Holy Roman Empire

Ordinary people can't tell whether the news is true or false, but their own stomachs can't deceive others.In the early days of the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands, a large amount of supplies were plundered from the Philippines, and even ordinary people in Tokyo lived a good life for a few days.

Soon the situation changed. With the start of Spain's counterattack, the prices in Tokyo, which had just fallen, immediately began to soar again.

"House seemingly endless rain".

In the context of rising prices, people's wages do not rise but fall.The reason is that in order to raise more war funds, the Japanese government raised taxes on domestic enterprises, and the capitalists passed the losses on to the working class.

After working hard for a day, the final income is not even enough to make ends meet, so conflicts naturally arise.

On June 1894, 6, when several textile workers in Tokyo were buying rice at a rice store, they encountered a sudden price increase.

People follow blindly. Seeing someone taking the lead in robbing rice, the people who were unwilling to endure hunger joined in one after another.

One rice store is definitely not enough for everyone to grab. The people who were a step behind and didn't get anything, aimed at other nearby rice stores, and the whole street became chaotic for a while.

Chapter 18 Dangerous

One wave is not flat, and another wave rises again.Just as Japan fell into the "Misao Movement", the situation in Europe also deteriorated rapidly, and the voice of revolution resounded through the European continent again.

Unlike previous revolutions, France is no longer leading the team this time.Perhaps the shadow left by the former revolutionary government is too terrifying, and the people of Paris have behaved quite peacefully recently.

It is also not the Belgian and Italian states that Franz is most concerned about. Although these countries are in the most serious crisis, the French cannot hold back their hatred!

From the government to the people, the responsibility for the outbreak of the domestic economic crisis has been attributed to the French invasion. Now is the time when the Chinese people are most united.

In addition, the Vienna government provided them with timely assistance. Relying on the relief food distributed by the government, ordinary people can barely eat half full, and the social order has stabilized instead.

Spain, which was caught in the Philippine War and couldn't extricate itself, would definitely not be able to escape.However, they are not the birthplace of the crisis. The first to fire the first shot of the revolution was Bulgaria, which no one expected.

The city gate caught fire and affected the pond fish.

Bulgaria is the pond fish that has been affected.As a raw material for high-end cosmetics, rose essential oil with limited production capacity has always been in short supply in the international market, and Bulgarian rose essential oil, the king of rose essential oil, is even more sought after by everyone.

It's the time when the roses are blooming again. The factory's production capacity has been fully booked at this time in previous years, and I only hate that the production capacity is limited.

The situation this year is special. Affected by the economic crisis, the volume and price of rose essential oil in the international market have both dropped.When it came time to purchase rose essential oil, very few foreign businessmen arrived in Bulgaria.

Even with this limited order, the purchase price was kept very low, less than one-fifth of previous years.

Processing companies have a hard time, and people in the entire industrial chain don't have a good time.Farmers who grow roses for a living, and workers who pick and process roses, are all in a difficult situation.

The sufferings of the people were invisible to the officials and lords of the tsarist government.Not only was there no relief, but the tax that should be collected is also indispensable.

No money is no money, no matter how hard you squeeze it, you still have no money.The Bulgarian farmers and workers who were forced to die launched an anti-tax movement.

Under the rule of the tsarist government, the life of the Bulgarian people was not very easy, and the anti-tax movement quickly gained support from all walks of life.

On June 1894, 6, hundreds of thousands of Bulgarian people launched demonstrations at the same time, petitioning the tsarist government, demanding tax relief and granting Bulgaria national autonomy.

It is a pity that the Bulgarian people have encountered a governor who wants to cover up.For his own official title, Aristotlevich persuaded the people to leave on the grounds that it would take time to report the tsarist government's resolution.

After the crowd retreated, Governor Aristotlevic immediately turned his face and sent people overnight to arrest the leader who organized the demonstration.

Needless to say the following things, the deceived Bulgarian people were completely angered, and the fire of revolution was ignited.

Revolutions are contagious. The Bulgarian people launched a national uprising, which directly stimulated the Poles who also wanted to get rid of Russian rule.

On July 1894, 7, the Polish Independence Organization launched an uprising in the Warsaw area.Caught off guard, the Russian army had not had time to resist, and Warsaw fell.

Once the valve is opened, it is difficult to close it again.

1894年7月16日，葡萄牙共和派在波尔图发动起义；7月21日，大希腊民族联盟在伯罗奔尼撒发动起义；8月2日，西班牙毕尔巴鄂爆发了工人起义；8月13日，爱尔兰民众在卡文发起了民族独立运动……

In just two months, more than [-] uprisings, large and small, broke out in the European continent, affecting the seven countries of Russia, Spain, Britain, Portugal, Greece, France, and Shenluo.

True, the Holy Roman Empire was not immune to the wave of revolution.There is no way, the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and it is normal for some strange things to happen when there are more states.

At the end of July, a bourgeois revolutionary movement broke out in the Principality of Nassau, which could hardly be found on the map.Then, it was suppressed by Duke Adolf of Nassau with his guards that day.

As long as the final result is good, Franz doesn't care about what happened in the middle, and doesn't want to know.

Open the map of Europe and plant a small flag in the area where the revolution broke out. It seems that the flame of revolution has been burning vigorously in the European continent, and it is threatening to start a prairie fire.

Of course, these are illusions.Although the number of revolutions broke out many times and affected a wide range of areas, there were not many of them that really took off.

In fact, revolution has not been a new word since entering the 19th century.There are revolutions in continental Europe almost every year, but there are very few real disturbances.

Compared with the Great Revolution of 1848, the influence of this revolutionary wave is obviously much weaker.In the final analysis, they are still not forced to a dead end, and the people still have another choice - to go to the colonies.

Don't think that politicians are all fools. There is no fool who can beat many competitors to stand out. Choosing to be stupid is only because of the need for profit.Everyone is usually wiser when it comes to asserting their own dominance.

Every economic crisis is the climax of Europe's overseas immigration. It is not just the voluntary initiative of the people. Without the cooperation of the government, how could thousands of immigrants leave so easily?

Although there is a flood outlet, Franz still dare not take it lightly.There are so many lords in the Holy Roman Empire who are constantly attracting people in the country, and even the social unemployment rate can be driven to the lowest point in history by them, so naturally there is no need to worry too much.

What really worries Franz is the many younger brothers. The seemingly stable situation in the seven countries of Belgium and Italy, who knows how long their morale can last?

Even if there are French people who spread hatred and divert the public's attention, there is a limit to the patience of the people.Just eating half full may not be able to satisfy everyone's needs.

Not to mention Spain, even though the Bilbao Uprising was extinguished, but the social conflicts in Spain have still not been resolved.

Others rely on war to divert the domestic crisis, but Spain exacerbates the crisis because of the war.For no other reason, the victory was delayed and the people were impatient.

"Japan is very powerful", this explanation is probably a European, and everyone will laugh.In everyone's impression, the world's powerful countries are in Europe, and overseas are soft-legged shrimp.

In the original time and space, there were Italians who kept breaking records, and everyone was much more able to bear it. Even though the Spanish-American War failed, the Spanish people survived.

It's different now. Without the Italians contracting the jokes, the performance of the Spanish army has become the object of ridicule.

It has been almost two years since the Battle of the Philippines broke out. The Spanish government has successively invested 10,000+ Spanish Army + 10,000+ mercenaries, and spent hundreds of millions of Aegis military expenditures, but failed to show a decent record.

In addition to these hard-hit areas where collapse may occur, there are also some lightly affected areas affected by the wave of revolution, such as Greece and Switzerland, which also need to be focused on.

If the younger brother is only a hidden danger of revolution, then France, the cradle of revolution, is a bomb that ignites the line of fire.

As the big boss in the European War, he experienced another civil war, and France's losses cannot be counted at all.It was hard to wait for the Bourbon dynasty to come to power before the situation stabilized, and immediately encountered an economic crisis.

Falling from the world's top powers to a third-rate country, this kind of psychological gap is probably unbearable for normal people.Now that they can't even fill their stomachs, the people's resentment is even greater.

After several rounds of dynasty change, no matter how to guide the popular sentiment, the sequelae must be borne by the Bourbon dynasty.

In a sense, the Philippine War also saved France. Behind the 10,000+ mercenaries are 10,000+ families, and millions of people have their livelihoods because of this war.

From this perspective, the Philippine War is also positive.In theory, as long as the number of mercenaries is tripled, the difficulties facing France will be solved.

After all, the present France is no longer the former French Empire.After a wave of chaos, the total population of France has dropped to less than 3000 million.

If there are more than 40 mercenaries, the monthly salary income alone will be more than 600 million Aegis. If the income on the battlefield is added, it will be even greater.

The return of so much foreign exchange can not only solve the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of families, but also stimulate the domestic economy and increase a large number of jobs.

However, this is not possible.Even if the Japanese are determined to carry it to the end, the Spanish government cannot afford to support so many mercenaries.

In modern warfare, salary expenses are only a small part.Even if the weapons and ammunition are second-hand after the victory of the Anti-French War, other logistics materials will also cost a lot of money.

In fact, the Spanish government has been able to persist until now because mercenaries are cheap enough.

It's not that the salary is cheap, mainly the pension is cheap.Out of humanitarian concern, it is enough to just give a little bit, and there is no big problem if you don’t give it. There is no need to worry about family protests.

The combat effectiveness is not bad, cheap and easy to use, no need to worry about family protests, and it is reasonably cost-effective.Franz once wanted to sell French mercenaries to the major colonial empires in order to help the French government survive the crisis.

Thinking about it, there is still no concrete action.The reason is very realistic, it is capitalizing on the enemy.With cheap and easy-to-use mercenaries, the maintenance cost of the colonies of various countries will be reduced, and the advantages of the Holy Roman Empire will be virtually weakened.

Of course, the most important thing is that French mercenaries are not welcome.Although France fell to the altar after the defeat, the fear of them in European countries still exists.

If you hire French mercenaries to maintain the stability of the colony, once France re-emerges, it will be a lure.Spain, which is using French mercenaries, is no exception. They are only hired temporarily, and they will be sent back after the war.

If it were replaced by Swiss mercenaries, everyone's acceptance would probably be much higher.At least there is no need to worry that the Swiss will turn against customers.

The No. [-] plan to solve France's internal hidden dangers went bankrupt, and Franz could only passively activate the No. [-] plan, namely: subsidize the Bourbon dynasty and use the power of the aristocratic group to stabilize the situation.

Fortunately, the people of Paris did not participate in the riot this time, and King Carlos's political skills were not bad, which barely stabilized the situation.But overall, it is still not optimistic.

The current situation is that until the economic crisis is over, the situation in the European continent will not be stable.

The only good thing is that the wave of revolution brought Britain and Russia into the water. Everyone was on the edge of the cliff, and no one dared to mess around at this time.

Chapter 19 The Bank of Conscience

Unlike the shit-stirring stick who fears chaos in the world, as a pacifist, Franz has always hated chaos the most.

Seeing that the European continent is about to fall into chaos, as a responsible European overlord, Franz knew that he should do something.

In essence, the turmoil in Europe this time is due to the economic crisis.The time of the outbreak of the crisis was artificially delayed, but the follow-up flood discharge work was not done well, so that the situation lost control after the outbreak of the crisis.

Previous economic crises were usually caused by one or two of economic policy errors, money supply and demand imbalances, overheated investment, stock market bubbles, excess debt, natural disasters, financial turmoil, and excess capacity.

This economic crisis is different, except for natural disasters, everything else is complete.The consequences are naturally unprecedented.

The governments of various countries have no experience in dealing with this kind of large-scale economic crisis, and each of them has adopted a laissez-faire attitude, watching the situation deteriorate to the point where it is now.

According to the data collected by the Vienna government, after the outbreak of the economic crisis, unemployment rates in all countries have experienced explosive growth.

Although they are all sending immigrants overseas to ease the employment pressure in the country, immigration is not an easy task.

Shinra has rich immigration experience, and there are a large group of noble lords vying for important people.The one-stop service is perfect, and even the countries with the entire German-speaking cultural circle benefit, and someone arranges it from beginning to end.

It's different in other European countries, and not every aristocrat is a master of linguistics, and immigrants who don't understand the language and culture don't dare to ask for it.

There is no team to take the initiative to recruit people, and the immigration is mainly by the people spontaneously. Even if the government provides convenience, not many people leave.What's even more tragic is that most of the people who ran out were middle-class people. Ordinary people couldn't even afford a boat ticket to the colony, and they had to rely on relatives and friends to make things up.

In this context, the progress of immigration is naturally not fast.If they were all like Shinra, where someone ran over to pull people as soon as they lost their jobs, where would there be any risk of revolution?

Getting rid of the economic crisis will not happen in a short while.It’s not okay to hang up, you must abide by the natural regulation of the market.Relying on policy to stimulate the economy compulsively can only relieve the urgent need, and it will also leave serious sequelae.

If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who caused the problem.Don't look at the dangers of those little brothers, in fact, not many of them have problems.

If you do the math, you can tell that the total population of the seven states in Italy is about 500 million, Greece has more than 100 million people, Belgium now has more than 400 million people, Switzerland has about 200 million people, and Spain has more than 800 million people. The largest population is more than [-] million, and the total number of people is about [-] million.

Calculated according to this population ratio, there are no more than 2000 million people of working age who have a labor force, and the actual number may be even smaller.Even though the unemployment rate is as high as 20.00%, only 400 million people are unemployed.

Unemployment could not be higher. Except for Belgium, which is slightly more industrialized, the rest are agricultural countries.The proportion of the industrial population is less than 30.00%, so we can't all be unemployed, right?

Even if they are unemployed, not everyone faces difficulties in life, and immigrants who run away don't need to worry about it.Those with a little wealth who can survive the economic crisis don't need to worry about it either.

Taking into account the actual situation, as long as the employment problem of 300 million of them is solved, the social order can be initially stabilized.

Franz definitely doesn't have jobs, but it doesn't matter, the colonies of the Shinra Empire definitely have them.With so many noble lords, even if they help them build castles, manors, and farms, they can create 300 million jobs.

Not hiring overseas labor is not because the nobles and lords don't want to hire them. The key is the language barrier and the inability to command flexibly.

Personally, this is a big hassle.But for the government, it is not a problem.As long as it can be managed in a unified manner, whether it is language training or language translation, it is a good choice.

It doesn't even need the government to intervene, and the labor dispatch company can handle it.You must know that in recent years, there have been several labor dispatch giants in the Shenluo Empire.

Accumulatively provided tens of millions of labor force to the American continent, made outstanding contributions to the economic development of the Americas, and accumulated rich experience in labor dispatch.

Now there is nothing to do with the American route. These guys have been exporting to domestic sales, and they continue to organize immigrants from the European continent to the colonies to obtain commissions from noble lords.

Frankly speaking, if it weren't for the powerful boss Franz, the group of fief nobles in Shinra would definitely not be as rich as they are now.

Territory construction is very expensive. Although the nobles are quite wealthy, if they don't know the planning, it is easy to bankrupt themselves.

In order to help everyone build their territories, Franz specially hired noble children who have experience in building territories to act as their territory development consultants and help them formulate development plans according to the actual situation.

This is obviously not enough. In addition to the development plan, there are also bank loans with sufficiently low interest rates.Compared with the commercial loan interest rates of more than ten points and dozens of points on the market, the policy loans provided by the Royal Bank only charge a symbolic two points.

It's really symbolic, there are no additional conditions, and only two points of interest are charged. It is not even enough for operating costs, and there is no profit at all. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is doing charity.

In fact, since its inception, the Royal Bank's special attributes have determined that it cannot pursue high interest rates and high returns like ordinary commercial banks.

Therefore, the Royal Bank has never accepted ordinary commercial loans, only engaged in international loans, or policy loans, and the interest rate has never been higher.

Of course, the royal consortium is an exception.Their own business can still get preferential loans from the Royal Bank, after all, the emperor also has to eat.For the reputation of the royal family, the Royal Bank does not aim at profit, but it did not say that it cannot make money indirectly through other channels!

Including providing low-interest loans to nobles, which seems to have little benefit, but the hidden interests behind it are actually extraordinary.

If Franz hadn't been the emperor, he wouldn't have been able to do such a business.The loan is indeed inconspicuous, but behind the loan is the economic lifeline of many feudal nobles in the Shenluo Empire.

Franz could see it, and so could others.As early as the beginning of the enfeoffment of the nobles, capitalists who were unwilling to be lonely stepped in, but the ending of these people was not very good in the end.

There is no way, all the fief nobles of Shenluo were killed with one knife and one gun. If they want to control the lifeline of others through economic means, what is it if they are not courting death?

Especially the group of guys who fantasized about occupying the magpie's nest through loan traps, and now grass is growing on every grave.It doesn't matter if you play with a contract, as long as you can play with a gun.

The feudal nobles are equal to the princes and kings, this is not a joke.When it comes to other people's territory, if they want to turn their backs, how can a few capitalists turn their backs?

It is a tradition left by our ancestors not to repay the debt.As long as you read the history books, you will know that it is never a new thing to kill creditors without paying the money.

The Royal Bank can do this business because Franz is the lord of the nobles, and the loan interest provided is very low. It can be declared to the outside world that he is helping the younger brother to overcome the financial difficulties and gain both fame and fortune. There is no such thing as trouble.

Others can't do it, and it won't work if anyone comes.The seniors have already set an example, there is no problem in borrowing usury, and they dare to sign even the harshest loan conditions, as long as they kill the creditor afterwards.

It doesn't matter if you can't kill it. In your own territory, the lord has the right to formulate laws and taxes, as long as they don't conflict with the central government's decrees.