Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 795 - 24

While facilitating population migration and post-disaster reconstruction, Perfikot is also inspecting the factories resuming work and production.

The impact of the blizzard affects not only people's livelihood but also industry.

The input of raw materials for factories heavily relies on railway transportation. When rail traffic is interrupted, factories lose their raw materials for production, thus falling into a predicament of halting operations.

Not only industrial production but even factories related to people's livelihood have been significantly affected.

Immediately after the blizzard subsided, Perfikot ordered the factories to resume work and production. She is here to inspect the situation of resuming operations.

"Are there any difficulties with resuming operations now?" Perfikot surveys the factory, asking the factory manager beside her.

Facing Perfikot's inquiry, the factory manager quickly responded, "The main issue right now is still with raw materials. Although we received new materials first when the railroad was restored, currently, most of its capacity is prioritized for recovering disaster-stricken areas, leaving us with little capacity.

So, while the factory has resumed production, it can only operate at a low load. To return to normal production status, we must wait for the railway to return to full operation."

To the issues raised by the factory manager, Perfikot merely nodded to show understanding.

No one can forcefully change this situation. Although railway operations have resumed, only major routes have been cleared. Many narrow-gauge spur lines leading to mines and other places are still blocked.

Expecting the railway to provide enough transport capacity for factories to transport industrial raw materials is evidently unrealistic.

Therefore, Perfikot can only advise the factory to endure temporarily and overcome this period of difficulty.

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Returning after inspecting the factory, seated in the steam carriage, Perfikot tells her secretary beside her, "Write down that we must prioritize restoring production capabilities in steelmaking and machinery manufacturing, enhancing the priority for the recovery of related industrial raw material supply."

In post-disaster reconstruction, all matters have varying degrees of urgency. Urgent matters generally have a higher priority and often receive immediate assurance.

Usually, the highest priority is undoubtedly the transportation of various relief materials, with everything yielding to disaster relief.

Next is the clearance of roads, which have no less priority than relief materials, and oftentimes relief materials must yield to them.

After all, without road clearance, relief materials cannot be transported.

Below these, the priority of various matters becomes debatable.

Various production materials, coal, and post-disaster reconstruction materials, each have their differences and reasons. Arranging priority is a test of coordination ability.

Even Perfikot needs the entire Northern Territory Civil Servant Group to cooperate with her because many things require grassroots personnel to execute personally.

It's not just about planning in the office, expecting everything to go according to the plan.

Many times, planning arrangements are excellent, but various issues often arise during execution. Executives must be flexible based on actual situations, and planners must adjust timely based on real conditions.

Insisting on executing everything strictly according to the initial plan often leads to failure.

This is also Perfikot's working style; she constantly checks the execution of her plans and adjusts them according to situations to ensure correctness in the overall direction while making details more practical.

For example, breaking a plan into several projects, ensuring each has enough leeway to prevent issues from affecting other projects.

Or coordinating other projects when one encounters problems to avoid impact, ensuring smooth progress.

Rather than multiple concurrent projects where one project's delay holds up the others.

Currently, Perfikot needs to adjust the original post-disaster reconstruction plan, not only based on the factory's real situation but also because she has another plan.

This plan is so vast that after conceiving it, Perfikot requires extensive coordination to ensure its accurate execution.

Furthermore, Perfikot must conduct a large amount of preparation work; current adjustments are only a part of this preparation.

"Steel production is insufficient, using alchemy..." Perfikot, extracting a notebook and looking at the recorded data, shows an unoptimistic expression on her face, "To execute the plan, current steel production needs to double, steel plants can be solved, but iron ore...

On the oil side, it can be aggressively developed, but the current application scenarios are still too few, heavily promoting oil and gas projects now..."

Perfikot has too many things to consider and plan. Now, not only the Northern Territory but the entire Victor Empire's burden rests on her shoulders. This forces her to think more comprehensively when addressing many problems.

The oil project has been her continuous development and research focus since arriving at the Northern Territory, but its promotion hasn't progressed as quickly as she anticipated.

After all, the production power boost brought by steam engines hasn't been fully maximized, and rushing to introduce the internal combustion engine seems too hasty.

As for petrochemicals... Perfikot hasn't focused much on these years due to numerous matters but the oil distillation refinery equipment established in Death Valley years ago still works excellently, providing Northern Territory with a constant flow of fuel, lubricant, and asphalt, all differing in functionality or purpose.

Among them, lubricant oil represents a significant supplement to the Empire, as prior to oil-based lubricants, humans had to use natural animal fats.

The most extensively used was so-called whale oil, extracted from whale blubber.

This was a very premium fuel and lubricant and extensively used industrially before synthetic lubricants appeared, contributing to the flourishing of the whaling industry.

However, with the arrival of the doomsday winter, whaling has become a luxury hope. Oil-extracted lubricants have become the darling of various industries in the Northern Territory.

This also promotes oil industry development from another aspect but simultaneously results in abundant petroleum distillation byproducts.

Fuel and asphalt are manageable, at least fuel marketed officially by the Northern Territory has some demand after Perfikot designed kerosene lamps and fuel heaters.

Asphalt is extensively used in construction as a practical waterproofing material.

However, other separations from petroleum become difficult to process.

These are obstacles Perfikot faced in promoting oil industries, causing sluggish progress in the Northern Territory's oil industry with Death Valley as the sole site over several years.