Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 222 Urban Health
Facing the design drawings that Purficott had optimized with the Jade Record, the alchemists did not put forward any suggestions for major modifications.

After all, Purficott's original design was already very complete, taking into account various issues such as ventilation, water supply, heating, etc., and the design was also well solved through the optimization of Cuiyulu.

Therefore, they cannot propose any modifications on major structural issues.

However, these alchemists are not just for nothing, and they still put forward some suggestions for minor repairs, such as lighting, urban sewage, garbage disposal and other suggestions, which are also of great reference value for Purficott.

After all, she actually has no relevant experience in designing a city. Most of her designs refer to civil air defense projects such as underground air raid shelters in the original world before she traveled through time. However, there is a huge gap between the two.

After all, one is only a temporary refuge to resist war, while the other is designed for long-term residence, or even permanent residence.

Different functions caused by different purposes naturally lead to different designs.

Although Purficott tried his best to make adjustments in this aspect from the beginning, and the optimization of Jade Record also made many improvements, but one person's plan was short of the mark, and there were always some things that she had not considered thoroughly.

For example, the treatment of sewage and the layout of toilets are areas that Perfectcott missed during planning and design.

Naturally, Purficott did not miss anything about the sewage system. She did design the sewage system, but she overlooked one aspect that is easy to overlook, that is, the entire underground city has a spiral structure, and the streets naturally slope downward in a spiral. , if someone dumps sewage on the street, the sewage will flow down the street.

But Purficott must consider this issue, because the sanitation problems caused by sewage can really cause plague.

The sewage system originally designed by Perfectcourt for the shelter was distributed along the main structure of the entire shelter. It was used to collect all domestic sewage, collect it, and then send it to the ground for treatment to avoid pollution caused by accumulation of sewage. and health issues.

But the sanitation problem of this era is a very difficult municipal problem to solve. In fact, even in the original world, this problem almost never existed until after the second industrial revolution. The Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 took away tens of millions of lives. , which prompted the establishment of a modern health system.

Therefore, Purficott still attached great importance to this matter. After an alchemist raised the issue, she also seriously thought about how to deal with this issue.

In the original world before she traveled, in London, England, in the 18th century, various epidemics such as malaria, typhoid, and influenza were raging due to water pollution problems in water supply stations and sewers.

This is a problem that is neither big nor small. To be more precise, it is a problem that city managers need to deal with.

The medical development and technological progress involved are not simply isolated issues.

This problem can only be effectively solved under the premise of overall social progress. Before that, all Perficott can do is to use his brains as much as possible on the planning and design of the shelter, and try to solve this problem as much as possible. Impact reduced.

"We can set up sewage ditches on the road at regular intervals. In this way, even if the sewage flows down the street, it can be effectively blocked and collected for centralized treatment." An alchemist put forward his own idea suggestion. Regarding this suggestion, after a while of discussion, everyone felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so they added it to the design drawing.

After adding this part of the design, Purficott also raised another question, which can be regarded as a collateral impact of yesterday's insufficient food supply, that is, how to ensure food supply in the north.

Purficott did not say that she would have to deal with the apocalyptic winter in the future. She just proposed to retain a certain degree of food self-sufficiency in the underground city in the cold state to ensure that the city's food supply can still be guaranteed in the cold winter state. .

For these alchemists, this request made by Purficott is really difficult for them. They have never considered this issue, or they have never thought about the need to solve this problem.

But now that Purficott brought it up, they had to find a way to solve it.

This was actually one of the problems that Purficott had originally planned to solve. However, according to the original plan, she should have waited for the biologists sent by Langton to arrive in the North, and worked with those biologists. Get up and deal with this.

Because this involves a series of issues such as the selection of crops and the construction of the planting environment, it is difficult for people who are not related professionals to solve these problems.

Originally, Purficott was not so impatient, but there was a shortage of food supply in the north, so she still asked the alchemists whether they had dates or not. What if there was an unexpected harvest? ?
Unfortunately, most of these alchemists had no idea about agricultural cultivation and did not put forward any valuable suggestions.

One of the alchemists proposed to build some kind of alchemical creation, which could use alchemy to directly turn wheat seeds into a complete wheat plant, thereby achieving the purpose of obtaining a large amount of food in a short period of time.

This proposal aroused Purficott's interest. From an alchemical point of view, this is indeed possible. Even Purficott himself can do such a thing, and he can go a little further and make bread directly in one step. .

But energy is conserved, and alchemy cannot create food out of thin air. The Philosopher's Stone only breaks the principle of equivalent exchange and uses the Philosopher's Stone itself as a replacement. It does not mean that having the Philosopher's Stone will make the void empty. Conjure up what you want.

So although it can be done, Purficott must also consider the issue of cost-effectiveness.

Moreover, the use of alchemy is costly. If this thing is created, it will take the energy of an ordinary alchemist to turn a grain of wheat into an ear of wheat. This investment and output are too low.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Perficott decided to let the alchemist give it a try first. What if it works?
"Professor Greenspan, you can form a research team to carry out research on this project. If you need anything, you can tell my butler, and he will meet your necessary experimental needs." Purficott made a promise, Then he looked at the others: "If you have similar ideas, you can tell me. I wouldn't mind letting you all give it a try."

Although Purficott expressed his expectations to everyone, in the end only the idea proposed by Professor Greenspan was considered to be feasible.

(End of this chapter)