Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 400 Standard Discourse
Although the large multifunctional autonomous robot designed by Wei'er is derived from Perfectoc's large engineering autonomous robot, the difference between the two can be seen at a glance if they stand next to each other.

If I have to make an analogy to describe it, one looks like a simple craftsman with a lot of tools, while the other looks like a shrewd and capable courier.

Although the name is multifunctional, the autonomous robot designed by Wei'er is essentially used to transport goods.

The reason why it is called a multifunctional autonomous robot is that it can clear obstacles, maintain and service roads and railways on its own. It also has certain combat functions, can be connected in series or install special cargo boxes, etc.

Although most of its functions are only for transportation, it does not prevent it from being called multifunctional.

After these robots were made by Wei'er, they quickly began to transport supplies to the settlements around Chernobog according to the pre-edited map, with Chernobog as the center.

And Perfect also had the industrial center of Pripyat begin producing tracked vehicles of her own design, and began to build a transportation and logistics network in the north with multi-functional robots and tracked vehicles as the core.

However, Perfect's main focus is to arrange the mass production of multi-functional robots and tracked vehicles, as well as the popularization of standard freight containers.

And here, Perfect is most concerned about the popularization of standard freight containers.

It sounds strange, why doesn't Perfect focus on the mass production of robots and tracked vehicles, but instead focuses on a container?

This is actually easy to understand because it means standards.

The implementation of standard-sized freight containers means unifying the sizes of all transport vehicles and freight boxes, and also controlling the key voice in ports and docks.

Just like the smuggling issue that was investigated by Perfectcott before, although she has the power of life and death in the North, it does not mean that no one opposes her in private or completely obeys her orders.

But when the standard freight containers are introduced, those people or forces who still want to continue using the North's logistics system must iteratively upgrade their cargo boxes and vehicles. Otherwise, Perfectcot can completely block them with one sentence: they do not meet the standard size and cannot be loaded, unloaded or transported.

You can continue to use your own standards, but this also means that you will not be able to access freight logistics and markets across the North.

This is somewhat similar to the countries in the world that have the right to speak in standard setting in international trade. They often like to use "your products do not meet XX standards" as an excuse to impose so-called sanctions and suppression on countries that have no say.

Having the right to speak on standards means that others will have to obey your rules and you can enhance your own prestige.

It's like a person. Others always listen to what he says. Over time, everyone will naturally develop the habit of listening to him, even if he uses various means to make others listen to him at the beginning.

Perfect does not need to use all kinds of means. After all, she is the lord of the North. Her words are the law in the North and everyone must obey them.

But even there are many people who are unwilling to obey the law. Perfect needs to establish enough authority for himself so that the rules and laws of the North can be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

She didn't want anyone to have ulterior motives at this critical juncture when the empire was basically ready to announce the news of the end of winter.

Although she could continue to suppress everything with an iron fist, she also had to consider the psychological oppression that creating a bloody massacre would bring to the people. In the apocalypse, people's psychology is inherently fragile, and if they are blindly ruled by high pressure, they will be squeezed to the point of collapse.

It is right to use severe punishments in troubled times, but this does not mean that if you have a hammer in your hand, you will see everything as a nail and you have to hammer it down.

Perfect can kill all those who oppose her, but she can also use various means to win over neutral and wavering people to her side instead of killing them all.

Although that may seem like a good thing, it will also push some people who may have originally supported you to the opposite side.

That's why Perfecto went against his usual practice this time and took a relatively gentle approach to deal with the problem.

Of course, if someone is really ignorant, she will not tolerate these guys. The knives in the North are always sharp.

Another benefit of promoting standard containers is that it can greatly improve the efficiency of cargo transportation while saving costs, which is of great practical significance in engineering construction and other aspects in the future doomsday winter.

In this era, the concept of freight logistics was basically non-existent, and the only means of transporting materials, apart from trains and ships, was the most primitive horse-drawn carriage.

As for the airship and steam car invented by Perfect, these two things have not yet been promoted on a large scale in the empire. Although airship transportation has a certain market size, it is not mainstream.

Moreover, the cost of airship transportation is too high for the current empire.

Generally speaking, airships are only used to transport urgently needed or valuable materials, and are not simply used as transportation vehicles.

This is actually somewhat similar to the airplanes in the original world. Air transportation is indeed fast, but the cost is high. In comparison, railway and sea transportation are much cheaper.

However, road transportation, which was very common in the original world, has not been popularized in this world because cars have not yet been widely promoted.

What Perfectoct is doing now is to promote and popularize road transport, a more convenient and faster mode of transport suitable for small-scale logistics transport, and at the same time promote the rules of standard containers, so as to keep the right to speak firmly in its own hands.

She didn't want these important economic lifelines to be controlled by certain capital forces, as that would be detrimental to the future of the North.

Although as the lord of the North, she holds both military and legal power and can easily control those capital forces, but she can't really kill everyone, right?
Things always need people to do them, but once we enter the doomsday winter, there won't be people to do them like they do now.

In the cold winter of doomsday, human resources will become relatively tight, and capable people are scarce at all times. Perfect does not want to carry out a purge at this time.

All in all, large multi-functional autonomous robots and steam crawlers, along with standard freight containers, became the last new policy implemented by the North before the arrival of winter.

(End of this chapter)