Chapter 466 The Dilemma of the Royal Family 6
Katherine looked at her sister who was explaining to them. Irene's face was full of confidence, and an indescribable temperament was slowly gathering in her body.
This temperament makes the girl in front of me look very reliable.
For a moment, she felt that her sister had suddenly grown up.
Catherine recalled fragments of her past life.
"Sister, sister! Don't leave me behind. Play with me for a while longer."
"Really, you little follower, I'm not your nanny. My father still needs me for his work."
In the course of more than ten years of getting along, the two sisters were full of conversations like this.
Every time she cruelly left Irene, the little guy would pouted and stared at her sister's back with resentful eyes until she disappeared.
Katherine actually didn't want this. She also wanted to spend more time with her sister.
But she wanted to prove her worth even more.
As a king, his father did not give birth to a son, only two daughters, her and her sister - this is something that the king is often discussed by the courtiers.
When Catherine started to understand, there was a voice around her, "Oh, it would be great if Your Highness was a boy."
I don’t know when she started, but she slowly and firmly established a belief in her heart - I want to achieve results that are not inferior to those of men.
So when aristocratic girls of the same age were playing with rag dolls, she was learning to dance and steal swords. When aristocratic girls of the same age were obsessed with legendary novels about brave men saving princesses, she was learning to understand the government affairs on her father's desktop. As a clerk, while aristocratic girls of the same age were dancing with their sweethearts on the dance floor, she was studying how to arrange troops in the military camp with the officers.
Catherine had no desire to inherit the throne. There was no precedent for a female monarch in the Kingdom of Aldo, and she also had a biological uncle, the king's younger brother.
All she wants is recognition.
Finally, her efforts gradually succeeded. Now all the ministers and generals will not regard her as a canary in the cage, but a soldier who is not inferior to men and is decisive in killing. Princess.
However, the price is a slight gap between him and his sister.
The relationship between the two eased somewhat after Eileen returned from studying in the White Tower.
Eileen had some understanding of her busy life all day long, but... it was also limited. From then on, her sister closed herself in an academic cage all day long.
Until she went to the Northwest Bay and returned from there.
After Irene returned, the little emotions she had as a daughter seemed to have disappeared, and she became more majestic, more independent and mature.
As a sister, Catherine is very pleased with her sister's growth.
“Restrictions on demand can be divided into two aspects.”
Irene didn't know what Catherine was thinking about her, so she continued her explanation. “The first one is the demand of businessmen who hope to make profits from these industrial products. Businessmen sell goods from one place to another in order to make money, but if they have to pay taxes through layers of checkpoints, they want to make up for the cost of paying taxes. The losses caused by taxes have to increase the price. Most of these industrial products processed from raw materials are not as necessary as food, so if the price is high, not many people will buy it, and ultimately you will not be able to make money. Once the money is obtained, businessmen have no desire or motivation to purchase the produced industrial products."
"The second is the demand of the final consumers of industrial products. , even without the factor of merchants raising prices, ordinary civilians cannot buy too many industrial products now. But is this because they have no desire to buy? No, it is their poor financial resources that inhibit their desire to buy. The low desire in turn strengthens the first demand restriction-no one wants to sell industrial products."
"Father! Sister!"
In Eileen's eyes. Glowing out.
"If we can eliminate or weaken the above three types of restrictions, we can allow the secondary industry to grow, and then attract the nobles who have lost their land to join this industry. Unlike agriculture, which requires vast arable land for cultivation, it only requires a relatively small area. A small business and production site can produce a lot of wealth. Wouldn't this provide a satisfactory settlement for those nobles? I have heard that this is feasible. The lords and nobles there have slowly begun to transform from landowners to factory owners.”
These are wonderful ideas from Eileen. The words were so new to Rodney XVI and Catherine that the King even applauded heartily.
“But…” the king asked: “If a large number of people are attracted to…engage in this [secondary industry], then who will stay in the fields to cultivate the land? If the food harvest fails, won’t we Are you hungry?”
A smile appeared on Erin's face, an expression that said, "I expected you to ask this."
“There are ready-made solutions. In the Northwest Bay, agriculture has begun to widely adopt the so-called [crop rotation system], which is to plant different crops or multiple cropping combinations on the same field sequentially from year to year. Planting methods can greatly improve the efficiency of land use. As far as I know, the crop yield of farmland using crop rotation is at least twice the original yield, and the oat yield can even triple. "< br>
The eyes of the king and Catherine suddenly lit up. If the [secondary industry] mentioned by Irene was just an anecdote to them, then this new [rotation system] suddenly appeared. It grabbed their hearts.
Any feudal ruler would attach importance to agriculture.
Irene waved her arms happily.
"We can also purchase various large-scale agricultural machinery from the Northwest Bay, such as harvesters, plows, cotton gins, threshers, etc. The emergence of these machines has greatly reduced manpower, so that we can ensure Without reducing agricultural production, more people will be released to engage in the secondary industry.”
Is there so much good stuff in the Northwest Bay?
This is the thought in the minds of the king and Princess Catherine. Those machines sound like they are very powerful. You can guess their respective functions from their prefixes, but they are really what Irene said. Is it effective?
In fact, Irene occasionally mentioned the content of industry and new agriculture in the chat after dinner, but she did not describe it in such a systematic way as today. Today's description made the king and Catherine's eyes light up.
It seems that some magical things have happened in the northwest bay, a land that did not attract much attention before, the eldest princess said silently in her heart.
She thought of the young earl who had just been restored to family honor by the royal family not long ago.
If I remember correctly, Irene stayed by his side when she was in the Northwest Bay.
(End of this chapter)