Chapter 515 Purficott’s Purpose
After the shares were divided and these noble ladies all said that they would send the money later, the tea party held by Purficott was concluded successfully.
However, after sending the others away, Purficott discovered that Princess Anne did not leave, but looked at him with curiosity and scrutiny.
This made Purfict a little strange, so he sat down in front of her again and asked Princess Anne: "What's wrong, Aunt Anne, is there something on my face? Look at me like this." "
"I'm just curious, why do you want to build a sugar factory and bring these people together?" Princess Anne asked her own question, and she counted her fingers as she spoke: "Ge. The Duchess of Rossiter, Lady McClintock, the Marchioness of Demel...
Not to mention that their husbands are all members of the Imperial Council, but their maternal families play a very important role in the empire. I am very curious as to why you want to win over them. "
"In order to stabilize the current situation in the north. "Perfect was very direct and did not hide his purpose.
After she reached for the teapot and poured herself a cup of tea, she sipped and said: "With the continuous migration of the imperial nobility, At present, frictions between the local dignitaries in the north and the northern dignitaries occur from time to time.
Although both sides have maintained restraint and have not escalated the struggle, if you look through the pile of reports on my desk that is getting higher and higher, you will know that they have not stopped at all. ”
Remembering the pile of reports on his desk about the various frictions between the local dignitaries and the northern dignitaries, Purficott felt a headache.
Although she was too lazy to dig through the pile of things, and most of the time they were only used as fuel for making fires, but just because there were so many of these things that could be used to make fires, she knew how serious the problem was.
Although Purficott expected a conflict between the local dignitaries and the northern dignitaries from the beginning, she really didn't expect it to reach this level.
Logically speaking, the powerful people in the Northern Territory were all part of the local faction not long ago. After all, it has only been less than three years since the establishment of the Northern Territory. Most of them are Migrated from the Empire mainland or the New World.
But once people are related to interests, the formation of factions is a natural thing.
Those pioneering nobles who came to the North and obtained fiefdoms, those capitalists who had business dealings with the North and worked carefully in the North...
These people soon formed interest groups and political factions belonging to the North and began to seek greater power and interests for themselves.
When the northern border was just the northern border, their development and expansion went very smoothly. After all, no one in the northern border would compete with them for the meat in their mouths. All they had to do was race and enclose the land.
Perfect is also a person who doesn't care much about this kind of thing. She doesn't care about faction issues, as long as these people can work for her.
As for the fact that the faction will grow bigger and threaten her rule over the North, there is nothing to worry about.
Because the most important legal basis for the formation of the northern faction was the title of Earl of Development on Perficott's head.
This title determined that Perficott could legally include the entire Northern Territory within her fiefdom, and the entire Northern Territory was also her territory.
The people in the Northern Faction can only obtain enough benefits to feed them by supporting her, so they only love and have no objection to Purficott.
Of course, it is not that no one within the northern faction is thinking about getting more, they still have some ideas about Perficott's rule.
But this is not a problem for Purficott, as long as she still holds the Steam Knight in her hand.
Compared with the northern factions, the local dignitaries also want to gain benefits. Originally, the local dignitaries looked down upon the three melons and two dates in the Northern Territory. However, after the mainland was abandoned and the entire empire center was moved to the Northern Territory, the Northern Territory immediately became the core and most important territory of the empire.
At this time, any interests related to the Northern Territory have become a piece of cake in everyone's eyes.
So those local dignitaries who were hurt by the relocation of the empire's center naturally focused on these interests in the north.
It’s just that these benefits are meat in other people’s mouths. If they want to eat, they can only fight with the northern factions.
The restraint of both parties is just an unspoken rule that they do not want the matter to escalate. After all, once the matter escalates and attracts the attention of Perfectcott or higher-ranking imperial dignitaries, then the interests of these three melons and two dates can be Not enough for the big guys to share.
Naturally, Purficott did not want the two factions to fight too hard, let alone any rift between the Northern Territory and the Empire itself.
That’s why she hopes to use this method to allow the empire’s local dignitaries to participate in the distribution of interests in the north, thereby easing the conflicts between the local dignitaries and the northern factions.
Of course, this is only one of Purficott's purposes in building the sugar factory.
The most fundamental purpose is to solve the problem of sugar supply.
After all, once the doomsday winter comes, unless she really builds a large-scale greenhouse to grow sugar cane or beets to make sugar, it will be difficult to obtain enough sugar to maintain the supply.
The importance of sugar needs no further elaboration, and it also has another important role in enriching the variety of food.
You must know that if a person only eats one kind of food, he will really die.
The most famous example is the rabbit meat famine problem. A simple summary of this problem is that if people only eat rabbit meat, they will starve to death.
Because the fat content of rabbit meat is very low, if you only eat rabbit meat, you will basically get protein, and the energy required by the human body to digest protein is greater than the energy the human body obtains from protein. .
This will cause you to eat more and lose weight, and eventually starve to death because your body is depleted of energy and does not have enough energy to digest food.
For the North, such a situation will certainly not happen. The alchemical compressed biscuits made by Purficott can provide enough energy.
But this thing... It's okay to use it to satisfy your hunger, but if you eat too much, or eat it all the time, it will make people taste bad, unable to swallow, and even cause severe anorexia.
And another very important point is that a rich variety of food on the table can greatly improve people’s satisfaction and happiness. If you want to maintain social stability, this is a very critical question.
When there is only bread on the table, there is no doubt that the level of dissatisfaction among the people will be quite high.
After all, solving the problem of eating enough and solving the problem of eating well are two completely different concepts.
(End of this chapter)