Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 670 Tender Allocation
No one will know about the secret meeting and conversation between Perfect and Kallen; it will remain an absolute secret.

Half a month later, the bidding activities for the flying battleship project were launched as scheduled.

Perfect herself was personally involved in the review and bidding of key projects. She was really reluctant to leave these critical matters to others.

However, her energy was limited after all, and the not-so-particularly-important projects that she deliberately subcontracted were handed over to a temporary bidding team to review and host the entire bidding process.

She is only responsible for the technical review of the most critical parts to ensure that those who enter the bidding for the core parts are direct manufacturers with sufficient technical qualifications.

Nowadays, there are already agents or suppliers, and they also hope to participate in the project.

However, in order to ensure the stability of the supply chain and to supervise and control quality, Perfect chose to exclude these non-direct manufacturers from the bidding scope.

This has caused many people to even complain about it.

After all, some of them are white gloves raised by the imperial high-level officials, while others are representatives of interests who are pushed forward.

These people used their power to get products from manufacturers at cheap prices, then sold them to the empire at high prices, and made huge profits from it.

This sounds like there is no problem, but to be honest, every process here is a pitfall.

First of all, these people are not direct manufacturers. They are likely to go to unqualified manufacturers to produce, and they will also try to lower prices to the manufacturers as much as possible to reduce costs and increase profits.

In this process, if manufacturers do not want to lose money, they can only reduce their costs in the same way.

The consequence of this is that the products are substandard, cut corners or are inferior.

But these have nothing to do with the agents or suppliers who get the orders. They only want to make enough profit from it. As for whether the things sold to the Empire are good or expensive, what does that have to do with them?

As for not being able to get projects and orders? Are their power and status fake?

They had been looking forward to getting a piece of the pie in this big project, but now Perfect has directly blocked their way to make money.

How could this not make them feel dissatisfied?

But facing the White Bear Knights who were transferred by Perfecto in the name of maintaining order, no one dared to speak out or express their dissatisfaction.

After all, facing the White Bear Knights who have been equipped with the latest steam knight armor, even other knight groups also equipped with steam knight armor would be a little afraid, let alone ordinary people.

Perfect had spared no effort for his own knightly order. When ordinary imperial knights were still equipped with the earliest first-generation steam knight armor, Perfect had already upgraded the White Bear Knights to the third generation.

This was the design inspiration that Perfect got when she was researching the God-killing Armor. After she gained omniscience, she carried out a large-scale technological innovation on the Steam Knight Armor based on this inspiration, thus iterating into the third-generation Steam Knight Armor.

Compared to the first generation of steam armor, Perfect used a new energy core based on the same principle as the God-killing Armor in the third generation. This technology has been technically verified on the Divine Grace Knights. Now Perfect has finally combined the Divine Grace Knights' experimental and actual combat data and applied it to the Steam Knights.

Through this technological upgrade, the current third-generation steam armor also has the ability to overload. At the cost of needing a major overhaul after use, the steam armor can fight in overload mode for three minutes, gaining a 300% performance improvement.

This is a very powerful killer move. For ordinary Steam Knights, it is equivalent to giving them the ability to give it a try or make a fatal blow when facing an invincible enemy.

After all, the strength of ordinary steam knights is only that of great knights at best, and they can't be of much use in today's increasingly exaggerated battlefields.

This was particularly evident in the previous God-killing War in Langton.

Ordinary steam knights are just slightly more advanced cannon fodder in the battlefield of god-killing.

The third-generation steam armor ensures that the steam knight can at least punch the enemy in the face with blood or bite the enemy.

Of course, this doesn’t make sense to the average person.

But the third-generation steam armor looks taller and bigger, and there is no annoying soot. The overall look is majestic and full of deterrence, and ordinary people can still understand it.

With the deterrence of the White Bear Knight, Perfectoct's bidding plan went very smoothly.

With the threat of force, most people would not dare to do anything even if they were dissatisfied with the results of the bidding.

You have to know that this was the era of the First Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, especially since the entire empire had just experienced a catastrophic turmoil, and there were not many good men and women among the imperial nobles who survived.

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Real business wars in the original world can eliminate competitors in a physical sense. Similarly, in this world, one should not think too highly of the businessmen’s competitive methods.

They don't need to, simply because of Perfect's deterrent power, not anything else.

However, in order to support the royalists, Perfecto tried its best to allocate most of the projects to the royalist factories or the interest representatives promoted by them.

Of course, the premise of all this is that these people meet her requirements, or at least pass the qualifications review.

The royalists did not know all this beforehand, but as the bidding progressed, they quickly came to their senses.

The royalists were somewhat distrustful of Perfectot's intentions. After all, the royalists and the Northerners were not necessarily enemies, but they were definitely in a competitive relationship.

Under such circumstances, Perfect not only did not side with the Northerners, but instead distributed most of the benefits of this major project to the royalists. This seems wrong no matter how you look at it.

But the senior decision-makers of the Royalist Party did not find it strange, especially the old staff around Princess Anne, who saw the matter more thoroughly.

"The Earl of the North is trying to strike a balance. She doesn't want the royalists to be too weak, and she wants to maintain a political balance." An old aide who once served as a colonial governor pointed out the core reason why Perfecto did this.

Another staff member went further and said: "This is a good thing for us! As long as we can reap the benefits of this project, the Royalists will gain a firm foothold in the North and gain the capital to compete with the Northerners!"

(End of this chapter)