Great Power Technology.

Chapter 388 First, You Must Have a Ground Base Station
"What do you mean her son doesn't want her anymore? You ask carefully, why did he suddenly not want her?"

Ye Zhou frowned and walked forward, reaching out to take the mobile phone in the old man's hand, but the latter gave him a helpless look and let him take the mobile phone over.

The guide was still trying to communicate with the old man, but after Ye Zhou turned on the phone screen, he immediately discovered the problem.

No signal.

Ye Lan on the side took out her own mobile phone, which was also in a state of no signal.

"Brother, there is no signal."

"I saw."

Ye Zhou replied helplessly, and then said to the guide:

"Tell her that it's not that her son doesn't answer the phone, it's that the phone has no signal. Was there a signal in this place before?"

The guide quickly translated it to the old man, and then replied:
"There is a signal, is there something wrong with the phone?"

"It's not a problem with the mobile phone, it's a problem with the base station. Do you know where the base station in this area is?"

"What is a base station?"

"It's the iron tower, the signal tower."

"There are no signal towers around here!"

"...Is there any weird tree, or a telegraph pole with a white box hanging on it?"

"There are trees! I'll take you there!"

A few minutes later, a group of people followed the guide to a fake tree on the hillside that looked like plastic. Seeing Ye Zhou skillfully pry open the cabinet disguised as a rock, the guide was almost too surprised to speak.

"This is a signal tower? Can a tree be a signal tower?"

".This is a landscape base station. There are such things everywhere in the scenic area. In theory, if you kick a big rock on the side of the road, it may be a base station. Something went wrong, and the UPS exploded."

Ye Lan on the side watched Ye Zhou's movements, and asked curiously:
"Brother, will you still do this?"

Without looking back, Ye Zhou took out the deformed Hybrid battery from the cabinet and threw it aside, then said:

"It would be strange if I don't know how to do this. I'm afraid you have forgotten what my old profession is."

"Oh yes, you are a communications engineer. How about it, can you fix it?"

Ye Zhou shook his head and replied:

"It can't be repaired. The entire power supply system has blown up, and the power module has also been burned. Call for repairs, but it will take a long time to come here. This place is too remote. First find a way to connect the old man and let her call her son. Give me a call."

After speaking, Ye Zhou got up and was about to close the cabinet door, but a faint shout suddenly came from his ears.

"Hey!! What are you doing!!"

Ye Zhou looked in the direction of the sound, and a figure riding a donkey suddenly appeared on the grass not far below.

Wu Ping and the guards scattered around put their hands on their waists vigilantly, but Ye Zhou recognized the man's identity.

"It's okay, don't be nervous, it's Xiewei's people, and they probably think of us as stealing batteries."

A few minutes later, the man rushed to the base station angrily, and wanted to continue to approach, but was blocked by Wu Ping.

Before he could speak, Ye Zhou spoke first:

"The UPS burned out and needs to be replaced."

The visitor was taken aback for a moment, looked suspiciously at the deformed battery, and after confirming that Ye Zhou was not lying, he asked:
"Are you tourists? Or MS? Why are there so many people here?"

The guide wanted to answer, but Ye Zhou shook his head slightly and said:

"We are not Xiewei, but we found that there was no signal, so we came to check. Is there a way to deal with it?"

At this time, the visitor had already seen that Ye Zhou's group had a special identity, and his originally tough tone softened.

"I just came here to deal with it. Before I received the network monitoring signal and found that the battery here was working abnormally, I set off. Hey, the temperature has risen too much in the past two days, and the battery is aging. Sooner or later, there will be problems. Can you let me Let me go? I'm going to have a look."

Wu Ping stepped aside a little, but still stood in front of Ye Zhou. The visitor walked up to the cabinet and was about to use the key to open the door, but found that the cabinet had been pried open by Ye Zhou.

".You pried open the cabinet? Brother, you are very familiar with it, colleagues?"

"It's a colleague, you don't have a backup power supply?"

"I have it, it's in the bag."

While talking, the visitor took out a thin battery from his backpack, which was much smaller in size than the Hybrid battery that Ye Zhou pulled out before.

"Here, the new sulfur-silicon battery, do you know it? Which company are you from? Don't you have a new battery solution?"

"Well, I'm neither. You just brought one?"

"Change one piece first. I can't carry that much by myself. They are all compatible anyway. Put it on first, and come back to change it in two days."

While talking, the visitor quickly replaced the battery. After restarting, Ye Zhou's phone finally had a signal display.

"Okay, it's very quick. When did you receive the abnormal signal?"

Hearing Ye Zhou's question, the visitor frowned and asked:
"I said, big brother, you don't know how to do business with friends, right? I can't answer your question, competition is not fun like this."

Ye Zhou winked at Wu Ping dumbfoundedly, and the latter walked up to the visitor and showed him his ID, and the visitor said in a panic:

"No, leader, I don't mean anything else. My name is He Fang. I'm Xiewei from Huaji. I'm here to repair the base station. I didn't do anything else."

"I know, we are also here to repair the base station, so I just ask casually, if you don't want to answer, just forget it."

"You can answer, you can answer! The signal we received more than 8 hours ago, this is not just here, the road is too difficult to walk, otherwise we can hurry up"

"Eight hours is pretty fast. I received the signal in the middle of the night, and I can come here right now. It's good. Do you often have problems here?"

The visitor shook his head and replied:

"There are very few problems, and this is the first time this year. Usually we are diligent in maintenance, and we deal with any symptoms. Now we are agile network monitors. If the network is disconnected for more than 12 hours, we will be held accountable."

Ye Zhou nodded slightly, then looked at Ye Lan meaningfully, and did not speak.

After chatting with the maintenance personnel who came to overhaul, the group returned to the old man's house and dialed the phone. Seeing the excited expression of the old man, Ye Zhou sighed with emotion.

This is the first time he has come into contact with lonely old people who really live in remote areas. Before that, he never thought that a temporarily unreachable phone call would have such a big impact on these old people.

He quietly walked to the door and looked inside. Unexpectedly, the room was much neater than he expected.

Indeed, as the guide said before, there is only the simplest food in the kitchen, but there is still no shortage of basic materials such as rice, flour, grain and oil.

There are even a few strips of bacon hanging on the beams of the house, but judging from the degree of blackening, it should have been several years old.

"It seems to be a problem of self-care ability, doesn't it?"

The guide on the side heard his words, nodded and replied:
"That's the problem—to put it bluntly, it's the problem of the road."

"The road here is too difficult to walk. The altitude is high and the terrain is complicated. It is very expensive to transport a lot of things in, and the express fee is also expensive. Leader, think about it, for example, if I want to bring in a box of instant noodles, I need to be alone. Take a trip alone, let alone other bulky cargo."

"So, the result is that the supplies here are getting scarcer and scarcer, and these people have less and less choice."

"Now I can still bring them some ham sausage occasionally. What if the mountains are covered by heavy snow? They only have some rice, bacon and other supplies left in their hands. Well, here comes the problem: these old people, Not to mention whether they can cut the bacon, even if it is cooked, can they bite it?"

"This problem is so small that it can't be said to be too small. It even looks a little ridiculous to people in the city."

"You can't eat bacon, can't you eat other things? Why don't you eat fresh ones? Why don't you eat some small buns, big steamed buns, etc.? It's not really too poor to afford!"

"However, the fact is that you can't afford it. What is expensive is not the product itself, but the path the product has traveled."

Ye Zhou hummed, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

As the guide said, this is a problem that cannot be smaller. It can even be said that this is a dead end that is almost impossible to solve after the government tries to solve basic life problems as much as possible.

But the question is, because it is a dead end, does it not exist?

Doesn't the quality of life of these large numbers of left-behind elderly people need to be further improved?
This is an extremely sharp discussion. On the one hand, the cost is extremely high and the cost-effectiveness ratio is extremely low. On the other hand, the elderly in rural and remote areas have a frighteningly high suicide rate and a low-quality living standard that is almost unbearable. No matter which side you choose, It will bring about an imbalance on the other side.

So is there a way to make up for this dead end?
The delivery of daily necessities by postman is just an imperfect delaying strategy, relying on the goodwill of people rather than the rigor of the system, and it is bound to be impossible to go for a long time.

He opened his mouth to speak, but couldn't.

This deep sense of powerlessness was something he had hardly experienced before.

However, in the next second, a voice sounded from behind a group of people.

"The problem you mentioned is actually not a problem. It will be resolved by next month at most."

Ye Zhou looked back in surprise, and it was the former maintenance technician who spoke.

"How to deal with it?"

"Actually, it's nothing difficult. You've made the problem complicated. The core is that the road is difficult to walk, things can't be brought in, and the cost of repairing the road is high?"

"Look, I came here on a donkey, and the goods I can bring are limited. What if I use an e-donkey instead?"

"Our company has just purchased a batch of all-terrain electric donkeys—the kind with tracks and wheels, and the load is much higher than that of live donkeys."

"It's not just us. I heard that Guodian's equipment has also been changed. They are even more powerful. They have exoskeletons, which is the kind of death stranding. Also, their operating environment is a little more complicated than ours."

"And your post office, damn, it's time for your post office to carry out reforms, and the response is always slower than ours."

"In the future, a tourist-resident service point will be set up here. After the goods are brought in from the outside, they will be collected and distributed at the service point. The supply will be coordinated by several of our companies that are supposed to conduct daily inspections. The difficult logistics problem you mentioned , it will not be a problem in the future.”

Hearing this, Ye Zhou asked in disbelief:

"For these families, put on the exoskeleton?"

The overhauler shook his head and replied:

"Essentially not for these households, but for the facilities here. For example, we are for base station maintenance, and the power grid is for their circuits. And to be honest, the cost is not as high as you think."

"Our purchase price for one eMule seems to be hundreds of thousands. If it is distributed to more than a dozen base stations within the range, the cost of one base station will only increase by [-] to [-]. In the field of communications, this is not considered money at all."

"Furthermore, this place is vast and sparsely populated, but there are still many villages across the country, such as the typical Medog before, which is remote but has a high population concentration. In places like that, it is very economical to use an eDonkey gone."

"Objectively speaking, the long-term cost of the company is declining-especially when we assist in the delivery of materials and are subsidized."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou finally understood the official solution to this problem.

They did not intend to provide an independent solution to this problem, but conducted an integrated optimization based on existing resources and facilities.

The two major infrastructures of power grid and communication already exist, so we only need to moderately increase the corresponding investment, even if it is only a small increase, and the problem of insufficient supplies can be solved by the way.

However, the premise of all this is that you must first have a power grid, and you must first have a ground base station.

(End of this chapter)