Codex Pirates

Chapter 139 Doctor

When approaching the aristocratic district, a low city wall that was far from being completed could already be seen from a distance.

William had nothing to say about the working efficiency of the ruling class of the Navia Kingdom. William did not obstruct too much from the beginning to the end of the construction of the city wall, but the construction speed was still as slow as a snail.

A group of princes and nobles, high-ranking officials and dignitaries are constantly greedy for ink, which leads to slow and procrastinated construction period, and because the tax is increased on the common people, once the construction period is extended, the tax burden on the common people will become greater. The trend of expansion, which in turn led to a group of ruling classes who had to rely even more on William and his troops to maintain law and order.

Over the past year, William has been thinking about a question in confusion more than once:

Is this all a bunch of idiots?

But when I think about the history of the previous life, there were bureaucrat kings who were not willing to defend the city with all their strength when they approached the city, but desperately made money, but were slaughtered by the enemy like fat sheep in the end; All kinds of feudal rulers, the ruling class of the Kingdom of Navia is actually not so outrageous.

Although there are suspicions of Tai Ah's backlash, at least William has always regarded himself as a member of the ruling class of the Navian Kingdom.

There may be one or two sober ruling classes, but in the face of a situation where more than half of the princes and nobles are lying on the city wall to suck blood, what is the use of their weak appeal?

The most important thing is that among this group of vampires, Arcadio, the Minister of Finance, is also included. The Prohibition Police led by Crowe has already taken shape. Norton I was furious that his prohibition was ignored, Al Taking advantage of this, Cadio began to use the authority of this department to eliminate dissidents and attack political opponents, and when Crowe implemented it, he also intentionally intensified it, causing this nominal police organization to become more and more like a police organization. It is a secret service organization with a very bad reputation.

The actual power of law and order in the city is in the hands of William. When the prohibition police department is not fully established, Arcadio needs William's assistance. Therefore, even if there is no interest in the city wall tax, he will not allow William to be attacked at will. .

When William and Aramis rushed back to the manor, they found that Sherlock and Danbier were also there. Nowadays, most of William's senior management are fierce generals who are good at fighting. Only Sherlock and Danbier can be called the real think tanks. Er two.

Sherlock is in charge of the Four Seas Trading Company and financial power, and Dampier manages weapon research and development and provides strategic advice to William.

Sherlock is temporarily residing in Kalmar City to preside over the situation, but he usually does not come to the noble district, lest Arcadio notice him.

Four Seas Trading Co., Ltd. has recently focused on the slums of Kalmar City. The census of the Navia Kingdom is a pile of shit, and the grassroots control rights are fragile. In places like slums, where the population is mobile and the environment is complicated, even supervision is difficult. difficult to do.

Kalmar City has a population of about two million, which may be more or less, because this is a rough figure from eight years ago.

This level was not low in William's previous life, but most of them were poor people without any support. From the sky, you can see that the densely packed illegal buildings almost surrounded the civilian area and the noble area. It is no wonder that when a group of nobles found out Andre may be so panicked after being killed by people in the slums. If the slums really mess up, they probably won't be able to please them.

It’s just that this group of people really care about eating but not fighting. After William led the team to wipe out many criminals in the slums, seeing that the commotion in the slums seemed to be suppressed, they relapsed.

William wanted to do a census so that he could formulate future education, medical care and employment policies, but he had no administrative basis. He could only rely on the power of the Four Seas Trading Co., hoping to provide free medical treatment for people in poor areas in the name of spring disease prevention , Distributing medicines and other reasons, take advantage of the trend to investigate the population.

A lot of money needs to be spent here, but the most important thing is that there is no manpower. Sherlock came here for this this time.

After William entered the manor, he was stumped by the questions thrown by Sherlock before he talked about himself.

Not enough doctors.

William has long planned to open a special school, focusing on training his own ship doctors and navigators, and intends to make these indispensable high-tech arms on the ship a similar existence to political commissars, so as to help him better when there are more ships under his command in the future. Well control the loyalty of grassroots soldiers and deepen the cohesion of the army.

So he ordered Sherlock to recruit talents in this field early on, but for the poor population measured in units of 100,000, these people are still a drop in the bucket.

"Try it, gather these people together, write a textbook, specifically aiming at the medical conditions in slum areas, explain and popularize the diagnosis and treatment of common diseases in as simple and plain language as possible, and then recruit a group of literate students for intensive training, In the short term, first educate a group of people with some basic medical knowledge."

Sherlock was stunned: "Wouldn't the people taught here be quack doctors?"

"Solve it first, and then talk about whether it's good or not," William said disapprovingly. "Besides, after completing this census work, they can continue their studies."

Sherlock was calculating in his mind with a sad face, and wanted to leave, but was stopped by William: "I haven't said anything yet, try not to show your face in the noble district again during this time."

"how?"

"I'm going to attack Roy. I'm worried that I'll startle the snake and arouse Arcadio's vigilance. If he finds out about you, he will definitely figure out the cause and effect."

After Sherlock heard this, the sadness and exhaustion on his face disappeared immediately, and he asked with flickering eyes: "Then when will you do something to Arcadio?"

"When everyone wants him to die," William looked at Sherlock and comforted him, "don't worry, he'll be in a cocoon soon."

After Sherlock with a complicated face left, William looked at Dampier.

Unlike Sherlock, a genius in business, Dampier is an all-rounder who has dabbled in various subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and history. He loves collecting books and once took William to visit His private library, and proudly called it the greatest treasure in the East China Sea.

However, it may be that his hobbies are too extensive, and he has always been in the environment of the East China Sea, so that he has not been able to achieve what no one has done before, and has made any great achievements. However, this kind of erudition is precisely What William needed was that as a traveler, he didn't know enough about the world. Sometimes some ideas and strategies needed to be corrected by people like Dampier and put forward practical suggestions.

It was Dampier who suggested to William that the census of the slums should be done first, and then other plans. Originally, what William wanted to do first was to promote education, but after hearing this, Dampier told him that it would not work, even if William If free education is provided, there will not be many students. Mandatory compulsory education must be implemented to achieve the goal, but this requires not only administrative power, but also a certain understanding of the population in the slums.