Chapter 1067: Extra Long Internships
Chapter 1046 – Extra Long Intern
Along with the accumulation of hatred, the situation in France further deteriorated. The autumn wind sweeping away the leaves that the Czarist government expected did not occur, but instead, it stepped into the mire with one foot.
Repression by force was effective in the cities, once in the countryside the situation changed. The French played guerrilla warfare based on the terrain, making the Russian army suffer.
Two hundred thousand Russian troops may seem a lot, but to control the whole of France, it is obviously not enough.
Especially after Spain cut the number of troops, shrinking the scope of the garrison, the pressure on the Russian army is even greater.
There was no way around it, and the resistance in France made the Russians their primary target. Attacks were mostly directed at the Russians, and the areas controlled by other countries were instead relatively quiet.
No one liked asking for trouble. Although they were allies in the anti-French issue, the Tsarist government did not ask for help, and the countries were naturally happy to watch.
“Asking for help” may seem very simple, just a telegram is enough, but it is not easy to really take this step.
It was already an open secret that the Tsarist government wanted to take the French as an example. If you encounter a small setback, you have to ask for help from the allies, that is to hit their own face.
This is not just a question of losing face, but most importantly, it involves the status of the Russian Empire in the European Union.
In the era when fists and international status are equal, the amount of strength is the amount of voice. Without strength, nothing is hardened.
Realizing that the French were not to be trifled with, the tsarist government was already riding a tiger. At this time choose to compromise, not only in the international disgrace, status decline, even in the domestic tsar’s reputation will follow a big drop.
Russian bureaucrats are smart people, naturally, they will not make a fuss, jumping out to mention and the French compromise, or to ask for help from the allies.
In any case, in the minds of the bureaucrats, political correctness always comes first, and everything else is a minor issue.
Besides, with the strength of the Russian Empire, as long as they are willing to invest, suppressing the resistance is a matter of strength.
On this issue, the Tsarist government can be said to be quite experienced. Poland, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, none of them were easy to rule, but in the end, they were not subjugated under the iron fist of the Tsarist government?
Whether it was a genuine submission or a fake pandering. Anyway, on the surface, these regions were stabilized for the time being. Even if there are still guerrillas, they have burrowed into the ravines.
Being able to achieve this is already enough for the Tsarist government. As long as the situation can be roughly stabilized, and give the allies an acceptable explanation, things will be over.
In fact, if it were not for the international community watching, the Tsarist government would not mind giving up the “small countryside” and just occupying the most affluent area of Paris.
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The chaos in France did not affect Shinra. Although mankind is moving into the era of globalization, the normal trade between Shenla and France has been disrupted since the outbreak of the Continental War.
After the war, France was all but decimated, and even if trade had reopened, there wasn’t much of it. All the economic pains had erupted in a wave during the previous economic crisis, and now the impact was minimal.
Entering 1896, the Holy Roman Empire, freed from the economic crisis, once again boarded the express train of rapid development.
A new round of five-year plan was being formulated. Only different from the past, this time the presiding officer was no longer Franz.
Time flies, already is not confused years Frederick Crown Prince, now has begun to gradually take over the political affairs.
In fact, as early as twenty years ago Frederick Crown Prince has begun to contact political affairs. Only at that time, he was just a trainee who followed the odd jobs.
This internship is twenty years, can be called the longest intern in history. Ordinary positions if you let a person intern for twenty years, it is estimated that whoever is on the body will go crazy.
The emperor’s profession is obviously an exception, since ancient times there have been many princes who have been on a super long standby. Without enough patience, simply can not stay up to succeed the throne.
Compared to Prince Charles, who is still in the reserve in his old age, Frederick, who is not confused about his age, is really very young.
In a sense, both Charles and Frederick were lucky. The law of succession in the European world is deeply rooted, and the Crown Prince will not be pulled down as long as he does not die himself.
If in the Eastern world, by the following a group of younger brother dead stare, all kinds of intrigue and trickery ensue, not to be driven crazy are a miracle.
Receiving the plan handed over by his son, Franz quickly skimmed through it and suddenly stopped on the third page.
“Focus on the petrochemical industry, tell us your reasoning?”
Policies don’t matter whether they are right or wrong, only whether they are appropriate. Adopting different policies at different times according to the actual situation is what governors do.
No matter how good a policy is, as long as it appears at the wrong point in time, it is a scourge to the country and the people.
This axiom is known to everyone, but when it comes to implementation, the situation changes. Because of interests, when formulating national policies, those who govern must take more factors into consideration.
How to grasp the specifics can only be improvised according to the actual situation. What seems to be an ordinary inquiry is actually an examination of the son.
“In these recent years, the domestic internal combustion engine industry has boomed, and the petrochemical industry has followed suit.
But in the process of exploitation and utilization, there has been a serious waste of resources. In the process of oil refining, the chemical by-products produced are mostly wasted.
On the one hand, the technology is not mature enough, the development and utilization of by-products is too costly; on the other hand, the supporting industries have not been able to develop, and there are problems in the connection.
This is a huge industrial chain which, once developed, can create at least millions of jobs and give a great boost to our economy.
The second reason is that the royal family controls most of the oilfields in the country, and once the petrochemical industry has developed, our gains will be very large.”
Crown Prince Frederick replied calmly. Obviously, similar conversations had taken place many times between father and son.
Unlike conversations with other people, there were circles to be made and secrets to be sold. Between father and son it was never straight forward, there was no need to hide.
While promoting the country’s economic development, incidentally following a fortune, that was all routine. As the rule maker, it really isn’t hard to get rich.
The royal consortium can quickly grow, in addition to Franz’s foresight to layout in advance, insight into the national policy is also an important factor.
Although there is no special profit from the policy, but the national economic policy would have been Franz single-handedly promoted, the priority development of the industry and their own layout of the potential industry overlap, and then normal.
Franz nodded and shook his head again, ”Theoretically, there is no problem. However, once the petrochemical industry develops, it would be inappropriate for the royal family to control so many oil fields.
Let’s push the relevant companies to go public, and carry out a few more financings to bring down the royal family’s share of explicit shareholding.
Since it was you who proposed this, these tasks will now be handed over to you. Once the listing of the enterprises is complete, form an industry association and raise the industrial threshold.”
Since ancient times, eating alone would not end well, even the royal family could not go too far. When Franz was on the throne, naturally no one dared to compare blindly, but in later times it was impossible to say.
The best way is to hide the industry early. As in the latter part of the world, those large consortium families, who all know Morgan Locke’s big name, but people have what industry is nothing.
On the rich list of all the up-and-coming entrepreneurs, the veteran giants can not even find the shadow. Even if the children and grandchildren how to be able to lose money, it is not possible to all decline, no one survived, right?
The only explanation is that it is hidden. After all, in the dark to control the economic lifelines of the country, to be far more active than the open surface is much safer.
Listed is undoubtedly a good choice, in the cake pull allies at the same time, but also be able to incidentally circle away from the market a large amount of money.
Cash out of the funds, and can be invested in new industries, continue to create wealth. This is how the snowball rolls bigger and bigger.
“The way of heaven, loss is more than enough to make up for the deficiency; the way of man, loss is not enough to serve the surplus.”
“The strong are always strong, the rich get richer” is the nature of the world, never change by personal will.
Franz is not a saint and does not have the courage to act against the world. Since he could not change the world, he could only adapt to it.
It is better to control these industries in your own hands than to fall into the hands of profit-oriented capitalists. At least the royal consortium needed to consider the stability of the country, and could not just pursue profit.
“Okay, father.”
While replying back, Frederick’s face changed slightly, his voice had a slight tremor, and then returned to normal.
It was evident that his heart was not at peace, only that it was stiffly suppressed in order to maintain a steady image of himself.
Thinking about it, the oil industry in the hands of the royal family controlled almost half of the world’s oil production capacity. Even though the oil industry chain was just emerging in the 19th century, it was also a proper behemoth.
Suddenly in charge of such a large amount of industry, normal people would be unsettled. It was not easy for Frederick to hold back.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Franz nodded with satisfaction. It was good to be able to hold back, the most feared thing about being an emperor was being indolent.
To this day, money was merely a number to Franz. No amount of wealth could move him.
In contrast, a qualified heir is the most important thing.
(End of chapter)