Pignes Castle, despite being the largest city in the northern part of the New Continent, was initially a military stronghold, and decades of peaceful life have not changed this fact.
Therefore, the overall area of Pignes Castle is not large, and the main industrial industries are steel and military manufacturing.
Limited by the city’s size, these industries are also not large in scale.
The steel plant mainly produces tal parts needed for the daily maintenance of the stronghold and rails for railway use, while the military industry is only able to produce rifles and small-caliber six-pound cannons.
Furthermore, these two factories mainly serve the maintenance of the stronghold’s armants, originally used to support military logistics during the war, so the equipnt is very outdated and the production capacity is low.
Decades have passed, and the factories in the Empire have already achieved full chanized production, while here most work is still done manually.
It’s not that the factory owners here don’t want to upgrade their equipnt, but the military industries in Pignes Castle are owned by the Imperial Military. If the military doesn’t update, they can’t upgrade their equipnt.
And the efficiency of the Imperial Military...
"They are often very efficient when applying new equipnt, but miserly as a miser when it cos to upgrading old equipnt." Perfikot inspected the industrial situation of Pignes Castle and had to make a very disappointed evaluation.
Lieutenant Kevin followed Perfikot, not knowing what to say about her evaluation.
As a local of Pignes Castle, Lieutenant Kevin is aware of the situation here; when the war had just ended decades ago, it still seed flourishing, and over the following decade, the city saw great developnt during the peaceful tis.
That was the most prosperous period for Pignes Castle, and most of the current buildings were constructed during that ti.
However, the city’s developnt stagnated over the next twenty years, although it still seed thriving and everything looked beautiful, it was only maintaining the status quo.
In the sa period, other cities in the New Continent experienced rapid developnt, while Pignes Castle remained the sa.
To the residents of Pignes Castle, life didn’t seem to have gotten worse, but compared to other places in the New Continent colonies, Pignes Castle was not just a little backward.
In recent years, as factory equipnt increasingly aged and technology beca increasingly outdated, factories in Pignes Castle have struggled to receive orders, and operating rates have been on the decline.
This is why Kallen can encounter a large group of workers in the tavern listening to her speech during the day.
It’s not that people aren’t working, but there simply are no jobs to go to.
Although this phenonon isn’t severe yet and doesn’t involve most factories, the problem is already gradually becoming apparent.
If not properly resolved, one can imagine serious unemploynt will inevitably break out in the future, leading to labor movents.
So for Kallen, this is the best environnt for her to be active.
The workers have ti to listen to her lecturing on the knowledge she learned from Perfikot, and their unemploynt issues have filled them with dissatisfaction, resonating with what Kallen preaches.
Moreover, these workers are only temporarily unemployed; life is difficult but not unbearable, preventing imdiate serious social clashes or labor movents.
Indeed, there’s no more perfect environnt than this.
This has led to the rapid growth and developnt of the Workers’ Federation in less than two months, with Kallen having established it in Pignes Castle, now connecting almost all factory workers into a significantly large group.
In recent tis, Kallen is aligning with workers from different factories, gathering their situations and demands, preparing for a tentative march to pressure the governnt of Pignes Castle for improvent in workers’ unemploynt issues.
Kallen doesn’t want things to beco too tense; this attempt is mainly a trial to let the workers understand and learn how to fight and advocate for their interests, while also testing Pignes Castle’s response and tolerance.
If the other side’s attitude is rigid, her priority is to avoid unnecessary sacrifices.
After all, they currently don’t have any military power; relying only on workers’ marches and struggles would be irresponsible for their lives.
Moreover, Kallen hasn’t ignored the most crucial information she got from Perfikot: In two years, the entire world will be frozen by ice and snow, breaking everything old. Under this premise, the first thing to do now is to accumulate enough strength, rather than fighting or creating conflicts and unrest, which would be bad news for anyone involved.
Especially since Perfikot once told Kallen that what she wants is stability; whoever stirs up trouble at this ti will only be strongly suppressed by her and the Empire.
Kallen instinctively doesn’t want to conflict with Perfikot, naturally not willing to do such things deliberately.
According to Kallen’s plan, she will organize the workers in so small-scale struggles within the year or two, strengthening everyone’s unity and fighting spirit without causing major trouble.
Once the Empire announces the apocalyptic winter news, she will raise the banner of the Pioneer Knight and lead workers north to the Northern Territory, establishing their own pioneering domain to fight against this apocalyptic winter.
Kallen knows she is not a leadership talent, so after forming the Workers’ Federation, she didn’t place herself in the leadership position, letting the workers nominate the person they trust most as the leader.
Instead, Kallen is responsible for teaching and lecturing the workers, using Perfikot’s words, she acts as the spiritual ntor.
However, Kallen clearly understands that she is rely passing on what Perfikot taught her; she is not the true spiritual ntor, Perfikot is.
Therefore, upon learning Perfikot had arrived in Pignes Castle, she once again used her stealth capabilities after a long ti to secretly sneak into the location where she was inford Perfikot was staying, quietly arriving in Perfikot’s room.
She wasn’t sure what her state of mind was, but she very much wanted to et Perfikot again, with many things she wanted to say to her.
However, the mont Kallen entered Perfikot’s room, she was discovered, with two sharp blades thrusting directly toward her face.
Had it not been for Perfikot tily stopping Beifa, Kallen might have ended up with two clear holes on her body.
"Hi, Kallen." Perfikot greeted Kallen, and Kallen likewise smiled back.
User Comments
0 comments from readers