Chapter 465 The Royal Family’s Dilemma 5

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

"A few pieces of letter paper are not enough to carry all I want to say, so I'll stop here today."

"I wish you happiness and health, and miss you, Ladi Setia."

After reading the content of the letter, Catherine looked up.

"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 mind, her heart really skipped a beat.

Is this number really that high?

"Yes!"

Guilt appeared on Irene's face again.

"I should have asked my father to issue an order to the whole country early, at least in the royal territory! Ah, a year has passed, how many women have given birth in this year."

Irene brought back the booklet when she returned from the Northwest Bay, but only a few good friends were interested in it, and few responded.

The greatest achievement was to make people around her develop the habit of drinking boiled water.

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

She began to tear her hair in frustration.

Catherine immediately stopped her younger sister who was becoming less and less like a princess.

"Let's go, let's go see our father together. He should still be in the meeting room now."

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

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

After listening to the little 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 smiled and sighed.

"Uh... I mean, maternal death is indeed an unfortunate thing, but with these improved delivery measures, many misfortunes can be reduced. This is a surprise."

No ruler does not want his territory to be prosperous.

"Okay. Irene." The king decided, "I will inform the entire kingdom in the form of a notice to follow the contents of your booklet, and notify the major lords of the kingdom."

"But..." The king said helplessly, "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 at the moment."

"Why?" Irene pouted in dissatisfaction and asked angrily.

The king reached out and touched his little daughter's head apologetically.

"It's not that I don't want to, but I really can't. The royal government is in financial difficulties now and can't increase administrative expenses."

"Oh!" Irene clenched her fists in 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 they won't change? I believe that most doctors will study and learn new knowledge based on their duty to save lives and heal the wounded."

Irene asked, "Father just said that there are financial difficulties. Why?"

Catherine sighed and replied, "It's because of those southern nobles. We spent a lot of money to maintain their status and life, and in order to appease them, my father has the idea of ​​​​dividing the royal territory to compensate them."

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

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

"I have an idea that may provide some ways to resettle those nobles who have lost their territory and save money for the royal government."

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

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

"Develop the secondary industry!"

"Secondary industry?"

This was the first time the father and daughter heard this term.

"Do you think that most of our current wealth is directly produced from the land, that is, agriculture?"

"That's right."

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

The king and Catherine agreed with this statement.

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

A gleam of light flashed in Irene's eyes, "But during my time in the Northwest Bay, I saw another way to produce wealth."

"Another way?"

"Yes, it's the secondary industry!"

Irene excitedly explained to them, "Agriculture, an industry that directly uses land to obtain wealth, can be called the primary industry, so the production activities of exploiting natural resources and processing and reprocessing mined products and agricultural products can be called the secondary industry, or industry."

She directly moved Paul's definition of industry over.

Catherine asked with some confusion: "Your so-called secondary industry has existed for thousands of years in human history, but it has not generated a lot of wealth. How can it solve our current predicament?"

Erin's expression turned serious, and she explained: "It has always existed, but compared with the primary industry of agriculture, it only exists on a disproportionately small scale, and of course it cannot generate a lot of wealth. Let me give you a simple example. In many places, several villages share a blacksmith shop. Compared with the huge number of farmers, the number of blacksmiths is very small."

The king and Catherine thought, "That's right."

Erin stretched out three fingers on her right hand and continued: "Based on my personal shallow thinking, there are many factors that limit the scale of the secondary industry, which can be roughly summarized into three types."

"The first limitation is technology, which is the most direct reason. Whether the technology is advanced directly determines the value that the industry can produce. For example, swords made with excellent craftsmanship are better than swords made with ordinary craftsmanship, but there is another important aspect of technological limitations, that is, the scope of technology dissemination. Some Skilled craftsmen, fearing competition from their peers, often keep their unique skills secret and only pass them on to their offspring or carefully selected apprentices, which limits the application of advanced technology to a small scale, thus limiting the value it can generate. "

"The second limitation is the organizational form. The widely existing secondary industries, such as ironwork, leather, and tailoring, all exist in the form of small family workshops. This form of production activity has low output and very low efficiency. "

"The third limitation is demand. We have to admit that even if some great invention suddenly appears now, such as some advanced equipment that only requires a small amount of manpower to operate, has infinite power, and can be deployed in batches, the first two limitations - technology and organizational form - are solved at once, and the output of industrial products suddenly increases, people's current demand cannot digest these extra products. "

Irene's outstretched fingers turned into two.

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