Chapter 461： The Royal Dilemma Five

"Dear Betty, I hope you can mobilize your influence in the aristocratic circles of the capital, and pass these disinfection measures and their great effects to the ears of the high-level officials of the kingdom, and then promote them nationwide, which will save The lives of countless sisters."

"A few pieces of letter paper are not enough to carry all the words I want to say, so let's write here first."

"I wish you happiness and well-being, and I miss your Ladi Setia."

After reading the contents of the letter, Catherine raised her head.

"Are you in a hurry to tell your father about these so-called disinfection measures?"

To be honest, when she saw the maternal mortality rate mentioned in her heart, she really felt a little bit in her heart.

Is this number really that high?

"Yes!"

A guilty look appeared on Irene's face again.

"I should have asked my father to give orders to the whole country, at least in the royal lands! Oh, how many women have given birth to children in this year."

Erin brought the booklet with her when she returned from the Northwest Sound, but only a few good friends were interested in it, and there were very few responses.

The biggest achievement is to let people around you develop the habit of drinking boiled water.

Later, she devoted her energy to the construction of the school.

She began to tear her hair annoyed.

Catherine immediately stopped the little girl who was becoming less and less princess-like.

"Let's go, let's go see father together, he should still be in the chamber now."

The two sisters soon came to the meeting hall and met King Rodney who was still thinking about the minutes of the meeting.

"Father, Irene has something very important to talk to you about."

After listening to the younger daughter's description of the purpose of coming to him, the king read the letter by the way.

"Haha, this young lord always brings me unexpected surprises."

Rodney XVI sighed with emotion.

"Uh...I mean, maternal death is a real tragedy, but it's a surprise that with these improved delivery practices, a lot of it can be reduced."

There is no ruler who does not want the people in his territory to prosper.

"Okay. Irene." The king decided: "I will tell the entire kingdom to follow the content of your booklet in the form of an announcement, and notify the major lords of the kingdom."

"But..." the king said with some helplessness: "If I want to use administrative power like Lord Graman and send officials to urge doctors in various places to implement these measures, I can't do it yet."

"Why?" Irene pouted dissatisfiedly and asked a little angrily.

The king stretched out his hand and touched the 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 difficulties and can no longer increase administrative expenses."

"Oh!" Irene clenched her fists in great disappointment, "It's impossible to expect those old-fashioned guys to consciously change their habits for many years."

"Okay, Irene." Catherine advised her, "How do you know that people will not change? I believe that most doctors will research and learn new knowledge in line with their bounden duty of saving lives and healing the wounded."

Irene asked: "Father just said that the financial difficulties, why?"

Catherine sighed and replied: "It's not because of those southern nobles, we spent a lot of money to maintain their status and life, and to appease them, my father has the idea of ​​dividing the royal family territory to compensate them."

Irene looked at the king, only to see her father nodded helplessly.

Looking at the depressed father and sister, Irene suddenly had an idea in her heart.

"I have an idea, which may provide some ways to resettle the nobles who lost their territories, and save money for the royal government."

"What?" The king and Catherine looked at her together.

With the attention of her usually respectful father and sister, Irene showed a hint of pride on her face.

"Develop the secondary industry!"

"Secondary industry?"

It was the first time the father and daughter heard the term.

"You said, do most of our current wealth come directly from the land, that is, agriculture."

"Is such that."

The king and Catherine agree with this statement.

Before the birth of real industry, the most important wealth of a world was the land, which produced almost everything that human beings depended on for living.

A gleam flashed in Irene's eyes, "However, during those days in the Northwest Gulf, I saw another way to generate wealth."

"Another way?"

"Yes, it is the secondary industry!"

Irene excitedly explained to them, "Agriculture, an industry that directly uses the land to obtain wealth, can be called the primary industry, and then the production activities of mining natural resources, processing and reprocessing excavated products and agricultural products can be called the primary industry." It is the secondary industry, or we call it industry."

She directly copied Paul's definition of industry.

Catherine asked with some doubts: "Your so-called secondary industry has existed for thousands of years of human history. They have not produced a lot of wealth. How can we solve our current predicament?"

The expression on Irene'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. Let me give you an example A simple example, in many places, several villages share a blacksmith shop, and compared with the large number of farmers, the number of blacksmiths is only a handful."

The king and Catherine were thoughtful, "It is so."

Irene stretched out three fingers on her right hand, and continued: "According to my own shallow thinking, there are many factors that limit the scale of the secondary industry, and they can generally be classified 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 the 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 technological limitations, that is, the spread of technology. Some highly skilled craftsmen often keep their unique skills secret because they are afraid of competition from their peers, and only pass them on to their offspring or carefully select them. Apprentices, this makes advanced technology available only on a small scale, limiting the value it can generate.”

"The second limitation is the form of organization. The secondary industries that exist widely now, such as blacksmithing, leather, and tailoring, all exist in the form of small family workshops. The output of this form of production activities is very low and the efficiency is very low."

"The third limitation is demand. I have to admit that even if some kind of great invention suddenly appears now, such as some kind of advanced equipment that requires only a small amount of manpower to operate, is infinitely powerful and can be deployed in batches, it will suddenly overcome the first two limitations— Technology and organizational form—it was solved, and the output of industrial products suddenly increased, and people’s demand now cannot digest these extra products.”

Erin's outstretched fingers became two.

"Regarding the restriction of demand, it can be divided into two aspects..."