Chapter 132 Arrival at the Coal Mine
When the guard carefully woke up Purficott, the train she was riding had been parked on the platform of the coal mine station for an hour.
No one really dares to wake up the Earl of the North when the train arrives at the station. Although she is only fourteen years old, no one in the North will really regard her as a child. to treat.
Especially the guards following her, all of whom had witnessed or even personally participated in the large-scale raids and executions in Xinshak City.
In their eyes, this young countess is simply the embodiment of terror. The nickname Scarlet Alchemist is too unpleasant, but the Scarlet Earl in the mouth of these guards may not be easy to hear either.
If she was unhappy by waking up Purficott and disturbing her rest, no one wanted to bear the consequences of her anger.
However, when Purficott was woken up, she learned that the soldiers woke her up a full hour late and still let the train stop on the platform. The coal mine managers were also on the platform. After waiting for an hour, her face suddenly became very ugly.
"Come here, drag him out, take off his shirt and give him ten lashes, and let everyone watch him being tortured!" Purficott raised his hand and pointed at the soldier, asking him to drag him out at the same time. He also stated the reason for his punishment: "You disobeyed my orders and made everyone delay for a whole hour because of your mistake! If it were on the battlefield, this hour would be enough to change the outcome of a war! I I can shoot you directly!
This is your first offense, it’s just ten lashes, next time I will just twist your head off! As the guards around me, you must remember my order! Absolutely! Regardless of whether you understand it or not, you must follow my orders to the letter!"
After Purficott said, he saw a hint of sympathy and intolerance on the faces of the other soldiers. There was still a trace of dissatisfaction, and it was immediately clear that they were sympathizing with the punished soldier.
After all, in a sense, he didn't wake himself up in time because he wanted to sleep a little longer and was afraid of offending himself.
And the punishment you give him will only make these guards feel that they are unhuman and moody, which will make more and more no one willing to carry out their orders seriously.
So Purficott also hurriedly added: "If you offend me by executing my order, I will not punish you in any way, but will reward you because you executed it. My order.
But if you disobey my order for any other reason, no matter what your reason is, even if I am assassinated and I am about to die, you saved my life. , you will also be punished because you disobeyed my orders!
I hope you remember this, this soldier was punished because he disobeyed my orders, not Because he offended me! Do you understand?”
Purficott spoke loudly so that all the surrounding guards could hear her words.
She didn’t know how effective this was, but at least after she finished speaking, Purficott could clearly feel that the emotions of these soldiers had changed, and they looked at her a little more. Respect and awe, rather than pure fear.
Soon, the soldier who disobeyed the order was stripped of his shirt, tied to a pillar at the station, and then the second lieutenant who led the team personally executed the caning.
While the execution was being carried out, the entire guard was also summoned to watch the entire execution process with the coal mine managers.
After carrying out the caning, the second lieutenant who led the team loudly explained to all the guards why the soldier was punished, and repeated what Perfectcott had just said.
This dissipated a lot of the dissatisfaction of the coal mine managers who had been waiting in the cold for an hour on the station platform. Although this is a show from a certain perspective, it does have a very good effect for these relatively simple-minded people.
At the very least it establishes Purficott's authority and makes obeying her orders deeply rooted in people's minds.
After dealing with the soldier, Purficott was finally able to talk to the managers of the coal mine and ask them about the impact of the snowfall on the coal mine.
"Your Majesty, Earl, the mining of coal mines has completely stopped. We have no way to continue working until the snow stops." An elderly manager explained to Purficott. Holding the pipe, but extinguished.
It seemed that he had finished smoking the tobacco while waiting, but he couldn't continue smoking in front of the young earl, so he could only hold it in his hand.
While he was introducing the situation, Purficott looked outside the station.
The situation here is much worse than that at the fjord camp. The snow has hardly been cleared. The snow that fell all night has reached the height of the station platform, which looks very bad.
Especially now that the snow has not stopped, it is still falling in a state that can be called heavy snow, causing the snow on the ground to thicken visibly to the naked eye.
So when she heard the managers say that there was no way to resume production before the snow stopped, Purficott was not surprised at all. She even shook her head and sneered: "Snow stops? I'm afraid you will all have to wait until the end of this winter. There is no way to resume production! How can you continue to mine coal when the snow is so thick?
You must know that this is only the first snow in the northern border. You still have to face the whole winter, and the entire mine will be buried in snow. ”
Although Purficott had considered the impact of heavy snowfall in the north on coal mining when building supporting facilities for the coal mine, and therefore made some plans to deal with it, but even she had to admit that I underestimated the wind and snow in the north.
The preparations designed to deal with half a meter of snow have become meaningless when facing the snow that is already more than half a meter deep.
< br>"Maybe we could try digging a mine?" Although this is an open-pit coal mine, there are coal seams underground. If a mine is dug, the interference of snow can be eliminated, and coal mining can continue in winter. "The technical engineer wearing glasses next to him proposed a new idea.
Hearing this idea, Purficott looked at the others and asked them: "How feasible is this idea? ? ”
"We can indeed do it, but the ground is frozen in winter. In this weather, we want to dig out the frozen soil and dig a mine..." The manager holding the pipe shook his head and politely rejected the suggestion.
Perfect could tell that if it wasn't in front of him, he would have cursed.
But Purficott does not want coal mining to stop. Although she does not understand the relevant technical issues, she still has a way if she just digs out the frozen soil.
(End of this chapter)