Chapter 602: Medical Station, Agricultural Machinery Station, Construction Department! Part 3
The construction of three new public facilities highlighted his talent for managing internal affairs.
Now that the villagers’ population was over 1,000, there were no less than two people in the village who suffered from headaches every day.
In the beginning, because there was no corresponding medicine in the village and no professional doctor, Su Mo could only distribute psychic energy water to treat the symptoms of these villagers.
However, this expenditure accounted for one-third of the daily production of psychic energy water in the long run.
When a small-scale contagious cold spread in the village, it would sometimes use up a whole day’s harvest of psychic energy water.
The psychic energy water alone was not enough for everyone if the territory’s population increased in the future.
The medical station that Chen Shen had brought up had to be implemented.
The second agricultural station was village chief Chen Shen’s means to make up for some current injustices in the village.
This was the most basic talent guarantee to ensure that everyone would work hard and the village would have constant profit.
The revenue and expenses were a side benefit.
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As for the third infrastructure department, Su Mo recalled the dozens of relatives that Chen Shen had brought together and the secret report that Pei Shao had told him.
Su Mo smiled cheerfully and tapped on the table with his fingers.
It was not enough for the village chief to obey the shelter leader if he wanted to have the authority to instruct the people below to work for him.
When there was no loss or core interests involved, with Su Mo on top, the villagers would still respect the village chief and would not have much to complain about at all.
However, when the time came that both sides wanted to have control or when it infringed on personal interests, Chen Shen, as a young village chief, might not even have as much power as Li Hu.
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This was a good phenomenon in terms of the division of power so that everyone’s authority would not significantly overpower one another.
However, this was troublesome to manage for a village with only a thousand people.
Therefore, in order to win a group of people to stand firmly on his side and better control the village, Chen Shen had to give the villagers some benefits and let them know that they would benefit if they followed the village chief.
The construction department was the perfect choice for that.
“A medical station, agricultural station, and infrastructure department. Good job! These three departments are indeed necessary for the development of the village.”
“You’ve worked hard!”
Su Mo glanced at Chen Shen to the point where the latter’s heart began to beat rapidly, and then he averted his gaze.
There were too many people around, and if he were to disguise his words to warn him, no matter whether the others understood secretly, Chen Shen’s self-esteem would be greatly hurt, and that was not something Su Mo wanted.
However, it was necessary to give a small warning with his gaze.
Sure enough, Chen Shen wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead and said honestly, “Shelter leader, don’t worry! The village’s matters are also my affairs! Whether we develop well or not is my response to you! How could it be called work?!”
After he got a satisfying answer from Chen Shen, he listened to Shen Ke’s report on the remaining supplies and was greatly relieved.
After only a short time, the talents under his command were already enough to fill up a medium-sized conference room.
The village in the past required him to take care of every single aspect, including leading the people and doing the work himself!
Every night, Su Mo had to take about half an hour to think about how the village could develop in a structured manner.
This indeed greatly trained his leaders.h.i.+p skills and made him a qualified territory lord in a short period.
However, maintaining such a structure would be a waste of energy and make it hard for him to take a break from management to travel into the vast wasteland.
Now that there were people to help him lead, Su Mo sighed.
“Great, I’m relieved!
“I’m leaving everything to you guys for the next 15 days or even a month!”
Everyone stood up and, with serious expressions, said in unison, “Shelter leader, rest a.s.sured! With you charging in front, even if we were to die, we will guard and protect our home from invaders trying to step into our territory!”