Chapter 612: Valuing Talents
Chapter 599: Valuing Talent
Entering the industrial era, the Berlin government has recognized the importance of population, especially the labor force with a certain level of knowledge.
The Kingdom of Prussia is the first country in the world to complete compulsory education, and the Rhineland region is the most industrially developed region of the Kingdom of Prussia, which has brought together a large number of basic talents.
These talents were exactly what the Kingdom of Prussia needed most at the moment. At the initial stage of industrial development, the demand for highly skilled personnel is not high, but the demand for ordinary skilled workers is the greatest.
After the outbreak of the second industrial revolution, Austria was able to overtake Britain and France, not to say that Austria’s technology is more advanced, not Franz’s foresight ability is how big, the core factor is still the number of engineers.
Without a sufficient number of basic talents, no matter how advanced the technology is, it cannot be quickly transformed into industrial production.
With the development of industrial technology, the demand for basic talents is increasing. The fact that countries in the latter days are engaged in compulsory education is the result of the market forcing.
The old empire of the original time and space is rich in resources, but fell behind in the second industrial revolution, is lost in the number of basic talents.
When they reacted, it was already too late in time. Competitors can’t stay put and give you decades to cultivate talent.
The Kingdom of Prussia has maintained a high investment in military spending, the domestic economy has not collapsed, in addition to the Berlin government’s political skill is strong enough, the advantage of the quality of the population is also an important factor.
Theoretically, anyone who completed compulsory education had the potential to become an ordinary skilled worker. With a little effort, it is not impossible to become an engineer.
Most low-end engineers grow up as skilled laborers, and basic cultural knowledge, in turn, is a necessary condition for this.
If someone were to do some statistics, they would find that the population of the Kingdom of Prussia, though far lower than Britain and France, was no better than Britain and France in terms of the number of basic engineers.
If it was only the development of the Kingdom of Prussia, the talent would certainly be enough, and William I would not have attached so much importance to emigration, the key is that there is still the Kingdom of Poland to be developed.
In the era of the Tsarist government, the Polish region implemented serfdom, education was only the patent of a few people, the ordinary people were pure illiteracy.
After the independence of Poland, although than the abolition of slavery, also made efforts to develop education, however, the results were not optimistic.
Idealist governments never formulate policies on the basis of what is good for them, without taking into account the actual situation.
The Polish government ignored the fact that there were not enough teachers and lack of finances, and blindly followed the trend of compulsory education, even doing it further than even the P.O. did.
Ideas are good, but reality does not allow, and in the end the plan can only stay on paper. In addition to building a few face-saving schools for the children of the rich and powerful, the actual significance to the country is equal to zero.
Now that the Prussian-Polish Confederation was established, the task of developing Poland fell to the Berlin government, and the demand for talent naturally increased dramatically.
Wilhelm I: “No matter what we think, we must emigrate as much as possible. The industrial development of the country needs talents, and the assimilation work in the Polish regions also needs immigrants.
The former Polish revolutionaries led by Dąbrowski have been very restless lately, they have been resisting the national integration work, and the government has a very heavy task ahead of it.”
Poland was still too big for the Kingdom of Prussia to swallow in one breath. In order to stabilize the situation in Poland, the Berlin government had to compromise with local Polish powerhouses.
But the compromise is also divided into objects, the former Polish government headed by Dombrowski, is the biggest damage to the interests of the Prussian-Polish merger, the two sides have absolutely no possibility of compromise.
When he first arrived, in order to maintain local stability, even if he knew that the former Polish government was secretly making small moves, Wilhelm I did not have the means to do anything to them.
Can not be moved on the surface, but the rules within the scope of small shoes is still rare.
Mauch persuaded, “Your Majesty, please rest assured. The next focus of the government will still be on the resettlement of immigrants.
The biggest problem now is still the corruption of the Polish government, the federal government has just been established, in order to maintain local stability, we are not in a position to come down hard.
Once the situation has stabilized, the government will conduct an examination of public officials, kicking out malfeasance and corrupt personnel and purging the Polish region of officials.”
There had to be an autumn settling of scores, but it couldn’t be now. Although the former Polish government had been ousted, the strength of the Revolutionary Party was still not to be underestimated.
In particular, the armies formed by the Polish government in its later years were all cronies cultivated by the Revolutionary Party. The fighting strength of these troops is not great. But there are still tens of thousands of them. If we really push it, it would be bad to have a fish-out-of-water fight.
Prussia’s annexation of the Kingdom of Poland is a bit of a stretch, if another civil war breaks out. It would be too damaging to the morale of the people in the country.
Berlin government adopted the method is warm water boiled frog, this time in the Russo-Polish war Polish army defeated, it gives the Berlin government to provide the opportunity to intervene in the army.
Under the pretext of war losses, Wilhelm I took the opportunity to abolish the four infantry divisions of the Kingdom of Poland, and the remaining troops were compressed to varying degrees.
Of course, at the same time as the compression of the establishment, William I was also expanding the armament. This is not a contradiction, the abolition of the number of troops are in the battlefield to fight without.
If they were heroic units that had won the battle, naturally they could not be abolished. The problem was that the Polish army lost, and lost badly, and then the abolition of numbers became justified.
By rebuilding a new number, the remaining officers of the original unit were destined to be marginalized. As generals of the defeated army, no one could say anything even if they were to be retired.
William I did not do so extreme, part of these people transferred to the reserve, part of the active forces remain, it depends on the stand.
The Polish army was trained by the Prussians, and the pro-Prussian faction was naturally small. When it came to forming new units, it was natural to give priority to their own people.
After some operation down, the armed forces of the revolutionaries have been compressed by a small half, which is the bottom of William I want to move the revolutionaries.
Now was opposed by the prime minister, William I inner very upset. However, his city is deep, the original time and space, even Bismarck as a powerful minister can be tolerated, naturally also able to accept Mauch’s straightforwardness.
People with ability usually have bigger tempers, which made William I helpless.
After thinking rationally for a few moments of effort, William I nodded, ”Then let’s wait a little longer! Gather evidence now and settle the score together in the future.”
William I had long since passed the age of youthful exuberance, doing everything like to think twice before acting, after realizing the possible risks, decisively chose to take a step back to broaden the sky.
Foreign Minister Jeffrey Friedman reminded, “Your Majesty, with the international conference on the West Asian Holocaust coming up in Jerusalem, we need to make a choice.
The current national situation is still unclear, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends continuing to remain neutral and avoid getting involved in the diplomatic game between Britain, France, and Austria.”
The international situation is not uncertain, it is a complete mess. Britain, France and Austria are both cooperating and confronting each other, causing European diplomats to have a nervous breakdown.
This background blindly “stand in line”, is very easy to lose. In case just stood in line, offended people, above the boss suddenly reconciled how to do?
In front of the interests of nothing can not talk about, Britain, France and Austria three countries cooperate because of the interests of mutual confrontation is also because of the interests.
Thankfully now the three parties are very sensible, even if there is a confrontation, but also did not pull everyone down, the confrontation is limited to the scope of the rules.
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Vienna, is the Prussian hesitation, Britain, France and Austria on the division of interests of the three countries of the negotiation, also in secret began.
One of the most important things that makes a great power a great power is a thick skin.
It may seem that Britain, France and Austria are keeping each other in check, but this is only the surface work for the outside world to see. Secretly, we have long been sitting at the negotiating table, tugging at each other’s throats over the division of benefits.
West Asia is just a shadow of the Ottoman and Persian conflict, standing in the position of Britain, France and Austria, in fact, is a child’s house.
The refugees are almost dead, and there is no point in talking about this issue any more. In this age of the law of the jungle, “right and wrong” are the least debatable.
The international community would not sanction the Ottomans for expelling refugees into Persia and causing great losses to Persia.
Similarly, the international community will not hold the Persian Government accountable for the massacre of refugees.
Apart from a bit of verbal condemnation, it is more about the division of interests between Britain, France and Austria that is now the center of the debate.
(End of chapter)