174 Out of stock? (2/2)

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After coming out of Jiang Lin's lab, Jiang Chen headed to the community center to find the warehouse keeper Wang Qin.

When Jiang Chen came to the office, the girl with freckles was going through her books as usual. When she saw Jiang Chen, her eyes lit up, as she stopped what she was doing, and got up to greet him.

”I am just here to check the status of the supplies in the base. Don't be so anxious,” Jiang Chen gently smiled as he joked.

Wang Qin's face blushed shyly. She pushed her glasses up as she took out the tablet terminal and began to display the data to Jiang Chen.

First, it was crystals.

After the accumulation of several trades, the crystals stored in the Fishbone base had reached a frightening number of 790 thousand. Because of the addition of several production lines, the crystals spent last month reached 30 thousand. This included the purchase of raw materials, as well as direct consumption for fuel in industrial production.

Jiang Chen asked Wang Qin to save half a million crystals as liquid assets to purchase shares of the about to be established Sixth Street bank.The rest of the 290 thousand crystals would be used as production spending. Even with the addition of a kinetic skeleton line, the current amount of stored crystals was more than sufficient.

Then, it would be the firearms storage.

There were two hundred thousand rounds of ammo stored in the base, with sixty percent directly manufactured by the base. After they acquired Huizhong Mercenaries' ammo production line, Fishbone base began to work towards producing its own firearms.

Then, it would be the 5kg bombs. This is the standard ammo for the electromagnetic cannon.

Following the completion of the Tiger, the military factory's production has been shifting towards bombs. The current stock was two hundred rounds, with fifty being produced each day.

After a period of consumption, as well as the large quantity of replenishment since the last time he returned, the base currently stored 8 tons of rice, 2 tons of potato, and easy to store vegetables like cabbage and carrot totaled 5 tons. Sausage, marinated meat, and other preserved food added up to 2 tons. After Jiang Chen realized it was cheaper to purchase fresh food than canned food, Fishbone Base's cafeteria no longer provided canned food. All cans were only sold, or as an award to survivors that contributed to the base.

With the assumption of one pound of rice per day per person, this food would last the group of two hundred two years. But considering the addition of seven hundred survivors soon, the rate of food consumption would undoubtedly increase. Even with an increase in survivors, the current storage of food would last at least half a year.

”Also, the base is preparing to add a new kinetic skeleton production line. Jiang Lin will send the list of purchases over in a bit. Send someone to purchase it from the Sixth Street.”

”Mhmm.” Wang Qin nodded and then wrote Jiang Chen's words in the tablet. Following the increased quantity of supplies, one warehouse keeper was not enough. After asking for Wang Qin's opinion, Jiang Chen added a logistics department to the base's administration, responsible for managing warehouse supplies, daily consumption, and trade related tasks. Trade was previously the responsibility of Sun Jiao, but she seemed to get a headache with ”small tasks” containing minuscule details, so she threw the duties to the logistics department.

The logistics department was of course led by Wang Qin. The department increased to five people, managing a total of six warehouses.

”I said you don't have to be so anxious.” Seeing how the girl was taking notes seriously, Jiang Chen couldn't stop laughing.

Although she had matured compared to when she just got to the base, the trait of blushing did not change at all.

”Also, what's the status of Zhou Guoping's bar in the Sixth Street?”

After recollecting her previous calmness, Wang Qin pushed her glasses up and said in a focused tone, ”4000 cans of beer were consumed in October resulting in a total profit of 40,000 crystals.”

Hearing the news, Jiang Chen nodded.

He didn't care about the profitability of the bar. He was more keen on using the traffic generated to bring him intelligence. The beers were only a few bucks in the modern world which was nothing.

But of course, as the saying goes, although mosquitoes were small, meat was still meat, and the income from the beers was quite good.

”Also, there is something else,” Wang Qin saw that Jiang Chen was in a good mood, but she hesitated for a moment before she spoke.

”Mhmm?”

”The raw material used to produce the automatic rifles and hummingbird drone, the Carm Tree sap, is out of stock.”

”Out of stock?” Jiang Chen frowned.

It was a big problem.

The threat of mutated human was approaching fast, the Fishbone base was working around the clock to produce firearms, and now Carm tree sap was out of stock?

”The plantation that provided us with Carm tree sap terminated the contract, and paid us 1000 crystals as the penalty,” Wang Qin said helplessly.

”Reason?”

”Following the increase in production on the Sixth Street, the price of Carm tree sap rose by 20%, which is much higher compared to the price signed on the contract. They also signed a large quantity long term deal with other companies. Therefore, they shamelessly terminated our contract.” Wang Qin said in anger.

”So how much is left in the base?” Jiang Chen said in a serious tone.

”2 tons left. Enough to maintain production for one more month.”

”Mhmm, I'll take care of this.” Jiang Chen nodded.

[If the Sixth Street can't supply it, the Fishbone base can just produce it on our own.]