Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste

Back at her own manor, Perfikot took a shower, changed clothes, and lay back on the bed.

However, she did not return above ground but remained underground.

Nonetheless, the underground part of the manor still provided her with luxurious living conditions.

Her underground room had a floor heating system directly connected to the Central Energy Tower, providing warmth to the entire room, keeping the temperature above 10℃.

This ancient heating technology wasn't much different from the modern floor heating of the original world, but if pressed to explain, calling it a kang would be more understandable.

The main structure was building a brick foundation or simply constructing a separate space underneath the room for laying heat conduct pipes to transfer warmth.

Using it merely required lighting the boiler to heat the water, then having it deliver warmth along the heat conduct pipes into the room.

The floor heating system in Perfikot's room followed this setup, with heat conduct pipes laid under oak flooring, ensuring the indoor temperature even in freezing conditions.

This allowed Perfikot not to need thick clothing in such cold winters, and not worry about frostbite or chilblains.

Of course, even if Perfikot carelessly got chilblains, the manor had an entire medical team on duty 24/7, ready to provide medical service to Perfikot.

The medical team comprised professional doctors from Langton, with at least ten years of medical experience and abundant theoretical knowledge, even possessing academic titles in medical faculties.

Moreover, everyone had been vetted by the Royal Family, ensuring none were spies from enemy nations or solely focused on academic research before serving Perfikot in the Northern Territory.

It could be said each was trustworthy, and any of them could be head of a hospital, or a department, or an academic figure in a medical institution in Langton.

This seemed somewhat wasteful to Perfikot, even though she didn't think highly of the medical skills of doctors in this era, a competent doctor was still a precious resource, significantly improving people's average lifespan and quality of life.

Despite this era's medicine still being considered primitive, it already showed traces of modern medicine, with many foundational theories of modern medicine formed during this period.

Especially after Perfikot reorganized the medical system, introducing concepts like disinfection and bacteria, greatly advancing medical progress.

Therefore, after discussing with the doctors, Perfikot didn't have them serve only her, but had them rotate shifts in Chernobyl's municipal hospital, treating ordinary people, keeping only necessary medical staff on standby daily.

This ensured their medical skills didn't regress, as medicine was a profession heavily reliant on experience.

Additionally, it allowed medical resources to be fully utilized, enabling these doctors to provide services to more people.

Moreover, in Perfikot's manor, professional chefs were always on standby to provide freshly cooked meals at any time for Perfikot.

It was rumored that the manor's chefs even sought help from Alchemists to specially develop an alchemy tool for food preservation.

Upon learning this, Perfikot was bewildered; her chefs silently invented a refrigerator?

However, Perfikot didn't mind this too much; often new inventions emerged from the pursuit of luxurious living and enjoyment.

When something extravagant appeared and was sought after, naturally people would try to mass-produce it, reduce its production cost, and even make cheaper alternatives to satisfy varying consumer groups.

Thus, Perfikot wouldn't prohibit the emergence of such things; on the contrary, she supported this, unless it was overly lavish or affected her plans.

Moreover, with her own chefs creating a fridge for better meals, would she neither reward them nor reproach them?

Perfikot didn't see herself as someone obsessed with fame and reputation, nor did she repulse the pursuit of luxurious living and pleasure.

Otherwise, she'd make the manor as cold as an ice cellar, living like the ordinary citizens with frugal and simple lives, having plain meals and distributing saved resources to the common people.

Yet that seemed meaningless to Perfikot.

If one inherently lived frugally consistently, saving resources wasn't an issue.

But if one lived extravagantly and restrained desires due to a high position, deliberately establishing oneself with frugal living, it was unnecessary.

Because people doing that were either ambitious or had ulterior motives.

Perfikot didn't consider herself such a person, so she calmly enjoyed the current entitled treatment.

As for waste and extravagance? In Perfikot's view, the Northern Territory's primary concern was surviving the harsh winter, not resource scarcity compelling the Lord to conserve every bit.

And rather than saving herself in life, Perfikot felt it better to implement new policies to improve public welfare.

Jokingly, she wasn't the rumored lady of deficit who could squander a treasury alone.

And even Queen Mary, whose extravagance was exaggerated, often bore false accusations and burdens. France's depleted treasury arose from various factors.

Queen Mary's luxury did incur significant expenses, but it wasn't the main cause; it was rather the King needing a reason to excuse his failed financial reforms.

As for Perfikot, extravagance wasn't an issue.

Regarding alchemy, the most direct image ordinary people conjured was turning stone into gold, and legends surrounding the Philosopher's Stone told of its ability to transform anything into gold.

Though gold held special significance in alchemy, it couldn't be denied to represent wealth in worldly eyes.

Perfikot could turn her entire manor into pure gold if she desired.

Thus, money and luxury weren't a problem unless it catered solely to her desires, without anyone exploiting it for profit and corruption, as she didn't purchase expensive jewelry, host lavish parties, nor spend enough to buy a battleship on artworks.