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Chapter 436: 420 Workshop CampChapter 436: Chapter 420 Workshop Camp

The haphazardly expanded tree houses might also have a unique style, but a tree is only so tall, and even if expanding upward, they cannot exceed the canopy. There are still too few tree houses at the moment.

The revenue contributed to the territory by the new players during this period has already supported another round of expansion.

The energy cost of the territory expansion is actually not high, the main thing is to calculate the daily energy consumption carefully. It is best if the daily entrance fee can cover it, and having a little surplus would be ideal.

This time, the territory has expanded into the forest, increasing its size to 150 acres. The number of tree houses has risen to ten thousand, and intertwined aerial pathways connected all the aerial facilities throughout.

This is now more than enough, and there’s no need for further expansion in the short term.

There’s no concern about the players finding it inconvenient to travel within the expanded territory, as the Short-range Teleportation Array serves as the means of transportation within.

The players have become accustomed to the expansion, causing no particular stir in the territory, with only those who dislike sharing accommodations happily moving to the newly expanded areas.

With the territory expansion complete, and in line with the news on the forum, Mu Ying refined a batch of Human Leg Potion and Disguise Potion.

Since her return, several employees had messaged her privately, some sharing new ideas for the development of the territory after the Teleportation Array was operational, and others wanting to discuss the issues of the camps they managed. So she simply arranged to meet them all together for a small meeting.

Firstly, Professor Su mentioned that the players in a few mining camps were becoming saturated. Having heard from Mu Ying about new mining sites, he inquired whether they could be opened, as he had several promising miners ready to work.

Mu Ying naturally had no objections, and she immediately gave her approval. After all, three mining camps had been sitting idle, just wasting the energy of the Territory Shield!

Mu Ying briefly inquired about the students he brought and then granted them access to the sub-camps’ transmission permissions. She instructed them each to prepare a mining plan for review by Professor Su and herself, after which the final selection would be made.

This matter was resolved in a matter of minutes.

Next was Professor Du, who suggested that since the Teleportation Array development allowed it, surplus goods from the territory could be sold to other camps. This would not only generate revenue for the territory but also help promote it. Her business team would finally be relieved from always doing miscellaneous tasks.

Mu Ying looked over their sales plan and agreed.

For now, the Teleportation Array only extended to the No Master Camp below, and the more expensive high-end specialty goods were hard to sell, so they chose more low-end common living supplies.

For example, agricultural products from the public farms and meat from the Breeding Camps.

Initially, Mu Ying mentioned that items like animal skins and wool from the Breeding Camps could also be sold. However, Professor Du said that she had two people to introduce to her.

One was a 29-year-old girl named Maya, from the Buyei ethnic group of Xia Country. She studied engineering prevention in university and later learned fashion design. She was skilled in old-fashioned hand-spinning and weaving, as well as clothing-making.

The other was a 50-year-old woodworker named Chen Xi, quite skilled in his craft. Maya had drawn up designs for a weaving loom and a spinning machine, and he had already produced prototypes.

Mu Ying immediately understood Professor Du’s intention—she wanted to develop the territory’s textile industry.

With Professor Du even finding a master woodworker, it was clear she intended to start the textile industry. Indeed, it was a promising venture.

The materials were already being produced at the Breeding Camps, so processing them before sale would be more profitable than selling them raw, and it would also create more job positions.

“However, we can only produce ordinary daily necessities, which might not be very profitable,” Professor Du was still a bit concerned.

Mu Ying wasn’t worried about that, “As long as the products can support the employees and ensure a balance of income and expenditures, having a little profit is enough.”

Deep Blue Star’s foundation wasn’t strong enough yet, and items of quality, such as equipment, were not easy to produce.

Common living supplies, being small-scale and low-priced, indeed must be sold in large quantities to be sustainable.

It didn’t matter if it didn’t make much money; as long as it supported the inhabitants, and allowed the Local People to have another means of livelihood, that was sufficient. In reality, as they spent within the territory, it would earn a little more, and over time, the cumulated earnings could not be ignored.

“I’ll build another sub-camp for workshops later. For now, we’ll start with one textile workshop and one woodworking shop. The outputs of animal skins and wool, like rabbit and sheep’s wool, from the Breeding Camp, and cotton from the farms, will be supplied first to the textile workshop,” Mu Ying planned.

“Maya, from now on, you’ll be the person in charge of the textile workshop. Later, after the meeting, talk to Luoluo and Lin Shang to get an idea of the material supplies they can offer. Estimate the number of textile workers we need to recruit for the first batch, along with the required machinery. I’ll grant you administrator access to the internal network’s workshop sub-camp module, so you can post the recruitment notice directly there. For details, you may consult with Professor Du.”

“Carpenter Chen, you’ll be in charge of the woodworking workshop. Like the textile workshop, you’ll need to think about the specific products and recruiting personnel. For raw materials, you’ll need to form a logging team. I’ll designate a logging area for you, which will be the only place where tree cutting is allowed, and you must replant promptly after cutting trees.”

Controlled logging and timely reforestation were not a problem.

“Luoluo, if you make any progress with food processing research in the future, you can also build a food workshop there,” Mu Ying continued.

“If each small workshop could grow into a large-scale factory, we would build separate sub-camps for them.”

“I have only one requirement: these workshops must, like the sub-camps, at least break even, and the income must cover the operation of the entire textile workshop.

Resource transfers between the camps should also be calculated based on the external selling price, and occasional losses must be accompanied by a reasonable explanation. However, if losses persist over a long period, the workshop might have to close temporarily.

Any extra profit generated will be part of the workshop head’s and employees’ year-end bonuses, the same as with the sub-camps. The workshop head’s benefits are on par with those of the sub-camp managers.”

Mu Ying clarified her requirements, how they were to be met was now up to the people she had hired.

The demands were not harsh; they could even be considered very lenient.

She didn’t have the energy to meticulously control each sub-camp’s operations, so she’d always taken this approach: providing sufficient benefits and opportunities for income growth, setting clear goals, and letting employees figure out how to achieve them.

Although it wasn’t very detailed, it prevented any significant chaos from occurring.

Maya and Chen Xi, the carpenter, assured their dedication. The requirements were lenient for them, and having survived the apocalypse, they both cherished such opportunities greatly.