Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 42 Autonomous Driving
  For Purficott, recruiting Dr. Jones is actually optional.

James' work ability is excellent, and the Empire Exploration Company he contacted is also very responsible for this matter. Although the exploration team formed is specialized in finding mineral resources, it has excellent field survival and related exploration techniques, and has conducted many explorations in the New World. experience and successfully found many mineral deposits.

With such a professional team, it really doesn’t make much difference to Purficott whether there is one more or one less history professor.

But Purficott chose to recruit Dr. Jones.

As for the reason, it was because Purficott regarded Dr. Jones as the bone of the horse's bones.

It's very simple to say. The essence of the plan she presides over is to save as many people as possible and let more people survive when the doomsday disaster strikes.

Although Purficott felt that her plan was more reliable than the crisis response committee, she also knew that she could not save everyone, but could only save a small number of people from freezing to death in the snow.

So who are this small group of people?

First of all, as the largest sponsor of Perficott's plan, the royal family is definitely indispensable. Each of them is on the rescue list.

Of course, there are not many official members of the royal family, only a few dozen in total. Even if you include those who have no title but just blood, a few hundred people are enough to support the sky.

This part does not occupy many resources. It is considered that the royal family paid for them to buy a boat ticket.

Purficott doesn't have to worry about this matter. What really matters to her is the list other than the royal family.

The Royal Guard and the Royal Guard Knights can be added, they are a guarantee of force.

In addition, those who can be on Purficott's rescue list are social elites from all walks of life.

What is an elite? That's not a bunch of rubbish that claims to be a master, but actually has nothing but a noble title and the legacy of their ancestors.

A true elite must at least have a proficient professional skill, or someone who has made certain achievements in a certain aspect.

Take the Alchemist as an example. According to Purficott's evaluation standards, you must be at least a "United" rating or above to qualify as a candidate. Even if you are a "Charter" rating, she has to consider whether you have it. The corpse is a vegetarian.

As for the rest, there were plenty of universities in Longton, and those with professorial titles might be able to find a spot on her list.

In Purficott's view, these people who possess knowledge and technology are the real social elites, and they are the best part of a civilization.

As for the rest? Without the inheritance of knowledge and technology, human civilization would be impossible to talk about.

After all, you can't expect a bunch of monkeys who don't even know the alphabet to inherit a civilization that could write a book just on the chronology of historical events.

Not to mention, what this group of real human elites holds in their hands is the most precious wealth accumulated by the entire human society over thousands of years.

Just like a movie Perficott had seen before traveling through time, aliens came to look for the leader of mankind, and ended up finding a group of politicians, but in fact they could not represent mankind at all.

Those who can truly represent mankind and have enough foresight are those with truly smart brains and those with knowledge. Just like you can’t expect a politician who comes to power by pleasing voters to really know how to lead a country to become stronger. Elected politicians always choose the most likable person, not the most capable person.

So for Purficott, she doesn't want any politicians or nobles in her plan.

After all, they have their own crisis response committee plan that they can use, right? Don't use it to occupy her spot.

Putting down the cheap coffee that he had finished, Purficott left this low-level cafe and got back on the carriage with the maid following him.

The person following Purfict today was not her loyal old housekeeper, but the alchemy doll maid she usually kept in the laboratory.

"Befa, go to the next place." Purficott gave the instruction to the alchemy doll that looked like an ordinary maid. As for the destination, she had already input it into Befa's memory storage before setting off. The device is on.

After receiving Purficott's order, the alchemy maid named Befa started the steam carriage and drove it towards the destination.

Looking at Befa driving, Purficott couldn't help but have an idea in his mind. Should he make a small modification to the steam carriage and install a control system on it? Automatic driving can be achieved.

After all, strictly speaking, it is driving automatically now, and Befa is not a human being.

The reason why Befa is able to execute her own instructions is because there is a miniaturized difference engine in her body that can perform data storage and calculations.

As long as the instructions are compiled in advance, Befa can read and execute them.

The principle of automated driving of steam carriages is the same. The only issue that needs to be considered is road recognition and the possibility of hitting passers-by on the road.

But this is really not a problem for Purficott. After all, this is an extraordinary society. It is not particularly difficult to add an additional spell to the carriage to deflect passers-by who may hit it.

On the other hand, she is a noble, or a baroness who has inherited a title. Is it a big deal to kill a lot of people on the road?

If in her grandfather's time a few decades ago, a nobleman killed someone on horseback, he would not have to bear any responsibility.

The noble gentleman passed by on horseback, and you didn't know how to avoid it. You deserved to be killed.

In the past few decades after the invention of the steam engine, the imperial nobility began to curb some of the barbaric practices of the past, dressing themselves up as civilized and upper-class, and correspondingly introduced some rules as a kind of protection for ordinary civilians.

Although the essence of it is that the traffic regulations were enacted by noble gentlemen who were reluctant to go out and block carriages on the road for several hours, it did protect ordinary civilians on the road in disguise.

At the very least, he would not be directly hit to death by a horse-drawn carriage running rampant on the road. Even if someone violated the regulations and killed someone, he would only have to pay compensation.

As Purficott said, laws and rules protect the weak by oppressing the strong, but the strength of this protection increases depending on the degree of social development.

For the current Victoria Empire, it is already rare to have a law. How do you expect the law to actively protect the weak? Just wait another two hundred years!

(End of this chapter)