Chapter 620: Economic reform
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Veserys briefly inspected the construction of the military academy. The first half of the academy has been built and normal teaching has begun, while the second half is still under construction.
And Sir Henry, who found fault with the Bachelor of Matus in class, had a nervous day, but Weselis didn't punish him, didn't even look at him more.
Henrik felt like he had escaped, and he let out a sigh of relief on the way back to the dormitory.
Veserys did not punish disobedient students, because his own learning attitude is his best punishment.
What a rare opportunity to be educated in this world of ice and fire.
He has already told them the importance of learning. This is a steady road to advancement. Whoever can grasp it will be able to take the east wind and soar, but those who do not grasp this opportunity will continue to do what they should do. The blacksmith's son is still a blacksmith, and the fisherman's son is still a fisherman.
After inspecting the Military Academy, Veserys turned his head to see the medical school, which is located near the Baylor Church, in the center of Junlin City.
The city planning of King's Landing is a bit special. Although the Baylor Cathedral is located in the center of the city, it is not the most prosperous area of King's Landing.
The most prosperous area of King's Landing is located near Aegon High Hill, in the southeast corner of the city. It houses the Royal Palace of the King of Westeros, the Prime Minister's Tower, the Imperial Council Chamber, and the Tribunal under construction is also located on Aegon High Hill, which will become King's Landing in the future. The highest legal institution for appeals by the people and nobles everywhere.
However, although Baylor’s Great Sanctuary does not have the magnificence of Aegon Gaoqiu here, it is still very prosperous. The Kingdom’s medical school is next to Baylor’s Great Sanctuary. The scale of the building is not as magnificent as the military academy, and it is open to ordinary citizens.
The military academy’s admissions are only recommended by the military from all over the country, and it is not open to the outside world. A large number of soldiers from the capital garrison are already on guard near the military academy.
Except for the military academy, the other colleges do not have such strict conditions. They can be open to the outside world to recruit students, but they need to pay extremely high tuition fees.
However, this policy is still on paper and has not been formally implemented. Today, only patients who come to see the doctor are accepted. The students are still the second sons and illegitimate children of the nobles everywhere. However, the medical school is still overcrowded every day. The people of King's Landing lined up to see a doctor and were overwhelmed.
Dr. Ambrose, the great physician of Xuecheng, is now the dean of the medical school. At the same time, he is also the leading doctor in Westeros. There is a busy little fat man running around beside him. Let Viselis look familiar.
However, the medical school’s special situation is indeed too busy. Everyone is too busy to touch the ground. Weselis just took a look here, and did not cause any more trouble to the group of medical workers, but turned and left. Up here.
The military academy and medical school are what Viserys cares most about, one about killing people and the other about saving people.
As for the construction of the School of Economics and Theological Seminary, one is in charge of money and the other is in charge of people's beliefs.
Economic reform is imperative in the future, but the country has not yet been completely calmed down, and it is still in the post-war recovery phase. There will be greater wars waiting for them in the future. Nowadays, stable transition is the mainstay, and more suitable reform conditions have not yet been formed.
In fact, it is the deep-rooted noble system in Westeros that has caused the stagnation of national power. Looking at the free trade city-states on the other side of the narrow sea, they are not as powerful as the seven countries. The size of the land is not comparable to Westeros, it is just a small place.
However, according to the report provided by Ilirio Mopatis, former Governor of Pantos, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, under such a strong comparison of power, a large amount of gold and silver flows from the seven countries every year to the free trade city-states on the other side of the narrow sea. Flowed into the iron vault, ancient spice guild, thirteen giants and so on.
Where does this strong trade deficit come from? How to solve it? Naturally became one of the next issues.
However, it is obvious that Westeros is now only a superficial raw material producer, with primitive processing and production methods and the smallest profit.
The farmers in Westeros produced raw materials and sold them to the wealthy merchants of the free-trade city-states at very low prices.
The wealthy businessmen processed the raw materials into commodities and sold them all over the world, including Westeros, and easily took away a large amount of gold and silver at several times and dozens of times the price.
Once the West Territory was the main mineral mining area of the Seven Kingdoms, the land of the West Territory was rich in minerals, such as gold, silver, copper, etc.... However, the West Territory, which contains so many resources, did not dominate Westeros in the end. Hollowed out the body.
Where did all the gold dug up in the Western Territory go?
Anyway, it didn't flow into the hands of local merchants.
The merchants of these free trade city-states, wealthy and rival countries, used the money they earned from Westeros to easily destroy the original merchants of the Seven Kingdoms and stifle all their competitors to maximize their profits.
The former Iron Throne did not notice this at all, or was ignorant, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer only knew that he reached out to borrow money, which caused this situation.
Implement limited trade protection, follow the example of trading city-states to establish their own ‘iron vault’ that is a bank, promote currency reforms, change productivity methods, etc...
All these problems that are piled up in front of us urgently need to be solved by Viserys, but this kind of problem is not anxious. Economic problems can never be solved overnight. In the future, more long-term development is needed. Step by step, only talents are very scarce~ www.NovelMTL.com~ As for religion... it may be more complicated than economic issues, and it will take years and decades of long-term hard work to wait for a generation to die before it can change.
Now the location of the seminary is also not far from the Baylor’s Great Sanctuary, next to the alchemist’s guild hall. The dean of the seminary is the archbishop of the Seven Gods. Wearing the dean's medal, he walked in the academy with his head held up.
Naturally, there are more than the beliefs of the Seven Gods in the seminary. The priestess of the Red God Sect has a high reputation among the people. Melisandre was supported by Viselis and became the deputy dean of the seminary, mainly cultivating the faith of professors. The monk of Lakhlo.
The seminary also has the natural beliefs of the Loyna people and the old beliefs of gods, which are generally believed in more people in the north. There is also a small-scale forest of gods in the academy.
Generally speaking, the atmosphere in the seminary is fairly harmonious, and there is no situation that Visiris had previously worried about will fight.
Visiris returned to the Red Fort after inspecting the military academy and medical school.
