When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 733: Achievements in River County
After seeing the two off, Horn also breathed a sigh of relief.

I have to say, according to Catherine, among the 17 people in the Magdi Chamber of Commerce, these two are relatively easy to control.

With these two nails, 17 out of the 9 senior partners of the Megedi Chamber of Commerce were captured.

But in fact it is still not safe, because not everyone is rational, and too many random factors will make even a sure vote have a certain degree of randomness.

Horn does not want to abuse his 10,000-vote power, which is an error correction mechanism rather than a decision-making mechanism.

"René, keep a close eye on these people these days. If necessary, you can remind them and warn them so that they won't forget their promise to me."

Watching Rene leave the room, Horn took out the yearbook report submitted by the Lower River County Priestly Congregation from the drawer of the desk and placed it together with the Rapid City City Hall yearbook.

Due to the system of Baihu District and the paper and ink printing revolution that broke out in Qianhe Valley, the current Shenglian has fully entered the paper-based office.

The combination of massive amounts of information and Horn's administrative reforms created tremendous control power brought by information.

As the saying goes, only when you investigate can you have the right to speak, and information itself is a considerable basis for power.

Opening the Lower River County Yearbook, you can see on the cover that the current registered population of Lower River County is 50.

The agricultural population accounts for 65%, including self-employed farmers, tenant farmers, manor stewards (landlords), shepherds/beekeepers, etc.

Handicrafts account for 20% of the population, including blacksmiths, weavers, carpenters, stonemasons, tanners, etc.

The commercial population accounts for 8%, including traveling merchants, shop owners, bankers, brokers, etc.

Clergy and scholars account for 7%, including monks/nuns, scribes, astrologers, miracle/alchemist priests, notaries, government employees, etc.

At first glance, one can tell that Lower River County relies on handicrafts and commerce as its mainstay, and the difference is clearly felt when compared with the initial agricultural population of Langsander County, which accounted for more than 80%.

Therefore, compared with the initial loss-making town construction in Longsand County, the process of building a template town center in Lower River County according to the priestly order was quite smooth.

So far, 14 priestly municipalities have been established in the county.

According to Horn's requirements, each township should have 3-5 towns as administrative seats for priestly orders.

These town centers are basically transformed from markets, small towns and large villages, and are basically templated reconstructions of churches, town halls and bell towers.

Of course, these towns have different variations due to different local conditions.

For example, Langsand County has a good economy, so most of its towns are built in a standard template.

Other plain counties, due to financial and control issues, often combine the church, town hall, and night watchman's office into one.

For example, the priest town in Mountain County is a church, town hall, night watchman, clinic, school, and armory all in one. Basically, it only has a church courtyard and a believers' square.

Most of the time, a sausage and bacon workshop and a leather tanning workshop are also added.

Similarly, these small towns also attracted a large number of craftsmen and shop owners, and many relatively wealthy or geographically advantageous towns began to have permanent shops.

A large number of high-quality talents from the original manors and villages are flocking to these towns, even forcing each hundred-household district to build roads.

Otherwise, everyone would go to these small towns for everything, to pray, to get married, to see a doctor, to join the army, to go to school...

Those outrageous dirt roads really affect the villagers' daily lives.

Don’t think that the opinions of the villagers are unimportant. This is also one of the indicators for promotion for low-level monks.

If any resident finds a local representative or elder to file a complaint, it will be recorded, and in serious cases there will even be an investigation.

If any centurion dared to mess around, the local monk leader would be the first to disagree. Of course, due to the current shortage of manpower and relatively immature laws and systems, this system only works partially.

That is to say, it is useful in this village, but may not be useful in another village.

Sometimes it is even extremely random. If it involves the interests of the elders or representatives of public opinion, it will be ignored. Only when there is no interest involved will it be handled based on the mood.

Within monastic orders at all levels, senior monks often help cover up some "small problems" in order to ensure that their direct monks can work honestly.

This is why Horn has retained the Cheka's strong law enforcement powers to this day.

Horn was using the Cheka's higher irrationality (Cheka terror) to counter primary irrationality (bureaucratic randomness).

Every month, clergymen, centurions and civil servants of all ranks were sent to Black Snake Bay to cut sweet branches for various violations or corruption.

Before he knew it, Horn had turned to the last page of the yearbook.

At the bottom of the last page, the documents of the "Workshop and Chamber of Commerce Registration Act" and the "Financial Real-Name System Act" were revealed.

"Am I too ambitious?" Horn's voice rang out in the room, as if he was talking to himself.

The stenographers on both sides suddenly stopped rustling their pens, as if they were holding their breath.

According to Horn's original intention, in the next war, if the Leia people really captured those important cities, Horn could move the workshops and craftsmen concentrated in the big cities to small towns in advance.

By then, the Holy Fathers will forcibly take over all craftsmen and workshops, and even enter a primitive form of total war mode.

They had to devote all their productivity to the war while maintaining a minimum standard of living.

But after reading the reports from the Cheka and the investigation results of local religious orders, Horn had to admit that he didn't have the diamond drill, but was trying to play with porcelain work.

Political reform often starts with the administration of officials, because no matter how good and precise the plan is, someone has to execute it.

In order to resist the attack of the Leia people, Horn forced a relatively modern system on the Holy Alliance in terms of economy, public opinion, military and espionage.

Both the quality of the people and the quality of officials are not up to standard.

Take insurance as an example. There are scam insurances like the ones before, but there are also normal insurances sold, such as drowning sailor insurance.

When the person really dies (sometimes even by suicide), the family members feel aggrieved and ask, "Why don't you pay for it when I bought insurance?"

The reason is simple. The sailor "fell from the roof and died", not drowned at sea.

But in the eyes of the public, what difference does it make if you buy insurance and die anyway?

People were still ignorant, and Horn had unknowingly become too radical.

This is why Horn was determined to use the lottery to raise funds to establish enlightenment schools and literacy classes in various priestly towns.

These schools will forcibly collect all children of school age within a day's journey and implement a simple three-year compulsory education.

Although a town's elementary school may only cover two hundred students, the accumulation of small amounts can result in huge financial expenditures.

But this does not mean that you shouldn't do it. Just because you can't see any benefits from doing something now doesn't mean there are no benefits.

After pondering for a long time, Horn threw the documents of "Workshop and Chamber of Commerce Real-Name Registration Act" and "Financial Real-Name System Act" into the to-do box.

"Put it in your calendar. I'll be attending the senior partner meeting of the Magdi Chamber of Commerce in three days."

(End of this chapter)