Chapter 317: Help them look decent
The merchants’ protests were quickly submitted to Purficott.
Looking at the letter of protest that was sent to him, Purficott even had the urge to laugh in anger.
“Do these guys really think that the North cannot do without them? Or do they think they have the ability to influence the decision-making of the entire empire?” Purficott threw the protest letter aside and shouted Captain William Richard of the Knights of the White Bear.
"Your Majesty, are you looking for me?" Captain William saluted Purfict, and then asked Purfict about the purpose of summoning him.
"Because I hanged a businessman who was disrespectful to me before, businessmen from the New World who came to invest in the north have united to try to put pressure on me." Purficott told Captain William what happened, and then used a Looking at him with scrutinizing eyes: "I leave this matter to you to handle, I need a satisfactory result."
Hearing Purficott's order, Captain William first said: Surprised, and then felt flattered and delighted.
As the leader of the White Bear Knights, Captain William hopes that he can make great achievements. After all, he was "assigned" to a place like the North. He originally thought that he would retire and wait to die.
But he didn't expect a turn of events. Not only did he not wait for death, he also surpassed his peers in the empire and became a steam knight.
Not only that, even the White Bear Knights became one of the few all-steam knights in the entire empire because of Perficott, which suddenly made his reputation as the leader of the knights soar to a level Very high level.
As a result, Captain William's loyalty to Purfict naturally increased and he became a die-hard loyalist of Purfict. He swore allegiance to Purfict just like the relationship between knights and lords in the past.
Under such circumstances, Captain William was naturally eager to fulfill his obligations as a knight for the lord to whom he was loyal and bring her victory and glory.
However, in the Northern Conquest, only two flag troops were dispatched to eliminate all the resisting enemies. In the Seventeenth Day War, Purficott directly used thermobaric bombs to level everything. There was no need for the Northern Territory at all. For matters that he, the leader of the knights, personally dispatched, at most he only needed to send out a flag team of steam knights to solve all the troubles.
Even for dragon slaying, a feat that could last a lifetime, he didn't get a coat of arms that could be painted on his shield.
This made Captain William very depressed, and he felt a sense of frustration that he had nowhere to show his talents.
However, his loyalty and faith as a knight and his self-discipline as a soldier still allow him to always perform his duties seriously and do everything well instead of complaining to others about his underappreciated talents.
And now, the opportunity he was looking forward to finally came, and Perficott finally gave him a task to prove his ability.
Feeling that he was finally able to put his talents to use, Commander William swept away his previous frustration and depression and became excited.
But even so, Captain William cautiously asked Perficott: "Your Majesty, how far do I need to go?"
"To what extent? Let them stop. Just raise an objection." After thinking for a while, Purficott gave a very indifferent answer: "Without the businessmen from the New World and the businessmen from the empire, I can still get money from the empire center even if they don't invest. And the aristocratic group can obtain enough investment to support the construction of the entire northern territory.
Even if I take a step back, it won't be a problem for me to spend my own money to build industries in the north. So for the North, those merchants are not necessary, do you understand?
Those businessmen are not important to me, and their money is not important to me, but the lack of protests against them is important to me. "
Hearing what Perficott said, Captain William suddenly understood. He nodded solemnly and said: "Please rest assured, I will bring two flag teams. Steam Knight goes to deal with this matter. ”
The steam knights of two flag corps are enough to bulldoze the industrial center that is still under construction.
There is no doubt that the implication is that they will not hesitate to use force to completely quell this incident.
Captain William's remarks were a test and an expression of Purficott. He was eager to make achievements, so he naturally needed to attract Purficott's attention.
This matter is actually easy to solve in nature, but he must do it beautifully and in line with Purficott's wishes in order to leave a sufficient impression on Purficott and let him He can be more reused by Purficott, instead of just being a knight leader with no sense of existence.
That’s why he escalated matters that could only be handled by an eloquent civilian official to the point of directly dispatching steam knights.
For Purficott, this is actually an insignificant matter. If she handles it by herself, she may do the same thing.
So she nodded with satisfaction and told Captain William again: "If they want to be decent, let them be decent; if they don't want to be decent, help them be decent."
"I understand. ." Captain William knew that he was safe.
However, just when he turned around and was about to leave Purficott's laboratory, Purficott warned again: "Don't worry about those workers, they have to continue working for the North. "
"Yes!" Commander William knew clearly who to target this time.
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What happened in the north was quickly reported back to the empire, and Langton's empire center soon learned about it.
In the imperial meeting chaired by Princess Anne, this matter was also discussed to discuss the attitude of the empire center to deal with this matter.
Although from any point of view, Purficott could handle this matter by himself, Princess Anne still felt a little uneasy about this matter.
However, she brought this matter up to the imperial meeting for discussion, but did not let anyone else have any opinions. Among all the participants, the military first clearly expressed its disapproval of Perfectcott. Support, and even said that a capital ship from the navy could be transferred to the northern border to support Perficott.
“In terms of force deterrence, Count Brandlis has a steam knights, a guard division and several airships in her hands. If she is willing to use them, she can easily eliminate the merchants who oppose her. The Duke of Gloucester rejected the military's proposal. He pointed out the crux of the problem: "What Earl Brandlis needs now is more legal and economic support. We should pass a law in the empire." The law prohibiting child labor provides Earl Brandlis with a legal basis, and it should also speed up the transfer of the empire's local industrial industries to the north."
(End of this chapter)