Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 156

Compared with Purficott's long sea voyage to the New World, the flying speed of the airship can be said to be extremely efficient across the ages.

In less than 50 hours of flight time, the urban area of ​​Langton City had already appeared in Purficott's sight.

Looking at the city below shrouded in the smog brought by industrial production, Purficott actually felt as if he was in another world.

This scene of an industrialized city spewing thick smoke and the entire city shrouded in smoke was a memory that she only had in the original world when she was a child before she traveled through time. It was no longer common in her elementary school years.

Although the same scene can be said to be commonplace in this world, looking up from the ground to see a city shrouded in clouds and mist and looking down from the air are two completely different perspectives and give people completely different feelings.

"Human beings..." Purficott couldn't help but sigh. Industrialization has brought changes to the entire world, but it has also cost mankind an unimaginable price.

Before the industrial revolution, humans had very limited impact on the entire world. Human survival depended more on the face of nature. Even the largest cities in the world had very limited damage to nature.

However, with the progress of the industrial revolution, human productivity has developed unprecedentedly, and the extent of human damage to nature has also been far greater than in the past.

It can even be said that in the one hundred years after the Industrial Revolution, humans have done more damage to nature than in the past thousand years. With the continuous development of science and technology, the extent of human damage to nature will only become higher and higher until the natural environment is destroyed. Only when change threatens the survival of human beings will they turn their heads and take it seriously.

In fact, Langton, as the capital of the empire, is already facing this problem to a large extent.

Just as Purficott preferred to live in the family's suburban manor rather than a villa in the city, the poor and poor air quality caused a large number of nobles to move to the suburbs and countryside.

If there are no accidents, perhaps in the future someone will soon realize the various problems caused by the deterioration of the urban environment.

It's just that humans in this world probably don't have time to think about this problem. The arrival of the end of the world is enough for everyone to fully realize what it means that everyone will die if they can't survive.

Purficott's sigh only lasted for a short while. As the airship gradually approached the city, she overlooked the city below her and her thoughts gradually returned to the matters that urgently needed to be solved at the moment.

War, this vexing problem.

For this war that she still doesn't understand why it broke out, Purficott actually doesn't have many other emotions except the annoyance that the plan has been disrupted.

She wasn't worried that she couldn't fix it.

What a joke, with airships and steam knights, if she can't help the empire win this war, then she might as well find a pit to bury herself, and talk about saving the doomsday crisis!

Not to mention, on the way back, she used the undisturbed time on the airship to further improve her plan, and she was confident enough to end the war in a short time.

Although her methods may be too harsh and cruel, if this war is allowed to last for a year and a half, not to mention the impact on the entire doomsday response plan, just the resources consumed and time wasted are all that humans have now. unacceptable.

Therefore, she must use a shocking victory to bring the three countries that actively provoked the war back to the negotiating table.

This victory must have enough deterrence, even defeating their army head-on with steam knights will not work. On the one hand, the other side has not assembled all its forces at this time. Although war has been declared, only the standing armies of the three countries are still in action.

Although these troops are the elite troops of the three countries and are large in number, for a country in the industrialization era, as long as they start mobilizing for war, they can pull out several times the number of troops at any time until their own national human resources are drained. until.

Therefore, it is meaningless to just use the Steam Knight to attack the enemy army and annihilate more than ten or two hundred thousand people.

It can even be said to have the opposite effect, making the Three Kingdoms fully aware of the power of the Steam Knight, making them feel that if they cannot take this opportunity to defeat the Empire, or force the Empire to the negotiating table, then the Three Kingdoms will be crushed by the Empire in the future.

This is why Purficott came up with the current plan. She had to inflict a heartbreaking loss on the three countries, so that they would not only be unable to start another war, but also make them feel that they could only do so in a short period of time. The despair of surrender.

Even if it means she literally slaughters millions of people.

"If I want to do this, I have to convince the military to assemble the power of the entire empire for my use..." Purficott reviewed her plan again. Although she came up with it herself, it still made her I sincerely feel the threat that the development of human science and technology poses to the entire world.

If it was before the industrial revolution, even if she came up with this method, there would be no way to implement it.

Only countries that have truly entered the industrial era can meet the prerequisites for her crazy plan.

"The next step is to convince the military and the parliament to support my plan. The group of insects in the parliament are not easy to deal with!" Purficott shook her head. Although she had enough strength at the moment to directly challenge the group of nobles in the capital of the empire, She also wanted to do this, but considering the constraints of various factors, she still couldn't do it.

On the contrary, no matter how much reluctance and dissatisfaction there was in Purficott's heart, she still had to make do with the nobles of the noble council, at least to keep her face.

After all, the empire is not yet at the point where she can do whatever she wants, and even if she does issue such an order, there is a question as to whether the White Bear Knights will carry it out.

"Perhaps I can make myself a batch of self-disciplined steam knights?" This thought came to Purficott's heart.

She has no idea what the world will be like in the future. At this time, if she has a reliable armed force that will never betray her, even if it is just a group of machines, it can give people a great sense of security.

Although Purficott is now very close to the empire, there are people who support her in the royal family, the noble council, and the military. It can even be said that the majority supports her.

But... once her plan is successfully implemented, it's hard for Purficott to imagine how many people will support her.

After all, she would make countless people fear and fear her. Purficott didn't think that there would be so many people supporting her now, and no one would reject or oppose her.

　The illustration shows the inside of the Zeppelin airship. You can see that the internal space is actually very large. Although the carrying capacity of the airship is indeed not high, if it is just a knights, it will still be no problem.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)