Chapter 130, it depends on the message
Medicines are hard currency in the wasteland, and there are very few places with corresponding production capabilities.
At present, the Alliance No. 1 Pharmaceutical Factory in Weixing City has been successfully put into operation. It is said that more than one hundred types of medicines and medical supplies can be produced there.
However, there is currently no need to put all the production processes of so many types of drugs into production. Some medicines are used to treat stomach problems, skin diseases, osteoporosis...
Of course, these things cannot be said to be useless, but at least they are not important at the moment.
Quick-acting hemostatics, antibiotics, analgesic and analgesic drugs, trauma drugs...these are much more important, and the demand in the wasteland is much greater.
As for arms...
The arms to be sold are certainly not the newly produced ones.
Gu Hang's rich brigade hasn't been reorganized yet. Where are the spare weapons that can be sold to others?
However, precisely because he wanted to build a heavy-duty combined brigade, many of the remaining weapons and equipment from the previous alliance legions became goods for the warehouse.
Oceana is going to sell these things in batches.
But don’t sell it blindly.
Selling arms is a sensitive matter.
In her conception, in addition to obtaining sufficient food supply for Fuxing City, this trade also had a very important point, which was that it should achieve a reasonable political purpose.
Oceana now attaches great importance to the stability of the Qinggu area.
This is not only because of her personal emotions, but also for the food security of Fuxing City.
The Qinggu area has always been an important trading partner of Fuxing City, and it is the thicker of the two food arteries. The place has fallen into long-term chaos, and the impact on Fuxing City will also be great.
It is the best choice to choose suitable trading partners, find the owners of the Green Valley Manor in the lawful camp, sell them arms, and arm them.
Oceana hoped that the armed plantations could maintain the order of food production and continue to provide food for Fuxing City; they could resist or even fight back against the plundering gangs that spawned due to the unrest. It would be best if they could join forces and quell the monster wave that has been raging in the Qinggu area for several months.
She was determined to handle this matter by herself, with Bradford assisting and providing some contacts and channels.
However, arms sales are a bit beyond Oceana's authority. She is the chief official of the civil affairs, commerce, and production departments, but she has no decision-making power over ordnance.
She found Gu Hang.
If I can't handle it, the big boss will handle it.
After listening to Oceana's report carefully, Gu Hang approved her plan.
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Half a month later.
The food crisis in Fuxing City has been alleviated to a certain extent.
Bradford showed his ability. In terms of resuming grain imports, the first phase of the task has been completed relatively smoothly. After the blood supply of the 'capillaries' was restored, grain trade and transportation began to resume in various grain producing areas around Fuxing City.
In half a month, a total of 10,000 tons of grain were imported.
The endless stream of Manniu convoys and car convoys can be seen more frequently outside Fuxing City again.
Of course, this is the reason why due to wars and blockades, many grains were not transported in place and were squeezed and stagnated in various places. Now that Fuxing City has restored its trade routes, the food will no longer be saved and must be transported quickly and replaced with various other daily necessities.
In the future, the trade volume may decline, but it can be maintained at about 5,000 to 10,000 tons per month.
Fuxing City's food crisis cannot be completely solved by relying solely on capillary blood supply. The food output in the surrounding areas of Fuxing City cannot fully meet the city's food consumption.
However, in the past half month, Bradford also contacted an old connection from the Western Desert. There was already a transport convoy from the Western Desert on the way.
The current grain stocks can still sustain it. In one month, the transport fleet carrying more than 50,000 tons of grain will arrive in Fuxing City. During this period of time, Oceana contacted Gu Hang's agent in Junk Town, Denison Henry, and purchased a large amount of hot gray stone.
The Western Desert has a great demand for hot limestone, a good fuel, and it is also their main imported commodity after selling food. The underground plantations left over from the pre-war era consume a lot of water and electricity.
Water resources are supplied by oases and are mined locally; as for energy, they have to be imported in large quantities.
In this regard, Oceana has new ideas.
Can the power grid be moved to the Western Desert?
What they want is essentially energy. The hot limestone is pulled back and used to generate electricity.
Then building a high-voltage power grid and directly transmitting electricity will have a much lower transportation cost than hauling hot limestone one by one using oxcarts or cars.
Moreover, the cost of directly exporting electricity is also cheaper.
Ms. Wu Jiarong has already deployed a reactor generating unit around Weixing City. Oceana also made an appearance at the opening ceremony.
After being connected to the grid, almost all hot limestone generating units stopped.
It’s no longer needed. The power generated by a reactor generator unit after being connected to the grid is enough to support the production and living of a million people in Fuxing City and Weixing City.
There are even some wealthy ones.
Sufficient and cheap energy has brought about huge changes.
Hot limestone has not been eliminated, but it can be used as fuel for vehicle operation. The mass-produced Iron Bull trucks can run freely, and there are no power plants competing with them for fuel; the extra energy can be used for things that seem a bit luxurious in the wasteland, such as air conditioning.
The air conditioning factory in Fuxing City has expanded its production capacity. Oceana is planning to get a batch of air conditioners to put on the shelves of alliance stores before the weather turns to summer.
People from outside the city may not be able to enjoy it, but there is hope. Anyway, you don’t have to worry about food and clothing. If you really want to buy something, you can buy it by saving your work points. And those people in the inner city who are more active in integrating into the existing system, if they have the ability, will be assigned to a higher rank, and then they will be rewarded for their meritorious service. Received bonuses - such as joining the Grain Trading Bureau this time and working hard as employees. Their bonus is enough for them to buy an air conditioner and live a cool summer comfortably.
Even if there is a quota for electricity consumption, it doesn't matter. The part that exceeds the rank quota can be fully afforded by spending work points because electricity has become cheap.
In fact, the whole city is the same. If you can't afford an air conditioner, you can always afford lights or other electrical appliances, so you can use them.
These are all visible improvements to the quality of life.
After the reactor generators were connected to the grid and electricity prices dropped, the two cities under Gu Hang's command began to look like cities that never sleep.
In the future, after various industrial products using electricity are mass-produced and entered into thousands of households, this kind of energy-based development will become more and more common.
As the power consumption increases, what should I do if there is not enough power later?
Just build another reactor generator set.
Rich electricity can of course be sold as a commodity. It is a good idea for Oceana to sell electricity to the Western Desert, and the technology to build a transmission grid is currently available.
However, the difficulty of building a high-voltage transmission network thousands of kilometers away is secondarily difficult, and the most important thing is the difficulty of maintenance.
There are many dangers along the way. Monsters may be better. Those things have a very strong desire to attack humans, but they will not touch the creations built by humans.
However, the same could be said for the plunderers along the way.
They interrupt and destroy the power grid, which does not bring any special benefits to themselves, but they can use this method to extort money.
Oceana mentioned this idea to Gu Hang during a certain report.
Gu Hang smiled at that time and asked her to put this matter into her long-term plan.
"When I clear the road along the way, our high-voltage transmission station can be built all the way."
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The distance of thousands of kilometers from Fuxing City to the west seems quite far, but it is not as far as imagined.
Purbov's battalion has advanced two hundred kilometers in a few days with Wei Xingcheng as the center.
Before the investiture ceremony, Purbeuf had received an order from the governor, requiring his troops to do this as soon as they had completed their preparations.
His unit was the first in the Xifeng Brigade to be fully staffed. In half a month, not only the troops were in place, but also all the heavy equipment and vehicles were basically packed in.
But before all the equipment was in place, he couldn't wait to start taking action.
There are some particularly small gathering places, where there are only dozens or a hundred people, hiding deep and difficult to find, so forget it; those that only need to have a thousand people, especially those registered in the alliance If it is a settlement that 'belongs to a member of the alliance', it will be easy to handle.
At this scale, most monks can run away but cannot run away from the temple.
In fact, most settlements can be recovered without fighting.
They consider themselves to be members of the alliance. In the past, it was because the alliance had no interest, no ability, or other reasons. Anyway, it did not have direct administrative jurisdiction over them.
However, these places have different attitudes when facing the governor who has now taken control of Fuxing City and demands unified orders to accept direct jurisdiction.
Some readily accepted it. Generally, places like this are like the Abandoned Society, where they are poor and have no money, struggling to survive in a place.
Some are reluctant, but helpless. Towed artillery pulled by trucks are lined up, majestic armored vehicles and tanks are displayed on the face, and soldiers with live ammunition are uniformly dressed. At first glance, they are an elite division.
How to resist?
There are more than 800 people in a combined battalion under Major Perbov. In some camps, the entire population may not be much larger than this number, and even the guns may not be able to gather a few.
He could only send out his men in a cold sweat and come out to negotiate with Perbov.
There is nothing to talk about, just one sentence: hand over all weapons unconditionally and accept rule.
Immediately afterwards, the civil affairs officials who came with Perbov's army will enter the captured survivor camp with the army.
Their people will do two things in batches.
One is to promote Fuxing City's policies in the camp. The political commissars of each company in the first battalion will mobilize some soldiers with progressive ideas to work with people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to do this.
The general meaning is that when you come to our Fuxing City, you can gain something from your work. According to the work ability and nature of the work, a rank can be determined. After having a rank, there will be a basic living quota guarantee, from food to medical care to housing improvement.
If this wave continues, many camps with poor living conditions will basically stabilize.
Although most people will not believe that all this is true so easily...but since they can't resist, they can only enjoy it.
The second thing they have to do is to analyze the camp conditions and industries and evaluate whether this survivor camp needs to be preserved.
Camps that are nothing special and rely on local resources for important output do not need to be retained. The population migrated collectively to Weixing City to supplement various industrial outputs.
Within half a month, four camps were abandoned, with a total population of nearly 7,000.
Some places with output based on local resources - mainly agricultural output - will be retained.
There are three such camps, one of which is a cave camp. The special environment here can cultivate a kind of fungi in the cave. Relying on this fungus, they not only feed a population of more than 3,000 people, but many of them can even be exported.
But not all of this cave camp will remain. There is no need for so many people to maintain and expand the fungus cultivation industry. Two-thirds of the population will be relocated, and the remaining people will be transferred to the local mushroom cultivation workers and managers. Ranks will be determined, and the relevant resource allocation will be Transportation from the city to here, but at the same time, the entire mushroom cultivation industry will become government-run and public ownership.
Two other plantations with a population of 1,000 people have similar treatment plans.
In addition to the remaining agricultural workers, mushroom cultivators and managers, a batch of weapons will be delivered to the camp. Among the remaining people, weapons will be distributed on the spot and militia organizations will be established to give them the ability to protect themselves.
Purbov's actions in the past half month have added over 10,000 people to Wei Xing City and conquered three village-level strongholds with food production.
Although it was a military operation, there was almost no resistance during the entire process.
This is certainly a good thing.
There was no fight, and Purbov was a little depressed. He recalled what he heard on the plane when he accompanied the governor to Fuxing City. This time, he was chosen by the governor to be the brigade commander of the Wind-Destroying Brigade in the future, and he came here specifically to perform meritorious deeds.
Although his actions were fruitful, to put it bluntly, they came from the prestige of the governor and the orthodox name of the alliance. To insist on claiming that it was his own contribution would be a bit shameless and bragging.
Not a single shot was fired, it was determined by the message. What does this have to do with him, Perbov?
But he can't do anything that kills good people and takes credit. The political commissars of the brigade and the political commissars of each company were all staring at him. It was said that a military court was still being built in Fuxing City, and he didn't want to be the first guest.
His own conscience couldn't let him do such a thing.
However, it won't always be smooth sailing.
A working group from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Immigration Bureau sent a message asking for help, and then lost contact.
Before losing contact, they were doing work related to population migration in Sanchi Town.
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There will be more updates tomorrow! Work hard the day after tomorrow too!
(End of chapter)