Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 17 Arctic Scientific Expedition

In fact, with Purficott's ability, developing cold-proof materials is just a casual matter.

Even though she knew nothing about materials before time travel, especially special materials, with the two artifacts Jade Jade Record and Philosopher's Stone in hand, it was very simple to develop the alchemy materials she wanted.

But for Purficott, her time is precious.

In three years, if she wanted to save more people, she couldn't waste her time on small things that could be left to others.

Before time travel, Purficott worked as a small leader for a period of time, belonging to the kind of middle-level company or department head.

Although she is not very experienced in management, she has at least learned one thing: if she doesn't want to be as exhausted as Prime Minister Zhuge, don't take everything into her own hands.

Cultivate trustworthy people, and then hand over specific tasks to your subordinates to take responsibility for. You are responsible for grasping the overall situation, urging progress, and finally reviewing the results. This is what a leader should do.

Of course, if there is something particularly important that you don’t feel comfortable leaving it to your subordinates, then naturally you still need to do it yourself.

And when your subordinates are not worthy of your trust, or their abilities are not worthy of your entrusted tasks, then you can only work hard yourself, and everything is in your hands.

Purficott's two plans each have their own characteristics. Her first plan is ambitious, trying to save the native people of the empire, and wants to leverage the resources of the entire empire through the noble assembly to deal with this terrible crisis. disaster.

And after resisting the disaster, she also designed a rough plan to solve the source of the disaster and completely save the world.

But it has to be said that she is too ambitious, and the sense of superiority of a time traveler is vividly reflected, as if she is the protagonist of the world and the whole world needs to revolve around her.

She is not the prime minister of the empire, nor is she the supreme empress. Let alone the whole world, the entire Victoya Empire, she can't even convince the noble council to believe her words. In the end, she was ridiculed by "what do women know" and let her touch it? While feeling frustrated, he also realized clearly that there was nothing special about him.

So her second version of the plan was much more pragmatic, deleting those parts that were unrealistic to her, and also deleting all the parts of the entire plan that were about saving the world and more people.

Eventually she was given a pragmatic and realistic plan to save herself.

However, fate always likes to play big jokes on you in unexpected places. Originally, Purficott had given up his efforts at the imperial level, but in the end, he unexpectedly obtained the help of Princess Anne, thus receiving the full strength of the royal family. support.

Although this is only support at the royal level and does not involve the empire, everything is never isolated.

In this feudal era with stable imperial power, the royal family has always been the weathervane.

To put it bluntly, even if Princess Anne just said that she likes cats but not dogs, tomorrow Langton's upper class will become popular in keeping cats, and the municipal departments and police stations will start to cull stray dogs on the streets.

vice versa.

Although this is a male-dominated society, pleasing the princess of the empire does not conflict with it. The same is true for the apparent support of the royal family, especially the support from the Queen herself.

Purficott believes that with the major positive factor of royal support, there will be a wave of scientific expeditions to the Arctic in Langton and even the entire Victoya Empire, and as she continues to invest in this project, The effects last for a long time.

There are even people among the people who form their own Arctic expedition teams to try to explore the Arctic.

You must know that in the world before Perfection's time travel, going to the North Pole to explore was a thing that could bring both fame and fortune. If you could really reach the North Pole smoothly and come back alive, you would definitely become the new darling of Langton's upper class. .

Of course, the premise is that you can come back alive from the Arctic near death.

Yes, in this era, the Arctic is a complete forbidden zone for humans, and no one has set foot in that area so far.

Even in the era when the steam engine was just invented a few decades ago, the empire once sent an expedition to the North Pole, but the result was a then-latest wooden-hulled steamship and a crew of twenty-six, and only one returned. Half.

A man with severe frostbite on his limbs drags a body half-gnawed by a polar bear. This is the result of the Empire's first Arctic expedition.

The reason why Purficott chose to use the name "Arctic Scientific Expedition" as a cover was not only because the Arctic scientific expedition did have a high degree of overlap with her plan, but also because the Arctic scientific expedition was very popular. High enough to attract enough social attention.

Don’t underestimate this social concern. Before humans have entered the Internet age, this social concern can greatly affect social development for a long time.

To give the simplest example, if all social attention is on manned landing on the moon, then the popularity of related industries will remain high. Even some products that have nothing to do with it can sell incredible sales and make a lot of money. earned a lot.

The most representative example of this is the ballpoint pen known as the ballpoint pen.

At that time, in order to open up the sales of ballpoint pens, businessmen specially gave it the name of an atomic pen, riding on the popularity of the atomic bomb that shocked the world at that time, and thus opened up sales at once.

For Purficott, this promotional method can not only be used in business, but also sells more than just merchandise.

She can take advantage of the heat of the Arctic scientific expedition to sell new insulation materials, cold-proof clothing, high-efficiency heaters and other equipment to the citizens of Langton. She can even use the influence of the heat to build new residential buildings in the slums of the city, so that those poor people can Have a shelter from the cold.

Although there is still no trace of these things, Purficott still included them in his plan, and decided to leave this part to Princess Anne to be responsible for it later.

With Princess Anne's character and identity, Purficott can completely trust her in this aspect, and she can definitely do a good job.

As for Purficott herself, she will still go to the New World colonies as planned, but this time she will not go to select a site, but directly inspect and carry out preliminary infrastructure construction.

Since it is in the name of Arctic scientific research, let's just go through with it and build a so-called Arctic scientific research advance base in the New World colony.

(End of this chapter)