Chapter 421 Harvest Season
In September, the sunlight renders the earth golden, and the heavy ears of wheat sway gently in the breeze. Corn cobs are thick and long, and the full arcs are as attractive as the calves of a beautiful dancer.
The harvest season has arrived, and this year is also a prosperous year. Perhaps the ice and snow in last winter were too cold. When the snow water melted into the land, the nourishment of crops was far beyond previous years.
Batches of grain are harvested from the fields, and after simple processing, they are packed into sacks and piled up into small hills.
The entire Holy Rome, from south to north, was immersed in the joy of the harvest. Even in the northern region where the land was the most barren, the grain harvest this year was far beyond people's expectations.
With enough food, poor farmers can live a stable life, population begins to grow at a faster pace, and wealthy people participate in commerce and handicrafts to provide power for production.
This year, perhaps because of the many disasters and disasters, Charles VI specially ordered a tax cut for three years in order to allow farmers to recuperate, so that farmers can leave themselves with wealth.
The harvest in the Italian Peninsula, where the land is the most fertile, is even more delightful. The heavy grapes hang on the trees in bunches, and the big red apples exudes an attractive fragrance. The pomegranate trees and persimmon trees grow in the mountains and fields. From a distance, they look like a beautiful scenery. Because there are too many fruits, many of them are not even too late to pick them. The farmers have to choose the largest and best-looking ones on each tree and then pick them down.
For Eugen's Lebour City, this month is also a major harvest season.
Because of the contracts signed with various countries before, the situation on the European continent has shown unprecedented stability, and trade has gained the power to develop in stability.
The central bank has opened branches to various countries, starting from the French Empire, gradually spreading to the British Empire, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Spanish Kingdom, the Portuguese Empire, the Russian Empire, etc.
In the early days of the establishment of the branch, it gave extremely high interest on deposits, which attracted a large number of investors. People, regardless of wealth or poor, deposited their money into the central bank.
The royal families of various countries were not vigilant enough about this, so they did not take any corresponding measures, or they did not dare to take any measures. After all, the danger of war from Eugen was like a sword of Damocles hanging above their heads, which made them dare not act rashly.
The funds absorbed by banks are used to set up factories and trade systems in various countries to transform local resources into something more valuable.
The layout was too big, and in desperation, Eugen had to send Parma, Allen and others to various countries to serve as general agents of various countries.
The city of Leber is the main one in all regions, but gradually gained some independence. Leber City gradually deviated from its position as a center of heavy industry production and turned toward a scientific research city.
This incident reflects some of the disadvantages of Eugen's development being too fast. The most prominent point is that there are too few talents under his command, and at this moment, there is no way to find enough talents to escort his commercial warships.
In this case, Eugen thought of the first thing that was to set up a school. In the early stages of development, the role of education could not be well reflected, but as time goes by, the effect it can reflect will become greater and greater.
To this end, Eugen first established a complete education system from elementary school to university in Lebir City, and then followed suit and popularized education in several important cities.
Eugen can already see that with the popularization of education, the people's cultural level will inevitably improve significantly in the future, and their loyalty to him will also be improved.
The research system established by the First Research Institute of Leibir City is becoming more and more perfect. Starting from the most basic theory, it gradually established a multiple scientific research system based on mathematics, physics and chemistry. Among all scientific research departments, the most dazzling aspect is mechanical technology.
Eugen is a pragmatic person. The first thing in all scientific research projects is to bring about tangible changes in life.
The First Institute of Lebour City has deeply implemented this point, taking all aspects of life as the entry point, and invented all kinds of machinery for the convenience of life.
Among them, the most dazzling one is the emergence of trains and cars. Under the leadership of Rambo, several trains and railways were first laid out near Lebour City. With the establishment of transportation lines, Lebour City's production speed has also been greatly improved. The goods that originally took a whole day to transport can now be reached in only two hours.
This speed of improvement is really terrifying. In the previous wars, neighboring countries also noticed various changes in Leber City. Because they were already in a state of peace, all countries sent envoys to express their desire to learn from Leber City's advanced technology.
The city of Lebor did not cherish itself. After the arrival of the study missions from various countries, Rambo personally led them to visit various scientific research technologies in Lebor.
Of course, what Rambo showed them was all the things that Eugen needed to see in his plan, mainly steam engines, steam trains, steam factory production technology and other products from the first industrial revolution.
Even so, the learning missions of these countries were so surprised that they almost fainted after seeing these technologies.
In their opinion, those powerful forces are simply something that God can possess, and now they have done this with human power.
After a preliminary understanding, representatives of all countries expressed their intention to cooperate with Eugen, and even emperors and kings of various countries wrote letters to Eugen, saying that they could spend huge amounts of money to purchase these technologies.
Of course, Eugen accepted this happily, and he did not give a high price to make money. Instead, he sold all these technologies at an extremely low price.
Including all technical information, various scientific principles, and even specialized engineers were sent to guide them in person to master these technologies.
In this way, the achievements of the first industrial revolution spread to various countries, deeply improving their scientific and technological level.
For a time, in order to enhance their comprehensive national strength, the royal families of various countries vigorously promoted these technical production methods at home, such as steam factories, steam trains and railway tracks spread out in pieces, and blooming everywhere in China.
However, what they didn't know was that Eugen had already had the technology of the Second Industrial Revolution, but it was not open to them.
Chapter completed!