Welcome to 19th-century Europe, where strength reigns supreme

The year is coming to an end in the blink of an eye. August's workload is obviously not as much as it was at the beginning of the year. Now the economy is gradually returning to health, and military reform is also on the agenda.

August was sitting in the office and didn't know what to do. She didn't have any other policies in mind right now. The only thing she could do was to enjoy the peace and tranquility of these few days.

After all, it was the end of the year, and those congressmen also wanted to have a good year in comfort. The intensity of the quarrels in Congress became less intense, and several irrelevant policies introduced by August were quickly passed.

One is the construction of new public facilities. It doesn’t matter, this is just tinkering with the original ones anyway. The actual plan will have to be discussed next year.

The other is the protection of the employment environment. This is actually not bad. After all, the capitalists have been tortured by August in the past year. The twelve-hour work system, six days a week, must have two days off. You can do it anytime during the week. , you must have at least one day off, and the minimum weekly wage must not be less than 100 marks.

Although it is very different from the slogan put out by the Industrial Revitalization Administration, your slogan is loud and you have to meet the conditions. Now there are more and more companies in Prussia, and things will get better and better anyway, so let’s make do with it for now. It's okay to wear it.

The population of Prussia has increased more this year than in previous years. Everyone has seen hope and is willing to have more children. In terms of population increase, Prussia is still very strong. Basically, if this trend continues, in another seventy or eighty years, The population can exceed that of Britain and France combined.

But the Protestants were unhappy. After the quality of life in Prussia improved, the number of new Protestants suddenly decreased, [-]% less than in previous years.

There are two reasons for this. One is that people long for a savior when they are suffering. If life is very unsatisfactory, they will look for spiritual comfort. Religion is such a place.

Forget about the messy scandals and how feudal and conservative these churches are. From a doctrinal point of view, they are beautiful and desirable.

The law is the bottom line of morality, and religion is the apex of morality. Its original meaning is to allow people to escape the sea of ​​suffering and to let people believe in something that does not exist. This can be regarded as escaping from reality. This kind of escape is very useful. It can support a person to go through a complete life, and at the moment of death, he can be briefly surrounded by illusory beauty, so as not to die with hatred.

Later, religion continued to become snobbish and became a tool of rulers. It even gave rise to many wars. It became absurd, debauched and gradually deviated from its original teachings.

Whatever is linked to politics will be full of odor, and religion will gradually decline in this process. The humanities will begin to develop, life will get better, everyone will have hope, and this illusory existence will no longer be so important.

You can say that religion is very backward and conservative, but you cannot say that it is evil, except for those messy cults, which are illegal organizations formed to make money or are simply perverted, and cannot be regarded as religions at all.

Another point is the establishment of various schools. August directly kicked the church out of the schools. Children received normal scientific education. When everyone became literate, the things they believed in became science.

And just when the Rheinische Zeitung was preparing to boost sales at the end of the year, August's new novel was also sent to the editor-in-chief of the Rheinische Zeitung.

He was very surprised by this, because as a regent, he also wrote novels for the "Rheinische Zeitung", which was unprecedented.

Generally, wouldn't it be better to directly launch newspapers to promote it and then publish it directly?

The editor-in-chief suddenly felt that this was His Highness August's trust in them, and they must work hard. Maybe the day when the Rheinische Zeitung will prosper will come soon.

But after reading the content, the editor-in-chief was shocked. The ending can be said to be a bombshell, and it is very long. This one is longer than the previous two books.

The next day, "Rheinische Zeitung" vigorously campaigned for it, and "Brandenburg" and other newspapers also started overwhelming propaganda.

Since this book was not serialized, the Rheinische Zeitung directly contacted the largest printing house in Prussia and printed half a million copies in the first round.

Not only is the content exciting, but the title of the book is also top-notch.

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Tina also took a leave of absence and returned home in the past few days. She heard that her daughter had become the prime minister. Old Bismarck went out to drink with people and brag every day, so his wife had to come back now.

Tina was going home now. There were lights and colorful decorations everywhere. Junkers and nobles from more than ten miles around were all here. They all wanted to see what the first female prime minister in history looked like.

Even old Bismarck's wife, Wilhelmina, shouted around, "Tina is my daughter, she is my best child", completely forgetting that she used to like to ridicule Juncker.

She was not very interested in these things. As Prime Minister, her salary was of course amazing. August gave her one-third of her factory income as a bonus and asked her to go back and have a happy Christmas.

The nobles who had ridiculed her and looked down on her all stood on the side of the road. When her carriage passed by, no one dared to speak loudly.

Tina looked at them and could even recognize the faces of several people. Some were former classmates and some were former friends. Now they could only look up at herself.

This feeling was very pleasant. She had been looking forward to this scene for a long time. No one dared to look down on her.

When Tina returned home, she was followed by two thousand soldiers. This was a private army that Tina had recruited after she became prime minister. They were absolutely loyal to Tina.

As soon as I got home, I heard that August had released a new novel. There have been a lot of things lately and I haven’t had time to relax. I just wanted to see what big work August has done so that everyone can enjoy it during the Chinese New Year. Lehehe.

When she bought the book from the nearest town, Tina was shocked by the title. There was something wrong with the name "Destruction of the Empire".

Is this August so big at the end of the year?

In fact, she is not the only one. Almost all capable people in Prussia have taken care of August's business. The sales are even more popular this year because the people have spare money. Each book only costs ten or twenty marks. Now they can sell it a week. With an income of more than one hundred marks, although prices are much higher, I still have a surplus of forty or fifty marks every week, so I have no problem buying a book.

The purchasing rate of the people has increased and money has flowed. This is a good thing for all classes. The Prussian capitalists are happy because they can sell their production capacity and make money at home and abroad. The Prussian people are happy and they can afford consumption. these goods.