Due to the ongoing expansion of Chixian City's urban area, a significant portion of migrants has been resettled outside the city during the past period.

After all, traffic and security issues within the city need to be considered because not all migrants are honest laborers.

As of now, there are six large migrant gathering points within the entire Chixian City area:

Three outside the city, three within the city—the three within the city are the original migrant gathering points, such as East City Fish Tail Lane where Zhao Qianju's family resides, and the migrants in this area generally have stable jobs and detailed records.

The slow pace of Chixian City's expansion was initially due to the need for transporting materials like cement locally, whereas previously, the Light Gate's passage capacity was mainly used for military supplies for the Battle of Xiaolianzi Mountain.

Therefore, after a month, only less than one-tenth of the urban expansion project has been completed.

But a few days ago, the rabbits found a mountain rich in limestone—honestly, it's not hard to find since it's not rare material.

Although the mountain discovered by the rabbits isn't large, Chixian City itself isn't really a large city.

And compared to Spirit Stone and coal mines buried underground, limestone is an open-air resource, incredibly easy to mine.

With such a mountain at hand, along with the arrival of several cement production lines.

Experimental airtight cement may not have enough equipment for production in the short term, but ordinary building cement isn't much of a problem now.

So in the upcoming plans.

Chixian City's expansion will be greatly accelerated, with the urban area planning to expand outward by one kilometer, reaching a 5X5 layout.

Most of the expanded area will be built up with worker or residential buildings, either sold or allocated, as the situation dictates.

Currently, there are more than thirty thousand outsiders within Chixian City, and the rabbits can manage to complete the city's urban expansion while ensuring normal progress at the Life Experiment Base.

Also, because of this.

When the announcement dividing urban expansion and village allocation was published, it caused an uproar among the migrant groups, and even among the original residents of Chixian City.

......

At the end of the workday, a group of workers walked into Wang's Restaurant opposite the Leisi Industrial Park—those who clocked out without overtime accurately.

As soon as the group entered the restaurant, the leading big fellow shouted towards Sang Xiuyin behind the cash register:

"Sister Yin, a set of the usual four, and a few cans of that... Xuejin!"

"Coming, coming."

Wearing an apron, Sang Xiuyin walked up diligently, swiftly making room at a table for the group while calling out to Wang Qiaoyun in the kitchen:

"Sister-in-law, dry wok iced frog, stir-fried native pig lungs, tofu with chicken rack, and marinated beef brisket, plus a few cans of Xuejin!"

Yes, precisely.

This Wang's Restaurant is the small diner opened by Zhao Qianju and his wife.

The city's major factories have been officially operating for over ten days now.

Under the special policy of the rabbits for daily-wage payment, except for some workers with large families or relatives with severe illnesses.

The majority of other workers have started to have some spare cash while improving their living conditions.

After all, the migrants either live in tents or simple prefabricated houses, without expenses like mortgages, and reaching a subsistence level is quite simple with wages quadruple the standard.

In local terms, it's like you earn 8000 monthly with daily settlement in a small county with a 2000 wage standard, filling your belly easily without economic collapse—since the initial value is too low.

With some idle money in hand, the thrifty ones naturally save it secretly for future use, calculating carefully.

While others who are more gluttonous, enjoying a few drinks after work yet have no skills themselves, naturally become frequent patrons of small diners outside factories.

Thus, after a cold start in the first few days of opening, Wang's Restaurant quickly gained a relatively loyal customer base.

After all, Wang Qiaoyun's father is a chef at a certain restaurant, their ancestral craftsmanship passed down for four generations, considered a top-level butcher family in a county of ten thousand people.

But people's lives are trivial in a chaotic world, Wang Qiaoyun previously never had a chance to showcase her skills, and even narrowly escaped with her life.

Now with such a relatively stable storefront, the difference between Wang Qiaoyun and an ordinary housewife became apparent.

Although business at Wang's Restaurant isn't particularly good, at least it has reached a break-even point, and daily profits are rising.

For instance, these workers who came into the store today are among the loyal customers—they regularly come with seven or eight people after work, each contributing a few coins to make up a table, ordering cheap items like chicken rack and pig lungs, having a few drinks, chatting comfortably.

Ten plus minutes later, four plates of small dishes and a case of Xuejin stored in ice were served.

The leading worker dug open the ice shards in the basin and opened a can of Xuejin.

Chugging two mouthfuls, followed by a piece of pork lung to temper, the crisp and spicy taste filled the mouth, eliciting a comfortable sigh:

"Refreshing! This thing called beer is really potent!"

"Of course, costing quite a bit more than half a jug of yellow wine used to."

"This chicken rack is delicious too, I love the sauce that sinks into the bones and the crunchy texture—just one word, fragrant!"

"Exactly, exactly...."

At the dining table, everyone starts chatting.

Then as the atmosphere livened up enough, a small worker in the corner suddenly asked:

"Brother Zhai, you're familiar with the management's side, is it true that the city plans to relocate a batch of workers to villages below for farming?"

The opening of this topic immediately changed the atmosphere around the table.

Everyone turned their gaze towards Brother Zhai mentioned by the small worker, who is also Zhai Gang, the group leader from their workshop promoted first.

Hearing this, Brother Zhai opened another can of beer, took a bite to balance the alcohol, then put down his chopsticks and said:

"Yes, there's such a thing, the Wei Mansion plans to demarcate six villages, roughly ten miles from the city gates.

However, priority is given to the later collected migrants who will be settled in the villages—that is, those people on the west side of the city, they'll be assigned to the six villages.

We workers have the right to choose, those willing to farm can go, those unwilling who want to stay in the city to work can do so, as long as you aren't too lazy or slacking, the factory won't drive you away.

But I heard the Wei Mansion still encourages everyone to go down, offering some compensations and not low benefits."

Hearing this, everyone at the table sighed in relief, and the atmosphere relaxed again.

Another middle-aged man sitting next to Brother Zhai smiled and commented:

"It's good we aren't forced down, no matter how high the benefits, I won't go, anyway, I'm used to the factory, my daily wages are much higher than before, why should I go farming?"

"Exactly, exactly, being a worker is great, you can still have some drinks every day."

This remark immediately spurred several voices of agreement around the table.

Quickly, another young man with a slightly sallow complexion raised his hand.

This person seemed scholarly, he was also the only one drinking not in work clothes but in a long robe:

"Brother Zhai, what about the worker buildings then?"

Two cans of beer later, Brother Zhai's face was already a bit flushed, after all, the concentration of Xuejin was a bit high for Damo Realm's bottom-tier citizens—as those transmigrators of Wei Siming relied on distillation technology to exchange for cultivation capital, showing the poverty in Damo Realm's alcohol industry.

Upon hearing, Brother Zhai belched and then tugged up his short-sleeve work suit halfway, revealing his belly:

"Oh, you mean the worker buildings, that's good news.

We're all still living in tents or simple houses, it's hard to get intimate with a wife sometimes... oh, forgot, you don't have one.

Anyway, it's just that everything feels inconvenient.

So the Wei Mansion plans to build a few buildings for factory worker families to live, I hear it's something we've never seen before like... high-rise buildings, enough to house many people.

I heard from Accountant Liu in the factory, the planning map will officially be published within a week.

But the specific allocation plan still awaits factory decision, not everyone gets one, seems it's ranked based on performance or something.

Therefore, everyone shouldn't slack off these days, it's still what Accountant Liu says, every worker has a bright future.....

After these words, Brother Zhai fell asleep on the table snorting loudly.

Yes, only after two cans of Xuejin.

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The workers' choices regarding villages seem relatively proactive, while for others it isn't so...

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