Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 286 Labor Force in the North
The arrival of the five airships has greatly improved the transportation capabilities of the Northern Territory. This allows Perficott to deploy manpower more calmly, and can also make the connections between various parts of the Northern Territory closer.

Of course, currently, the only places in the north that can be called towns are the two landing points of Fjord Town and Belloberg.

The rest, whether it is Eagle Beak Cliff or the planned future capital of the North, is not yet a town.

Therefore, for the current northern border, what the airship can do is to transport some urgent supplies or documents, and the airship's air superiority cannot be fully utilized.

However, with the construction of the first batch of settlements, the demand for information transmission and material transportation is gradually increasing, and the existence of airships is still necessary.

At least one airship that regularly patrols all settlements can allow Purficott to better understand the current situation in the north and better control the construction progress of each settlement.

The town with the highest degree of construction in the North is undoubtedly Fjord Town, not just because it is the first town in the true sense of the word.

After the shield machine has been tested, it has been put into the underground town construction project of Fjord Town, and the underground space of Fjord Town is being continuously excavated.

The construction progress of the project is not fast. So far, they are only testing whether the shield machine is easy to use and whether its cutterhead can crush underground rocks.

This is the first time that a shield machine has been put into practical use. No one knows whether this machine is easy to use, so the process of use is always cautious and exploratory.

Purficott didn't think anything of this. After all, the main purpose of using it for the first time was to accumulate experience and summarize technical points, rather than to see how fast it was.

But even so, the excavation speed of the shield machine is still satisfactory. It is only the lack of manpower in the construction project that limits the performance of the shield machine.

Jade Bird doesn't have any good solution to this problem. Apart from urging the local side to send more labor force as soon as possible, Purficott can't provide much help in this matter.

Fortunately, the punishment camps prepared by Purficott have finally arrived in the North. Some of them have been put into the construction of the industrial center, while the rest have been sent to build the future capital of the North.

Of course, some laborers from the punishment camps were sent to Fjord Town for the construction of underground shelters.

Although Purficott did not have a good impression of this group of people, I have to say that these people are indeed quite good as a labor force.

Although overseers are required to supervise with whips and muskets, and occasionally some people want to escape, on the whole, most people are still working honestly, striving to complete their sentences, and then strive for the illusory pardon and completion of their sentences. freed.

For these people, Purficott would not use them to death, or treat them as disposable consumables, but don't expect Purficott to be very kind to them.

After all, most of the people who can be sent to the punishment camps are criminals and gang members.

The main components were those caught by Purficott when he was cleaning up the Langton gang members. After being imprisoned for almost half a year, these people no longer had the original unruly nature, nor did they have the so-called Most of them are working honestly now.

In the opinion of most of them, although the labor in the north is indeed a bit hard, overall it is not so bad that they cannot survive.

Therefore, they are willing to work honestly so that they can serve their full sentence.

After all, the sentences for most of them are only three years, and they will be over quickly if you endure it. But these people would never have dreamed that their sentences would only be three years, not because their crimes were not harsh enough, but because the empire only had to sentence them to three years.

One of the benefits of this is that it makes these prisoners relatively more stable. After all, the sentence is only three years, and it will be over once they get over it.

But two years later will be the doomsday winter, and by then these prisoners will be of little use, and it is not impossible to let them go free in Purficott's opinion.

In fact, after two years, it is estimated that most of these prisoners will not have the opportunity to return to their homeland, or they will not be willing to return to their homeland and wait to die.

Of course, the premise that they can return to the mainland is that there will be ships that can cross the basically frozen ocean and reach the empire from the north.

Although the airship can do this, Purficott obviously will not use the precious airship to transport a group of prisoners.

By that time, it will be too late for the airship to transport the empire's outstanding talents. How can there be extra load to transport a group of prisoners who have been released from prison?

Not killing them outright was considered mercy by Purficott, but she still expected her to send these people back with the valuable payload of the airship? It can only be said that these prisoners would not think about this even in their sweetest dreams.

Therefore, for the current Purficott, this group of prisoners is a good labor force supplement.

Their performance, which was pretty good from all aspects, also made Purficott consider whether to ask for more punishment camps from the empire.

However, she finally gave up the idea and did not take the initiative to ask for more punishment camps to serve as labor force in the north.

Although Purficott had decided to abandon unnecessary bottom lines and kindness before the Northern Territory Plan began, and used an absolutely rational attitude to ensure the smooth progress of the Northern Territory Plan, this does not mean that Purficott would Not developing as a person.

She knew clearly that Victoya now had a large number of penal camp workers, and she could ask for a quantity that would satisfy her as long as she asked, but Purficott was still instinctively unwilling to do so.

Because most of the current penal camp laborers in the empire are people or prisoners from the defeated three countries.

These people themselves did nothing wrong, but because their country was a defeated country, they were reduced to criminal prisoners in punishment camps.

Although Purficott has a mixed feeling about this kind of thing, after all, the capitals of the Three Kingdoms were destroyed by her, and she still has some complicated emotions towards these people.

Although it was only a trivial point, for Purficott, at least she did not have to hear that the empire directly captured innocent ordinary people to serve as laborers in order to organize punishment camps.

Although the suggestion of "squeezing them dry" was made by Purficott, she still hated the act of directly capturing innocent ordinary people as laborers.

She will be ruthless where she should be ruthless, but she will occasionally show some kindness that she considers unnecessary.

(End of this chapter)