Chapter 443 Riot·Seven
For Princess Anne, reviewing documents is really a kind of torture for her.
It’s not that she doesn’t have the ability, but for Princess Anne, she hates reviewing documents.
Although Her Majesty the Queen forced her to learn how to handle government affairs for a period of time, it can only be said that she is really not suitable for this.
Whether Her Royal Highness the Princess has the ability to handle government affairs, the answer is of course yes.
After all, she was carefully cultivated by Her Majesty the Queen. No matter how mediocre and incompetent she is, she should have some basic political abilities.
What's more, the eldest princess's ability and wisdom are not bad, and she has also learned some things carefully. Generally speaking, although she is not a genius, she can still be worthy of a good evaluation.
In addition, she has the staff and think tanks prepared by the Queen for her. Although the eldest princess cannot be called a wise monarch, she can also be regarded as a steadfast monarch.
Just as Purficott once said about her, if it were a peaceful era, under normal circumstances, the eldest princess would be a benevolent monarch who would inherit the country and control the empire. question.
The imperial family has a great cause, and even if she is a bit more like a virgin, she still can't afford it, and for the common people, an emperor who is a bit like a saint is not a bad thing.
But this is not a time of peace. What the empire needs is a strong monarch with an iron fist. Even a tyrant is better than an indecisive and kind monarch.
There is no other reason, because for the empire now, the most important thing is to make choices and choose which parts should be given up.
When the entire empire cannot be saved, the most appropriate approach for the empire is to give up those parts that cannot be saved.
At this point, the Queen herself is undoubtedly qualified.
Even if it is a major decision such as abandoning the empire's homeland, she can make decisive decisions and choose the choice that is most beneficial to the empire.
From this point, we can see her sophistication and decisiveness as a monarch, not to mention her ability to put the fate of the entire empire on Purficott. This is definitely not a decision that an ordinary king can make.
If it were an ordinary king, even if he knew about the crisis of the end of the world and knew that Perficott had a solution, he would still not be able to hand over such an important task to a teenage girl. He would still let it go. The other party acted recklessly.
Even if it were Purfict herself, she asked herself that if she were to change places, she would not be able to trust herself as much as the Queen trusts her.
Not to mention, it’s not just about trust.
This is a huge gamble with the entire empire and tens of millions of people, betting that Perfection can really come up with a way to save the world, and that she can really do it well.
It can be said that Purficott doesn't know how the Queen governs on weekdays, but from this incident alone, Purficott can feel the Queen's powerful decision-making ability.
Speaking of decisive killing and heroic determination, Purficott felt that this description was not an exaggeration.
But in comparison, Purficott's evaluation of Princess Anne was much worse. Indecisiveness was not enough to describe Princess Anne's problems.
Sometimes Purficott even wonders how on earth she served in the military for so many years and still gained quite a reputation.
After all, Princess Anne’s decision-making ability is really unflattering.
Just like now, Princess Anne came to the door to ask for help, just so that the poor people outside Langton City who could not even receive relief from the empire would not starve to death.
She can actually do this herself. Whether she orders an imperial department to do this or writes an edict to Perficott, she can solve this problem.
Because no matter what, she is the eldest princess of the empire and the first legal heir to the empire.
What she holds in her hands is the power of the empire second only to the queen herself! Although this power has gradually been transferred to the aristocratic parliament and the democratically elected parliament due to changes in the empire's political system over the years, making the empire more like a country with separation of powers.
But as the first heir to the empire and the representative of imperial power, Princess Anne still holds a very high status in this political structure.
So even if her order would break and affect Purfict's original plan, if Princess Anne really wanted Purfict to do something, Purfict would have no way to directly refuse or disobey.
Although with Purfict's influence today, it is not a problem to overturn one or two orders that she thinks are unreasonable. Even the Queen will not punish Purfict for this kind of thing. , but she still won't do it easily.
In the end, even with Purfico’s current power and status, she still needs to consider the reaction of the entire empire. If she really lives her life as a powerful minister like Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo, it is also Purfico. Unwilling to do so.
In comparison, Purficott admired Huo Guang even more.
In a sense, Purficott feels that his current position is similar to that of Huo Guang, who deposed the emperor.
However, besides Liu He, Huo Guang also had Emperor Xuan to choose from, while Purficott only had Princess Anne in front of him.
If Princess Anne is really not good enough to take on the important task, Purficott will really not be able to find a candidate to replace her for a while.
Although the emperor is not necessary, at this critical moment of the end, any turmoil may cause irreparable consequences. Perfectcott does not want the center of the empire to undergo huge changes at this time. and shock.
Because that means she must spend a lot of time and energy to clean up the situation and re-establish a functioning political system. This is really a waste of time.
Abolition of the monarchy is not what should be considered now.
So even though he knew that Princess Anne's performance was unsatisfactory, Purficott could only push her to that position as much as possible.
But overall, Princess Anne didn't have many problems, it was just her unbridled sympathy and compassion.
Sympathy and compassion are naturally two beautiful qualities. If a monarch has such qualities, it will certainly be a good thing for the people at the bottom.
This means that at least she will not impose excessive taxes, at least she will not treat the people like dogs and chickens.
If it is a normal season or a peaceful era, the name of a benevolent king is indispensable.
In addition, Princess Anne has no major problems or flaws in her character, and she will not show mercy when it is time to kill someone. At least during this period, Purficott arranged for her to clean up Langton's corruption problem, and she was not merciless at all when it came to killing people.
At the same time, as a royal princess with a military background, Princess Anne is actually not bad at making decisions. She does not really make mistakes when it is time to make decisions.
And this is one of the reasons why Purficott is willing to help. After all, she has not delayed her business, and a little problem is acceptable.
What's more, a monarch with a benevolent heart is better than a mean and unkind guy who uses people to go forward but not people to go behind, right? At least you don't have to worry about being killed.
Although for Purficott, she was not worried about this issue at all.
So for Purficott, Princess Anne is indeed not very qualified as the heir to the throne, nor is she the most suitable person to sit in that position at the moment, but until she can find someone to replace her, Purficott Ficott didn't think there was anything wrong with her that warranted her replacement.
But no matter what, Purficott was unhappy with the unnecessary increase in workload.
This also made her look unhappy when she went out of the city to check on the situation of the poor people.
Poor people and civilians are just one word apart, and the situation between them can be said to be worlds apart.
Although the lives of the civilians living in Xiacheng District are also very difficult, at least the empire is still distributing relief food to them, and most of them have tiles to cover their heads, beds to sleep on at night, and quilts to keep out the cold.
Although life is difficult, at least we can find ways to maintain it.
The poor outside the city are completely different. They are literally dying.
Just when Purficott disguised his identity and came to the outside of Langton City under the escort of the personal guard knight Samantha, the Holy See Inquisitor Sabel, and the secretly protected female assassin Claudia, he planned to When she got to know the situation, she saw at least one car of "bodies" being towed away in front of her.
The reason why it is "corpse" in quotation marks is because Purficott could clearly sense that the people in the car were not completely dead.
In addition to the dozens of real corpses in the car, there were also about seven or eight people who were still alive.
But Purficott did not rescue her because she knew she could not be saved.
Those people's bodies have already fallen into a state of total exhaustion due to hunger and cold, like oil residue that has been squeezed dry, and they no longer have enough vitality or energy to keep them alive.
To describe it in one sentence, the oil is exhausted and the lamp is about to die. Compared with the dead, they just have one more breath.
Even if Purficott rescued them and provided them with food and medicine, their bodies would not have enough energy to absorb and digest it.
Unless Purficott uses the Philosopher's Stone to activate human body refinement and forcibly reshape their bodies, none of them will survive.
If placed in the original world, it would probably be multiple organ failure throughout the body caused by long-term malnutrition and starvation. Even with the medical conditions in the original world, it would be difficult to save it regardless of the cost.
If only one or two people were like this, Purficott would be saved if he saved her. But there were seven or eight people in the car she saw who were like this. No matter how capable Purficott was, Even force can't save him.
Not to mention that there are more "living corpses" on the roadside who are in slightly better conditions than them, but in fact they are not much different.
Looking at this scene, Purphycott could understand why Princess Anne came to ask for help. After all, seeing these people starving to death, not to mention Princess Anne, even if it was Purphycott, Ficott himself found it difficult to accept.
"Do you know what is the most difficult disease to treat in the world?" Purficott was walking on the road, and when he passed by a child who was crying and had no strength, he threw a piece of black bread next to him. , asked Samantha and Sabel beside him.
The child's eyes lit up immediately when he saw the bread. He didn't care that Purficott threw it directly into the dirty water on the ground, grabbed the bread and gnawed it.
This move immediately caused a commotion, and people who still had some strength began to gather towards Perfectcott, trying to beg for some food.
Although she had deliberately changed into ordinary clothes, her rosy complexion and strong steps still attracted many people to spy and covet her.
But Purficott didn't care about this, because she didn't really go out for a stroll with just a few guards.
At this moment, above her head is her own flying yacht, with an entire fleet of steam knights and a team of flying knights on standby. If something unexpected happens, she only needs to hold on for one minute and a team of steam knights will be there. Falling from the sky.
Judging from the conditions in the slums that she saw, there was really nothing here that could threaten her life within a minute, let alone the possibility of resisting the attack of the Steam Knight.
I just looked at the guys around me who only had one breath more than the corpses, and whose appearance was no different from living corpses, surrounding me like zombies, even Samantha had already faced the dragon directly. The knight couldn't help but hold on to the weapons and flares on his body, preparing to directly summon reinforcements.
However, Purficott held her down and just kicked down a guy who was trying to grab her clothes. He quickly crossed the street with two guards.
When he was about to leave, Purficott took out another piece of bread from his body, activated alchemy to enlarge it and divided it into a large number of small pieces, then threw it behind him.
Those people gathered towards Purficott because of food. When they saw a large amount of bread, they immediately started fighting for it. Who would continue to pay attention to Purficott?
So Purficott simply got rid of the trouble he was trapped in, and then came to another street.
It was only then that Purficott answered his question: "The most difficult disease to treat in the world is the disease of poverty. What you see now is what the disease of poverty looks like when it reaches the point of terminal illness. "
Looking at the scene in front of her that was like a hell on earth, Sabel couldn't help but pray to Quan's father: "Quan's father is watching over this place to protect all suffering."
" Quan's father. I don’t know whether the empire is looking at this place, but if the empire doesn’t look at this place, I’m afraid the heretics will look at this place.” As a knight who adheres to the knight’s creed, Samantha really can’t bear to see such a scene and wants to help these people. Poor man.
However, Purficott didn't say anything else. He just led the two of them deeper into the slum, wanting to know more and investigate the place.
Because she noticed something amiss, which made her think that maybe it wasn't the heretics who were looking at this place, but the heretics were already looking at this place.
"This is a slum, why are there alchemical creations?" Purficott looked at a strange street lamp beside the road.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is just an ordinary street lamp, but in the eyes of Purficott, this street lamp is an alchemical creation, and it is constantly collecting blood from the poor who cannot survive. Resentment, and their souls.
(End of this chapter)