Chapter 289 Development of the North
The current settlement construction in the North is not just the settlements in Fjord Town and Shay, but several settlements are under construction at the same time.
One of them was the businessman who had successfully bid for the documents of the pioneering knights at the auction. After he clarified the mission of the pioneering knights in Purficott, he simply invested in the northern border and delegated He appointed his own plenipotentiary representative to be responsible for the construction of the territory under his name.
Perfect is allowed to do this, as long as these "pioneering knights" who have obtained the documents of the pioneering knights establish settlements in the north and develop the north according to her plan, without compromise. If she insists on executing her orders, she actually doesn't mind whether these people have settled in the North for a long time, or whether the person who calls the shots in the North is the pioneer knight himself.
So this has resulted in the fact that although there are many pioneer knights in the North, and Perficott has issued several pioneer knight documents, most of them are appointed agents to manage them. territory.
Strictly speaking, these acting officials do not have many rights. They are just representatives of the pioneering knights, but they are supported by the forces behind them from the empire. Whether it is money or resources, it is not a problem for them.
No one who has the financial resources to purchase the pioneering knight documents, or has the power to obtain the pioneering knight documents from Perfectcott, is an easy person. The social and material resources they can mobilize, In a sense, it is much more than Perficott, the Earl of the North.
It is precisely because of this that the construction of various settlements has mushroomed like mushrooms after a rain.
It cannot be said that there are no pioneer knights like Shay who are alone and have no external support, but they are definitely very few.
Of course, another important premise and factor here is that there are actually not many people in the north.
There are not many people here, compared with the mainland of the empire. If you put these aside, the total number of residents in the north now is almost tens of thousands. They are scattered in various settlements and seem inconspicuous, but the total number is already impressive. Considerable.
Perficott was not affected by this seemingly good data. She still stayed in the laboratory doing petroleum fractionation experiments.
Because she knew clearly that a mere tens of thousands of people was insignificant to the entire northern border, and even more so to the empire.
So she needs to make full use of these guys who are rich and can bid for the pioneering knight documents, and use their network to transport more people to the north.
Otherwise, relying solely on Robert’s recruitment in Langton, it may take ten years before there is enough population.
In this matter, those young people from aristocratic families were particularly experienced. Even the agents they appointed quickly figured out the cause and effect and began to attract more immigrants. Some even settled in Langton themselves. A stall also recruits immigrants who are willing to come to the north.
This allowed many settlements to gain a large population from the beginning.
Correspondingly, the more people there are, the more food they have to eat. The people they recruited themselves will undoubtedly increase the rate of food consumption in these newly established settlements.
The food that could have lasted until the harvest season was quickly consumed in large quantities, forcing these people to spend more money and resources to purchase food for their territories.
However, in general, the construction progress of these settlements is higher than expected, and food consumption can also be supplied by sea, so there is really not a big problem in this aspect.
At least for the time being, nothing unexpected happened.
According to the statistics of the airship patrol, some residential areas have completed the construction of houses, and the residential areas themselves have begun to be further strengthened and expanded. Even the one with the slowest progress among everyone has basically completed the corresponding construction tasks and built the settlement into a decent shape.
But Purficott doesn’t care about this. She is more concerned about the Northern Territory Plan.
After being adjusted by the alchemists, White Steel finally met Purficott's requirements and was able to obtain acceptable metal properties in extremely cold environments at a relatively low cost.
However, even so, Baigang did not immediately start large-scale production.
On the one hand, white steel is still a laboratory product. If you want to mass-produce it, you must first have large-scale steel smelting equipment and an alchemy workshop that can produce additives.
As it happens, Perfectcott has neither.
There is more than one alchemy workshop in the north.
In addition to her own alchemy workshop that was still in parts, Oliver also re-established the alchemy workshop he moved from Langton in Fjord Town, and is currently selling it to those in Fjord Town. The town of Landing offers some cheap alchemical products to the settlers now.
After all, it is not easy to open up the northern border and build settlements, and there is indeed a demand for some alchemy products.
Perfect's own alchemy workshop was not in operation, so she handed over the task of producing the additives needed for white steel to Oliver, allowing the fat man to do what he was best at.
After this batch of additives was produced, Perficott also ordered people to transport the batch of pharmaceuticals by airship to Andrew's Steel Company, instructing him to produce according to the formula of white steel, and provide the North The environment provides a batch of such cold-resistant steel materials.
However, Purficott is not very interested in white steel. In her opinion, in addition to replacing ordinary steel in construction, this material can also be used to make steam knight armor. , thus allowing the steam knight to better adapt to the environment in the north.
Perfect was very cautious on this point. She would rather re-research a metal formula herself than directly apply white steel to the production of steam knight armor.
It's not that he doesn't trust the work of those alchemists, but that it replaces the main materials, which involves the overall design of the Steam Knight Armor, and Perficott has to deal with it carefully.
As for Andrew, after he produced white steel, he sold this special material everywhere in the north, and Perfectcott didn't care much about it.
Andrew's ability to sell it to every settlement is his ability. At this point, Purficott still admires this steel merchant. At least he is really capable and dares to fight. Dare to fight.
This new material that has been verified by her can indeed be used when building settlements. After all, these cold-resistant materials are more suitable for the northern environment than ordinary steel.
And instead of replacing ordinary steel with white steel after winter comes or the end of winter comes, it is better to use white steel from the beginning.
(End of this chapter)