Chapter 651
Through the conversation with the young major, Purficott learned some of the noble attitude towards Beloberg's current economic situation.
In the eyes of most nobles, the Northern Territory can be said to be stable and prosperous at present.
Although the arrival of the apocalyptic winter has made almost all nobles realize that the empire is at a very important stage, they can no longer live as luxurious a life as they did in the past.
But even so, they still felt that the empire was only in a difficult stage, rather than falling into collapse and disaster.
As long as the empire is given time, the empire can take a breath and return to glory.
For this reason, the nobles felt that they could endure the temporary hardship, and were even willing to donate part of their family property or send their children to contribute their abilities to the empire.
This answer was somewhat beyond Purficott's expectations. She originally thought that the nobles were not so active.
But judging from the current results, they are pretty good. At least they don't think that the empire is invincible at this time. Everything is still the same as in the past. At this time, they are trying to hinder the empire.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that Purficott conducted a screening of the imperial nobles when he originally asked the empire's center to move to the north.
Most of those real corpse-like meals and fat-filled waste were left in Langton. The number of people who could come to the north still had a basic quality and bottom line.
These people are the essence of the empire's population, and they are also the core and foundation of the empire's rule. They can be regarded as the basic base of the empire today.
As long as these people are still loyal to the Empire and support the Empire, Victoya will not collapse.
And they are not just in the city of Beloberg. The nobles who originally migrated from Langton and the Empire Mainland not only stayed in the two cities of Beloberg and Chernobog, they were also scattered to other places. among towns and settlements.
These people also extended the rule of the Empire Center to all places.
Although they cannot replace Purficott's rule over the entire northern border, they can indeed influence the attitudes of the grassroots to a certain extent.
However, Purficott didn't care about this. After all, she had no intention of betraying the empire, and this indeed could not shake her rule and control over the North.
On the contrary, this will help strengthen the centripetal force of the people at the bottom towards the center of the empire.
After all, with the current situation in the North, basically every settlement or town is a small closed society without railway connections. Without the stimulation of some factors, they will gradually tend to live their own small lives. It doesn’t matter who the ruler is.
Even if the grassroots officials in each settlement are influenced and controlled by Purficott, even the people at the bottom have enough respect for Purficott, but how many years has it been?
It has only been less than four years since the establishment of the Northern Territory. Four years is not enough time for people to forget the favor that Perficott has done to them, but what about ten or eight years later?
Or simply put, a generation has passed? The older generation may remember Purficott's favor to them, but the next generation may not.
Purficott felt that he also needed to consider this kind of issue.
And this problem is not easy to solve. Even in the original world, with the development of society and entering the information age, the original closed rural environment was broken, and this problem was solved under the impact of the trend of the times.
Although for Purficott, this kind of stable and closed small society is not bad for her to rule the north, she still needs to consider how to solve this problem.
As for economic issues, the naval lieutenant commander also shared some of his opinions with her before, which made Purficott feel that the current situation in Beloberg was not bad, but relatively speaking, she needed something more capable of driving economic growth. industry.
At present, Beloberg's economy is mainly supported by the consumption of nobles, as Perficott had speculated before. Although this can promote Beloberg's economic development, it cannot serve as Beloberg's economy. pillar.
After all, nobles also need to have income. Without income and only expenses, they cannot bear it.
So should we consider giving them some opportunities to develop related industries?
So far, although the industrial center, political center, scientific research center and transportation hub originally planned by Purficott, as well as the fortress where the army is stationed, these five functional cities in the north have been completed, their functions But it was different from Purficott's original plan.
Originally, in Purficott's plan, Chernobog, as the political center of the Northern Territory, was supposed to be used to house the imperial center and the Langton nobles, and she would not stay in this nominal capital of the Northern Territory to play. Political games.
According to Purficott's original vision, after completing the construction of the northern territory, she should return to the scientific research base in Eagle Beak Cliff, build it into a modern scientific research city, an academic city, and then concentrate on research and education. Until she built the city in the sky.
As a transportation hub, Belloberg should be built into the hub of airship routes, where airships are built and maintained while maintaining their routes.
In this way, even in the final winter, the empire can still rely on these airships to build a transportation network to maintain communication between the empire and the colonies.
As an industrial center, Pripyat, a city almost forgotten by Perfectkot, will support the demand for industrial production in the entire northern region and maintain the operation of the entire northern region.
However, so far, Beloberg, as a transportation hub, has become the center of the empire, while Chernobog, the capital of the northern border, is actually performing the functions of the capital, and Purficott himself is tied to Got here.
The Eagle Beak Cliff Base, which was originally a scientific research center, is now in decline, but after the unnecessary prosperity has faded away, it has become a pure scientific research base, and has become the residence of many scientific research departments in the north.
At the same time, it is also the location of branch campuses of major universities in the north. Students from all over the country who are still interested in higher education will come here to further their studies after passing the postgraduate examination.
But Purficott, who was supposed to be in charge of scientific research, almost never came here again.
From this point of view, Purficott's original plan may still be in accordance with her plan for the military fortress and industrial center. The other three cities have all deviated from the original plan due to the influence of political factors.
It can only be said that Purficott underestimated his own influence on the entire empire and also underestimated her influence on politics.
However, as far as the current situation is concerned, Perficott doesn't mind this result very much. At least the five planned cities have played their due role.
It's just that neither the imperial center, as the two political poles, nor Purficott himself were in the originally planned positions.
Purficott herself doesn't mind this. The current situation in the north is acceptable to her. And even she cannot violate the objective laws of reality and artificially affect social development.
Just thinking of his original plan, Purficott felt that his next stop might be to go to Pripyat to see the current industrial development in the north.
In Belloberg, she might also want to inspect the airship factory.
This vehicle that was originally born in her hands has now become the most important part of maintaining the empire. Purficott is curious about what the engineers and alchemists of the empire have done without her technical support. thing.
If everything goes well, Purficott feels that he should perhaps build some industries in Belloberg to give those nobles a chance to land their assets.
After all, from a practical point of view, although Purficott’s original idea of splitting city functions into several parts and building a professional city is feasible, it is too idealistic.
A city can have a certain development tendency, and the main industries of the entire city will be biased towards a certain aspect, but a single-functional city that fully serves a certain aspect will have big problems.
And it is difficult to actually form such a city in urban development.
Just like Belloberg, the service industry has flourished due to the consumption of the nobles, and it has begun to look like a light industrial city.
If Purficott increases its technological investment in airships and allows airships to carry out technological innovations, it will also spawn a supporting industry.
And this is exactly the industry that Purficott plans to arrange for Beloberg, and it is also a meat bone thrown to the nobles.
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"Your Majesty, your arrival is simply an honor for the Royal Dockyard!" A manager of the Royal Dockyard, who had a slight impression of Purficott, welcomed Purficott with a flattering look, and beside him was a group of people. Engineers with crazy expressions on their faces.
For these engineers, Perficott, who designed and built the world's first airship, is like an unattainable god to any of them, and is the object of their worship.
In other words, Purficott did not act like a god, otherwise these engineers might really be able to worship her as a god and create an ohmic messiah.
"Have I seen you somewhere?" Purficott tried to remember. Although the manager in front of her did look familiar to her, she also couldn't remember who he was for a while.
When the manager heard Purficott's question, the flattering smile on his face became even bigger. He smiled at Purficott and reminded him: "You are such a noble person who forgets things! When you first came to the Royal Shipyard to order the first When you fly an airship, I will welcome you!
You were not the Earl of the Empire at that time, but I didn’t expect that after a few years, you had become the Great Guardian of the Empire’s North! ”
"Great Guardian? Where did this title come from? Why do I sound so scared?" Purficott didn't know which nerve was touched. She felt that this title made her very uncomfortable, as if someone was going to ask her at any time. Like stabbing her.
"You are the northern guardian of the empire. Can't this title be called the great guardian?" The manager said matter-of-factly.
However, Purficott waved his hand and said: "Don't call me that, I don't like it."
Seeing Purficott say this, the manager followed suit and only called her 'Your Majesty the Earl'.
Surrounded by a group of gawking engineers, Purficott came to the reception room of the shipyard.
Compared with the Royal Dockyard that Purficott visited in Pussy City four years ago, the decoration and conditions here are worse.
After all, it was the headquarters of the Royal Shipyard that had been operating for hundreds of years, and this was just a branch factory that had been built for less than four years.
Even though the Royal Shipyard has now completed its overall relocation and brought almost everything from its hometown to the north, this place really cannot be compared with the Royal Shipyard in the empire.
But these are not the main points. For the Royal Dockyard, the luxury of decoration does not mean anything. What really determines whether the Royal Dockyard is still the Royal Dockyard is its shipbuilding capabilities.
After relocating all the important local shipbuilding equipment to the north, the Royal Dockyard can proudly say that they have retained most of their shipbuilding capabilities.
Because when they moved, they also packed up all the valuable skilled workers and brought them to the north.
And they are the most important and precious wealth and heritage of the Royal Dockyard.
If the shipyard is gone, it can be rebuilt, if the slipway and dry dock are gone, it can be dug again, and if the equipment is gone, it can be repurchased. But if these precious technicians and skilled workers are gone, then what is the real value of the Royal Dockyard? A devastating disaster.
"My Lord Earl, may I ask if you have any business to take care of our Royal Shipyard this time?" The manager looked at Perfectcott expectantly.
It was precisely because he obtained the airship construction order from Purficott that the Royal Dockyard was able to seize the opportunity to successfully transform, and later got the opportunity to relocate to the north as a whole.
Otherwise, even the Royal Dockyard will, like countless other shipyards, lose its value and significance due to the freezing of the ocean.
And now, this super genius recognized by the entire Victoria Empire and the most important person in the Royal Shipyard has once again visited the Royal Shipyard. The manager is already looking forward to it, hoping that she can bring new orders to the Royal Shipyard and make the Royal Shipyard more prosperous. Create glory again.
"It seems that you are very discerning. I do have an order to take care of you, but I don't know if you can complete my request." Purficott said, and then spread a drawing on the table in front of him. superior.
A group of engineers immediately gathered around. They looked at the drawings that Perficott had spread out with expressions of admiration for miracles. Then they collectively said, "How is this possible?" "There is such a design." "Mom, I Saw God's face.
Because what was drawn on the drawings was a huge airship that was completely beyond their understanding, but it was completely different from the currently known airships.
(End of chapter)