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

Chapter 246 245 Zhetong power supply truck drives into the country’s “smallest” county to supply electricity!

After hearing this, Yan Xi stood there in a daze with a wry smile on his face.

It’s not that she doesn’t want to, but it’s too embarrassing. It’s no big deal that she stayed here after drinking too much last night. Now when she thinks about facing Lin Zhe’s mother, she wants to dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it.

But since the aunt has spoken, no matter how embarrassed Yan Xi is, he can only adjust his expression and pretend nothing happened.

She had never been so embarrassed in her life.

When he arrived at the dining room, Lin Zhe's mother just came out with some hangover soup.

Seeing this, Yan Xi hurried over to catch it.

"Auntie, let me do it, thank you, it smells so good~"

Although he was extremely embarrassed inside, Yan Xi still pretended to be calm on the outside, as if he was not embarrassed at all.

Even at Jiang Lan's request, Yan Xi came to Lin Zhe's door and knocked.

"Lin Zhe, Auntie asked me to wake you up for breakfast~"

Hearing the voice, Lin Zhe also became drowsy. Then he washed up and came out to have breakfast. According to his mother, Old Lin had gone out this morning.

He didn't drink too much last night, and went out directly in the morning, saying that he wanted to try the authentic crab roe buns in Binhai, so he didn't stay at home.

It would be fine if it was just the three of them, but if Lin Zhe's father was still there, Yan Xi would be even more embarrassed.

Although Yan Xi felt that the meal was really delicious, he still felt a little uneasy while eating.

Jiang Lan, on the other hand, was very happy.

After all, this girl was resting at home last night, which means that at least she has a close relationship with her son, which is very good.

From her point of view, Yan Xi, such an outstanding girl, is simply the perfect daughter-in-law, and she doesn't want Lin Zhe to miss her.

……

After the meal, Yan Xi was about to leave, and Jiang Lan specially asked Lin Zhe to drive her there.

The two went out and took the elevator directly to the parking lot.

The moment she walked out of the elevator, Yan Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing Lin Zhe next to her with a look of gloating on his face, she reached out her hand and lightly punched Lin Zhe with her fist.

"You're so funny. If you hadn't given me so much to drink last night, how could I have gotten drunk and rested here? I was so embarrassed just now."

Lin Zhe was not annoyed by Yan Xi's attack.

This morning Yan Xi behaved like a young wife visiting her parents-in-law's house for the first time. Lin Zhe didn't care. He just found it funny to see her looking so nervous and trying to act as normal as possible.

"Okay, get in the car and I'll take you home."

……

Two months later, the construction of Zhetong Power's plant in Jincheng is still ongoing, but the power supply to villages and towns in the northwest region and some county towns has already begun.

For example, Hexi County where Lin Zhe’s college roommate Li Pengyi lived, including Yuqianshu Township under Hexi County, and Pinglin Town where the Zhetong Electric Power Group’s desert forest farm is located.

These were the first places to start supplying electricity, and now other places have also started supplying electricity.

Zhetong Electric Power Group started recruiting when the factory was first built in the northwest region, and then all the local power workers started their induction training.

Their training was all conducted in Jincheng, although the group’s factory in Jincheng has not been completed.

However, Lin Zhe has always treated his employees well and directly rented a venue in the local conference center in Jincheng to train new employees.

Compared with before, Zhetong Electric Power’s reputation now has a considerable influence across the country.

At least after the application conditions are issued, we will get a response quickly and then meet the number targets.

This is the case in Jincheng. In the past, when Lin Zhe took over a place to start power supply, there was always a shortage of manpower, and at the beginning, brothers from other factories had to provide support.

But this time, apart from bringing in old employees from other factories for training, there is no need to transfer personnel from other factories.

With the completion of the training work, Zhetong Electric Power’s factory in Jincheng has not yet been established.

However, in the northwest region, especially in rural areas, power supply is based on a "point-to-point" model, just like on coastal islands, each of which is an independent "power supply station."

Therefore, there is no need to build a power plant or a substation. Just build a small power supply station in the local town, and then it can be put into normal use after the power supply line is completed locally.

In this case they can all work ahead of time.

Lin Zhe offered quite a few vacancies, and the list finally submitted by the personnel department excluded units such as the forestry farms under its jurisdiction, as well as the group's most important power departments, including the emergency power supply office in the northwest region.

The group currently has more than 2,000 power operators in the northwest region, including the emergency power supply department, which even exceeds the number of power operators at Quanhe Plant No. 1.

Of course, this number does not include clerical staff and other departments. If the customer service center is included, there are still a lot of people at Quanhe Factory No. 2.

Moreover, this is the group's first batch of recruits in the Northwest region. If nothing unexpected happens, the number will continue to increase, and there will be a second batch, a third batch, and so on. According to Lin Zhe's idea, there will be at least tens of thousands of power workers in the entire Northwest region.

After all, a vast area means that staff need to spend more time on maintenance or other things, and a lot more manpower is needed to achieve a quick response.

Moreover, Jincheng is just the starting point of a factory area. There are several provinces in the entire Northwest region, and Xinjiang Province is not included.

The first batch of 2,000 people, including the Buick people who provided the power truck, were sent over early, so the work was carried out very quickly.

……

Huaixi County, Gansu Province, is located at the junction of two provinces and on the Loess Plateau.

A typical northwestern landscape, people living here are more resilient than those living in other places. Of course, this also brings more hardships.

A county town, this administrative unit sounds like it has a population of at least hundreds of thousands or even more. In those big cities, the population of a district can reach millions.

But in some places, some counties have a glorious past, but with the changes in environment and industry, their population will gradually decrease, or even disappear in the long river of history.

Here, Huaixi County has a small population. The county seat has only five towns and one street under its jurisdiction, and the permanent population is less than 30,000.

It sounds exaggerated, but this is the actual situation in Huaixi City.

There is only one central street in the county, and there are no taxis. There are only four or five tricycles soliciting customers in the city. There is no takeaway here, because the catering industry in the entire county can be said to be similar to that of some towns. There are only seven or eight restaurants in total, and two beverage shops opened by locals.

What remains are mostly breakfast shops that are only open in the morning, and a few late-night snack stalls that only open at night.

If tourists from other places come here, they will definitely wonder if they have come to the wrong town, but in fact this is one of the few smallest county towns in the country.

Even the staff of Zhetong Electric Power Group were surprised when they first came here.

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Due to its sparse population, there was once a rumor that Huaixi County would be abolished at the county level and turned into a town, but it currently still exists as a county town.

Our motherland is vast and has many big cities from south to north, but there are even more small county towns, which is also where more people come from.

The place is so small, the population is so small, and the industrial base is almost non-existent.

The only enterprise that can be called "industrial" in the entire county is a cannery, and it is just a factory in name only. In fact, if you really calculate its scale, it is probably just a large workshop at most.

The canned fruits produced are only circulated and consumed in a small area nearby.

In such a place, the main component or even the entire component of the power supply market comes from residential electricity consumption. In this case, the local electricity bill income is small.

Moreover, the central street, which is the center of the county, can almost be regarded as a town, and the five towns under it are also remote.

Naturally, no power giant is willing to come and establish a mature power supply market. The local power supply is just an old small-power thermal power unit.

Although there is income from local electricity bills, it is indeed little, so the boss has no intention of investing in a new machine.

The power generation capacity is originally very small, and the machines are too old, so power outages occur in Huaixi County not only once every few days, but almost every day.

It is because the power generation is small and unstable, and when there are too many people using electricity here, the power supply there cannot be supplied and has to be cut off.

But compared to other towns, such as the former Yuqianshu Town, they can at least use electricity every day thanks to their "county" level. Although it is not very stable, it is not the case that they can only use electricity for one or two hours a day.

The locals have long gotten used to this rhythm.

Some families have computers installed. Compared with the popularity of other online games, children here play stand-alone games more often.

Even if those playing online games encounter a power outage, players in other regions may become "broken" and angry, but local children will be much calmer.

Sudden power outages are commonplace in the local area, and it is even common to have power outages four or five times a day.

In this environment, it is best for them to play stand-alone games, so that even if there is a sudden power outage and the screen goes black, it doesn’t matter. Some older children will also buy some emergency power supplies to prevent this.

The local adults also think that almost every household has backup power supply for emergencies.

In short, although there is electricity here, the power supply effect is not very good, which brings many inconveniences, but the locals have gotten used to it.

When the power supply vehicle of Zhetong Electric Power Group drove here, the local people on the roadside were very curious. After all, no one expected that there would be a car coming, and it was from the power supply company.

……

The group's power supply development in the northwest region is the result of planning by power engineers. For example, these "small places" are now the first to start, because according to the group's "island power supply model", these small places are faster and more convenient to handle.

The other places where electricity was first supplied were all township areas. Huaixi County was the only county town included in the first batch of power supply areas by Zhetong.

It is because the local area is small, the population is small, and the power supply market is small, so power supply can be provided quickly first.

This time, there are a total of nine power operation teams responsible for supplying power to Huaixi, plus a mobile power supply vehicle from the emergency power supply department. They form the electrification "team" for Huaixi County.

When the convoy arrived at the location, it did not rush to start work, but stopped first.

Looking around, there were few local foods, only a few restaurants were open on the central street, so the team staff simply chose the classic Jincheng beef noodles.

Although this thing does not contain much beef, the large amount of noodles is enough to fill your stomach and the carbohydrates can help you keep yourself from getting hungry.

The car quickly stopped beside the street. There were few cars here anyway, and it took a while for a car to whiz past on the road. Parking here would not affect traffic.

After parking, the staff specifically asked the boss if they could park here.

The boss’s reply was that you could park anywhere. Although the place was not big and there were few people, there were also few cars. There were even only seven or eight people in the traffic management department of Huaixi County, which was unimaginable in other places.

Their usual job is just to organize checks on drunk driving or maintain traffic when necessary.

As for roadside parking, it is fine as long as it does not affect traffic in the local area.

After receiving the answer, the staff naturally felt relieved and started to go into the restaurant to eat.

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On the other side, Huaixi County Hospital, although it is a county hospital, its scale is the same as Huaixi County, which is very small.

County hospitals in other places, no matter how small they are, have several buildings, and each building has at least five or six floors.

But the county hospital here is just a larger courtyard, and the tallest building inside is only three stories high, and this one building even includes most of the hospital areas.

The outpatient department is on the first floor, the medical area is on the second floor, and the inpatient department is on the third floor.

There are not many doctors in total. The hospitals in a larger town in the south are larger than this one.

At this moment, an operation is being performed in the operating room on the second floor of the hospital.

The operation was not complicated, but because the local hospital is small, they would not actively accept many complicated operations and would directly transfer them to the larger county or city hospital next door.

But today these doctors have encountered some problems, and the machines used when performing surgery on patients are definitely indispensable.

As a result, the power supply was cut off at this time. This is normal as the hospital has a complete set of power emergency equipment. However, at this time, the emergency power supply also had problems. The emergency power supply that could originally maintain the hospital for several hours under normal circumstances was now only enough for fifteen minutes according to the person in charge of this matter in the hospital.

This news made the director of the hospital break out in a cold sweat. The advantage of a small hospital is that he, as the director, can know the detailed situation of the hospital.

The operation has already begun in the operating room. It is impossible to stop the operation at this time. How can these fifteen minutes be enough?

He couldn't get through on the phone, so he decided to go to the power plant to check.

At the same time, the staff from Zhetong Electric Power just served the noodles.

(End of this chapter)