Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 380: Lack of Alchemists
In the lord's palace of Chenoborg, the capital of the North, Perfect was summoning his courtiers to listen to their work reports during this period.

"My lord, in the past month, Beloberg has accepted a total of 376,514 new immigrants from the empire, of which 345,612 have been relocated and resettled in various settlements in the north, and the rest have remained in Beloberg." An official wearing a monocle reported to Perficot, holding in his hand a roll of parchment that was dragged on the ground, full of recorded data.

In the past month, a large number of people have been transported from the empire to the north.

Most of these people did not come voluntarily, but the empire did not force them.

The method adopted by the Empire is employment. Most of these immigrants are hired by the Empire in the name of the North. They will carry out construction and land reclamation in the North for three years.

During this period, they are the laborers of the North and need to participate in various construction projects and the development of the North.

The employment contract stated that after three years, they could choose to stay in the North or return to the empire.

If they choose to stay in the North now, they can obtain the official status of Northern citizens, as well as one year of tax exemption and other related benefits.

Compared with the immigrants who came to the North on their own initiative, the treatment they could get was obviously much worse. At least they were not eligible for housing allocation.

These people did not have any objections to this. Quite a number of them still regarded this as a long-term job and still planned to return to the empire after the three-year term was over.

After all, the wages paid by the empire for this employment were not low, and the initial settling-in allowance was also sufficient, enough for these people to work hard.

This made many people think that this was a rare time for the Empire to behave itself.

However, they did not know that after the three-year period, there would be no imperial homeland.

At this point, the nobles and bureaucrats of the empire once again acted like inhuman beings and simply did not tell them the truth.

However, this doesn't really matter to these ordinary lower-class civilians. After all, life doesn't matter where you live. Compared with the empire's mainland, the living conditions in the North are actually better for civilians.

However, most people still have a certain filter, thinking that the empire's mainland is richer and has more opportunities, and that the North is ultimately just a newly reclaimed wilderness.

Just as even the beggars in Langdon would puff out their shriveled chests and feel proud when talking about the prosperity of Langdon, the people of the empire, especially those in Langdon, have always discriminated against the colonies and other parts of the empire.

There is nothing to blame about this; it is human nature after all.

But for the North, it is necessary to consider the emotions and reactions that these people may have when the Empire announces the fact of the end of the world in a few months according to the arrangement of the Imperial Center.

Perfect naturally attaches great importance to this and is also preparing to deal with it in advance. This meeting discussed various issues that are closely related to these hundreds of thousands of new immigrants.

After listening to the data collected by all parties, Perfect nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "The Empire attaches great importance to the development of the North. Although these hundreds of thousands of people are nominally laborers in the North, they are still citizens of the Empire. Don't treat them differently or discriminate.

Although the salary issue has been determined and cannot be changed, you still need to make appropriate policy adjustments during daily management and ensure that their salary issues are effectively implemented.

I don't want to hear about new immigrants from the Empire being discriminated against, or workers being bullied, you understand?"

"Please rest assured, my Lord Earl, such a shameful thing will never happen in the North." An official saluted to Perfectcot and solemnly promised.

He is one of the current civil servants in the North with a higher status, and can be considered one of the representatives of the civil servants in the North. He can make such a promise on behalf of the officials in the North.

Perfect didn't care about it. He just waved his hand and skipped the topic. Then he said, "Let's stop here for the treatment of workers and new immigrants. You know what to do.

The next focus of the North's political affairs will be the construction of settlements. Now that we have hundreds of thousands of workers, I hope you can complete the construction of at least 200 settlements before winter. Is there any problem?"

"If there are enough large-scale engineering robots, this requirement can be met." An officer with an engineer badge on his chest spoke up and explained to Perfect the problem they needed to solve: "But now we only have 20 large-scale engineering robots. If we want to complete the construction of 200 settlements, we need at least 50 more large-scale engineering robots."

Hearing the question raised by the other party, Perfect couldn't help but frowned. He looked at an alchemist beside him and asked him: "Can the fifty large engineering robots be delivered as scheduled? I don't want this to affect the progress of the project."

"My Lord, if it's just fifty large engineering robots, the factory can deliver them at any time." This alchemist is the head of the alchemy workshop appointed by Perfect, responsible for managing the alchemy workshop issues in the North. "But the problem now is that we don't have that many qualified alchemists to operate these robots. If we just let the robots work on their own, according to our calculations, this will reduce work efficiency by at least 30%, and this does not take into account possible mistakes and malfunctions that may cause delays in construction."

Hearing the alchemist's answer, Perfecto's face turned ugly.

The North lacks enough alchemists. This problem has always existed. However, due to the cooperation between Perfectoct and several universities in Langton, many alchemy professors and their apprentices came to the North, which alleviated the problem to a certain extent, so that the problem is not serious.

But now, with the arrival of a large number of immigrants and the large-scale construction of the North, the problem of insufficient alchemists has been exposed.

Not only did the compressed biscuit production equipment that Perfectoct had previously placed in every settlement and city require alchemists to operate, but the large robots used in construction now also required alchemists to operate.

The former at least had simple requirements, and could be operated by any apprentice who knew a little about alchemy and could initiate the ritual. But the latter undoubtedly required sufficient knowledge and skills, and at least one had to be a formal alchemist certified by the Empire.

Both of these are currently in short supply in the North.

(End of this chapter)