Chapter 421: Harvest Season
In September, the sun turns the earth golden yellow, heavy ears of wheat sway gently in the breeze, and corn cobs are thick and long, with full curves as enticing as the calves of a beautiful dancer.
The harvest season has arrived, and this year is also a good year, perhaps because the snow and ice last winter were too cold, and when the snow melted into the land, the nourishment for the crops was far greater than in previous years.
Batches of grain are harvested from the fields, processed simply, and piled up in sacks into small hills.
The whole of Holy Rome from south to north was immersed in the joy of the harvest theory, and even in the north, where the land is most barren, this year's grain harvest was greatly beyond people's expectations.
With enough food, the poor peasants could live in a stable life, the population began to grow at an accelerated pace, and the wealthy people participated in commerce, handicrafts, and provided the power for production.
This year, perhaps because of the many catastrophes, Charles VI specially ordered a tax cut for three years in order to allow the peasants to recuperate, so that the peasants could leave a fortune for themselves.
The harvest in the most fertile part of the Italian peninsula is even more delightful, with heavy bunches of grapes hanging from the trees, large red apples exuding an alluring aroma, and pomegranate and persimmon trees growing in the mountains.
This month is also a major harvest season for the city of Eugen's Leber.
As a result of the previous agreements with the countries, the situation on the European continent has shown an unprecedented stability, and trade has gained strength in the midst of stability.
Central banks have opened branches in various countries, starting with the French Empire and gradually spreading to the British Empire, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Russian Empire, and so on.
In the early days of the branch, it offered very high interest rates on deposits, which attracted a large number of investors, rich and poor, and deposited their money with the central bank.
The royal families of various countries were not vigilant enough against this, so they did not take any countermeasures, or rather, they did not dare to take any measures, after all, the danger of war from Eugen was like a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, so that they did not dare to act rashly.
The money absorbed by the banks was used to set up factories in various countries, to establish trading systems, and to turn local resources into something more valuable.
The pattern was too big, and in desperation, Eugen had no choice but to send Parma, Allen and others to various countries and let them serve as the general agents of each country.
The city of Lebber was predominant, but it gradually gained some independence, and the city gradually moved away from its position as a center of heavy industrial production and moved towards a city of scientific research.
This incident shows some of the shortcomings of Eugen's rapid development, the most prominent of which is that there are too few talents available to his subordinates, and there is no way to find enough talents to escort his commercial warships at the moment.
In this case, Eugen's first thought was to set up a school, and in the early stage of development, the role of education could not be well reflected, but as time went by, it could be reflected more and more.
To this end, Eugen first established a complete education system from primary school to university in the city of Leber, and then did the same in several important cities to popularize education.
Eugen can already see that with the popularization of education, the cultural level of the people will inevitably increase significantly in the future, and at the same time, the loyalty to him will also increase.
The research system established by the First Research Institute of Lybor City is also becoming more and more perfect, starting from the most basic theory, and gradually establishing a multi-scientific research system based on mathematics, physics and chemistry, and among all scientific research departments, the most dazzling is mechanical technology.
Eugen is a pragmatic person, and the first and foremost of all scientific research projects is to bring tangible changes to life.
The First Research Institute of the city of Lebber has profoundly practiced this, taking all the necessary aspects of life as the starting point, and inventing all kinds of machinery for the convenience of life.
Among them, the most dazzling is the emergence of trains and automobiles, under the leadership of Rambo, several train tracks have been laid out near the city of Leiber, with the establishment of transportation lines, the production speed of the city of Leiber has also been greatly improved, the goods that originally took a whole day to arrive, now only two hours to arrive.
This speed of improvement is really a bit terrifying, in the previous war, the surrounding countries have also noticed the various changes in the city of Leber, because it is already in a state of peace, so all countries have sent envoys, saying that they want to learn the advanced technology of the city of Leber.
After the arrival of the study missions of various countries, Rambo personally led them to visit the scientific research and technology in the city of Leber.
Of course, what Rambo showed them was what they needed to see in Eugen's plan, mainly the products of the first industrial revolution such as steam engines, steam trains, steam factory production technology, etc.
Even so, the study missions of these countries, after seeing these techniques, were so surprised that they almost fainted.
In their eyes, those powerful powers were simply something that only gods could possess, and now, they had done it with human power.
After a preliminary understanding, the representatives of all countries expressed their intention to cooperate with Eugen, and even the emperors and kings of various countries wrote letters to Eugen in person, saying that they could pay a huge amount of money to purchase these technologies.
Eugen was gladly receptive, and instead of offering a high price to make money, he sold all the technology at a very low price.
Including all the technical information, all kinds of scientific principles, and even sent a specialized engineer to personally guide them to master these technologies.
In this way, the fruits of the first industrial revolution spread to all countries, and their scientific and technological level was greatly improved.
For a time, in order to enhance their comprehensive national strength, the royal families of various countries vigorously promoted these technological production methods in the country, and steam factories, steam trains, and railroad tracks were spread out in patches, and a hundred flowers bloomed all over the country.
What they don't know, however, is that Eugen already has the technology for the second industrial revolution, but it is not open to them.
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