Chapter 377: Food, clothing, housing and transportation
When it comes to food, clothing, housing and transportation, there may be some big deviations from ordinary people's cognition. Among them, the housing that is the most difficult to solve in the eyes of ordinary people is actually the easiest to solve.
Although it is true that permanent housing is not easy to build, most of the current settlements in the North have just begun to build shelters and do not have the carrying capacity to accommodate a large number of people.
And there are hundreds of thousands of people, which is not a small number. There is indeed a huge problem in properly settling them.
But if it is just a temporary resettlement, giving these people a place to shelter from the wind and rain, this is not difficult for Purficott to do.
To put it simply, it is to set up a tent.
After all, the weather has not yet entered the cold winter, and it is indeed possible to live in a tent in the wild.
When Purficott first arrived in the North, he also lived in a tent. The conditions were indeed a little worse, but not to the point of being unacceptable.
The problem of food is a little more difficult. It is not a small number for hundreds of thousands of people to eat horse chews. Even if the empire has prepared for this, it has been hoarding food since two years ago, but it wants to It is not an easy task to provide food and drink for hundreds of thousands of people.
Of course, Purficott has also made some preparations for this problem.
When she first established a research base in the north and started related projects, she had ordered people to study food issues.
The food output in the North is indeed insufficient at present. Even just to meet the food and clothing of the current population in the North, it still needs to rely on transportation from the empire's mainland and the colonies in the New World.
But the research topic originally arranged by Purficott was not just greenhouse cultivation. Research on artificially synthesized food has also been ongoing.
Before obtaining Fantasy Alchemy, even Purficott was not optimistic about this research. He only assigned a related topic for those researchers to explore.
However, with the emergence of fantasy alchemy, those researchers creatively tried to use fantasy alchemy to solve the problem of artificial food synthesis.
They achieved quite gratifying results and succeeded in making bread from water and soil.
Although it is still largely based on traditional alchemy, it is already remarkable to be able to make bread from water and soil.
Especially the bread they make is white bread, which is indeed sweet, delicious and edible. Compared with bread made from real wheat, there is no difference in taste or nutritional value between the two.
Although eating just bread will definitely cause problems, for ordinary people in the empire in this era, eating white bread is already a good treatment.
Especially because there are no "additives" such as sawdust or stones in this bread. Every bite is solid white bread.
Purficott was naturally very satisfied with this research. Not only did he reward the researchers heavily, but he also submitted their names to the empire center, indicating that the empire would provide sufficient rewards.
Perhaps ordinary people cannot understand the importance of this, but Purficott believes that the top brass of the Empire Center can still understand how important this technology that can solve the food problem is.
However, the technology developed by these researchers still has certain flaws, and the output is not very satisfactory.
At least, they cannot meet the food needs of more than a thousand people at one time.
But these are not problems in front of Perfectcott.
She analyzed the research results of these researchers, analyzed the refining rituals they designed in detail, optimized the deficiencies, and improved their refining rituals.
Ultimately, Purficott eliminated the soil material and replaced it with carbon and water.
And the final product is not bread, but compressed biscuits.
In this era, compressed biscuits have not been invented yet, but there is a very hard and dry hard biscuit in the rations of sailors at sea. In a sense, this is the earliest Compressed cookies.
However, the taste and nutrition of this kind of biscuits are very bad. Although for sailors in the age of sailing, being able to eat hard biscuits is already something that makes them happy enough to cry, but this does not affect this The stuff is really bad.
Literally no dog wants to eat it.
So what Purficott used alchemy to make was definitely not something that could kill a dog by smashing it or choking it to death.
It is a real compressed biscuit that has been quite mature in the original world, a compressed biscuit that can serve as military rations in the logistics system of modern warfare.
The origin of this compressed biscuit is not very clear, but it is said that it was first invented for weight loss.
However, with the development of time and technology, this compressed biscuit has been updated and finally developed into a nutritious, energy-rich and satiating food.
Just a small piece can fill your stomach and provide the calories and necessary nutrients an adult needs for a day. It can be said to be very practical.
Perficott also used this compressed biscuit formula. For this reason, she also specially used the ability of the omniscient eye to optimize the formula to ensure that the compressed biscuits can indeed be used for The human body provides adequate nutrients and energy.
Don’t underestimate this. In a doomsday environment, balanced nutrition and sufficient calories are necessary prerequisites for a person to survive.
Without these, ordinary people will starve to death no matter how favorable other conditions are.
So the first thing Purficott did after returning to the north from the empire was to build a compressed biscuit factory in Belloberg, and personally made the first batch of compressed biscuits using alchemy. biscuit.
This batch of compressed biscuits weighs dozens of tons. Although it doesn't sound like much, at least until the factory is up and running, there is no problem in supplying the first batch of immigrants who arrived in the north as rations.
Of course, the availability of this technology does not mean that Perfectcott will give up greenhouse cultivation.
You must know that even if compressed biscuits can meet all the needs of the human body and it is true that eating them will not kill people, eating the same food for a long time will still cause problems from a psychological point of view.
The different types of food that greenhouse cultivation can provide are the best adjustments to life in a doomsday environment.
This also allows Purficott to modify his original plan and change the shelter's main food source to a compressed biscuit factory instead of relying on a greenhouse.
Relatively speaking, the compressed biscuit factory, which only requires water and carbon to make food, is more stable in providing food.
After all, there are still many problems in greenhouse cultivation. In case of bad weather or pests and diseases, it is very likely that the entire greenhouse will fail.
For survival in a doomsday environment, stable food output is very important. Once there is no food in an extremely cold environment, it is not something you can do by scolding your mother, you will really starve to death. . So Purficott soon ordered that all shelters must be equipped with compressed biscuit making equipment to provide a stable source of food for the shelters.
Relevant construction must also be carried out in each settlement to ensure that there will be no shortage of food in the settlement.
The policy was quickly implemented and quickly gained popularity.
Although compressed biscuits are indeed not very delicious, that is compared to the dazzling variety of rich food types in the original world.
And even so, compressed biscuits are just not delicious, not unpleasant.
Maybe it tastes really bad, and for some people it is even so hard that it can break teeth, but it can fill the stomach and really fight hunger.
Not only that, the small piece is also very convenient to put in your pocket, and there is no problem in carrying it.
For those workers who have little time to eat and cook every day at work, they can put two compressed biscuits in their pockets, crush them and throw them into the lunch box at meal time, then pour hot water and stir them together. A delicious and fragrant lunch.
This is also a special design of Purficott. There is nothing delicious about eating the compressed biscuits directly. At most, it has a little sweetness after the starch is decomposed and converted into glucose. .
But if you break it into pieces and soak it in boiling water, you can smell a very attractive food aroma.
Of course, this aroma is not really emitted by the raw materials that make up the compressed biscuits. After all, this thing is a product of alchemy, and the raw materials are carbon and water. There are really no natural food raw materials in it.
To be precise, this aroma is the food aroma formulated by Perficott based on the principle of perfume. It is mainly composed of the aroma of grains, butter and some fruits and meat.
It will evaporate when exposed to hot water, making people appetite.
The reason for doing this is because in the original world, Purficott also ate compressed biscuits, and relied on compressed biscuits as rations for a month.
Although there were no physical problems, I did suffer from anorexia and severe loss of appetite.
So how to arouse appetite while eating the same food for a long time requires Purficott to use some brains and bring some 21st century technology to the 18th century.
Of course, Purficott’s alchemy is not a food additive. The aromas in the compressed biscuits she makes are all real food aromas, not blended with other aromas.
This is very unnecessary for alchemy that can directly go from A to D, because alchemy does not need to go from A to B first, then from B to C, and finally get D from C. Alchemy can be done in one step. .
After the compressed biscuits are soaked in water, in addition to emitting the aroma of food, they will also quickly absorb water and expand, and the volume can be enlarged at least five times.
As long as the water you pour does not exceed a certain limit, the more water, the larger the volume will be, so it is perfect for filling your stomach.
After all, for workers in this era, it is impossible for them to spend a lot of time eating. Meeting the most basic three meals a day is a bit too much for them, let alone Eat well and eat well.
Compressed biscuits perfectly solve these problems. Tu Kuai can naturally chew the biscuits directly. If you want to eat more comfortably, soak them in hot water.
One piece can meet the energy and nutritional needs for a day. It is small and easy to carry. It can also provide a sufficient feeling of fullness after soaking in water. Where can I find a more suitable ration?
So once the compressed biscuits were launched, they were immediately strongly welcomed by the market, and soon began to experience shortages in supply.
What’s even more ridiculous is that because of the small size of compressed biscuits, some people thought that it was really difficult to fill their stomachs, so they ate four pieces at once.
One piece is enough to meet the needs of an adult male for a day. Eating four pieces at a time is really not afraid of being stuffed to death.
Since the compressed biscuits themselves are heavily pressed food similar to dehydrated vegetables, you won’t feel it when you eat it, but after eating, your stomach will soon feel bloated when you drink water.
And this idiot ate four pieces at a time and then drank a lot of water, so he almost burst his stomach.
If the doctor hadn't arrived in time and induced vomiting, I'm afraid this guy, who was stupid or something, would have died in this abstract way.
This also led to Purficott having to have someone print a warning on the outer packaging of the compressed biscuits: "One piece a day, no more."
With this, Perficott finally no longer has to worry about the food problem in the north.
The corresponding remaining rows and clothes will be relatively difficult to deal with, and it is also difficult to satisfy the northern border.
For the first part, although Purficott did plan a railway plan to connect major cities in the north, she was really helpless on this construction issue.
So so far, the only places in the north that can be connected to trains are the Eagle Beak Cliff Base, Beloberg and Chernobog.
So, in the next year, Purficott will need to build more railways.
Fortunately, she will really have no shortage of people in the coming year. The arrival of hundreds of thousands of laborers will be a huge benefit to the Northern Territory.
Compared to just listening to these, Perficott still needs to solve the dressing problem of so many people.
Don’t think this question is weird or perverted, because for workers, clothes are really a huge problem.
Not to mention the kind of people who can sit cleanly in the office, just think about the naked workers working in the coal mines, and you will know that clothes are very important to ordinary people.
Many people may only have one piece of clothing that can be worn formally. The wear and tear of clothing caused by high-intensity labor in factories is often the most troublesome financial expense for these families.
The problem of the original world is basically a trick. At least in the country where Perficott lived before traveling through, this problem was really not a problem.
But in this world that has not even understood chemical fiber yet, this problem is really a problem.
And it is still a big problem that needs to be solved urgently.
So after Purficott solved the problem of food, he immediately needed to solve the problem of clothing.
(End of this chapter)