Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 744

While carrying out population relocation and post-disaster reconstruction, Perfect is also inspecting factories that have resumed work and production.

The snowstorm affected not only people's livelihood but also industry.

The factory's raw material input relies heavily on railway transportation. When the railway transportation is interrupted, the factory will have no raw materials for production and will be forced to shut down.

Not only industrial production, but also factories related to people's livelihood have been greatly affected.

As soon as the snowstorm stopped, Perfect ordered the factory to resume work and production, and she is now here to inspect the resumption of work and production.

"Are there any difficulties in resuming work in the factory now?" Perfecto inspected the factory and asked the factory manager who was following him.

In response to Perfect's inquiry, the factory manager hurriedly said: "At present, the main problem is still the raw materials. Although we obtained new raw materials as soon as the railway was restored, the main transportation capacity of the railway is still to restore the disaster-stricken areas, and there is not much transportation capacity available to us.

So although the factory has resumed production, it can only operate at a low capacity. If we want to return to normal production, we still need to wait for the railway to return to normal. "

In response to the issues raised by the factory manager, Perfect simply nodded to show that he understood.

No one can forcibly change this situation. Although the railway has resumed operation, only the main line has been opened. Many of the narrow-gauge branch lines leading to places such as mines are still blocked.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously unrealistic to expect railways to provide factories with sufficient transportation capacity to transport industrial raw materials.

Therefore, Perfect can only ask the factory to be patient temporarily and overcome the difficulties during this period.
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After inspecting the factory, Perfect said to the secretary beside him while sitting in the steam carriage: "Please record it. Priority should be given to restoring the production capacity of the two industries of steel smelting and machinery manufacturing, and to increasing the priority of restoring the supply of raw materials for related industries."

During post-disaster reconstruction, all things are prioritized. Urgent matters generally have a higher priority and will be guaranteed first.

Generally speaking, the top priority is undoubtedly the transportation of various relief supplies, and everything must give way to disaster relief.

The second largest group is those responsible for road clearance. Their priority is no lower than that of relief supplies, and in many cases relief supplies even have to give way to them.

After all, the road was not cleared and relief supplies could not be transported.

But underneath this, the priority of various things becomes a question.

Various production materials, coal, post-disaster reconstruction materials, etc., each has its own priorities and each has its own reasons. How to arrange them is a test of one's coordination ability.

Even Perfecto needs the entire northern civil service group to cooperate with her. After all, many things need to be done by grassroots personnel themselves.

It's not like she can just sit in her office and make a plan and everything will go according to plan.

Many times, the plans are very good, but various problems often arise during the implementation process. At this time, the executors need to respond flexibly according to the actual situation, and the planners also need to make timely adjustments based on the actual situation.

If everything is carried out according to the original plan, it may often lead to failure in the end.

This is also how Perfect works. She will constantly check the execution of her plans, and then make fine adjustments according to the situation to ensure that the general direction is good while making the details more in line with the actual situation. For example, a plan can be divided into several projects, and then enough room must be left for each project to ensure that when problems occur, it will not affect other projects.

Or when a problem occurs in one project, it can coordinate other projects to avoid being affected and ensure the smooth progress of the entire plan.

Instead of having multiple projects under one plan progressing at the same time, if one project is delayed, the others have to wait for it.

However, at the moment, Perfect needs to adjust the original post-disaster reconstruction plan. In addition to adjusting it according to the actual situation of the factory, she also has another plan of her own.

The plan was so large that after Perfecto conceived it, he needed to coordinate with multiple parties to ensure its accurate implementation.

Not only that, Perfectcot also has to do a lot of preparatory work, and the current adjustments are only part of the preparation work.

"The steel production is not enough. To use alchemy..." Pulling out a notebook, Perfect looked at the data recorded on it, his expression not optimistic: "If we want to implement the plan, the current steel production must be doubled. The steel mill is easy to solve, but iron ore...

We can vigorously develop oil, but there are still too few application scenarios. We should vigorously promote oil and gas projects now..."

There are too many things for Perfectot to think about and plan. Now, the burden of not only the North but the entire Victoria Empire is on her shoulders. This requires her to consider many issues more comprehensively.

The oil project was something she had been developing and researching since arriving in the North, but it had to be said that the promotion of this matter was far slower than she had expected.

After all, the productivity improvement brought by the steam engine has not yet reached its peak, so it is a bit too hasty to think about putting the internal combustion engine on the table.

As for petrochemicals... Perfect has been busy in recent years and has not paid much attention to this matter. However, the oil distillation and refining equipment built in Death Valley is still working well, providing the North with a steady supply of fuel oil, lubricants, asphalt and other oil products with different functions or uses.

The lubricants were a huge supplement to the empire. After all, before the discovery of petroleum lubricants, humans could only use natural animal fats.

The most widely used oil is whale oil, which is the fat extracted from whale meat.

This was a very high-quality fuel and lubricant, used extensively in industry before the advent of synthetic lubricants, and enabled the whaling industry to thrive.

But with the arrival of the doomsday winter, whaling has become a luxury, and lubricants extracted from petroleum have become the new darling of various industries in the North.

This also promoted the development of the petroleum industry from another perspective, but it also produced a large amount of by-products of petroleum distillation.

Fuel and asphalt are relatively good. At least fuel is put on the shelves by the Northern authorities. After Perfect designed kerosene blowtorches and oil heaters, these things still have a market.

Asphalt is also widely used in the construction industry. It is a very practical building material for waterproofing.

It's just that other things separated from petroleum become less easy to handle.

All these were obstacles to Perfect's promotion of the oil industry, and also caused the relatively slow development of the oil industry in the North. After several years, there was still only one oil industry in Death Valley.

(End of this chapter)