Chapter 261: Selling an Official to Get a Jue
For Perfectcott, it doesn’t matter whether he has money or not.
This is not a false excuse, but money really means nothing to her now.
Not to mention that her various inventions can bring her astonishing wealth as long as she is willing to put them into commercial operations. If Perfectcott, the earl of the northern pioneer, is willing to sell the pioneer documents, she can do it. The rapid acquisition of huge wealth enabled her to live a luxurious life in the future.
This is not nonsense. In fact, someone has expressed to her explicitly or implicitly that they are willing to pay a lot of money to buy a pioneering knight title.
After all, this is a hereditary noble title that can be passed down to future generations. Except for Perficott, only those who have made outstanding contributions to the empire can obtain the rare honorary noble title awarded by the royal family every year, and this cannot be hereditary. of.
New hereditary noble titles are very difficult to obtain in today's Victoria Empire.
If you can get such a title just by spending money, some people are willing to spend a lot of money to buy it.
In fact, if Perficott is willing to sell the appointment document of the Pioneer Knights, a copy can currently be sold on the black market for at least 50,000 gold pounds, and this is still priceless, and the price can continue to increase. of.
For those emerging bourgeoisie who are rich but do not have aristocratic titles, they do not mind spending a sum of money to buy themselves a good-looking title, even if this title may require them to pay more. .
They were able to shell out 30,000 gold pounds just to hold a grand celebration ceremony, and spent another 50,000 gold pounds just to allow Perficott to participate. Obviously, they didn't mind paying more for a hereditary pioneering knight title. It cost me fifty thousand gold pounds.
Big capitalists and big factory owners who have the ability to participate in Perfectcott's projects and plans will not be short of money in their pockets.
However, the only one who is not short of money is Purficott herself, and she must also consider the overall situation of the North.
The current northern border is entirely supported by her personal wealth. A lot of the funds obtained from selling her alchemy workshop and the sponsorship raised from the Arctic expedition plan have been spent.
If the follow-up plan did not require her to pay for it herself, and with the establishment of those factories, tax revenue would flow into the Northern Territory's finances, Perficott might really have to consider selling a few development projects. The knights appointed clerks to finance the deficit.
"Just selling a few pioneer knight appointment documents..." Purficott was seriously considering the feasibility of this matter.
This is not because she is really short of money, but because she is thinking about how much benefit this can bring to herself.
So far, although the northern development plan has begun to be implemented, and the construction of the first development town has also begun, she still feels that the progress of the entire plan is slow.
After all, there is no profit motive. It is difficult to get people to flock to this matter just relying on her guidance and investment.
Without the motivation of profit, those who can come to the north are more ordinary people who can’t make it in the empire or want to improve their lives, or those who have committed crimes or are in debt. And the guys who have to stay away from the empire.
For example, the immigrants who have now settled in Fjord Town, as well as the labor punishment camp that Perficott had prepared before being shipped over by ship.
Just because of an accident, Purficott had people raid the gangsters in the Langton civilian area, and threw them into prison to serve as laborers for the construction of the Arctic scientific research base. However, due to some detailed problems, these laborers who were supposed to be shipped last year are not ready to be shipped until now.
And they also have a relatively formal establishment - a labor punishment camp.
It’s just that compared to the previous time when Purficott just threw gangs in, the labor punishment camp sent by the empire this time also included some prisoners in prisons and prisoners of war captured when the Three Kingdoms declared war. This is also one of the reasons why the punishment camp was not sent to the north immediately.
But this also has an advantage, that is, these people have been trained more or less in the empire, and those disobedient thorns have been dealt with. Now that they are sent here, it saves Purficott a lot of effort.
As for how to use and place these punishment camps, it is currently the focus of Purficott's work.
According to her idea, these punishment camps will be used for project construction in the north, and the factory area where construction is about to begin is a place where they can be used.
And not only the factory area, but also the future northern capital planned by Purficot will be put into construction. These laborers will be very useful, and they may not even be enough.
So Purficott needs to use some means to get those big factory owners to increase their investment, and a noble title of pioneer knight will undoubtedly allow them to invest more in the north.
Who doesn't want to have a hereditary title of nobility and at the same time have a fiefdom that can be passed down from generation to generation?
Using a few appointment documents that he just wrote casually and a few pieces of wasteland in exchange for more resources to invest in the land in the north is a benefit for Purficott. Something that costs nothing.
After all, the land in the north is so vast that even if the entire empire is moved here, it will not be able to fill one-tenth of the area. It is not unacceptable to entrust the land to others for cultivation.
Putting this thing out will also help dangle a carrot in front of those capitalists and factory owners, allowing them to work harder and invest more in the north.
After all, even if the end of the world ends, the empire can still survive as long as the Northern Plan is successful. By then, the noble titles in the Northern Territory will be more valuable than those in the empire itself.
Because those titles in the empire have become empty titles as the empire was abandoned, while the titles in the north are more valuable because they have real territories.
Thinking of this, Purficott decided to take out several appointment documents of pioneer knights for auction at the subsequent celebration ceremony to celebrate the opening of commercial airship routes. One was to make money, and the other It is to encourage more people to come to the north.
Now that the basic conditions in the northern border have been established, more immigrants are needed to fill this empty and vast land.
As for the construction of underground towns, it is not that urgent. Although it does need to be put on the agenda, there are no people and no factories. No matter how much you think about it, it is in vain. You still have to attract people first to get to the point. .
“So you can’t just give them an empty title and land, but also require them to complete the preliminary town construction within a year, otherwise the documents will be withdrawn.” Purficott did not intend to be so direct. He gave the title documents to those businessmen, but planned to draw more blood from them.
(End of this chapter)