Chapter 597: Obstacles that must be overcome
The structure of the Southern Fruit Company is no different from that of the large companies in the Principality of Wesson. After promoting Waldemar, there are basically no major problems.
The company's work is quite satisfactory. Although there are flaws, they are within the controllable range.
Frederick was very satisfied and no longer gave any instructions except asking them to report work briefings to shareholders every month and report detailed progress every three months.
Maria and everyone in the company breathed a sigh of relief and finally passed the test.
"I knew you were fine." Susan said while arranging her winning pajamas, "Don't you know him yet? As long as there are no problems in principle, mistakes are inevitable, just change them."
Maria sat on the sofa, patted her chest and said, "You don't know, he always has a straight face these days, which scares me to death."
Susan covered her mouth Smiling and said: "I thought you were playing some game."
Maria looked at the pajamas. It was more like a fishing net than pajamas, with gold beads and various gems strung on it. Some key shading features.
“You are the one playing games,” she said to Susan. “The carpenter came to repair the bed this morning.”
Susan blushed slightly.
In the past, Frederick was only slightly affectionate with her because of her young age.
She is sixteen years old this year. A few days ago she put on her winning pajamas and went to Frederick's bedroom.
Susan said to Maria: "When it comes to you, you will have to change to an iron frame bed. The wooden bed will definitely collapse."
Maria blushed and fought with Susan. Make a fuss.
At this time, Frederick was in a fishing port on the coast of Cyclops Island. This area of the coast is surrounded by cliffs. There is a beach of more than 200 meters between the cliffs. The local landowners built several villas on the cliffs to rent out to tourists.
Now the Archduke of Mainz and Archduke Byrne live here, fishing, playing chess, and taking walks every day. They live a very leisurely life.
After making arrangements for the Southern Fruit Company, Frederick came to see the two of them. Unexpectedly, the chat would lead to a serious topic.
Serfs, a group that occupies a major position in northern agricultural production.
Serfs were attached to the landowner's manor and had no freedom in life. For example, they could not permanently leave the territory or village, marry, change careers, or dispose of their property without the permission of the lord.
But accordingly, they were protected by their lords.
In literary works, stray dogs are often used to describe free people, while serfs are domestic animals.
Although stray dogs are free, there is no "animal protection" here and they need to bear the social risks themselves.
Although domestic animals are tired, they are at least safe in the territory, and the lord does not want others to harm his property.
Freedmen would become serfs due to bankruptcy and other reasons.
Serfs could only become freedmen through emancipation, redemption, or escape from their lords.
In the current society, such production relations adapt to the current productivity.
Due to food problems in the territory and to win over allies, Frederick allocated part of the light industry to the Principality of Mainz and the Principality of Bain. At the same time, he exported a large amount of agricultural machinery, fertilizers and improved seeds. Now their industrial and agricultural development has begun to encounter serfdom. This roadblock.
The use of agricultural machinery not only improves production efficiency and reduces the demand for agricultural population, but also breaks the original field system. Each serf family has one field, which makes agricultural machinery unable to function.
At the same time, the newly built factories required a large number of workers, but the serfs were bound to the land and could not become workers at will.
In the new territories that Frederick occupied in the past ten years, serfs were liberated and became freedmen through his liberation. One of the causes of the trade route wars in the past few years was that a large number of serfs from the Franconian Principality and the Regans Alliance escaped to the Wesson Principality and became free people.
Hofmann, the famous factory owner in Weissenburg, his family used to be serfs. His sister was attracted by the old birch tree and then bought her freedom and married her home. At first, he was He could temporarily buy his freedom by paying extra taxes and staying on the farm with his parents.
Frederick had the foresight to solve this problem from the beginning.
The Principality of Mainz and the Principality of Bain were unable to copy the answer, because the Principality of Wesson only had one big landowner, Frederick, and these two traditional principalities had a large number of vassals, and the lord could not give them Internal Affairs Order.
This was an issue that shook the foundation of feudal rule. The two did not dare to discuss it at home, so they took the opportunity to go abroad to discuss it.
Now that Frederick has returned from the north, it’s time to capture him and discuss it together.
Frederick was silent for a long time. He had thought about this question for many years, but he did not expect that it was the two of them who raised it.
“This problem is very dangerous.” Frederick looked at the sea and said, “If it is not handled well, there will be a war.”
The Archduke of Mainz frowned and asked: “So Serious? ”
Frederick nodded.
Archduke Byrne took a breath of sea breeze. With Frederick's talent in war, no one dared not believe his predictions about the war.
After sorting out his thoughts, Frederick said: "I have a theory that can explain this problem, but it has not been published yet."
"This theory has two core concepts, namely productivity "Relationship with production."
He has studied the history here and found that magic was mainly used in war. Even if the predecessors used it for production, it did not form a qualitative change due to cost-effectiveness and was short-lived, so it had no impact on the development of productivity. Not big.
Correspondingly, those with extraordinary strength were absorbed into the landlord class, combining force with wealth.
So he used history as a background to describe what productivity and production relations are and what kind of relationship they exist in simple and easy-to-understand language.
The Grand Duke of Mainz and the Grand Duke of Byrne had not understood this knowledge before, but they suddenly became enlightened after Frederick mentioned the current example of the serfs.
“I understand somewhat.” Archduke Byrne used a familiar example to explain Frederick’s theory, “It’s like the development of war techniques has prompted changes in the structure of the army.”
“ In the past, when there were no multiple people working together to cast spells, magicians could only cast spells alone.”
"At that time, a large number of magicians cast spells with a small attack range and a short distance. Magic battles would be conducted before the war, so the team of magicians was placed at the front of the queue."
"Later, multi-person cooperative spell casting was developed. , the power of the entire mage company can be gathered, and the power and distance become greater."
"At this time, the mission of the magician on the battlefield has changed from the original pure offense to taking into account both offense and defense. The position in the military formation has also begun to be moved back to avoid being exposed to direct attacks by the enemy."
"Now that the new weapons you invented have been widely used, the original standing military formation has also changed. Instead of lying on the ground to reduce the number of skirmishers under attack, the role of the magician has gradually become the use of magic weapons."
"If the military formation cannot keep up with the development, the ancient military formation will face new tactics. , there will be a massacre.”
Frederick nodded and said: "That's what I mean."
"So the social structure, like the military formation, must change."
(End of this chapter)