In recent years, England has not improved much under Edward's governance, but it has been relatively stable. The population lost in the war is slowly recovering.

However, these populations are still too small. But it is a pity that now England is not Marin's, and Marin cannot vigorously promote the encouragement of fertility in England. So, even if you have any ideas, you can only wait until later.

Of course, in Northumberland and the Isle of Wight under Marin, he was able to encourage childbearing. Even in the Scottish Frontier and Highland counties, Marin also adopted a method of encouraging childbearing.

Because the output of the fishing grounds in the North Sea is increasing, Marin has now ordered that all areas under his rule, whether it is his own estate or someone else's estate, as long as there are pregnant women, will be subsidized. Of course, it is not the money that is subsidized, but the salted fish. If possible, Marin will also encourage the soup of fresh meat from the estate, which will be given priority to pregnant women.

Not only that, Marin also ordered - under his own rule of the manor, once a woman is pregnant, she can stop working and take "pregnancy leave". However, the benefits are not at all a lot, even better than the average person. In conclusion, pregnant women are preferred.

Even, in every small town, Marin will set up a maternity hospital to take care of pregnant women. In addition, the maternity hospital will have a female doctor who has been specially trained in lateral incision technology for natural delivery and knows how to use forceps as the main midwife to ensure the safety of delivery.

These techniques were ordered by Marin to ensure the safety of Angela when she gave birth to William, and now they are being used to ensure the safety of mothers during childbirth throughout the country. Of course, these maternity hospitals are now all under the name of Marin's "Knights of Salvation", and have become legal medical units recognized by the Church, and enjoy the subsidized sponsorship of the Church.

In addition, Marin also ordered that when riding the bus, everyone needs to give up their seats to pregnant women. In addition, it is strictly forbidden to beat pregnant women. Assault on a pregnant woman resulting in a miscarriage is punishable severely. Because this is tantamount to murdering a new life.

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When it comes to buses in Beihai Country, we have to mention the current public transportation construction in Beihai Country. Previously, Marin had been planning to build a concrete road. However, I have always been worried that the cement road is too eye-catching and attention-grabbing. Therefore, when the two main cement roads that cross the north and south and the east and west are built in the mainland, they deliberately smeared other things on the surface of the road to cover the original appearance of the road, and cut the cement road into pieces to make it look like a large stone slab spliced together.

But then Marin thought of the cement pavement and let go of those scruples. Then, in Beihai country, the "infrastructure madness" mode was opened.

To this end, Marin ordered the cement plant in Conabrook, in western Newfoundland, to take advantage of the local limestone mines, combined with coal from the Cape Breton Island coal carriers, to expand cement production.

Then, on the mainland of the East Frisian Islands, Marin also ordered the restoration of abandoned cement factories on the island of Baltrum and the nearby island of Langueorg, and also expanded the scale to be used exclusively for the production of cement.

The cement production here originally came from shipping. For example, limestone, clay and fluorite are all bought wholesale from the markets in Hamburg and Bremen. The coal used to burn cement is transported from the Newcastle coal mine across the sea, which is convenient and low-cost.

Marin then built a large-scale brick and cement slab factory near the steel mill in Krumhearn for the production of bricks and cement slabs. Iron and steel smelting produces a large amount of slag, which is very suitable for firing cement and can also be used to make bricks.

Of course, the brick and cement slab factories were built next to the steel mills, not to make direct use of steel slag, but to make use of the dock facilities near Krumhearn, which facilitated the import of cement. After all, in order to run the steel mill, Marin built a special wharf in the area to facilitate the transportation of ore and coal. At the same time, a large number of soldiers were stationed to ensure local security.

The cement board plant will definitely attract worldwide attention in the future, after all, it is the top material for paving. Therefore, a place that is easy to transport and is not afraid of the enemy's coveted prying eyes. Obviously, the Krumhern steel plant, which has a high level of security, is a good choice. Moreover, the establishment of a factory here is also conducive to the centralized management of industry and the rational use of local infrastructure resources.

At present, the cement board plant in Krumhearn mainly produces two specifications of cement board - 240mm× 240mm× 53mm ordinary type and 240mm×240mm × 26mm thickened type.

Among them, ordinary cement slab bricks are mainly used for road paving on main roads. Its thickness is about the same as that of the red bricks of later generations, and its strength is strong enough to withstand the passage of heavy carriages.

The thickening type, which is halved, is that the craftsmen of the cement board factory found that when laying non-main roads (that is, side streets and alleys) in the city, there is no need to use ordinary cement slabs with a thickness of 53mm, and half the thickness is enough. Because, those small streets and alleys are often for pedestrians, and rarely take heavy carriages. Therefore, half the thickness of cement slab bricks is definitely enough.

In addition, there are not many country roads with horse-drawn carriages, and this kind of thickened cement slab bricks is also sufficient. Moreover, after the thickness is halved, the cement material is also reduced by half, which saves the cost of paving.

After thinking about it, Marin also agreed with the craftsmen, and also rewarded the craftsmen who proposed the reduction of thickening cement slab bricks. Because it did save him half of the cost of road construction materials. Moreover, those small streets and alleys and secluded villages really don't need to use such strong cement slabs. After reducing the thickness by half, the same material can pave an extra road.

Stimulated by this reward, later, when craftsmen made cement slab bricks, they came up with the idea of adding asbestos fibers, and made asbestos fiber cement slab bricks with good strength. After testing, the quality of cement slab bricks with asbestos fiber added is far better than that of ordinary cement slab bricks.

Kaul, the craftsman who proposed this method of making cement slabs and bricks, took part in the process of going south to help the Swiss build fortifications. At that time, Marin asked these craftsmen to go south with a large amount of cement, and also asked people to purchase a large amount of asbestos fiber in Switzerland, saying that it was used for fiber concrete manufacturing to improve the strength of the fortification.

During the construction, Kaul remembered the concept of "fiber reinforced concrete" proposed by Marin and found that asbestos fiber reinforced concrete was indeed stronger than ordinary concrete.

This time, he was transferred to the cement board factory, and when he was making the cement board, he remembered - if asbestos fibers were added to the inside of the cement board, would it make the cement board stronger? Then, it turned out that his conjecture was correct......

After seeing the samples presented by the cement board factory, a word popped up in Marin's heart - asbestos tiles......

In later generations, asbestos tile is a very common large tile, which is an important raw material for building a house. The material is made of asbestos fibers (glass fibers can also be added) in cement. Even, many of the car brake pads of later generations were mixed with asbestos fibers.

However, before the crossing, Marin seemed to remember that the car brake pads would produce asbestos dust due to friction when they were rubbing to assist the brake. If these asbestos dusts are inhaled into the lungs, they can cause lung disease and even lead to lung cancer.

Of course, this statement is slightly exaggerated. However, Marin knows that in the production process of asbestos tiles, it is inevitable that a large amount of asbestos dust will be generated. If you manufacture asbestos tiles for a long time and lack safety protection, there will definitely be a big problem.

However, after the asbestos tile is made, it is not harmful. Because, as long as there is no asbestos dust and it is not inhaled into the lungs, it is difficult to cause harm.

In the same way, the cement board bricks made of asbestos fiber are not harmful to the finished product. After all, this is just a road material, and people don't go up on the ground to deliberately grind and inhale asbestos dust, so there is basically no harm.

The cost of asbestos fiber itself is low, and the German region is an important production area of asbestos. In addition, Egypt and Greece, including Italy, are all asbestos production areas for traditional Chinese medicine. Because of the large production volume, it is not very widely used. So, asbestos prices are not expensive. It is used to make asbestos fiber cement boards, the cost is not high, but the quality is much improved.

In view of the high quality of the asbestos fiber cement board, Marin will not give up this good commodity because of the health hazards of future generations. Therefore, the asbestos fiber cement board has become an important product of the cement board factory, and the craftsman Kaul has also been rewarded by Marin......