Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 579 Isolation Review
Improving the formula of compressed biscuits took up some of Perfectot's energy, but after the first snowstorm, she still took the time to come to the city wall and saw the people of the outer city gathered near the gate connecting the inner and outer city.

"When did they start gathering here?" Perfect asked the municipal official beside him, with a somewhat indifferent expression on his face.

She was wrapped in thick fur and did not feel cold, but when she saw the people in the outer city who were starving and shivering with only simple clothes on their bodies, she felt cold inside.

"People have been gathering here since the wind and snow started to die down. Most of them are from surrounding areas. Since they are close by, they arrived relatively quickly. The earliest one may have been here since last night." The municipal official had just asked the soldiers stationed nearby about the situation and did not fail to answer the question.

After all, the municipal officials in the inner city still treat the people in the outer city as human beings. Although the poor in the outer city are usually at the bottom of the Langton contempt chain, they can at least be called Langton people.

Moreover, from a utilitarian point of view, the poor in the outer city are also a labor force. Now there are many things to do in the inner city, and there is a shortage of labor everywhere.

Although there are still hundreds of thousands of people in the inner city, not all of them are in the labor force.

Although many elderly, weak, women and children had died before, it does not mean that there are no elderly, weak, women and children left.

According to statistics from the city government, among the 800,000 people in the inner city of Langton, there are nearly 300,000 women, children and the elderly, which is a relatively low proportion.

You should know that under normal circumstances, an adult male 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 account for less than 40%, which is already a very low number.

But even with nearly half a million adult men, the inner city is still in a state of labor shortage.

After all, the energy towers needed people to maintain them, and the shelters also needed people to keep them running, not to mention the damaged shelters needed people to repair them, and the garbage in the city and the aftermath of the tsunami still needed people to clean up...

There are really a lot of things to do, and there are really not enough people.

If it weren't for the series of disasters that have been happening one after another, making everyone in a state of panic and worrying about tomorrow, and if Perfect had not promptly declared a state of emergency, downplaying the severity of many problems, I'm afraid the operation of the inner city of Longton would be in big trouble now.

Ultimately, the operation of a city requires the joint efforts of many people, many things and many departments to be maintained.

Especially now when major disasters are happening one after another, all departments of the Longton City Government are working around the clock. Even the clerks in the archives room have been dragged out to do various paperwork registration work. Several pens have been broken. You can imagine how heavy the workload is.

The most striking point is that civil servants in the Longton City Government have to work overtime until their eyes are blurry, even if they are dogs.

By the way, this is not an exaggeration, but the police dogs of Longton Police Station have indeed worked overtime to the point of becoming blinded.

In this case, are there still people in the outer city? Why not bring them in to work?

Not to mention that the poor people in the outer city used to be working Palu. Even if they were not, in the current environment, who the hell is not a Palu?

Many nobles in the upper city were beaten to work like spinning tops. One noble whose waistline used to be as thick as three pregnant women was now as thin as two pregnant women. It was all because of the busyness during this period. After all, as nobles, they still knew the most basic literacy and writing. At least in this era, they were well educated and knew the most basic listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Don’t think this is something very common. Except for a developing country in the world where the basic education coverage rate is as high as 95%, even the world’s number one superpower has an illiteracy rate of 21%!

That was the original world with highly developed economy, technology and education. In this world which has just entered the industrial age, being able to listen, speak, read and write is already considered a employable talent.

Therefore, when both the Langton City Government and Perfectcot discovered the shortage of manpower, they immediately lured out all these nobles who literally had nothing to do and made them work like mules.

It must be said that although these people are useful, they can only do the work of a mule.

After all, most of these nobles who were able to stay in Langton had no proper ability to do things and no work experience. Although being able to read and write was considered talent, most of the time these people's bad habits also determined that they would really do bad things most of the time.

Therefore, the important things are still done by the original civil servants of Langton, and these people are assigned to assist those civil servants.

In order to prevent these people from doing bad things, Perfect also specially selected a group of military judges from the army to supervise. If anyone does not work seriously or makes trouble and loses his temper, they will be dealt with directly by military law.

With this drastic measure, the situation was indeed stabilized, but the problem of staff shortage is really unsolvable.

It was precisely because of this that, even though Perfect knew that most of the people in the outer city were involved with the evil god sect, he had to go to the city wall in person to consider how to accept the people in the outer city.

The reason why Perfect didn't take care of this matter before was, on the one hand, that he was too busy, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the evil sects in the outer city would infiltrate the inner city through this means.

It is impossible for Perfect to stay in Langton forever. After helping Langton stabilize the situation and overcome the first stage of the crisis, she will return to the North.

After all, no matter what, the North is the core of the empire now. Moreover, compared with the less than one million people in Langton and the nearly ten million people in the North and the New World combined, it is obvious which one is more important.

So Perfect couldn't stay in Langton for long.

The fact that she has been able to stay until now has already changed her original plan.

According to Perfectcott's original plan, she came here to test the God-killing Armor, and by the way, she would use the God-killing Armor to clean up all the monsters in the outer city area before returning to the North.

But looking at Langdon's current condition, she still couldn't bear to just do nothing.

"Inform the church to send a judge. All people coming in from the outer city must be examined by the judge. Only those who pass the examination can be allowed to enter the inner city." Perfect looked at the people shivering under the city wall in the wind and snow, thought for a moment and said, "Set up an isolation area on this side of the city wall and let people come in first. Healthy laborers will be examined first and sent directly to work if they pass the examination."

(End of this chapter)