Chapter 670 Tender Distribution
No one knows about the secret meeting and conversation between Purficott and Kallen. This will be an absolute secret.
Half a month later, the bidding activity for the air battleship project also started as scheduled.
Perficott personally participated in the review and bidding of key projects. She really did not feel comfortable leaving these key things to others.
It’s just that her energy is still limited after all. The projects that she deliberately subcontracted and were not particularly important were handed over to the temporary bidding team to review and preside over the entire bidding process.
She is responsible for only the most critical part of the technical review to ensure that those who enter the core part of the bidding section are direct manufacturers with sufficient technical qualifications.
In fact, there are already agents or suppliers these days, and they also hope to participate in the project.
But for the sake of supply chain stability and quality supervision and control, Perficott chose to exclude these indirect manufacturers from the scope of the tender.
This has made many people even criticize it.
After all, some of them are white gloves supported by the empire's high-level officials, while others are pushed out as interest representatives.
Through their own power, these people obtained products from manufacturers at cheap prices, sold them to the empire at high prices, and then earned high profits from them.
It sounds like there is no problem, but if you really want to say it, every process in it is a sinkhole.
First of all, these people are not direct manufacturers. They are likely to go to manufacturers who do not meet the qualifications to produce, and they also want to lower the prices of manufacturers as much as possible to reduce costs and increase profits.
In this process, if manufacturers do not want to lose money, they can only reduce their own costs.
The consequences of this are substandard products, cutting corners or shoddy products.
But these have nothing to do with the agents or suppliers who get the orders. They just want to make enough profits from it. As for whether the things sold to the empire are good or expensive, what does it have to do with them? Woolen cloth?
As for not being able to get projects and orders? Are their power and identities fake?
They were fully expecting to get a share of this big project, but now Purficott has directly blocked their channels for making money.
How can this prevent them from being dissatisfied?
But in the face of the White Bear Knights who were transferred by Purficott in the name of maintaining order, no one dared to stab or express their dissatisfaction.
After all, facing the White Bear Knights who have been equipped with the latest steam knight armor, even other knights who are also equipped with steam knight armor are still afraid, let alone ordinary people.
Perficott spared no effort in his knighthood. While the ordinary Imperial Knights were still equipped with the earliest first-generation steam knight armor, Purphycott had already upgraded the White Bear Knight to the third generation. Three generations.
This was the design inspiration Purphycott obtained when she was studying the God-killing Armor. After she gained omniscience, she used this inspiration to make a large-scale technical innovation of the Steam Knight Armor. , thus iterating the third generation of Steam Knight Armor.
Compared with the first-generation steam armor, the third-generation Purficott uses a new energy core based on the same principle as the God-killing Armor. This technology has been technically verified on the Divine Grace Knight. , and now Purficott has finally combined the experimental and actual combat data of the Divine Grace Knight and applied it to the Steam Knight.
Through this technological upgrade, the current third-generation steam armor also has over-the-limit capabilities. At the expense of requiring major repairs after use, the steam armor can fight in over-limit mode for three minutes, gaining a 300% increase in machine performance.
This is a very powerful trump card. For ordinary steam knights, it is equivalent to giving them the ability to give them a go or make a decisive blow when facing an invincible enemy.
After all, the strength of ordinary steam knights is only as high as that of a great knight, and they cannot be of much use in today's increasingly exaggerated battlefield.
This was particularly evident in the previous God-killing battle in Langton.
Ordinary steam knights are just slightly more advanced cannon fodder on the battlefield of killing gods.
The third-generation steam armor ensures that the steam knight can at least bleed the enemy's face or bite the enemy.
Of course, these are not too intuitive for ordinary people.
But the third-generation steam armor looks taller and larger, and there is no annoying soot. The overall look is very powerful and full of deterrence, and ordinary people can still understand it.
With the intimidation of the White Bear Knight, Purficott's bidding plan went very smoothly.
With the deterrence of force, even if most people are dissatisfied with the results of the bidding, they dare not really do anything.
You must know that this is equivalent to the first industrial revolution era in the 18th century, especially since the entire empire has just experienced a catastrophic turmoil. There are not many good men and women among the imperial nobles who can survive.
The real business war in the original world can eliminate competitors in a physical sense. In this world, don't overthink the competitive methods of businessmen.
They don’t need to, they are just intimidated by Purficott’s deterrence, not anything else.
However, in order to support the royalist party, Purficott still allocated most of the projects as much as possible to factories owned by the royalist party or interest representatives pushed out by them.
Of course, the premise of all this is that these people meet her requirements, at least they can pass the qualification review.
The royalists did not know all this in advance, but as the bidding progressed, they quickly came to their senses.
The Royalists still have some distrust of what Purficott means. After all, the Royalists and the Northern Faction are not necessarily in conflict, but they are definitely in a competitive relationship.
Under such circumstances, Purficott not only did not side with the northerners, but instead distributed most of the benefits of this large project to the royalists. This makes people feel wrong.
But the senior decision-makers of the royalist party did not find this strange, especially the old staff around Princess Anne, who had a more thorough understanding of the matter.
"The Earl of the North is trying to strike a balance. She doesn't want the royalist power to be too weak. She wants to maintain a political balance." An old staff member who once served as a colonial governor saw blood. pointed out the core reason why Purficott did this.
Another staff member further said: "This is a good thing for us! As long as we can reap the benefits brought by this project, the royalist party will gain a firm foothold in the north and gain the capital to compete with the northern border faction. ! ”
(End of this chapter)