When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#448 - Planning for Château Jeanne d'Arc

Hohen, flanked by two holy women, dismounted from the convertible carriage in front of the Holy Advent Hall.

Back in the familiar study of the Holy Advent Hall, Jeanne was familiar with the way, going to the bedroom in the inner room to wash her face and change clothes, but Catherine sat somewhat restrained on a chair with a wheat straw cushion.

Hohen hung his hat on the hat rack and smiled apologetically at Catherine: "I'll wash my face, wait a moment... Jeanne, are you ready? I'm coming in."

"Putting on pants, almost."

Jeanne, who had changed into a refreshing menswear, walked out of the inner room, learning from Catherine to look out the window: "What are you looking at?"

Catherine's eyes were bright: "The houses around the square outside are intact, why are they being demolished?"

Having finally caught an opportunity to show off in front of Catherine, Jeanne put her hands on her hips and raised her chin high: "This is our Salvation Army's reconstruction plan for Jeanne d'Arc, let me tell you, I will be the patron saint of Jeanne d'Arc in the future."

"So amazing." Catherine praised in a tone of coaxing a child, like teasing a puppy, "Then can you tell me why?"

Jeanne didn't notice anything unusual: "Because Jeanne d'Arc wants to increase the city's population, carry out proto-industrialization, and improve the level and efficiency of labor... Hey, you asked me, why don't you listen to what people are saying?"

"Sorry, I'm admiring the city." Catherine pointed to the hundreds of rising black smoke and asked, "Isn't it noon? Why are they cooking already?"

"Because today is Sunday."

In the empire, people generally eat around 9 a.m. and 4 or 5 p.m., and lunch is generally just some black bread for those who do physical labor.

However, after the popularization of honeycomb briquettes and the restoration of grain prices to normal, and the abolition of exorbitant taxes, many citizens and artisan families, under Hohen's advocacy, began to slowly implement a three-meal system.

Some town families would gather for lunch on Sundays and conduct pre-meal prayers, which they regarded as a religious ritual.

"Do you know how to rebuild it?" Catherine continued to ask.

Jeanne straightened her chest and shouted loudly: "Don't know."

Then why are you shouting so loudly? Catherine leaned back on the chair speechlessly.

"That's a very complicated plan." Walking out of the inner room, Hohen happened to hear this sentence. He wiped the water stains on his hands with a handkerchief and walked to the window as well. "Madeline will send you the relevant plan later, but you have to wait until your first cardinal meeting."

"The first cardinal meeting? So soon?" Catherine had just gotten off the boat, and now she was going to attend the meeting non-stop?

"Yes, our Salvation Army are all quick shooters, don't blame us if you can't adapt." Arriving in her own territory, Jeanne was obviously much more confident.

"It was originally supposed to be held on Friday, but it was delayed to Sunday because of our entry into the city, and we have to introduce you to the other cardinals." Hohen looked at the clock in the room, "Let's go have lunch first, and then have the meeting after a rest."

"Can I freshen up?"

"Of course, Jeanne, take her there."

Alone by the window, Hohen looked at the beams lifted by the lever pulley crane and the surrounding construction workers, and fell into deep thought.

He currently plans to establish two districts in Jeanne d'Arc, located on both sides of the Jeanne d'Arc-Rapid River canal.

The north bank will be the industrial area and port area, and the south bank will be the main city area.

The main city area is the residential area and commercial area. Hohen plans to demolish some houses and expand the area of Victory Square by two times.

Then install fountains and flowerbeds in the middle to form a city roundabout, and the side will be used as the main body of the gathering square.

Then concentrate the official buildings near the square to form an official residence area, which is much better for centralized management and security than the original decentralized style.

The residential blocks will be widened and rebuilt on the original basis, but that will expand the city area.

To solve the commuting problem, either build buildings or develop public carriages.

In the vegetable market area on the east side of the main city area, near the river, it will be expanded into a commercial area for commodity exchange with foreign merchants and villagers, as well as entertainment for ordinary civilians.

Echoing the main city area on the south bank is the industrial area on the north bank. All workshops must be moved to the industrial area on the north bank. Hohen plans to dig a few more ditches to facilitate workshop sewage discharge and management.

Originally, four or five thousand people lived in Jeanne d'Arc, and tens of thousands of people lived in the suburbs outside the city, forming a city-suburban market and participating in the operation of the city to varying degrees.

In other words, the entire Jeanne d'Arc itself, with the nearby suburbs, has about 14,500 people.

After the previous wars, the situation has changed somewhat. After the increase and decrease of the population, the total population near Jeanne d'Arc is only about 9,500 people.

Among them, about 2,000 people, including their families, serve the primary industry, mainly engaged in fruit and vegetable planting, fish farming, and animal husbandry.

The secondary industry is various workshops, including weavers, blacksmiths, shoemakers, bakers, potters, carpenters, etc., and an estimated 5,000 people make a living from this.

As for the tertiary industry, it is commerce and service industry, with about 2,500 people, mainly including small shop owners, accountants, agents (intermediaries), clerks, scribes, and notaries.

Serving the commerce, the well-known merchants in the city, after a round of cleaning up, there are still 40 merchant families and 12 loan agent families left.

The so-called loan agents are actually the original lenders, but they have been incorporated into the Jeanne d'Arc Holy See Bank by Hohen.

According to Hohen's plan, the city and the outside should be connected into one, and a large number of people living outside the city should be moved into the city, and the population should be increased to at least 12,000 people.

This will turn some villagers into citizens first, otherwise the industrial transformation of Jeanne d'Arc will face a considerable labor shortage.

As the capital of Langsand County, Hohen's expectations for its future lie in two industries, the first is tool manufacturing, including wood processing and metal smelting, and the second is papermaking and printing.

The former is naturally easy to understand. Langsand County is an agricultural county. There are no large mines or forests in the surrounding environment, so it is impossible to process wood or smelt metal on a large scale.

Then it is impossible to make a living by this simple basic processing industry, so we must take the high value-added processing industry, but the technical level of local craftsmen is not very good.

So Hohen put his attention on tool manufacturing, hoes, pitchforks, cattle and horse plows, hammers, craft equipment...

Especially in the following proto-industrialization, Hohen will greatly promote the establishment of workshops, and the demand for manufacturing tools itself is not small, and the technical content is not too high, which can be slowly used for practice.

In other places, this kind of practice may be a terrible loss, but in Langsand County it is different.

Because Langsand County, as an agricultural county, the farmers under his rule actually have money!

It's simply a miracle!

In such an agricultural county, the farmers' desire for land improvement and high-efficiency production is undeniable, and the demand for good agricultural tools is extremely high.

Farmers sell grain for money to buy agricultural tools to improve production efficiency, and craftsmen sell agricultural tools for money to buy grain to practice technology.

If the market for tool manufacturing already existed in Jeanne d'Arc, Hohen just expanded it, then the papermaking and printing industries are completely blank markets.

This is because with the refinement of Hohen's Salvation Army government management, the demand for paper and ink is increasing, and scribes and paper shortages have generally appeared in various departments.

Especially the announcements for each hundred-household area often require scribes to work overtime to repeatedly copy, and the production of printing plates is often used only once and will not be used a second time.

So many times, scribes and printers will cut down the plates, and then reassemble them for printing, and finally leave blanks in places that cannot be repeated, and manually copy them.

This kind of sentence printing faintly has the prototype of movable type printing.

Later, with the expansion of the Salvation Army's scale, especially when Hohen wanted to establish an archive system and newspapers, the demand for paper and scribes was even greater.

Compared to hiring a scribe, Hohen believes that making a movable type printing device is more cost-effective, because scribes cannot work 007 and 24 hours a day.

Moreover, Jeanne d'Arc does not have so many scribes for Hohen to squander.

So he has offered a reward of 100 gold pounds within the territory, asking craftsmen to design a usable viscous ink before the end of the year.

Even Hohen has prepared the materials, lamp black, soot, linseed oil, turpentine, Gutenberg in history relied on these things to develop ink that can be used for movable type printing.

It's just that Hohen doesn't know the specific ratio and production process, so he can only rely on the craftsmen to try it themselves. Anyway, Hohen has taught them the control variables and experimental method, which can save a lot of time.

Under movable type printing, the printing quality is not as good as engraving, but anyway, they are just disposable announcements and documents, and do not require too good quality.

In addition, Hohen has offered rewards to various guilds and artisan groups for spiral hand-printing machines and lead-tin-antimony movable type kits, and promised to give 3% of the proceeds to the inventors.

Whether they can come up with decent products, Hohen can only rely on fate.

"I've freshened up, are we going to have lunch now?" Catherine, who had re-combed her hair and put on makeup, walked out radiantly.

Jeanne, who didn't wear any makeup, although she was so tender that she didn't need makeup at all, still pouted in dissatisfaction.

"Let's go."