Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 132 Arriving at the Coal Mine

When the guard carefully woke Purfict, the train she was traveling on had been parked on the platform of the coal mine station for an hour.

No one really dared to wake up the Earl of the North when the train arrived at the station. Even though she was only fourteen years old, no one in the North would really treat her as a child.

Especially the guards who followed her had witnessed or even personally participated in the large-scale raids and executions in Xinshak City.

In their eyes, this young countess is simply the embodiment of terror. The nickname Scarlet Alchemist is too unpleasant, but the Scarlet Earl in the mouth of these guards may not be easy to hear either.

If she was unhappy by waking up Purficott and disturbing her rest, no one wanted to bear the consequences of her anger.

However, when Purficott was woken up and learned that the soldiers woke her up a full hour late and still let the train stop on the platform, the coal mine management staff also waited on the platform for an hour. Her face suddenly became very ugly.

"Come here, drag him out, take off his shirt, give him ten lashes, and let everyone watch him being tortured!" Purficott raised his hand and pointed at the soldier, asking him to drag him out and also tell him that he was being punished. The reason: "You disobeyed my orders and made everyone delay for a whole hour because of your mistake! If it were on the battlefield, this hour could change the outcome of a war! I could shoot you directly !

This is Nian Zaiyou's first offence. It's just ten lashes. Next time I will twist your head off! As the guards around me, you must remember that my orders are absolute! Regardless of whether you understand it or not, you must follow my orders to the letter! "

After Purficott finished speaking, he saw the faint sympathy and intolerance on the faces of the other soldiers, as well as a hint of dissatisfaction. He immediately understood that they were sympathizing with the punished soldier.

After all, in a sense, he didn't wake himself up in time because he wanted to sleep a little longer and was afraid of offending himself.

And his punishment on him will only make these guards feel that they are unhuman and moody, which will make no one willing to carry out their orders seriously.

So Purficott also hurriedly added: "If you offend me because you carried out my orders, I will not punish you in any way, but will reward you because you carried out my orders.

But if you disobey my order for any other reason, no matter what your reason is, even if I am assassinated and am about to die, and you save my life, you will still receive punishment, because You have disobeyed my orders!

I hope you remember this, this soldier was punished because he disobeyed my orders, not because he offended me! Do you understand everything? "

Purficott spoke loudly so that all the surrounding guards could hear her words.

She didn't know how effective this was, but at least after she finished speaking, Purficott could clearly feel that the mood of these soldiers had changed, and they looked at her with more respect and awe, and It's not just fear.

Soon, the soldier who disobeyed the order was stripped of his shirt, tied to a pillar at the station, and then the second lieutenant who led the team personally executed the whipping.

At the same time as the execution was being carried out, the entire guard was also summoned to watch the entire execution process together with the coal mine managers.

After the second lieutenant who led the team completed the caning, he loudly explained to all the guards why the soldier was punished, and repeated what Perfectcott had just said.

This dissipated a lot of the dissatisfaction of the coal mine managers who had been waiting in the cold for an hour on the station platform. Although this is a show from a certain perspective, it does have a very good effect for these relatively simple-minded people.

At the very least it establishes Purficott's authority and makes obedience to her orders deeply rooted in people's minds.

After dealing with the soldier, Purficott was finally able to talk to the coal mine managers and ask them about the impact of the snowfall on the coal mines.

"Your Majesty, the mining of coal mines has completely stopped. We have no way to continue working until the snow stops." An elderly manager explained to Purficott. He was holding a pipe in his hand, but he had already stopped working. went out.

It seemed that he had finished smoking the tobacco while waiting, but he couldn't continue smoking in front of the young earl, so he could only hold it in his hand.

While he was introducing the situation, Purficott looked outside the station.

The situation here is much worse than at the fjord camp. The snow has hardly been cleared. The snow that fell all night has reached the height of the station platform, which looks very bad.

Especially now that the snow has not stopped, it is still falling in a state that can be called heavy snow, causing the snow on the ground to thicken visibly to the naked eye.

So when she heard the managers say that there was no way to resume production before the snow stopped, Purficott was not surprised at all. She even shook her head and sneered: "Snow stops? I'm afraid you won't be able to resume production before the end of this winter!" How are you going to continue mining coal when the snow is so deep?

You must know that this is only the first snow in the northern border. You still have a whole winter to face, and the entire mine will be buried in snow. "

Although Purficott had considered the impact of heavy snow in the north on coal mining when building supporting facilities for the coal mine, and therefore made some plans to deal with it, even she had to admit that she underestimated the wind in the north. Snow.

Preparations designed to cope with half a meter of snow have become meaningless when faced with snow that is already more than half a meter deep.

"Maybe we can try to dig a mine? Although this is an open-pit coal mine, there are coal seams underground. If we dig a mine, we can eliminate the interference of snow and continue to mine coal in winter." Wearing next to him The engineer responsible for the technology of the glasses came up with a new idea.

Upon hearing this idea, Purficott looked at the others and asked them: "How feasible is this idea?"

"We can indeed do it, but the ground is frozen in winter. In this weather, we want to dig out the frozen soil and dig a mine..." The manager holding the pipe shook his head and politely rejected the suggestion.

Purficott could tell that he would have cursed if it wasn't in front of him.

But Purficott doesn't want coal mining to stop. Although she doesn't understand the relevant technical issues, she still has a way if she just digs out the frozen soil.

(End of this chapter)