Lord of Industrialization

After the World Expo, the number of outsiders in the Duchy of Wessen suddenly increased.

After the farmers in other places finished the autumn harvest, the farmland affairs could be left to the women to handle. Under the organization of the landlords, the men came to the Duchy of Wessen to work, which was part of their corvée.

The landlords did some calculations. In the past, the corvée was to let the farmers farm. Now they brought them to the Duchy of Wessen to work, and the income was higher than farming. They could also buy seeds, fertilizers and farm tools for next year.

However, this was only something that the landlords along the Rhine and Elbe rivers could do. They could do this by relying on convenient and cheap waterways. If they relied on their own legs, they would lose a lot.

These people had no skills and not much strength, so they only did some work paving roads outside the city.

The most feared thing about roads these days was waterlogging. If there was too much water, it would become muddy ground, and in serious cases, horses could sink into their stomachs.

The road designed by Frederick is just a gravel road. The soil roadbed is compacted and compacted into an arc with high in the middle and low on both sides for drainage. There are drainage ditches on both sides of the road. There is a layer of gravel about 20cm in size on the soil roadbed, which is also high in the middle and low on both sides. Finally, a layer of gravel about 2cm in size is laid on the top layer. This layer of small gravel can be replaced and filled.

Such a gravel road protects the roadbed from being soaked by rainwater, which is enough to support more and more vehicles. The gravel absorbs energy and does not cause too much damage to the horse's hooves. It also meets the current level of productivity.

Now the roads in the three new states of the Principality of Wessen are all built with a mud foundation after the rainy season. In the autumn and winter seasons, migrant workers can lay stones, which is much faster.

The carriage is not much bumpy when it goes on the seven-meter-wide gravel road. Baron Turgot sat in the car and felt that it was not much different from walking in the city.

Baron Turgot took the opportunity of his students taking the government contract today and followed a convoy to Faya State.

This motorcade is composed of many departments, including the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Health, the Court, the Procuratorate, the Ministry of Police, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Ministry of Taxation, etc., all of which are closely related to people's lives.

Baron Turgot initially thought that this was a team like the Circuit Court, but the more he looked at it, the less it looked like one, because the largest number of people was the drama troupe hired by the Ministry of Culture, where his students played guest scriptwriters, and the second largest number was the doctors summoned by the Ministry of Health, and there were only one or two people in other departments.

The leader of the team was called Ales, who was in his early forties. He was originally a servant in the castle and later worked in the state government.

Ales welcomed Baron Turgot's self-funded participation in the "Culture, Health, and Law Going to the Countryside Group". This year's work report does not need to worry about it. Highlighting the reactions and opinions and suggestions of a foreign friend can make the report have enough words.

Now it is popular to eat fresh seafood in Weissenburg. Not long ago, the live lobsters the size of arms in the seafood store turned the vegetable market into a zoo. After Ales learned that Baron Turgot came from the seaside, he kept asking questions.

When the convoy was halfway through, they met another person who wanted to take a ride. When Alers heard that he was an acquaintance, he let him get in the car.

The person who took the ride was a young man in his early twenties, wearing a beige blacksmith's suit and carrying a large schoolbag. After entering the carriage, he greeted with a smile: "Uncle Alers, I haven't seen you for several years. I didn't expect to see you here."

"It turned out to be little Danke." Alers also greeted the young man with a smile, "We have guests here. This is Baron Turgot from the Kingdom of Gaul."

After a round of greetings, Alers asked Danke: "How is your father doing now?"

Danke replied: "Father and mother are still cooks in the castle. Now the master's new palace has been decided. I worry all day whether the new kitchen will still want them."

Alers said indifferently: "What are you worried about? , the master has always been very kind to us old people. If the palace doesn't want them, we still have the new building of the Executive Yuan. There is also a kitchen there. We can talk to each other then."

"Let's not talk about them. How are you now? I heard that you graduated from university last year. Do you have a stable job in France and Asia now?"

Danke said a little embarrassedly: "I didn't pass the exam last year, so I can't have a stable job. Now I am a hired technician in the Agricultural Technology Station."

Baron Turgot had been listening to the conversation between the two. Now he couldn't understand it, so he asked: "Excuse me, gentlemen, what is the stable job you are talking about?"

He thought that this stable job must not be a literal stable job, but a metaphor.

Alles explained: "It's like this. Last year, there was a case in Putz. Someone in the medical bureau there planned to scrap a batch of medicines on the books and then secretly sell them to people in Bohemia."

"An employee in the medical bureau didn't want to do it, didn't sign the form, and was fired directly."

"The employee's elderly family member was sick and needed medicine, which cost a lot of money. Now he lost his job, so he jumped into the river."

"At that time, several people were fishing downstream in the river and rescued him. After asking what happened, they took him to Weissenburg to report."

"Later, our government staff system was reformed this year. Unless they touched the red line, they would generally not be fired. At most, they would be assigned to positions with nothing to do, giving employees the confidence to refuse illegal behavior."

Baron Turgot nodded on the surface, thinking in his heart: That's it?

It's natural for officials to resell materials. Which government staff is not the second son or relative of a noble family, or from a local gentry family. Firing them is a slap in their faces.

Baron Turgot stopped thinking about this and asked Dank curiously: "Sir, you just said that the place where you work is an agricultural technology station. What kind of place is that?"

He studies agriculture, but he cannot understand what this agricultural technology station is like or what it is used for.

Danke explained helplessly: "It's a difficult place. Several surrounding villages require us to guide them in farming matters, such as when to sow seeds, how much fertilizer to apply, how to deal with insects, etc."

"But the farmers didn't listen. They just nodded when I said it, and continued to do their own thing as soon as I left."

"Like this spring, I told them not to use too much urine essence. When I left, they kept spreading it into the fields. As a result, all the wheat seedlings died."

"In another village, there was a man who had rust on the wheat leaves in his field. I asked him to boil two kilograms of cow urine in ten kilograms of water. When the water cooled, he sprayed it on the wheat leaves."

"In the end, that person was lazy and only used less than one kilogram. The whole village's wheat was infected, and the production was cut in half."

Baron Turgot could tell that Dank's words were full of complaints and that life was difficult.

He thinks this agricultural technology station is a good thing and has learning value.

Ahlers said to Dank: "Here just joined us last year, and it was always like this from the beginning. The drama we came here this time is to promote technology farming. When those people taste the benefits, they will know that you are a treasure."

Dank said: "That's all."