Chapter 14: The Plan for Industrializing the Country
Same date, eleven o’clock in the morning. Lancelot pulled the cord of the yellow bell, and seconds later, Alicia promptly arrived.
"Your royal Highness, you have summoned me," Alicia said respectfully as she bowed her head.
"I do, remember when I told you we are going to industrialize this nation?" Lancelot asked.
"I do," Alicia acknowledged. "But we didn’t delve deeper into the topic. Perhaps, Your Royal Highness, you wish to resume that discussion now with me?"
Lancelot nodded as he stood. "Yes."
He walked up to the wall where the map of Aragon was mounted. He grabbed pins and then pierced them in different cities.
"We are an agrarian feudalistic state," Lancelot began. "Whose economy relies mostly on things that we plant on the ground and then we export it to foreign nations and circulate in the domestic market. The city that I have poked with pins is what I think is the best place to start industrialization."
Alicia approached and looked at the pins, and underneath the pins were cities.
"Segovia, Toledo, Zaragoza," Alicia read aloud, her eyes narrowing with curiosity. "You’ve selected three cities across very different regions. Why these?"
Lancelot stepped closer to the map, adjusting one of the pins with precision. "Each has a unique advantage that lends itself to a specific industry. If we industrialize haphazardly, we’ll bleed money. But if we’re strategic—if we play to each city’s existing strengths—we can turn Aragon into an industrial powerhouse."
He tapped the pin in Segovia.