Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 292 Fish and Chips
For the residents of the Northern Territory, although their lives are not very wealthy (after all, everything is starting from scratch, and everyone has nothing except the little property they brought to the Northern Territory with them), they are better than those in Longton. For those who were suffering from hunger and cold and were just trying to survive from starvation, their current life in the north really made them feel extremely satisfied and happy.

At least here, they can get a house with their own labor, a place they can truly call home.

It is not the kind of public low-rent housing in Langton where a large family is crowded together or an illegal building built with wooden boards and bricks. Even if this is just a wooden house, at least it allows the family to have their own Room.

This can be said to be a luxury for residents in the north.

You must know that in Langton, their family may only be able to squeeze into a house that is only as big as their current bedroom. Everyone works hard to make a living every day, but in the end they can't even fill their stomachs.

This is not an exaggeration. In Langton, a couple both go out to work, including their children who are already able to work. Although the salary they can earn every day is not small, it is just barely enough to make ends meet.

This does not include those children who are unable to work and those who are growing up and have stomachs that can never be filled.

The vast majority of children from ordinary working-class families in Langton grew up without enough food, and their most common characteristic is a sallow complexion and thin skin.

Although with the development of the Industrial Revolution, the empire's material supply has reached a very abundant point, even in the past, even the king could not imagine the luxurious life that Langton can enjoy now.

But for ordinary people, their lives are even more difficult than in the past.

Because the current settlements in the North are basically by the sea or close to water sources, various fish are the most easily available meat for the residents of the North.

For example, the most famous fish and chips in the UK were born as a fast food industry due to the development of the Industrial Revolution.

Because the factory owner usually only gives them about fifteen minutes to solve the lunch problem at noon, there is no formal meal.

Cheap and easy-to-catch offshore cod, paired with potatoes widely grown in Ireland, the British's destined national delicacy was born. From the first industrial revolution to World War II, the British have been eating this, and spread it around the world.

Not to mention anything else, although the level of agricultural productivity in the old world during the feudal era was low, it could still fill the stomachs of a family by digging in the soil. Even black bread mixed with sawdust would still not kill anyone. of.

Of course, this also gave birth to an industry called fast food.

However, in the industrial age, even women had to work in factories. After there was no one to cook at home, workers usually had to buy ready-made food in restaurants or bakeries to meet their three meals a day... Oh, no. , they usually only have two meals a day, breakfast and dinner.

At least they could still farm in the past. As long as there was a good harvest this year and the lord was a little more merciful, they would be able to live a good year comfortably.

In this world, the Victoria Empire has many things in common with Britain in the original world, at least in terms of cheap fast food.

At least fish and chips have been brought over by the pioneer immigrants who came to the North from Longton, and have become the main food of the current northern residents.

As for potatoes, this thing itself is one of the specialties of the New World. Most of the food that Perficott ordered people to buy from the New World was potatoes, so it is easy to understand that fish and chips became the main food of the northern residents.

For Purficott, although she will not let the people in the territory lavish food and meat, she can still guarantee three basic meals.

Moreover, the empire's centerpiece's emphasis on the north also allowed them to transfer enough food from the New World to ensure that famine would not occur in the north. Potatoes, which were easy to store and transport, and easy to grow, naturally became the main component. Potatoes from the southern part of the New World colonies were shipped to the north in large quantities and became three meals a day for the residents of the north.

Of course, this thing is not very delicious, but for the residents of the northern border, being able to eat enough is already a luxury. Who cares whether it tastes good or not?
What a pity, if they were in Longton, they wouldn't be able to open themselves up and eat their fill every day!

Although the food categories in the North are definitely not as rich as those in Langton, even the meat is visibly poor, with only fish.

But being able to have enough to eat is a great happiness for the residents in the north. Their requirements for life are not that high.

But for Purficott, she couldn't ask for more than that.

She will need to solve the problem of food sources for northern residents for at least the next three years.

After all, in the final cold winter, when the temperature is tens of degrees below zero, it is impossible to grow any crops outdoors.

Even with the help of alchemy and magic, no crops can take root and sprout in a low temperature environment of dozens of degrees below zero.

This is not a world of high magic, and there is no god-defying druid who can do such a thing that completely ignores the laws of nature and physics.

Therefore, if we want residents in the north to be able to eat in the future, they must first solve the primary problem of temperature.

Fortunately, Purficott already has a series of plans, and with underground shelters, geothermal pumps and other things, it is no longer a problem to build a greenhouse that can maintain the temperature at a suitable level.

But it is obviously impossible to expect that a greenhouse can feed the people in a shelter.

The planting area of ​​the greenhouse is limited, and the crops that can be grown are naturally limited, so the yield cannot increase as well.

If the output cannot increase, naturally everything will be in vain.

For Purficott, she has two options to solve this problem.

One is naturally to expand the scale of the greenhouse and expand the planting area.

The larger the area, the more things can be grown, and the yield will also increase accordingly.

But this obviously requires a larger investment, and although it is not unrealistic to build a large-scale greenhouse underground, it is also a very difficult construction matter.

So, relatively speaking, increasing crop yields itself becomes another relatively simple option.

At least by improving varieties, it is indeed not that difficult to increase the yield of a certain crop.

(End of this chapter)