Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 853

Perfect didn't care about the emotions and reactions of the Marcel people, and the planned energy tower was put into construction as scheduled.

The huge metal tower gradually rises from the ground in the wind and snow. Its complex structure and steam pipelines throughout the city are being gradually improved thanks to the hard work of the workers.

After all, France is not as good as the North. If an energy tower is built in the North, the construction efficiency will be much faster than this.

Whether it is the systematic manufacturing of energy tower parts or the use of large-scale construction robots, the North is far ahead in energy tower construction.

But in the Old World? Perfect could only order parts from the North through the Empire, and then transport them to Marcel by airship for assembly.

Not only is the round trip extremely inefficient, but only the parts of one energy tower can be transported at a time.

But the situation is here. France itself does not have the technology to produce energy tower components, and Perfectcot has no intention of improving this.

It is one thing to build energy towers for them, but it is another thing to enable them to build energy towers themselves.

However, she could not provide the energy tower's component technology, but the mining area outside the city did receive her technical support and transformation.

Currently, mine output has doubled compared to before the transformation, while the number of workers required has been reduced by 20%.

The appearance of the mining area has also been completely renewed: the originally disorganized mine entrance has been reinforced into a neat arched tunnel, the track system extends underground like a spider web, and steam-powered ventilation equipment continuously delivers fresh air into the depths of the mine.

Of course, the number of miners could not help but decrease, because the mine lost a number of miners in the previous riots.

Some of the smashed mine cars and collapsed tunnels have not yet been fully repaired, and dark red bloodstains on the ground are sometimes visible under the snow.

Although Perfect threw some former officials and garrison officers into the mines who were not as likely to be built into the wall by her, there was still a large gap in miners.

Therefore, Perfect had no choice but to reduce the number of workers required and increase the rate of automation to reduce the demand for manpower.

What this means is that the amount of work miners need to do does not seem to have decreased, but the output of mineral resources has skyrocketed.

After all, the total amount of mineral resources that a steam mining machine can dig out in a day is much greater than that mined by manpower alone.

Those huge steel claws can easily tear through the hard rock formations, and their work efficiency is amazing even the most experienced miners.

Today's miners no longer need to use pickaxes to knock out the ore. Instead, they load the crushed ore onto transport vehicles after engineers operate machines to crush the rock strata and ore deposits. Then, the transport vehicles are towed by steam power on the surface to transport the ore back to the surface.

These workers no longer need to do heavy physical labor like in the past, but they are required to put in more mental labor and have more things to do than in the past, so overall their lives are not much easier.

But most of the miners like their current life, at least they can have enough to eat.

Smoke rises from the chimney of the mine canteen on time every day. Although the food provided is not delicious, at least the portions are sufficient.

Perfect built a compressed biscuit factory and a sugar factory in Marcel, and used alchemy to make compressed biscuits and sugar cubes to provide food for the residents of Marcel. These things were obviously not delicious, and even with sugar cubes, it was hard to feel how delicious the dry and hard compressed biscuits were.

Residents invented various methods to soften these foods that were comparable to bricks: some people smashed them with hammers and cooked them into porridge, some people held them in their mouths and waited for them to slowly soften, and some even ground them into powder and mixed them with other ingredients.

But no matter what, dissolve two compressed biscuits in water and throw in a piece of sugar, and you have a bowl of sweet porridge that can fill your stomach. This really solves the problem of eating for the Masel people who had hardly had enough food before.

This also slightly changed the attitude of the Masel people towards Perfectoct.

After all, people are realistic. When faced with a situation where there is more fuel for heating and more food to fill the stomach, most ordinary people still value their lives and can tolerate some oppression and domination.

People in the market began to whisper: "Although that Victorian woman is cold, at least she keeps her word."

Children no longer hide and dodge when receiving rations, but salute the officials distributing supplies in a proper manner.

Whenever the sound of construction came from the direction of the energy tower, people would stop what they were doing and look around for a moment, with fear and a hint of expectation in their eyes.
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In such an atmosphere, the third floating city module on the floating city was also completed.

Although only the basic part has been completed and various facilities and weapons still need to be improved, the main body of the floating city module has been completed.

The completed third module is connected to the first two modules. The hexagonal honeycomb structure planned by Perfect at the beginning of the design enables it to be perfectly spliced ​​together to form a huge whole.

On this basis, the floating city can even expand 'infinitely'.

The completed third module is somewhat different from the first two modules. The first module was initially designed as a combat module due to the relationship with the war of gods. Later, due to many considerations, it was transformed into a comprehensive module and various production equipment was added.

After the second module was completed and assembled, Perfect made some adjustments to the first module, transferring part of the factory to the second module while restoring the combat capability of the first module.

However, Perfect did not completely restore it into a combat module, but only combined it with the second module to form a combination with both combat capabilities and logistical production capabilities.

Now with the third module, Perfecto feels he can recreate his original design.

That is, let the three modules each have different functions, so as to improve the overall operational efficiency of the floating city.

There are currently no particularly significant differences between the three modules of the floating city. Although the first module is more combat-oriented and the second module is more logistics-oriented, there is no obvious direction.

This is certainly a compromise caused by various reasons, but from the perspective of design and usage efficiency, there are still some unreasonable and wasteful aspects.

Perfect plans to integrate the functions of each module by subdividing the three floating city modules into three directions: combat, resource production, and logistics and military industry.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the floating city can be improved, and a better platform can be provided for subsequent production, manufacturing and logistical supply.

(End of this chapter)