Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 443 Riot VII

For Princess Anne, reviewing documents was really a torture.

It’s not that she doesn’t have the ability, but Princess Anne really hates reviewing documents.

Although she was forced by Her Majesty the Queen to learn how to handle government affairs for a period of time, it can only be said that she is indeed not suitable for doing these things.

Is Her Royal Highness the Princess capable of handling government affairs? The answer is of course yes.

After all, he was carefully trained by Her Majesty the Queen. Even if he is mediocre and incompetent, he should have some basic ability to govern.

What's more, the eldest princess is quite capable and intelligent, and has studied some things diligently. Overall, although she is not a genius, she deserves the evaluation of an average person.

In addition, she is surrounded by the staff and think tanks prepared by the Queen. Although the eldest princess cannot be called a wise monarch, she can also be regarded as a monarch who maintains the status quo.

However, just as Perfect had commented on her, if it were peacetime, under normal circumstances, Her Royal Highness the Princess would be a benevolent monarch who would maintain the status quo and would have no problem inheriting the country and controlling the empire.

The empire is huge and powerful, so even if she is a little virtuous, she can still handle the turmoil. Moreover, for the common people, having a more virtuous emperor may not be a bad thing.

But now is not a peaceful time. What the empire needs is a strong monarch with an iron fist. Even a tyrant is better than an indecisive and kind monarch.

The reason is simple, because the most important thing for the empire now is to make choices and choose which parts should be given up.

When the entire empire cannot be saved, the most appropriate approach for the empire is to appropriately abandon those parts that cannot be saved.

On this point, the Queen herself is undoubtedly qualified.

Even if it was a major decision like abandoning the empire's homeland, she was able to make a decisive decision and choose the most beneficial option for the empire.

From this point, we can see her sophistication and decisiveness as a monarch, not to mention that she was able to stake the fate of the entire empire on Perfectocte, which was not a decision that an ordinary monarch could make.

If it were an ordinary king, even if he knew about the crisis of the coming doomsday and knew that Perfectoct had a solution, it would be impossible for him to entrust such an important task to a teenage girl and allow her to do whatever she wants.

Even if it were Perfecto herself, she asked herself that if she were in the Queen's place, she would not be able to trust herself as much as the Queen trusted her.

Not to mention, it’s not just a matter of trust that’s involved.

This is a complete gamble with the entire empire and tens of millions of people, betting that Perfecto can really come up with a way to save the world and that she can really do it well.

It can be said that Perfectok had no idea how the Queen governed on a daily basis, but based on this one incident alone, Perfectok could feel the Queen's strong decision-making ability.

To say that he was decisive and heroic, Perfectok felt that this description was not an exaggeration.

But in comparison, Perfectcott's evaluation of Princess Anne was much worse. Indecisive was not enough to describe Princess Anne's problem.

Sometimes Perfect even wondered how she had served in the army for so many years and had made such a name for herself.

After all, Princess Anne's decision-making ability is really not commendable.

Just like now, Princess Anne came to ask for help, just to prevent the poor people outside the city of Langton who couldn't even get relief from the empire from starving to death.

She could actually do it herself, whether by ordering an imperial department to do it or writing an edict to Perfect.

Because no matter what, she is the eldest princess of the empire and the first heir to the empire in the legal sense.

She holds the power in the empire second only to the empress herself! Although this power has been gradually transferred to the aristocratic parliament and the elected parliament due to the changes in the empire's political system over the years, making the empire more like a country with separation of powers.

But as the first heir to the empire and the representative of imperial power, Princess Anne still holds a very high status in this political landscape.

So even if her order would disrupt and affect Perfectcot's original plan, if Princess Anne really wanted Perfectcot to do something, Perfectcot would have no way to directly refuse or disobey.

Although with Perfect's current influence, it is not a problem for her to reject one or two orders that she thinks are unreasonable, and even the Queen will not punish Perfect for such things, she will not do so easily.

After all, even with Perfecto's current power and status, she still needs to consider the reaction of the entire empire. Perfecto does not want to become a powerful official like Cao Cao or Dong Zhuo.

In comparison, Perfect admired Huo Guang more.

In a sense, Perfectoct felt that his current position was similar to that of Huo Guang, who deposed and enthroned emperors.

However, besides Liu He, Huo Guang also had Emperor Xuan to choose from, while Perfecto only had Princess Anne.

If Princess Anne is really not capable of taking on the responsibility, Perfectcot will not be able to find someone to replace her in a short time.

Although the emperor is not necessary, at this critical moment when the end of the world is approaching, any turmoil may cause irreversible consequences. Perfect does not want the core of the empire to undergo huge changes and shocks at this time.

Because that would mean she would have to spend a lot of time and energy cleaning up the situation and rebuilding a functioning political system, which would be a huge waste of time.

Abolishing the monarchy is not something that should be considered now.

So even though he knew that Princess Anne's performance was not up to standard, Perfect could only push her to that position as much as possible.

But overall, Princess Anne doesn't have many faults, except for her unbridled sympathy and compassion.

Sympathy and compassion are naturally two beautiful virtues. If a monarch has such virtues, it will certainly be a good thing for the people at the bottom.

This means that at least she will not impose heavy taxes and levies, and at least she will not treat the people like dogs and chickens.

If it is normal times or peacetime, the title of a benevolent monarch is indispensable.

Apart from that, Princess Anne had no major character problems or flaws, and she would not show mercy when it came to killing. At least during this period, Perfectcott had arranged for her to clean up the corruption problem in Longton, and she was not soft-hearted when it came to killing.

At the same time, as a royal princess of military origin, Princess Anne is actually not bad in decision-making ability, and she will not really make mistakes when it comes to making decisions.

This is also one of the reasons why Perfect was willing to help. After all, she was not delayed in her work, so having some problems was acceptable.

Besides, isn't it better to have a benevolent monarch than a mean and ungrateful person who only uses people for his own benefit and never uses them for his own benefit? At least he doesn't have to worry about being abandoned.

Although for Perfect, she is not worried about this issue at all.

So for Perfect, Princess Anne was not very qualified as the heir to the throne, nor was she the most suitable person to sit on that position at the moment. But before someone could be found to replace her, Perfect did not think that there was really anything wrong with her and she had to be replaced.

But no matter what, Perfect was still unhappy about the unnecessary workload he had to endure.

This also meant that when she went out of the city to check on the conditions of those poor people, her face always looked unhappy.

There is only one word difference between the poor and the common people, but the circumstances between the two are completely different.

Although the civilians living in the lower city also had a hard life, at least the empire was still distributing relief food to them, and most of them had a roof over their heads, a bed to sleep on at night, and quilts to keep them warm.

Although life is difficult, at least we can find a way to maintain it.

The poor outside the city were completely different; they were literally dying.

Just as Perfecto disguised herself and came to the outskirts of Langton under the escort of her personal guard Samantha, the Vatican inquisitor Sabelle, and the secretly protected female assassin Claudia, intending to find out what was going on, she saw at least one cart of "corpses" being dragged away in front of her.

The reason why "corpse" is in quotation marks is because Perfect could clearly sense that the people in the car were not completely dead.

In addition to the dozen or so real corpses in the car, there were also about seven or eight people who were still alive.

But Perfect did not try to rescue her because she knew she could not save her.

Those people's bodies had already fallen into a state of total exhaustion due to hunger and cold. They were like squeezed oil residue, without enough vitality or energy to keep them alive.

To describe it in one sentence, they are running out of energy and their time is up. Compared to the dead, they are just a breath away.

Even if Perfect rescued them and provided them with food and medicine, their bodies did not have enough energy to absorb and digest them.

Unless Perfect uses the Philosopher's Stone to activate human transmutation and forcibly reshape their bodies, none of them will survive.

If it were in the original world, it would probably be multiple organ failure caused by long-term malnutrition and hunger. Even with the medical conditions in the original world at all costs, it would be difficult to save him.

If there were only one or two people like this, Perfect would have saved them, but there were seven or eight people like this in the car she saw, and Perfect couldn't save them no matter how powerful he was.

Not to mention that there are many more "zombies" on the roadside whose conditions are slightly better than theirs, but actually not much worse.

Watching this scene, Perfectcot could understand why Princess Anne came to him for help. After all, seeing these people starve to death was hard for Perfectcot himself to accept, let alone Princess Anne.

"Do you know what is the most difficult disease to cure in the world?" Perfect was walking on the road. When he passed by a child who was too weak to cry, he threw a piece of black bread to him and asked Samantha and Sabelle beside him.

When the child saw the bread, his eyes lit up immediately. He grabbed the bread and started eating it, regardless of whether Perfecto had thrown it directly into the dirty water on the ground.

This action immediately caused a commotion, and those who still had some strength began to gather towards Perfecto, trying to beg for some food.

Although she had deliberately changed into ordinary clothes, her rosy complexion and powerful steps still attracted the attention and covetousness of many people.

However, Perfect didn't care about it, because she didn't really go out for a stroll with just a few guards.

At this moment, above her head was her own flying yacht, on which a whole flag team of steam knights and a team of flying knights were on standby. If any accident happened, she only needed to hold on for a minute and a team of steam knights would drop from the sky.

Judging from what she saw in the slums, there was really nothing here that could threaten her life within a minute, and there was no possibility of resisting the attack of the Steam Knight.

Just looking at those guys around him, who were only a breath away from corpses and looked no different from zombies, coming towards him like zombies, even a knight like Samantha who had faced a dragon could not help but hold on to her weapons and flares, ready to summon reinforcements.

However, Perfect held her down, and simply kicked down a guy who tried to grab his clothes, and quickly crossed the street with his two guards.

Before leaving, Perfect took out another piece of bread from his body, activated alchemy to make it bigger, split it into many small pieces, and threw it behind him.

Those people gathered towards Perfectcot for food, but when they saw a large amount of bread, they immediately started scrambling for it. Who would continue to pay attention to Perfectcot?
So Perfect simply got rid of the trouble of being trapped and came to another street.

Only then did Perfect answer his previous question: "The most difficult disease to cure in the world is poverty. What you are seeing now is the most severe form of poverty."

Looking at the scene before her that looked like hell on earth, Sabelle couldn't help but pray to the All-Father: "May the All-Father watch over this place and protect all suffering."

"I don't know whether the All-Father is watching us, but if the Empire doesn't keep its eyes on us, I'm afraid the heretics will." As a knight who adheres to the chivalrous creed, Samantha couldn't bear to see such a scene and wanted to help these poor people.

However, Perfect didn't say anything else, but took the two of them deeper into the slum, wanting to learn more and investigate the place thoroughly.

Because she sensed something was a little off, which made her think that maybe it wasn't the heretic who wanted to look here, but that the heretic had already looked here.

"This is a slum, why are there alchemical creations here?" Perfect looked at a strange street lamp on the side of the road.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is just an ordinary street lamp, but in the eyes of Perfectcot, this street lamp is an alchemical creation, and it is constantly collecting the resentment and souls of the poor who cannot survive.

(End of this chapter)