The Sun Never Sets In Spain

On June 23, Alfonso’s announcers went to the slums to help him recruit people for his plan.

Now here is a lot more lively than when Alfonso came. In his plan, a manure factory of a fertilizer company will take care of the excrement treatment work in the dormitory area in the future.

This company was established 2 months ago, and the necessary equipment has been installed. In order to start making money as soon as possible, the company’s person in charge has built more than 30 simple public toilets near the slums. Since there is no need to connect to a sewer, the construction speed is very fast.

His Majesty the King wanted to repair the city and appearance of Madrid, everyone was aware of it, especially when the person in charge went to the king to ask for the money to repair the toilet, the king really gave it, which strengthened everyone's ideas.

However, what they don't know is that although the work content is a bit dirty for fear of destroying the image of the royal family, this company is under the name of others, but it is also part of the royal family's industry.

If there are more than 30 toilets connected to the sewers, it can greatly alleviate the sanitation pressure in the slums. Now, it can only be said that nothing is better than nothing.

For someone else, don't even want to take money from him with this kind of unexplained project.

The announcer came this time to help the forestry company hire people, and it is expected that the first batch of 6,000 people will be recruited.

Since it is physical work, the salary is reasonable, with a daily salary of 5 pesetas. (About 1/5 GBP)

During this period, many companies came here to recruit people and gradually formed a somewhat regulated talent market.

Everyone is familiar with the process. The announcer reads it once and then goes to the next place, where the people will spread the news themselves.

There was a lot of discussion. The announcement stated that wood saws and other tools will be prepared, and transportation subsidies will also be provided.

But what they value most is the golden iris flower mark in the upper right corner.

This was taken out by Alfonso, which means that this is an item of the Bourbon royal family. The coat of arms is too solemn and is not conducive to spread. A single iris flower is just right to replace it.

The royal family's project does not mean that it is the royal family's property, but it must be seen through Alfonso before they can use this flower representing the Duke of Anjou, his ancestor.

As long as there is this mark, it means that there will be compensation for accidental injuries or deaths in this job, and the wages will be paid stably and will never be in arrears.

If you perform well, you might even have a chance to join a state-owned enterprise or a royal enterprise.

In addition, the people also see what the king does for them, so royal projects usually fill up quickly.

This time is no exception. In less than two days, the forestry company has recruited 6,000 people.

They were divided into 6 groups to go to nearby forests with relatively flat terrain. It is said to be relatively close, but in fact, it is hundreds of miles away. Only far away from Madrid can there be uncut forests.

At present, Spain's forest land is partly held by the royal family, partly held by the government, and partly held by the nobles in various places. The government holds the most and the royal family holds the least.

The forest land that is currently going to be cleared up wasteland was bought by Alfonso from the government.

The government gave him a big discount, but the price is still not cheap.

If Alfonso can manage the woodland properly, wait until the railway is fully connected and sell timber year by year, maybe it will be able to recover the cost in 20 years.

But now he is going to cut all the fields in one go, so he doesn't know when he will go to recover the cost.

Most of the time, the production value of the same area of ​​forest agriculture is about the same, or even slightly higher. The only drawback is that the payback period is somewhat long.

This is the reason why Spain has a lot of wood, and the trees in these woodlands are also common. If it is oak woodland and olive woodland, the output value is even less agricultural.

However, this is not a simple question of profit and loss. Alfonso pays more attention to how to resettle the population, increase employment, and ensure food security in Spain.

Alfonso originally wanted to give the land away, but found that the cost was a bit too high. No matter how he spends so much, other plans will not be able to start in the future.

In desperation, I could only prepare a Wang’s Land Management Committee, which would lease the land to farmers in the future, and the farmers would not be able to reclaim the land until they paid the rent for a certain number of years.

This is the first time that it is necessary to go to work so far. Many people in the slum have left Madrid, leaving only their wives and children.

At this time, some people are embarrassed. In the past, most of the husbands were working outside, and the wives took care of the children. The daily income was enough for a family to live, and there was no money to save.

This time the husband still doesn't know when he will come back, even if it is the royal family project, there is no saying that the salary is advanced. They have to live during this period of time.

Fortunately, with the return of Bourbon to Madrid, female workers are also generally accepted. Although the industrial strength of Madrid is not as good as that of Barcelona, ​​there are not many factories.

Sometimes men enter factories by luck. Women are generally only 2/3 or even 1/2 of men’s wages, making it easier to find jobs in textile factories and processing plants.

New problems have emerged, and like Barcelona, ​​children are unattended.

Alfonso noticed this phenomenon and instructed the trustee company on the eastern coast to open a branch and cooperate with the education department to jointly solve this problem.

Trust houses are already very popular on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, but they have not yet marched inland. This time is an opportunity.

For this kind of project, Alfonso does not hesitate to subsidize, but education matters still need the state to do it.

As soon as he told Campos about this matter, the other party immediately expressed support and said that he would allocate 750,000 pounds from the government account for education in Madrid.

Alfonso was very satisfied with this, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was a bit of a waste to allocate so much money to the trusteeship. This is always a transitional plan, and it is difficult to rely on this to catch up with countries such as Britain and France.

So he asked the Ministry of Education to add funds to 1 million pounds, and 600,000 of which were used for schools in Madrid.

600,000 can be used for a long time in the trusteeship, but it is not enough for real schools. Stationery, books, school buildings, and teachers are all a lot of money.

To this end he found the Archbishop of Toledo (Madrid belongs to the Archdiocese of Toledo) Antonio, persuaded the church to invest 400,000 pounds to jointly establish a church scholarship institution, and promised that this institution will focus on the subsidy of the church school.

Obviously, only 40% of the capital was invested, but it accounted for all the names. The other party was still reluctant, and Alfonso was really angry.

The church’s contribution to Spain’s education is undeniable, but they are doing it slowly and try not to spend any money. This time the investment of 400,000 yuan is really painful for them.

This attitude of the church made Alfonso more determined, and Rome taught them how to behave.

Using all the church money to run the school is much more elegant than Ming Qiang.