Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 379: The Needs of the North

Although he was very dissatisfied with the research progress of the synthetic fiber project, Perfecto had no time to deal with it now.

For with the coming of autumn came the half a million men promised by the Empire.

Although thousands of transport ships did not arrive at the same time, there were at least dozens of ships docking every day.

This poses a severe test for the North's docks, shipping and transportation, and most importantly, the city's carrying capacity.

Perfect was so serious about this that she had to put aside her research and pursuit of the synthetic fiber issue, and personally led the White Bear Knights and the Iron Fire Knights who had followed her to the North to maintain order in the city.

As a port city expanded from an important landing point, the dock of Beloberg has more than five large berths under the special care of Perfectcot, which can berth five large cruise ships or about ten medium-sized ships at the same time.

Even if it is more extreme, by connecting ships together, more ships can be stopped.

But the fact that the dock can accommodate so many ships does not mean that it can handle so many people disembarking at the same time.

After all, it is not the end of the matter once people get off the boat. Local officials in Beloberg still have to classify and resettle them. Only after one batch of people has been dealt with can the next batch take its turn.

Although the officials and civil servants in the North have been fully trained and are familiar with such matters, the shortage of manpower still makes them quite flustered when facing the influx of immigrants.

This is understandable, after all, the last time these civil servants had to deal with just tens of thousands of immigrants.

Moreover, the people who came last time were all middle class. Relatively speaking, they had better education and higher quality.

This is not to look down on the lower class people, but when you are faced with a person who has received sufficient education and a person who has not been to school, you can clearly see the quality gap between the two.

The former can easily understand what you are saying, and doesn't even need your excessive explanation. Just prepare a few banners or signs to guide him, and he can complete what you want him to do smoothly.

As for the latter... maybe you can patiently explain it to him once or twice to make him understand what he should do, but the illiterate person will definitely not be able to understand the banners and signs, let alone which window to go to for registration, or what he needs to prepare, even if all of these are written in large enough fonts in a very eye-catching manner within his field of vision.

So for the latter, the staff needs to spend more energy and patience, and also spend more time.

However, it is regrettable that among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants sent by the empire this time, the vast majority were lower-class people who had not received much education.

Of course, most of them are strong and healthy adults, and there are no elderly people who can't speak clearly or can't hear what you say at all.

These people were relatively well disciplined and obedient. With the coordination of Beloberg's civil servants, volunteers hired temporarily to help, and the army, they finally completed the registration in an orderly manner and were then sent to settlements around Beloberg in different categories.

After arriving at the settlement, some of these people will fill in the settlement and increase the local population, but others will continue to move on to settlements that are under construction or are about to be built and become the first residents of the new settlement.

Of course, they have a more important task, which is to build shelters. Yes, the 500,000 new immigrants sent by the Empire are the laborers used to build more shelters.

Although Perfect has invented large-scale engineering robots and has verified their efficiency through the construction of the first batch of shelters in the North, there are not many of them and they cannot meet the construction needs of all shelters.

Perfect certainly hopes to produce more large-scale engineering robots, but operating and maintaining these big guys requires engineers and alchemists.

Engineers are not a big deal. Among the tens of thousands of middle-class people sent by the Empire last time, there are quite a number of engineers or technical talents who are capable of taking on related positions. These people have filled the current talent gap in related fields in the North.

But Alchemist is not so easy to replenish.

First of all, there is no alchemist training system in the North, even though there is Perfect, the strongest alchemist in the empire, and expert professors in alchemy-related fields from various colleges and universities in Langton.

They have the ability to teach and can train a group of talents, but the North currently does not have a complete education system. Even if they are willing to open their doors to recruit disciples, there are not enough students to sign up.

As for the New World? They do have a complete education system, but the level...

Do you remember when Perfect needed a set of professional alchemy instruments when he first came to the North? At that time, he found it in a university in the New World. It was a teaching tool for their alchemy department.

However, they have been left to gather dust and no one has used them.

One can imagine what the level of alchemy education is like there.

As for the Empire, there are indeed many young people who aspire to become excellent alchemists and want to come to the North. They want to become disciples of Perfectot, the strongest alchemist in the world. However, coming to the North from the Empire is not an easy thing, even with the strong support of the Empire's official policies.

And you want to become the disciple of the Northern Lord and become her apprentice and student?
Even in Langton, this is an opportunity that requires great efforts to get, so how could anyone be qualified to participate in this?
Although Perfect did have the idea of ​​taking in apprentices and wanted to train more qualified alchemists, she hated fools and mediocre people.

Not everyone can meet her requirements and become her student.

In fact, up to now, even among her assistants in the laboratory at the Eagle Cliff Base, there are only a handful of people who can meet her stringent requirements.

As for the others, they are mostly just the labor force that the laboratory really needs to work.

Perfect simply let a few assistants whom she respected manage these people, so that they could play their due roles in the laboratory.

Because of this, the North's demand for qualified alchemists has never been met.

Now that there is a large-scale construction going on, the demand for qualified alchemists is even greater.

(End of this chapter)