The imperial council meeting once again lasted an entire day, far beyond the usual duration of such meetings.

This actually has a lot to do with Perfikot; it's almost certain that every extended imperial council meeting is directly linked to her presence.

Of course, it's not that Perfikot lengthens the meeting whenever she attends, but rather because she has been based in the Northern Territory, overseeing the Doomsday plan, and because the Northern Territory is the focal point of the Empire's future. Thus, whenever Perfikot attends the imperial council meeting, she has a copious amount to communicate with the Imperial Center, which then lengthens the meeting duration.

After all, on one hand she has to report the status of the Northern Territory to the Imperial Center, on the other hand she needs to understand the policy changes at the Imperial Center, and lastly, she must discuss the Imperial Center's decisions against the current situation in the Northern Territory and engage in necessary debates.

Given this sequence of procedures, it's strange if the meeting time is short.

Many might think meetings are a waste of time; endless speeches from leaders and meaningless wrangling serve no purpose other than wasting time.

However, in truth, these are by no means futile actions, it's just that some people engage in meaningless activities during meetings.

For example, when leaders speak, in regular meetings, this is naturally a torturous waste of time.

But in the imperial council meeting, every word uttered by the Empress or other prominent figures of the Empire, including Perfikot, is filled with vast amounts of information and content, and each word can decide the life and death of countless individuals.

As for their debates, this is even truer; policy implementations are not decisions that can be made impulsively.

If the imperial council meeting lacked disputes and all topics were promptly decided for the sake of efficiency, that would be the greatest disaster.

Meetings are tedious because participants lack power.

When you wield the power to decide life and death, any related meeting will not be dull to you.

For Perfikot, meetings might not be boring, but they certainly are tedious and immensely drain energy.

Even she needs to sip calm-inducing tea that replenishes energy to continue wrangling with the Empire's esteemed officials.

Perfikot is, after all, the Lord of the North; every utterance she makes at the imperial council meeting concerns the entire Northern Territory. It's only natural that when she feels the weight of her duty becoming increasingly burdensome, her mental and energy exhaustion also becomes substantial.

Just like in this imperial council meeting, under Perfikot's firm advocacy, the Imperial Center approved the early commencement of the population migration plan.

Although the number of migrated people isn't massive, amounting to merely hundreds of thousands, it still represents a large-scale migration.

Almost all of the Empire's large cruise ships have been requisitioned, totaling over a thousand variously sized ships deployed for this operation.

This is actually an important factor in Perfikot's request for the Empire to initiate the population migration early.

Considering the global cooling expected in a year, where the world could become frozen, the freezing of seas is naturally foreseeable.

By then, traveling from the Empire's domestic regions to the Northern Territory won't be as convenient as now.

Flying Airships can also transport people, but their capacity is indeed limited; a Flying Airship of the same tonnage compared to a cruise ship might only have a tenth of the passenger capacity.

Thus, considering cost-effectiveness, using ships remains the most economical and satisfying solution.

You should know that a cruise ship typically accommodates over a thousand passengers, and slightly larger ships can accommodate three or five thousand.

Transporting cargo on such ships would certainly be a loss, but for transporting people, finding a more efficient method would be challenging.

Like this operation, with a thousand ships of various models, a single journey can transport nearly a hundred thousand people, let alone that this migration will last for at least three months.

According to Perfikot's calculations, even conservatively speaking, this operation will bring at least half a million new immigrants to the Northern Territory.

Providing food, clothing, and shelter for half a million people is no trivial matter, not to mention ensuring their living necessities.

As the Lord of the North, Perfikot must consider how to settle these half million people upon arrival in the Northern Territory, how to manage them, and how to ensure their safety during the journey. If a disease outbreak occurs, how to prevent its spread to the Northern Territory...

These are issues that require coordination between Perfikot and the various critical departments of the Imperial Center for proper resolution.

Typically, when Perfikot seeks more efficient solutions to these problems, the ideal situation is during the imperial council meeting where the heads of various relevant departments are also present.

Furthermore, because the participants of the council are influential figures, it naturally facilitates coordination between various departments when they gather.

Through coordination with these relevant departments of the Empire, Perfikot managed to handle the preliminary work of this issue.

As for the subsequent settlement issues, since this batch of individuals is migrating to the Northern Territory, which is under Perfikot's jurisdiction, she doesn't need to wrangle with these governmental departments.

After all, it's Perfikot's own domain; whatever she says goes. It eliminates many obstacles, allowing her to leverage her advantages more effectively.

As for how to eventually settle these half a million people, according to Perfikot's plan, they will all be involved in the Northern Territory's infrastructure development.

Next year's subsequent migration wave will be even larger. If these half a million cannot be managed well, how can the subsequent tasks be accomplished?

Perfikot fully understands this point, so she intends to have these half million people build more shelters instead of integrating them into the existing industrial system.

Regarding Perfikot's decision, the other imperial officials expressed agreement, reiterating that the sheer number of people is overwhelming.

Know that the subsequent migration to the Northern Territory is vital for the Empire's survival. The current settlements and underground shelters in the Northern Territory are already struggling to accommodate fifty thousand, and there will be even more immigrants later. Without substantial shelter construction, accommodating such a large population is impossible.

Hence, to conduct population migration to the Northern Territory, the traditional four key elements of clothing, food, shelter, and transportation must be addressed first.

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