A man could not casually change the banner in his heart. If it changed too easily, the people around him would look down on him.
Mr. Jenner ultimately returned to Britain. With Napoleon's courtesy and preferential treatment, it should become much easier for him to continue promoting vaccination after returning home.
People were like that. Only with competition did they attach special importance to something. Without competition, even if a treasure sat right before them, no one would spare it a second glance.
Fine linen had originally been worn by commoners. As people's demands for clothing quality rose higher and higher, it gradually withdrew from the market.
Ordinary bandages were made of cotton yarn, but France did not produce cotton, so using it for gauze drove up costs. Armies generally chose the cheapest supplies. If they chose expensive cotton gauze, military expenditures would rise. To control the budget, they would then reduce purchases of cotton gauze, leaving many soldiers who could otherwise have been cured facing the risk of amputation due to a lack of medical supplies.
Even if fine linen was not as absorbent as cotton, Lord Bonaparte had ordered industry and commerce to develop new materials that could replace cotton gauze, and the presidents of the chambers of commerce had no choice but to accomplish it. That was the advantage of "dictatorship."
Britain was different. The government and cabinet would change anyway, and once they did, the previous cabinet's projects would be shelved. Usually, the money had already been collected by then. If they could not develop it, then they could not develop it. They would drag things out, and another year would pass.
Yet the worst part of an autocratic system was its reliance on the ruler's sound judgment. If the ruler was muddleheaded and incompetent, then