Chapter 379 The Needs of the North
Although he is very dissatisfied with the research progress of the synthetic fiber project, Purficott has no time to deal with this matter now.
Because with the arrival of autumn, the half a million people promised by the empire arrived.
Although thousands of transport ships do not arrive at the same time, at least dozens of ships dock at the port every day.
This poses a severe test to the northern terminals, shipping and transportation, and most importantly, the city's carrying capacity.
Purficott was so prepared for this that she had to put aside her pursuit of responsibility and research on synthetic fibers, and personally led the White Bear Knights and the Iron Fire Knights who had followed her to the north to maintain the city order.
As a port city that expanded from an important landing point, Belloberg’s pier, under the special care of Purficott, has more than five large berths, which can accommodate five large cruise ships at the same time, or About ten medium-sized ships.
Even if it is a bit extreme and the boats are connected together, more boats can be stopped.
But the fact that the pier can stop so many boats does not mean that the pier can withstand so many people disembarking at the same time.
After all, people don’t just get off the ship. The local officials in Beloberg have to classify and place them. Only after one group of people has been processed can it be the turn of the next group.
Although the officials and civil servants in the north have been fully trained and familiar with this kind of thing, the lack of manpower still makes them somewhat confused when facing the surging immigrants.
This is understandable. After all, the last time these civil servants faced only tens of thousands of immigrants.
And the people who came last time were all from the middle class. Relatively speaking, they have better education and higher quality.
This is not to look down on the people at the bottom, but when you face a person who has received sufficient education and a person who has not read a book, you can clearly find the quality gap between the two.
The former can easily understand what you are saying, and does not even need too much explanation from you. Prepare a few banners or signs for guidance, so that he can successfully complete what you want him to do. matter.
But the latter... Maybe you can explain patiently once or twice to let him understand what to do, but the illiterate person will definitely not be able to understand the banners and signs, let alone which window to go to when registering. He didn't know what he needed to prepare, even though these were written in large enough fonts and in a very eye-catching way within his sight.
So for the latter, the staff needs to spend more energy and patience, and also spend more time.
However, it is regrettable that among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants sent by the empire this time, the vast majority are this kind of lower-class people who have not received much education.
Of course, most of them are able-bodied adults, but there are not the kind of elderly people who can't speak clearly, or who can't hear what you say at all.
Relatively speaking, these people have relatively good discipline and good obedience. With the coordination of Belloberg’s civil servants, volunteers recruited temporarily to help, and the army, they are finally in an orderly manner. After completing the registration, they were sent to the settlements around Beloberg in different categories.
After arriving in a settlement, some of these people will populate the settlement and increase the local population, but the other part will move on to settlements that are being built or are being built and become the first residents of new settlements.
Of course, they have a more important task, which is to build shelters. Yes, these 500,000 new immigrants sent by the empire are the laborers used to build more shelters.
Although Purficott has invented a large-scale engineering robot and has verified the construction efficiency of this large-scale engineering robot through the construction of the first shelters in the North, this The amount of stuff is not large enough to cover all shelter construction needs.
Perficott certainly hopes to produce more large-scale engineering robots, but engineers and alchemists are needed to control and maintain this big guy.
Fortunately for engineers, among the tens of thousands of middle-class people sent by the empire last time, there were a considerable number of engineers or technical talents who were qualified for relevant positions. These people have filled the current talent gap in related fields in the north.
But the alchemist is not so easy to supplement.
First of all, there is no alchemist training system in the North, even with Perficott, the strongest alchemist in the empire, and expert professors in alchemy-related fields from various universities in Langton.
They have teaching ability and can cultivate a group of talents, but the North currently does not have a complete education system. Even if they are willing to open their doors to accept apprentices, they do not have enough students to sign up.
As for the New World? They do have a complete education system, but the level is...
Do you still remember that when Purficott first came to the North, he needed a set of professional alchemical equipment? I found it at a university in the New World and it was a teaching tool for their alchemy department.
However, they have all been left ashes and no one has used them.
One can imagine what the level of local alchemy education is.
As for the empire, there are indeed many young people who are aspiring to become excellent alchemists who want to come to the north and become disciples of the most powerful alchemist in the world under Purficott. However, they do not come from the empire. Even with the strong support from the empire's official policies in the north, this is not an easy task.
And you want to join the Northern Lord and become her disciple and student?
Even in Langton, this is an opportunity that requires breaking one's head to grab it. How could anyone be qualified to participate in this matter?
Although Purficott did have the idea of recruiting disciples and wanted to train more qualified alchemists, she hated idiots and mediocrities.
Not everyone can meet her requirements and become her student.
In fact, so far, even among her assistants in the laboratory at Eagle Beak Cliff Base, there are only a few people who can meet her demanding requirements.
As for the others, they are more of the labor force that the laboratory really needs to work.
Purficott just let a few assistants whom she still respected to manage these people, so that they could play their due role in the laboratory.
Because of this, it can be said that the demand for qualified alchemists in the North has never been met.
Now that there is a lot of construction going on, the demand for qualified alchemists is even greater.
(End of this chapter)