Chapter 156
Compared with Purficott’s long sea voyage to the New World, the flying speed of the airship can be said to be extremely efficient across the ages.
In less than 50 hours of flight time, the urban area of Langton City has already appeared in Purficott's sight.
Looking at the city below shrouded in the smog brought by industrial production, Purficott actually felt as if he was in another world.
This scene of an industrialized city spewing thick smoke and the entire city shrouded in smoke was a memory that she only had in the original world when she was a child before she traveled through time. It was no longer common in her elementary school years. .
Although the same scene can be said to be commonplace in this world, looking up from the ground to see a city shrouded in clouds and mist and looking down from the air are two completely different perspectives and give people completely different feelings.
“Human beings…” Purficott couldn’t help but sigh. Industrialization has brought changes to the entire world, but it has also cost mankind an unimaginable price.
Before the industrial revolution, human beings had a very limited impact on the entire world. Human survival depended more on the face of nature. Even the largest cities in the world had very limited damage to nature.
But with the progress of the industrial revolution, human productivity has developed unprecedentedly, and the extent of human damage to nature has also been far greater than in the past.
It can even be said that in the 100 years since the Industrial Revolution, humans have done more damage to nature than in the past thousand years, and with the continuous development of science and technology, the extent of human damage to nature will only become more and more serious. Until changes in the natural environment threaten human survival, they will turn their heads and pay attention to all this.
In fact, Langton, as the capital of the empire, is already facing this problem to a large extent.
Just like Purficott preferred to live in the family's suburban manor rather than the villa in the city, the poor and poor air quality caused a large number of nobles to move to the suburbs and countryside.
If there are no accidents, maybe someone will soon realize the various problems caused by the deterioration of the urban environment in the future.
It’s just that humans in this world probably don’t have time to think about this problem. The arrival of the end of the world is enough for everyone to fully realize what it means that everyone will die if they can’t survive.
Perfect's sigh only lasted for a short while. As the airship gradually approached the city, she overlooked the city below her feet, and her thoughts gradually returned to the matters that urgently needed to be solved at the moment.
War, this vexing problem.
For this war that she still doesn't understand why it broke out, Purficott actually doesn't have many other emotions except the annoyance that the plan has been disrupted.
She was not worried that she could not solve the matter.
What a joke, with airships and steam knights, if she can't help the empire win this war, then she might as well find a pit to bury herself, and talk about saving the doomsday crisis!
Not to mention, on the way back, she took advantage of the undisturbed time on the airship to further improve her plan, and she was confident enough to end the war in a short time. .
Although her methods may be too harsh and cruel, if this war is allowed to last for a year and a half, not to mention the impact on the entire doomsday response plan, just the resources consumed and time wasted are all that humans have now. Unacceptable.
So she must use a shocking victory to bring the three countries that actively provoked the war back to the negotiating table.
This victory must have enough deterrence, even defeating their army head-on with steam knights will not work. On the one hand, the other side has not assembled all its forces at this time. Although war has been declared, only the standing armies of the three countries are still in action.
Although these troops are the elite troops of the three countries, and their numbers are large, but for a country in the industrial era, as long as war mobilization begins, they can pull out several times this amount at any time. army until their own country’s human resources are drained.
Therefore, it is meaningless to just use the Steam Knight to attack the enemy army and annihilate more than ten or two hundred thousand people.
It can even be said to have the opposite effect, making the Three Kingdoms fully aware of the power of the Steam Knight, making them feel that if they cannot take this opportunity to defeat the Empire, or force the Empire to the negotiating table, then the Three Kingdoms will have to Will be crushed by the Empire.
This is why Purficott came up with the current plan. She must give the three countries a heart-breaking loss, so that they will not only be unable to start another war, but also make them in a short period of time. For a time, I felt the despair of surrendering.
Even if it means she literally slaughters millions of people.
"If I want to do this, I must convince the military to assemble the power of the entire empire for my use..." Purficott reviewed her plan again, even though she came up with it all by herself. , but it still made her sincerely feel the threat that the development of human science and technology posed to the entire world.
If it was before the industrial revolution, even if she came up with this method, there would be no way to implement it.
Only countries that have truly entered the industrial era can meet the prerequisites for her crazy plan.
"The next step is to convince the military and the parliament to support my plan. The group of insects in the parliament are not easy to deal with!" Purficott shook his head. Although she has enough strength at the moment in the capital of the empire, She wanted to directly grab the valuables, but considering the constraints of various factors, she still couldn't do it.
On the contrary, no matter how much reluctance and dissatisfaction she has in her heart, Purficott still has to make do with the nobles of the noble council, at least to get along with her face.
After all, the Empire is not yet at the point where she can do whatever she wants, and even if she does issue such an order, there is a question as to whether the White Bear Knights will carry it out.
"Perhaps I can make myself a batch of self-disciplined steam knights?" This thought came to Purficott's heart.
She has no idea what the future world will be like. At this time, if she has a reliable armed force that will never betray, even if it is just a group of machines, it can bring great harm to people. sense of security.
Although Purficott is now close to the empire, there are people who support her in the royal family, the noble council, and the military. It can even be said that the majority supports her.
But... once her plan is successfully implemented, it is hard for Purficott to imagine how many people will support her.
After all, she will make countless people fear and fear her. Purficott doesn’t think that there will be so many people supporting her now, and no one will reject or oppose her.
The illustration is the inside of the Zeppelin airship. You can see that the internal space is actually very large. Although the carrying capacity of the airship is indeed not high, if it is just a knights, it is still no problem
(End of this chapter)