Chapter 648 Three Days in the Sky
Leaving the glass greenhouse of the Mechanical Palace and sitting on the sturdy carriage, Horn opened the curtain and looked out with half of his face exposed.
In the morning, there was still a faint morning mist in the Sacred Arms Palace. The dull and distant bells of the bell tower rang in the sky above the Sacred Arms Palace. There were laborers and workers in twos and threes carrying wooden baskets on the streets.
They stuffed towels into their collars to serve as scarves, and wore a set of dirty and tattered "special" woolen and linen blend overalls.
After this Advent holiday, single workers who worked overtime with double wages staggered out of the pub and walked toward their homes against the flow of people going to work.
If you are a wealthy craftsman or engineer, you will basically choose to take a public carriage to go to work.
Ordinary workers came to the dock area and boarded boats one by one to sail towards the downstream industrial zone.
Because the water of the Para River is relatively shallow, large ships cannot enter, so they are often enlarged versions of Venetian-style paddle boats.
From urban residences to industrial areas, if you walk on two legs alone, it would take an hour.
Workers in alchemy workshops and clockwork factories are not willing to walk for an hour home after working for 10 hours, so they would rather spend a few coppers to buy a boat ticket.
Generally speaking, the working hours of textile workers and employees are from 8 am to 7 pm, with a one-hour break at noon, and they work about 10 hours a day.
Sometimes there is even a backlog of goods, and the factory director and supervisors will even squeeze out the one-hour break at noon.
Theoretically, Horn requires overtime pay, but in practice, it is often not paid.
The most he can do is make more inspections, and then urge workers to form their own committees to elect representatives to supervise.
No matter how pervasive the Cheka is, it cannot control everything.
As a veteran worker, it is not that he does not want to implement the eight-hour working system, but the ruthless accumulation of industrial capital can only rely on hard work and hard work.
So Horn had no other choice but to give them a house next to the factory to comfort them.
Although they have to work 10 hours a day, alchemy workshops such as textile factories and peat workshops are still the first choice of workers. Others who want to work for 10 hours cannot find a place.
This is a good job with a daily salary of 3 to 6 dinars, 2-3 times that of construction workers and porters, and second only to city hall employees and soldiers.
These alchemy workshops often even give priority to recruiting military family members. This is not actually Horn's decree, but that most of the managers of these alchemy workshops are from the Salvation Army.
They are definitely more inclined to recruit their own people than outsiders.
In addition to preferential treatment for military families, the biggest reason is that there is not enough trust between them and "strangers".
In other words, they have no imagination about the identity of the Qianhe Valley people, and are still constructing entities based on the most primitive relationships of intimacy and distance.
So breaking down the ideological barriers of the church can only be regarded as a preliminary deconstruction. What he has to do now is to construct the Qianhe River Valley government entity bit by bit.
The integration of software and hardware into one can maximize the power of advanced systems.
When he returned to his office, there was indeed another pile of official documents in the unprocessed file box. Horn couldn't help complaining: "Look at these official documents, they are almost reaching the ceiling."
Rafael smiled and straightened the official document that was about to tilt. In fact, it was not that exaggerated. It was probably only as high as Horn's nose.
"Please be patient a little longer." Picking up the official documents in the ready box, Pellet was about to leave. "This should be the last batch of official documents. You just need to sign.
< br>These signed Horn Gallar, These are signed by Horn and Jeanne, these are signed by Horn and Catherine, these are signed..."
During Pelletier's nagging, Horn did not go to get the official document immediately, but instead picked it up from the to-do list. I picked up the official document I hadn't read yesterday from the file box.
To be precise, the content of this official document is about the establishment of the Truth Court Health Department.
After the promotion of new planting patterns and the bumper harvest of food, according to reports from various priests’ orders, a large number of new pregnant women appeared in Langsand County this year.
Two years of peace have allowed the fertility rate here to begin to rise rapidly. In the future, if dwarf wheat is promoted and the yield per mu increases, the newborn population is expected to be even greater. However, this leads to a classic health care problem.
It is not that there is no health and medical system under the rule of the Papal Palace, such as the hospitals of Joan of Arc and the Temple of Arms, but this only solves the medical health in urban areas, because all the medical care in one county Resources are basically concentrated in county-governed cities.
The number of witch doctors and monks is not large to begin with, so they cannot spare any manpower to go to rural areas.
According to official documents submitted by monks from various places, a large number of newborns and pregnant women suffered from dystocia due to poor sanitary conditions or delivery methods.
At the same time, more ordinary people died due to headaches and fever, not to mention the flu epidemics in various places after the war.
Now that we have potato roots to distill alcohol, we have enough steel to make forceps, and we have enough farmland to grow herbs and make alchemical potions, will it be possible to gradually promote health clinics at the level of priests? Woolen cloth?
The so-called health clinic, according to Horn, is responsible for delivering babies, selling cheap medicines, and providing basic trauma treatment and other basic services.
Not only health clinics, but also seed stations are definitely needed to promote improved varieties, so several new institutions will be established again.
Because the essence of their function is to provide medical services, not to make a profit, they cannot be operated like a shop. They can only be hired by the priests themselves and paid a fixed salary.
In this case, next year’s expenditure will be even higher, which will definitely put a lot of pressure on the fiscal budget.
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And this kind of investment is not like building bridges and paving roads. It can improve the industrial and commercial economy in a few years. The benefits of medical investment may take more than ten years to be seen. .
Forget it, let’s discuss it at the regular meeting. If that doesn’t work, let’s pilot it first and then gradually promote it, which will put less pressure on finances.
Throwing the official documents from the health system into the document bag for tomorrow's regular meeting, Horn had just opened the first document and was about to sign it when Pelletier spoke again: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing. I think you Need to know.”
“What’s the matter?”
“The Megdi Chamber of Commerce recently sent a message. News, they said that you were excommunicated because you claimed to be pope and excommunicated the local church..."
"He excommunicated me? What did the Qianhe Valley Church do? He doesn't know. Is it true? He didn’t first cut off the crimes committed by the Qianhe Valley Church, but he actually wanted to excommunicate me on the basis of proven crimes.
Besides, he knows that I have expelled the Qianhe Valley Church, so how is he going to excommunicate me? Horn was a little amused, "How can you be so thick-skinned? It's thicker than the corners of the city wall." ”
The so-called excommunication is actually “excommunication”, no church, religious order, or monastery is allowed to contact and provide services, and the crown no longer enjoys the support of the Holy Father.
< br>In the hands of most contemporary lords, this meant that almost all grassroots ruling structures were suspended and all lower-level lords naturally gained control.
But these two points are invalid for Horn, first because Horn's grassroots government is directly governed rather than outsourced, and secondly, because the power of the Patriarch comes from. The double guarantee of the Holy Lord and the believers
Not to mention the meaning of the believers, just speaking of the Holy Lord's meaning is definitely biased towards Horn.
This so-called excommunication offensive was not so much for fighting against foreigners as it was for internal peace.
"Your Majesty, you..."
"He is a pope, and I am also a pope." A warrant was quickly issued, and Horn handed it to Pettier, "He If you excommunicate me, I will also excommunicate him.”
< br>"Your Majesty." Pettier held the warrant and said helplessly, "I want to say that in addition to the pseudo-pope of Pugliano in the north, the pseudo-pope of Grandivoire in the south also did it."
“He also excommunicates!”
Following Horn's order, a magical scene appeared in the history books of the Imperial Recorder at the end of 1446.
On the second day of Advent, there were not only three popes in the empire, but these three popes were also excommunicating each other!
(End of this chapter)