chsdbacks #720 - 1447 passed in a flash
#720 - 1447 passed in a flash
After finishing the first lesson of the spring for the children of the Loyal Successor Army, Horn hurriedly practiced his breathing technique for half an hour before having to travel to the Holy See Building by carriage.
Inside his Stag Chamber, Cici and Madeleine, two of his most important ministers, had been waiting for a long time.
"Good morning, Your Majesty."
"Good morning, how was your New Year?" Taking off his sleeved robe, Horn first shook hands and embraced Madeleine, "This is your first New Year's Day with your newlywed wife."
"Hahaha, everything is fine." Madeleine grinned. "She told me yesterday that she was desperate and would never catch up to my cooking skills in this lifetime."
Madeleine did not marry the daughter of a knight like many soldiers, but instead married the daughter of a carriage shop owner in Mander County.
Of course, compared to the daughters of nobles, Madeleine got along better with this small merchant's daughter.
"Cici, you're not getting any younger, why don't you find someone to settle down with." While shaking hands and embracing Cici, Horn joked, "I think Bonnerde is not bad."
Bonnerde, who was originally sitting by the door copying documents, immediately let out a violent cough.
After the previous fierce war, as the situation gradually stabilized, this group of new Langsand County nobles immediately and tacitly began to marry and settle down.
As it stands, many of the original team that followed Horn are now married.
The Grampwen couple and the Jeshka couple go without saying, Chilvers found a widowed landowner with children, and Boussac remarried the daughter of a scholar.
Pettier married his fiancée from his hometown, Bernardo married Das's sister, and Das himself has recently been flirting with a former nun teacher.
It made Horn sigh that spring was indeed coming.
"Hahaha, how could I be before you? Speaking of which, you're not getting any younger either, when are you going to get married? At least let us all feel at ease." Cici replied with a smile.
This time it was Horn's turn to cough violently, and he pretended to drink water to avoid it: "This, the devil is not yet destroyed, how can I have a home? Speaking of home, Cici, I heard that you went back to your hometown for the New Year?"
"Yes, I went back to the house in Black Serpent Bay to tidy up and transport some of the furniture and luggage to the Holy See."
"That's good, if there are any relatives and friends, you can bring them to live here, the Holy See is very big." Speaking of this, Horn paused, "How are the prices in the Holy See recently?"
"Currently, the market price of wheat is about 10 to 12 pounds per denarius, and rice is even cheaper, you can buy about 16 pounds.
Vegetables are about 0.5 to 2 denarii per pound, and fresh meat is still expensive at 2-3 denarii per pound.
However, things like eggs are relatively cheap, half a denarius for 12 eggs, and half a denarius can also buy half a dozen sausages or two pounds of cheese."
Horn quickly calculated in his mind that a family of three consumes 3-4 pounds of grain per day, 1-2 eggs or sausages per day, plus some vegetables and cheese, and the total food expenditure per month is about 10 to 13 denarii.
According to the city hall's regulations, the minimum monthly wage in the Holy See is 25 denarii, even those who earn the minimum wage only spend about 50% of their total income on food.
In other words, they are barely struggling on the lower end of middle class.
Of course, all of this is based on the city hall's subsidies and tax cuts for basic necessities.
And the Holy See City Hall can afford to do this because of the booming economic benefits of the large number of papal state-owned factories and alchemical workshops.
And there are two main sources for the economic boom of state-owned factories.
One part comes from the dividends that Horn plundered from wealthy people inside and outside through war, dumping, and financial warfare. Horn can even allow these factories to operate at a loss in the early stages.
The other part is based on the substantial exploitation of the exchange of urban and rural products caused by the information gap among farmers.
Horn knew in his heart that he would never dare to face this head on.
For example, the mountain people of South Mander County do heavy spinning work, and the mountain people of North County work hard to marinate meat.
Although they are making more profit than before, it is the spillover effect of a large amount of hot money pouring into the market, and they should have earned more income.
But in reality, a large amount of profit was taken by Horn to build factories, fortresses, weapons, and infrastructure.
So, when industry develops later and the economy develops, it is necessary to subsidize farmers.
It is not that the farmers owe Horn a debt of gratitude, but that Horn owes the farmers a debt of gratitude.
"Your Majesty, I have to say something." Madeleine stepped forward and said, "This kind of subsidy is not sustainable, because with such high wages and living standards, it will inevitably attract a large number of people to gather.
With a large population, rising prices are inevitable, and subsidies cannot cover much."
"I know, that's why the city hall is promoting earthworm compost and farms outside the city. There is no way to get grain, it can only be transported from Jeanneburg."
Earthworm compost is to allow rural areas on the edge of the city to use earthworm compost to raise poultry, while farms raise livestock such as cattle, horses, pigs, and sheep on Autumn Dusk Island.
Because the soil on Autumn Dusk Island is indeed not very good, and the grain yield is not high even if it is replaced with barley or oats.
It's better to plant pasture and radishes and directly raise livestock.
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As for grain, Langsand County in the lower reaches is a grain-producing area, and it can be completely transported from Jeanneburg.
But from a strategic point of view, if the enemy occupies Jeanneburg, the industrial center of the Holy See will be cut off from grain.
Nothing can be perfect, Horn sighed in his heart, and walked around the table to sit down: "Have the tax revenue of the hundred-household districts been calculated?"
"It's on the table."
By the end of 1447, Thousand River Valley had roughly completed the hundred-household district transformation.
Of course, this kind of hundred-household district transformation is almost incomparable to that carried out in Langsand County. A large number of stewards, housekeepers, and small landlords hold the position of hundred-household head.
But no matter who the hundred-household head is, the rules and efficiency improvements of the hundred-household district are set.
The agricultural mutual assistance model has brought about efficiency improvements, and the new crop rotation method has increased the yield per mu, freeing up time and resources for farmers to generate income and improve.
The hundred-household heads are eager to receive the abbot's commendation and be nominated to enter the Council of Advisors by completing the various indicators issued.
With the help of itinerant monks and Saint Dao monks who voluntarily preach, tax collection and security efficiency have been greatly improved.
In addition to the North Mander County Steel Consortium, the South Mander County textile brotherhoods of all sizes, the North County cured meat workshops, and the great prosperity brought about by the liberalization of industry and commerce.
"...The hundred-household districts have also spontaneously built 682 drainage and irrigation ditches, 74 small dams, and spontaneously opened up wasteland and re-cultivated 1,800 hectares of abandoned land..."
"...Although a large number of farmers failed to plant on time due to the turbulence and changes caused by the hundred-household district transformation, the average yield of those who were not affected increased by about 5%..."
The political tournament system formulated by Horn has already begun to show its ferocious signs, with layers of indicators and layers of pressure, forcing large and small civil servants to brush up their political achievements.
The political achievements in 1447 were local agricultural tax revenue and infrastructure construction.
Last year, excluding Langsand County, the fiscal revenue of the remaining eight counties in the turbulent and recovery period exceeded 100,000 gold pounds combined.
If Langsand County is included, the overall fiscal revenue of Thousand River Valley is close to 150,000 gold pounds.
With the rise of trade between Langsand County and Black Serpent Bay, the economic center of Thousand River Valley has quietly shifted south.