Ants exploded, I opened a power plant to supply power to the world

Chapter 229 Chapter 228 This is "connection", first give their village electricity! ( words chapter)
"So, old man, you just want to connect electricity so that your grandson can stay at home for a few more days during the holidays? Don't you think about yourself?"

Hearing this, the old man nodded naively, and when he smiled, wrinkles like those carved by the years were revealed.

This answer surprised Lin Zhe a little, but he could also imagine that the old man had been busy all his life, and his simple value was actually family.

Now that he is older and his children have settled down in the county, what he needs is companionship. What may accompany him is the loneliness of old age. At this time, he will naturally be happy if his grandson can stay at home for two more days.

……

After the last bite, only the melon stem is left. There is no need to look for a trash can. This kind of thing will turn into nutrients for weeds and flowers if thrown on the roadside.

"Uncle, you have to wait for a while. We will try to get electricity to your home as soon as possible. You have to let your grandson stay for a few more days during the holidays."

After saying that, Lin Zhe and his group turned around and continued to move forward, but at this time the old man was stunned for a moment, then he reacted.

"Hey, what do you guys do? The power company?"

In response to this, Lin Zhe turned around and nodded with a smile, then left the confused old man where he was.

"Electric power company? It would be strange if they could provide electricity to us in Yushuqian. How can the electricity reach here?"

After saying that, the old man shook his head, picked up the whip and gently hit his donkey. The donkey cart began to sway slowly, carrying his own fruits and vegetables back home. He didn't know how long the old donkey could pull the cart, just like himself. He hoped that it could last a few more years.

……

Walking along the road lined with fields and crossing the intersection, Lin Zhe saw Li Pengyi's place.

This is a flat area, and he built two greenhouses here, which are filled with wood ear mushroom sticks.

"We don't have much else to grow here. If wood ear mushrooms grow well, they will sell for a high price, so I'll grow this."

Li Pengyi also said that he returned to his hometown after graduating from university.

At that time, I thought the same as everyone else. Taking the civil service exam was the best outcome, and it was stable and respectable enough.

The Binhai University of Technology they attended was not a good university, but it was not bad either. The fact that they were admitted showed that their academic abilities were at least above average.

At that time, Li Pengyi's idea was still very simple. He felt that as long as he worked hard, there was still great hope.

But after taking the test, I realized that this civil service exam is actually harder than the college entrance exam. The college entrance exam is like a thousand people competing for a single spot, but for the civil service exam, it's like picking only one in a thousand.

After all, the college entrance examination has a backup plan. If you fail to get into a key university, there is still a first-tier university. If you fail to get into a first-tier university, there are still second-tier and third-tier universities for you. Finally, there is a junior college.

But the civil service exam is very simple, either you pass or you fail.

The first position he applied for was in the forestry department. In the end, there were more than a thousand applicants, but only nine people were admitted.

As you can imagine, Li Pengyi failed the exam.

I have also considered other positions and tried them, but I failed for various reasons.

When talking about this, Li Pengyi also sighed.

"Almost a year has passed in a flash. Except for Zikai, you all have been working in Binhai for more than a year, right?"

After chuckling, Lin Zhe nodded.

"Yes, I worked as a cow and horse for a year. Then what happened? Did you return to your hometown village to engage in agriculture?"

"Yes, then I realized that there is a lot to be done with this vast field. There is no need to hang myself on a tree."

……

So Li Pengyi discussed with his family and decided to return to his hometown, which is Yushuqian Township.

His family still has land here, which is his only advantage.

After some thought, Li Pengyi used his family savings to do this. He built a greenhouse here, and then spent a lot of energy and time learning how to grow economic crops such as wood ear mushrooms.

It took a small amount of experimentation to finally prove that Li Pengyi was the right material.

The last part is about large-scale investment. When it comes to this, Li Pengyi stretched out his hand and pointed out a number.

"Fifty thousand. You guys would definitely blink an eye at this fifty thousand. But the total amount of money our family could use to support me in doing this was just over eighty thousand, and that was almost half of our family savings."

"More than 20,000 yuan was used to build a greenhouse, and then we confirmed that the technology was feasible. In addition, the price of high-quality wood ear mushrooms has been stable in the past two years, so I did it. I can only succeed and not fail."

Fortunately, he was successful. After deducting various costs, he was able to make more than 10,000 yuan last year.

Although I only earned less than 20,000 yuan after working so hard for so long, that was just the beginning. This year, if nothing unexpected happens, I can earn 70,000 to 80,000 yuan from these greenhouses.

Li Pengyi was very satisfied with this, and he met his current girlfriend in the process.

Speaking of this, Li Pengyi also mentioned something.

"My future father-in-law is not very likable. Sometimes he is a bit snobbish and likes to preach, but don't take it to heart."

After he said this, Lin Zhe remembered what happened last night, then smiled and shook his head.

I really wouldn't care about this kind of person, let alone the fact that he is Li Pengyi's future father-in-law. Even if we don't count Li Pengyi as his relationship, I wouldn't get angry if I met this kind of person at a family gathering or something. At most I would just smile and nod a few times to deal with it.

……

At the same time, Li Pengyi's future father-in-law had already appeared at his home.

Today is Saturday and they are not working.

Li Pengyi was quite surprised by the sudden appearance of the future father-in-law. After all, ever since the two kids got together and decided to move towards marriage, he had always been invited to come. Yesterday was an accident, and he didn't expect him to come today.

And even if they come, in the past I would make tea and serve cigarettes to them myself.

Today was a good day. The sun was rising from the west, and for the first time, his future father-in-law not only took the initiative to get him a cigarette, but also lit it for him.

He lit a cigarette and then spoke.

"Hey, father-in-law, I drank a little too much last night, and some of the things I said were not pleasant to hear, but they were all for the good of the children. You must talk to Pengyi's friend Xiao... Mr. Lin about it, and don't hold my anger against him, or it will affect his relationship with Pengyi."

After he said that, I finally understood. No wonder, this is what happened.

After thinking about it this way, Li Pengyi's father actually found it a little funny. He didn't expect that he had been able to "suppress" his father-in-law all these days by relying on the relationship with his son's friends.

But since his father-in-law is here, he naturally cannot show it, and has to do what he has to do.

"Haha, don't worry about this matter. You can see that Xiaolin is very generous, and he has such a good relationship with Pengyi, he won't care about these things."

After finishing his cigarette, Li Pengyi's father took out the cigarette that Lin Zhe gave him yesterday and handed one to his future father-in-law.

That's how it is between men. If you give me one, I will give you one in return.

"You smoke first, I'm going to the bathroom."

After Li Pengyi's father left, Li Pengyi's girlfriend's father also quickly glanced at the cigarette box on the table.

I originally thought that this was a local cigarette brand from Lin Zhe's hometown, which cost only a few dozen yuan a pack.

Now it seems that this is definitely not the case. After taking a look at the name, I seem to have heard of it but have never smoked it.

Just search on the Internet and you will find the price.

The cheapest one in the world is one hundred yuan a pack, and the photos on the Internet are different from this one. This one is obviously a little more expensive. It should be a "hidden version" that is not often sold to ordinary people in the world.

I guess it must be more expensive than one hundred yuan.

Thinking of this, he felt a little reluctant to smoke it. It was too expensive.

……

On the other side, we visited Li Pengyi's greenhouse, and then went to take a look at his old cave house.

Mainly because I was interested in the local customs and cultures of different places, I went in to take a look.

After doing all this, Li Pengyi took Lin Zhe to the highest hill in Yushuqian Township, where he could see the panoramic view of the entire township.

"Our Yushuqian is one of the most compact villages. Look, the largest one is the village in our township, Yushuqiancun, and the bigger one next to it is Xiama Village..."

Lin Zhe looked at the terrain here and became more or less certain in his mind.

Previously, Mr. Wang and a group of professional senior technicians and engineers planned the best option, which is to adopt a "break the whole into parts" approach to supply electricity to rural areas in addition to cities in the northwest region.

Just like on a coastal island, the power supply boxes containing the "Volt Ants" are adjusted to be a little bigger to generate more power.

In this way, it is arranged directly in the township, and then lines are built to each village based on the township.

In this way, there would be no need for power transmission networks between villages and towns, which could save a lot of capital investment. After all, the distances between many towns in the northwest region are particularly large.

Therefore, Lin Zhe also approved of this plan. In any case, in unnecessary rural areas, the power supply model on coastal islands can be adopted to form independent points.

The investment will not be too huge, and it will not result in villages where no lines pass through being without electricity.

This can also be considered a "Northwest characteristic". After all, in places like Lincheng and Fengxiang, where the distance between towns is relatively small, there is no need to supply power point by point. This is actually conducive to centralized management.

But in the northwest, the distances between towns are too large, so investing in a power grid would be too costly.

And if it is the same as the island power supply mode, it will be much simpler and more convenient, and can restore local power supply faster.

……

So Lin Zhe made a decision immediately.

"Lao Li, we have been brothers for so many years. Sooner or later, we will have electricity. I might as well provide electricity to your Yushuqian Village first. It won't take many days anyway."

Standing together on the hillside looking at the village below, Li Pengyi was stunned for a moment when he suddenly heard Li Pengyi say this, and then showed an incredible expression.

"Is this true? Can we get electricity to Yushuqian Village as soon as possible?"

"How can this be false? Sooner or later, your villages will have electricity, so it's okay for me to give it to you first."

A week later, the Jincheng branch of Zhetong Electric Power Group, although it was called a branch, actually just temporarily rented a floor of an office building.

The staff here are temporarily transferred from other factory areas. Currently, the construction work at the Jincheng factory area has just begun to be carried out gradually, and the land use has just been secured.

The Human Resources Department has also moved in and started preparations for various tasks.

Today, large transport trucks drove into the confirmed construction site.

Although construction has not started here yet, it is okay to put some things on the open space.

In addition, a number of security personnel have been assigned from the Zhetong Binhai factory to ensure safety, and there are already some simple mobile cabins on the construction site.

When the car came in, some people from the nearby suburbs took a few more glances at it because they were quite curious.

These transport trucks are loaded with Buick cars, one Buick Falcon after another, and a complete range of Zhetong electric power supply vehicles.

There are also large transport vehicles that remove the helicopter's propellers and transport the helicopter over.

These helicopters were dispatched from the emergency power supply department. Their purpose was simple: to quickly assist the power operation department in completing the "power supply" construction in local rural areas.

……

With the arrival of the initial personnel, many of them were naturally staff members who came to support Zhetong Electric Power in addition to the Shancheng plant and the Gusu plant which was about to be completed.

These people are able to get down to work in a timely manner, so they rest as soon as they arrive.

Then four of the power teams waited for the Buick car to arrive and drove directly to Yushuqian Township, Hexi County.

At present, Zhetong Power's work in the northwest region is still in preparation, and the power operation work has naturally not been started. Their Yushuqian Township can be said to have benefited from Li Pengyi.

It just so happened that he had such a relationship with Li Pengyi, so Lin Zhe made a "special exception" and allowed their Yushuqian Township to have electricity first. This was a treatment that no other place had.

Lin Zhe didn't think it mattered much.

After all, the electricity supply in Yushuqian Township was not originally planned. This is not irresponsible or unfair to other users, because under normal circumstances they would have to wait for a while before the electricity is supplied, and there would definitely be some delays.

At most, the people of Yushuqian Township are lucky enough to have encountered this kind of relationship.

Therefore, Lin Zhe immediately issued the transfer order after the power operation personnel arrived, and four power teams rushed to Yushuqian Township.

……

Yushuqian Township, Lin Zhe stayed in Hexi County for two days, and then went to Jincheng to work.

It was naturally impossible for Li Pengyi to go to Jincheng, so he stayed here. Besides, he was not in the city usually, but in the countryside. It would not do if there was no one watching in the greenhouse.

Today was the same as usual. I first walked around the greenhouse, and then waited at the intersection for the person who delivered the wood to arrive.

They had changed to a new sawmill before, so no one had ever come to deliver wood. He had to wait at the intersection, and when someone arrived, he would take him over and drive directly to the road near his own greenhouse to unload the wood.

Otherwise, some people may not be able to find the way, which will waste time.

While waiting at the intersection, he met the old man that Lin Zhe met last time.

……

"Uncle Gu, are you going to collect firewood again?"

"Yes, Pengyi, where are those friends you had last time? Have they left?"

After hearing this, Li Pengyi smiled and nodded, then took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to the old man.

"Uncle Gu, my cigarettes are not as good as my friend's, so you can just make do with it."

In fact, the two of them were not very familiar with each other in the village and had little contact. But after Li Pengyi returned to his hometown in the past two years, they saw each other every day in the village, and occasionally nodded to each other.

But they couldn't be said to have any relationship. However, after Lin Zhe came and started a conversation, the two of them became a little more familiar with each other. When they met, Li Pengyi would politely say hello and then smoke a cigarette with him.

"Thank you, these are all good cigarettes you smoke, haha."

Anyway, he had returned from collecting firewood, and now he was the only one at home, so he was not in a hurry to go back. Seeing that Li Pengyi had nothing to do, he just stood there and chatted for a while. Anyway, he liked to talk to people more now, and usually no one could talk to him more.

So he also brought up what happened last time.

"By the way, Pengyi, your friend last time was from the power company, right? Is he from the Hexi Power Company in Hexi County? From the tone of his voice, he sounded like a leader~"

Li Pengyi simply waved his hand at this.

"No, Uncle Gu, my friend is the boss of Zhetong Electric Power."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Gu shook his head. He had never heard of Zhetong Power. He only knew that the largest and most powerful power in their county was Hexi Power.

I originally thought that since he was the leader of Hexi Electric Power, maybe what he said at that time might have some chance, such as providing electricity to their Yushuqian Township.

Now when you hear about this power company, you don't know what it is. It may be similar to the power station in the village, just a small one. What can you expect from it? At most, it may come and "acquire" the power station in the village and repeat the previous model.

What has changed? It is just a fixed one-hour power generation time a day. Of course, he would be thankful if the electricity price could be reduced by five or ten yuan a month.

Thinking of this, Uncle Gu blew out a smoke ring and then spoke.

"When will your friend come? I'm afraid he will lose money if he invests here."

He actually said this in a more tactful way. Anyway, his meaning was that Lin Zhe should not be very reliable, and what he said last time did not count. He estimated that providing electricity to their Yushuqian Township was just talk.

It's just that I can't be too straightforward because I'm not very familiar with it.

Li Pengyi naturally understood the hidden meaning in his words and spoke immediately.

"Uncle Gu, don't worry about this. My friend is very reliable. He said that it will definitely work if we can get electricity to Yushuqian Township. And he told me last time that they will not do it in other places in the northwest region first, but will get electricity to Yushuqian Township first."

Although Lin Zhe had been gone for more than a week, he didn't know the specific situation and didn't ask, but he definitely believed what Lin Zhe said.

In response to this, Uncle Gu smiled and shook his head, then drove the donkey cart back to the village.

As he left, some other old men and women in the village gathered around him.

The location of this intersection is the only way for other cars to enter their Yushuqian Township, which is also the entrance to the village.

The old men and women in this village spend their days chatting, playing cards or chess, all of which are located here. Just now, someone asked Li Pengyi about waiting at the entrance of the village.

At this time, the conversation between the old man and him was also overheard by the people around them.

The old man was considered to have a rather stubborn temper in the village. He had quarreled with several of the old ladies and old men around him, so no one came up to talk to him when he was around.

Now that he was gone, the others gathered around him.

……

"Pengyi, what did you just say to Lao Gu? A friend of yours is coming to the village to provide electricity?"

"Is this true? You can't be kidding, right? If a boss like him comes to this village to develop electricity, he won't be competing with the youngest one who developed the power station for business."

"I think your friend is just bragging. There are so many scammers these days. If your friends from other places ask you to invest in something, you should be careful and don't get scammed."

"That's right. Nowadays, many people are deceived by their friends. I read the news online and they tell you about a big project and ask you to invest money, but in the end you lose everything."

Listening to the chatter of people around him, Li Pengyi looked helpless.

If it were any other matter or even my own business, I would really be too lazy to argue with these aunties and uncles at the entrance of the village. I just can't communicate with them.

But this matter happened to be about Lin Zhe. Regardless of how Lin Zhe was doing, just the attitude of the person when he came to his house, I would feel bad if I didn't defend him.

So Li Pengyi immediately opened his mouth to refute.

"Don't talk nonsense, Auntie. My friend is the boss of a large group in Binhai. If he says it is, then it must be true."

It would be fine if they didn't refute it, but if they do, these aunties and uncles will get even more excited.

"Hey, that's for sure. Those scammers are all big bosses of some group or company. Otherwise, how could they scam you?"

"That's Peng Yi. You should stay away from people like him, or you'll end up being sold out by him and counting money for him."

"It's fine if he makes up some other project, but who would believe that he would bring electricity to this remote place? Isn't this just a way to lose money? What businessman would do this?"

These words spoken one by one made Li Pengyi a little anxious.

He was not very eloquent to begin with, and was rather tongue-tied. Now that he was anxious and a little angry, he didn't know what to say to these old men and women.

"I...you..."

Li Pengyi began to stutter as he spoke, but seeing him like this, the aunties became more excited and laughed.

But at this moment, a horn sounded in the distance at the intersection.

After hearing the sound, Li Pengyi thought that the truck delivering wood to him had arrived. He complained in his heart, but was too lazy to argue with these nosy wives. As soon as the truck arrived, he took the master to the greenhouse to unload the truck and get down to business.

But less than a minute after the horn was honked, Li Pengyi frowned as the car approached.

This is not the car that delivers wood. Why are they yellow pickup trucks? There are several of them at once. However, I can't see clearly what kind of cars they are from a distance.

Just when they were wondering, Li Pengyi and these uncles and aunts shifted their gazes to the sky again.

"Hey~ That's a helicopter, the sound of a helicopter!"

"What the hell? A helicopter? A helicopter coming to our village?"

As I looked over there, I saw a helicopter flying low over the convoy just in front of the intersection. The scene was like something out of a blockbuster movie.

(End of this chapter)