When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#638 - Dazexiang Water Conservancy Project and Spice Foam

By the roaring fireplace, Horn finished writing the final instructions on an official document and tossed it into the inbox.

Looking at the few documents in the unread inbox, Horn let out a sigh of relief. He was about to stand up and stretch when he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in."

The door opened, and Horn's face fell once again when he saw Pettier holding a stack of files.

"Are there so many things happening lately?" Horn asked with a bitter face, casually flipping through the files as Pettier sorted and placed them into the file box.

Pettier was even more helpless: "The progress has been piling up recently. It will be better after the New Year Festival."

Horn had no choice but to sit back down. His basic daily life, from morning to night, consisted of reviewing official documents, meeting with advisors, writing commentaries, and holding routine meetings... The rare free time was mostly taken up by breathing exercises.

But Horn didn't dare to let go completely. After all, the Qianhe Valley regime was new, and many things had not yet become routine. He was afraid that something might go wrong if he let go.

After putting the documents away, Pettier picked up the documents from the processed file box. As if he remembered something, he reminded, "Your Excellency, the scholars from the River Isle Royal University arrived yesterday. Do you need to meet them?"

"I should have gone to see them." Horn's hand, which was flipping through the documents, paused. He looked at the messy papers on the table. "Alas, let's have that Miss Larkin accompany them. She happens to be a student at the River Isle Royal University."

It wasn't that Horn was deliberately neglecting Leonardo and the others, but that he really had things to do.

Judging from this summary alone, he had to control the progress of the Truth Newspaper debate, manage the restructuring of the hundred-household districts in the two counties of Qianhe Valley(千河谷: Thousand River Valley), approve the appointment and promotion of the high priest, review the military system reform implemented by the new army, and allocate the budget for the research projects of Demon-Devouring Fungus and Lightning Furnace...

These were the most important things. As for general trivial matters, such as the appointment of low-level monks, Horn directly delegated the power.

Compared to other governments of the same era, Horn's Holy Machine Court government was considered relatively efficient.

Because the Cardinals before the Emperor were different from the Grand Secretaries of the Ming Dynasty's Inner Cabinet. In addition to serving as advisors and providing opinions, the Cardinals were also the heads of various central departments.

Therefore, when they submitted documents, they could also provide suggestions for handling them, which could save a lot of time.

According to regulations, each department submitted the documents that needed to be reviewed to the Pope's Office, where the Secretarial Monks Corps headed by Pettier sorted them according to priority and listed a directory based on the summary and submitted it to Horn.

If it was not necessary for Horn to review them, they would be sent back to the departments for self-determination.

There were three document boxes in front of Horn's desk, labeled "Unprocessed," "Pending," and "Processed."

The monks had to put the first received documents in the unprocessed document box, representing that they had not been processed. The pending document box contained matters that had been initially reviewed but not yet completed.

The processed document box contained matters that had been processed and reviewed. Secretarial monks would collect them every day and classify them for archiving or continue to distribute them to other departments.

Of course, to prevent the Secretarial Monks from isolating the inside from the outside, Horn had to hold routine meetings with the heads of various departments every week, and all incoming and outgoing documents had to be signed and archived, and not allowed to be discarded at will.

Major decisions had to be made at the Imperial Cardinal Conference, and the Secretarial Monks only had the power to execute and not to make decisions.

Sitting back at the table, Horn looked at the pile in front of him, estimated the time, and said to Pettier, "Have someone send food over. I'm afraid I won't be able to rest at noon."

Pettier's face immediately turned bitter. He nodded in agreement, and soon a series of sighs erupted from the monks outside.

Picking up the first document on the document box, Horn immediately saw "Grand Marshland River Plan (Fifth Edition)."

The so-called Grand Marshland dredging plan is divided into three river channels at the river's entrance and exit. The first is the river channel from South Mound County to Grand Marshland, and the second and third are the river channels that drain water from South Marsh Lake to Deer Horn Township and Red Leaf Township.

These three river channels were named Tyber River, Nio River and Erno River, all three of which were rivers in the capital of the ancient El Empire, but unfortunately they have been changed to other names by the vampires.

And the senators changed them back.

According to the discussions of the Imperial Cardinal Conference and Horn's guidance, they had to dredge these three silted river channels separately and selectively build dredging dams.

For example, on the Tyber River, which flows from South Mound County into Grand Marshland, three river channels must be divided, one passing through areas with higher terrain, building dams to regulate the water level.

The other two tributary canals pass through relatively flat terrain and are used for merchant ship navigation.

The Nio River, which flows into the Poison Witch Swamp area of Deer Horn Township, will establish a permanent dam more than 200 meters long, modeled after the Arno River, which was previously used to confine water and flush mud, specifically for drainage and flood discharge.

It's not that Horn didn't want to go directly from Grand Marshland to Deer Horn Township, but the mountains around Grand Marshland are high in the north and low in the south, so the Erno River to the south can be navigated toJeanneburg.

The Nio River is to the west, passing through the most dangerous area of the mountains, even passing through several waterfalls. It is not realistic to achieve navigation.

However, this place can take the opportunity to build water-powered flour mills and textile factories by taking advantage of the water power.

Through the control of these three main rivers, according to the calculations of the hydraulic engineers on this plan, the Rubble Plain-Jeanneburg-Rapid Current City route can be basically opened up, with almost no need to transfer in between.

And after draining the swamps of Mud Pond Township, it can also make Mud Pond Township have as much as 6,000 hectares of fields and 2,000 hectares of flat land.

After the hundred-household district reform in South Mound County is completed, the Tyber River, as the only confluence river, has entered the agenda for launch.

According to the judgment of Silves and the local high priest, the entire South Mound County is expected to mobilize 3,000-4,000 young adults to carry out dredging projects in the swamp area.

But they also have requirements:

First, Horn needs to provide a subsidy of at least 3 dinars per person per week, which will cost about 400 to 500 gold pounds per month.

The second is to send troops and Grand Marshland beastmen to clear and win over the bandits and beastmen tribes living in the swamp.

According to the current situation, the Erno River can be officially opened to navigation in June next year, and the Tyber River can be initially opened to navigation in September.

In addition, the plan also proposes a new plan, which is the dam problem in the North Marsh area.

In short, the formation of the North Marsh swamp is because the Tyber River flows into the mountain depression, and the river channel is too narrow and shallow, causing the river water to spread and the river sand to silt up.

Fortunately, after years of erosion under the swamp, a complex underground river system has formed.

If we take the opportunity to intercept and guide these underground river systems with canals, sluices and dams, and cooperate with the original dredging project, we can expose about 411 square kilometers of land in the North Marsh, especially the Lower North Marsh.

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This project was proposed at the beginning, but it was abandoned because the water system was too complex and lacked data and experience, and the redesign time was too long.

However, with the fall of Summer Green City and the recovery of the Brago Monastery, Horn obtained a large number of books on the Kush people's transformation of the swamp.

You know, when the Kush people first came to Qianhe Valley(千河谷: Thousand River Valley), the entire Qianhe Valley(千河谷: Thousand River Valley) was a huge Grand Marshland swamp.

With these materials, almost all the problems can be answered from them, and naturally it can be implemented.

However, this will require an additional investment of nearly a thousand gold pounds per month. Horn thought for a while and decided to agree to the plan, but don't rush to start recruiting workers.

When the army clears the beastmen and bandits in the swamp upstream of the Tyber River, it will be able to obtain a batch of free labor, which can save a lot of money.

It's just the expenditure on building materials... Horn rubbed his quill pen and fell into deep thought. Now the Papal Palace is short of money everywhere, and everywhere needs money.

It's not that Horn is really short of budget. The budgets of the Papal Palace and the Holy Treasury are well controlled. The gold pounds he lacks are golden, round cash.

This couldn't help but make Horn think about the plan that Catherine had mentioned to him before.

In short, it is to establish a shell company, speculate on spice bubbles in Leia Windmill Land, and make a quick buck to supplement cash flow.

The essence is to use the French monopoly on spices, the risk of sea transportation, the spices transported by the Ibe River waterway, and Catherine's connections among the El people to create an information gap in the price of spices in Windmill Land to make profits.

You can even agree with the French and Normans to let them release news about spice shipwrecks first, and then go in and harvest them after the price ofLeia spices plummets.

Catherine is right that theLeia royal family is in a civil war and can't spare the time to manage these things.

With the relationship between Horn and the French, Moliati and the Normans, Catherine and the El people, the split of the North and South Churches, and the stalemate in theLeia civil war.

Not only Qianhe Valley(千河谷: Thousand River Valley), but everyone is probably very willing to take a share.

When it can't be concealed, withdraw the shell company and run away with the money.

Even if it is exposed, how about offending you a little more since we are going to war anyway?

It has to be said that as a great banker, no one understands the empire's financial system better than Catherine. Her methods are surprisingly cruel when she wants to engage in financial fraud.

With thousands of thoughts in his mind, Horn signed a few words on the document, and then rang the bell to call Pettier: "Has Catherine not left yet? Arrange a meeting for me on the weekend, and about the dredging project, remember to arrange a conversation with Sisi..."

"Boom——"

Before Horn finished speaking, Yu Guang saw a flash of lightning in the houses outside the window, followed by a loud explosion.

In the screams from afar, the smile on the corner of Horn's mouth quickly disappeared: "Go, notifyCheka, see what's going on!"

"Yes, Your Excellency!"