Chapter 634 Daze Township Water Conservancy Project and Spice Bubble
Beside the blazing stove, Horn wrote the final instructions on an official document and threw it into the to-do document box.
Looking at the few two or three documents in the unwritten document box, Horn let out a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to stand up and stretch, he heard another knock on the door.
"Come in."
When the door opened and he saw Pettier holding a stack of documents, Horn's face fell again.
"Are there so many things going on recently?" Watching Pettier throw the documents into the file box by category, Horn turned over them with a grimace.
Pettier was even more helpless: "The progress has been piled up recently. It will be fine after the New Year Festival."
Horn had to sit down again. His basic daily life, from morning to night, consisted of reviewing official documents, meeting with consultants, writing commentaries, and holding regular meetings... Most of his rare free time was taken up by breathing exercises.
But he really didn't dare to let Horn go. After all, the Qianhe River Valley regime was new and many things had not been established as routines. Once he let go, something might happen.
Putting the official documents away, Pettier picked up the official documents from the document box. He seemed to have remembered something and reminded: "Your Majesty, scholars from the King's University on the River Islet arrived yesterday. Do you need to receive them?"< br>
"I should have gone to meet them." Horn's hand while flipping the official documents stopped, and he looked at the messy papers on the table, "Well, let's ask the eldest lady of the Larkin family to accompany them to greet them. It happens to be the island on the river. Classmates at King’s University.”
It's not that Horn deliberately neglected Leonardo and others, but that he really had something to do.
Judging from this summary alone, he will control the progress of the Pravda debate, manage the restructuring of the 100-household district in the two counties of Qianhe River Valley, approve the appointment and promotion of chief priests, review the military reform implemented by the new army, and provide guidance for demon-loving bacteria and Lightning Furnace research plan allocation budget...
These are the most important matters. Horn has directly delegated authority to trivial matters such as the appointment of low-level monks.
Compared to other governments of the same era, Horn's Holy Arms government was relatively efficient.
Because the imperial cardinals are different from the academicians of the Ming Dynasty cabinet. In addition to serving as consultants and providing handling opinions, the cardinals are also the heads of various central departments.
Therefore, they can also give processing opinions when submitting documents, which can save a lot of time.
According to regulations, each department will submit the documents that need to be reviewed to the papal office. The Privy Council of Monks headed by Pettier will sort them according to priority and submit a catalog based on the summary to Horn.
If it does not require Horn's review, it will be sent back to each department to make its own decision.
There are three briefcases placed in front of Horn's desk, with "Undone", "To be done" and "Done" written on them respectively.
Monks are required to put documents received for the first time into the undocumented document box, which means they have not been processed, while the to-do document box contains matters that have been initially reviewed but not yet completed.
The office document box is for handling the reviewed matters. The privy monks will collect it every day and file it into categories or continue to distribute it to other departments.
Of course, in order to prevent the privy monks from isolating themselves from inside and outside, Horn has to hold regular meetings with the heads of various departments every week, and the documents must be signed and filed, and they are not allowed to be thrown away casually.
Major decisions must be made at the Council of Cardinals, and the privy monks only have executive power but no decision-making power.
Sitting at the table again, Horn looked at the mess in front of him, estimated the time, and said to Pettier: "Let someone bring food. I'm afraid I won't be able to rest at noon."
Pettier's face suddenly turned bitter, and he nodded in agreement. Soon the monks outside burst into a series of sighs.
Picking up the first document on the briefcase, Horn saw "Daze Township River Plan (Fifth Edition)" at first glance.
The so-called Daze Township dredging plan is divided into three river channels at the entrance and exit of the river. The first one is the river channel from Nanmande County to Daze Township. The second and third ones are the river channels that drain Nanze Lake to Lujiao Township and Hongye Township.
These three rivers are named Tiber River, Neo River and Erno River respectively. These three are all rivers in the capital of the Ancient El Empire. Unfortunately, they have been changed to other names by the vampires.
And the elders changed their minds again.
According to the discussions at the Council of Cardinals and Horn's guidance, they must dredge these three silted rivers and selectively build dredged dams.
For example, on the Taibo River that flows from Nanmande County into Daze Township, three river channels need to be divided, one of which passes through the higher mountain area, and a dam is built to adjust the water level.
The other two tributary canals pass through relatively gentle terrain and are used for navigation of commercial ships.
As for the Nio River, which flows into the Duwu Swamp area of Lujiao Township, a more than 200-meter-long permanent dam will be built on the model of the Arno River that previously contained water and washed out mud, specifically for drainage and flood discharge.
It's not that Horn doesn't want to go directly from Daze Township to Lujiao Township, but the mountains surrounding Daze Township are high in the north and low in the south, so the south-oriented Erno River can be navigable to Fort Joan of Arc.
The Nio River runs westward and passes through the most dangerous areas of the mountains. It even has to pass through several waterfalls, making it unrealistic to be navigable.
However, this place could take advantage of water power to build water-powered flour mills and textile mills.
Through the control of these three major rivers, according to the calculations of the water conservancy engineers in this plan, it is basically possible to open the Gravel Plains-Jean Arc Castle-Rapid City route, with almost no need to change trains during the process. Moreover, after the swamps in Nitan Township are drained, up to 6,000 hectares of fields and 2,000 hectares of flat land will be created in Nitan Township.
After the reform of the Baihu District in South Mound County was completed, the Taibo River, as the only river flowing into it, entered the start-up schedule.
According to the judgment of Silvis and the local chief priest, the entire South Mound County is expected to mobilize 3,000-4,000 young men to carry out the dredging project in the swamp area.
But they also have requirements:
First, Horn needs to provide a subsidy of at least 3 dinars per person per week, which costs about 400 to 500 gold pounds per month.
The second is the need to send the army and the lycanthropes of Daze Township to clean up and win over the bandits, robbers and lycanthrope tribes living in the swamp.
According to the current situation, the Erno River will be dredged and officially opened to navigation in June next year, while the Taibo River will be initially open to navigation in September.
In addition, the plan also proposed a new plan, which is the issue of dams in the Kitazawa area.
To put it simply, the swamps in Beizawa were formed because after the Taibo River merged into the depression in the mountains, the river channel was too narrow and shallow, causing the river water to spread and the river sand to accumulate.
Fortunately, a complex underground river system has been formed under the swamp after years of erosion.
If we take the opportunity to intercept and guide these underground river systems with canals, sluices and dams, and cooperate with the original dredging projects, 411 square kilometers of land in Kitazawa, especially Shimokitazawa, can be exposed.
This project was proposed from the beginning, but due to the complexity of the water system and the lack of data and experience, the redesign took too long and was abandoned.
However, with the capture of Summer Green City and the recovery of Brago Monastery, Horn obtained a large number of information books on the previous Kush people's transformation of the swamp.
You know, when the Kush people first came to Qianhe River Valley, the entire Qianhe River Valley was a huge Dazexiang swamp.
With this information, almost all questions can be answered and it can be implemented naturally.
However, this would require an additional investment of nearly a thousand gold pounds every month. After thinking for a while, Horn decided to agree to the plan, but don't rush to start recruiting workers yet.
When the army clears out the lycanthropes and robbers and bandits in the swamps upstream of the Taibo River, they will be able to obtain a group of free laborers and save a lot of money.
It's the expenditure on building materials... Horn rubbed his quill and fell into deep thought. Now the Papal Palace is short of money everywhere and needs money everywhere.
It's not that Horn really lacks budget. The budgets of the Papal Palace and the Holy Treasury are well controlled. The gold pounds he lacks are golden and round cash.
This made Horn think about the plan that Catherine had mentioned to him before.
To put it simply, it is to set up a leather bag business association, stir up spice bubbles in Laiya Windmill, and make quick money to supplement cash flow.
The essence is to take advantage of the French monopoly on spices, the risks of sea transportation, the spices transported by the Ibe River Channel, and Catherine's connections among the Ayr people to create an information gap about spice prices in the windmill land to make profits.
You can even make an agreement with the Franks and the Norns to let them release the news about the spice ship's shipwreck first, and then go in and harvest the spices after the price of Leia's spices plummets.
Catherine just saw that the Leia royal family was in a civil war and couldn't spare her hands to take care of these things.
Taking into account the relationship between Horn and the Frans, the relationship between Meliati and the Norns, the relationship between Catherine and the Aiel, the split between the North and South churches and the stalemate in the civil war in the Kingdom of Leia.
It’s not just Qianheya’s family, everyone is probably happy to get a piece of the pie.
When they can no longer hide it, they withdraw from the leather bag merchant association and run away with the money.
Even if it is exposed, the war is going to start anyway, so what if I offend you a little more?
It must be said that as a big banker, Catherine knew no one better than her about the empire's financial system. She wanted to engage in financial fraud and her methods were extremely cruel.
With a lot of thoughts in his mind, Horn signed a few words on the document, and then rang the bell to call Pettier: "Catherine hasn't left yet. Arrange a meeting for me on the weekend, and there is also the dredging project. Remember to call me." I arranged a conversation with Sissi..."
"Boom——"
Before Horn finished speaking, he saw from the corner of his eye a flash of lightning in the house outside the window in front of him, followed by a loud explosion.
Amidst the screams coming from the distance, Horn's smile quickly faded: "Go, notify Cheka and see what's going on!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
(End of chapter)