The Rise of the European Emperor

In recent years, under Edward's governance, although England has not improved much, it is still stable. The population lost due to the war before has also slowly recovered.

However, these populations are still too small. But it is a pity that England is not Marin's now, and Marin cannot vigorously promote fertility in England. So, even if you have any ideas, you can only wait until later.

Of course, in Northumberland and the Isle of Wight under Marin, he was still able to encourage fertility. Even in the border counties and highland counties of Scotland, Marin also adopted the method of encouraging births.

Because the output of the Beihai fishing ground is increasing, now, Marin has ordered that—whether it is his own manor or someone else's manor, as long as there are pregnant women in the area under his rule, all subsidies will be given. Of course, the subsidy is not money, but salted fish. If conditions permit, Marin will also encourage the fresh meat in the manor to make soup and give priority to pregnant women.

Not only that, but Marin also ordered to rule the manor by himself. Once a woman becomes pregnant, she can stop working and take "pregnancy leave". However, the benefits are not bad at all, even better than the average person. In short, pregnant women are preferred.

Even in every small town, Marin will set up a maternity hospital to take care of pregnant women. What's more, the maternity hospital will have female doctors who have been trained in the technique of natural side cut and know how to use forceps as the main delivery personnel to ensure the safety of delivery.

These technologies were all ordered by Marin to ensure the safety of Angela when she gave birth to William, and now they are just used to ensure the safety of mothers across the country during childbirth. Of course, all these maternity hospitals are now under the name of Marin's "Salvation Knights", becoming a legal medical unit recognized by the church, and enjoying the subsidy and sponsorship of the church.

In addition, Marin also ordered that when taking the bus, everyone needs to give up their seats to pregnant women. In addition, beating pregnant women is strictly prohibited. If beating a pregnant woman causes a miscarriage, it will be severely punished. Because this is tantamount to murdering a new life.

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When it comes to buses in Beihai, we have to mention the current public transportation construction in Beihai. Before, Marin had been planning to repair the cement road. However, I have always worried that the cement road is too eye-catching and attracts attention. Therefore, when two main cement roads were built in the mainland, which traversed north-south and east-west, they deliberately painted other things on the surface of the roads to cover up the original appearance of the roads, and also cut the cement roads into pieces, so that It looks like large stone slabs put together.

But after Marin thought of the cement board road, he let go of those scruples. Then, the "Infrastructure Maniac" mode was activated in Beihai.

For this reason, Marin ordered the cement factory in Corner Brook in the west of Newfoundland to take advantage of the local limestone mines and combine the coal delivered by the Cape Breton Island coal carrier to expand cement production.

Then,

On the native East Frisian Islands, Marin also ordered the restoration of the abandoned cement factories on Baltrum Island and the nearby Langeoog Island, and expanded the scale for the production of cement.

The cement production here used to come from shipping. Limestone, clay and fluorspar, for example, are bought wholesale from the markets in Hamburg and Bremen. The coal for burning cement is transported from the Newcastle coal mine across the sea, which is very convenient and low cost.

Then, Marin also built a large-scale brick factory and cement board factory near the steel factory in Croomhorne for the production of bricks and cement boards. Iron and steel smelting produces a large amount of slag, which is very suitable for firing cement and making bricks.

Of course, the establishment of brick factories and cement slab factories next to the steel factory is not to directly use steel slag, but to use the wharf facilities near Crumhorn to facilitate the transportation of cement. After all, in order to operate the steel plant, Marin built a special wharf locally to facilitate the transportation of ore and coal. At the same time, a large number of soldiers were also stationed to ensure local security.

The future of the cement board factory will definitely attract worldwide attention, after all, it is the top material for paving. Therefore, a place that is convenient for transportation and not afraid of the enemy's coveting and snooping is needed. Obviously, the Crumhorn Iron and Steel Works, which has a high level of security protection, is a good choice. Moreover, setting up factories here is also conducive to centralized industrial management and rational use of local infrastructure resources.

At present, Crumhorne's cement board factory mainly produces two specifications of cement boards - the ordinary type of 240mm×240mm×53mm and the reduced thickness type of 240mm×240mm×26mm.

Among them, ordinary cement slab bricks are mainly used for road paving of main roads. Its thickness is similar to the red bricks of later generations, and its strength is sufficient to withstand the passage of carriages.

As for the reduced thickness type, the craftsmen of the cement board factory discovered that when laying non-arterial roads (that is, small streets and alleys) in the city, there is no need to use ordinary cement with a thickness of 53mm. Board, half the thickness is enough. Because those small streets and alleys are often used by pedestrians, and seldom use carriages. Therefore, cement slab bricks with half the thickness are definitely enough.

In addition, this kind of thickened cement slab brick is also sufficient for country roads where there are not many horse-drawn carriages. Moreover, after the thickness is halved, the cement material is also saved by half, which saves paving costs.

After thinking about it, Marin agreed with the craftsmen, and also rewarded the craftsmen who proposed the reduced-thickness cement slab bricks. Because, it did save him half the cost of road construction materials. Moreover, those small streets and alleys and secluded villages really do not need such strong cement tiles. After reducing the thickness by half, the same material can pave one more road.

Stimulated by this reward, later the craftsmen came up with the idea of ​​adding asbestos fibers when making cement slab bricks, and produced asbestos fiber cement slab bricks with good strength. After testing, the quality of cement slabs added with asbestos fibers is far better than that of ordinary cement slabs.

Kaul, the craftsman who proposed this method of making cement slab bricks, participated in the process of going south to help the Swiss build fortifications. At that time, Marin asked the craftsmen to bring a large amount of cement to the south, and also asked them to purchase a large amount of asbestos fibers in Switzerland, saying that they were used for the manufacture of fiber concrete, which could improve the strength of the fortifications.

During construction, Kaul remembered the concept of "fiber concrete" proposed by Marin, and found that asbestos fiber concrete was indeed stronger than ordinary concrete.

This time he was transferred to a cement board factory. When making cement boards, he thought of it—if adding asbestos fibers inside the cement boards, would it make the cement boards stronger? Then, it turned out that his guess was right...

After seeing the samples presented by the cement board factory, a word popped up in Marin's mind - asbestos tiles...

In later generations, asbestos tile is a very common large tile and an important raw material for building houses. Its material is made by adding asbestos fiber (or glass fiber) into the cement. Even, many of the car brake pads of later generations are also mixed with asbestos fibers.

However, before crossing, Marin seemed to remember that when the car brake pads were rubbing to assist the brake, asbestos dust would be generated due to friction. If the asbestos dust is inhaled into the lungs, it can cause lung disease and even lung cancer.

Of course, this statement is slightly exaggerated. However, Marin knew that it was inevitable to produce a large amount of asbestos dust during the production of asbestos tiles. If asbestos tiles are manufactured for a long time without safety protection, there will definitely be big problems.

However, after the asbestos tile is made, it is harmless. Because, as long as there is no asbestos dust and it is not inhaled into the lungs, it is difficult to cause harm.

In the same way, the finished cement tiles made of asbestos fibers are not harmful. After all, this is just road material, and people don't lie down on the ground to deliberately grind and inhale asbestos dust, so there is basically no harm.

The cost of asbestos fiber itself is low, and the German region is an important production area of ​​asbestos. In addition, Egypt, Greece, including Italy, are all asbestos-producing areas of traditional Chinese medicine. Because the production volume is large, the use is not very wide. Therefore, the price of asbestos is not expensive. Used to make asbestos fiber cement board, the cost is not high, but the quality is much improved.

Just because of the high quality of asbestos fiber cement board, Marin will not give up this good product because of the health hazards of future generations. Therefore, asbestos fiber cement board has become an important product of the cement board factory, and the craftsman Kaur has also received a heavy prize from Marin for this...