Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 312 Going down the well
The emergence of large-scale autonomous engineering robots has not only greatly accelerated the construction progress of shelters, but has also greatly helped logging, mining and other construction work.

The No. 1 robot was just a prototype. After assisting workers in completing the preliminary construction of the Fjord Town Shelter, the robot was moved to other places for testing in order to test its performance in other working environments.

At the same time, Purficott also handed over the design drawings of the robot to other alchemists and ordered them to produce new robots.

This job is quite simple. After all, everything is ready-made. These alchemists can produce robots just by following the drawings.

Therefore, the coal mine immediately expressed the need for such large-scale engineering robots for the mining and transportation of open-pit coal mines, as well as the excavation and construction of underground mines.

Purficott was very interested in this. She remembered that she had previously ordered an alchemy professor from Langton to the north to be responsible for coal mine-related work. However, Professor Heller was actually mainly responsible for the permafrost environment. According to the research on construction technology, the mining and construction work of coal mines is just incidental.

And that was what happened before Purficott returned to China last year.

Almost half a year has passed, and the coal mines are no longer what they were when Perfectcott first came to the north.

The deep mine that has been excavated with the help of Professor Heller has provided sufficient coal to the north last year. Even when the weather was the worst, the underground mine did not stop mining. This is a great guarantee. The normal operation of the northern border in winter.

The steam turbines put into use in coal mines at the beginning of this year have also greatly improved the working efficiency of coal mines, and their output has also been further improved.

Another important use of the main output here is to transport it to the second landing point Beloberg, and then transport it from Beloberg to the northern capital and industrial zone under construction.

After all, the resources in the north are still very rich, but there is a lack of large-scale exploration.

Nowadays, it is no longer the size of a small coal mine, but has expanded into a medium-sized coal mine.

Of course, with the construction of industrial zones, coal consumption there has skyrocketed.

Therefore, the main source of coal there is still imported from the New World, and the search for new coal resources around Beloberg is currently underway.

Of course, if it is just to supply surrounding settlements, there is no need to expand the scale of the coal mine to such a large scale.

Coal mined from here will be transported to Eagle Beak Cliff and Fjord Town via small trains and narrow-gauge railways to supply consumption in both places.

That's where the bulk of coal consumption is.

As settlements were built around Fjord Town, the coal mined here also took on the task of providing fuel for these settlements.

According to the intelligence that Purficott has recently received, they have found some sporadic mineral veins and are not far away from finding large-scale coal mine resources, so Purficott has nothing to worry about.

She has already reported this to the Imperial Council via telegram. The Crisis Response Committee is organizing an exploration team to come to the North to conduct a large-scale survey of the mineral resources in the North.

However, due to the poor administrative efficiency of the empire, Purficott felt that it might be faster for her to hire an exploration company directly.

But this matter did not have a great impact, and it did not delay the progress of the development of the northern border, so she was too lazy to urge it and let Langton do what he wanted. Compared with this, Purficott is still more concerned about the application of robots in coal mines.

"Your Majesty, Earl, robots are currently mainly used in open-pit coal mining. As for underground operations, although they can also go down, the mine tunnel is too narrow and it is difficult for these robots to perform." The person in charge of the coal mine Xiang Perficott Introducing the situation.

After the robots were sent to the coal mines, they were also very interested in this matter. After all, this is a good thing that can effectively reduce the labor intensity of miners.

But after all, the robot is so big, it is still difficult to have room to exert its full performance after going down to the mine.

Moreover, the gas concentration in the mine is very high, and it is still a dangerous working environment for robots using steam turbines. Therefore, for the sake of safety, the robots sent to the coal mine are arranged in the open-pit mining area.

As for the mining of underground coal mines, it is still done manually.

Of course, robots are not useless for underground mining. At least robots can reinforce and construct mine tunnels. Compared with humans, robots perform particularly well in this regard.

After all, this kind of robot is designed for use in engineering construction.

But for Purficott, she is still dissatisfied that engineering robots cannot be used underground.

So she asked the person in charge: "What is the current situation below the mine? What are the main problems you encounter, and what are the obstacles to the robot's operation down the mine?"

"Actually, this is all a problem, Lord Earl." The person in charge of the coal mine showed a wry smile. The black ravines left by years of dealing with coal were squeezed together on his face, making this face look particularly vicissitudes of life: " The space under the mine is too small, and the coal seam is very soft. We cannot dig the mine tunnel too big, because it will collapse directly.

So so far, all we can do is to mine manually, and most of the time, workers cannot stand up straight underground and can only work lying on the ground. "

Hearing this, Purficott frowned.

Apparently, she wasn't happy about it.

So after thinking about it, she walked directly towards the mine: "Get ready, I want to go down and take a look."

"Your Majesty the Count! The mine is too dirty and too dangerous. How could you go down there!" The person in charge hurriedly stopped him. He did not dare to let Perfectcott go down into the mine. It would be a disaster.

But Purficott insisted on doing so, and obviously the person in charge had no ability to stop her.

The White Bear Knights who accompanied Purficott did not stop Purficott at this time. They seemed to think that the person in charge was hiding something, and instead cast distrustful eyes on him.

In the end, the helpless person in charge had no choice but to let Purfict put on the cleanest work clothes he could find, and personally led Purfict to the mine lift and down to the depths of the coal mine.

When Purficott stepped out of the elevator, he saw pitch black, and the only white things were a pair of eyes and rows of teeth.

(End of this chapter)