Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 445 Riot IX

After asking the Brotherhood and the Church to send people to investigate the group of people distributing food in the slums, Perfectcott also returned to Windsor Castle.

In the office, Princess Anne, who was confined to her desk, was processing documents seriously. The documents that were originally piled up as high as a person on the desk had now been processed by one third. It can be seen that Princess Anne's work efficiency during this period is still worthy of recognition.

But next to this pile of documents, which was only two-thirds left, there was a new pile of documents, which was already half as high as the original pile.

Princess Anne couldn't help but complain when she saw Perfectcot coming back: "Little Perfectcot, did you deliberately have someone send the documents here? How can you handle so many documents every day!"

"It's OK. I don't have to review all of them myself." Perfect waved his hand nonchalantly and sat on the sofa beside him. He asked Befa to pour him some tea and said with a smile, "Besides, you don't need to read many documents in detail. Just glance over them and check the key points. That's all."

At this point, Perfect looked at Princess Anne jokingly and said to her, "Aunt Anne, you don't read every document carefully, do you? If so, even if you have more energy, it is impossible for you to finish all the work.

This is all experience in handling government affairs. Aunt Annie, you still have a lot to learn!"

Princess Anne was undoubtedly embarrassed by Perfectcot's teasing, but she also understood that what Perfectcot said was the truth.

Although she has received a long period of royal education and has been forced by the Queen to handle many government affairs during this period, which has trained her ability to handle government affairs, Princess Anne still lacks experience in how to handle government affairs efficiently, or more efficiently.

Of course, it can also be said that she doesn't like dealing with government affairs.

But no matter what, Princess Anne lacks the experience of actually managing a city or a territory and truly commanding the overall situation.

She was just trying to do something in a certain aspect under the control of the Queen.

"Yes, I am not as experienced as you." Princess Anne readily admitted this. She put down the pen in her hand, rubbed her shoulders, and then asked Perfect, "Little Perfect, did you go to the slums today? How did you feel? Have you thought of a way to help them?"

When Princess Anne asked, her eyes were full of anticipation. In her opinion, as long as Perfectoct was willing to help, there would be no problem.

However, Perfect shook his head and said with a serious expression, "The situation in the slums is worse than I expected, and there are unexpected circumstances. If the worst happens, I will have no choice but to clear out all the slums in the outer city, even if I have to use thermobaric bombs."

In Perfect's opinion, if there really were heretics causing chaos and the situation became irreversible, then she would really have no choice but to clear out the entire slum, even if it would ultimately require the use of thermobaric bombs.

According to the information obtained from the conversation between Perfect and Sabel on the way back, the heretical sect that was once eradicated by the church had committed a series of heinous acts such as spreading plague and polluting the city's water sources.

If these things happened in Langton, the consequences would be disastrous.

Especially in this doomsday environment, people's hearts are unstable. If we can't nip everything in the bud, it will be a terrible disaster that is difficult to deal with.

So for Perfect, using thermobaric bombs as a last resort is like issuing an extermination order.

Although it is a very cruel sacrifice, it is a necessary sacrifice.

This immediately shocked Princess Anne greatly. She really couldn't imagine what had happened that Perfect would take such cruel measures against the slums after just going out for a trip.

Under her questioning, Perfecto explained what he had discovered.

"What did you say? Someone is collecting souls and grievances in the slums?" Princess Anne's face showed uncontrollable anger. She asked Perfectcott, "Who is so bold? How dare they do such a thing in Langton!"

Regarding this question, Perfect shook his head and said, "I don't know yet. I have asked someone to check, but the matter may be more complicated than I expected, because it is a street lamp!"

When Princess Anne heard what Perfectcott said, her face suddenly became even uglier.

She just didn't like dealing with government affairs, not that her brain wasn't working well. She certainly understood what Perfectocte meant.

"Being able to replace street lamps with alchemical creations at least shows that the other party has connections in the municipal department, or they are the ones who take over the municipal maintenance project." Princess Anne's thoughts were very clear at this time. She happened to have handled municipal engineering before, and she was quite familiar with the relevant processes and links in this area: "But this is only the most ideal situation. Little Perfect, you also said that many lamp posts you can see in the slums have been replaced, which means that this is by no means a small matter! Maybe there is a problem with the relevant links of the entire process!"

"This is still secondary. They are just a bunch of termites. We can catch them and kill them slowly later." Perfect didn't care about the problems of the municipal department.

This kind of thing is often unavoidable, and she doesn't care as long as these people are still doing their work.

Often times, these people will work harder than normal people in order to keep their positions or climb higher. If used well, they may become a group of high-quality palus.

What really concerns Perfect is who is behind all this and what their purpose is.

"So that's why you said that if necessary, we should use thermobaric bombs to destroy the entire slum?" Princess Anne also reacted and realized that the administrative issues could be dealt with after the incident was over. The most important thing at the moment was the slum itself.

Perficot nodded, placed his hand on the coffee table in front of him and activated alchemy.

"This is the general topography of the slums. They are located in an area near the river in the north of Langton. There are about 20 to 40 people living here." Perfect used alchemy to simulate the general shape of the slums on the coffee table and explained to Princess Anne: "The river has not frozen yet, and a large part of the domestic water in Langton comes from it. If there is a problem upstream, the consequences will be disastrous.

Moreover, this place is close to the lower town area, which is also the area where industrialization is more concentrated in Langton. The original city defense facilities and city walls from the old era have been demolished.

Aunt Anne, you should understand what this means, right? "Perfect said, and looked at Princess Anne. She knew that this princess who came from a military background must be very concerned about this matter.

As expected, Princess Anne walked to the coffee table, covered the slums and downtown with her hands, and said in a serious tone: "If I create riots in the slums and spread them to the downtown area, even if the city guards can respond in time, even if they are just a mob, they will not be able to stop the attack of at least tens of thousands of people.

This generation has no strategic location to defend, and the advantages of the army's weapons and equipment and personnel quality will be leveled due to urban street fighting. If something really happens, it will be a very difficult and tough battle. "

"We can fight if we send out the Steam Knights, but once the number of enemies exceeds a certain limit, throwing thermobaric bombs is the simplest, direct and efficient way to deal with them." Although Perfect's face looked unhappy as well, he did not feel as troubled as Princess Anne.

After all, for her, if conventional methods cannot solve the problem, then she will use strategic weapons.

However, Princess Anne shook her head and denied Perfecto's idea: "This is an important industrial area and water source in Langton. Attacking this area with thermobaric bombs will have too much collateral impact.

Moreover, most of the houses in the slums are made of wood, and the lower city is not much different. Once a thermobaric bomb is used to cause a fire...

"Little Perfect, do you have the ability to put out a fire that has spread across half a city while dealing with the remaining enemy forces at the same time?"

In Princess Anne's opinion, although thermobaric bombs can solve the problem efficiently, the subsequent chain reactions are still very large, and the city of Langton may collapse if one is not careful.

In response to this, Perfect nodded affirmatively: “It’s a small problem. If you want to put out the fire, you can throw another thermobaric bomb to burn all the air in this area in a short period of time, so the fire will not start.

As for the enemy's remaining forces, ask the military to borrow a few Steam Knights. Don't tell me that these guys don't have some tricks up their sleeves."

Perfectcott's arrangement left Princess Anne speechless.

This is not to say that her level is not as good as Perfect, but things like Steam Knights and Thermobaric Bombs have only appeared for a year or two. Both the military and commanders like Princess Anne are still trying to figure out how to use these things and how to make the most of them on the battlefield.

The old men in the military are okay. At least they have nothing to do every day so they study these things and have figured out some tricks.

But for someone like Princess Anne, who has basically left the command position and front-line combat troops, it is difficult for her to learn how to control these things in the first place.

How serious is this delay? Previously, Prince Edward's knights had already begun to change their armor to steam knight armor on a large scale, while Princess Anne's knights only changed their armor to a small extent.

Not only were some of the great knights in the Knights Templar only required to change their uniforms, their strategies and combat methods still maintained the traditional knight charge model of the past.

The Steam Knights were simply treated as a stronger type of heavy cavalry, rather than being used as a completely new type of soldier and weapon.

This is certainly not a big problem. It is already very rare for a new weapon to emerge and form a reasonable set of tactical thinking within three to five years, not to mention that the Steam Knight has only been around for less than three years.

The progress and development of tactical thinking requires the catalysis of talented military strategists and war itself. Otherwise, if the development is carried out step by step, no one will know whether the path has gone astray.

Just like in the original world, the Germans' use of armored forces during World War II taught the whole world a solid lesson. Britain and France, who were still stuck in the tactical thinking of World War I, were directly defeated.

After all, the tank was invented by the British, but Britain and France both regarded it as a defensive weapon. Only Germany at that time regarded the tank as an offensive weapon, and derived the blitzkrieg tactics from it, which flourished in World War II.

Therefore, war itself is the best catalyst and test for the upgrading and improvement of weapons and equipment, as well as their actual application.

Originally, the Steam Knights would have had such an opportunity, but Perfect directly ended the Seventeen-Day War with thermobaric bombs, making the war that was originally intended to test the quality of the Steam Knights disappear invisibly.

"We can discuss the specifics later. The most urgent thing right now is to find out what happened and come up with a temporary solution." Perfect didn't delve into the tactical issues, but proposed to Princess Anne: "I suggest that we send a Steam Knights to be stationed in the Lower City, and at the same time transfer a part of the City Guards to this area. We can tell the public that it is to protect the factories in the Lower City. The factory owners will not object. On the contrary, they will sponsor some military expenses."

"Mobilizing the city guards and the Knights is a small matter. The key is how to deal with these people in the slums. We can't really kill them all, right?" Princess Anne looked at Perfect, but found that the other party's eyes revealed a look of "this is what I think", which made Princess Anne embarrassed: "You don't think so, right?"

"No, I do plan to solve the problem once and for all by killing them all." Perfect did not deny this, and even emphasized: "This is currently the most efficient way to solve the problem once and for all.

Not only can it effectively eliminate the hidden dangers of slum outbreaks, but it can also save a large amount of food for the empire and eliminate related social problems.

After all, the quality of the people in the slums is not high, and there are many things they can't do even if I really want them to do them.

In this case, if you want to solve the problem once and for all, you can only resort to cruel means, unless Aunt Annie has a better solution. "

Having said that, Perfect paused, looked at Princess Anne's frozen expression, and shook his head helplessly: "However, considering the other problems and negative effects that the massacre may bring, this is only the last resort.

Although I like to solve problems efficiently once and for all, it doesn't mean that I solve everything by killing people.

If the situation had not deteriorated, it would not be impossible to handle it with relatively gentle means.

But the most urgent task now is to find out what happened in the slums. Otherwise, if something really happens to these hundreds of thousands of people, half of Langton will be involved."

(End of this chapter)