Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 377 Food, clothing, housing and transportation
When it comes to food, clothing, housing and transportation, there may be some large deviations from ordinary people's cognition. Among them, housing, which is the most difficult to solve in the eyes of ordinary people, is actually the easiest to solve.

Although permanent housing is indeed difficult to build, most of the settlements in the North have only just begun to build shelters and do not have the capacity to accommodate a large population.

Moreover, hundreds of thousands of people is not a small number, and properly settling them is indeed a huge problem.

But if it is just temporary accommodation, providing these people with a place to shelter from the wind and rain, it is not difficult for Perfect to do so.

To put it simply, it means setting up a tent.

After all, the weather has not yet entered the cold winter, and people can indeed live in tents in the wild.

When Perfectoct first arrived in the North, he also lived in a tent. The conditions were indeed a little worse, but not to the point of being unacceptable.

The food problem is a little more tricky. Hundreds of thousands of people and their food is not a small number. Even if the empire has made preparations for this and has been stockpiling food for two years, it is still not an easy task to provide food and drink for hundreds of thousands of people.

Of course, Perfect had made some preparations for this issue.

When she first established a research base in the North and started related research projects, she had people study the issue of food.

The North’s food output is indeed insufficient at present. Even just to meet the needs of the current population in the North, it still needs to rely on supplies from the Empire and the New World colonies.

But the research topics originally arranged by Perfect were not just greenhouse cultivation. Research on artificial synthetic food was also ongoing.

Before obtaining the Art of Fantasy Alchemy, even Perfect was not optimistic about this research. He just assigned a related topic to the researchers to explore.

However, with the emergence of fantasy alchemy, those researchers creatively tried to use fantasy alchemy to solve the problem of artificially synthesized food.

They achieved quite encouraging results, successfully making bread out of water and soil.

Although it is still largely based on traditional alchemy, being able to make bread with water and soil is already amazing.

Especially the bread they make is white bread, which is indeed sweet, delicious and edible. Compared with bread made from real wheat, there is no difference in taste or nutritional value between the two.

Although eating only bread would definitely cause problems, for ordinary imperial citizens of this era, having white bread to eat was already a very good treatment.

In particular, this bread does not contain any "additives" such as sawdust and stones, and every bite is solid white bread.

Naturally, Perfect was very satisfied with this research. Not only did he reward those researchers handsomely, he also submitted their names to the Imperial Center, indicating that the Empire should give sufficient rewards.

Perhaps ordinary people cannot understand the importance of this, but Perfect believes that the top leaders of the Imperial Center still understand how important this technology is that can solve the food problem.

However, the technology developed by these researchers still has certain defects, and the output is not satisfactory.

At least, they cannot meet the food needs of more than a thousand people at one time.

And these are not problems in front of Perfect.

She analyzed the research results of these researchers, dissected in detail the alchemy rituals they designed, optimized the shortcomings, and improved their alchemy rituals.

Ultimately, Perfecto eliminated the dirt as a material and switched to carbon and water.

And the final product is not bread, but compressed biscuits.

In this era, compressed biscuits had not yet been invented, but there was a kind of hard and dry biscuits in the rations of sailors at sea, which in a sense were the earliest compressed biscuits.

However, the taste and nutrition of this biscuit are very bad. Although for the sailors in the sailing age, being able to eat hard biscuits was a happy thing that made them cry, it does not affect the fact that this thing is really bad.

Literally no dog wants to eat it.

Therefore, what Perfect made using alchemy must not be something that can either smash a dog to death or choke a dog to death.

Instead, they are real compressed biscuits that are already quite mature in the original world and can serve as military rations in the logistics system of modern warfare.

The origin of this compressed biscuit is not very traceable, but it is said that it was first invented for weight loss.

However, with the development of time and technology, this compressed biscuit has been updated and eventually developed into a nutritious, energy-rich food that also has a strong sense of satiety.

Just a small piece can fill your stomach and provide the calories and necessary nutrients an adult needs for a day. It can be said to be very practical.

This is the recipe of compressed biscuits that Perfectcot used. For this purpose, she even used the ability of the All-Seeing Eye to optimize the recipe to ensure that the compressed biscuits she made can indeed provide sufficient nutrition and energy for the human body.

Don't underestimate this. In a doomsday environment, balanced nutrition and sufficient calories are necessary prerequisites for a person to survive.

Without these, ordinary people will starve to death no matter how good their other conditions are.

So the first thing Perfect did after returning to the North from the Empire was to build a compressed biscuit factory in Beloberg and personally use alchemy to make the first batch of compressed biscuits.

This batch of compressed biscuits weighs about dozens of tons. Although it doesn't sound like a lot, it can at least be used as food for the first batch of immigrants arriving in the north before the factory is up and running.

Of course, having this technology does not mean that Perfect will give up greenhouse cultivation.

You should know that even if compressed biscuits can meet all the needs of the human body and will not kill people, eating the same food for a long time will still cause problems from a psychological point of view.

The different types of food that greenhouse cultivation can provide are the best spice for life in a doomsday environment.

This also allowed Perfect to modify his original plan and change the shelter's main food source to a compressed biscuit factory instead of relying on a greenhouse.

Relatively speaking, the compressed biscuit factory, which only needs water and carbon to produce food, is more stable in providing food.

After all, there are still many problems in greenhouse cultivation. In case of bad weather or pests and diseases, it is very likely that the entire greenhouse will have no harvest.

For survival in a doomsday environment, a stable food supply is very important. Once food is cut off in an extremely cold environment, it is not enough to just curse, but everyone will starve to death. So soon, Perfecto ordered that all shelters must be equipped with compressed biscuit refining equipment to provide a stable source of food for the shelters.

Each settlement must also carry out relevant construction to ensure that there is no shortage of food supply in the settlement.

The policy was quickly implemented and quickly gained popularity.

Although compressed biscuits are indeed not very delicious, that is compared to the various rich types of food in the original world.

And even so, compressed biscuits are just unpalatable, not terrible.

Maybe it tastes really bad, and for some people it is even so hard that it can break teeth, but it can fill your stomach and it really helps to resist hunger.

Not only that, the small piece is also very convenient to put in your pocket and there is no problem in carrying it.

For those workers who have almost no time to eat and cook at work every day, they can put two compressed biscuits in their pockets, crush them and throw them into the lunch box at mealtime, then pour hot water on them and stir them together, and they will have a fragrant and delicious lunch.

This is also a special design of Perfect. Eating compressed biscuits directly does not make people feel delicious. At most, it has a little sweetness after the starch is broken down and converted into glucose.

But if you smash it and soak it in boiling water, you can smell a very tempting food aroma.

This aroma is certainly not really emitted by the raw materials that make up the compressed biscuits. After all, this thing is a product of alchemy, and the raw materials are carbon and water. There is really no natural food raw materials in it.

To be precise, this fragrance is the food aroma blended by Perfectcote based on the principles of perfume. It is mainly composed of the aroma of grains, ghee, and a little bit of fruit and meat.

It will evaporate only when it comes into contact with hot water, creating an appetite.

The reason for doing this is that when he was in the original world, Perfect had also eaten compressed biscuits, and he survived a month on compressed biscuits as his food.

Although there was nothing wrong with my body, I did suffer from anorexia and severe loss of appetite.

So how to stimulate appetite when eating the same food for a long time requires Perfect to use his brain and add some 18st century technology to the 21th century.

Of course, Perfectcot's alchemy is not a food additive. The aroma of the compressed biscuits she makes are all real food aromas, rather than blending with other flavors.

This is completely unnecessary for alchemy, which can go directly from A to D, because alchemy does not need to go from A to B, then from B to C, and finally from C to D. Alchemy can achieve it in one step.

After being soaked in water, the compressed biscuits not only emit the aroma of food, but also quickly absorb water and expand, and their volume can be increased by at least five times.

As long as the water poured does not exceed a certain limit, the more water there is, the larger the volume will be, which is perfect for filling your stomach.

After all, for the workers of this era, it is impossible for them to spend a lot of time on eating. It is difficult for them to meet the most basic three meals a day, let alone eat enough and well.

Compressed biscuits are the perfect solution to these problems. If you want to eat quickly, you can just eat the biscuits directly. If you want to eat more comfortably, you can soak them in hot water.

One piece can meet the energy and nutritional needs of a day. The small pieces are easy to carry and can provide a sufficient sense of fullness after soaking in water. Where can you find a more suitable food?
Therefore, once the compressed biscuits were launched, they were immediately welcomed by the market and soon there was a problem of supply exceeding demand.

What's even more ridiculous is that some people thought that compressed biscuits were too small to fill their stomachs, so they ate four at a time.

One piece is enough to meet the daily needs of an adult male, and you don’t have to worry about dying of overeating if you eat four pieces at a time.

Since compressed biscuits are foods that have been heavily compressed, similar to dehydrated vegetables, you may not feel the swelling when you eat them, but your stomach will bloat soon after you drink water.

This idiot ate four pieces at a time and drank a lot of water, so he almost burst his stomach.

If the doctor had not arrived in time and induced vomiting, I'm afraid this guy, who was not sure whether he was stupid or something, would have really died in this abstract way.

This also led to Perfect having to have someone print a warning on the outer packaging of the compressed biscuits: "One piece a day, no more."

With this, Perfecto no longer has to worry about food problems in the North.

The remaining lines and clothing are relatively difficult to deal with, and it is also difficult for the North to meet the needs.

First of all, although Perfecto did plan a railway project connecting the major cities in the North, she was really powerless to do anything about the construction problem.

So far, the only places in the North that can be serviced by train are Eagle Cliff Base, Beloberg and Chernobog.

Therefore, in the next year, Perfect will need to build more railways.

Fortunately, she will not be short of people in the coming year. The arrival of hundreds of thousands of workers will be a huge benefit to the North.

But compared to just listening to these, Perfectcot still needs to solve the problem of clothing for so many people.

Don’t think this question is weird or abnormal, because for workers, clothes are really a huge problem.

Not to mention those who can sit in the office cleanly, just think about the workers who work naked in the coal mines, and you will know that clothes are very important for ordinary people.

Many people may only have one formal piece of clothing on their bodies, and the wear and tear of clothing caused by high-intensity labor in factories is often the most troublesome type of household financial expenditure.

This problem in the original world has basically been solved. At least in the country where Perfect lived before he traveled through time, this problem was really not a problem.

But in this world where we haven’t even figured out chemical fibers, this problem is really a problem.

And it is still a big problem that needs to be solved urgently.

So after Perfecto solved the problem of food, the next thing he needed to do was to solve the problem of clothing.

(End of this chapter)