Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 513 Tea Party Politics
Perfectcott didn't invite many guests. Apart from Princess Anne, there were only a few noble ladies who were in the same social circle as her.

After all, there are still few female nobles in the empire, and the title of most women is Madam So-and-so, rather than being directly given a title like Perfect.

If it was an afternoon tea party at Longton, Princess Anne would definitely be the absolute protagonist, and others could only play a supporting role at most.

But this is the North, and Perfectcot is the real master. Princess Anne herself is not very interested in the tea party. If it weren't for Perfectcot's invitation, she might have found an excuse to refuse.

However, several other noble ladies were very interested in the tea party held by Perfectcot.

Not only did everyone dress up carefully, but they also prepared very appropriate and thoughtful little gifts for Perfect.

They are not expensive things, but you can tell that they were made with care.

This gave Perfectot a good impression of these noble ladies.

After everyone sat down, several noble ladies naturally started chatting about topics such as the weather and the customs and practices of the North, which soon livened up the atmosphere and brought them closer to Perfectcot.

At the same time, they did not neglect Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and took care of everyone at the meeting, giving them all the opportunity to speak, and also left enough impressions in front of Princess Anne and Perfectcot.

This is actually the biggest role and purpose of the tea party, to allow participants to have a sufficient impression in front of important people.

Men usually attend cocktail parties or social activities such as smoking cigars and hunting, while women naturally attend tea parties.

For the nobles, ladies' politics is also a very important part of aristocratic social life.

After all, there are some things that are inconvenient for men to communicate and talk about, but they can be communicated privately with the other party’s wife through their own wife, so as to avoid being caught in the act.

Many times, ladies' politics like this is much more useful than overt aristocratic socializing.

This also made Perfecto sigh that none of these noble ladies were easy to deal with. On the contrary, she herself was not good at this kind of thing. On the contrary, she was better at dealing with the husbands of these noble ladies.

As a member of the Imperial Council, Perfecto often met the husbands of these noble ladies.

In a sense, these noble ladies accepted her invitation to the tea party with the intention of building a good relationship with Perfectcot for their husbands.

After all, their husbands were all imperial nobles who had migrated from the mainland to the North this time. They had no roots in the North. Although their status and position were there, the North was Perfect's North. If she didn't nod, it would be enough to make a top noble in the Empire feel extremely uncomfortable.

Even Perfect didn't need to deliberately target anyone. Just showing indifference towards someone was enough to make that person excluded and isolated in the social circle of the North.

Even though the top nobles themselves were a social circle, there was a saying that when a wall falls, everyone pushes it down, and when a tree falls, monkeys scatter. It was absolutely right to establish good relations with the northern lords on the land of the north.

"Thank you for your hospitality, Count! Could you tell me the recipe for this dessert? I really like this kind of cake that is not so sweet." A noble lady cut a piece of cake into small pieces with a small knife and fork and put them into her mouth. While tasting it, she praised Perfect.

Perfect simply shrugged and said casually, "This is Black Forest Cake. Since I don't like to eat anything too sweet, I asked my baker to research it. This is a dessert mainly made of dark chocolate.

If you like, I can have someone write the recipe for you, but some of the ingredients may be difficult to obtain. At least the sweet berries used in them are in very poor supply this year, even if I have an island that specializes in producing these sweet berries. "

"Sweet berries? Is it the Sweet Berry Island located at the border of the New World and the North? I heard that it is a famous product of the New World. Perfect, you also built a material transfer station there connecting the empire, the New World and the North?" Princess Anne suddenly interrupted, changing the topic to another direction.

But Perfect's purpose today was not to talk about Sweet Berry Island, so she quickly followed Princess Anne's words and brought the topic back to the issue she wanted to talk about: "Yes, Sweet Berry Island is an important material transfer station connecting the North to the New World and other colonies of the Empire, but according to the reports from the officials on the island, it is not just the sweet berries produced on this island. At present, the materials transported to the North from various colonies of the Empire have encountered serious problems.

Some serious cases have even been interrupted for several months, and even the rest, which are slightly better, are still intermittent.

My port officer even reported to me that if the situation continued to deteriorate, all material exchanges between the North and other colonies of the Empire would be cut off.

This is almost a foreseeable future. After all, there is not much time left before the doomsday crisis. Once the ocean is completely frozen, the interruption of maritime shipping will be inevitable.

Moreover, those overseas colonies do not have sufficient ability to resist the apocalyptic disaster, and their climate will be greatly affected, and the production of various materials will basically be cut off."

"What a terrible disaster! Can't they build a huge greenhouse like you, Lord Earl, to ensure the outflow of materials?" asked a noble lady in a slightly naive tone.

Being able to sit in front of Perfect, it is certainly impossible for someone to be truly naive. The other party is just using this attitude to cooperate with Perfect.

Therefore, Perfect didn't think the other party was naive, but showed a wry smile, and then explained: "They don't have enough resources to do this. Although the cost of building a greenhouse can be reduced to an acceptable range with the help of alchemy, if you want to use the greenhouse to produce various materials, it is still a staggering expense.

Just like the cakes we eat today, the sugar needed to make them requires at least a field larger than my garden to grow sugar crops.

This forced me to find other ways to get sugar, otherwise we would have to drink black tea without sugar."

"That's terrible! My Lord, have you thought of a solution?" Another noble lady handed Perfectot a ladder at the right time.

Perfect smiled and nodded: "Of course."

(End of this chapter)