Chapter 47 The Benefits of War
Although with Princess Anne's guarantee, Purficott's trust in O'Connor is still limited. After all, the operation of this guy really makes her have a good impression of him. I owe you.
So in the end, O'Connor was thrown into the prison camp by Purficott, but he was not thrown in as a prisoner of war, but as a manager.
The task given to him by Purficott was to manage and organize the group of imprisoned gangsters, allowing them to build the prisoner-of-war camp on their own while maintaining order in the prisoner-of-war camp.
This task is not difficult. For a former mercenary officer like O'Connor, it can only be considered complicated, not even troublesome.
Therefore, he accepted this task without any obstacles.
Of course, Purficott had no intention of leaving this man in a prisoner of war camp. After all, she still needed O'Connor to provide security services for the exploration team.
She also made this clear to O'Connor. After he completed the construction of the prisoner-of-war camp and managed the prisoner-of-war camp without any trouble, Perficott would call him along when the exploration team set off.
As for his time in the prisoner of war camp? Think of it as his punishment for letting Purficott step into a dangerous area.
After dealing with O'Connor, Purficott left with Princess Anne.
However, they did not return to Windsor Castle, but went to Brandlis Manor under the escort of the knights of the guard.
In fact, this is the main reason why Princess Anne caused such a big battle today and even brought the knights of the guard.
"I have already seen the design of the steam knight that you asked Butler Foster to submit to the military. I have to say that this is really a genius design!" Princess Anne praised Perfectcott with a look in her eyes. He couldn't hide his surprise and shock: "You should have seen the expressions of those old men in the military at that time. They were just dancing with your blueprints! I have never seen the generals of the empire look like that."
< br>"They are all people of my grandfather's generation. They have witnessed the last glory of the knight era. It is understandable that they want to revive the glory of the knight." Perficott is not surprised by this. In this matter, just look at Foster knew what these old guys thought of the Steam Rider.
The birth of the steam engine shattered the foundation on which the chivalry system relied for survival. The emergence of new weapons changed the original military system, and the empire no longer needed knights to charge into battle.
This made many old knights and nobles of that generation feel very disappointed and uncomfortable at the same time.
The Brandless family, as the last group of knights to be knighted for military merit, is classified as conservative at this point.
That is, the faction of old generals in the military department. They are all old guys with high positions in the empire, and have experienced the war between the empire and France for world hegemony. Not only do they have rich war experience, but they also have medals.
This makes those young men or reformists often lack the confidence to speak loudly in front of them. After all, these old guys are all knights, and most of their general titles were obtained by actually killing people.
In other words, these old guys have realized that after the emergence of steam engines, the form of warfare has also changed, and they have actively catered to the changes. Otherwise, with their power, maintaining the old traditions is not really a big problem.
One can imagine how excited these old guys would be when they knew that there was a way for the knights to regain their position on the battlefield. It’s just...
Perfect thought of a question, so he asked Princess Anne: "But the world is about to be destroyed, we should concentrate our precious resources on building shelters Isn’t it a bit... inappropriate to expand armaments at this time in order to cope with disasters?”
“Little Purficott, I don’t believe that you can’t understand why those old generals are excited because of your intelligence? ." Princess Anne glanced at Purficott with a smile, and then explained: "The world is indeed about to be destroyed, but only we know this, France does not know, and neither do other countries.
So if they see that the empire is piling a lot of resources on some unknown projects, will they take advantage of it and launch a war against the empire?
And even if the empire tells them the news of the coming disaster, or if someone among them discovers the disaster like you, the war will still break out!
Don’t forget, you said it yourself, we can’t save everyone, and the same goes for other countries. At this time, all countries need to abandon a large number of people at the bottom. "
At this point, the expression on Princess Anne's face became a lot more playful, and then she asked Purficott an almost heart-wrenching question: "You said that at this time, they What is the first thing that can be thought of that can consume a large amount of people and legitimately collect a large amount of resources? ”
Hearing Princess Anne’s analysis, Purficott couldn’t help but take a deep breath, and then sighed helplessly.
It can consume a large number of people, and at the same time it can be justified. Squeezing his own people and collecting a lot of resources for the construction of key projects, Purficott can only think of one thing, and that is war
A war of unprecedented scale, because only in this way can we consume enough of the population and collect enough resources, in exchange for the survival of a small number of people at the expense of the majority of the grassroots population.
For various countries, this is really a solution that sounds very good.
In order to deal with possible threats in war, it is necessary to build strong bunkers to protect the survival of important people.
In order to cope with the needs of large-scale wars, the country needs to implement a wartime system, pool resources and labor, and move them all into military industry and related industries. Entertainment and other industries must make concessions.
Under such circumstances, it is impossible for anyone to detect that some resources are allocated to disaster response plans.
After all, no one will investigate these things in depth until the war is over, and when disaster strikes, neither the war nor these things will matter.
An even greater benefit of the war is that it can regulate news. Although the news industry in this era has not developed as exaggeratedly as in the world before Perfection traveled through time, media such as newspapers have already appeared. .
Using the excuse of war to avoid publishing some news in newspapers that the authorities do not want to see is something that the government likes to see.
Not to mention that war can throw a large number of social instability factors into military camps and then send them to the battlefield. As long as they die, there will be no instability factors.
And not only are social instability factors, the large number of people at the bottom of the population can also be consumed in a planned way during wars, and the saved resources can be used to ensure the survival of a small number of people.
(End of this chapter)