Chapter 142 Return to New Shake
Almost immediately after the New Year, Perficott became busy again non-stop.
Because her airship had returned from the mainland, Purficott finally had a means of transportation, so she took the airship directly to New Shake City again.
Perfect’s trip this time was not as low-key as last time. As the lord of the north, although she only brought one flag team of White Bear Knights with her, each of them was equipped with steam. Knight armor.
The shock of twelve Steam Knights walking on the streets is unimaginable, especially since the old butler had just created a terrifying legend in this city less than half a year ago wearing Steam Knight armor.
This made the residents of Xinshak City more afraid and awe of the Steam Knight, and also gave them a deeper understanding of the power of the empire's force.
And they finally realized clearly that the scarlet alchemist who caused the massacre in New Shake City was now the lord of the North.
Although these New World people secretly ridiculed and ridiculed the Northern Territory as a barbaric wilderness, they still remained silent in the face of the Earl of the Northern Territory's power and did not dare to be presumptuous in front of her.
Even when Purficott's carriage passed through the street under the guard of a group of steam knights, all the pedestrians on the street stopped involuntarily and lowered their heads.
"They are scared." On the carriage, Purficott looked out the window at the people in New Shaker City acting like frightened quails, and couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.
But this was exactly the effect she needed. A group of people who were frightened was better than a group of bold people who wanted to cause trouble for themselves.
Perfect believed that with their current situation, even if independent elements incited them to start an independence movement, not many people would actually respond.
Of course, the premise is that those independent elements fail to get rid of themselves.
If they can get rid of her, the source of endless fear to the New World people, then the independent elements can use this momentum to launch their independent movement, and maybe there is a chance of success.
Just want to get rid of Perfectikt? She believed that those independent elements did not have the ability to break through the protection of ten steam knights and hurt herself.
You must know that after those professors arrived in the north, Purficott also improved the weapons of the steam knights. Now they use 75mm portable recoilless cannons. Although the power is not comparable to Miss 75 in the original world, it is still enough. Comparable to the 12-pounder cannon of this era.
Ten 12-pound guns, this is the artillery firepower configuration of a division.
Although each steam knight carries not many cannonballs, it is enough to give anyone who intends to assassinate Perfectcott a shock with a small amount of ammunition.
Speaking of which, this incident was also thanks to the young man named Al. Purficott asked him to make nitroglycerin. He completed the task very well and also came up with a method that can stabilize How to prepare such explosives.
This made Purfict look at him with admiration. After all, he could not only complete the tasks assigned by her, but also make additional contributions. This was enough to make him stand out in front of Purfict. .
Now Purficott has put him in charge of nitroglycerine production and trying to find ways to make it more stable.
Although Purficott knew that nitrocellulose could turn nitroglycerine into colloid and stabilize it, she did not directly tell Al the answer this time, but asked him to find the answer on his own.
She really wanted to see if he could complete this research independently. If he could, she would have an extra available talent at her disposal. As for the prepared nitroglycerine, it was turned into a stable explosive under the processing of Purficott herself, and she installed it on the Steam Knight, becoming the current 75mm portable recoilless rifle.
Of course, the shells used by this recoilless rifle can only be rubbed by hand.
Although Purficott put Al in charge of this and gave him some manpower, the output was still very low.
So even her personal guards, these steam knights only carry one magazine and 5 rounds of artillery shells, and their main weapons are blunderbuss and shields.
But even with these, ten Steam Knights alone are enough to fight at least one brigade of troops.
And Xinshang City, the core city of the imperial colony, was attacked by a regiment of troops? Unless the governor of the New World rebels, it is unlikely that Purficott will encounter this situation.
It is indeed questionable whether the governor of the New World will rebel when he already knows that the end of the world is coming.
For Purficott, if the governor of the New World really betrayed the empire, it would still cause great trouble to her plan.
So her appearance in Xinshak City with such an exaggerated guard this time, to some extent, also had the purpose of deterring the governor not to have second thoughts about the empire.
After all, for the entire doomsday response plan, the Governor of the New World is an unavoidable key, and directly replacing the current Governor is an undesirable option, so we can only ensure his loyalty as much as possible. .
As for whether he will be out of his mind and betray the empire for personal gain or other reasons, this is not something that Purficott can control.
All she can do is to intimidate the governor with force so that he will not cause trouble to her.
On this point, during the subsequent meeting between Purficott and the Governor, she also reminded the Governor in a subtle way. Although she did not receive a clear reply, Purficott could see that the Governor did have his own thoughts.
Perfect doesn't care about his little thoughts, as long as he doesn't cause trouble for himself.
If he insists on having trouble with himself, Purficott wouldn't mind letting him see what the top alchemist in the empire can do.
"Please rest assured that I am loyal to the empire and will never affect your plans." The Governor vowed in front of Purficott.
But in Purficott's eyes, he behaved too much like those noble insects in Langton. These vowed words only made her feel hypocritical.
So after agreeing to attend the welcome dinner hosted by the Governor, Purficott did not stay at the Governor's Mansion, but came to Andrew's Steel Company, intending to inspect his factory here.
Of course, in addition to this, Purficott also planned to give him an opportunity to participate in the construction of the Northern Industrial Center.
"It is my honor to serve you, Lord Earl!" Andrew was obviously much better than the Governor. Faced with the olive branch offered by Perficott, he agreed without any hesitation. Come down.
(End of this chapter)