Chapter 579 Isolation Review
The improvement of the compressed biscuit formula involved some of Purficott's energy, but after the first snowstorm, she still took the time to come to the city wall and saw the crowd gathered at this time People in the outer city near the city gate connecting the inner and outer cities.
“When did they start gathering here?” Purficott asked the municipal official next to him, with a somewhat indifferent expression on his face.
She was wrapped in thick fur and did not feel cold, but looking at the hungry and cold people in the outer city who were shivering in the cold with only simple clothes on their bodies, she felt a chill in her heart. Ice cold.
“Since the wind and snow became lighter, people have gathered here. Most of them are people from the surrounding areas. Because they are close, they come faster. The first ones who arrived may have been there since last night. That's it." The municipal officials had just asked the soldiers stationed nearby about the situation, but they didn't have any answers.
After all, the municipal officials here in the inner city still regard the people in the outer city as human beings. Although the poor in the outer city are usually at the bottom of Langton's contempt chain, they can still be called Langton people.
And from a utilitarian point of view, the poor in the outer city are also labor force. Now there are many things to do in the inner city, and there is a shortage of labor force everywhere.
Although there are hundreds of thousands of people in the inner city, not all of these hundreds of thousands of people are in the labor force.
Although many old, weak, women and children have died before, this does not mean that there are no old, weak, women and children anymore.
According to statistics from the city government, among the 800,000 people in the inner city of Langton, there are almost 300,000 women, children and elderly people. This ratio is already considered relatively low.
You must know that under normal circumstances, an adult man will have a wife and two to four children. That is, the proportion of women and children in the total population is much higher than that of adult men.
Now including the elderly, they only account for less than 40%, which is already a very low number.
But even though there are almost half a million adult men, the inner cities are still in a state of labor shortage.
After all, each energy tower needs people to maintain, and shelters also need people to maintain operation, not to mention damaged shelters need people to repair, and people still need to clean up the garbage in the city and the aftermath of the tsunami... …
There are really too many things and not enough people.
If it weren't for the series of disasters that have caused everyone to be in panic all day long and worry about tomorrow, plus Purficott's timely declaration of a state of emergency, which downplayed the seriousness of many problems, I'm afraid Langton would be There is going to be a big problem with the functioning of the inner city.
In the final analysis, the operation of a city requires the joint efforts of many people, many things, and many departments to maintain it.
Especially now when major disasters are hitting the face one after another, all the departments of Langton City Government are running around, and even the clerks in the archives have been dragged out to do various paperwork and registration tasks, writing with pens Several were broken, so you can imagine how much work it was.
One sentence that stands out is that the public employees of Langton City Government, even if they are dogs, have to work overtime until their eyesight is blurred.
By the way, this is not an exaggeration, but the police dogs of the Langton Police Department did work overtime until they were blind.
Under such circumstances, is there still a population in the outer city? Then why not quickly bring him in to work!
Don’t say that the poor people in the outer city were working Palu before. Even if they were not, in this current environment, who the hell is not a Palu?
Many guys with aristocratic titles in the upper city were whipped like spinning tops while working. There was one aristocrat whose waistline was as thick as three pregnant women, but now he is as thin as two pregnant women. They are all busy losing weight during this period. After all, no matter what, as nobles, they still know the most basic literacy and writing records. At least in this era, they are well-educated and can understand the most basic listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Don’t think this is a very common thing. In the original world, except for a developing country with a basic education penetration rate of 95%, even a certain country ranked first in the world In this superpower, the illiteracy rate is 21%!
That was still the original world where economy, technology and education were highly developed. In this world that has just entered the industrial age, being able to listen, speak, read and write is already considered a useful talent.
So whether it was the Langton Municipal Government or Perfect Court, after discovering the shortage of manpower, they immediately took out all these nobles who were literally full and had nothing to do, and made them work like mules. Go to work.
Should it be said, although these people are useful, it is true that they can only do a little bit of mule work.
After all, most of these nobles who can be left in Langton have no serious work ability or work experience. Although being able to read and write is considered a talent, most of the time the bad habits of these people also determine They do really bad things a lot of the time.
So the important things are still done by the original public officials in Langton, and these people are assigned to serve as assistants to those public officials.
In order to prevent these people from doing bad things, Purficott also specially selected a group of military judges from the army to supervise them. If someone is not serious in doing things or is troublesome and has a bad temper, he will be dealt with directly by military law.
With this harsh measure, the situation has indeed been stabilized, but the problem of manpower shortage is really unsolvable.
Because of this, even though Purficott knew that most of the people in the outer city were involved with the Evil God Sect, he had to come to the city wall in person to consider how to accept the people in the outer city.
The reason why Purficott did not take this matter into account before was that on the one hand he was really too busy, and on the other hand he was afraid that the evil sects in the outer city would penetrate into the inner city through this method.
Perfect could not stay in Langton forever. She helped Langton stabilize the situation and after passing the first stage of the crisis, she was about to return to the north.
After all, no matter what, the North is the core of the current empire, not to mention the less than a million people in Langton compared with the combined population of nearly 10 million in the North and the New World. It is clear at a glance which one is more important.
So Purficott cannot stay here in Langton for a long time.
The fact that she can stay until now has already changed her original plan.
According to Purficott's original plan, she was here to test the God-killing armor, and by the way, she would use the God-killing armor to clean up all the monsters and monsters in the outer city before returning to the north.
But looking at Langton's current state, she still couldn't bear to ignore everything.
"Inform the church to send a magistrate over. All people coming from the outer city must be reviewed by the magistrate. If there are no problems, they can be allowed to enter the inner city." Purficott looked at the people shivering under the city roots in the wind and snow. The people thought for a while and said: "Set up an isolation area on the city wall and let people come in first. Healthy laborers will be examined first, and those who pass will be sent to work directly."
(End of this chapter) )