the daughter of that family, you can just wave your hand, hahahahahaha."
There was another awkward laugh, and at this time Meng Hairui said: "Don't talk nonsense, how could we, Group Leader Gao, look at the people of the Wasteland?"
Wang Laohu's smile was still hung on his face in embarrassment, but the laughter was gone.
Gao Qi didn't want to continue on this topic. He smiled indifferently and said, "This Xiguan Town is much better than what I saw last time. Tiger, your leader is good and you did a good job."
Wang Laohu immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, thank you, Team Leader Gao."
Wang Laohu couldn't say anything nice, so he could only respond to Gao Qi's praise by picking up the most annoying and decent words he thought were to respond to Gao Qi's praise.
Gao Qi continued to say lightly: "How is the production of salt mines?"
"It's great, it's great. Now we can produce more than 500 kilograms of salt a day, which is much more than before."
Gao Qi frowned, and he looked at Wang Laohu beside him and said, "It's only more than five hundred kilograms?"
Gao Qi just thought that the amount of salt produced by more than 500 kilograms a day was a bit outrageous. He had checked this salt mine because the information about the salt mine was not a secret at all.
This salt mine is located southwest of Chaoxicheng, with a distance of about 100 kilometers. It was discovered and mined before the disaster. The reserves of this salt mine are in the level of 100 billion tons. Yes, the total reserves are in the level of 100 billion tons. The level of 10 billion tons is detected in the early stage.
Of course, the reserves and mining capacity cannot be compared, but a salt mine of 100 billion tons can only produce 500 kilograms of salt per day, so the output is still a bit too low.
Gao Qi was just a little surprised because of the huge difference in reserves and output, so he couldn't help but look at Wang Laohu, but in Wang Laohu's opinion, Gao Qi's look was meaningful.
Wang Laohu lowered his head and said, "There is no electricity. We can only manually pour water into the salt well and then pump the brine up. There is really no way to be faster, but... but..."
Gao Qi didn't say anything because he was a little embarrassed. He didn't want to expose himself as a liberal arts student. After reading some information about salt mines, he didn't understand the fact that salt was produced at all.
However, Gao Qi's silence made Wang Laohu even more guilty. But after two times, he finally whispered: "Team Leader Gao, but in recent days, our output can be increased to more than 600 kilograms."
Chapter completed!