Chapter 1917: Chapter 1911: The Resistor

“The new population is overloaded… Uh, do we have to build more factories again? Or just work on expanding farmland, Magic Potions are still quite valuable, and we need to stockpile some grain.”

The Courtyard is constantly expanding, outside the Silver City, there is already a large area known as the “Land of Life.”

The collapse of this world is accelerating, more and more earth’s veins and plots are losing control, parasites like the Courtyard have had their fill, and each day they increase their area and limits.

Linked to it, Lu Ping’an himself feels a strange sense of support even though he hasn’t eaten anything.

And now the Courtyard probably has truly become a “Floating Continent,” if it enters the Divine Boat state again, its area wouldn’t be less than a real Divine Kingdom.

That also means, Lu Ping’an’s true form is beginning to become world-like…

“Maybe, I can soon reach the true Deity Rank (Tenth-order)…..”

Lu Ping’an shook his head, he’s a bit perplexed, the scale of bearing the world is the true Tenth-order level, every individual and building living within will become part of the Deity.

Can I really bear the weight of a world?

“Whether you can or not, you can’t possibly stop.”

Big Cat was quite happy, in her eyes, Quasi-God can’t stop, everyone at this stage has a heavy burden, and stopping would doom those following.

Lu Ping’an only now has this realization, which is a bit late….. but considering his decade has accumulated at least two to three hundred years (given smooth development), this seems quite normal.

But having reached this level, who would willingly stop here.

“Are the new industrial and agricultural plans done? Fei’er over there is asking again.”

Lu Ping’an called the secretary group, directly inquiring about the latest planning situation.

The Courtyard’s area has crazily grown, the population is exploding, if they are local people, fencing a piece of land can actually sustain them.

But that’s too wasteful… human resources must be utilized, only when they generate value are they considered resources, otherwise they are merely a drag on resources.

The Land of Life can produce “refined grain” and Magic Potion materials demanded by professionals, and factories can produce much more, the additional consumption brought by population increase has also created a market for many low-grade products.

Nowadays, since the Courtyard has a “national” standard, there naturally is a market consumption with internal circulation.

Of course, the most valuable remains the high-value-added survival necessities, like military-industrial…..

“It’s been changed four times this week… If you promise not to change it, I’ll give it to you this afternoon.”

“I can’t guarantee, recently there’s too much population increase, and external orders….. let’s just send this version to Fei’er, let her speed up the deployment, outdated industry planning is still better than none. Try to avoid meaningless competition and internal scrolling, set up the frames for various industries, we need a complete industrial chain.”

What Lu Ping’an expects is to establish a relatively complete industrial chain according to the industrial plan, even to achieve multi-year or even decades of self-sufficiency without external supplies.

“Start with light industry related to clothing, food, housing, and transportation…”

This time, it’s not about enterprises producing some product for higher profit, but to stabilize the overall social structure, achieving no shortage of anything.

Even Lu Ping’an himself feels the workload involved in this plan and potential to be nerve-wracking.

Yet, when it actually gets implemented, it unexpectedly goes quite smoothly.

“After all, we have a lot of ‘blank wasteland,’ and a massive amount of quality labor that just needs food to work, we don’t lack technology, as long as they keep trial and error, industry explosion is inevitable…”

Afterwards, Lu Ping’an could truly say he carries a nation with him.

“By the way, what’s with recruiting local warriors? Weren’t we supposed to let them develop for a while, letting them come forward to apply? Isn’t it a bit early now?” Chris asked, somewhat puzzled, as Lu Ping’an is not one to break plans casually, especially when the current plan is still executing well.

“Isn’t casting the net now a bit too rushed, be careful of backlash….”

Those local Beastmen are of course quality troops, some Strong Battle Beastmen races have absurdly high values, a little training and they can easily reach above average third-tier combat power.

However, Lu Ping’an doesn’t lack combat power, originally planning to let them roam free for a while.

At this time, they are quite sensitive, directly mobilizing to build combat power might cause them to overreact.

The original plan was to cast a long line to catch big fish, let most of the population farm, tempting the quality ones with abundant rewards to voluntarily enlist… this timeframe, expected earliest would have been half a year later.

Lu Ping’an isn’t worried they’d leave or become unusable….. as long as the individuals still wish to live in his nation, they naturally become strength of these lands, currency, honor, or even just the promise of safety, they would all fight for the nation.

The most intelligent means is actually free-range, when they have work, industry, even family and children, even without money they would fight to the end for these lands.

Lu Ping’an now, starts actively summoning warriors, a bit beyond expectations.

“Two reasons, one is my Heroic profession, it’s best to perfect in this world, requiring some volunteers…..”

This is a profession bred locally, holding many of this world’s mysteries, if local professionals undertake real combat evolution, it can provide Lu Ping’an more feedback.

Additionally, amidst the current World Apocalypse, it’s the time most needing “Heroes.”

Lu Ping’an has high expectations for those Heroic professions, wondering if they can gain this world’s blessing, especially those “Warriors,” who’ve been recognized by the world, how far can they evolve…

“The second reason might be the orders, the Resistance Army’s orders.”

“Yes, those people strive hard, I quite admire them, aside from material support, also considering providing some military assistance, but our own manpower is limited… still need a few volunteers.”

“Ha, are you sure they’re not losers… alright, I’ll arrange something.”

The Resistance Army, was something anticipated.

Lu Ping’an here has ample evidence proving this world is about to be destroyed, while local authorities have become obstacles for people’s escape.

He provided “Ark ticket,” however, not everyone only thinks about survival.

Some people accepted Lu Ping’an’s force invitation, while others insist on saving more lives… whether it’s saving from Foreign Domain invaders or taking from ostrich territories pretending nothing happened, both truly save lives.

Considering the Invader’s strength, this is tantamount to the foolishness of actively seeking death.

“I actually quite admire such fools, give them cost price product channels and material support.”