Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 47 Benefits of War

Although Princess Anne was the guarantor, Purficott's trust in O'Connor was still limited. After all, the man's manipulations really made her have no favorable impression of him at all.

So in the end, O'Connor was thrown into the prison camp by Purficott, but he was not thrown in as a prisoner of war, but as a manager.

The task given to him by Purficott was to manage and organize the group of imprisoned gangsters, allowing them to build the prisoner-of-war camp on their own while maintaining order in the prisoner-of-war camp.

This task is not difficult. For a former mercenary officer like O'Connor, it can only be considered complicated, not even troublesome.

Therefore, he accepted this task without any obstacles.

Of course, Purficott had no intention of leaving this man in a prisoner of war camp. After all, she still needed O'Connor to provide security services for the exploration team.

She also made this clear to O'Connor. After he completed the construction of the prisoner-of-war camp and managed the prisoner-of-war camp without any trouble, Perficott would call him along when the exploration team set off.

As for his time in the prisoner of war camp? Just think of it as his punishment for letting Perfecticot step into a dangerous area.

After dealing with O'Connor, Purficott left with Princess Anne.

However, they did not return to Windsor Castle, but went to Brandlis Manor under the escort of the knights of the guard.

In fact, this is the main reason why Princess Anne caused such a big battle today and even brought the knights of the guard.

"I have already seen the design of the Steam Rider that you asked Butler Foster to submit to the military. I have to say that this is really a genius design!" Princess Anne praised Perfectcott, with surprise and shock in her eyes. : "You really should have seen the expressions of those old men in the military. They were just dancing with your blueprints! I have never seen the generals of the empire look like that."

"They are all people of my grandfather's generation. They have witnessed the last glory of the knight era. It is understandable that they want to revive the glory of the knight." Perficott is not surprised by this. In this matter, just look at Fox I really know what these old guys think of Steam Knight.

The birth of the steam engine shattered the foundation on which the chivalry system relied for survival. The emergence of new weapons changed the original military system, and the empire no longer needed knights to charge into battle.

This made many old knights and nobles of that generation feel very disappointed and uncomfortable at the same time.

As the last family of knights to be knighted for military merit, the Brandless family is classified as conservative in this regard.

That is the faction of the old generals in the military department. They are all old guys with high positions in the empire. They have experienced the war between the empire and France for world hegemony. Each of them has extremely rich war experience. Said, they all have medals.

This makes those young people or reformists often lack the confidence to speak loudly in front of them. After all, these old guys have knights, and most of their general titles were obtained by actually killing people.

That is to say, these old guys have realized that after the emergence of steam engines, the form of warfare has also changed, and they have actively catered to the changes. Otherwise, with their power, maintaining the old traditions is really not a big problem.

One can imagine how excited these old guys would be when they knew that there was a way for the knights to regain their position on the battlefield. only……

Purficott thought of a question, so he asked Princess Anne: "But the world is about to be destroyed. We should concentrate our precious resources on building shelters and responding to disasters. Isn't it a bit strange to expand armaments at this time?" ...out of time?”

"Little Purficott, I don't believe that you can't see why those old generals are excited because of your intelligence." Princess Anne smiled and glanced at Purficott, then explained: "The world is indeed about to be destroyed. But only we know this, France doesn’t know it, and neither do other countries.

So if they see that the empire has piled a lot of resources on some unknown projects, will they take advantage of it and launch a war against the empire?
  And even if the empire tells them the news of the coming disaster, or if someone among them discovers the disaster like you, the war will still break out!
  Don't forget, you said it yourself, we can't save everyone, and the same goes for other countries. At this time, all countries need to abandon a large number of people at the bottom. "

At this point, the expression on Princess Anne's face became a lot more amused, and then she asked Perfectcott an almost heart-wrenching question: "You said that at this time, the first thing they can think of is What is it that can consume a large amount of people and legitimately collect a large amount of resources?"

After hearing Princess Anne's analysis, Purficott couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then sighed helplessly.

Being able to consume a large number of people, and at the same time legitimately exploiting its own citizens and collecting a large amount of resources for the construction of key projects, Perficott could only think of one thing, and that was war.

A war of unprecedented scale, because only in this way can we consume enough of the population and collect enough resources, in exchange for the survival of a small number of people at the expense of the majority of the grassroots population.

For various countries, this really sounds like a good solution.

In order to deal with possible threats in war, strong bunkers need to be built to protect the survival of important people.

In order to cope with the needs of large-scale war, the country needs to implement a wartime system, pool resources and labor, and all go into military industry and related industries. Entertainment and other industries must make concessions.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for anyone to detect that some resources are allocated to disaster response plans.

After all, no one will investigate these things in depth until the war is over, and when disaster strikes, neither the war nor these things will matter.

And another greater benefit of the war is that it can control the news. Although the journalism industry in this era has not developed as exaggeratedly as in the world before Perficott traveled, media such as newspapers have already appeared.

Using the excuse of war to prevent newspapers from publishing news that the authorities do not want to see is something the government likes to see.

Not to mention that war can throw a large number of social instability factors into military camps and then send them to the battlefield. As long as they die, there will be no instability factors.

And not only are social instability factors, the large numbers of people at the bottom can also be consumed in a planned way during wars, and the saved resources can be used to ensure the survival of a small number of people.

(End of this chapter)