When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 649: The First Four-Year Plan Hearing (Part )

December 1446, 12, Holy See, Holy See Building.

Today's regular meeting was different from previous ones, as it was not held in Horn's Stag Room, but in Claymon Hall, a larger group meeting room.

Including Madeleine, the Grand Master of Truth in the Court of Truth, Sissi, the Grand Master of the Holy Treasury in the Court of Sainte-Catholic, Boussac, the Grand Master of the Gospels in the Court of Exorcists, Jeanne, the Grand Master of Exorcisms in the Court of Exorcisms, Martial, the President of the Court of Inquisition, and of course the Saint and Catherine, the Governor of the Central Bank.

In addition, there were the Privy Council's Chief Privy Councilor Armand and the Second Privy Councilor Petier, as well as the three heroes of the Ministry of the Interior - René, the head of the Cheka, Lafere, the captain of the gendarmerie, and Duvalon, the chief of the night watch.

The five central chambers, together with the Privy Council and the Chamber of Internal Affairs, constitute the highest level of bureaucracy in the current Papal States (which claims to be a patriarchal order) system.

Not only the royal cardinals were present, but also the directors of various departments under the central court, including the chief priests of the counties and envoys from the local city halls.

If a magician casts a fireball in this conference room, not only the Holy Axis Papal States but the entire Thousand River Valley will come to a standstill, into chaos, or even collapse.

Therefore, the prevention and security of the Holy Court are the strictest today, and outsiders have been prohibited from entering even before the Feast of the Holy Advent.

Because today's regular meeting is not just a weekly meeting, but also a summary meeting for the years 1445 and 1446.

After all, the 1445 summary meeting was disrupted by the war and could not be held, so it had to be held twice. This was a big reason why Horn was so busy before.

By around nine in the morning, most people had arrived. Although snowflakes began to fall outside, the house without a fireplace was still warm.

This is because Clay Hall is equipped with heating facilities. The peat boiler on the first floor continuously heats cold water, and the heat emitted through the winding brass pipes is no less than that of the fireplace.

After a brief opening speech, the Chief Cardinal Madeleine began his speech.

"In the one and a half years from 1445 to 1446, we basically completed the middle-level grassroots control of Langsander County, and the basic grassroots control of Nanmeng County, Lower River County, and Kasha County..." Madelan flipped through the documents in his hand, "In terms of political reform, we have exceeded the task."

There was an immediate burst of applause from the seats on both sides of the Clay Hall.

According to Horn's previous proposal for a four-year war preparation plan from 1445 to 1449, the four-year plan actually also included the second half of 1445.

From the second half of 1445 to the end of 1446, during this one and a half years, Horn set three goals: political centralization, economic industrialization, and military modernization.

The first thing that Madeleine reported was essentially about the centralization of politics.

The goal of political centralization is to complete the centralization of power and the initial government structure and to strengthen the central government's overall control over the economy and society.

Specifically, it was to weaken the power of the nobility and lords, establish a central bureaucracy, and implement direct state control over taxation, resources, and labor.

In the past year and a half, Horn has fought wars, drafted a constitution, abolished the dead hand tax, promoted perpetual leases, established governments from the hundred households to the priestly orders, and successfully completed the direct connection from the Papal Palace to the hundred households.

The situation where royal power does not go to the countryside does not exist in Horn. If the country is compared to a person, then the Thousand River Valley in the past can be considered as hemiplegia at best.

It can raise its arms, but it can't control its fingers, and sometimes it can't even figure out where to hit.

Although Qian Hegu's ability to control his fingers to form a fist is still random, at least he can control where his fist goes.

Even if each hundred-household district recruits 5 soldiers, the current priestly orders in various places can quickly recruit men within a month.

Once priests and religious orders at all levels are established, we don't even need to squeeze them dry (25% of the eligible population). We can still form an army of 10 by using on-demand conscription (%), but the quality will not be satisfactory.

Of course, considering the current level of the empire, 10% is enough to drain them dry.

Not to mention the military, the fiscal revenue of Langsander County alone has soared from less than 1444 gold pounds in 2 to the current central fiscal revenue of 3 gold pounds and local fiscal revenue of 2 gold pounds.

Half of the 3 gold pounds are just passed through the hands, and the bonds will have to be repaid at the beginning of next year. The actual fiscal surplus is about 1 gold pounds.

Although it's not much, it can finally replenish the holy treasury which only has 2 gold pounds left.

"Very good." With a smile on his face, Horn applauded along with the others. "Well done, you did a good job, Madeleine. You are very strong now." After this period of tempering and tutoring at the Shilov cram school, Madeleine is now dressed in a simple black robe. Although she is still kind, the majesty in her eyes is completely different from that of the previous fugitive.

After Madeleine sat down, the second person to come on stage was Sissi, the head of the Saint Treasury.

Today he was wearing a smart wide-sleeved white shirt and black silk breeches that were tight around his thighs. His long hair was tied into a slightly curled high ponytail at the back of his head, revealing his white, slender neck.

It's just that the Adam's apple on the neck is a bit eye-catching.

茜茜中性难以辨认的声音在会场中回荡：“从1445年到1446年间，我们的财政收入翻了一番，修建了总计125公里的砂浆道路、32座国有工厂和9座私营工坊，参股了52家工坊和7家商会……

The grain market in Langsand County increased from 8 tons to 10.2 tons, an increase of 27.5%, and the cloth market increased from 2.8 pieces to 5 pieces, nearly doubling...

In the past, the business of Langsand County was mainly based on self-sufficient agriculture, with small-scale and decentralized trade associations, inefficient logistics, and luxury goods trade dependent on the nobility. In response to this, we proposed commercial capitalization...

In agriculture, subsistence farming is also the main method, with single crops and scattered land management, low yield and low efficiency, so we proposed the commercialization of agriculture..."

The economic industrialization proposed by Horn was dismantled by Sissi, Boussac and others into commercial capitalization and agricultural commodification.

During this year and a half, the Langsander County government initially solved the inefficient logistics problem in Langsander County by relying on canals and mortar roads.

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To address the problems of small-scale decentralization and dependence on aristocratic trade (excess in luxury goods but lack of daily necessities), Horn raised a large amount of idle local funds through banks and bond markets.

As for the self-sufficient agricultural economy in rural areas, it was violently invaded by the processing of materials by priests and religious orders.

Relying on this money and tariff policies, the Papal Palace monopolized key industries, invested in chambers of commerce and workshops, relocated and merged large and small workshops, and concentrated resources.

With each town as the core, a Thousand River Valley Market covering the entire Plain County is slowly taking shape.

The prices of daily necessities plummeted.

When the sugar and grain trade and raw industrialization start to operate, the Qianhe Valley market will become a money-sucking black hole with high profit margins.

As for the commercialization of agriculture, it is designed for the transformation of Qianhe Valley from an agricultural country to an industrial country.

This part of the work is mainly completed by the two state-owned monasteries of Holy Hoe and Holy Scythe.

The main means to achieve this is through land concentration, promotion of improved agricultural tools and varieties, and planting of commercial crops.

After the shackles of feudal relations were removed from the Hundred Household Districts, there were still a large number of farmers whose land was small and scattered.

The Holy Hoe Monastery increases the amount of fields through reclamation and water conservancy construction, while the Holy Scythe Monastery increases land output through agricultural economy.

That is, subletting land from farmers, concentrating a large number of scattered fields together, and hiring migrants to grow cash crops or simply raise livestock.

Through the financial policy of requiring priests and religious orders to pay money and keep grain, a large amount of grain and agricultural products were first concentrated in the priests and religious orders, and then flowed into the market through priests and religious orders in various places.

Due to unified sales, purchase and transportation, the efficiency and circulation rate cannot be compared with farmers selling themselves.

With the massive influx of food and cloth, coupled with convenient transportation conditions, the number of people who died of starvation and cold, centered in Longsand County, dropped drastically.

As for Hongye Township and Daze Township, they achieved the miracles of zero starvation and zero cold deaths this winter.

"…Although some operations had to be stopped due to the war, the initial economic reforms were basically completed this year."

There was another round of warm applause in the conference hall.

(End of this chapter)