Chapter 475: Thought spread

The development of history does not depend on human will!

Paul now has a deep understanding of the meaning of this sentence.

As soon as he sat down in his office this morning, Hansel presented him with a troublesome figure—Gird Rodney, nephew of the current His Majesty the King.

Then he explained his purpose.

Paul's distress now stems from this.

Looking at Earl Gerd, who was smiling and looking at the display in his living room with a leisurely expression, Paul felt a little unhappy.

To introduce manufacturing technology from Arda to the royal domain?

God, Paul has always kept a low profile except for necessary things, because he was afraid that some big boss outside the Northwest Bay would stare at his one-acre three-point land.

What Count Arda wanted was to make a fortune silently.

technology diffusion?

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

The question is whether the time is right.

What Paul hopes is that the proliferation of technology can be within the scope of his control.

With Arda as the center, technology spreads step by step from near to far.

As the birthplace and commanding height of technology, Arda constantly upgrades and iterates various technologies, constantly introduces new ones, and always leads the development trend.

Always get the first bite of fat.

Now, an Aldo royal family suddenly popped up on the way.

Heavenly Father, with the territory and population controlled by the royal family, there are so many resources and talents. Once you understand the little things he has created, as long as the measures taken by those in power are appropriate and supplemented by some necessary reforms, you will be able to bring them back to life immediately. Arda even kicked Northwest Bay aside to go it alone.

The slightly improved Northwest Gulf will become a small corner of the Aldo Kingdom.

The development of history is independent of human will.

Paul repeated this sentence again in his heart, which was both emotional and self-comforting.

Gerd observed the living room of Greiman's house very carefully.

In his eyes, as a nobleman, the decoration and furnishings here can be described as extremely crude.

The floor is covered with ordinary carpets, and the color is very old. There are no expensive paintings, exquisite sculptures, or stuffed animal heads on the walls. They are simply painted with a layer of white paint and wrapped in simple clothes. Brown plank dado.

And the servants he has seen since he entered the door, excluding the guards in charge of security, there are only four of them, one is weeding in the courtyard, one is cleaning the corridor, one is bringing him tea, and the other is leading him into the living room old housekeeper.

If the nobles in the Northwest Bay live like this Earl Greyman in front of you, then this land really deserves the description of her by the nobles of the royal capital—a remote, bitterly cold place.

What is the life of a middle-class southern aristocrat like?

In terms of serving their own servants, they include but are not limited to occupations such as tailors, shoemakers, saddlemakers, carpenters, grooms, stableboys, dairymaids, pharmacists, musicians, actors and actresses, poets, architects, painters, etc. Some more personal servants are also necessary, such as chefs, bakers, pastry chefs, dishwashing workers, women who specialize in ironing clothes, male servants who specialize in managing wine and meals, waiters who specialize in cutting meat during meals, and special chefs. Bartenders of alcoholic beverages, generally speaking, each of the above jobs has several people rather than just one person to do it. Some servants even have assistants who assist them.

The aristocrats with better family backgrounds often have multiple residences, and usually each residence is equipped with a complete set of the above-mentioned service team.

Gerd's father, Prince Jassim Rodney, arranged 17 servants in his front hall. They must serve there day and night, always ready to complete according to the prince's order or just a gesture One of them is going to fetch a pipe for the master, another is going to fetch a glass of water, another is going to fetch a book...and so on.

But in the Gleiman's mansion, he had only seen four servants, and they were placed in Jingyao's noble circle... To describe poverty as poverty is an insult to the word poverty, and they couldn't even touch the threshold of noble life.

Paul noticed Gerd's scrutiny of the indoor environment, and he cleared his throat in embarrassment.

"Cough! We people in the Northwest prefer a simple style."

In fact, Paul also wanted to dress up his family's ancestral castle beautifully, even if he just bought some expensive flowers and plants for display.

But he has no money.

Since the establishment of the public treasury, all the profits from various taxes in the territory and various industries established in the name of the Government Council, such as mines and ironworks, have been transferred to the public treasury by him.

However, he retained the various manors and real estates directly operated by the Gleiman family. In addition, there are also workshops established in the name of the family—such as the extremely profitable porcelain cellars. These industries can bring great wealth every year. It was Paul's private treasury set up for the Greiman family.

Although in the eyes of people in this era, public treasuries and private treasuries are nothing more than two money bags hung on the left and right waists of the lord, after all, all affairs on this land belong to the lord legally. —Even living people are.

But Paul, who traveled from the 21st century of the earth, still has a little bit of historical consciousness.

He intends to use all the money in the public treasury for the construction of the territory, and he himself will never take even a single copper from it.

Of course, he is not that noble~www.readwn.com~ The private treasury left behind is for his own enjoyment, but living a luxurious life in wine pools and meat forests is not a waste of time.

But the ideal is full, and the reality is skinny. Alda, which is in rapid development—as well as Bairding and Emden—needs money everywhere, such as investment in education, army building, technology research and development, urban expansion, Bridge construction, water conservancy construction, and the payment of salaries to the increasingly large administrative system are all big money eaters. It is not enough to rely solely on the money from the public treasury. The huge gap is often made up in two ways. One is in the private sector. Issuing bonds, this one has to be repaid after all, and the other is to take money from the private treasury of the Gleiman family as a subsidy, and Paul has no intention of asking the Government Council to repay it—in the eyes of others, this is left-handed and right-handed.

In addition, Paul occasionally needs to spend money to help some family branches who are not doing well.

Every time Paul pays out, he feels that this should be the last time, but often there will be a funding gap that cannot be ignored after a while.

Various reasons have caused the lord to be relatively "poor" now.

However, he is confident that with the continued development of the Northwest Gulf, the public finances, which are dominated by taxation and public industry profits and supplemented by bond issuance, will become stronger and stronger, and finally be able to fully independently afford the various expenditures for the territory's construction.

At that time, he will be able to rely on his own private treasury to spend time and money.

With such a beautiful dream in mind, the Earl is working hard day after day and year after year.