The deterrent force of the Lord's personal involvement remained substantial. Although in the New Continent many people disregarded the aristocracy and the Empire's homeland, when facing Perfikot, who held the power of truth, they wisely chose to comply.
After all, nobody wanted to debate justice and truth with the Steam Knight's 75mm portable recoilless rifle. The source of thɪs content is novel(ꜰ)ire.net
And no one wished to discuss fairness and freedom with a Thermobaric Bomb.
Consequently, the issues discovered in the first sanctuary were swiftly rectified. The construction company spared no expense in tearing down and redoing all the identified hazards and issues.
Though the costs were indeed enormous, fortunately, the discovered problems were only minor risks, not requiring a complete demolition and reconstruction.
By knocking out the sections where corners were cut and then refilling and repairing, compensation was generally achievable.
In this world, there truly exist mysterious entities; the alchemists' alchemy can indeed play a significant role in this regard. As long as one is willing to spend money to hire qualified alchemists, it is possible to use alchemy to fix some vacancies and gaps.
Of course, the salaries required by alchemists of this caliber are astronomical, and even if they are brought in, their strength is limited; repairing one issue a day is considered efficient.
Thus, although the construction company indeed hired an alchemist, they mostly had this alchemist do the final minor repairs after the workers finished their restorations, checking for any remaining issues.
Upon such reconstruction, the underground sanctuary in Fjord Town finally passed Perfikot's inspection.
Afterward, Perfikot finally showed a slightly more pleasant demeanor, and after a discussion with the construction company, more construction orders were finalized.
Despite the many issues in building the first sanctuary, these minor problems were still within a permissible and acceptable range.
Therefore, Perfikot was generally satisfied with this construction company; at least their attitude during rework was reasonably satisfactory.
As for the minor problems encountered during construction, other companies faced similar issues; this company already sorted through everything once, with significantly fewer issues than before.
This construction company could not determine whether they were fortunate or unfortunate. Although they received more engineering commissions from Perfikot, having to continue facing this ruthless Lord of the North left the company managers somewhat distressed.
But as the sages of the original world once said, with 50% profit, it would take risks; with 100% profit, it would dare to trample all human laws; with 300% profit, it would dare to commit any crime, even risking being hanged.
So for the additional projects Perfikot offered, this construction company also went all out, not only dispatching more engineering and technical personnel but also hiring more alchemists.
The goal was merely to produce fewer errors and omissions in future projects, allowing Perfikot to avoid finding faults with them again.
Perfikot had no way to know their intentions; in fact, after the sanctuary passed inspection, Perfikot no longer paid attention to the matter.
She now had more important affairs to handle.
Empire support had once again arrived in the North, but this time, three grand delegations came, so large in scale that it required her, the Lord, to personally manage them.
First was a fleet composed of three Flying Airships, carrying a considerable number of research and engineering personnel and a large collection of valuable documentation and various scientific instruments and equipment from the Empire's Royal Academy of Sciences.
These were nominally Empire's support to construct the Royal Academy of Sciences' Northern branch, but only Perfikot herself and the fleet's supervisor knew their task was to move the Empire's finest scientific and technical talents to the North, preserving the Empire's technological prowess as much as possible before the impending apocalyptic winter.
As for the other two fleets, they consisted of numerous cargo ships. These fleets carried substantial industrial equipment to Beloburg — 17 factories spanning different industries — aiming to establish the basic industrial production capability in the Northern Territory.
The other fleet was the first batch of residents being relocated to the North by the Empire.
These people weren't pioneering immigrants but ordinary citizens recruited in Langton, willing to move to the Northern Territory.
They didn't need to go to the Northern wilderness to develop settlements but would directly bolster the population in Beloburg and the Northern capital, Chernobyl.
Beloburg, as the most critical landing point for Northern development, now has taken preliminary shape, yet a shortage in relevant human resources began to emerge.
After all, Perfikot recruited mainly bottom-tier citizens to develop the Northern Territory in Langton, mostly impoverished industrial workers or laboring individuals, at most some adventurers wishing to try their luck in the North.
They were largely from the social bottom, with little property and production materials, lacking enough protective skills.
Or rather, the farthest they could rise was to become technical workers in factories, beyond which their knowledge and skills couldn't suffice.
To explain using simpler gaming terms, these people were merely farmers and workers and couldn't handle technician or engineer tasks.
But the batch of immigrants sent by the Empire this time was different; they, in more popular terms, were so-called middle-class individuals.
Among them were recognized engineers with a grasp of certain technologies, small merchants with some family wealth, affluent individuals from well-off backgrounds, and similarly some deposed small nobles without territory.
To put it bluntly, these people were meant to bridge the gap between Perfikot, the Northern lord, and the ordinary populace as a middle class.
They possessed some wealth and mastery of certain skills, qualifying them as very good quality citizens.
While this statement might sound harsh, these citizens were markedly more valuable than bottom-tier workers, significantly surpassing them in both education and physique, regarded as the essence of the Empire.
The talents among them are critically important for current Northern development. At least recruiting a few qualified engineers would spare Perfikot from overseeing sanctuary construction personally.
The arrival of these individuals in the Northern Territory marked the beginning of the Empire's genuine population transfer and migration to the North; prior actions were merely Perfikot's personal endeavor.
Of course, the arrangement issue of this population wasn't easily resolved; simply assigning Northern civil officials to handle it wouldn't suffice. As the Lord of the North, she also needed to make an appearance.