Chapter 544: Serious shortage of people
“Tired.” This time it was Frederick’s turn to run into Psyche’s office to complain, “They plan to use chlorine to disinfect the entire city once a month.”
Frederick here had just finished his government affairs, and scholars from all walks of life there immediately swarmed in after receiving the news, promoting various research applications that were shot by Psyche.
Frederick continued to complain after taking a sip of happy water: "Someone wants to build a traveling cannon. Dig a barrel in the mountain like a mine hole. The cannon shell is the crew cabin, which opens when it flies to the highest point. Parachute to achieve the purpose of long-distance travel”
“This is only the first phase of the project, the ultimate goal is to travel to the moon during the full moon.”
Psyche was used to this kind of thing and said: "It's good to get used to it. He originally wanted to go to the sun, but he was greeted by the church."
Frederick felt a little stomachache, but it didn't matter. The scale seems to weigh only a few taels, but it weighs more than a thousand kilograms once it is weighed.
In the teachings of the Church of Light, the sun is generally regarded as the door to the Kingdom of God, and one can only pass by when called by the God of Light.
Where you want to go now, at best, actively throw yourself into the arms of God. If I want to kill you, I have to ask you if you want to cause destruction and close the door.
Psyche continued: "Be careful when you go to the Holy City this time. The Cyclops debate is not over yet. Someone at the observatory wrote a paper on sunspot cycles last winter. There is another paper over there. There was a quarrel.”
Frederick had not cared much about astronomy in the past and asked curiously about the situation.
After the invention of the telescope, not many people used it to observe the sun. Some of them used oil lamps or candles to blacken the glass pieces as filters. Some observed in fog or when the thickness of clouds in the sky was suitable. Project the sun onto white paper or a wooden board in a dark room.
Sunspots were observed because of this, and the priests of the Church of Light scratched off countless hairs. They finally found out from the pile of old papers records that black shadows appeared on the surface of the sun in the past. At that time, they said that this was an attack by the devil. sun.
“The sunspot cycle of this sun is about 7 years.” Psyche said to Frederick, “It reached its peak in 1035 last year.”
“There is a man named Schwabe’s hobby as a pharmacist is astronomical observation. As long as the weather permits, he observes the sun every ten days, trying to find an undiscovered star.”
"He wrote down the results of each observation, and he could find the stars passing between the sun and the earth through the changes in the position of the black spots."
"Last year, when he was recording the number of sunspots, he suddenly remembered Based on the records from a few years ago, he made a table and graph and discovered the fluctuation pattern of the quantity. The two years of 1021 and 1028 were the maximum values in a cycle."
"Finally, he checked again. Based on the previous records of sunspots observed with the naked eye, the sunspot cycle was calculated to be seven years and one month."
"The Illuminati Church couldn't explain this, so they started a quarrel."
Since its birth, religion has used gods and monsters to explain phenomena that people cannot understand. When science and technology develop, people can explain more things, and they will naturally conflict with religion.
This is only a superficial conflict. There is a deeper struggle between secular power and theocratic power, which may lead to war.
On the surface, Frederick didn't care much about religious matters. He mainly approved a piece of land to build a seminary and an unprecedented cathedral, which was enough to serve as a shield.
What he did secretly was to fragment the Church of Light organization within the principality.
The churches are hierarchical, with small chapels in communities, larger churches in cities, larger churches at the state level, and general administration.
In the name of the cathedral, Frederick restricted the expansion of churches in states and cities, encouraged the development of chapels within the community, and led the grassroots priests of the chapels to help believers in the community.
There are only a limited number of large churches in a place, and the number of subordinate chapels increases significantly, which leads to management chaos, objectively weakens the connection between the grassroots and the upper level, and limits the power of the upper level.
Now Frederick has not thought about the ultimate goal of church reform, so he can only take his time and take it one step at a time.
He frowned slightly and said: "Look at the development of science and it has begun to conflict with the church. There are more and more conflicts like this, and sooner or later there will be big moves in the Holy City."
Psyche said nonchalantly: "Don't worry too much. The church is now corrupt and chaotic, and there are cliques and factions plotting against each other. Otherwise, I would have killed you long ago when you were translating the Holy Scriptures."
"Just let them continue to mess up and don't focus on the outside world." Frederick pinched his chin and said, "I'll see if there is any way to make them fight on their own."
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“But the solution is just to divide the cake among themselves and everyone will be unhappy, so we have to get a new cake.”
“Let’s not talk about this anymore. Today I want to ask a question. , where are the bauxite mines in the southern continent? "
Psyche said: "Go west out of the inland sea, walk along the coastline of the southern continent on the ocean, walk to the bow of the ship and head east, about six or seven. A thousand kilometers.”
Frederick calculated in his mind and felt a bit toothache.
According to the plan of the Principality of Bain, the railway from Weissenburg to the Kingdom of Sardinia is about one thousand kilometers long, with a port at the end.
From this port, it is about two thousand kilometers to the outlet of the inland sea.
In the end, it was almost 10,000 kilometers one way.
“It’s difficult to do.” Frederick finally shook his head, “It seems that it will be many years before we have enough strength to stretch our hands that far.”
“The First Universal Exposition Later, many factories were expanded and put into production recently. There is a shortage of manpower everywhere. When I form the 4th Division, I have to recruit some people from the second-line troops.”
"The progress of farmland reclamation is much slower than expected. Being a worker makes more money than being a farmer, and many young people have run away."
"The result of the census in the principality last year was 1.92 million people, including migrant workers. There are 70,000 people living there all year round, doing business and studying, and there are 50,000 to 60,000 floating people.”
“The short-term employment gap alone is almost 100,000, and in the long run it will not be enough for another million people. Problem. ”
“However, population is an important resource, and many places have tightened restrictions on population outflows.”
Frederick is a little troubled. Recently, both industrial and agricultural populations have been in front of him. Complaining about the lack of labor force, as if he could conjure a human being by pulling out his hair and blowing on it.
Therefore, it is useless to travel thousands of miles away to mine bauxite because there are not that many people.
Psyche was helpless and spread her hands and said: "I can't do anything."
"Wesson's baby boom began in 1028, when you were already famous in the Battle of the Elbe Due to the rapid increase in grain production due to improved seeds and fertilizers, people feel more secure.”
“You will have to start to enjoy this wave of demographic dividend in 1048, at the earliest, 12 years later. ”
“Three new states were added in 1034, and the baby boom is not expected to start until this year or the year after next, let alone expect it.”
"I can only make a suggestion, try to search in mountainous areas with harsh environments, and you will be fooled one by one."
"It is definitely not possible for these people to enter the factory, but it is still possible to open up wasteland for farming."
The principality of Wesson has a very heavy task of land reclamation. There is no mention of environmental protection before eating. Except for mountainous areas, water sources, and river protection areas, all places that can be reclaimed must be reclaimed.
The current area of the Principality of Wesson is 34,000 square kilometers, and about 29,000 square kilometers of land will be planned as agricultural land, including 13,000 square kilometers of forest, 10,400 square kilometers of farmland, and 5,600 square kilometers of pasture.
Judging from this data, there is a huge vacancy in the agricultural population alone.
Frederick thought for a while and said: "This is a direction. I will try it if I have a chance."
(End of this chapter)