University of Vienna Falls Behind

Chapter 40 Knighthood

"Your Highness, your cabinet is still being reorganized."

Meissner reminded aside.

"Ok."

Anna helped her forehead helplessly.

"Mr. Meissner, I have a question for you."

"Please ask."

"High taxes and high benefits, low taxes and low benefits, which one does Mr. Meissner think is better?"

Meissner folded his hands and laughed.

"It's too simple, Your Highness, it doesn't matter if you want high taxes and high benefits, low taxes and low benefits, or high taxes and low benefits, as long as you don't let the people know how much tax they pay."

"You need to introduce a bill through the parliament, and then go through a special committee to investigate, evaluate, and revise. Then the imperial parliament makes an overall evaluation. Then there is another round in the Senate. If there is no opinion on both sides, it is best. If there is an opinion, then proceed. Negotiate the revision. After the revision is completed, it will be voted on by the parliament, and the new bill will only take effect if more than [-]% of the members agree.”

Meissner went on to add.

"Of course, His Royal Highness does not need it. You are above the parliament. But if your plan is too radical, it may affect social unrest."

"for example?"

"For example, increasing unemployment, social instability. If you want to limit pollution emissions, they will do everything. If you want to improve workers' welfare, they will talk about international competitiveness. In short, it is your way, but more extreme. way to prove your bill wrong and make your bill unenforceable."

Anna looked at Meissner with interest.

"Then what good solution do you have?"

Meissner pursed his lips and laughed, what he was waiting for was Anna asking himself.

"This is much simpler for you than other prime ministers. Since capitalists like to go to extremes, you can be more extreme than them. The actual situation may be a bit complicated. Let the Chancellor of the Exchequer tell you that."

Meissner did not go on.

The eighth princess does not yet know how outrageous the state of the Treasury is.

Meissner will be scolded if he goes on.

After all, he was wronged, and the Minister of Finance was not wronged. The Minister of Finance should come over and be scolded.

"The second question, what if I want the church to pay taxes?"

Not only Deta, in most European countries, the church enjoys privileges, such as tax exemption, and the land and financial wealth owned by the church has accumulated to an unimaginable level.

"The church is much gentler than the capitalists, and they won't resist extreme resistance. They will only let a nun who has spent half her life helping the poor in the slums stand at the door of the government to oppose your policies during the time your decree issued."

Meissner couldn't help but laugh.

"If one is not enough, they still have all kinds of great people, and the church has never lacked these people."

Just thinking about it makes my head hurt.

This is also the reason why most people can't take the church, because those people are really good people. If Anna dares to shoot out the old nun who has been in the slum all her life, the next day, the news will scold her as a nun. Gula II.

Anna decided not to worry about this for now.

"Mr. Meissner, have Mr. Friedrich Ebert come to see me."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Anna's former president.

Friedrich Albert.

Abbott may not be a good president for Deta.He was a worker, and his father was also a worker, and was honored as a master.A born socialist right, he values ​​legitimacy and believes that social legislation and insurance regulations allow workers to improve their situation.

Authority and order are not only not oppression but the basis for guaranteeing everyone's life, property and safety, and even revolution cannot lose order.

For Albert, authority cannot be without, even if there is no empire, there must be new authority to maintain order.

Albert's philosophy is complex.

You can't say that his ideas are completely wrong, and you can't say that his ideas are completely right.

When the empire was coming to an end in 1918, when Albert found the Prince of Baden, he did not want to overthrow the empire. He wanted to liberalize and reform the empire, but even Albert did not expect that the Prince of Baden would It even directly announced that Albert would become President Deta.

For Albert, this huge responsibility was not excited and excited, but panic and anxiety.

Both of his sons died on the battlefield, and he faced a crumbling and defeated empire.

Armies burned by the flames of hatred, society nearly collapsed after the war, and partisan feuding continued.With a little carelessness, it is a civil war for Deta, and a civil war, whether it is the Socialist Party or the Commi Party, cannot win the iron-blooded army.

When Albert was handed responsibility by the Prince of Baden, it was to prevent Deta from falling into civil war.

Even from God's perspective.

Neither can give Albert a perfect answer.

Albert calmly came to Anna, who was ready for trial.

But Anna was not sitting on her own throne.

"Would you like some Coke?"

"Thank you."

"Sit down, Mr. Albert."

Albert sat opposite Anna.

Before Albert could speak, Anna asked.

"Where is the grave of Mr. Carl Legin?"

Although somewhat puzzled by Anna's question, Albert replied: "At the Friedrichsfeld City Cemetery in Berlin."

Carl Legin was the co-chairman of the Delta trade union, and he was the one who led the general strike during the Karp coup. At that time, Carl Legin didn't know Anna's true identity.He later died of illness in Berlin in 1920.

"I plan to award the Order of the Black Hawk to Mr. Carl Legin, and add a knighthood. What advice does Mr. Albert have?"

The Order of the Black Eagle is the highest order of the Order of the Kingdom of Prussia.

It is usually only awarded to titles above the earl, as a reward for their great contributions to Deta.

As far as contribution is concerned.

Carl Legin does qualify, the wage payment law, the working hours law, the vacation law, the dismissal protection law, etc., and most famously, the eight-hour work day.

It's just that when he said this at this time, Albert didn't quite understand what Anna meant.

"Your Highness is thinking?"

"I want to give Mr. Carl Legin a title and medal, and I also hope that you can become the chairman of the Delta General Union, and I hope that you can serve the Empire as always."

Albert looked at Anna deeply: "You, don't you hate me?"

"I thank you for everything you have done for Deta. Just like your two children, you are all heroes of the Empire."

Albert lowered his head.

He pursed his lips into silence.

Anna's meaning is actually very simple.

The Empire needs someone to appease the trade unions, and someone to appease the Socialists.The reason why Carl Legin was given the title and medal is to tell all the workers one thing, the empire has not forgotten the working class, and of course the most important point is that Carl Legin is dead.

They cannot go and attack a dead man.

Of course, Carl Legin is also eligible to receive such an honor. Anna made such a statement and at the same time let Albert serve as the general chairman of the trade union, which is also to explain one thing. As the general chairman of the trade union in the future, he will receive a title and a medal.

This is also the benefit of dictators.

From Carl Legin and Albert, it can only be counted as an idea that Anna tried.

Organize the union better by giving the union president a knighthood.

Noble titles and medals do not need land. Now Anna has no ability to move nobles, but it also means that Anna can pave the way from now on and start creating a large number of new nobles. As long as the nobles become more, like degrees and medals of honor, There is no distinction between aristocratic classes, and then the old aristocrats who hold a lot of land will be sorted out from the new aristocracy.

Of course, this is just Anna's attempt.

That's not what Anna wants to do now.

Chapter 41 Have I become Yongzheng?

What Anna has to do now can be described as a mess.

The advent of synthetic oil did provide Deta with a large number of jobs, as well as the restart of the Ruhr industrial area, and light industrial equipment from the UK.

That alone is not enough to solve Deta's collapsed social system.

But Anna can't do anything else. If she wants to do other economic policies, she must let the Minister of Economy of Shakht solve the domestic currency problem first.

Anna decided to take advantage of this time to reform Deta's system.

such as agriculture.

The land of the aristocracy is temporarily immovable, but it is okay to reform the agricultural system. In this era, farmers have always been a neglected group, but from the United States controlling the world with food, we can understand how important agriculture is.

People eat for food.

The first is to reorganize the Deta Farmers Association. Today, Deta has the rudiment of cooperatives, such as the Leiffeisen Association, also known as the Leiffeisen Cooperative, but lacks state support.

Anna decided to give agriculture a more systematic management.

Most of the cooperatives were merged according to classification, and the organizational model was still the member representative assembly system, which was elected by the internal representative assembly to integrate farmers.

Then provide farmers with loans, technical guidance, knowledge training.

These are not troublesome, they can be solved by handing over to the agricultural department. The direction has already been established, and whether it can be done well depends on the state's attention.

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The next thing Anna wants to do is change the tax.

To put it simply, it is aimed at targeting certain industries, such as tobacco. In this era, there are still some special industries, and there is no way to get rid of them one-size-fits-all, then we can only use tax reform to target them.