Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 130

130. Chapter 130, the decision is made

Chapter 130,

medicine is the hard currency in the wasteland, and there are few places with the corresponding production capacity.

At present, the first pharmaceutical factory of the alliance in Weixing City has been successfully put into production. According to the theory, more than 100 types of medicines and medical supplies can be produced there.

However, at present, it is not necessary to put all the production processes of so many types of medicines into production. Some medicines, such as those for treating stomach problems, skin diseases, and osteoporosis…

Of course, these things cannot be said to be useless, but at least they are not important at present.

Quick-acting hemostatic agents, antibiotics, analgesics, trauma medicines… These are much more important, and the demand in the wasteland is much greater.

As for arms…

The arms to be sold are of course not the newly produced ones.

Gu Hang’s local tyrant brigade has not been reorganized yet, so where can there be extra weapons to sell to others?

However, it is precisely because he wants to build a heavy synthetic brigade that many of the weapons and equipment left by the previous alliance legion have become goods that are pressed into the warehouse.

Ossena is going to sell these things in batches.

But you can’t sell them blindly.

Selling arms is a sensitive matter.

In her conception, this trade, in addition to obtaining sufficient food supply for Renaissance City, also has a very important point, which is that it should achieve reasonable political goals.

Ossena now attaches great importance to the stability of the Qinggu area.

This is not only because of her personal feelings, but also for the food security of Renaissance City.

The Qinggu area has always been an important trading partner of Renaissance City and the thicker of the two major food arteries. The long-term chaos there will also have a great impact on Renaissance City.

Choosing suitable trading partners, finding those Qinggu manor owners in the lawful camp, selling arms to them, and arming them is the best choice.

Ossena hopes that the armed plantations can maintain the order of food production and continue to provide food for Renaissance City; they can resist or even fight back against the looting gangs that have been bred by the unrest. It would be best if they could unite to quell the monster tide that has been raging in the Qinggu area for several months.

She is determined to do this herself, with Bradford assisting and providing some connections and channels.

However, the arms sales were beyond Ossena’s authority. She was the chief officer of the civil affairs, commerce, and production departments, but she had no decision-making power over arms.

She found Gu Hang.

If I can’t handle it, the big boss will do it.

After listening carefully to Ossena’s report, Gu Hang approved her plan.

…

Half a month later.

The food crisis in Fuxing City was alleviated to a certain extent.

Bradford showed his ability. In the work of restoring food imports, the first phase of the task was completed relatively smoothly. The ‘capillaries’ resumed blood supply, and the various food producing areas around Fuxing City resumed food trade and transportation.

In half a month, a total of 10,000 tons of food were imported.

The endless stream of bull convoys and car teams began to be seen more frequently outside Fuxing City.

Of course, this was because the war and blockade had caused many grain transportations to fail to arrive and stagnate in various places. Now that Fuxing City has resumed the trade route, those grains will definitely not be stored, and they will be transported here quickly and exchanged for various other necessities of life.

Later, the trade volume may decline, but it can be maintained at about 5,000 to 10,000 tons per month.

The food crisis in Fuxing City cannot be completely solved by relying solely on the blood supply of capillaries. The food output in the surrounding areas of Fuxing City cannot fully meet the city’s food consumption.

However, Bradford also contacted an old friend who ran to the West Desert during the past half month, and there is already a transport convoy from the West Desert on the way.

The current food reserves can still hold up. In a month, the transport convoy carrying more than 50,000 tons of food will arrive in Fuxing City. During this period, Ossena contacted Denison Henry, the agent supported by Gu Hang in Garbage Town, and purchased a large amount of hot ash stone.

The West Desert has a great demand for hot ash stone, a good fuel, and it is also their main imported commodity after selling food. The underground planting factories left over from the pre-war era consume a lot of water resources and electric energy.

Water resources are supplied by oases and mined locally; energy, it has to rely on large-scale imports.

In this regard, Ossena has a new idea.

Can we bring the power grid to the Western Desert?

Essentially, what they want is energy. The hot limestone is also used for power generation.

Building a high-voltage power grid to directly transmit electricity will have much lower transportation costs than using oxcarts and cars to pull the hot limestone one by one.

Moreover, the cost of directly exporting electricity is also cheaper.

Ms. Wu Jiarong has deployed a reactor generator set around Weixing City. At the opening ceremony, Ossena also appeared.

After the grid connection, almost all the hot limestone generator sets were shut down.

They are no longer needed. The power generation of a reactor generator set after the grid connection is enough for the production and life of a total of one million people in Fuxing City and Weixing City.

There are even some rich people.

Sufficient and cheap energy has brought about huge changes.

Hot limestone has not been eliminated, but it can all be used as fuel for vehicle operation. The mass-produced iron ox trucks can run freely without power plants competing with them for fuel; the extra energy can be used for some 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. Ossena is preparing to make a batch of air conditioners and send them to the shelves of the Alliance Store before the weather turns to summer.

People in the outer city may not be able to enjoy it, but they will have hope. Anyway, they have no worries about food and clothing. If they really want to buy it, they can buy it by accumulating work points. And those people in the inner city who are more actively integrated into the existing system, if they have the ability, will be assigned to a higher rank, and then have meritorious performance and get bonuses – such as the hard-working staff who joined the Grain Trade Bureau this time. Their bonuses are enough for them to buy an air conditioner and spend a cool summer comfortably.

Even if there is a quota for electricity, it doesn’t matter. The part that exceeds the quota for the rank can be completely afforded by spending work points because electricity has become cheaper.

In fact, people in the whole city are the same. Those who can’t afford air conditioners can always afford electric lights or some other electrical appliances, and they can use them freely.

These are all visible improvements in the quality of life.

After the reactor generator was connected to the grid and the electricity price dropped, the two cities under Gu Hang’s command became cities that never sleep.

Later, when various industrial products that use electricity are mass-produced and enter thousands of households, this kind of scene based on the development of energy will become more and more common.

As electricity consumption increases, what should we do if it is not enough later?

Just build another reactor generator.

Of course, the surplus electricity can be sold as a commodity.

It was a good idea for Ossena to sell electricity to the Western Desert, and the technology for building a transmission network was available.

However, the difficulty of building a high-voltage transmission network thousands of kilometers away was secondary, and the most important thing was the difficulty of maintenance.

There were many dangers along the way. Monsters might be better, as they had a very strong desire to attack humans, but they would not touch the creations built by humans.

However, the looters along the way were a different story.

They broke and destroyed the transmission network, which was not particularly beneficial to themselves, but they could use such means to blackmail.

Ossena mentioned this idea to Gu Hang during a report.

Gu Hang smiled and asked her to keep it in mind in the long-term plan.

“When I flatten all the roads along the way, we can build our high-voltage transmission station all the way there.”

…

Flattening the thousands of kilometers from Fuxing City to the west seemed far away, but it was actually not as far as imagined.

In just a few days, Perbov’s battalion had already advanced 200 kilometers with Weixing City as the center.

Before the ceremony of awarding titles and medals, Perbov received an order from the governor, asking his troops to do this after completing preparations.

His troops were the first in the Wind-extinguishing Brigade to be fully staffed. In half a month, not only did the troops arrive, but all the heavy equipment and vehicles were also basically stuffed in.

But before all the equipment was in place, he couldn’t wait to start the action.

Some particularly small settlements, with only dozens or hundreds of people, were hidden deep and difficult to find, so forget it; those settlements with a scale of more than a thousand people, especially those registered in the alliance and “belonging to the alliance”, would be easy to deal with.

At this scale, most of them can escape.

In fact, most settlements can be recovered without fighting.

They consider themselves to be a member of the alliance. In the past, it was because the alliance had no interest, no ability or some other reason, anyway, it did not have direct administrative jurisdiction over them.

And these places have different attitudes when facing the governor who now controls the city of Renaissance and asks for unified direct jurisdiction.

Some were happy to accept it. Generally, such places are like Feidongshe, poor and struggling to survive in one place.

Some were reluctant, but helpless. The towed artillery pulled by trucks were lined up, the majestic armored vehicles and tanks were in front of them, and the soldiers with guns and live ammunition were dressed in uniform. At first glance, they were an elite division.

How to resist?

There were more than 800 people in a combined battalion under Major Perbov. Some camps might not have much more than this number, and they might not even have a few guns.

They could only send people out in cold sweat to negotiate with Perbov.

There was nothing to talk about, just one sentence: unconditionally surrender all weapons and accept rule.

Then, the civil officials who came with Perbov’s army would enter the captured survivors’ camp with the army.

Their people would do two things in batches.

One was to publicize the policy of Fuxing City in the camp. The political commissars of the various companies of the First Battalion will mobilize some soldiers with progressive ideas to work with the people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to do this.

The general meaning is that when you come to our Fuxing City, you can get something for your work. According to your work ability and the nature of your work, you can be assigned a rank. After you have a rank, you will have a basic living quota guarantee, from food to medical care to housing improvement.

After this wave of progress, many camps with poor living conditions will basically be able to stabilize.

Although most people will not easily believe that all this is true… but since there is no way to resist, you can only enjoy it.

The second thing they have to do is to analyze the conditions and industries of the camps and evaluate whether this survivor camp needs to be retained.

Camps that do not have any special and important outputs that rely on local resources do not need to be retained. The population will migrate collectively to Weixing City to fill in various industrial outputs.

Within half a month, there were four abandoned camps with a total population of nearly 7,000.

And some places with outputs that rely on local resources – mainly agricultural outputs – will be retained.

There are three such camps, one of which is a cave camp, where the special environment can cultivate a kind of fungus in the cave. Relying on this kind of fungus, they not only feed more than 3,000 people, but also have a lot of them for export.

However, this cave camp will not be completely preserved. It does not require so many people to maintain and expand the fungus cultivation industry. Two-thirds of the population will be relocated, and the rest will be converted to mushroom cultivation workers and managers on the spot, with job levels set. The relevant resource allocation will be transported from the city to here, but at the same time, the entire mushroom cultivation industry will become state-owned and publicly owned.

The other two plantations with a scale of 1,000 people are also handled in a similar way.

In addition to the agricultural workers, mushroom cultivation workers and managers who stayed behind, a batch of weapons will be transported to the camp. Among the remaining population, weapons will be distributed on the spot, and militia organizations will be established to enable them to protect themselves.

Perbov’s actions in the past half month have added more than 10,000 people to Weixing City and conquered three village-level strongholds with food production.

Although it was a military operation, there was almost no resistance during the whole process.

This is of course a good thing.

Without a war, Perbov was a little depressed. He remembered 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 commander of the Wind-extinguishing Brigade in the future, and he came here specifically to make meritorious deeds.

Although his actions have been fruitful, it can be said that this is the prestige of the Governor and the orthodox name of the Alliance. He insisted that it was his own credit, which was a bit shameless and bragging.

A shot was not fired, but the order was passed. What does this have to do with him, Perbov?

But he can’t kill innocent people and take credit for it. The political commissar of the brigade and the political commissars of each company are all watching him. It is said that the military court is still being built in Fuxing City,

and he doesn’t want to be the first guest. His own conscience can’t let him do such a thing.

However, it won’t always be so smooth.

A working group from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Immigration Bureau sent a message 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! I will also try hard the day after tomorrow!

(End of this chapter)