Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 697 - 651

Through the conversation with this young major, Perfikot gained some insight into the noble perspective on Beloburg's current economic situation.

In the eyes of most nobles, the current Northern Territory is flourishing with stability and growth.

Although the arrival of the doomsday winter made almost all nobles realize that the Empire is at a very critical stage, and they can no longer live as luxuriously as before.

Yet even so, they still feel that the Empire is merely in a difficult phase, rather than collapsing or facing disaster.

As long as the Empire is given time, it can recover and stride towards glory once again.

Therefore, the nobles believe they can endure temporary hardship and are even willing to donate part of their fortune or send family members to contribute their abilities to the Empire.

This response somewhat exceeded Perfikot's expectations, as she initially thought the nobles would not be so proactive.

But judging by the results now, they are quite commendable, at least they are not claiming the Empire is invincible like before, or pulling back the Empire at this time.

Of course, this is also largely due to the selection Perfikot made from the Empire's nobility when the Imperial Center moved to the Northern Territory.

Most of the true idle and bloated wastrels were left in Langton, and those who came to the Northern Territory had at least some basic quality and bottom line.

These people are the essence of the Empire's population, the core and foundation of the Empire's rule, constituting the basic structure of the current Empire.

As long as these people remain loyal to the Empire and continue to support it, Victory will not collapse.

And they are not only in Beloburg; the nobles who migrated from Langton and the Empire's core settled not only in Beloburg and Chernobyl but also scattered to other towns and settlements. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

These people also extended the Imperial Center's governance of the Empire to various local areas.

Although they cannot replace Perfikot's rule over the entire Northern Territory, they can indeed influence local attitudes to some extent.

However, Perfikot is not concerned about this, as she has no intention of betraying the Empire, and it indeed does not undermine her control and governance over the Northern Territory.

Quite the opposite, this helps to strengthen the grassroots people's centripetal force towards the Imperial Center.

After all, under the current conditions in the Northern Territory, each settlement or town is like a closed small society without railroad connectivity; without some external stimuli, they may gradually lean towards living isolated lives, caring little about who the rulers are.

Even if the grassroots officials of each settlement are influenced and controlled by Perfikot, and the grassroots people have enough respect for Perfikot, how many years has it been?

It has only been less than four years since the establishment of the Northern Territory, not enough time for people to forget Perfikot's kindness to them, but what about ten or eight years in the future?

Or to put it bluntly, what about a generation later? The older generation might remember Perfikot's kindness, but the next generation might not necessarily do so.

Perfikot feels that she still needs to consider this issue.

Moreover, this problem is not easy to solve, even in the original world, it was only through the societal shift into an information era that the closed rural atmosphere was broken, resolving this issue under the tides of time.

Even though this stable yet closed small society is not necessarily bad for Perfikot's governance over the Northern Territory, she still needs to consider how to resolve this issue.

As for the economic issues, the naval major had shared some opinions with her, suggesting to Perfikot that the situation in Beloburg is quite manageable but relatively needs industries that can drive economic growth.

Currently, Beloburg's economy, as Perfikot previously predicted, relies mainly on the consumption of the nobles, which indeed can promote the economic development of Beloburg, but cannot be the economic pillar of Beloburg.

After all, the nobles also need an income; without income and only expenditure, they can't sustain themselves either.

Should we consider providing them with some opportunities to develop related industries?

So far, the industrial center, political center, research center, and transportation hub, as well as the fortress for stationing troops, these five functional cities of the Northern Territory have all been completed, but their functions differ from Perfikot's original plan.

Originally, in Perfikot's plan, Chernobyl as the political center of the Northern Territory should have been used to house the Imperial Center and those Langton nobles, while she would not stay in this nominal capital of the Northern Territory to play political games.

According to Perfikot's original vision, after completing the construction of the Northern Territory, she should return to the research base at Eagle's Beak Cliff, turning it into a modern research metropolis, an academic city, and then focus on research and education until she creates a sky city.

Beloburg, as the transportation hub, should have been developed into the center of the Flying Airship route, with the construction and maintenance of Flying Airships here, while maintaining the airship routes.

This way, even amidst the doomsday winter, the Empire can still rely on these Flying Airships to construct a transportation network, maintaining communications between the Empire and its colonies.