Chapter 465 The Dilemma of the Royal Family 5
“Dear Betty, I hope you can mobilize your influence in the aristocratic circle of the royal capital and pass these disinfection measures and their great effect to the ears of the kingdom’s senior officials. , and then promote it nationwide, which will save the lives of countless sisters.”
“A few pieces of stationery are not enough to carry everything I want to say, so I’ll just write it here today.”< br>
"I wish you happiness and good health. I miss you Ladi Setia."
After reading the content of the letter, Catherine raised her head.
"Are you rushing to tell your father about these so-called disinfection measures?"
To be honest, when she saw the maternal mortality rate mentioned in her mind, her heart really skipped a beat.
Is this value really that high?
“Yes!”
Guilt appeared on Erin’s face again.
"I should have asked my father to give orders to the whole country, at least in the royal territory! Ah, a year has passed, how many women have given birth to children in this year."
When Eileen returned from the northwest bay I brought the pamphlet back, but only a few good friends were interested in it, and very few responded.
The biggest achievement is to make people around me develop the habit of drinking boiled water.
Later she devoted her energy to the construction of the school.
She began to tear her hair out in annoyance.
Catherine immediately stopped the little girl who was becoming less and less princess-like.
"Let's go to see father together. He should still be in the meeting hall now."
The two sisters quickly arrived at the meeting hall and saw the two sisters who were still thinking about the minutes of the meeting. King Rodney.
"Father, Irene has something very important to talk to you about."
After listening to the youngest daughter's description of the purpose of coming to him, the king took the opportunity to read the letter.
"Haha, this young lord always brings me unexpected surprises."
Rodney XVI sighed with a smile.
"Well... I mean, maternal death is indeed an unfortunate thing, but with these improved delivery methods, a lot of misfortunes can be reduced, which is a surprise."
< br>No ruler does not want his territory to be prosperous.
"Okay. Irene." The king decided: "I will inform the entire kingdom in the form of an announcement to follow the contents of your booklet, and inform all the major lords in the kingdom."
"But..." the king said helplessly: "If you want me to use administrative power like Lord Graiman and send officials to urge doctors everywhere to implement these measures, I can't do it yet."
"Why?" Irene pouted dissatisfiedly and asked angrily.
The king reached out his hand and touched his little daughter's head apologetically.
"It's not that I don't want to, but I really can't. The Royal Government is currently in financial difficulty and cannot increase administrative expenses."
"Oh!" Irene squeezed her fingers in great disappointment. Fist, "It is impossible to expect those old-fashioned guys to consciously change their habits for many years."
"Okay, Eileen." Catherine advised her, "How do you know that people will not change? I believe that most doctors will research and learn new knowledge based on their bounden duty to save lives and heal the wounded."
Irene Asked: "Father just said financial difficulties, why?" Catherine sighed and replied: "It's not because of those southern nobles. In order to maintain their status and life, we spent a lot of money, and in order to appease them, my father even I came up with the idea of dividing the royal territory to compensate them."
Irene looked at the king and saw her father nodded helplessly.
Looking at her depressed father and sister, Irene suddenly had an idea in her mind.
"I have an idea that may provide some ways to resettle those nobles who have lost their territories and save money for the royal government."
"What?" The king and Catherine looked at her together.
Under the attention of her usually respected father and sister, a trace of pride appeared on Irene's face.
“Develop the secondary industry!”
“Second industry?”
It was the first time that father and daughter heard this term.
“Tell me, are most of our current wealth produced directly from the land, that is, agriculture.”
“That’s right.”
< br>The king and Catherine agreed with this statement.
Before the birth of real industry, the most important wealth in a world was land, which produced almost everything that humans relied on for survival.
A gleam flashed in Erin's eyes, "But during my time in the Northwest Bay, I saw another way to produce wealth."
"Another way?"
“Yes, it is the second industry!”
Irene explained to them excitedly, “Agriculture, an industry that directly uses land to obtain wealth, can be called the primary industry, then it can have a negative impact on nature. The production activities of resource extraction, processing and reprocessing of extractives and agricultural products are called the secondary industry, or in other words, industry.”
She directly copied Paul’s definition of industry. .
Catherine asked with some confusion: "Your so-called secondary industry has existed for thousands of years in human history. They have not generated a lot of wealth. How can they solve our current predicament?"
< br>The expression on Erin's face turned serious, and she explained: "It has always existed, but compared with the primary industry agriculture, it only exists on a disproportionately small scale, and of course it cannot generate a lot of wealth. I To give a simple example, several villages in many places share a blacksmith shop. Compared with the huge number of farmers, the number of blacksmiths is only a handful."
The king and Catherine thought thoughtfully, "That's it. "
Irene stretched out three fingers on her right hand and continued: "According to my personal superficial thinking, there are many factors that limit the scale of the secondary industry. They can generally be summarized into three types. ”
“The first limitation is technology. This is the most direct reason. Whether the technology is advanced or not directly determines the value that industry can produce. For example, swords made with excellent craftsmanship are better than those made with ordinary craftsmanship. swords, but there is another important aspect of the limitation of technology, and that is the scope of technology dissemination. Because some highly skilled craftsmen are afraid of competition from their peers, they often keep their unique skills secret and only pass them on to their heirs or carefully select them. A limited number of apprentices allow advanced technology to be applied only on a small scale, thus limiting the value it can generate. ”
"The second limitation is the organizational form. The widely existing secondary industries such as blacksmithing, leather, and tailoring all exist in the form of small family workshops. This form of production activity has low output and very low efficiency."
"The third limitation is demand. We have to admit that even if some great invention suddenly appears now, such as some advanced equipment that only requires a small amount of manpower to operate, is powerful and can be deployed in batches, it will suddenly cover the front The two limitations - technology and organizational form - were solved, and the output of industrial products suddenly increased greatly, and people's current demand cannot digest these extra products."
Irene stretched out. The fingers become two.
“Restrictions on demand can be divided into two aspects...”
(End of this chapter)