mtl008 Chapter 241 Appointment
Chapter 241 Appointment
"What you see now is only a small part of the military strength of the Destiny Fort. Later I will take you to visit the nearby towns and tell you the future development direction of the Salvation Hall."
Zhang Qiang raised his hand, and the two of them stood up together and walked out of the command center.
A helicopter had already been parked at the airport, and Zhang Qiang decided to take Negan to visit the city of Newnan, where there were large planting bases and breeding bases.
If Zhang Qiang wants Negan to work honestly, he must draw the pie big enough and round enough. Otherwise, if Negan is like in the show, just thinking about the damn freedom and running away for no reason, then he will let a talented person go in vain.
Yes, Negan is indeed a talented person, at least he is talented in uniting people, but the Saviors are going in the wrong direction.
In Zhang Qiang's imagination, Negan needs to return to Washington and cooperate with Maggie to integrate the power of the surrounding communities, collectively recover major resource points, resume production and construction, so as to absorb more wandering population from the outside world.
The helicopter from the airport took off quickly and the two arrived in Newnan.
Negan saw large-scale grain machinery in operation in Newnan City. Although he had seen it before the disaster, it was the end of the world now, and seeing advanced farming methods in an environment of collapsed civilization made Negan fall into a trance for a long time.
Large tracts of land and advanced farming techniques mean a large amount of food, which also means that the Salvation Church has mastered the technology and will be self-sufficient in the future, without having to go out and exploit other communities.
Negan has actually always been very clear about the direction of the Savior's survival route. It is nothing more than dealing with people, and they will definitely encounter resistance in the future.
This is why Negan taught his men to threaten other communities from time to time. He wanted people to always remember the fear brought by the Savior so that they would not dare to resist.
"I also understand the situation of the Salvation Hall. You said that you were able to recruit so many men. Why don't you concentrate the labor force on production and construction and exploit them for money?"
Zhang Qiang and Negan walked around the valley. Zhang Qiang criticized Negan's ideas and mentioned that when he was developing Gran Town, he only had a few hundred people under him.
Negan listened to Zhang Qiang's description of the development route seriously, nodding from time to time, and really listened to it. If you don't learn from the ready-made experience, you are a complete fool.
After a whole day of visiting, Negan and Zhang Qiang finally had a meal with the workers in Newnan City. The atmosphere in the workers' cafeteria was much better than that in the Sanctuary. The difference was only in the sanitary conditions, as the Sanctuary was often smelly.
The workers' canteen is cleaned by a special cleaning staff, who recycle the remaining leftovers to feed the pigs.
At the end of the day, Zhang Qiang took Negan to Gran Town at night. Mayor Lily had already arranged accommodation for them.
Tomorrow Zhang Qiang will take Negan to visit the Planting Park and Green Farm, the two initial material supply sites for the Destiny Fortress, to continue to deepen Negan's impression of large-scale planting.
Over the course of three days, Negan's frown became more and more relaxed. From the seriousness at the beginning of his journey with Zhang Qiang to witnessing the signs of revival of civilization in various parts of Atlanta, Negan felt for the first time what hope was.
The zombies in Georgia have become an extremely rare species. If Negan had not been able to see zombies in the major workers' training bases, he almost thought he had returned to the days before the disaster, when there were no zombies.
Even before, even in the Sanctuary, Negan would say good morning to the zombies outside the wall every day when he woke up. The mentality developed in this environment is always a bit dark.
Now that he has seen the environment of the Destiny Base, Negan feels conquered. This is where humans should live.
On the last day of Negan's visit and study, Zhang Qiang frankly told Negan that he hoped that after Negan returned, he would cooperate with the surrounding pioneer teams to turn Washington into a place like Atlanta.
As for some technical talents and material support, Zhang Qiang will evaluate Negan's abilities after getting feedback from the pioneer teams and then provide support to Negan.
Negan's eyes sparkled as he assured Zhang Qiang that he would do a good job. He now understood that Commander Zhang had taken a fancy to his leadership ability and his already formed base, and wanted to develop the Savior Hall into a new base for the Destiny Front and expand it gradually.
Zhang Qiang was very satisfied with Negan's awareness, and then announced that he would take an indefinite vacation in the vicinity of Washington, leaving all matters to Kate.
Negan was shocked. He thought Zhang Qiang was a workaholic, but he didn't expect that he was actually a hedonist...
On the helicopter, Negan was wearing noise-canceling headphones and looked at Zhang Qiang from time to time. He had a question in his mind, but he didn't know whether he should say it.
Zhang Qiang, who was dozing off, felt a little itchy on his face from time to time. He opened his eyes and looked at Negan with an unhappy face: "What's the matter?"
"You're just leaving like that? Aren't you worried that someone might..."
"No one will betray me. I don't employ people I doubt, and I trust people I employ. This is the basic ability of a leader."
Zhang Qiang explained impatiently that he would never say that Kate was a die-hard special forces soldier deployed.
Without cheating, a normal person cannot build up such a powerful force in a year.
Negan gave Zhang Qiang a thumbs up to show his admiration for him.
Zhang Qiang became interested and started bragging to Negan.
"In fact, I wanted to go there earlier to fight with the Savior Hall and stretch my muscles. You don't know, it's been so boring since I haven't fought for a long time..."
Negan silently labeled Zhang Qiang a warmongerer in his mind. No wonder he felt that the Chinese youth in front of him always had a terrifying aura. It turned out that he was an extreme person inside.
Negan found it incredible that such a person actually had the correct concept of development.
Of course, Negan would not say this idea out loud, otherwise it would be a bit offensive to Zhang Qiang.
In fact, the answer is very simple. Isn’t it just farming and construction? It’s just the talent of flower growers.
Negan took another look at the dozens of kilograms of heavy armor on Zhang Qiang, then relaxed and succumbed to sleepiness.
At noon that day, a helicopter landed over the Church of Savior.
Laura came with her men to watch and saw Negan and Zhang Qiang get off the plane.
Laura's political sense doesn't seem to be strong. After seeing the unfamiliar Zhang Qiang, her first reaction was to come to Negan and ask.
“Who is this yellow-skinned person?”
Negan glared, "Be polite, he is a big shot in the Destiny camp."
Negan did not reveal Zhang Qiang's specific identity. He felt that this would be harmful to Zhang Qiang's safety. What if there were other sick people in the Savior Temple?
I'm telling you, similar incidents happen at any time and any place.
A lot of people just died in the Salvation Army, and the dead and injured Salvation Army soldiers also have relatives and friends.
When Laura saw that Negan was very dissatisfied with her previous question, she immediately lowered her head and admitted her mistake.
Hornet and Wasp parked the helicopter in the open space inside the Salvation Church, and the remaining two soldiers stood beside Zhang Qiang to protect his safety.
Zhang Qiang looked at Negan calmly. Negan immediately understood and walked up to introduce the current facilities of the Sanctuary to Zhang Qiang.
Zhang Qiang then walked around the Salvation Church. The place was not small. After all, it was an industrial plant area. Unfortunately, it was not suitable for farming.
Before the disaster, the factory of the Salvation Church produced mechanical parts.
"Laura, go call my wives and ask them to accompany Zhang."
After taking Zhang Qiang to understand the current situation of the Savior Temple, Negan instructed Laura to entertain them.
"Fuck, forget it." Zhang Qiang waved his hands to refuse. He didn't like this.
In the original drama, Negan used his wives to entertain Eugene. Although Eugene was forbidden to punish them, Zhang Qiang still thought it was outrageous.
"Don't forget to promote the system of the Destiny Front. It's not good for you to have multiple wives."
Zhang Qiang frowned. Most of the people who survived the disaster were men. Due to their innate conditions, women had a lower survival rate in the harsh apocalypse. If they had some privileges in the future and practiced polygamy, how would the workers find a partner?
Nigan was already a supporter of the system of the Destiny Front, and immediately stated that he would dismiss his harem and let them join the workers.
Negan's obedience made Laura look up to Zhang Qiang. She felt that Zhang Qiang was not that simple, because Negan behaved very naturally and obviously agreed with what the other party said.
Negan's attitude didn't seem like he was being oppressed by force at the Destiny Position. Laura was immediately curious about what he had seen at the Destiny Position.
"You should have a basic understanding of the people here. You can learn from what I said before about how Gran Town developed. Make a list quickly and assign tasks to them.
If we need any resources, we send people out to find them, or mobilize the surrounding communities.”
Zhang Qiang assigned tasks to Negan, and Negan nodded at the appropriate time, but also pointed out that there are still problems now. The transformation of the Savior Church may cause other communities to no longer cooperate. In other words, other communities may not want to deal with the Savior Church anymore.
"This is one of the problems you need to solve. Think about it carefully. Otherwise, what else would I ask you to do? But if you need military support, you can come to me, haha."
Zhang Qiang will not help Negan solve the problem. This is Negan's job. He said he was here for vacation, so the focus of his life naturally tends to be on vacation.
Negan knew that the search team was still stationed in the Alexandria community. He thought Zhang Qiang was saying that he could borrow the search team's equipment and manpower. He immediately showed his joy and asked Laura to organize a meeting to learn about the latest situation.
A moment later, Zhang Qiang also joined the meeting of the Salvation Hall, and Laura carefully summarized the recent situation.
The exchanges between the Kingdom of God community and the Salvation Army continued, but the "supply of materials" had been cut by more than half. The same was true for the Hilltop Village. It seemed that the larger communities were unwilling to fulfill the previous agreement after knowing that the Salvation Army had suffered a setback.
This is normal. Negan said he is not worried. The Savior Temple is also going to transform anyway, so as long as there is no armed conflict with other communities for the time being, it will be fine.
"All the wolves in Dumfries Town disappeared. They took away most of the supplies in the town. This is a bit strange."
Laura broke the news which felt most bizarre to her.
Negan killed a lot of people when he forced the wolf tribe last time. Now that this group of forces has disappeared collectively with their supplies, it is inevitable that they will harbor thoughts of revenge.
"Next time you see someone like them, just shoot them. Don't hold back." Negan said with a frown.
The wolf tribe as a community was not normal in itself, and Negan originally wanted to wipe them out, but because of their own bottom line and the reality at the time, the wolf tribe did not take the initiative to provoke the Saviors, so Negan left the wolf tribe a way to survive.
However, after the defeat of the Saviors and the assassination of the Wolf Tribe members, Negan has already understood the hostility of the Wolf Tribe towards him. In addition, now that this group of people have disappeared collectively, Negan is almost certain that they are planning to fight to the death.
"I will notify my men, but our weapons and equipment are not enough now, and many people don't have guns to use." Laura said to Negan.
Negan then looked at Zhang Qiang, hoping to get support so that Daryl's search team could return the Saviors' original weapons.
Zhang Qiang agreed and nodded.
Negan smiled after getting the approval. It would be easy with a gun.
"The people in Wellington don't want to deal with us anymore, and neither do the people at the dump, and ..."
Laura continued to talk about other communities, big and small. What happened next was not a good situation. The relationship between these communities and the Salvation Church was deteriorating, although it was not an equal and friendly relationship before...
Zhang Qiang was standing by, deep in thought. He knew that the garbage dump was a community established by a woman named Janedis. Her subordinates were a group of scavengers with poor fighting power and equipment. Janedis's background was also questionable.