When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 648 Three Days in the Sky
Leaving the glass greenhouse of the Mechanical Palace, Horn sat in a sturdy carriage, lifted the curtain, and looked out with half of his face exposed.

There was still a light morning mist in the Holy Trinity Temple in the morning. The dull and distant sound of the bell tower could be heard above the Holy Trinity Temple. On the streets, laborers and workers were walking in groups of three or four, carrying wooden baskets to work.

They stuffed towels into their collars as scarves and wore a set of dirty and tattered "special" woolen and linen blend work clothes.

After the Advent holiday, single workers who were working overtime for double pay staggered out of the pub and headed home against the flow of people going to work.

If you are a wealthy craftsman or engineer, you will basically choose to take a public carriage to work.

Ordinary workers came to the dock area and boarded small boats one by one to sail towards the downstream industrial area.

As the water in the Pala River is relatively shallow, large ships cannot enter, so this enlarged version of the Venetian paddle boat is often used.

It would take about an hour to walk from a city residence to an industrial area.

The workers in the alchemy workshop and the clockwork factory were unwilling to walk another hour home after working for 10 hours, so they would rather spend a few coppers to buy a boat ticket.

Generally speaking, the working hours of textile workers and employees are from 8 am to 7 pm, with a one-hour break at noon, and they work about 1 hours a day.

Sometimes, when there is a large backlog of goods, the factory manager and supervisors will even squeeze out the one-hour break at noon.

In theory, Horn asked for overtime pay, but in practice, it was often not given.

The most he could do was to conduct more inspections and urge the workers to form their own committees and elect representatives to supervise.

No matter how pervasive the Cheka is, it cannot control everything.

As an old worker, he did not want to implement the 8-hour work system, but the cruel accumulation of industrial capital could only rely on risk and hard work.

So Horn had no other choice but to give them a house near the factory to comfort them.

Although they have to work 10 hours a day, textile factories, peat workshops and other alchemy workshops are still the first choice for workers. Others can't find a place to work 10 hours a day.

This is a good job with a daily salary of 3 to 6 dinars, 2-3 times that of builders and porters, and second only to city hall employees and soldiers.

These alchemy workshops even often give priority to recruiting military dependents. This is not actually Horn's decree, but the managers of these alchemy workshops are mostly from the Salvation Army.

Compared with outsiders, they are definitely more inclined to recruit their own people.

In addition to preferential treatment for military families, the biggest reason is that there is not enough trust between them and "strangers".

In other words, they have no imagination about the identity of the people of Qianhe Valley, and are still constructing the entity with the most primitive relationship of closeness and distance.

Therefore, breaking through the ideological barriers of the church can only be regarded as a preliminary deconstruction. What he has to do now is to construct the Thousand Valley government entity bit by bit.

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When he returned to his office, he found another pile of documents in the unprocessed file box. Horn couldn't help but complain: "Look at all these documents. They are almost reaching the ceiling."

Rafael smiled and straightened the document that was about to fall over. In fact, it was not that exaggerated, probably only as high as Horn's nose.

"Please bear with me for a while." Picking up the documents in the box, Pettier prepared to leave, "This should be the last batch of documents, you just need to sign it.

These are Horn Garrard, these are Horn and Jeanne, these are Horn and Catherine, these are Horn and Catherine, these are..."

While Pettier was chattering, Horn did not immediately go to get the official documents. Instead, he picked up the documents that he had not finished reading yesterday from the to-do file box.

To be precise, the content of this document is about the establishment of the Health Bureau of the Court of Truth.

After the promotion of new planting patterns and a bumper grain harvest, according to reports from local priests and religious orders, a large number of new pregnant women have appeared in Langsand County this year.

Two years of peace have caused the birth rate to rise rapidly. If dwarf wheat is promoted in the future, the yield per mu will increase, and the number of newborns is expected to increase. However, this has led to a classic medical and health problem.

It’s not that there is no health care system under the Papal Palace, such as the hospitals in Joan of Arc and the Holy See, but this only solves the medical and health care problems in urban areas, because all medical resources of a county are basically concentrated in the county seat.

There were not many witch doctors and monks to begin with, and they could not spare any manpower to go to rural areas.

According to official documents submitted by monks from various places, a large number of newborns and pregnant women suffered from difficult labor due to poor sanitary conditions or delivery methods.

At the same time, more ordinary people died of headaches and fevers, not to mention the large and small epidemics of influenza that occurred everywhere after the war.

Now that we have alcohol distilled from potato roots, enough steel to make forceps, and enough farmland to grow herbs and make alchemical potions, can we gradually expand the number of health clinics at the priestly order level?

According to Horn, a so-called health center is only responsible for delivering babies, selling cheap medicines, providing basic trauma treatment and other basic services.

It's not just the health center. Promoting good varieties of seeds definitely requires seed stations, which will require the establishment of several new institutions.

Since the essence of their function is to provide medical services rather than to make a profit, they cannot be run like a shop and can only be employed by priests and religious orders themselves and paid a fixed salary.

In that case, next year's expenditure will have to be much higher, which will definitely put considerable pressure on the fiscal budget.

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Moreover, this kind of investment is not like building bridges and roads, which can boost the industrial and commercial economy in a few years. The benefits of medical investment may take more than ten years to be seen.

Forget it, let’s discuss it at the regular meeting. If it doesn’t work, we should do a pilot project first and then promote it gradually. This will reduce the pressure on the finances.

Throwing the official documents of the health system into the file bag for tomorrow's regular meeting, Horn had just opened the first document and was about to sign it when Pettier spoke again: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing I think you need to know."

"what's up?"

"The Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce recently sent a message saying that because you claimed to be the Pope and expelled the local church, they declared you excommunicated..."

"He excommunicated me? Doesn't he know what the Thousand Valley Church has done? Instead of excommunicating me for the proven crimes, he didn't do it first?

Besides, he knows that I have expelled the Thousand Valley Church, so how is he going to excommunicate them?" Horn was a little amused, "How can he be so shameless? He is thicker than the corner of the city wall."

The so-called excommunication actually means "expulsion from the church". No church, religious order or monastery is allowed to contact or provide services to it, and the crown no longer enjoys the support of the Holy Father.

In the hands of most contemporary lords, this meant that almost all lower-level ruling structures came to a standstill, and all lesser lords automatically acquired a claim to his crown.

But these two points are invalid for Horn. First, because Horn's grassroots government is directly governed rather than outsourced. Second, because the Patriarch's power comes from the dual guarantee of the Holy Lord and the believers.

Not to mention the opinions of the believers, just the opinions of the Holy Lord are definitely biased towards Horn.

This so-called excommunication offensive was more for the purpose of maintaining internal stability than for repelling foreign aggression.

"Your Majesty, you..."

"He is a pope, and I am a pope too." Horn quickly issued a warrant and handed it to Pettier. "He excommunicated me, so I excommunicate him."

"Your Majesty." Pettier held the warrant and said helplessly, "I want to say that in addition to the false pope Pugliano in the north, the false pope Grandivar in the south also did it."

"He also excommunicated me!"

Following Horn's order, a magical scene appeared in the history books of the imperial recorder at the end of 1446.

On the second day of Advent, not only are there three popes in the empire, but these three popes are excommunicating each other!

(End of this chapter)