When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 634 Dazexiang Water Conservancy Project and Spice Bubble
Next to the blazing stove, Horn wrote his final instructions on a document and threw it into the to-do box.

Looking at the two or three unfinished documents in the box, Horn let out a long sigh. Just as he was about to stand up and stretch, he heard another knock on the door.

"Come in."

When the door opened and Horn saw Pettier holding a stack of documents, his face fell again.

"Are there so many things going on recently?" Horn flipped through the documents with a bitter face as he watched Pettier sort the documents into the file box.

Pettier was even more helpless: "The progress has been piled up recently, it will be fine after the New Year's Day."

Horn had no choice but to sit down again. His basic daily life from morning to night was reviewing documents, meeting with consultants, writing commentary articles, holding regular meetings... Most of his rare free time was taken up by breathing exercises.

But if Horn really wanted to let go, he didn't dare to. After all, the Qianhe Valley regime was new and many things had no established practices. If he let go, someone might cause trouble.

After putting the document away, Pettier picked up the document from the box. He seemed to remember something and reminded, "Your Majesty, the scholars from the King's University on the River Island arrived yesterday. Do you need to meet them?"

"We were supposed to go meet them." Horn paused as he flipped through the documents. He looked at the messy papers on the table. "Well, let's ask the eldest daughter of the Larkin family to go with us to greet them. She happens to be a classmate of King's University on River Island."

It’s not that Horn deliberately neglected Leonardo and others, but that he really had something to do.

Judging from this summary alone, he will control the progress of the debate in the Truth newspaper, manage the reform of the hundred-household districts in the two counties of the Thousand River Valley, approve the appointment and promotion of the priest, review the military reform implemented by the new army, and allocate budgets for the research projects of the magic bacteria and the lightning furnace...

These are the most important things. Horn simply delegated the general trivial matters, such as the appointment of low-level monks.

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

Because the cardinals before the emperor are different from the grand secretaries of the Ming Dynasty Cabinet. In addition to serving as consultants and providing advice, the cardinals are also the heads of various central departments.

Therefore, when they submit documents, they can also give their opinions on how to handle them, which can save a lot of time.

According to regulations, each department will submit the documents that need to be reviewed to the Pope's office, and the Privy Council headed by Pettier will sort them according to priority and submit a catalog based on the summary to Horn.

If it does not need Horn's review, it will be sent back for the departments to decide for themselves.

There were three briefcases in front of Horn's desk, labeled "Undone", "To be done" and "Done" respectively.

The monks put the documents they receive for the first time in the unprocessed document box, which represents unprocessed matters, and the to-do document box contains matters that have been preliminarily reviewed but not yet completed.

The office document boxes are for matters that have been reviewed and processed. They are collected by the privy monks every day and filed in different categories or distributed to other departments.

Of course, in order to prevent the privy monks from isolating themselves from the outside world, Horn held regular meetings with the heads of various departments every week, and all the documents exchanged had to be signed and filed, and were not allowed to be discarded casually.

All important decisions must be made at the Cardinals' Council in front of the Emperor. The Privy Monks only have executive power but not decision-making power.

Sitting at the table again, Horn looked at the pile in front of him, estimated the time, and said to Pettier: "Let someone bring food. I'm afraid we won't be able to rest at noon."

Pettier's face suddenly turned bitter, and he nodded in agreement. Soon, the monks outside burst into a series of sighs.

Picking up the first document on the briefcase, Horn saw the "Daze Township River Plan (Fifth Edition)" at first glance.

The so-called Daze Township dredging plan is divided into three river entrances and exits. The first is the river channel from Nanmeng County to Daze Township, and the second and third are the river channels where Nanze Lake drains water to Lujiao Township and Hongye Township.

These three rivers were named Taibo River, Nio River and Erno River respectively. These three are rivers in the capital of the Ancient Aiel Empire. Unfortunately, they have now been changed to other names by the vampires.

But the elders changed it back.

According to the discussion of the Imperial Council of Cardinals and Horn's guidance, they had to dredge the three silted rivers separately and selectively build dredging dams.

For example, on the Taibo River that flows into Daze Township from Nanmeng County, three river channels must be divided, one of which passes through the higher mountainous areas, and a dam is built to regulate the water level.

The other two tributary canals pass through relatively flat terrain and are used for commercial shipping.

The Neo River, which flows into the Poison Witch Swamp area in Lujiao Township, will have a permanent dam more than 200 meters long built, modeled after the Arno River, which previously blocked water and flushed mud, specifically for drainage and flood discharge.

It’s not that Horn didn’t want to go directly from Daze Township to Lujiao Township, but the mountains around Daze Township are high in the north and low in the south, so the south-flowing Erno River can be navigated to Jeanne d’Arc.

The Nio River flows westward and passes through the most dangerous area of ​​the mountains, even passing through several waterfalls, so it is not realistic to make it navigable.

However, this place can take advantage of water power to build water-powered flour mills and textile mills.

By controlling these three main rivers, according to the calculations of the hydraulic engineers in this plan, the route from Gravel Plain to Fort Jeanne to Rapid City can be basically opened up, with almost no need for transfers. And after draining the swamps in the Muddy Fields, the Muddy Fields can have an additional 6000 hectares of farmland and 2000 hectares of flat land.

After the reform of the Hundred Household District in South Mound County was completed, the Taibo River, as the only incoming river, was put on the start-up schedule.

According to the judgment of Silvis and the local priest, the entire South Mound County is expected to mobilize 3000 to 4000 young and strong people to carry out dredging work in the swamp area.

However, they also have requirements:

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

The second is to send troops and the beastmen of Daze Township to clear out and win over the bandits and beastman tribes living in the swamp.

According to the current situation, the Erno River will be dredged and officially open to navigation in June next year, while the Taibo River will be initially open to navigation in September.

In addition, the plan also proposed a new plan, which is the embankment problem in the Kitazawa area.

Simply put, the swamp in Beize was formed because after the Taibo River merged into the depression in the mountains, the river channel was too narrow and shallow, causing the river water to spread and the river sand to accumulate.

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

If we take the opportunity to intercept and guide these underground river systems with canals, sluices and dams, and coordinate with the existing dredging projects, we can expose about 411 square kilometers of land in Kitazawa, especially Shimokitazawa.

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This project was proposed at the beginning, but due to the complexity of the water system and the lack of data and experience, the redesign took too long and was abandoned.

However, with the capture of Xialu City and the recapture of Brago Monastery, Horn obtained a large number of books and materials on the Kush people's previous transformation of the swamp.

You know, when the Kush people first came to the Thousand River Valley, the entire Thousand River Valley was a huge swamp.

With this information, almost all questions can be answered and implemented naturally.

However, this would require an additional investment of nearly a thousand pounds per month. After thinking for a while, Horn decided to agree to this plan, but not to rush to start recruiting workers.

Once the army clears out the beastmen and bandits in the swamps upstream of the Taibo River, they will be able to obtain a group of free laborers and save a lot of money.

It's the expenditure on building materials... Horn rubbed his quill and fell into deep thought. The Pope's Palace is short of money everywhere now. Money is needed everywhere.

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

This made Horn think about the plan Catherine had mentioned to him before.

Simply put, it is to set up a shell business association, speculate on the spice bubble in the Laiya windmill, and make a quick buck to supplement cash flow.

The essence is to take advantage of the Franks' monopoly on spices, the risks of sea transportation, the spices transported from the Ibe River, and Catherine's connections among the Aiel people, to create an information asymmetry in the price of spices in the windmill land to make a profit.

You can even make an agreement with the Franks and Norns to have them release the news about the spice shipwreck first, and then wait for the price of Laia spices to plummet before you go in and reap the benefits.

Catherine saw that the royal family of Leia was in the midst of a civil war and had no time to spare to take care of these matters.

Take the relationship between Horn and the Franks, the relationship between Meliati and the Norns, the relationship between Catherine and the Aiel people, the split between the North and South Churches, and the stalemate in the civil war in the Kingdom of Leia.

It's not just Qianhegu's family, everyone would probably be happy to get a piece of the pie.

When they can no longer conceal the truth, they will withdraw the shell company and run away with the money.

Even if it's exposed, the war is going to start anyway, so what if I offend you a little more?

It has to be said that as a big banker, no one understood the empire's financial system better than Catherine. She wanted to commit financial fraud and her methods were incredibly cruel.

With a lot of thoughts in his mind, Horn signed a few words on the documents, then rang the bell to call Pettier: "Catherine hasn't left yet, right? Arrange a meeting for me this weekend. Also, regarding the dredging project, remember to arrange a conversation with Sissi for me..."

"Boom——"

Before Horn could finish his words, he saw out of the corner of his eye a flash of lightning in the house outside the window, followed by a loud explosion.

Amid the screams from afar, Horn's smile quickly faded: "Go, notify the Cheka and see what's going on!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

(End of this chapter)