Chapter 145: Danpier

The words on the blackboard were naturally written by William, a traverser. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Earlier, when discussing with Danbier how to solve the population problem of the ghetto in the future, William wrote these six words on the blackboard, but before he could explain in detail, he was caught up in other things, and now that he got rid of Roy, this problem has become increasingly urgent, and William found time to prepare to discuss it with Danbier again.

"I don't know how Kalmar City gathered so many people. ”

William walked to the map of Kalmar City, and the map was marked by Danpier with red, yellow, and blue colors to mark the three areas of the ghetto, the plebeian area, and the aristocratic area, and the red representing the ghetto occupied most of the map, almost surrounding the plebeian and aristocratic districts.

Recently, there has been an increase in bankruptcies, and the slums are showing signs of expansion, and the docks have been guarded by William's men to prevent crime from spreading to the area, protecting the already fragile trade routes.

Hundreds of thousands of hungry poor people, not to mention Norton I and Alcatio and a group of feudal rulers, even William could not rely on such a city to feed them, the wall tax made the gap between the rich and the poor further widened, the civilians who were originally the main consumer had no surplus wealth in their hands, did not dare to spend money to consume, goods could not be sold, the economy fell into depression, the market environment was too poor, the merchant ships willing to go to Kalmar City gradually decreased, prices rose further, and then added a new wound to the civilians, bankruptcy led to the expansion of slums, public security problems spread to the docks, and further affected commercial circulation, step by step, the whole situation has fallen into a dead loop。

"In the past, the economy of Kalmar City was still very good, and there were many countries around it that were also well developed, such as the Kingdom of Falais, the Kingdom of Goa, and the Glass Bead Island, and the maritime trade had to pass through Kalmar City," Danbiel came to William's side and said softly, "It didn't take long for it to feel like this." ”

William's chin was propped up with his right hand, and his frowning brow was not relieved by Danbier's words, even if Kalmar City was in a unique location, it would take time to revive the economy, William was not God, and he couldn't make material things out of thin air to meet people's needs.

He can only rack his brain to learn the history and knowledge from his previous life to find a policy that can solve the surplus population as soon as possible.

That is, the six words he wrote on the blackboard, in order of time and difficulty, going to the countryside, immigration, and industry.

In the short term, sending the surplus population that is difficult to feed in the city to a place where it can produce can barely relieve the pressure, and further is to develop other habitable islands in the territory, but the migrants need continuous support from the government, and it is better to throw people into the sea and drown than to throw them to the desert islands to fend for themselves, and save a lot of transportation costs.

Needless to say, industrial development needs the population the most, but it takes a lot of time to develop into a scale, and sometimes it is not enough to just pile up time.

Even after the scale, product dumping is an issue that must be considered.

Dampier communicated with William, and suggested that the villages and towns of the Kingdom of Navia, which were originally semi-autonomous, could be reorganized through the rural movement, so that the royal city and the local government could be more closely connected, and the products could also be dumped in the villages and towns under their jurisdiction in the future.

"It's still a little early to say this, Sherlock has just sent someone to investigate the Glass Bead Island. William glanced at the newspaper clippings hanging next to him and spoke.

Influenced by the education he received in his previous life, William first thought of the Jenny machine when he thought of industrial development, and then the textile industry, although it may seem a little rigid, but the textile industry was also one of the labor-intensive industries, so William tentatively designated it as the next promotion project.

GLASS BEAD ISLAND IS THE CITY WHERE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE POPULAR CLOTHING BRAND "DOSKOI PANDA" IS LOCATED, AND THE TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRY CHAIN IS RELATIVELY COMPLETE.

On the other side, Danbiel said disapprovingly: "It's never early, what you said before is very right, promoting industry is also beneficial to other causes, the discipline and obedience of workers make them the most suitable group for being soldiers, and intensive industries are also suitable for education, the sooner the plan is formulated, the sooner you can start promoting the project, Sherlock's side is a little slow, you should urge more, he is too heavy in businessman's habits, he only has profits in his eyes, and he can't see the future." ”

If Danpier is placed on the earth where William was in his previous life, he is estimated to be a member of the so-called Industrial Party, although William is only because of the population problem, not purely to promote industrialization, the layout of the textile industry, but this has made Danpier full of praise.

He was really disappointed in the ruling class of this world, full of complaints, and finally met William, a figure who values technology and has the idea of promoting technology, and has a sense of identity, and he chooses to join William, not necessarily without this sense of identity push.

There is a huge gap in the scientific and technological level of this world, there are already perfect steam-powered means of transportation, and electricity is gradually appearing, but in fact, from the world government to the monarchs of various kingdoms, even those so-called Ming monarchs, most of them still maintain the way of thinking of feudal monarchs, and there is almost no role in promoting the popularization and development of technology.

Electric lights have been used in the aristocratic quarters of the kingdom of Navia, but this technology is more of a luxury embellishment for the country's ruling class to set off its status, and the new technology may be just a larger, more extravagant toy for a monarch like Norton I, and the novelty will be forgotten after the novelty has passed.

In the slums of the same city, it is difficult to use kerosene lamps, not to mention electric lights.

As a time-traveler, William is not too strange about this environment, because he has been to Africa to do business in his previous life, and he has seen government officials of a certain country sitting in their offices, surfing the Internet, downloading all kinds of American dramas, and the environment in which most citizens of this country live, let alone watching American dramas on the Internet, does not even have access to electricity.

The technological promotion and development of this world are also somewhat similar, and because it is an island environment, a country is surrounded by the ocean, and there are strange areas such as windless belts, which hinder the exchange of civilizations to a certain extent.

"It would be nice if we had the technology for sea trains. ”

William couldn't help but look at the newspaper clippings of the sea train again, and couldn't help but sigh in his mouth.

The greatest impact of this world's sea navigation is the climate, as well as the endless sea beasts that emerge under the seabed, among which the windless zone is the most, and the entire sea area is windless, and it is full of sea kings.

Powered by steam, the sea train itself can overcome the climate problem, and the designers have experimented with a special technology to avoid this formidable sea monster by making annoying noises when the wheels collide with the rails while the train is moving, making annoying sounds for fish and sea kings.

"The World Government and the Tianlong people are a bunch of pig brains, and they would rather build bridges for a hundred years than promote this technology," Danbier sneered when he heard this, "I don't know how many hundred years it will take to wait for this technology to spread to the East China Sea." ”