Chapter 462： The Royal Dilemma VI

Catherine looked at her sister who was explaining to them. Irene's face was full of confidence, and a trace of indescribable temperament was slowly gathering in her body.

This temperament made the girl in front of her look very reliable.

For a moment, she felt that her sister had grown up suddenly.

Catherine recalls fragments of her previous life.

"Sister, sister! Don't leave me behind, play with me for a while."

"Really, you little follower, I'm not your nanny. Father's work still needs me."

During the ten years of getting along, the two sisters were full of conversations like this.

Every time she left Irene cruelly, the little guy would shut his mouth and stare at his sister's back with resentful eyes until he disappeared.

Catherine actually didn't want this, she also wanted to spend more time with her sister.

But she wants to prove her worth more.

The king's father had no son, only her and his sister two daughters - this is what the king was often talked about by his courtiers.

When Catherine became sensible, there was a voice around her, "Oh, it would be nice if Your Highness was a boy".

I don't know when it started, but a belief has slowly been strengthened in her heart - I want to achieve results that are not lost to men.

So when a noble girl of the same age was playing with dolls, she was learning to dance and steal swords; When the girl was dancing with her sweetheart on the dance floor, she was studying with the officers in the barracks how to form troops.

Catherine has no desire to inherit the throne, and the Aldo Kingdom has no precedent for a female monarch, and she also has a biological uncle—the king's younger brother.

All she wanted was a recognition.

Finally, my own efforts gradually succeeded, and now all the ministers and generals will not regard her as a canary in a cage, but a military princess who will not lose to men and is decisive in killing.

However, the price is a estrangement between him and his sister.

The relationship between the two eased somewhat after Irene returned from studying in the White Tower.

Erin has some understanding of her busyness all day long, but... she is also limited. Since then, her sister has closed herself in an academic cage all day long.

Until she went to the Northwest Bay and returned from there.

After returning to Irene, the little emotions of the original daughter's family seemed to have disappeared, and she became more generous, independent and mature.

As an older sister, Catherine is very pleased with her younger sister's growth.

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

Irene didn't know what Catherine was thinking about her, and continued the explanation just now.

"The first one is the needs of merchants who want to take advantage of these industrial products. Merchants sell goods from one place to another in order to make money, but if they have to go through layers of checkpoints to pay taxes, they want to make up for the The loss caused by the tax has to raise the price. Most of these industrial products processed from raw materials are not as necessary as food for people today, so if the price is high, not many people will buy it, and in the end they still cannot make money. To the money, this leaves merchants with no desire—or incentive—to purchase manufactured industrial goods.”

"The second is the demand of the final consumers of industrial products. Even without the factor of merchants raising the price, the wealth of ordinary people can't buy too many industrial products. But is this the reason why they didn't buy it? No , It is poor financial resources that inhibit their purchasing power, and the low purchasing power in turn strengthens the first demand restriction—and no one wants to sell industrial products.”

"Father! Sister!"

Erin's eyes sparkled.

"If we can eliminate or weaken the above three types of restrictions, we will be able to grow the secondary industry, and then attract nobles who have lost their land to join this industry. A small piece of business and production site can produce a lot of wealth. Wouldn't the resettlement of those nobles be settled?"

She clenched her delicate fists, "Based on what I have seen in the Northwest Gulf, this is feasible. The lords and nobles there have slowly begun to transform from landlords to factory owners."

"A wonderful idea."

These words of Irene were very novel to Rodney XVI and Catherine, and the king even applauded heartily.

"But..." asked the king, "if a large number of people are attracted to engage in... this [secondary industry], then who will stay in the fields and work the land? If the crops fail, shall we not starve?"

Erin had a smile on her face, the expression I expected you to ask.

"There is a ready-made solution. In the Northwest Gulf, the so-called [crop rotation system] has been widely used in agriculture, that is, the planting method of rotating different crops or multiple cropping combinations in the same field between years can be greatly improved. Improve the efficiency of land use, as far as I know, the crop yield of the crop rotation system is at least twice that of the original yield, and the yield of oats can even triple."

The eyes of the king and Catherine lit up all of a sudden. If what Irene said about [Secondary Industry] was just an anecdote, then this new [Crop Rotation System] caught their attention all of a sudden. Heart.

Any feudal ruler would attach importance to agriculture.

Eileen waved her arms happily.

"We can also buy all kinds of large-scale agricultural machinery from Northwest Baysuch as harvesters, plows, cotton gins, threshers, etc. The appearance of these machines has greatly reduced manpower , so that more people can be released to engage in the secondary industry without reducing agricultural production.”

Is there so much good stuff in the Northwest Bay?

This is the idea in the heads of the king and Princess Catherine. Those machines sound very powerful. From their prefixes, you can guess their respective functions, but are they really as effective as Irene said?

In fact, Irene occasionally mentioned the content of industry and new agriculture in the chat after dinner, but she didn't describe it as systematically as today. Today's description made the eyes of the king and Catherine shine.

It seems that some miraculous things have happened in the land in the Northwest Bay that did not attract much attention before, the eldest princess said silently in her heart.

She thought of the young earl whose family honor had only been restored by the royal family not long ago.

If I remember correctly, Irene was by his side when he was in Northwest Bay.