Chapter 329: A man who cares about his family

In the next few days, the financial officers of the Lawson family were all working on a paper currency plan.

Ethan and Sophia did not participate in it anymore. After all, the needs and goals had been put forward, and the specific work had to be handed over to professionals.

However, Sophia was still doing some preliminary work, such as interviewing various members of the parliament, unifying the pace of the allies, and jointly prohibiting the Iris Society from issuing paper currency in Maro City.

In addition, under the slogan of protecting food security, she encouraged the members of the parliament to agree to establish a food agency to be responsible for ensuring food security in Maro City and stabilizing food prices.

Of course, doing these preliminary work does not mean that the currency will be issued immediately, but it is an early layout.

After all, issuing paper currency is an extremely complex project involving all aspects, and its difficulty is no less than installing an elevator on Mount Everest.

Therefore, it is estimated that it will take several years to actually issue paper currency.

Ethan naturally understood this, so he was not in a hurry.

After encouraging the parliament to pass the bill on "Maro City's adherence to the gold standard as monetary policy" and the establishment of the food agency, he was completely idle.

Of course, being idle means having time to tinker with other things.

And what he wants to tinker with is a skill that every time traveler must have.

Of course, this skill is not refined salt, soap, purified wine and the like.

In his previous life, Ethan read novels and saw people who made a fortune, married a beautiful woman, became a CEO, and then reached the pinnacle of life by doing these things.

Whenever he saw such a plot, he wanted to laugh.

Things like the above basically have no technical content, and a normal person can do it at a glance.

You want to monopolize this technology and sell it at a high price, which is simply a foolish dream.

Don't even mention monopolizing this technology. If you don't have some strength, you don't even have the possibility of operating it.

But when you have strength and want to operate these, you will find that you don't look down on this business at all.

In this world, the fastest way to make money is never to do physical business, but to make money with money.

To put it bluntly, it is lending.

So, if you want to benefit the local economy and make a little money, there is no problem with doing these.

But if you want to make a lot of money with these things, it's impossible.

Making small money depends on intelligence, and making big money depends on national policies.

Only those who can understand this sentence, control policies, and enjoy the policy dividends can make big money.

When Ethan caught a few fish in the north, there were people in power who jumped out to interfere.

Imagine that you want to make a fortune every day, but you don't have the means to protect yourself. That's just courting death. The world is not short of jealous people.

And people who do whatever it takes for money.

Of course, what Ethan wants to do has nothing to do with making money, it's purely for the benefit of society.

This is not because Sofia and Angelina are pregnant. In this era, it is a very dangerous thing for women to give birth. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a life-or-death struggle, and often adults and children die together.

Ethan even doubts whether the idiom "a life-or-death struggle" comes from this.

However, as long as a small object is used, the safety of production can be greatly improved.

That's right, this thing is the forceps.

The so-called forceps are similar in shape to a large metal cake clip, with a hole in the middle of the two leaves that fits the shape of the baby's head, and the handle is connected from the middle with a screw or a cloth strip.

Using forceps to pull the fetal head and assist delivery will greatly reduce the mortality rate of women and fetuses in difficult labor situations

In fact, as early as the early 17th century, forceps were invented by the Chamberlain family in Britain.

This family relied on forceps to deliver babies for 160 years, and almost never failed.

Even if the child died, they could lead away the dead fetus and protect the safety of the adults.

In order to enjoy this invention alone, this "mysterious weapon" was carefully hidden for more than a century.

And when it was made public and began to be widely used, people knew how powerful it was.

How powerful is it?

Let's put it this way! Its appearance directly laid the foundation for the independent development of obstetrics, making obstetrics an independent branch of medicine.

Yes, you heard it right, modern obstetrics and gynecology came from such a small forceps.

Even though hundreds of years have passed and there are all kinds of midwifery techniques in modern times, this small forceps is still placed at the top of the obstetrics and gynecology operating table.

Ethan knew about it a long time ago, but he didn't care much about it before because he didn't have children.

But now that both wives are pregnant, this matter must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

After all, it is easy to make a pair of forceps, but it is not easy to train doctors who can use it.

Therefore, Ethan must make it as soon as possible and let some doctors with experience in delivering babies use it on other women.

When they are proficient, it will be the time for Angelina and Sofia to give birth.

Ethan decided to make the forceps himself.

Of course, he didn't have the skills to forge iron, so he just found a blacksmith shop and then found a skilled blacksmith to make it.

He was responsible for helping.

And he had to help, not because he didn't trust the blacksmith's skills, but because there were too many impurities in the ironware of this era.

Many of those impurities are toxic, and using forceps may contaminate the mother.

However, impurities can be effectively removed through strong forging.

Although it cannot guarantee safety 100%, it will be much better relatively speaking.

At this time, Ethan was swinging a hammer in a blacksmith shop, repeatedly hammering an iron piece.

The blacksmith next to him was frightened by Ethan's hammer.

Because every time Ethan hammered, the earth trembled, and the whole blacksmith shop also trembled.

He was very worried that if he continued to hammer like this, the whole blacksmith shop would collapse.

Ethan didn't know how long he hammered, and when he saw that the impurities were almost gone, he handed it back to the blacksmith for processing.

And he took a short break, and waited for the blacksmith to deal with it, and then the next round of hammering.

At this time, the blacksmith shop was surrounded by people.

Of course, these people were not onlookers.

Either Ethan's subordinates, or they had something to find Ethan.

Among them was the Iris Society.

The man was named William, who was sent by the Iris Society to take over the position of Yellen and the new person in charge of the Maro City area.

After Yellen was arrested, the Iris Society quickly issued a statement condemning his behavior and removing him from all his positions.

Now Yellen is still in prison, waiting for the court's trial. His life and death are only in Ethan's mind.

Here I want to mention that the courts of this era are very interesting.

Their trials are all decided by the judge alone. What evidence and what law are not important at all.

If the judge finds you guilty, you are guilty.

And the judges are lifelong. In Maro City, they are appointed by the parliament.

This means that whoever controls the parliament controls the life and death of others.

Therefore, it is fair to say that as long as Ethan is willing, he can legally kill anyone in Maro City.

The new head of the Iris Society, perhaps because of Yellen's previous experience, or perhaps because he understands Ethan's power, has a much more respectful attitude.

While Ethan was working there, he waited quietly.

In fact, he came two days ago and asked to see Ethan, but Ethan didn't want to see him.

I didn't expect him to chase here.

Seeing Ethan stop to rest, William ran faster than Ethan's own men and quickly handed Ethan a handkerchief.

"Sir Ethan, please wipe your hands!"

Seeing the other party's attitude, Ethan looked helpless.

Ethan was really helpless. He didn't want to see this person, but he showed his respect, so you can't chase him away.

As the saying goes: Don't hit a smiling person.

Ethan sighed helplessly: "Tell me! What do you want from me!"

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