Chapter 715 Economic Reform
Purficott's organizational and coordination skills are inhuman.
She was, at least in the eyes of the cabinet and other officials, an inhuman being.
Because she really completed the structural adjustment of the imperial government in a very short period of time, established the Corruption Eradication Committee and the Department of Integration, and made them operate efficiently from the beginning.
For the imperial government, establishing two new departments and enabling them to operate efficiently is an extremely difficult task in itself, which requires the imperial government to spend a lot of time preparing and coordinating.
Then it would be possible to form two departments whose efficiency simply did not meet Purficott's requirements and standards and make them function normally without infringing on the interests of various factions.
But these simply do not exist for Purficott, and she will not spend a long time preparing, coordinating and balancing the interests and conflicts between various factions.
She is now the Imperial Regent, and she holds power and more importantly, military force.
When she is willing to reason, it is best for others to listen, because if you don't listen, don't blame her for talking about physics with you.
Because of this, when the Ministry of Conformity began to re-review the flying battleship plan in accordance with Purficott's wishes, and completely cut off many of the problematic projects and started over, even if the interests of the factions were harmed, they could I can only endure it temporarily.
These axed projects were not really wasted. Purficott adjusted them according to the situation of these projects to ensure that these projects that the empire invested real money in could still play at least a little role, instead of being a simple waste of resources.
And this is the key reason why all the factions acquiesce in the inhumanity of Purficott. She really completed the adjustments to these projects in a short period of time, ensuring that the interests of each faction are ensured to a certain extent, so that they can be fully utilized. due role.
For each faction, they certainly know that repeated construction and interference from various forces will have a huge impact on the progress of the project and will also cause a waste of resources.
But for all parties, the key is to add more to their own plates.
As for how much the empire has been affected in this process, and how much the flying battleship plan will be affected, they completely ignore it.
In other words, they will also take into account national interests, but the prerequisite for doing so is that their own interests have been met.
When the interests of their own faction are not satisfied, they will not take it into consideration so much.
Purficott's approach is closer to redistributing interests. Although some factions will get less and some will get more, at least there is still enough for each faction.
So they acquiesced to this, and even if there was some loss of profits, it was still within an acceptable range.
After all, in the eyes of various factions, Purficott has controlled the imperial government. All she has to do is to add more benefits to her own faction. She can suppress the opposition of other factions with force, and even take advantage of them. Grab profits from your hands.
But Purficott used his inhuman coordination and organizational skills to redistribute some of the interests, thus making all parties obey in another way.
This kind of political skill is already considered a skill. Although it sounds easy, it is not easy for most rulers to achieve.
After all, if you want to balance the interests between various factions, it is really impossible without some means and abilities.
Purficott did not seize power as soon as she came to power. Although she could do so, Purficott, who extremely disliked trivial matters and government affairs, still gave the cabinet great authority and left almost all daily government affairs to it. cabinet.
This allowed her to solidify her title as regent and indeed control the imperial government through the Corruption Eradication Committee and the Ministry of Consolidation, but she herself did not need to handle a large amount of government affairs.
These have been dealt with by the cabinet and the Ministry of Integration. Unless there is something serious enough that Purficott must handle it personally, it will not be sent to her.
After sorting out these 'people' problems, Purficott could finally devote her energy to the things that she really cared about.
After Purficott personally invested in technological research and development at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, several key technological breakthroughs that had been stuck in the past came naturally. After all, she was really able to cheat and use her 'omniscient' to open up all technological joints.
The Victoria Empire itself was at a critical juncture of technological explosion due to the first industrial revolution.
Previously, due to the impact of doomsday natural disasters, a large amount of resources and manpower had to be invested in other more critical projects, thus affecting technology development.
Now that Purficott has adjusted the direction of the empire's resource investment, new technologies will naturally usher in technology.
As a result, a large number of new technologies emerged like a blowout at this stage, and under the overall planning and coordination of Purficott, they were quickly applied to the places where they were most needed, allowing the entire empire to enjoy the benefits of technological progress in a short period of time. The benefits have brought about rapid changes.
This may not make people feel real at first, but as new technologies are increasingly used and their impact becomes greater, more and more people have indeed felt the changes brought about by technological development. , causing many people to exclaim that good times are back!
Ordinary people may not feel it so deeply, but factories have received more orders, paid more wages and bonuses, the money in their pockets has become thicker, and the goods and goods on the market are more abundant than before. People have changed from one Eating meat once a week has turned into eating meat once every two or three days. This is the most truly good life.
Under such a premise, naturally the public's support for Perficott has been soaring, and even the support rate of this cabinet is also rising.
In just six months, many people even felt that life seemed to have returned to the most prosperous period of the empire, and the northern border seemed to be almost the same as Langton in the past.
This change is undoubtedly astonishing. You must know that Langton's prosperity was built after the empire harvested colonies all over the world and piled them up with massive resources, and the North did not have so many resources.
Although the empire had re-suppressed the colonies before and made them obey the empire again, the colonies were also affected by the doomsday winter. After suffering heavy losses, material production was reduced, people's livelihood was ruined, and there was no oil and water to squeeze out.
Coupled with the impact of the severe cold on transportation, even if the colonies had resources, it was difficult to transport them to the north. This made it possible that although the empire did regain the colonies, they did not bring any positive benefits to the north.
On the contrary, the North also needs to send manpower and resources to help various colonies so that they can cope with the doomsday winter and recover from apocalyptic disasters.
After all, colonies are still very important to the empire. If the colonies can be restored to operation, it will still be of great benefit to the Northern Territory. So after the situation in the north was on track, Perficott sent a fleet of airships to provide technical and economic assistance to the colonies.
Under such circumstances, she can still make the ordinary people in the north feel that their lives are getting better. This has to be said to be a very amazing achievement, and it also makes people wonder what kind of amazing achievements Perficott has achieved. Achievement.
This further enhanced Purficott's reputation, and he gained a reputation as a virtuous person in addition to being a genius and a tyrant.
Some people even compared her with famous kings in history, and finally came to the conclusion that the ancient kings were not even half as good as the regent!
Ever since, someone in Belloberg has started a spontaneous petition to erect a statue of Purficott to commemorate the kindness she brought to the people.
After this matter was reported to the cabinet, the cabinet felt dumbfounded. Although they were surprised by the people's reaction, they really did not dare to refuse the people's request. They were just not sure what Perfectcott himself thought about it.
After all, if Purficott didn't like being worshiped like this, then it would be somewhat offensive for them to build a statue.
However, after asking Purficott for permission and receiving acquiescence, Belloberg's statue was successfully erected.
"This statue is a bit exaggerated. I'm not that tall." This was Purficott's only comment after learning that his statue had been completed and seeing the so-called life-size statue with his own eyes.
Compared to the statues erected by the people, Purficott was more concerned about the flying battleships that had finally begun construction in the shipyard.
It took nearly a year to make preliminary preparations. At present, most of the supporting projects for the flying battleship have been put into production, and there is no big problem in building the main part of the flying battleship.
As for more detailed supporting facilities, it will still take time for the project to be implemented.
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However, even so, there are still some deviations in the progress of the flying battleship project, which is slower than Purficott expected.
The main reason was that during the time she resigned, there were fools in the cabinet who completely disrupted her layout and plans, causing huge delays in the progress of the project.
After she ascended to the position of regent and began to take charge of the power of the empire, although she vigorously carried out reforms and made the flying battleship plan that had been seriously affected catch up, the progress of the plan still failed to reach the level that Purficott expected. .
This also made Purficott pay special attention to the construction of flying battleships. Not only did she go to the factory to supervise the construction, ensuring that the construction progress could meet her plan, but it also allowed her to solve related problems that may arise in a timely manner.
"Chief engineer, about 5.7% of the plates sent from the foundry have quality problems." An engineer reported to Purficott, who was looking at the drawings: "The delivery from the tannery has been delayed again. Yes, this is the third time this quarter.”
"Put the boards that have no problems into the warehouse, and send back the ones with quality problems to have them redone." Without raising his head, Purfico continued to study the drawings in front of the workbench: "Notify the Corruption Eradication Committee and ask them to do it again." The foundry and tannery are conducting investigations to find out what caused these problems without affecting the operations of the two factories. ”
"Yes, Chief Engineer, I'll go right away." The engineer nodded and disappeared in a flash.
Purficott still didn't raise his head, and was always studying the drawings in front of him.
The construction of the flying battleship has only just started, and the cooperation between various departments still needs to be adjusted. In addition, there are always some errors between the actual construction and the drawing design. Perficott needs to do quite a lot.
However, compared to dealing with government affairs, Purficott is actually not averse to this kind of busyness.
Because everything she does can ultimately be intuitively reflected in the construction progress of the flying battleship.
The achievements and progress that can be seen with the naked eye are so motivating. For this reason, Purficott almost worked with an attitude of forgetting all sleep and food.
If the old housekeeper hadn't insisted that Purficott set up Befa's program to remind her to eat and sleep on time, I'm afraid Purficott would really be working without eating or sleeping.
As the person in charge of the entire flying battleship program and the most powerful person in the empire at present, Purficott is so involved, one can only imagine what the state of the industries and factories related to the entire flying battleship program is.
Take the foundry as an example. After the construction of the flying battleship began, they were providing plates to the shipyard.
At the beginning, boards with quality problems accounted for almost 30% of all boards, and it was even as high as 32.7% at one time. On average, one out of every three boards had quality problems.
Although it is not a serious quality problem that completely cannot be used, it still shows that there are big problems in the work of the foundry, and there are many areas that can be improved.
Now, the proportion of plates with quality problems has dropped to 5.7%, almost a fraction of the original level, and all of this is just an improvement completed in the last quarter.
Although this was attributed to Purficott’s help in improving the production process and adding quality inspection procedures, it can still be seen that Purficott’s ‘volume’ had a huge impact on the entire plan.
When your immediate boss's immediate boss is working day and night, it's best to work equally hard if you don't want to die.
Although Purficott did not require everyone to work with the same attitude as her, no one dared to be careless. After all, she was still the regent of the empire and could really decide the life or death of a person or even a group of people with just one sentence.
Especially the investigators of the Corruption Eradication Commission. They really arrested those who committed corruption and sabotage after the meeting and then sent them to trial.
In the North, the understanding that dereliction of duty and not working seriously is a crime has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially the emergence of the first case of being sentenced for slacking off work, which has further intensified the popularity of this understanding.
This has not only slightly improved the production efficiency of the entire northern territory, but also improved the factory's yield rate, which is an unexpected surprise.
Thanks to it, the construction of the flying battleship itself progressed faster than expected, which did not make Purficott very satisfied.
(End of chapter)