Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 284: Squeezing the Three Kingdoms
Of course, Purficott would not want a flagship of the naval fleet. Even if he wanted it, he would want frigates and cruisers, not those big and useless battleships.

Although she had been a fan of big guns and ships before time travel, she was limited to those steel behemoths during World War II, not the armored battleships of the Imperial Navy.

You can't say it's ugly, but it's really not that beautiful.

For someone like Purficott, who had appreciated the beauty of large ships and cannons from the most glorious era of battleships, this "old-fashioned" thing really didn't interest her much.

Moreover, the biggest function of this kind of battleship is to knock out another battleship of the same level. Other than that, they are useless.

Of course, showing off the empire's military power is also one of its uses.

It can even be said to be their most important use besides combat.

In comparison, cruisers and frigates are much more useful.

At the very least, these high-speed warships can be used for patrols or doing some chores.

In fact, in a non-war state, or even in a war state, the navies of various countries use these frigates and cruisers the most. They are the main force of the fleet under normal circumstances.

Fortunately, the empire sent troops to the three countries in time, which stabilized the situation.

For the Three Kingdoms, this actually doesn't make much difference.

Including but not limited to plundering wealth, plundering resources, and the most inhumane plundering of labor force.

Because these pirates are the remnants of the three navies that were annihilated when the Three Kingdoms Alliance declared war on the empire in the old world.

The reason is none other than pirates.

Not only the empire, but also the surrounding countries are eyeing the sudden decline of the Three Kingdoms.

Being remembered by neighboring countries is also occupied, and being stationed by the empire is also occupied. Maybe being occupied by neighboring countries is better, because the goal of the empire this time is to really squeeze them dry.

At least now, Purficott hopes to have a cruiser at his disposal, or several frigates to patrol the northern coastline and the routes to and from the mainland.

They were defenseless against the Empire.

Because Purficott convinced the entire empire center at the imperial meeting, the Victoria Empire implemented a very strict occupation policy towards the three countries that had surrendered unconditionally.

The surrounding countries that were concerned about the Three Kingdoms did not dare to provoke an empire that possessed such a powerful weapon as thermobaric bombs. After all, no one wanted their capital to be wiped off the map overnight.

It sounds outrageous, but in fact it is even more outrageous.

After the original Three Kingdoms Alliance was wiped out by Perficott with thermobaric bombs, hundreds of thousands of armies were wiped out overnight and the navy was stewed in a spoonful. The three countries not only had to face the huge casualties and heavy economic losses caused by the destruction of their capitals. What's more, we need to face the serious consequences of almost completely wiping out our own military strength.

Looting wealth and plundering resources are currently in progress. Although the capitals of the three countries have been destroyed, the entire country has not been damaged by the war, so the overall situation is still intact.

Even the materials that the Three Kingdoms had reserved for the war were basically untouched, and now they were all at an advantage to Victoya.

This naturally led to Viktoria launching a massive search in the three countries. All kinds of important strategic resources and materials were loaded onto trains and ships and transported to the mainland of the empire. Along with it, there are boatloads of workers.

Yes, the Empire went straight to plundering the population, just as it had done to the colonies.

These laborers plundered by the empire will be put into domestic factories, and together with those resources, the industrial system of the Victoria Empire will operate at high speed.

But this time they are not producing cheap industrial products to dump to the three countries, but producing everything that Perfectkot needs to develop the northern territory.

Purficott has currently provided the improved steam turbine technology to the Empire. Although the Empire has not yet begun to popularize it, it is also adjusting its production lines to prepare for large-scale production.

After all, the efficiency and power of steam turbines are not even slightly improved compared to piston steam engines.

Although the empire's alchemists and engineers are indeed weaker than Perficott in terms of inventions and creations, they can still do it if they just put what Perficott has invented into practical use, and they do a pretty good job. .

However, this technology is still in its initial stage and is still far away from large-scale application. Now is the time to roll out production capacity.

In addition to steam turbines, technologies such as nitroglycerin explosives and new steel materials produced by Purficott have also begun to be put into practical use in the empire after receiving her permission. However, it has not been long so far, so it has taken effect. Not obvious.

But at least nitroglycerin explosives have begun to be used on a large scale in the military industry and engineering construction fields, and their demand for these things can be described as hungry.

The rapid investment of resources and labor from the three countries has indeed greatly eased their demand for these things.

Of course, the more important part is the empire's demand for airships. However, although the Eastern and Western empires have brought relevant technologies to the civilian market, they have not yet opened up to foreign countries.

Therefore, the laborers plundered from the three countries were not put into the shipyards, but were only assigned to the relevant supporting industry chains and were responsible for the production of related parts and components.

The most labor-intensive part is naturally the production of airbag skins. This job itself requires a lot of manpower. Now that the empire requires expansion of production capacity, naturally it can only make these plundered laborers work harder.

In comparison, the steel industry is slightly better. Perficott's main purchasing supplier is still Andrew. Although his steel company does not currently have a monopoly on the steel industry in the New World, it is already considered a rising industry in the industry. The emerging giant will have no problem if it only supplies Purficott's current needs.

But as Purficott began to need more, Andrew's steel company ran out of supplies.

On the one hand, it is a technical problem, and on the other hand, it is a processing problem.

Although the smelting technology owned by Andrew's Steel Company is already the most advanced in the entire New World colonies, it is still far behind the empire's mainland.

So after Purficott had someone test the shield machine, she placed a new order with the empire instead of placing an order with Andrew like the first one.

In fact, the parts provided by Andrew at that time did not meet Purficott's requirements, but they had many alchemists at the time. If there were any problems, they could just use alchemy on the spot to change them, instead of having to remanufacture them.

After all, the requirements for special materials on the shield machine are limited except for the cutterhead, and if it is just to enhance the material performance, the alchemists can get started directly.

The other alchemists are just not as strong as Purficott, which doesn't mean they can't do anything.

(End of this chapter)