Chapter 479 – The spread of ideas

Chapter 479 – The Spread of Thought
The development of history is not shifted by human will!

Paul now now sort of deeply realized the meaning of this sentence.

As soon as he had sat down in his office this morning, Hansel had brought him a tricky character – Gerd Rodney, the nephew of His present Majesty the King.

Then came an explanation of his coming.

Paul’s present distress this was the very source of it.

Looking at the smiling, leisurely looking Count Gelder in front of him surveying the display of his parlor, Paul’s heart was a bit unpleasant.

To introduce manufacturing technology from Arda to the royal domain?
Gosh, Paul has always been in addition to the necessary things in other aspects can be low-key on low-key, is afraid of having the Northwest Bay outside of a certain big brother staring at their own acres and thirds of land.

What Count Alda wanted was to be smothered.

Technology proliferation?
Of course, this is inevitable, this is an unstoppable historical trend, and even when the time is ripe Paul will take the initiative to promote this matter.

The question is whether the time is ripe.

Paul’s hope is that the proliferation of technology can be within his control.

With Alda at the center, the technology spreads out in cascades from near to far.

And Alda, as the birthplace and high point of technology, upgraded and iterated all kinds of technology, constantly pushing out new ideas, always leading the development trend.

Always get the first fat bite.

Now, halfway through, an Aldo royal family was suddenly killed.

Heavenly Father, with the territory and population controlled by the royal family, what a lot of resources, what a lot of talent, once you have eaten through this little bit of stuff he’s pounded out, as long as the measures taken by the powers that be are appropriate, supplemented by some necessary reforms, you can immediately kick Alda or even the Northwest Gulf aside to go it alone.

The slightly improved Northwest Gulf would again be reduced to a small corner of the Kingdom of Aldo.

The development of history is not subject to the will of man.

Paul repeated this sentence once again in his heart, i.e., it was a feeling of emotion and self-compassion.

Gerd’s observation of the Gladmans’ parlor was careful.

In his eyes, the decorations and furnishings of this place could be described as humble in terms of the status of an aristocrat.

The floor was covered with ordinary carpets, and the color was very old, the walls were neither hung with expensive paintings, nor exquisite sculptures or animal head specimens, just a simple layer of white paint, wrapped in a simple brown board wainscoting below.

And the only slaves he’d seen since he’d entered, excluding the guards in charge of security, were four, one weeding the courtyard, one cleaning the hallway, one bringing him tea, and an old butler who introduced him to the parlor.

If all the nobles of the Northwest Bay lived like this Earl Gleiman in front of him, then this land really deserved the description the nobles of the royal capital had given her – a poor and bitter land. What is the life of a southern nobleman of moderate means like?
In serving one’s slaves alone, it included, but was not limited to, professions such as tailors, shoemakers, saddlers, carpenters, grooms, pony herders, dairymaids, apothecaries, musicians, actors and actresses, poets, architects, painters, etc., and a number of more personal servants were also necessary, such as cooks, bakers, pastry chefs, dishwashers, women specializing in ironing, menials specializing in managing the wine and food, specializing in waiters specializing in cutting meat, bartenders specializing in making alcoholic beverages, and generally speaking, for each of the above jobs, there were a number of people, not just one, to do the work, and some servants even had helpers, large and small, who specialized in assisting them.

The better off nobles often have multiple residences, each of which is usually equipped with a full complement of these services.

Gerd’s father, Prince Jasim Rodney, had seventeen footmen in his front parlor, who had to serve there day and night, always ready to do their full-time jobs at the Prince’s command or just a signaling motion, one of them ready to fetch his master’s pipe, another to bring a glass of water, and another to fetch a book . another was ready to fetch a book …… so on and so forth.

And in the residence of the Gleeman family he has only seen four slaves, in the circle of the Jingyao nobles …… to describe poverty is an insult to the word poverty, even the threshold of the noble life can not touch.

Paul noticed Gerd’s gawking at the interior, and he cleared his throat awkwardly.

“Ahem! We Northwesterners are more of a minimalist.”

In fact, Paul would like to dress up his family’s ancestral castle, even if it was just to buy some expensive flowers and plants to put up.

But he didn’t have the money.

Since the establishment of the public treasury, the various taxes in the territory and the various industries established in the name of the Council of State, such as mines and ironworks, the profits were all transferred to the public treasury.

And the Greiman family original direct operation of a variety of manor, real estate was retained by him, in addition there is also in the name of the family to establish the workshop – such as the great profits of the porcelain cellar, these industries can bring a great deal of wealth every year, this is Paul to the Greiman family set up a private treasury.

Although in the eyes of people in this era, what public treasury private treasury, are nothing more than the lord of the lord respectively hung in the left waist and the right waist of the two money bags, after all, all the affairs of this land in the jurisprudence is the lord of the lord – even the living people are.

But Paul, who had crossed over from the twenty-first century on Earth, still had a bit of historical self-awareness.

He intended that all the money in the public treasury would be used for the construction of the territory, and he himself would never take even a single coin from it.

Of course, he is not so noble, leaving the private vault is prepared for their own enjoyment, but over the wine pool and meat forest of the extravagant life, it is not a white travel back.

But the ideal is rich, the reality is bone, in the high-speed development of Alda – and Bairdine and Emden – everywhere to use the money, investment in education, military construction, technology research and development, urban expansion, repair bridges and roads, water conservancy construction, as well as pay salaries to the increasingly large administrative system and so on. Increasingly large administrative system to pay salaries and so on are big money-grabbers, relying only on the public treasury money is not enough, the huge gap is often through two ways to get enough, one is in the private sector to issue bonds, which will eventually have to be paid back, the other is to take the money from the Greiman family’s private coffers to subsidize, Paul did not intend to let the Council of State to pay back – – in the view of others is the left hand of the government, and the right hand is the right hand of the government. -which to others would seem to be left-handedness.

In addition, Paul also occasionally need to pay to help some of the less fortunate branches of the family.

Every time he pays out money, Paul feels that this should be the last time, but often not long before there will be a shortfall that can not be ignored.

All of these reasons have caused the Lord to be relatively “poor”.

But he was confident that as the Northwest Bay continued to develop, the public finances, which were based on tax revenues and profits from public industries, supplemented by bond issues, would grow stronger and stronger, and in the end would be able to bear all the expenses for the construction of the territory completely on its own.

By then, he would be able to rely on his own private treasury to spend his money.

With such a beautiful dream in mind, the Earl worked hard day after day, year after year.

(End of chapter)