The northern border is positioned as a food production area, so basically no other buildings have been built except greenhouses.

All the residential buildings now were built by Yuan Zhi and others.

In addition, the northern border area is quite large, larger than Oil City and Trading Market, but its population is much smaller than that of the headquarters base.

Therefore, in terms of wall defense, it will appear much weaker.

Li Yu, Lao Xie and others were walking on the wall of the outer city in the north.

The height of the northern outer wall reaches 48 meters and the height of the inner wall reaches 56 meters.

This height is even higher than the walls of Oil City, so the walls have not been raised since the Big Zhangshu forces took over.

However, new mobile gate knives and ultraviolet lights were added to the northern fence to defend against zombies.

Here in the north, there is only one combat brigade and two militia brigade.

The combat brigade was led by Lao Xie himself, while the militia brigade was led by Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng respectively.

The total number of combatants was less than 700.

The rest are basically affiliated forces of the former Northern Territory, and most of them are engaged in agricultural cultivation in greenhouses.

A combat team of less than 700 people defended such a huge city.

If it weren't for the ultraviolet lamp and the mobile knife, these 700 people alone wouldn't be able to defend it.

As long as it doesn't rain, a wall tens of meters high can resist ordinary zombies, and ultraviolet lights can prevent wall-climbing zombies from invading.

Once it rains, there are also mobile gates to prevent zombies from stacking up.

These two things have saved a lot of defense costs for the northern border.

Li Yu stopped at the edge of the outer wall and looked down at the retracted mobile gate knife.

"Have you checked the mobile blades here?"

Lao Xie nodded and said, "Yes, twice a week. It's the same as in Oil City."

"Yeah." Li Yu clapped his hands and dusted them off.

Then he walked into the duty room behind him, found the record book inside, and looked through it.

While he was browsing, Lao Xie hesitated for a moment, then came over and said:

"City Lord, there is something I want to discuss with you..."

"What's the matter?" Li Yu looked at the record book in his hand without raising his head.

Lao Xie rubbed his hands, pointed outside the northern border and said:

"Since we settled in the North, some survivors have occasionally approached us. After we contacted them, they expressed their desire to join us..."

"I heard from Zuo Ruxue that the trading market is in full swing and has absorbed a large number of people for development. You can also see it here in the north. The population is sparse, with a total number of less than 3,000 people."

"And most of them are planters, so I thought...should we properly attract some people to the north? We can also build up industry and commerce..."

Li Yu flipped through the notebook and found that the contents were very simple.

Comparing the record books in Oil City, it is completely different. There are too many loopholes here.

But he didn't say it immediately.

Instead, he remained calm and closed the book and returned it to its original position for the time being.

Walked out of the duty room.

When Lao Xie saw that Li Yu didn't answer, his heart skipped a beat.

He was keenly aware that the city lord didn't seem to want to do this.

Li Yu never answered him, and Lao Xie didn't dare to continue asking.

After following Li Yu to inspect the outer city wall, we were on our way down.

Li Yu suddenly turned around and looked at Lao Xie.

"The northern border is not suitable for opening up to absorb the population yet."

"Why?" Lao Xie asked doubtfully.

Li Yu sighed and said:

"There are powerful enemies and natural disasters outside, internal development still needs time, and new recruits still need training."

"The trading bazaar can open its doors widely and attract strangers almost unlimitedly. Do you think it is so simple to just absorb people?"

"With so many people coming in, do we have to ensure that there are enough combatants and patrols to manage them? If there are too many people and there is no ability to stop them from rioting, the more people there will be, the more turbulent they will be. By then, even a city will be subverted by these survivors!

"

"Nowadays, did you know that there are not as many combat personnel in the headquarters base as there are in Oil City?"

"There are only over 2,000 combat personnel at the headquarters base, but there are nearly 3,000 in the Oil City and Trading Market!"

"It is only there that they can stabilize the hundreds of thousands of survivors in the trading market and resist the invasion from the northwest."

"We only have so many combat personnel now. If the northern border wants to absorb the population and develop commerce and industry, reinforcements will have to be brought over. Where do you want me to transfer them from?"

The combat team of the Great Zhangshu Force has always been relatively short-lived.

So after six years of development, including the militia group, there are only five to six thousand people in total.

This number is already quite large, but spread out in three places it seems a bit small.

So, you have to make a choice.

There is no doubt that the headquarters base must have a combat team of more than 2,000 people.

The Oil City is the closest to the northwest, and it is open to welcoming spies from the northwest to infiltrate. In addition, the number of survivors is huge, so a large team of combat personnel is also needed.

Since the combat teams in both places cannot be reduced, it is naturally impossible to increase the combat teams in the northern border.

Without strong military support, blindly absorbing the population to develop the northern border will easily lead to backlash due to inability to manage it well.

Li Yu's words are very intuitive and not hidden.

Lao Xie understood, lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying:

"City Lord, I understand. What do you mean, do you want to stably develop the headquarters base and Oil City first, and develop agriculture here in the north first? Don't do anything else for the time being?"

"Yes, that's what it means. Development must have a focus."

Li Yuyouyou said: "Concentrate our forces to do big things and do important things. If we are just scattered, we will not develop well anywhere."

After thinking for a while, Lao Xie continued to ask:

"Well...well, there are quite a few survivors who have come here in the past few months, and I haven't let them in. However, some people are stationed near the northern border. Do you just ignore them?"

Li Yu rubbed his wrists and walked down the steps of the outer city wall.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After walking halfway, he said:

"Let's do this, let them go to the Oil City Trading Market, tell them the policies there, and lead people there."

"Okay." Lao Xie nodded.

In Li Yu's view, the northern border must seek stability.

As a food-producing area, most of the area in the north is planted with crops, and there is no need for commercial industry.

The main focus is to provide food for the headquarters base and Oil City.

There are now nearly 2,000 growers in the northern border, and there is no shortage of growers.

What is lacking are combat personnel.

New survivors cannot become combatants.

There is no one in the combat system who has not risen up the ranks little by little, and has absolute loyalty and recognition to the forces of the Great Zhangshu.

Li Yuning is indispensable.

You don't just find a random person, give him a gun, and become a combatant.

Li Yu does not believe in people who have not been tempered from the bottom, who have not been assessed, and who have no recognition and loyalty to the forces of Da Zhangshu.

If you give such a person a gun and ask him to fight enemies or stop zombies, he may turn his gun back on you.

Li Yu wouldn't dare to use this kind of person.

In short, what the northern border lacks is not agricultural planters, but combatants.

Combatants can only be dispatched from the headquarters or the oil city.

Then, these survivors who want to enter the Northern Territory do not mean much to the Northern Territory.

It would be better to lure all these people to the Oil City Trading Market and contribute to the development of the trading market.

A group of people walked down the wall, and Li Yu suddenly said:

"How many survivors are there outside the North now? Have they been counted?"

"Forehead...."
To be continued...