The base was orderly, with everyone following their assigned tasks.
Mingyue was surprised. What had happened in the two days she was away?
She returned to her small courtyard, looking for someone to ask. Her first choice was naturally Ji Shiyou.
"Mingyue, you're looking for Ji Shiyou? He should be at work?"
Jin Xi walked in from outside and, seeing Mingyue at Ji Shiyou's door, called out to remind her.
"Work? What work? And why are you up so early?"
Mingyue didn't quite understand Jin Xi's words. Since the apocalypse began, "work" had become a distant memory.
Furthermore, Jin Xi being up so early was highly unusual, as if the sun had risen in the west.
Due to her past work, Jin Xi disliked sleeping at night and waking up in the morning, making her a standard difficult-to-wake-up person.
"Right, you probably don't know yet. Come to my room, and I'll explain everything.
You're truly lucky to have found Ji Shiyou, such a capable helper. I'm so envious."
Seeing Mingyue's confused expression, Jin Xi pulled her into her room and began to detail Ji Shiyou's great achievements.
Mingyue didn't know that the survivors who arrived at Yuncheng Base that day were not immediately admitted. Instead, a two-hour-long meeting was held in the plaza in front of the base.
The meeting was presided over by Ji Shiyou. During the assembly, he first announced the base's welfare benefits.
He clarified that Mingyue Base was people-oriented, treating ability users and ordinary people equally without special privileges.
Every resident joining the base would not be charged an entry fee or treated differently, unlike at Yuncheng Base.
As long as they were residents of Mingyue Base, they would be allocated appropriate living spaces free of charge, based on their family size and team members.
The base's canteen would provide three free meals daily. Drinking water and daily necessities would be distributed at fixed times each morning.
Additionally, various living supplies would be distributed by the base irregularly.
Ji Shiyou's voice was not loud, but it struck everyone like a thunderclap, shocking everyone, including the members of Mingyue's team.
The survivors were stunned because the Mingyue Base Ji Shiyou described was like paradise.
They doubted if they were dreaming and couldn't believe Ji Shiyou's words were true.
Meanwhile, Wen Qingtian and the others had the urge to cover Ji Shiyou's mouth. What was this guy talking about?
They wanted to establish their own base, not a base where they would work themselves to death supporting others.
If it were as Ji Shiyou described, even if they worked themselves to death, the base wouldn't last long.
Supporting ten thousand people wasn't like raising a small sparrow; the food alone would be calculated in tons.
"What I've just described are the benefits of Mingyue Base. But as everyone knows, there's no free lunch. Enjoying benefits comes with responsibilities."
Ji Shiyou saw the expressions of his team members and knew what they were thinking. He gave them a reassuring look and changed the subject.
All the survivors' expressions turned serious, eager to know what responsibilities Ji Shiyou spoke of, and if it was a trap. The entire venue fell silent.
However, after hearing Ji Shiyou's explanation, everyone felt relieved and smiled, saying it was right and they were willing to bear the responsibilities.
Ji Shiyou explained clearly that becoming a resident of Mingyue Base required labor.
The base belonged to everyone, so its maintenance depended on everyone. The canteen needed cooks, and the streets needed sweeping.
To ensure the base operated normally, departments such as administration, logistics, security, research, and inspection needed to be established.
These departments required personnel. All residents of the base would be assigned suitable work based on their recorded specialties during registration.
The base did not support idlers. Everyone, except children under five and the elderly over sixty, was required to work.
If they refused the work assigned by the base, they would be asked to leave.
In essence, they exchanged their labor for the right to reside in the base, and only by becoming residents could they enjoy the base's benefits.
Everyone felt it was fair; in fact, they felt they were getting a good deal.
After all, as the apocalypse had progressed, many human survival bases had emerged, and their rules were largely similar.
They primarily served the interests of the base, more or less exploiting the residents.
However, the rules of Mingyue Base were completely fair. The interests of the base and the survivors were aligned, so why would they refuse?
Next, Ji Shiyou announced the regulations of Mingyue Base, comprising five major categories and over two hundred articles.
These covered all potential violations, from slacking off and fighting to treason and endangering the base's security.
The punishments ranged from revoking benefits and expulsion from the base to the most severe, execution.
Without rules, there is no order. Especially with a large population and varying qualities of survivors.
In this era of apocalypse, people had lost their sense of law and moral restraint.
Without rules, chaos would ensue, which was why Ji Shiyou had made comprehensive and detailed regulations.
Therefore, he could present such thorough and well-rounded rules to all the survivors that day.
Finally, Ji Shiyou announced the management structure of Mingyue Base, with the highest authority being the City Lord, Mingyue.
He himself would oversee administration, Jin Xi would be responsible for logistics, Gong Que for security, and Bu Zhi for the inspection team.
Tian Shang would be in charge of agriculture, and Shi Henian would join Dr. You Hen's laboratory, belonging to the research department.
Finally, based on their registration information, all survivors were assigned living quarters and jobs.
Everyone clearly understood what they were supposed to do within the base, which department they belonged to, and who their direct superior was.
Furthermore, Ji Shiyou divided the survivors into zones based on their living locations, selecting a zone leader for every hundred people.
These leaders would manage their daily lives, including mediating disputes and distributing supplies.
This was another stroke of genius from Ji Shiyou. As the base's population grew, if all matters required the base's intervention, they would be overwhelmed daily and unable to do anything else.
Thus, he added the position of zone leader to encourage self-governance and internal conflict resolution.
Under Ji Shiyou's strong organizational skills, the base began to operate smoothly after a day of adjustment.
Jin Xi had gone to the supply warehouse in the morning to assign tasks before returning to catch up on sleep.
"Mingyue, why didn't I realize Ji Shiyou was so capable before?
Do you know? Standing before those survivors in the plaza that day, I felt like I was watching a commanding monarch.
Also, you don't know, to prevent waste within the base and departmental favoritism,
he even had Bu Zhi establish an inspection department to check other departments. Such a method...
Only emperors skilled in the art of rulership in ancient times would think of it. Isn't it amazing?
Mingyue, Ji Shiyou is your perfect helper. You don't have to do anything.
He's solved everything for you. You, as the City Lord, don't have to worry about a thing. You're truly lucky."
Jin Xi looked at Mingyue with envy, her opinion of Wen Qingtian slightly diminished.
"Wait, you just said Ji Shiyou also established a planting department? And everyone else has a responsible department, but why not Wen Qingtian?"
Mingyue ignored Jin Xi's envious expression and asked about the things she didn't understand.