Chapter 541 Yezhou Power Grid

Early the next morning, Gu Chengyuan had just finished breakfast and returned to his office when he received a report on the results of the special operation to crack down on gangsters and eliminate evil carried out in the Qinghe gathering area last night.

"1786 gangsters were captured, 513 were killed or injured..."

Gu Chengyuan leaned slightly against the back of his office chair, muttering silently as he looked at the battle report in his hand.

"A gathering place of more than 20 people, more than 2000 people involved in gangs and crimes, and a crime rate of almost %..."

“Is this high or low?”

Gu Chengyuan pondered it with some confusion, but didn't think about it for long. After all, it was not a big deal for him.

His main focus is still on solving the end of the world, like dealing with these evil forces, which is just a handy thing.

Anyway, no matter how high or low the rate is, after this crackdown on organized crime, the crime rate in the Qinghe gathering area can be reduced to near zero.

As for how long this can last, it is not his concern. After all, isn't this what the internal security guards do?

At worst, we can turn special activities into routines and screen them every one or two months. Since this does not solve the motivation for the problem, we will increase the risk.

Gu Chengyuan believes that the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm will definitely make people kind.

Only two kinds of people are allowed to exist under your rule, good people and dead people. You can choose one of the two. Isn't this a kind of democracy?

But it seems a pity to just kill these 1700 criminals? There is a shortage of laborers in the end times, especially those who can engage in evil industries. It is hard to judge whether they are smart or not, but they must have a strong body.

They are guilty, but their strong bodies are not. These are all excellent working tools!

If they have committed evil that infringes upon the interests of humanity, wouldn't it be condoning them to become deadbeats if they simply died?

Don’t we need to repay the kindness that humans have shown them?

As he was thinking about this, Gu Chengyuan's thinking quickly changed. Since the interests of mankind have been violated, he should repay them with labor!

Just punish the main culprits and set up a labor camp? Use the hardest and most exhausting work to reform them and reawaken their gratitude?

Well, this is a good idea!

Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan pulled out a piece of A4 paper from the stack of A papers on his desk and immediately wrote down his thoughts about the labor camp.

"Light is strong!"

"To!"

"Send it to the Operations Department and give it to the Chief of Staff. Tell them this is my idea and ask the General Staff to study the feasibility. If it is confirmed to be feasible, implement it as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

Pu Guangqiang took the A1700 paper that determined the fate of 4 gangsters with both hands and hurried out the door.

...

dong dong dong~

Just as Pu Guangqiang left, Zhou Guihong's voice was heard at the office door.

"report!"

"Enter!"

"Reporting to the Chief, just last night, thanks to the efforts of the newly established Railway Department of the Survivors Management Committee, the Xishan Railway Freight Station has been fully restored!"

"There are 11 freight lines in the freight station, 6 arrival and departure lines, and 2 departure lines, with an annual freight capacity of 2450 million tons."

"There are a total of six traction locomotives that can be used in the freight railway station, of which two are diesel traction locomotives and four are electric traction locomotives."

"What is the carrying capacity of the internal combustion engine traction locomotive?" Gu Chengyuan asked after hearing this.

It’s obvious that the electric traction locomotive uses electricity, and it won’t be used in the short term, so Gu Chengyuan is most concerned about the carrying capacity of the two internal combustion engine traction locomotives.

"Chief, please wait a moment!"

Hearing this, Zhou Guihong flipped through the materials and then introduced:

"Reporting to the commander, the trains in the Xishan Railway Freight Station are all ordinary freight trains, not heavy freight trains. They are generally composed of 60 carriages. Based on the average load of 60 tons per carriage, the load capacity is about 3600 tons."

3600 tons?

Hearing this load capacity, Gu Chengyuan subconsciously calculated it.

Through this period of learning professional military knowledge, he dare not pat his chest and say that he has no problem with command, but as for the basic military knowledge, he believes that he has learned it quite well.

Usually under high-intensity combat, an ordinary combined forces brigade of 5000 people will consume about 100 tons of ammunition, 50 tons of fuel, and 20 tons of daily necessities every day.

So the 3600-ton carrying capacity of this train sounds like a lot, but in fact it is only enough for an ordinary combined brigade to fight for about 20 days. Converted to an ordinary combined brigade in the end times, it may be less than ten days.

Because zombies are different from humans. Humans will rest and have intervals, but with zombies, once the battle starts, it will be a fight to the death and there will be no respite, so the consumption of military supplies will definitely double!

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, although the capacity of the two diesel freight trains is sufficient at present, it will definitely not be enough with future development, even if diesel locomotives from other stations are collected along the way.

After all, Zhou Bang's railway electrification rate has reached 90%, and diesel engine-driven trains are still a minority. As a result, the preliminary preparations for the use of electrified trains can be put on the agenda.

Thinking of this, Gu Chengyuan picked up a pen and started calculating on a piece of white paper.

The power consumption of electric traction trains is usually related to the slope and load of the railway. The temperature ranges from tens of degrees to hundreds of degrees per kilometer. If we calculate it as 50 degrees per kilometer, the railway distance from the night market to Zhanjiang District is about 600 kilometers, and an electric traction train will need 6 degrees of electricity for a round trip.

Of course, this is just an estimate of the truth. In reality, it may not be that exaggerated, but it is not that simple either.

For example, the traction substations along the railway need to be restored, and where the electricity for the traction substations comes from. Although these are gifts from the Zhou Dynasty before the end of the world, and many equipment sites are ready-made, we still have to take into account the complex field conditions at the end of the world, and how to effectively prevent damage from mutated animals and plants, etc.

So no matter how you calculate it, restoring electrified railway operations will be a huge systematic project involving all aspects.

The amount of manpower, material resources and military forces required to build the 600-kilometer railway line will be enormous.

But fortunately, this is the end of the world, and human labor is not valuable. This can be considered a gift from the end of the world.

After thinking about these things, Gu Chengyuan quickly became clear about the future development ideas of the railway.

The short-term development goal is to completely connect the railway line as soon as possible so that diesel freight trains can run.

The long-term development goal is to resume the construction of traction substations along the railway and solve the energy supply problem of electrified railway transportation routes.

Speaking of energy supply, with the restoration of electricity and the expansion of electricity use, the establishment of a specialized power department seems imminent.

It is not possible that the Ministry of Railways needs electricity today so it sets up a subordinate power department, and then sets up another subordinate power department tomorrow when a gathering place needs electricity.

This will undoubtedly cause huge overlap and waste of human resources, and will not be conducive to concentrating strength and leveraging collective advantages.

So, Gu Chengyuan took out another piece of A4 paper and wrote the four big words "Yezhou Power Grid".

It is planned to set up a special department called Yezhou Power Grid, which will be mainly responsible for the construction and maintenance of power infrastructure, the reserve and research of power technology, power supply service guarantee, power distribution and dispatching, cross-border power cooperation, etc. It will be under the jurisdiction of the Power Construction Bureau, Power Research Institute, Power Supply Bureau...

The above are just Gu Chengyuan’s preliminary ideas, and the specific improvements still need to be handed over to the professional talents below.

At this point we have to mention Gu Chengyuan's foresight at the beginning, as he took in a large number of survivors regardless of cost.

With the national strength of the Zhou Dynasty before the end of the world and the general education level of its people, how could there be any ordinary survivors? They are all talent reserves!!

This rich talent pool will unleash unimaginable productivity as Gu Chengyuan develops!

This is the foundation of a top power! It is the wings for civilization to take off!

Even if it is reduced to ruins and a wasteland, as long as people are still alive, we can still rebuild China and rebuild civilization!