Chapter 400 The right to speak of standards
Although the large-scale multi-functional autonomous robot designed by Weier is derived from Perfectcott's large-scale engineering autonomous robot, if the two stand together, they can be seen at a glance. the difference.
If I have to use an analogy to describe it, one looks like a simple craftsman with many tools, while the other looks like a smart and capable courier.
Although the name is multi-functional, the autonomous robot designed by Weier is essentially used to transport goods.
The reason why it is named multi-functional autonomous robot is mainly because it can clear, repair and maintain roads and railways on its own. It also has certain combat functions and can be connected in series or install special cargo boxes. Wait...
Although most of its functions are only for transportation, it does not prevent it from being called multi-functional.
After these robots were made by Weier, they quickly centered on Chernobog and began to deliver supplies to the settlements around Chernobog according to the pre-edited map.
Perficot also asked the industrial center Pripyat to start producing her own designed crawler vehicles, and began to build a transportation logistics center in the north with multi-functional robots and crawler vehicles as the core. network.
But what Purficott is mainly doing here is arranging the mass production of multi-functional robots and crawler vehicles, and popularizing standard freight containers.
And here, what Perficott is most concerned about is the popularization of standard freight containers.
It may sound strange, why does Perficott not focus on the mass production of robots and crawlers, but instead pays more attention to a container?
This is actually easy to understand, because it means standards.
The implementation of standard-sized freight containers means unifying the sizes of all transportation vehicles and freight boxes, and controlling the key say of ports and terminals.
Just like the smuggling issue investigated by Purficott before, although she has the power of life and death in the north, it does not mean that no one opposes her privately, or completely obeys her orders.
But after the introduction of standard freight containers, if these people or forces want to continue to use the logistics system in the north, they must iteratively upgrade their containers and means of transportation. Otherwise, Perficott You can completely block them in one sentence, that is, they do not meet the standard size and cannot be loaded, unloaded, and transported.
You can continue to use your own standards, but this also means you cannot access the freight logistics and markets across the North.
This is similar to the countries in the original world that had the say in setting standards in international trade. They often like to use "your stuff does not meet XX standards" as an excuse to treat those who have no say in international trade. countries carry out so-called sanctions and suppression.
Having the right to speak about standards means being able to force others to hold their noses and abide by your rules, thereby enhancing your own prestige.
This is like a person, others will always listen to what he says. Over time, everyone will naturally develop the habit of listening to him, even if he uses various means to make others listen to him at first.
Perfect does not need to use various means. After all, she is the lord of the North. Her words are law in the North and everyone must abide by them.
But even if there are laws, many people are unwilling to abide by them. Purficott needs to establish enough authority for himself to make the rules and laws of the North more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
She didn’t want anyone to have ulterior motives at this critical juncture when the empire was basically preparing to announce the news of the doomsday winter.
Although she can continue to use iron and blood to suppress everything, she must also consider the oppression that creating bloody massacres will bring to the people's psychology. In the apocalypse, people's psychology is inherently fragile. If they are blindly ruled by high pressure, they will be squeezed to collapse.
It is right to use heavy codes in troubled times, but this does not mean that if you hold a hammer in your hand, you will think that everything is a nail and you have to hammer it on.
Purficott can kill everyone who opposes her, but she can also use various means to win neutral and wavering people to her side instead of killing them all.
Although this may seem satisfying, it will also push some people who may originally support you into the opposite direction.
That’s why Purficott went against the norm this time and adopted such a relatively soft approach to deal with the problem.
Of course, if someone is really ignorant, she will not tolerate these guys. The knife in the north is always sharp.
Another benefit of promoting standard containers is that it can greatly improve the efficiency of cargo transportation and save costs at the same time. This is of great practical significance in the future engineering construction and other aspects of the doomsday winter. .
In this era, the concept of freight logistics basically did not exist. In addition to trains and ships, material transportation was the most primitive horse-drawn carriage.
As for the airships and steam vehicles invented by Perfectcott, these two have not yet been promoted on a large scale in the empire. Although airship transportation has a certain market size, it is not mainstream.
And the cost of airship transportation is too high for the current empire.
Generally speaking, airships are only used to transport some urgently needed or valuable materials, and will not be used simply as transportation vehicles.
This is actually somewhat similar to the airplanes in the original world. Air transportation is indeed fast, but the cost is high. In comparison, railway and sea transportation are much cheaper.
However, road transportation, which was very common in the original world, has not become popular in this world because cars have not been widely promoted.
What Perficott is doing now is to promote and popularize road transportation, a more convenient and faster method of transportation suitable for small-scale logistics transportation, and at the same time promote the rules of standard containers , firmly holding the right to speak in your own hands.
She does not want these important economic lifelines to be controlled by certain capital forces. That would be harmful to the future of the North.
Although as the Northern Lord, she holds both military and legal power in her hands, and can easily control the capital forces, she can't really kill everyone, can she?
Things always need people to do them. Once we enter the apocalyptic winter, there won’t be as many people doing it as now.
Under the apocalyptic winter, human resources will become relatively tight, and capable people are scarce at all times. Purficott does not want to really engage in a major purge at this time.
In short, large-scale multifunctional autonomous robots and steam crawlers, together with standard freight containers, have become the last new policy implemented in the North before the onset of winter.
(End of this chapter)