Chapter 405: What he saw on the second underground floor
Perfict changed his clothes and came to Chernobog with only the old butler and Befa, who also changed their clothes, and two iron fire knights. The second level of the dungeon.
This place is deeper than the first floor, so the lighting is also worse.
Although Purficott considered the lighting issue at the beginning of the design, no matter how much lighting vents are reserved in the underground city, its lighting will not be much better.
So walking on the street on this level, you can clearly feel the darkness underground and the air is relatively turbid.
Of course, these are only compared with the first level of the dungeon. Although there are some differences in conditions, there are still no problems in daily life.
On this floor, Purficott has already laid heating pipes for each building. The heating pipes can be used to drive the power generation coils reserved in the building to generate current and light up. Reserved electric lights.
This was originally a scene that would not appear until mankind entered the electrification era during the second industrial revolution.
But under the control and influence of Purficott, the electric light will come out many years ahead of schedule, and there will no longer be inspirational stories about the so-called invention king.
Originally, Purficott wanted to use the thermal energy of the energy tower to install a large generator to supply power to the entire underground city. In this way, he only needed to lay wires for each building.
This can also save some trouble for future electrification transformation and save the need to move those heating pipelines.
But after careful examination and on-site inspection, Perficott had to give up this tempting idea.
There is certainly no problem with her idea of power generation, but considering that the energy tower essentially does not provide daily consumption for the underground city, but maintains the temperature, Purficott thinks that if it only supplies power and then heats it through electrical appliances, how much It's like taking off your pants and farting.
If both heating and power supply systems are installed, the pipeline trenches reserved on the streets of the underground city will undoubtedly not be enough.
The wires are okay, but those heating pipes take up a lot of space.
It was impossible for Purficott to lay the heating pipes on the road. In that case, she would have to consider erecting guardrails to prevent people from being burned due to direct contact with the heating pipes.
As for wrapping it with asbestos or other protection? Purficott thought so, but considering the current level of construction protection, using asbestos would be killing people, so Purficott finally gave up on the idea and just wrapped a layer of polyurethane around all the heating pipes. Thermal insulation cloth invented by Er to reduce heat loss from pipelines.
After all, although the pipelines are placed on the street, the heat emitted can also increase the temperature of the street. However, considering that these pipelines are used to heat each building, the temperature on the street is slightly lower. Out of the way.
This also led Purficott to ultimately reserve only one power generation coil that could be driven by steam for each household. It did not have much power and was only enough to light a few light bulbs.
But this is enough for many people living in underground cities.
Compared with their previous lives, these days were already very happy, and no one would object to the insufficient brightness of the lights.
Furthermore, if you feel that the electric light is not bright enough, you can still light candles or kerosene lamps. Perfectcourt did not even ban this, but only emphasized the safety of using fire, and did not want underground cities There's just a fire in there. Walking on the streets on the second underground floor, Purficott could notice that the people living here were quite different from those on the underground level.
The most obvious ones are clothes and spirit. Most people here don’t have any bright clothes, and they lack the relatively lively and lively clothes on the underground floor. Vibrant and spirited.
This is also easy to understand. After all, this is the second underground floor. Most of the people who can live here are ordinary people who cannot buy a house on the ground or civilians who don't even have a place to stay.
They were able to live here only because of Purfico's kindness and allowed them to exchange the above-ground residence for the underground residence.
As for their residence on earth? That was also issued by the government of the Northern Territory after they came to the Northern Territory.
So here, there are relatively more people who are grateful to Perficott.
Although most of them are just the lower class people of Chernoborg and live a life of near poverty. They can only have three meals and enough food and clothing to worry about, but this is already very happy for them. Good times.
You must know that in the past, they did not have to worry about food and clothing. Just finding a tile to cover their heads every winter was a luxury that some people needed to consider.
Most of the people living here did not own their own houses in the past. They rented in cheap apartments or low-rent houses, and some even relied on assistance from the workhouse to survive.
These people work with an intensity that almost overwhelms their bodies every day to earn a meager remuneration, and then try their best to fill their families' stomachs.
But all this would not be easy to achieve in Langton.
Except for some jobs that are relatively dangerous or that others are unwilling to do, the wages of low-level people like this in Langton are visibly low, and most of the time they cannot fill their stomachs.
For families like this, the most they can do is to make themselves half full, and then they have to bear the pressure brought by high-intensity work every day. You can imagine how difficult it is for them to eat well. .
Even when they came to the North and Chernoborg, Purficott promulgated a large number of legal provisions to improve the treatment of ordinary workers as much as possible, but this was obviously not something that could be accomplished overnight, so these people at the bottom were struggling. Norberg is only slightly better than Langton.
At least everything in Chernoborg is in a state of flux. As long as you are willing to sell your labor and work hard, you can still earn enough to feed a whole family.
Especially because of the many preferential policies adopted by Purficott for workers, Chernobog workers can earn enough to support a family as long as they work hard every day.
Compared with the above ground, although life in the underground city does have some inconveniences, it is indeed a relatively happy life for these people at the bottom.
However, Purficott did not simply believe everything she saw with her eyes. While visiting the residents here, she also secretly learned about the situation in the entire neighborhood to avoid the situation where someone would ask her Bad habits like reporting good news but not bad news.
This visit really raised some questions for Purficott, allowing her to examine her design from the bottom of her heart.
(End of this chapter)