Before winter, Lu Jiu changed the well-known false information and revealed on the provincial channel that the level three protective cover can adjust the temperature.

Then later learned that some cities already knew about this, but they all mentioned it on their respective city channels.

She and Shen Jufeng came to the city lord’s mansion again and started to list things that should be done in winter, such as the snow. They had discussed before that they would let the residents apply to shovel the snow.

Although there were many patrolling NPCs in the city-state, and they listened to any instructions from the city lord, the patrolling mission was equally important.

And patrolling NPCs also need to eat, drink, and change into warm clothes.

The current city plan of the city-state was spread out on the table. Shen Jufeng pointed at the lines on it and said: “Our city-state currently has 9 avenues and 78 lanes. Our main task is to remove the snow on the roads. Each lane is allocated according to its length. One, everyone has their duties and is responsible for their areas.”

Their city-state was very large. The minimum width of the main roads was four meters. The narrow roads were better, generally one or two meters wide.

“That’s good. The length of the trail is longer, but how to mark it?”

After all, when divided into subdivisions, there were still many small areas.

“This needs to be combined with their working hours of shoveling snow. If there are specific market hours, we can divide larger areas. If we break them down, there are not many positions.”

He had read the floor plan in advance. It would take more than a hundred people to shovel snow in the entire city-state. With so many people in the entire city-state, excluding professional residents, there would be many people competing for this position.

Lu Jiu didn’t know much about this: “What about the salary? Should we pay it directly? I don’t think they are very short of money.”

“They are indeed not short of money, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need it. 90% of their salary is money and 10% is materials. I believe many people can accept this distribution.”

Lu Jiu straightened up and crossed her legs, “The supplies should be vegetables, fruits, or firewood.”

She expected that there would be a lot of people who wanted fruits and vegetables. After all, the only people who could pick fruits in the autumn were professional residents, or ordinary residents who had professional residents at home.

Going out was difficult for people whose whole families were ordinary residents. At that time, everyone was most worried about heating, and they were all working hard to collect firewood.

Even in autumn, she bought a lot of firewood, probably because the residents thought she would use it herself.

On the first day of winter, Lu Jiu opened the window to sell grain, mainly for professional players who could not store as much grain as ordinary residents.

“Your gathering team has produced a lot of vegetables. If each household is limited to purchasing it every day, it will be enough for one winter. The same is true for the fruits, but the types of fruits are random and cannot be chosen by them.”

It was not easy for them to obtain these supplies. Most of the fruits were picked in the fruit trees, and only a few were brought back by the collection team.

Lu Jiu nodded, “It’s good to have fruit. They will understand why they can’t choose by themselves. There is nothing they can harvest outside right now, so it would be great to have this. And going outside the city might be dangerous.”

The patrolling NPCs had just asked her to volunteer to go out on patrol in the city. The reason was that winter and spring were the seasons when beasts were most likely to invade.

Lu Jiu agreed, that having them on patrol would also serve as a warning.

Shen Jufeng nodded, “Then it’s settled. I have the authority over the warehouse. Whoever has time will pay their wages once a day so that they can feel more at ease.”

“Ah, I have to change to Ying Bairong’s image again, but I’m okay, you can’t be stinky, your avatar is not suitable for dressing too well.”

Shen Jufeng’s avatar was a tall tough guy, giving people the feeling that he could wear short-sleeves even in winter.

Shen Jufeng ignored her and just put away the city-state plan. He had to take care of the subdivision of the areas. What he needed to do now was to recruit people.

Also, where to put the shoveled snow.

“Has the forge’s bucket of snow been ready?”

This was something they asked the forging shop manager to customize in the fall.

“Okay, I just gave you a batch. It has a large capacity. I can put a ton of snow in at a time, and then just pull it up and dump it.”

Fortunately, this was just snow, not real garbage, otherwise, he doesn’t know how to deal with it.

“That’s good. The patrolling NPCs can just take the filled barrels out. Now I hope the patrol car can be made this year.”

The patrol car was like that kind of sightseeing car. With this patrol car, the work efficiency of NPCs will be much higher. No matter how fast they walk, they can’t be as fast as a car.

Lu Jiu said: “Then they have to pull them out themselves. Well… I’ll give them extra wages this winter.”

Now that things were planned, it was time for her city lord to send an email again.

[City Lord of Xuantian City: Dear residents of Xuantian City, for the sake of a good living environment within the city-state, I have decided to recruit people. The job task is to shovel the snow in the assigned area. The salary is paid once a day, and the salary structure is 90% money and +10% daily necessities. After applying, I will randomly select people. Welcome to sign up.]

Such a piece of information made the city lively again. The word “job task” seems quite unfamiliar now.

However, people see that wages were paid daily, and 10% of them were living necessities. Even if they didn’t know the exact amount, no matter how small mosquitoes there were, they were still meat.

There were so many people replying to the email to apply all of a sudden that everyone was thinking that they might be picked.

Lu Jiu saw that her email was always bright. She knew that many people were signing up. The next step was to select some of these people. As for the checkout, she still used email.

Old Man Zeng also saw the email. Although he was not young now, the game world seemed to have formatted his body, and he was now slightly weaker than when he was in his prime.

As for Tang Yi’s inability to participate, he was a child and the city lord had not yet reached the stage of hiring child labor.

Li Aoting looked at the city lord’s recruitment email and had to admire the power of this city lord. If her city-state in Jinghe District had not been dissolved by now, the residents would probably still be trembling in their houses.

As for her, she doesn’t have the resources and capital to recruit people to shovel snow. It will probably be handed over to the patrolling NPCs.

“Tingting, it’s a good thing we came here directly, otherwise everyone would be pulling their hair.”

It was Yao Bingan who spoke. After Li Aoting came here, the two got together. They were old acquaintances before, so of course they will continue to be neighbors after coming here.

The two of them were once city lords and still had some resources. They soon became official residents of Xuantian City and bought a house in the residential area.

It was very warm in their house now, and Yao Bingan came to her house to eat hot pot.

Li Aoting breathed a sigh of relief, “Yes. If we don’t dissolve it, we’ll have to worry about the city-state right now. It’s better to be a resident. As long as the city-state environment is good, you can ensure that your resources are sufficient.”

Just like now, she had the time to ask Yao Bingan to come over for hot pot. They didn’t have the hot pot base, so they had to buy the base from the restaurant.

Yao Bingan sighed: “Well, I don’t know how He Ange and the others are doing. The last time I contacted him was about the tempering fruit. At that time, I asked him to remind his team members not to be too greedy.”