Chapter 466: The royal dilemma 6

Chapter 466 – The Royal Family’s Dilemma 6
Catherine looked at her sister who was explaining to them, Erin’s face was full of confidence, a hint of an ineffable aura was slowly coalescing in her body.

This aura made the girl in front of her look very reliable.

For a moment, she felt that her sister had suddenly grown up.

Catherine recalled moments of her previous life.

“Sister sister! Don’t leave me behind, just play with me a little longer.”

“Really, you little follower, I’m not a babysitter to take care of you, I’m still needed for Father’s work there.”

Over the course of more than ten years together, the two sisters were filled with conversations such as these.

Every time she left Eileen heartlessly, the little one would beep her mouth and stare at her sister’s back with sultry eyes until she disappeared.

Catherine didn’t really want that, and she wanted to take out a little more events to spend time with her sister.

But more than anything, she wanted to prove her worth.

As king, her father hadn’t produced a single son, only two daughters, her and her sister – something the king was often talked about by his courtiers.

When Catherine began to understand, a voice surrounded her, “Alas, your highness would have been better off with a boy.”

I don’t know when it began, but a belief slowly solidified within her – I will make no less than a man.

So when the noble girls of her age were playing with rag dolls, she was learning to dance and steal and make swords, when the noble girls of her age were indulging in the legendary novels about brave men saving princesses, she was learning to understand the governmental documents on her father’s desktop, and when the noble girls of her age were dancing with their sweethearts on the dancefloor, she was in the barracks studying how to arrange troops and formations together with the officers.

Catherine had no aspirations to gain succession to the throne, there had been no precedent for a female monarch in the Kingdom of Aldor, and she had a real uncle – the king’s brother.

All she wanted was a mere recognition.

Finally, her own efforts gradually succeeded, and now all the ministers and generals do not see her as a canary in a cage, but a military princess who is not inferior to men and kills them.

But the price was a slight separation from her sister.

The relationship between the two has eased somewhat after Irene returns from her studies far away in the White Tower.

Erin had some understanding of how busy she was all day, but …… was also limited, and her sister has since spent her days enclosed in an academic prison.

That is, until she traveled to the Northwest Bay and returned from there.

After her return, Irene, the original small emotions of those girls seem to be gone, become atmospheric, become more independent and mature.

As an older sister, Catherine was filled with relief at her sister’s growth.

“Regarding the limitation of needs, it can be further divided into two aspects.”

Erin, unaware of what Catherine had in mind for her, continued her explanation from earlier. “The first one is the demand of merchants who wish to utilize these industrial products to gain profit, merchants sell goods from one place to another in order to make money, but if they have to go through layers and layers of barriers to pay taxes, they have to raise the price in order to make up for the loss caused by paying taxes, most of these industrial products processed from raw materials aren’t as essential as food is by people nowadays, so a high price will result in not many people buying them, and ultimately not making any money, which leaves the merchants with no desire need – or motivation – to purchase the produced industrial goods.”

“The second is the demand of the final consumers of the industrial goods, even without the factor of the merchants putting the prices up, the wealth of the average commoner can’t buy much industrial goods right now, but is that because they don’t have the desire to buy them? No, it is the poor wealth that inhibits their desire to buy, and the lack of desire to buy in turn reinforces the first demand limitation – even less people are willing to sell industrial goods.”

“Father! Sister!”

Irene’s eyes sprang to life.

“If we can eliminate or weaken the three types of restrictions mentioned above, we will be able to allow the second industry to grow, and then we can attract those nobles who have lost their land to devote themselves to this kind of industry, and unlike agriculture, which requires vast arable land for cultivation, only a relatively small piece of operation and production site is needed to produce a large amount of wealth. Wouldn’t that be a solution for the resettlement of those nobles?”

She clenched her showy little fists, “From what I’ve seen in the Northwest Gulf, this would be feasible. The lords and nobles there have slowly begun to transition from landowners to workshop owners.”

“A very beautiful vision.”

These words of Erin’s were very new to Rodney XVI and Catherine, and the King even applauded heartily.

“But ……” the king asked, “if a large number of people are attracted to engage …… in this [secondary industry], then who stays in the fields to farm it? If the food fails, won’t we go hungry?”

Irene had a smile on her face, an expression of I had expected you to ask this.

“There are ready-made solutions, in the Northwest Bay, agriculture has begun to widely adopt the so-called [crop rotation system], that is, on the same field in order to rotate between years to plant different crops or replanting combinations of planting methods, which can greatly improve the efficiency of the utilization of the land, as far as I know and have heard, the crop yield of the farmland that adopts the rotation system is at least twice as high as the original yield, including oats yield can even reach three times the original yield, which can even reach three times as high as the original yield. and in the case of oats, even up to three times the original yield.”

The king and Catherine’s eyes immediately brightened up, if Irene’s mouth [secondary industry] they are only as a curiosity to listen to, then this new emergence of the [crop rotation system] but immediately gripped their hearts.

Any feudal ruler would value agriculture.

Irene waved her arms happily.

“We can also buy all kinds of large-scale agricultural machinery from the Northwest Gulf, such as harvesters, plows, cotton gins, threshing machines, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

Are there so many good things in the Northwest Gulf?

This was the thought in the head of the King and Princess Catherine, those what’s-it-machine-what’s-it-machine sounded like a powerful feeling, and from their prefixes one could guess their respective roles, but was it really as effective as Erin said it was?

In fact, about the content of industry and new agriculture, Irene in the after-dinner gossip also occasionally mentioned, but not as systematic as today’s description, today’s description of the king and Catherine eyes bright.

It looks like something magical is happening in that previously unnoticed land in the Northwest Bay, the Grand Princess said so silently in her heart.

She thought of the young earl who had been restored to his family’s honor by the crown only a short time ago.

If she remembered correctly, it was by his side that Irene stayed in the Northwest Bay.

(End of chapter)