Chapter 540: Center and Local Areas·Part 2
The empire’s finances are running out of money. This is a very counter-intuitive thing, but when I think about it, it is very reasonable.
With the advent of doomsday natural disasters, the empire will only need to spend more and more money, and the money will be spent more and more, but the revenue of the empire's finances is spent with the empire's center. The speed is the same, but decreases in inverse proportion.
The reason is simple. One of the main sources of revenue for the empire's finances is colonial trade.
Not only the various benefits brought by direct trade, but also the entire industrial system of the empire relied heavily on various colonies to provide it with raw materials for production.
A considerable part of the industrial products produced by these factories were to be dumped back to the colonies.
Once again, one can imagine how much profit the empire can make from the colonies.
So, when the climate gradually cooled and the oceans froze, which seriously affected the trade between the empire's mainland and the colonies, it was conceivable that the empire's fiscal revenue would decrease.
It can be said that until now, the empire's finances have not gone bankrupt, and can even support the relocation of the empire's center from the mainland to the north, and the construction of a new city to house various departments of the empire's center. The Duke of Gloucester The long-awaited efforts with the Chancellor of the Exchequer have come to fruition.
Under such circumstances, it is expected that the imperial finance will spend a large amount of money to mobilize six steam knights to fight against the steam knights in the hands of Purficott, and win is not guaranteed. After that, there will be huge military expenditures...
What do you think will happen to the fool who dares to propose this idea to the chancellor?
So for the empire, go to war with the North? Doesn't exist.
This is also why the expansion of the White Bear Knights has become an established fact, and Princess Anne came to Perphycott to persuade her not to overstaff the White Bear Knights.
That’s right, Princess Anne came to see Purfict not because Purfict added 60 steam knights to make her more powerful, but just because the White Bear Knights took over With these sixty knights, its scale seriously exceeded the scale of the empire's conventional knights.
This is a very bad sign because Purficott broke the rules.
When dealing with a person who abides by the rules, you can restrain him within the scope of the rules. At least you know that the other person will not do anything, and the other person will not really act unscrupulously.
But when a person who abides by the rules starts to disobey the rules, especially when the opponent is a strongman who seems to be decisive in killing and holding heavy troops, who will not panic?
So this has resulted in a small matter that was originally not weighing four or two, being suddenly placed in the spotlight and becoming a big deal that cannot be weighed down even if it weighs a thousand pounds.
It’s just that those guys were really afraid of death. They were afraid that Purfict might not have intended to make a big fuss, but if they really pursued it, it would lead to Purfict breaking the pot, so they simply sent Steam Knight to kill them all. Eliminate it, so we are trying every means to prevent this matter from expanding.
To put it more bluntly, they are fighting against two wolves.
Even if he was afraid that Perfecticot would really break the rules, he was also afraid that Perfecticot would continue to obey the rules.
In short, after they tried so hard and almost scratched their heads, they still chose to let Princess Anne come to talk to Purficott. Such a candidate would at least not intensify conflicts in their opinion.
But Purfict's stubborn attitude greatly disappointed Princess Anne. She originally thought that she could persuade Purfict to at least not expand the White Bear Knights, even if it meant Let Perficott have one more knighthood under his command. This matter actually doesn't matter to Purficott himself.
She can choose to expand the size of the White Bear Knights, or she can also choose to build another knighthood in addition to the White Bear Knights.
With her power and status, as long as she could afford to support her, it would be no problem to get two more knights.
But Purficott very strangely chose an attitude that seemed strange to others, and used a very determined attitude to demand the expansion of the White Bear Knights.
There is certainly a reason for this that "The White Bear Knight is the symbol of the North" as Purficott said, but for Purficott, this reason is actually very far-fetched.
She is the first pioneering earl of the North, the current patriarch of the Brandlis family, and the upright guardian of the North.
If she really wanted to send her knights to handle certain things on her behalf, Purficott didn't actually need to let the knights use the White Bear Knight as their identity symbol.
Although the White Bear Knight symbolizes force and status in the north, this does not mean that the envoys sent by Purficot cannot prove their identity and status.
Any knight can explain things clearly in a few words. Why do they need to use the status symbol of the White Bear Knight?
At the worst, an additional knighthood will be established. Calling them the White Bear Knights or the Northern Knights is also a way to directly overcome the problem.
However, so far, Purficott has fully demonstrated her determination and preparation on this issue, and even set up a trap for this, waiting for someone to step into her because of this matter. In the trap set.
"As for whether I did something inappropriate and how this matter should end, I think it should be a very easy thing." The answer that sounded a bit convoluted made Per Ficott seemed to feel nostalgic, but she never changed her decision.
It's just that no one except herself really knows what Purficott is going to do and why she is doing it.
“I don’t understand, what are you thinking about?” Faced with Purficott’s ignorant attitude, even Princess Anne showed deep confusion. .
Her attitude is far from being tough, or intimidating and oppressing Purfict. After all, the purpose of all parties in the empire is just to solve this problem, not to really provoke Purfict. The hair was completely blown away.
But now Purficott behaves as if she has been greatly wronged and pressured. It is an act of resistance that she has to make under the heavy pressure of imperial rule.
"Perfect, the empire has no intention of targeting you. You don't have to be so wary of Maimang. Is there anything we can't sit down and talk about? Even if you have any request, you can Tell me your request first!" Princess Anne spoke earnestly to Purficott, always trying to persuade him.
But Purficott's attitude was so determined that everyone was shocked.
(End of this chapter)