Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 217 Sorting out projects
The optimized design function of Cuiyulu was verified through the design drawings of the shelter, but Purficott did not apply it to the design drawings of the shield machine.

On the one hand, the design of today's shield machine is too crude and not worth wasting precious optimization opportunities. On the other hand, in Purficott's view, the optimization of the shield machine can be left to his own alchemists. Work with the engineers to improve it, instead of her directly solving the problem.

Although it is fun to cheat for a while and it will always be fun to cheat all the time, this will undoubtedly create path dependence.

To give a simple example, if someone can directly see the answer and solution process for each question when doing homework, how many people are willing to seriously study the solutions to each question and still study seriously? ?
Although there are good students who can resist such temptation, most people can't help but be lazy and take shortcuts when encountering difficulties.

It doesn't matter if you answer two questions in one question, but if you do it more often and over time, you will inevitably become more and more dependent on this shortcut.

The same is true for Purficott. It doesn't matter if she takes shortcuts on her own. Anyway, it only affects her.

The achievements she has made now are beyond the reach of most people in a lifetime. Even if she loses the ability to develop new things now, she can still rest on her laurels for the rest of her life. No one will say anything to her in this regard. Three things and four.

But for other people, if they become dependent on Perficott and rely on her for everything, then humanity will be considered useless.

After all, Purficott is alone, how much can she do? Even if the Jade Record records all the knowledge related to alchemy in the world, and can even deduce new technologies based on demand, there is no way for Purficott to replace all the alchemists by himself.

And in a sense, that's the scariest thing.

Moreover, Purficott can propose a topic herself and then leave it to others to develop and improve. After all, she is now the vice president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, right?

The optimization of the Omniscient Eye can be used as a supplementary means to make final improvements and optimizations after you have perfected and improved a design to the point where you can no longer make improvements.

At the same time, she also sorted out some of the projects she was working on and divided them into several new topics.

Before she returned to Langton urgently because the Three Kingdoms declared war on Victoria, the projects assigned to her subordinates were mainly the stable production of nitroglycerin, the improvement of new steam turbines, and coal mining in frozen soil environments.

With this idea in mind, Purficott did not continue to improve the design of the shield machine, but planned to hand it over to others to improve.

So after careful consideration, Purficott decided to rely less on the omniscient eye and rely more on his own abilities to solve problems.

In this way, you can not only obtain the benefits brought by the omniscient eye, but also ensure that you will not rely too much on the omniscient eye.

Because the loss of innovation and progress is even more dangerous to mankind than the coming apocalypse.

These three projects are not too complicated, and they were basically in the initial stage of completion when Perficott handed them over to the people below. All that was left was for them to continue their in-depth research along the direction she had pointed out.

Before she left the North, these three projects had made good progress, and were basically only one step away from meeting her requirements.

According to Purficott's calculations, during her time away from the North, they should be able to perfect these three projects to a level that satisfies her.

Of course, it wouldn't be a big problem even if it didn't satisfy her. With the arrival of spring, the maritime routes between the north and the mainland are restored, and with the opening of airship routes, the manpower she recruited in Langton and provided by the imperial government will gradually arrive in the north.

With the addition of new scientific research forces, research on related projects will naturally not be a problem.

So after Purficott evaluated the problems she currently needed to solve and the progress of existing projects, she carefully sorted out the problems that needed to be solved and listed several brand-new projects.

First of all, there is naturally the problem of nitroglycerin. The stable mass production of this new type of explosive is a very critical thing, because it can not only be used in the military, but more importantly, in mining and engineering construction.

After all, what we need to face in the future is an extremely cold apocalypse with an average temperature of tens of degrees below zero. The land has been frozen into permafrost. If you want to mine coal mines and excavate underground shelters, explosive blasting is an indispensable construction method.

Before Purficott left the North, Al had made good progress in this area, and was basically able to make nitroglycerin be used stably. The next thing that needed to be solved was the issue of mass production.

The second project is naturally the improvement and promotion of new steam turbines. This project will also make sufficient progress with the restoration of transportation in the northern and New World colonies and the empire itself. The application and performance improvement of new materials, steam turbine structures Optimization and efficiency improvement, these will not be a problem.

According to Purficott's calculations, as long as Professor Archibald, who was in charge of this project, had not been idle all winter, the improvement of the new steam turbine should have achieved good results.

Of course, even if he makes no progress, it is acceptable to Purficott.

Anyway, she has figured out the application of this new steam turbine on the steam knight, and it has practical value. The only thing left is how to promote it.

According to Purficott's idea, it's time to use it to drive large-scale autonomous machinery.

She had already discussed this issue with people from the Royal Academy of Sciences when she was in Langton. After the spring, a related project team will come to the north. At that time, Professor Archibald will be contacted by them, and the two project teams will be merged into one. Just fine.

Purficott did not have high demands on them in this matter, as long as they could come up with a preliminary design plan.

After all, the technology of self-discipline machinery is her unique technology. If others want to make a breakthrough in this area, it is impossible for them to bypass Purficott herself.

So in this project, she ultimately had to be responsible for the most critical part.

Of course, if Perficott wants to save trouble, taking a look with his omniscient eye is also a solution.

In addition to these things, the construction problems in the extremely cold environment of permafrost are not difficult to solve, especially with nitroglycerin explosives and large autonomous machinery, this problem is not a problem at all.

In contrast, Purficott felt that she should consider how to establish an administrative system in the north.

(End of this chapter)