Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 57 Covered Trench

After reminding the captain to pay attention to the iceberg and asking him to send people to keep an eye on the sea to avoid hitting the iceberg, Purficott once again buried himself in the pile of old papers, flipping through the large amount of data provided by the Imperial Exploration Company.

Because it was an order from the royal family and Purficott had special authority, the Imperial Exploration Company provided her with extremely detailed and comprehensive information.

This even includes military maps and survey data from the early days of the Empire's colonization of the New World.

Following these data, it is possible to sort out the development of the empire in the New World, and gain a comprehensive understanding of the geography, resources and other distribution issues in the New World.

However, for Purficott, she did not have time to do these analyses, or so much information greatly affected her work efficiency.

Fortunately, after the initial few days of confusion and confusion, Purficott quickly clarified his ideas and recruited several geological exploration personnel from the exploration team to help sort out these huge quantities. data of.

The first thing Purficott picked out was naturally the latest batch of mineral resource exploration reports. Among them, the first to be marked were coal and steel, which are known as the blood and bones of industry.

No matter how you look at it, coal and steel are important resources that are indispensable for industrial production in this era.

No matter how Purficott wants to build a shelter, both are indispensable.

Especially coal and steel can also be replaced by the abundant wood resources in the New World, but there is no substitute for coal.

And it is a necessary prerequisite for heating in cold climate conditions.

As for burning wood? It's not impossible, but the temperature and heat that wood can produce are inferior to coal, so burning wood really doesn't have much effect on the extreme cold that Perficott needs to face.

And this also means burning a huge amount of wood. After entering the extreme cold, whether trees are cut down or regenerated is very problematic.

Relatively speaking, coal is much easier to handle. After all, the stratum has a certain insulation effect. Under cold conditions, the underground is often warmer than the ground, so the temperature deep in the mine will not be too low. Mining coal is relatively simple and easy. few.

As for logging? Braving the freezing cold wind of dozens of degrees below zero, and then swinging the frozen ax to chop down the frozen trees that are harder than iron?

Believe me, those workers would rather drill into the mines dozens or even hundreds of meters deep underground and dig with their hands.

After the preliminary screening, Purficott also needed to consider the issue of water sources.

Although the extremely cold environment of tens of degrees below zero will freeze all water bodies on the surface, groundwater is difficult to freeze.

Whether it is the thermal insulation effect of the formation or simply the availability of geothermal resources underground, the normal flow of groundwater can be ensured.

Therefore, choosing a place with underground water or simply hot springs is one of the necessary conditions for the best plan in Purficott's mind.

It would be even better if you can still find a canyon or valley. In addition to using the mountain to block the wind and snow when building the shelter, you can also consider hollowing out the mountain and directly borrowing the existing mountain to build the shelter. But this is just Purficott’s idea. Considering the empire’s current industrial capacity, it is not impossible to hollow out a mountain, but the amount of work will be quite large.

Just like Purficott did not consider the safest form of building a shelter into an underground city, with the productivity during the first industrial revolution, building an underground city was very unrealistic.

But Purficott was unwilling to give up this idea. After all, digging a hole underground was undoubtedly better at resisting wind and snow than building a house on the ice.

But how to use the conditions of the first industrial revolution to create an underground city that can accommodate at least several thousand people?

Purficott felt like he was about to burst his head.

Feeling helpless, she pushed the information in her hand forward, leaned on the desk, and asked vently to the old housekeeper beside her: "Grandpa Ah Fu, do you know how to build an underground building that can accommodate thousands of people?" City?"

"Dungeon? Miss, what are you talking about?" Although Foster is well-informed, he is only an old-school knight after all, and has always been engaged in the job of a housekeeper. He really doesn't agree with Purfict's unbridled ideas. I can understand what she means.

"An underground city is a tunnel dug underground so that people can hide in it. When it is long and large enough to accommodate many people, it can be called an underground city." Purficott explained to the old housekeeper One sentence, but she didn't expect the old housekeeper to give any useful answers or suggestions. She was just venting her emotions.

However, the old housekeeper thought for a while and then said: "Although I don't understand underground cities, if they are just tunnels, I remember that when I followed the master in the war, they would dig tunnels when the city was difficult to capture. road.

The specific method is to dig a trench first, and then add a roof to the trench, so as to build a tunnel with sufficient concealment and protection capabilities. I don’t know if this will help you, Miss..."

"Dig the trench first and then top it?" Purficott instantly turned his head and looked at the old housekeeper, his eyes of different colors flashing: "How thick can the top of the trench built in this way be? How thick can the trench be? How deep should we dig?”

"Well, I'm not a professional engineer, but I remember that they dug a trench that was at least five meters deep. After building a roof on top, they piled at least two meters of soil on top to withstand it. Artillery attack." The old housekeeper recalled it and then gave the answer.

Purficott was overjoyed when he heard this answer, with a joyful smile on his face: "If that's the case, then I have a way to build the dungeon! But we still need to consider the problem of frozen soil. Fortunately, this is easy to solve... …”

As he spoke, Purficott pushed away the information on the table, spread out a piece of paper, and began to draw his ideas on the paper.

Looking at Purfict who was getting busy, Foster didn't say much. He just silently started to pack up the materials that had been pushed to the ground. He sorted them in order and put them aside in case Purfict needed to refer to them. .

Waiting on this young lady is not an easy job, especially when she is working.

Whether it interferes with her work or takes away some important things while tidying up, it will seriously interfere with Purficott's concentration and inspiration, causing her to lose her temper.

Although Purficott would not be mad at Foster, Foster still didn't want Purficott to lose his temper.

(End of this chapter)