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Chapter 657 The Price of 'Omniscience'
Perfectot's words were a little too arrogant, but everyone knew that they were the truth.

In the North, Perfect is the one who can really decide everything. If she is unhappy, then the entire North will be unhappy.

If she does not want the National Assembly and the Prime Minister to exist, she can cancel and dissolve them all.

Although Perfect did not intend to do so, no one could deny that she had the power and identity to do so, and most importantly, the strength to ensure that her will could be carried out.

Therefore, when Perfect decided to control the environmental pollution in Pripyat, no matter how reluctant they were, they had to carry out her will.

"My Lord Count, your will will be implemented throughout the entire North. This is an indisputable and ironclad fact. But how do we solve the pollution and carry out governance?" An official from Pripyat asked Perfect.

"First of all, all factories must upgrade their existing production equipment to a certain extent to reduce the emission of toxic and harmful gases. A technical charter will be given to you later on the specific operations. All you have to do is upgrade all the factories according to my requirements." Perfect originally wanted to reason with these people, but looking at the attitude of these factory representatives, she thought about it and decided to just issue an administrative order.

But thinking of the administrative order, she glanced at the factory owners present, especially the fat man who made her feel the most cunning. After a moment's thought, she added, "I will send people to inspect and supervise later. If anyone pretends to obey but actually disobeys, or thinks they can get away with it, then you can imagine the consequences yourself."

Perfect didn't say what the consequences would be, but it was obvious that no one wanted to actually try that consequence.

Even the factory owners were the same. Although they kept mumbling about production costs, reduced profits, and not being able to make money, they were still honest and lowered their heads in front of Perfecto, not daring to confront her at all.

What to do afterwards is a matter for later. Even if you have to pretend to obey, or try to deceive people by being cunning and cunning, that is a matter for later.

With their connections and capital, there is always a way.

But to confront her in front of Perfecto was another matter entirely, and it could actually lead to death.

Perfect seemed to see through their thoughts, but she didn't say much. She just emphasized the importance of environmental governance to the Pripyat officials and waved her hand, indicating that they could go away.

Naturally, no one dared to offend Perfect, so they left the room together.

Perfect looked at everyone leaving and sighed helplessly.

Sometimes it’s not that she likes this kind of threatening method, but because some people won’t listen when she talks nicely, so using this method is more efficient.

Over time, even when she herself was dealing with some things and problems, the first thing she thought of was to take such simple and crude measures, rather than presenting facts and reasoning.

"Forget it. Who cares? As long as things get done, that's enough." Perfect was too lazy to dwell on it. As long as things got done, that was enough for her.

As for whether the people below will execute with understanding, or understand while executing, or simply execute without understanding, she is too lazy to care.

In this era, the majority of people are still unreasonable, so many times it is really impossible to make others obey you by reasoning.

And rather than telling them why they should do something, Perfect feels that telling them how to do it is the most important thing.

For example, in the case of Pripyat, it is better to tell them how to protect the environment rather than why they should protect the environment. The former is something that Perfecto has to work hard to explain, but the latter... is much easier for her now.

She had acquired the ability called 'omniscience' a long time ago and had used it before. Overall, this ability was indeed very useful, but not as useful as Perfectoct had imagined.

The 'omniscience' ability can indeed provide Perfect with any knowledge she needs, but the acquisition of knowledge is not without cost.

When this ability is activated, Perfect can search for the corresponding knowledge according to his needs. In this regard, the ability of 'omniscience' is uncompromised.

As long as Perfect can clearly identify the knowledge she wants, then 'Omniscience' will allow her to know the corresponding knowledge.

However, in order to obtain this knowledge, Perfect must pay the corresponding "price".

At first, Perfect thought the 'price' was her mental strength, just like when other abilities were activated.

However, when she used this ability for the first time, she realized that mental strength was only consumed to activate the ability, and the "price" needed to be paid separately.

The 'price' she needs to pay is equivalent knowledge.

Just like the principle of equivalent exchange that classical alchemy has always followed, if Perfectocte wants to obtain one piece of knowledge, he must exchange it with another piece of knowledge of equal value.

Of course, making the exchange did not mean that Perfecto lost the knowledge he had exchanged.

She just has to provide a piece of knowledge in exchange for something of equal value, rather than losing the knowledge herself.

This is an acceptable price for Perfectcot. Moreover, one advantage of Omniscience is that the consumption of activating it is not large. If Perfectcot is willing, he can use it seventeen or eighteen times a day.

In other words, as long as Perfect has one piece of knowledge as a starting point, the ability of 'omniscience' can make her truly omniscient through accumulation over time.

At least now, an environmentally friendly technology applied to air purification appeared directly in her mind, and what she paid for was the production method of the alchemical compressed biscuits she designed.

After quickly going over the technology in his mind, Perfect took out a pen and paper and began to write down the key points of the technology.

This is an industrial pollution control technology that is no less than the one used in the original world before the time travel, except that its principle is alchemy rather than physical chemistry.

“It looks more complicated than the equipment process for purifying coal smoke that I originally designed, but this technology can effectively treat sulfur dioxide. It is more perfect than my previous design.” After writing the technical summary and then drawing the design, Perficot finally nodded with satisfaction and made his own evaluation.

In fact, if Perfecto wanted to, she could solve this problem. Using "Omniscience" would just save herself some effort.

(End of this chapter)