Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 440: Riot IV

When Perfect entered the ninth block, escorted by four shield-bearing steam knights, the fighting had already subsided.

The streets were full of people who had been chopped down by the Royal Guards. Corpses were strewn across the streets and blood was flowing everywhere. Even though Perfecto was calm and rational, he couldn't help but sigh, feeling that these people's deaths were not worth it.

Her crown can give her rationality and calmness, but it does not deprive her of emotions, so even in a calm and rational state, Perfect can still express her emotions.

It’s just that no matter whether it’s positive or negative, she won’t let emotions affect her thinking.

But this was not the time to be sentimental. Perfect came to the church in the neighborhood, which was a relief point before the riots and was also the first place to be attacked when the riots broke out.

The place was in a mess at this time. The food stored in the relief center was looted, and most of it went into the stomachs of those who had already become corpses.

This is related to the policy formulated by Perfect, that is, there is not much food at the relief points, only enough to last for about a week, in order to prevent too much food from being hoarded and someone from stealing it or enriching themselves.

Therefore, even if these rioters broke into the relief points and stole the food, it would only be enough for them to eat for a few days.

Not to mention that part of the food at this relief point has already been distributed, and some has been embezzled by the staff at the relief point themselves, leaving even less.

Perfect could only shake her head helplessly. She knew that these people were not getting enough food, but according to her calculations, even if someone embezzled the food at the relief points, as long as it was not too excessive, there would be no problem in maintaining a state where people were not full but not starving to death.

As for those who are excessively corrupt, Princess Anne and her knights will naturally be responsible for dealing with them.

In fact, Perfect had received relevant reports before, listing the corruption in various relief points in the city of Langton, and several serious ones had been put on the execution list.

It’s just that things are still going through the process and are not that fast.

So in Perfecto's opinion, although Langton's current situation is bad, it is not to the point where he cannot survive.

It was just that she might have been influenced by the heretics at the time, and her emotions were not normal. Now that she had calmed down and thought rationally, she found that she had indeed gone too far. At least she had not taken into account the influence of human hearts.

The greed of the people made the staff responsible for distributing relief food more and more greedy. At first, they might just deduct their own ration from a bag of Little Mac, then it would be the ration for the whole family, and then the ration for the whole family for a week...

Greedy desire is like a poisonous snake that keeps growing. It will keep growing because of desire, and its appetite will become bigger and bigger.

At the beginning, perhaps just a little bit of benefit can fill the gap of desire in the heart, but as the desire expands, even swallowing up everything in the world can no longer satisfy the endless greed.

Even when facing the butcher's knife, just as the famous saying goes, if they have 100% profit, they dare to trample on all the laws of the world. When they have 300% profit, they dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged.

Therefore, killing cannot stop corruption. In the original world, an emperor who was born a peasant demonstrated this himself by peeling off the skin of a grass, and it was indeed useless.

They will be greedy if they can, even if it means taking away the last grain of food in someone else's mouth. They will snatch the mouth of a mud swallow, sharpen the tip of an iron needle, and scrape the face of a golden Buddha to search carefully: they will find something in nothing.

Looking for peas in the quail's crop, chopping the tender meat from the legs of a heron, and scraping the fat from the belly of a mosquito. It's all because of the old man!
It was also because of this that the food that Perfectoct had originally calculated to be sufficient or even slightly abundant became insufficient in the hands of this group of people.

As a result, the people's dissatisfaction in the original Perfect Plan turned into a state of riot with the slightest instigation from someone with ulterior motives.

This is another point that Perfecto did not take into account. She ignored the speed at which people's hearts change.

For ordinary people, as long as they have something to eat, they can indeed endure a lot of oppression. After all, as long as they are not starving to death and can still survive, who would be willing to risk their lives?
But when even the last bite of food cannot be guaranteed, even the most docile sheep will turn into a man-eating beast.

Because they want to survive, and when people are faced with life and death situations, the willpower they unleash cannot be stopped by anyone.

The people are not afraid of death, how can they be afraid of death?
With thoughts swirling in his mind, Perfect walked into the church, looked up at the statue of the All-Father sitting on a golden throne, and couldn't help but sigh.

Perhaps the All-Father once faced the same choice before he sat on the Golden Throne?
How to save the people from darkness and despair? The All-Father has given the best answer.

But the price was that he turned into an immortal skeleton and sat on the golden throne forever.

Perfect thought about everything in a rational and calm state, and found that it was absolutely impossible to simply support the people in this way.

Doing nothing will breed laziness, and laziness will breed other emotions, such as dissatisfaction, resentment and jealousy. People's hearts are always unsatisfied, and their insatiable desires will evolve into a new disaster.

If she wants to stop all this, she must ensure that the people are not left idle.

Perhaps I should modify my current plan? This thought flashed through Perfect's mind.

The plan was modified to build huge shelters in the empire to protect the people, not to save them at the end of the world, but to prevent them from collapsing and becoming the source of disaster before the end of the world and all plans could be smoothly implemented.

Thinking of this, a new plan quickly took shape in Perfecto's mind. She felt that she could increase the construction of the Langton Shelter, and at the same time, the local cities could also follow suit.

Although this would increase the workload for her and others, Perfectoct felt that this was an acceptable price to pay in order to avoid a situation like today, which she did not want to see.

And if you are too busy, there is the puppet computer. This powerful computing device combined with mechanical logic can replace many managers.

As for the expenses and consumption brought about by the expansion of construction...Perficot looked at the Philosopher's Stone in his hand. Perhaps the technology on the fifth page of the Emerald Record could play its role.

Thinking of this, Perfecto bowed to the statue of the All-Father, prayed devoutly that the god would bless his plan, and then turned and left the church.

(End of this chapter)