Chapter 292 Fish and Chips
For the residents of the North, although their lives are not very wealthy (after all, everything is starting from scratch, everyone only has the little they brought with them to the North) They have nothing but property.) But compared to the cold and hungry situation in Langton where they just kept themselves hungry to death, the life in the north now really makes them feel extremely satisfied and happy.
At least here, they can get a house with their own labor, a place they can truly call home.
Rather than the kind of public low-rent housing in Langton where a large family is crowded together or an illegal building built with wooden boards and bricks. Even though this is just a wooden house, at least it can Everyone in the family has their own room.
This can be said to be a luxury for the residents of the north.
You must know that in Langton, their family may only be able to squeeze into a house that is only as big as their current bedroom. Everyone works hard to make a living every day, but in the end they can't even fill their stomachs.
This is not an exaggeration. A couple in Langton both go out to work, including their children who are already working. Although the salary they can earn every day is not small, it is just barely enough to make ends meet. That’s all.
This does not include those children who are unable to work, and those who are growing up and have stomachs that can never be filled.
The vast majority of children from ordinary working-class families in Langton grew up without enough food to eat. Their most common characteristic is a sallow complexion and thin skin.
Although with the development of the Industrial Revolution, the empire's material supply has reached a very abundant level, and even in the past, even the king could not imagine the luxurious life that Langton can enjoy now.
But for ordinary people, their lives are even more difficult than in the past.
At least they could still farm in the past. As long as there is a good harvest this year and the lord is a little more merciful, they can live a good year comfortably this year.
Not to mention anything else, although the level of agricultural productivity in the old world during the feudal era was low, at any rate, digging in the soil could still fill a family's stomach, even if it was black bread mixed with sawdust. , and it still won’t kill anyone.
However, in the industrial age, even women had to work in factories. After there was no one to cook at home, workers usually had to buy ready-made food in restaurants or bakeries to make ends meet. Meals...oh, no, they usually only have two meals a day, breakfast and dinner.
Because the factory owner usually only gives them about fifteen minutes to solve the lunch problem at noon, there is no formal meal.
Of course, this also gave birth to an industry called fast food.
For example, the most famous fish and chips in the UK were born as a fast food industry due to the development of the Industrial Revolution.
Cheap and easy-to-catch offshore cod, paired with potatoes widely grown in Ireland, the British’s destined national delicacy was born. From the first industrial revolution to World War II, the British have always are all eating this and spreading it around the world.
In this world, the Victoria Empire has many things in common with Britain in the original world, at least in terms of cheap fast food.
At least fish and chips have been brought over by the pioneer immigrants who came to the North from Longton, and have become the main food of the current Northern residents.
Because the current settlements in the North are basically by the sea or close to water sources, various fish are the most easily available meat for the residents of the North.
As for potatoes, they are one of the specialties of the New World. Most of the food that Perfectcott ordered people to buy from the New World was potatoes, so fish and chips became the main food of the residents in the north. That’s easy to understand.
For Purficott, although she will not let the people in the territory lavish food and meat, she can still guarantee three basic meals.
Furthermore, the importance that the empire center attached to the northern territory also allowed them to transfer enough food from the New World to ensure that famine would not occur in the northern territory. Potatoes, which are easy to store and transport, and easy to grow, naturally became one of them. main components. Potatoes from the southern part of the New World colonies were shipped to the north in large quantities and became three meals a day for the residents of the north.
Of course, this thing is not very delicious, but for the residents of the northern border, being able to eat enough is already a luxury. Who cares whether it tastes good or not?
What a pity, if they were in Langton they wouldn't be able to open up and feed themselves every day!
Although the food in the North is definitely not as rich as Langton, even the meat is visibly poor, with only fish.
But being able to have enough to eat is a great happiness for the residents in the north. Their requirements for life are not that high.
But for Purficott, she can't just ask for so much.
She will need to solve the problem of food sources for northern residents for at least the next three years.
After all, in the final cold winter, there is no way to grow any crops outdoors at temperatures as low as tens of degrees below zero.
Even with the help of alchemy and magic, no crops can take root and sprout in a low temperature environment of dozens of degrees below zero.
This is not a world of high magic, and there is no god-defying druid who can do such a thing that completely ignores the laws of nature and physics.
So if you want residents in the north to be able to eat in the future, you must first solve the primary problem of temperature.
Fortunately, Purficott already has a series of plans, and with underground shelters, geothermal pumps and other things, it is no longer a problem to build a greenhouse that can maintain the temperature at a suitable level.
But it is obviously impossible to expect that a greenhouse can feed the people in a shelter.
The greenhouse’s planting area is limited, and the crops that can be grown are naturally limited, so the yield cannot increase either.
If the output cannot increase, naturally everything will be in vain.
For the current Purficott, she has two options to solve this problem.
One is naturally to expand the scale of the greenhouse and expand the planting area.
The larger the area, the more things can be grown, and the yield will also increase accordingly.
But doing so obviously requires a larger investment, and although it is not unrealistic to build a large-area greenhouse underground, it is also a very difficult construction matter.
So relatively speaking, increasing crop yield itself has become another relatively simple option.
At least improve the varieties, but it is indeed not that difficult to increase the yield of a certain crop.
(End of this chapter)