Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 289 Development of the Northern Territory

The current settlement construction in the North is not just the settlements in Fjord Town and Shay, but there are several settlements under construction at the same time.

One of them was a businessman who had successfully bid for the documents of the Pioneering Knights at the auction. After he clarified the mission of the Pioneering Knights in Purficott, he simply invested in the Northern Territory and appointed a plenipotentiary representative of his own. To be responsible for the construction of the territory under his name.

Purficott allows this situation, as long as these "pioneering knights" who have obtained the documents of the pioneering knights establish settlements in the north, develop the north according to her plan, and carry out her orders to the letter. , then she actually doesn’t mind whether these people have settled in the North for a long time, or whether the person who calls the shots in the North is the pioneer knight himself.

Therefore, this has resulted in the fact that although there are currently many pioneering knights in the North, and Purficott has issued several pioneering knight documents, most of them are appointed agents to manage their territories.

Strictly speaking, these acting officials do not have many rights. They are just representatives of the pioneering knights, but they are supported by the forces behind them from the empire. Whether it is money or resources, it is not a problem for them.

As for those who have the financial resources to purchase pioneering knight documents, or who have the power to obtain pioneering knight documents from Perfectcott, none of them are easy people. The social and material resources they can mobilize are, in a sense, There are many more than Perficott, the Earl of the North.

It is precisely because of this that the construction of various settlements has mushroomed like mushrooms after a rain.

It cannot be said that there are no pioneer knights like Shay who are alone and have no external support, but they are definitely very few.

Of course, another important premise and factor here is that there are actually not many people in the north.

Therefore, she needs to make full use of these guys who are rich and can bid for the pioneering knight documents, and use their network to transport more people to the north.

The food that could have lasted until the harvest season was quickly consumed in large quantities, forcing these people to spend more money and resources to purchase food for their territories.

Because she clearly knew that a mere tens of thousands of people was insignificant to the entire northern border, and even more so to the empire.

There are not many people here, compared with the mainland of the empire. If you put these aside, the total number of residents in the north now is almost tens of thousands. They are scattered in various settlements and seem inconspicuous, but the total number is already impressive. Considerable.

Purficott was not affected by this seemingly good data. She still stayed in the laboratory doing oil fractionation experiments.

Correspondingly, the more people there are, the more food they have to eat. The people they recruited themselves will undoubtedly increase the rate of food consumption in these newly established settlements.

In this matter, those young people from aristocratic families were particularly experienced. Even the agents they appointed quickly figured out the cause and effect and began to attract more immigrants. Some even settled in Langton themselves. A stall also recruits immigrants who are willing to come to the north.

Otherwise, relying solely on Robert's recruitment in Langton, it would probably take ten years before there is enough population.

This allowed many settlements to gain a large population from the beginning.

However, in general, the construction progress of these settlements is higher than expected, and food consumption can also be supplied through sea routes, so there is really not a big problem in this aspect.

At least for the time being, nothing unexpected happened.

According to the statistics of the airship patrolling, some residential areas have completed the construction of houses, and the residential areas themselves have begun to be further strengthened and expanded. Even the one with the slowest progress among everyone has basically completed the corresponding construction tasks and built the settlement into a decent appearance.

But Purficott didn't care about this. She was more concerned about the Northern Territory Plan.

After being adjusted by the alchemists, White Steel finally met Purficott's requirements and was able to obtain acceptable metal properties in extremely cold environments at a relatively low cost.

However, even so, Baigang did not immediately start large-scale production.

On the one hand, white steel is still a laboratory product. If you want to mass-produce it, you must first have large-scale steel smelting equipment and an alchemy workshop that can produce additives.

As it happens, Purficott has neither.

Among them, there is more than one alchemy workshop in the north.

In addition to her own alchemy workshop that was still in parts, Oliver also re-established the alchemy workshop he moved from Langton in Fjord Town, and is currently providing it to the pioneers who landed in Fjord Town. Some cheap cheap alchemical products now.

After all, it is not easy to open up the northern border and build settlements, and there is indeed a demand for some alchemy products.

Purficott's own alchemy workshop was not in operation, so she handed over the task of producing the additives needed for white steel to Oliver, letting the fat man do what he was best at.

After this batch of additives was produced, Purficott also ordered people to transport the batch of pharmaceuticals to Andrew's Steel Company by airship, instructing him to produce according to the formula of Baigang and provide a batch of such additives to the North. Cold-resistant steel.

However, Purficott is not very interested in white steel. In her opinion, this material can not only be used to replace ordinary steel in construction, but can also be used to make steam knight armor, thus making steam knights more Well adapted to the northern environment.

It's just that Purficott was very cautious on this point. She would rather re-research a metal formula by herself than directly apply white steel to the production of steam knight armor.

It's not that he doesn't trust the work of those alchemists, but that it replaces the main materials, which involves the overall design of the Steam Knight Armor, and Perficott has to deal with it carefully.

As for the fact that Andrew sold this special material everywhere in the North after he produced white steel, Perficott didn't care much about it.

Andrew's ability to sell it to every settlement is his ability. At this point, Purficott still admires this steel merchant. At least he is really capable and dares to fight.

This new material that has been verified by her can indeed be used when building settlements. After all, these cold-resistant materials are more suitable for the northern environment than ordinary steel.

And instead of replacing ordinary steel with white steel after winter or the end of winter, it is better to use white steel from the beginning.

(End of this chapter)