Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 515: Perfect's Purpose
After the shares were distributed and the noble ladies all said they would send the money later, the tea party held by Perfectcot came to a successful conclusion.

However, after sending the others away, Perfect found that Princess Anne did not leave, but looked at him with curiosity and scrutiny.

This made Perfect feel strange, so he sat down in front of her again and asked Princess Anne: "What's wrong, Aunt Anne? Is there something on my face? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I'm just curious, why did you build a sugar factory and bring these people along?" Princess Anne asked her own question. She counted on her fingers as she spoke: "The Duchess of Gloucester, Lady McClintock, the Marchioness of Demel...

Not to mention that their husbands are all members of the Imperial Council, their mothers' families are all very important in the empire. I am very curious why you want to win them over."

"In order to stabilize the current situation in the North." Perfect was very direct and did not hide his purpose.

She reached out and picked up the teapot to pour herself a cup of tea, then sipped it while saying, “With the continuous influx of imperial nobles, frictions between the local nobles and the nobles in the North are now occurring from time to time.

Although both sides have exercised restraint and have not escalated the conflict, if you look at the growing pile of reports on my desk, you will know that they have never stopped fighting.”

Thinking of the pile of reports on his desk about the various frictions between local nobles and northern nobles, Perfect felt a headache.

Although she was too lazy to look through the pile of things, and most of the time they would just be used as fuel for making fires, the fact that so many of them could be used to make fires showed how serious the problem was.

Although Perfect had anticipated from the beginning that there would be a conflict between the local nobles and the northern nobles, she had never expected it to reach this extent.

Logically speaking, the nobles in the North were part of the local faction not long ago. After all, the North was established less than three years ago, and the vast majority of people migrated from the Empire or the New World.

But once people are involved in interests, the formation of factions is a natural thing.

Those pioneering nobles who came to the North and obtained fiefs, those capitalists who had business dealings with the North and worked hard in the North...

These people soon formed interest groups and political factions belonging to the North and began to seek greater power and interests for themselves.

When the North was just the North, their development and expansion went smoothly. After all, there was no one in the North to compete with them for the meat in their mouths, so all they had to do was to grab land.

Perfect was also someone who didn't really want to get involved in such matters. She didn't care about factional issues, as long as these people could work for her.

As for the possibility that the faction would expand and become too powerful to be controlled, posing a threat to her rule over the North, she didn't have to worry about that at all.

Because the most important legal basis for the formation of the Northern Faction is the title of Earl of Pioneer on Perfectoct's head.

This title determined that Perfectcot could legally include the entire North into her fiefdom, and the entire North was her territory.

And these people from the Northern faction can only obtain enough benefits to feed themselves by supporting her, so they only love Perfectcot and have no opposition to her.

Of course, there are people within the Northern faction who are thinking about getting more, and they still have some ideas about Perfectot's rule.

But this was no problem for Perfect as long as she still had Steam Knight in her hands.

Compared with the northern faction, the local dignitaries also wanted to gain benefits. Originally, the local dignitaries looked down on the small things in the northern border, but after the local area was abandoned and the entire empire's center was moved to the northern border, the northern border immediately became the most core and important territory of the empire.

At this time, any interests related to the North became a hot commodity in everyone's eyes.

Therefore, those local dignitaries who were seriously hurt by the relocation of the imperial center naturally set their sights on these interests in the north.

But unfortunately, these benefits are meat in the mouths of others, and if they want to eat them, they can only compete with the Northern faction.

The restraint of both sides is just an unspoken rule that they don't want things to escalate. After all, once things escalate and attract the attention of Perfecto or higher-ranking imperial dignitaries, the small profits will not be enough for the big guys to share.

Naturally, Perfect didn't want the two factions to fight too fiercely, and even less did he want any rift to exist between the North and the Empire itself.

That is why she hopes to use this method to allow the local dignitaries of the empire to participate in the distribution of interests in the North, thereby easing the conflicts between the local dignitaries and the factions in the North.

Of course, this is just one of Perfectoct's purposes in building the sugar factory.

The most fundamental purpose is to solve the problem of sugar supply.

After all, once the doomsday winter comes, it will be difficult for her to obtain enough sugar to maintain the supply unless she really builds greenhouses on a large scale to grow sugarcane or beets to make sugar.

There is no need to elaborate on the importance of sugar, and it also has another important function, which is to enrich the variety of food.

You know, if a person only eats one kind of food, he will really die.

The most famous example is the rabbit meat famine problem. To put it simply, people will starve to death if they only eat rabbit meat.

Because rabbit meat has a very low fat content, if you only eat rabbit meat, you basically get protein, and the energy required for the human body to digest protein is greater than the energy the human body gets from protein.

This will cause you to become thinner and thinner the more you eat, and eventually you will starve to death because your body is depleted of energy and does not have enough energy to digest food.

For the North, such a situation would certainly not happen, as the alchemical compressed biscuits made by Perfectcot could provide enough energy.

But this thing... it's fine to use it to fill your stomach, but if you eat too much, or eat it for every meal, it will become tasteless and you won't be able to swallow it, and you may even develop severe anorexia.

And there is another very important point. The rich variety of food on the table can greatly enhance people's satisfaction and happiness. If you want to maintain social stability, this is a very critical issue.

When there is only bread on the table, there is no doubt that the level of public dissatisfaction will be quite high.

After all, solving the problem of having enough to eat and solving the problem of eating well are two completely different concepts.

(End of this chapter)