Chapter 1010: A New Era – The Divine Shield Settlement System

  Chapter 990 – A New Era – The Divine Shield Settlement System

Politics is never a matter of pulling one hair to affect the whole body, seemingly an ordinary knock, but in fact, Franz is closing the valve of expansion, suppressing the voice of the main war faction in the country.

There are two sides to everything, the continental war was too easy to win, get the spoils of war and too rich, the key is the emperor is willing to share the benefits, so that “fame but on the horse to take” became the mainstream of society.

Stimulated by the benefits, the whole empire became unprecedentedly warlike. Ordinary people wanted to turn over a new leaf through war, ordinary officers and soldiers who rose to prominence due to their military achievements wanted to cross the threshold of nobility through war, while nobles wanted to go further through war.

“People die for money, birds die for food.”

Nature’s law of survival was manifested to the fullest here. Stimulated by profit, everyone has forgotten the risks associated with war.

It’s not that no one noticed the problem, but everyone tacitly pretended not to see it. The reason was very simple: the collapse of France made the Vienna government lose its sense of crisis.

In everyone’s opinion, without France as an arch-enemy, there was no rival to the Holy Roman Empire in the whole world.

Even though the Royal Navy was still the number one in the world and the Woolly Bear was still strong, their weaknesses were all too obvious.

The Russians were industrially weak, their government was desperately poor, their economic lifeblood was still in the hands of the Empire, and they had to look to Vienna.

The British navy, though number one in the world, was only temporary. Once the Empire decided to fight for maritime supremacy, it was their turn to bow out.

If you can’t compete on quality, then pile on the quantity. If the British build one warship, the Empire will build two, and they will always win.

Rich is so bold, integrated Holy Roman Empire, financial income is more than the sum of the European countries, as long as the government tighten their belts, even if the land and sea power to play together is not a wimp.

No matter how other people drift, anyway, Franz is not floating. Income and expenditure are directly proportional, ordinary people only see the government’s huge financial income, but ignored the government’s huge expenses.

If it were not for the adoption of the original feudal system, significantly reduced administrative overhead, with the current income of the Vienna government, it is not necessarily able to support this huge empire.

To know, because of the war, the Vienna government has been three consecutive years of financial deficit. Want to realize the financial balance, the earliest is also 1894 things.

“Though the country is large, a good war will lead to its death.”

This is true for any period of time. Reality has already proved that as long as the scale of war reaches a certain level, no matter how rich the booty is, in the short term it will lose money.

The outside world only sees the scenery of the victorious country, but does not know the pain behind it. The spoils of war are real wealth only when they are digested, otherwise they are just figures on paper.

Not only did the government fight poorly, even the pockets of the nobles were not rich, especially the military nobles who had just risen to prominence, and now their pockets were probably cleaner than their faces.

There was no way around it, all the money was thrown at the fiefdom. If you are in charge of your own fiefdom, of course you have to build it out of your own pocket.

Not to mention the new nobles, even the old school nobles, it’s not easy to come up with such a large sum of money at once.

The fiefdom construction itself is not a person’s thing, all empty not only their own wallet, many people are even friends and family wallet is also emptied.

Of course, this is also considered an investment, and still the most stable investment. As long as you don’t die blindly, operating a fiefdom absolutely can’t lose money.

Now the only rich probably only capitalists, but these guys are now shivering, one by one is as low-profile as low-profile, for fear of being caught by the poor crazy Vienna government criminal handle, confiscated them.

If all are legal property, naturally do not need to hide pinch, the problem is that this year’s capital are all with blood, almost a check a permitted.

The Vienna government loves to play like this, and when it is short of money, it will fight corruption, and then implicate a group of capitalists, or directly focus on a few fat sheep to check down.

Since Franz succeeded to the throne, similar things have happened three times, each time the capitalists are leeks on the table.

Each time is the most joyful jump die the fastest, especially those who run to manipulate the political fools, there is a counting one now graves are long grass.

It’s none of Franz’s business, it’s a game between the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. In order to ensure their dominant position in politics, the aristocratic clique has always been within the rules of the game, suppressing the rise of the bourgeoisie.

Similar things were not only staged in the Holy Roman Empire, but almost the whole continent of Europe was a struggle between the two classes.

It was only that the conservatives of the Holy Roman Empire were stronger and pressed the bourgeoisie.

Of course, the struggle was a struggle, but it actually had little to do with ordinary people. Even the general aristocracy, small and medium-sized capitalists, are not qualified to participate in this game.

Even the big capitalists, as long as they don’t get involved in politics, they won’t be targeted.

Unfortunately, many people were unaware of this, and still fantasized about building a strong network of political connections, and as a result, they violated the nobility group’s taboos, and got their own family involved.

Learn from your mistakes and grow wiser.

Despite not realizing that the emperor drew a warning line for them, crossing the line is death. After enough social beatings, the capitalists still grew up.

Most people think it’s the money that’s the problem, so now the most popular thing is no longer “fighting for wealth”, but “not revealing one’s wealth to others”, which is more prevalent in the East.

After realizing that the government in Vienna was short of money, one or two of them began to pretend to be poor. Many capitalists preferred to keep their money in the basement rather than let the outside world know that they were rich.

It is not a crime to keep money in the basement; one has the right to dispose of one’s own money. The Vienna government is a rule-bearer, and legal private property is sacrosanct, so it can be tossed around any way it wants.

In a sense, the capitalists’ hiding and pinching is also helping the Vienna government to stabilize the value of the currency and tide over the financial crisis.

Otherwise, the value of the guilder would have been lost in the previous currency overshooting. In contrast to the franc, which has been in a steep decline, the guilder, which has also been overissued, has hardly fluctuated, which is a miracle in itself.

Insufficient circulation of money is no longer a problem in the age of paper money. Not enough just print it, the circulation market of the divine shield has expanded, increasing the circulation of money is logical.

Like the dollar in the latter days, as long as the market has confidence in them, the old special dares to put put put put …… water water water water.

The era of great military expansion is over, and the era of great economic expansion has just arrived. Right now, as long as a small short-term goal is achieved, the Vienna government can immediately get rid of the current financial difficulties.

Into the middle of the 19th century, the gold standard system on the continent of Europe has been established one after another, international trade in the mainstream settlement of the countries is also gold, pounds sterling and shields are gold settlement of the auxiliary.

In addition to the top of the name of an international currency, the essence of the guilder and the British pound are not the true meaning of the international currency, can become the settlement currency is actually still relying on gold to start.

Only the “gold – shield system” into “shield system”, the shield is the real meaning of the international currency. At that time can follow the later generations of Americans, by printing money can become rich.

Prime Minister Carl hurriedly persuaded: “Your Majesty, in addition to our credibility, more importantly, the value of the Shendun currency is because it is linked to gold and can be freely exchanged.

Once detached from gold, without the restriction of gold reserves, we can print as many Shenduns as we want, the outside world will definitely not accept it, or maybe it will directly collapse just like the current franc.”

This was the inevitable result, the Shen Luo Empire’s credibility, although not low, did not reach the point where it was loved by everyone.

If the Shen Luo and gold were really decoupled, it was estimated that the British would immediately take advantage of the situation and push the pound out to grab the market.

Seeing that the prime minister was misled by the surface issue, Franz shook his head and explained: ”This is the long term goal, in the short term the divine shield naturally cannot be decoupled from gold.

Only in addition to a fixed exchange ratio with gold, we can also add some leverage, for example: food settlement, oil settlement, etc..

In these areas, we have an absolute advantage, proposed to directly use the divine shield settlement, the resistance of the countries should not be too high.

First, we will establish the status of the divine shield settlement in Europe, and then gradually spread it to the whole world, and then implement the final step after the situation has been finalized.”

Copying homework, who wouldn’t!

Although I do not know what exactly happened during the establishment of the dollar hegemony in the latter days, but the tawdry operation of pegging and de-pegging the dollar to gold, Franz still heard about it.

Since it was successful in the original time and space, it is good to follow the copying of homework. The hiccups that occurred in the middle, the Americans can handle, there is no reason why the Vienna government can not handle it.

The Americans have food hegemony, oil hegemony, these things the Holy Roman Empire also have, both sides of the chips are considered equal.

In a short period of time, it is unrealistic to want to promote the S.H.I.E.L.D. system throughout the world, but the implementation of the European continent is still very promising.

When selling food, oil, these monopoly materials, bite the bullet to use the divine shield transaction, not afraid of European countries do not compromise.

These days the European continent is still the center of the world, as long as the divine shield hegemony has been established in Europe, it will be much easier to promote it overseas.

(End of chapter)