Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 221 Airship Repair Station
It was related to the food supply problem of the entire territory. Even though he already knew the reason, Perficott still went to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the airship early the next morning.

At the same time, in order to prevent the airship from being unable to operate and continue to affect the food supply of the territory, Purficott also asked the Behemoth to make a trip to bring the fresh vegetables, fruits and meat that the southern part of the New World colony could still produce during this season. Transported to the north.

As a large airship, the Behemoth's carrying capacity is far greater than that of the small airship that Purficott originally prepared for his escape, so its efficiency in making a trip is naturally far better. Small airship.

However, the Behemoth was always a warship, so there was nothing wrong with Purficott letting it go temporarily. This was something she could do within her rights as the Northern Lord.

But Purficott couldn't keep letting the Behemoth do this. This was neither in line with the rules nor in line with the principle of maximizing efficiency.

So while working part-time on the Behemoth, Purficott still had to find a way to repair the damaged small airship.

After inspection, Purficott could confirm that the ship's drive shaft was indeed broken as Professor Archibald said yesterday, and besides the damaged one, there were many parts that needed to be repaired. Repairs and replacements.

"It needs a comprehensive overhaul and maintenance, and all wearing parts need to be replaced. This ship has suffered too much wear and tear this winter." Purficott gave the final conclusion and gave up the plan of repairing it himself.

It's not that she can't repair it. After all, she designed and built it. It's not a big problem to repair the airship.

But Purficott is an alchemist, but he is not an omnipotent person. When she built this airship, she also used a lot of ordered parts. Now asking her to repair it will be a huge amount of work, and she can only rely on She rubbed it with her own hands.

Of course, Purficott did not forget to send a telegram to the empire to explain the situation, and asked the Navy and the Minister of Industry and Commerce to adjust the schedule of the plan and send people to the north to build an airship maintenance station after the beginning of spring.

Although the empire's local industry is strong, under the premise that everything will be abandoned in the next two years, it is essential to enhance the industrial strength of the northern border and establish an airship maintenance system.

Before the industrial system of the Northern Territory is established, allowing the Northern Territory to have the ability to maintain airships through the import of parts from the Empire itself can be regarded as a compromise to ensure the use of airships in the Northern Territory.

The repair station is not a shipyard and only has simple repair and basic maintenance capabilities, but it is crucial to the maintenance of the airship.

At least in this way, a group of technical personnel can be trained first to make them familiar with the maintenance work of airships. It can also allow them to understand the problems that airships can encounter in cold climate environments and make targeted preparations.

So after evaluating how much time it would take to repair the airship, Purficott decisively gave up the idea of ​​repairing it himself.

Instead, they obtained a drive shaft from the Behemoth's spare parts that could be installed on the malfunctioning airship. After allowing the airship to fly, it was returned to the empire for maintenance.

According to Purficott's future plan, airships will become the main means of transportation in the north in the future, and a supporting maintenance system does need to be established.

Purficott originally considered using trains and railways, but considering the difficulty of maintaining railway lines after winter snowstorms, she had to be prepared for both. After all, airships are indeed much cheaper than railways in terms of maintenance costs. .

After solving these matters, Purficott summoned the alchemists currently at the Eagle Beak Cliff base, and then took out the shelter design he designed. "This is the concept map of the northern town I designed. I would like to hear your opinions or suggestions on this." Purficott did not explicitly say that this was a shelter prepared to deal with the end of the world. He just said that it was a shelter prepared for the end of the world. An underground town specially designed to withstand the northern wind and snow.

Although these alchemists are all alchemy professors and related people from Langton, Perficott still cannot tell them the relevant news until the empire announces the end of the world.

Even if it was just a design drawing of the shelter, Purficott had to change the name before showing it to them.

Fortunately, these alchemists were attracted by the design drawings that Purficott took out, and did not care what kind of design drawings it was.

In a sense, the design drawing presented by Purficott is indeed very attractive to alchemists. After all, the drawing itself is a very exquisite alchemical creation.

"Did you, Lord Count, invent this kind of drawing? This is simply amazing! You can zoom in or out at will, adjust different perspectives..." An alchemist praised loudly, with excitement in his expression: " I never thought that a drawing could have so many functions! With this, I no longer have to worry about misreading the drawing, or the apprentice not being able to understand it!"

Seeing that these people were focusing their attention on the drawing itself, Purficott had to speak out to stop them from continuing to distort the building, and brought the topic back to the design of the shelter.

After Purficott brought the topic back, the alchemists began to seriously study the shelter on the drawing.

One of them said: "Although your design can theoretically be extended infinitely, Lord Earl, in fact we cannot dig it very deep or build it very large. Let's not talk about whether the population in the north is that large. , the amount of work and the difficulty of construction alone make it impossible to expand indefinitely.

According to the data given in your drawing, if this underground city is only the size of a town, I think the depth of one hundred meters would be the limit. As for the size of the plane..."

"In terms of a flat surface, I think a radius of one kilometer is already very large. A small town is so big and has a multi-story structure, which can accommodate a large population." Another alchemist took up his words and said his own Estimated size.

Most of the others agreed with the judgment of the two alchemists.

After all, the technological level of this era is here. If you want to dig deeper and build larger, both the difficulty and cost of construction will rise linearly.

Moreover, an excessively large area will also bring about another problem, which is the management and material support of the shelter, as well as other related supporting services.

Obviously, it is unlikely that the current Northern Territory, or even the Northern Territory for a long time in the future, can support a huge underground city.

"So do you have any suggestions for improving it?" Purficott looked at everyone expectantly.

(End of this chapter)