Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 100 Advance Base Planning
  The nights in the north are cold. Even though Purficott's tent has two layers, the cold wind still sticks to the ground and spreads the cold into the tent.

However, as a noble, Purficott had a stove set up in her tent. The burning fire could not only continuously provide her with hot water, but also dispel the cold air in the tent.

As for the guards, they were a little more miserable. They could only light a bonfire outside the tent. Although it could provide some warmth, the effect was not satisfactory.

Who said they were just ordinary soldiers? The tents of the knights and exploration team members on the side are better than theirs, but they are supplies brought by them themselves and are not the same as the military tents equipped by the guards.

But there is nothing to complain about. Being able to have campfires and tents is already very good for these ordinary soldiers.

You must know that during normal marches and battles, in order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, bonfires are generally not lit.

Moreover, during field marches, sometimes they could not find a suitable campsite, or when the officers felt that the camp would be attacked by surprise, the soldiers had no choice but to lie down with their clothes on and sleep on the ground.

Purficott did not pay attention to or care about this. She was reading the data and information provided by the Imperial Exploration Company with a lantern at the moment.

Although she had read this information more than once, it was still necessary to read it again at this time.

Because she had only looked at the map to read information before, she didn't know the specific situation.

Now that she finally arrived at the field, she compared the maps, information and the field, giving her a deeper understanding of the environment and resource distribution in this area.

"This coal mine is in a good location. The semi-open-air burial can be easily mined. As for the reserves, a more detailed investigation may be needed..." Purficott held a pencil and was writing and drawing on the map.

And as she scribbled and revised, a plan or plan was gradually taking shape.

It is necessary to build an advance base here, but there are many ways to know where to build it and how to build it.

It was impossible for Purficott to build and plan the shelter in accordance with the requirements from the beginning. At best, she would hide these plans in the existing design and then carry out preliminary construction.

Only after the news of the coming doomsday disaster was officially announced by the empire, could she transform the forward base into a shelter with great fanfare.

Although this sounds like Purficott is timid in doing things, and even in a place like the North, it is really not courageous to still act like this, but in Purficott's view, this is necessary.

Because she needs to use this to trick some scientists into coming over.

Although Purficott could not tell those scientists about the impending doomsday, she still needed to consider some implications before the government officially announced the matter.

After all, no one can guarantee whether any of these scientists have enough sense of social responsibility to report this matter directly.

If this causes social unrest and affects the empire's response to this apocalyptic disaster, more people will die.

Purficott herself will also be affected by this, and her plan may not be completed smoothly in the end.

Therefore, from the beginning, Purficott discussed with Princess Anne and decided to organize a group of scholars in related fields in the name of Arctic scientific expedition to use their knowledge to build the shelter.

This is actually the protection and utilization of these scholars. After all, scholars who can be involved in related fields will play a very important role in the empire after the end of the cold winter.

Rather than waiting until the disaster begins to recruit these people, it is better to send them here first in the name of Arctic scientific research. In order to avoid unnecessary surprises, the forward base still needs to be camouflaged at the beginning.

As for how to disguise it, it all depends on Purficott's ability.

Fortunately, this was not too difficult for a Royal Chartered Engineer. She already had a rough idea when she was scribbling on the map.

The first thing to build is naturally the mines of coal and iron ore. With these, the forward base will have bones and blood.

With these steel and coal, Purficott can build the forward base.

Although the initial building materials still need to be transported from the outside world, with the development of the forward base, many things can be produced directly here, which can lay a solid foundation for the subsequent construction of the shelter.

As for the construction of the forward base, in addition to the most basic housing, it is also necessary to have a greenhouse that can operate in cold environments to provide food for the entire shelter in the future.

This is difficult to do, but it is something that must be done.

So Purficott plans to mainly solve the problem of greenhouses this winter.

It's just that she knows nothing about agricultural cultivation. If she really wants to build a greenhouse, she will need the help of agricultural scientists and biologists.

Fortunately, these are easy to solve. It is not difficult to get several experts and scholars in related fields from the empire.

The real difficulty is how to survive in the cold weather of minus 40 degrees Celsius. The number of problems that will be encountered are beyond the imagination and anticipation of Purficott.

All she can do now is to take advantage of the fact that the temperature has not dropped sharply yet, and rely on the empire's national strength, which is still at its peak, to try her best to find out a set of practical survival experiences this winter.

Only by doing this can there be a glimmer of hope for the future.

Otherwise, if you don't even know how to survive, then when the extreme cold weather brought by the doomsday winter really comes, everyone will die.

As for after spending this winter, she will use the mined steel and coal to build a factory to produce various machinery for use in cold ice and snow environments.

Of course, there are no drawings for these machines now.

However, Purficott is not in a hurry about this. After the forward base is built and she spends the first winter here, she can return to Langton and abduct scholars in related fields.

When the time comes, these people will naturally help her complete the designs, and she does not need to do everything herself.

Not only scholars, but also workers responsible for mining may have to hire a group.

Although I was always teased by various unscrupulous people to the point of high blood pressure when I played doomsday games in my previous life, this does not mean that Perficott really does not need labor.

Even if she can really build robots that can work automatically, she will still need a large number of technicians to maintain and maintain these robots to ensure that they can work carefully and smoothly.

(End of this chapter)