Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 137 Industrial Chain

Despite his helplessness, Purficott still had no good way to change the current situation.

Apart from sending a telegram to Langton to inquire about the recruitment process and urging them to come to the north as soon as possible, she really had no better way.

There are only a few people under his command, and the rest are all fighting men. If you expect them to go into battle to kill the enemy, it is just a pinch, but if you expect them to engage in scientific research and internal affairs?

Purficott felt that he was asking for trouble.

If it was in the feudal era, it might still be close. After all, the knights were actually more or less literate, and they had learned basic document writing and the internal management of the territory.

After all, in the feudal era, knights were the lowest level lords, and managing their own fiefdoms required military and political support.

Of course, it is only enough. It is sheer luxury to expect them to have much management level.

After all, the knight's territory is basically just a village, and there is not much that needs to be managed. As long as the taxes can be collected, territorial disputes can be adjudicated in peacetime, and farmers can be recruited to serve as cannon fodder during wars, it is basically the same. enough.

Therefore, when knights can obtain larger fiefs and higher titles, they usually hire some civil servants to help them manage the territory.

The Brandless family originally existed, but with the death of the old baron, Purficott's parents did not care about the territory. These matters later gradually fell into the hands of the old butler, who was responsible for them. Come take care of it.

When she returned to Purficott, she even fired all the maids at home, let alone these people.

Moreover, after the empire went through military reforms and the nobles lost their military power, their right to rule the territory was actually reduced a lot.

Small territories like the Brandlis family basically no longer have their own administrative power. Although everything in the territory is still managed by the lord, and taxes are still collected by the lord, their independence has been greatly reduced.

As for those large noble territories, they have long been taken over by the empire and are managed by specially dispatched administrative personnel. Taxes are also collected uniformly by the official tax department of the empire. Only part of the proceeds go to those big nobles.

This is one of the reasons why Purficott's right to develop is precious, because she has full military and political autonomy.

To put it simply and bluntly, as long as Purficott does not rebel, or does not publicly declare independence, even if she expropriates her territory, or even restores the bad feudal custom of first night right, neither the Queen nor the imperial government can control her.

Being able to train its own army and collect taxes, and the northern border being far away from the empire, it would be enough for Perficott to establish his own independent kingdom.

This also resulted in her having to do a lot of work herself, instead of like her original plan, she was only responsible for how to deal with the doomsday disaster. As for military and administrative matters, she would be thrown directly to the imperial government.

In fact, she can actually leave all this to the imperial government now and let them send internal affairs officials to manage everything in the north, but this also means that Perficott has handed over all her autonomy and will be controlled by others in the future. .

In Purficott's original plan, this was actually no problem.

In other words, her original plan only considered how to survive, and did not consider anything else at all.

But as Princess Anne came to her and promoted the so-called Arctic scientific expedition plan, Purficott and his originally planned route also experienced greater and greater deviations.

Now when she looks back at herself a few months ago, she never imagined that things would turn into what they are now. But if Purficott was asked to give up now and still re-execute her original plan, she would still be unwilling to care about her own life and death.

Although judging from the massacre she committed in New Shaker City, she may be a very cruel person, but in fact Perficott is a very kind person. She just chose to sacrifice a small number of people in exchange for more people. Just survival.

Now that he has given up on the northern development plan that has made a good start and only thinks about his own life and death, Perfectcott cannot do such a selfish or insane thing.

Because she discovered from the problems in manufacturing the steam turbine that she could not completely separate from society.

Since mankind entered the industrial age, manufacturing is no longer something that can be accomplished alone in the past.

With the development of industrialization, production and manufacturing have developed more and more systematically, forming a new industrial chain. It is no longer the era in the past when one person could handle one thing alone.

Just like Purficott's airship, at first glance it seems that it was designed and manufactured by her alone.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that her engine was purchased from outside, the main parts were also customized, and even the materials for the hull and airbag were purchased.

This is actually a manifestation of her inability to break away from society, because these are closely related to the entire society.

If the overall industrial level of society has not developed to a stage where it can provide these products, no matter how genius an idea she has, there will be no way to turn it into reality.

Just like you couldn't build a computer in primitive society, or you couldn't build a spaceship in the steam age, you couldn't build it if you couldn't reach the industrial level.

Even if alchemists can rub their hands together, they cannot create something they cannot understand without the support of relevant theoretical knowledge.

For example, if no one discovers chromium, the turbine blade material that Purficott needs to make the steam turbine this time, then the alchemists in this world will not be able to create chromium stainless steel even if they scratch their heads.

They may create other materials with similar properties, but it will definitely not be chromium stainless steel, because this requires refining the metal chromium or discovering natural chromium alloys before they can carry out relevant technical research.

Not to mention, the heat treatment of metal materials has a huge impact on their material properties, which also requires an improvement in the overall scientific and technological level of society to meet technical requirements.

Alchemists are indeed very powerful and can offset some of the technical deficiencies, but industrial production cannot be achieved by rubbing hands.

Just like Purficott can make a working steam turbine by herself, but even if she wants to make a practical steam turbine, it will take a lot of time and energy, not to mention the quantity she needs. Produce.

"So we still need to open up the factory first?" Purficott stood on the top of the Eagle's Mouth Cliff with some disappointment, overlooking the base below, and couldn't help but sigh: "There is still a shortage of people!"

However, just as she turned around and walked back, she saw a tiny black dot appear on the horizon in the distance.

　I have a bit of a fever today and may have caught a cold. There is only one update. Sorry, I will see if I can make up for it tomorrow.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)