Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 484 Does all this make sense?

When the construction work started, the people of New Shak City who found jobs soon settled down like those in the empire itself.

In fact, the needs of the grassroots people are so simple. As long as they have a stable job and can support their family, they will not cause trouble.

Many people think that the people at the bottom of society are troublemakers. They always want this and that, and in the end are unwilling to work. They are always full of resentment and dissatisfaction, but they have never thought about whether they have considered whether they have exploited the people too much.

It's a very simple logic. If you let the Palu work eight hours a day, work five days a week and have two days off, and provide free lunch every day, then even if the salary is lower, the Palu will be willing to work for you, and even take the initiative to work overtime when necessary.

But on the other hand, if you make the Palu work twelve hours a day, from Monday to Saturday, without even time for lunch, and you pay them very little, how could they be willing to work for you?

Perfect is not a cruel person, but of course she cannot be considered a kind person either. After all, she has the blood of millions of people on her hands. If you say that she is afraid of hurting ants when sweeping the floor and is careful about moths flying around the lampshade, that is purely wishful thinking.

She just feels sorry for others when she sees them suffering, and will lend a helping hand whenever she can.

This world is really fucked up. It's a cesspool where capital has developed and feudalism has not yet disappeared, while the whole world is suffering from doomsday disasters and the old gods are about to make a comeback.

In this cesspool-like world, the lower-class people suffer from the double oppression of the feudal aristocracy and the capitalists, and now the former church of the gods is about to be added.

What crime have the common people committed to deserve being oppressed by three mountains?

Perfect could ignore everything, even pretend not to see anything, and watch those who had nothing to do with her die.

This was not a difficult decision for her, not even as difficult as the one she had to make when she ordered the use of thermobaric bombs to incinerate millions of people during the Seventeen-Day War. She just had to do nothing.

But she couldn't get over the hurdle of her conscience.

She was able to convince everyone to let the empire abandon all territories except the North and all the people on them.

This is not a difficult task. All we need to do is say that the North cannot accommodate so many people, and we cannot save so many people in the cold winter at the end of the world.

No one would think there was anything wrong with this, and no one would think there was anything wrong with her doing this. They were just a bunch of ordinary people. In the eyes of the nobles, they were not their own people and were even worse than grass. In the eyes of the capitalists, they were just a group of living parts on a production line.

In their eyes, it is always the nobles and capitalists, the elites, who support this empire.

Ordinary people? Are they just a burden to this huge empire?

The answer is definitely no, because a great man once said: The people, and only the people, are the driving force behind world history.

Without the people, how could we rely on a group of nobles and capitalists? Perfect was not so naive and ignorant.

When she is able to take care of it, Perfect still hopes to save as many people as possible. Otherwise, there is no need for her to take on this matter and she can live freely and comfortably on her own.

But just like when she agreed to take on this mess three years ago, she couldn't bear to watch countless people in this world die because of her inaction. Killing someone is actively depriving someone of their life, and she can do it without hesitation after she is mentally prepared.

But for Perfectcot, not helping someone in need was really against his principles as a human being.

It was also because of this that when it came time to help the New World colonies, Perfect chose to take charge of all matters on this land without hesitation, even though it had nothing to do with her and she did not need to bear any responsibility for it.

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"Do you think what I'm doing is unnecessary?" Perfect looked at the person in front of him and asked her the question in his mind.

"Why do you say that? Without your help, many people would die! You saved them, how can this be considered redundant?" Kallen faced Perfecto and answered her question very seriously.

Kallen came on behalf of the Dominion to discuss with Perfectcott the cooperation after the ceasefire. Although both parties originally belonged to the New World colonies, now that they have been divided into two, many things need to be renegotiated.

However, specific matters can be left to the subordinates to discuss, and senior executives like Kallen and Perfect can naturally talk about other things.

But for some reason, Perfect suddenly talked to Kallen about whether it made sense for him to support her in spreading the revolution.

Kallen was a little confused. In her opinion, it was because of Perfect's help that the Revolutionary Army was able to achieve today's results. Although from another perspective, it was as if Perfect was playing a game.

It was the revolutionary ideas she spread that united the workers to form the Workers' Union; it was also she who gave Kallen the advice to start an uprising when the Empire announced the doomsday disaster, set up a revolutionary army and started a riot; it was also her sudden entry when the revolutionary army was in full swing that brought everything to an abrupt halt.

If we look at it from Kallen's perspective, all this is certainly not meaningless. It is precisely because of what Perfectcot did that they were able to break free from the original oppression and confusion and understand that they should fight.

As for other things, Kallen understood the current environment. It was impossible for Perfect to allow them to become bigger or overthrow the empire.

So although the current situation is not the best outcome, it is also an outcome that Kallen and the Revolutionary Army can accept.

But for Perfect, playing this trick on top of the already tense time and situation made it hard for people who knew the situation not to wonder what she was up to.

Although no one except herself knew what she did, even she would occasionally reflect on whether what she did was right or wrong when she had free time.

In fact, if she follows the so-called "correct approach", she should just kill anyone who dares to disobey and oppose her, and then simply replace all workers with robots, pursuing the most efficient solution.

This is not impossible for Perfecto. With the mechanical logic technology in her hands, she can create alchemical dolls that can completely replace workers.

In other words, apart from the real social elites, Perfect does not actually need ordinary people.

But in the end, she did not choose this "efficient" approach, but instead chose an approach that was less efficient and even seemed to be completely messed up. This made her reflect on herself, is all this really meaningful?
(End of this chapter)