Chapter 446: Planning for Castle Joan
Horn was riding in an open carriage and got out of the carriage in front of the Holy Advent Hall, sandwiched by two saints on the left and right.
Returning to the familiar study room of Shenglin Hall, Jeanne went to the bedroom in the study room to wash her face and change clothes. On the contrary, Catherine sat down on a chair cushioned with wheat straw, a little embarrassed.
Horn hung his hat on the coat rack and smiled apologetically at Catherine: "I'm going to wash my face. You wait... Jeanne, are you okay? I'm coming in."< br>
“Wear pants, now.”
Jeanne, who had put on a refreshing men's clothing, walked out of the room and looked out the window like Catherine: "What are you looking at?"
Catherine's eyes were bright: "Those houses around the square outside are all intact. , why should it be demolished?”
Finally finding an opportunity to show off in front of Catherine, Jeanne put her hands on her hips and raised her chin and said, “This is our Salvation Army’s plan to renovate Fort Joan of Arc. , let me tell you, I will be the patron saint of Castle Joan from now on."
"That's awesome." With a coaxing tone, Catherine praised, "That's it. Can you tell me why? "
Jeanne didn't realize it was different: "Because Fort Joan of Arc wants to increase the urban population, carry out pro-industrialization, and improve the level and efficiency of the labor force... Hey, you asked me, Why don’t you listen to people?”
"Sorry, I was watching the city." Catherine pointed at the hundreds of black smoke and asked, "Isn't this at noon? Why did they open fire."
"Because today is Sunday Day.”
In the empire, we usually eat around nine in the morning and four or five in the afternoon. For lunch, those who do physical work usually only get some black bread.
However, after the popularity of briquettes, the return of food prices to normal, and the elimination of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, many citizens and craftsman families began to slowly implement the three-meal system under Horn's initiative.
Families in some towns will get together for lunch on Sunday and pray before the meal. They regard it as a meal with a religious ceremony.
"Do you know how to modify it?" Catherine continued to ask.
Jeanna straightened her chest and said loudly: "I don't know."
Then why are you shouting so loudly? Catherine leaned back in her chair speechlessly.
"That's a very complicated plan." Walking out of the inner room, Horn happened to hear this sentence. He wiped the water stains on his hands with a handkerchief, and also walked to the window, "Madelan will meet you later. I will send you the relevant plan, but it will have to wait until after your first cardinal meeting? "The first cardinal meeting? So soon?" Catherine just got off the boat, and she couldn't stop at this moment. Going to a meeting?
"Yes, we in the Salvation Army are all quick shooters. Don't blame us for not being able to adapt." Arriving at her home territory, Jeanne obviously felt a lot more confident.
"It was supposed to be held on Friday, but our trip to the city was delayed due to busy work. It was postponed to Sunday, just in time to introduce you to other cardinals." Horn looked at the hair in the room. Tiao Zhong, "Let's go have lunch first, and then have a meeting after a break."
"Then can I go wash up?"
"Of course, Jeanne, you take her there." ”
Leaning by the window alone, Horn looked at the beams lifted by the lever and pulley crane and the construction workers commanding around him, and fell into deep thought.
He currently plans to build two urban areas in Fort Joan, one on each side of the canal.
The north bank will be the industrial area and port area, while the south bank will be the main urban area.
The main urban area consists of residential and commercial areas. Horn plans to demolish some residences and triple the area of Victory Square.
Then a rapids city-type fountain and flower garden were installed in the middle to form a city roundabout, and on the side was the square itself used for gatherings.
Then official buildings will be concentrated near the square to form an official residence area. This centralized management and security is much better than the original decentralized one.
In residential neighborhoods, the streets will be widened and rebuilt on the original basis, but this will expand the urban area.
In order to solve the commuting problem, either build buildings or develop public carriages.
The Caishi Street area near the river on the east side of the main city will be expanded into a commercial area, used for commodity exchange with foreign merchants and villagers, as well as entertainment for ordinary civilians.
Echoing the main urban area on the South Bank is the industrial zone on the North Bank. All workshops must be relocated to the North Bank Industrial Zone. Horn plans to dig several more ditches to facilitate the discharge and treatment of wastewater from the workshops.
The original Fort Joan of Arc had four to five thousand people living in the city, and tens of thousands of people living in the suburbs outside the city. It more or less formed a suburban market and participated in the operation of the city.
In other words, there are about 14,000 to 5,000 people in the entire Castle of Joan of Arc itself and the surrounding suburbs.
After several previous wars, the situation has undergone some changes. After the increase or decrease in population, the total population near Fort Joan of Arc is only about 9,500. Among them, there are about 2,000 people who serve the primary industry and bring their families with them. They are mainly engaged in fruit and vegetable cultivation, fish farming and animal husbandry.
The secondary industry is various workshops, including weavers, blacksmiths, shoemakers, bakers, potters, carpenters, etc. It is estimated that 5,000 people make a living from this.
As for the tertiary industry, which is the business and service industry, there are about 2,500 people. The main occupations include small shopkeepers, accountants, agents (intermediaries), clerks, scribes and notaries, etc.
This serves business. After cleaning up the named businessmen in the city, there are still 40 merchant families and 12 loan agents.
The so-called loan agent is actually the original lender, but he was incorporated into the Holy Court Bank of Fort Joan of Arc by Horn.
According to Horn's plan, the inside and outside of the city should be integrated, a large number of people living outside the city should be moved into the city, and the population should be increased to at least 12,000 people.
In this way, some villagers will be turned into citizens first, otherwise there will be a considerable labor shortage in the subsequent industrial transformation of Fort Joan of Arc.
As the capital of Langsand County, Castle Joan of Arc, Horn’s expectations for its future lie in two industries. The first is tool manufacturing, including wood processing and metal smelting, and the second is papermaking and printing. industry.
The former is naturally easy to understand. Langsand County is an agricultural county. There are no large mining forests in the nearby environment, and it is impossible to carry out large-scale wood processing or metallurgy.
It is impossible to make a living by relying on this simple basic processing industry. Then we must move into high value-added processing industries, but the technical level of local craftsmen is not very high.
So Horn turned his attention to tool manufacturing, including hoes, pitchforks, ox-horse plows, hammers, craft equipment...
Especially in the subsequent proto-industrialization, Horn It will greatly promote the establishment of workshops. The demand for manufacturing tools itself is not small, and the technical content is not high, so they can be used to practice slowly.
Other places, you may suffer heavy losses if you practice like this, but it is different in Langsand County.
Because Longsand County is an agricultural county, the farmers under his rule are actually rich!
What a miracle!
In such an agricultural county, farmers’ desire for land improvement and efficient production cannot be concealed, and the demand for good agricultural tools is huge.
Farmers sell grain in exchange for money to buy farm tools to improve production efficiency, and craftsmen sell farm tools in exchange for money to buy grain to improve their skills.
If there was already a market for tool manufacturing in Fort Joan of Arc, and Horn just expanded it, then the papermaking and printing industries were completely blank in the market.
This is because as the management of the Horn Salvation Army became more refined, the demand for paper and ink increased, and there was a general shortage of scribes and paper in various departments.
Especially the notices for each hundred-household district, which often require scribes to work overtime and copy repeatedly. However, when making printing relief plates, they are often used once and never used a second time.
So many times, scribes and printers would cut out the letterpress plates and then rejoin them for printing, leaving gaps where they could not be repeated and copying by hand.
This kind of movable sentence printing is vaguely the prototype of movable type printing.
As the Salvation Army expanded in the later period, especially when Horn wanted to establish a filing system and a newspaper, there was a greater need for paper and scribes.
Instead of hiring a scribe, Horn decided it would be more cost-effective to build a movable type printing machine because the scribe couldn't work 24 hours a day.
Besides, there are not that many scribes in Castle Joan for Horn to spend his money on.
So he has offered a reward of 100 gold pounds in the territory, asking craftsmen to try their best to design a usable sticky ink before the year.
Horn even provided the materials, including lamp black, soot, linseed oil, and turpentine. In history, Gutenberg relied on these few things to develop inks that could be used for movable type printing.
It’s just that Horn doesn’t know the specific ratio and production process, so he can only rely on the craftsmen to try it themselves. Anyway, Horn gives them the control variables and experimental methods, which can save a lot of time.
With movable type printing, the printing quality is not as good as that of engraving, but anyway, these are one-time notices and documents, so they do not require high quality.
In addition, there are also spiral handprinting machines and lead-tin-antimony movable type kits. Horn has offered rewards to various guilds and craftsmen groups, and promised to give 3% of the proceeds to the inventor.
Whether they can come up with decent products depends on Horn's fate.
"I've washed up. Do you want to go have lunch now?" Catherine, who had combed her hair again and put on makeup, walked out radiantly.
Although Jeanne, who was not wearing any makeup behind her, was so supple that she didn’t need makeup at all, she still pouted her lips dissatisfied.
"Let's go."
(End of this chapter)