Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 732

Curled up in the corner of the carriage, Henry squeezed himself in with others as much as possible so that they could block the cold and prevent heat loss.

They were currently being loaded into the cargo box of a giant robot and were about to be transported to the town nearest to Rotten Town.

Because the robot itself is not used to transport people, the carriage is very cold.

Compared with being directly exposed to the outdoors, they just have an extra layer of thin iron sheet to block the wind and snow.

Henry felt that his hands and feet were numb from the cold. If he had not eaten a full hot meal before setting off, he would probably not have been able to bear it.

However, even so, Henry still felt the cold air constantly penetrating into his body through his limbs. He could only squeeze together with other people as much as possible to avoid the gaps that would take away his body heat.

"How long have we been walking? I feel like I have lost feeling in my legs." Someone asked, with uncertainty about the future and strong concern about the current environment in his voice.

Henry recalled that ever since the steam knight arrived in Lankeng Town and delivered the lord's order, they had been preparing to move.

After spending about a day preparing and another half a day braving the wind and snow to board the robot that came to pick them up, they had been on the road for a long time and it should be almost evening now.

"We have been walking for almost six hours. The knight said that we will arrive in eight hours. We still have two hours to go!" someone answered.

"Have we only walked for six hours? Why do I feel like we've been walking for a day?" Someone next to Henry said in surprise.

Henry was not surprised by this. After all, it is difficult to feel the passage of time in a closed environment, and time will seem to pass very slowly.

When Henry smuggled into the North in the past, he hid on a cargo ship. Henry, who had been staying in the cargo hold at that time, felt the same as now, it felt like a long time had passed, but in fact, not a long time had passed.

However, for the people in Lankeng Town, this journey was not that difficult.

The official status of northern residents that the knights promised them before setting off was like a carrot dangling in front of a donkey's eyes, tempting them to move forward and temporarily endure the hardships on the road.

Henry didn't want to say anything about this. He just endured it silently and wrapped his clothes tighter to get that insignificant warmth.

Instead of wasting energy talking, it is better to think about how to live in the new town.

Although the life described by the Knight is indeed beautiful, with a formal identity, one can live in a town with an energy tower, and does not have to risk freezing to death to transport coal every day...

But the lord is not doing charity. No matter how kind-hearted she is, she can't support them for free. Even if they don't freeze to death, they should make more plans for their own livelihood.

Henry felt that he could at least find a job moving things. He was strong and powerful, so he could do this kind of work.

I heard that workers in the North are treated very well. As long as they are willing to work hard, it is not difficult to support themselves and have enough food to eat.

Perhaps he could live a better life in the new town? Henry fantasized about the future and thought that he might have a chance to marry a wife.

She doesn't have to be too pretty, as long as she can do housework. It doesn't matter if she has a bad temper. Maybe it's better to bring children with her? Henry didn't worry about being deceived. After all, the people in Lankeng Town were all smuggled to the North. Apart from their own lives, there was nothing worth deceiving.

As long as he had food and shelter and could keep himself well fed and clothed, Henry felt that it would be possible even to buy his own life.

With this thought in mind, Henry did not join in other people's discussion, but just squeezed his body into the corner to warm up more.

Feeling the bumps and vibrations coming from under his butt, Henry thought that maybe he should take a nap. Maybe he would have his period when he woke up.

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In the cabinet meeting room, Perfect was listening to a report on disaster relief work.

"Currently, a total of twelve teams have been dispatched throughout the northern border to carry out disaster relief work. A total of forty-six settlements have been relocated, thirty-three of which are illegal settlements, with a total population of more than thirteen thousand people relocated." An official was reading the report in his hand.

Listening to this series of numbers, Perfect nodded slightly. She was very satisfied with the result.

While feeling satisfied with the results of the migration, Perfect asked with concern: "The resettlement work after the migration must be done well. We can't just send people to the city and leave it at that. We have to let them survive. Do you understand?"

The migration itself was not a particularly difficult task. Even though Perfect requested that casualties be avoided during the migration, they still completed the migration of more than 10,000 people from their original settlements to new towns despite the raging snowstorm.

Although this is extremely difficult to imagine, it is not impossible after the North has mobilized various resources and forces.

The steam knights and autonomous robots that can travel between towns in the wind and snow have become the absolute main force of this operation. They are the only ones who can move freely under the cover of the blizzard.

Although doing so would cause huge losses to the autonomous robots and steam knights, and some knights even died in the wind and snow, no matter what, they successfully completed their mission.

However, migration is only the first step. After this part of the population is migrated, they still need to be resettled.

Although Perfect has adopted the principle of resettlement in the vicinity, relocating the residents of these abolished settlements to the nearest towns, and the number of people relocated from each town is not large, it does not mean that the matter is solved by just relocating people there.

Their food, clothing and daily necessities are the focus of the next work.

Fortunately, Perfect took expansion into consideration when it originally designed the shelter, so accommodation is not a problem.

Because the population in each town is not large, food is not a big problem. After all, compressed biscuits can basically feed most people in the North.

But other things require a lot of thought, after all, there are so many more mouths to feed out of nowhere.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, we will increase our investment in this regard." The official responded to Perfectot seriously and showed confidence in this.

But Perfect simply shook his head and said, "If we don't stop this snowstorm from continuing to rage, we will only face more problems."

(End of this chapter)