Chapter 751: People are forced out of their minds

  Chapter 734: People Are Forced Out of Their Own Borders

In order to force the government to make concessions, on November 7, 1881, the Prussian bourgeoisie organized a powerful strike and strike movement.

This move completely angered Frederick III, and after many unsuccessful attempts to negotiate, on November 10th, the Berlin government declared martial law throughout the country.

The security brigade, composed of retired officers and soldiers, took over the work of the police, blocked the main traffic routes, and seized the stores, warehouses, and factories of all the participating capitalists, so that the government could unify the distribution of national supplies.

Immediately afterward, Frederick III ordered the resumption of factory production. Many retired officers were transformed into factory managers.

There was nothing technical about it, and not knowing how to manage it, they just copied it the way they managed the army.

As long as someone was paid, the average worker couldn’t care less who the boss was. It didn’t matter if the management was strict, as long as the money was in place everything was fine, and one by one the factories began to resume work.

From production to sales, it was all handled by the government. It looked like a planned economy, and the capitalists really panicked.

Reality tells them that they don’t seem to be so important, without them the country is still functioning normally.

Although there were still a lot of chaos in the middle, but this is only the initial stage, later can slowly change.

Now it was too late to regret, all tore their faces, Frederick III naturally would not be polite.

Don’t even need to plant evidence to frame, just one by one to turn over the old accounts, there will soon be a large wave of people in jail.

Prime Minister Leo von Caprivi said with an anxious face, “Your Majesty, it can’t go on like this, or there will be a big mess.”

Taking capitalists to task, he had no problem with it, and anyway, everyone was not in the same boat.

But plans can’t catch up with changes, before this, people weren’t prepared to let the army take over the country.

It was only when they found out that they couldn’t deal with the capitalists with the police that they were forced to use retired officers and soldiers to organize security brigades.

After solving the capitalists, everyone realized that the domestic order had collapsed. In order to restore social order, the government had to once again use the power of the military.

It was originally said that the Kingdom of Prussia was an army-owned country, and that was because the army was so influential that it controlled the country at the upper political level.

Now the situation had changed, the military’s influence at the top had been weakened and its influence on the bottom had greatly increased.

Frederick III nodded helplessly, ”My Prime Minister, everyone knows that the situation in Prussia is not right now, but the question is what to do about it?

People have been arrested, homes have been raided, factories have been confiscated.

To resume factory production now, we simply can’t find enough managers in a short period of time.

Do we have any other choice but to let the retired officers manage it.

We can’t just put those assholes back out there and continue to cause trouble for us, can we?”

It had to be admitted that militarized management of factories could only be used as a contingency. It had only started not long ago when a series of messes had erupted.

After hesitating for a few moments of effort, Leo von Caprivi gritted his teeth and said, “Why don’t we just organize an auction!

We definitely can’t manage so many factories, sell off most of the small-scale factories, and only keep a few large factories, turn them into state-owned enterprises, and learn the Austrian management model.”

Prussian industry is still in the state of a hundred, more than eighty percent of the country’s factories, the size of less than a hundred, more than ten thousand people in large factories only single digits.

The Kingdom of Prussia is a capitalist, military ****ist country, not all capitalists have jumped out to go against the government, this time overturned the table, naturally, it is not possible to capitalists in one net.

Theoretically, as long as the confiscated small and medium-sized factories were dumped, the management problem would be solved.

Frederick III slowly said, “That’s one way.”

Obviously, he was moved. Don’t look at the Kingdom of Prussia has resumed production, but this production capacity is really touching, the production efficiency has generally dropped by fifteen percent, and the rate of defective products is also high.

Such an enterprise, unless it closed its doors and played by itself, once it joined the international competition, it was doomed.

The calmness of the market now, that was supported by the government’s credibility. The Berlin government took timely action to safeguard supplies and employment, and everyone believed in the government’s executive power.

Minister of War von Rothwald proposed: “Your Majesty, if so many factories are thrown out together, even if someone buys them, I am afraid that they will not fetch a good price.

Instead of that, why don’t we just distribute the factories to retired officers and soldiers against their severance pay, or pensions?

Not only will the government be able to cut down on an expense, even the job placement problem can be solved along the way.”

It’s true that they can’t be sold for a price, and most of the people with purchasing power in the Prussian kingdom are still in prison.

The remaining capitalists, even if they had money in their pockets, were so frightened at this time that they did not dare to venture out easily.

Affected by the devaluation of the mark, the original standards of severance pay and pensions are clearly out of date.

The capitalists’ money, the Berlin government dares to renege on, the soldiers’ life money, they do not dare to discount.

Although the Berlin government raised the standard again and again, it could not stand the inflation, and the government could not bear to keep on raising it.

Frederick III asked with some skepticism: “Can the soldiers accept it? It is important to know that the efficiency of these small factories is very general. If the management ability is not enough, it is easy to lose money.”

“Loss of money” is not a loss of money in the hands of capitalists, but in recent times, according to the management of the Berlin government.

Minister of War von Rothwald said uncertainly: “It should be acceptable, we can set the price of the factories a little cheaper, and let them decide whether they want factory shares or cash.

As for the problem of management, I don’t think there is much problem in the production sector, it’s all their own factories, so they certainly won’t mess around.

The trouble is sales, but the government can help with that. We have an agreement with the British to pay our debts in kind, just take the products from these factories and offset them.”

Frederick III was in deep thought, the price issue was not his concern, it was all for nothing anyway.

If he could use these small factories to appease the military and get them to agree to the government’s integration plan, he wouldn’t mind giving it away for nothing.

“Try it then, and remember to do a good job of coordinating. With dozens of shareholders appearing in a single factory, it’s easy for problems to arise if you don’t make arrangements.”

Von Rothwald’s originally elated expression disappeared, he could already imagine how much work he would have to do next.

Factory prices could not be pushed down any further, it was not something that could be taken down by a single soldier, unless a dozen or more were killed in a battle in a single family, or else multiple shareholders were inevitable.

When interests are involved, can everyone still be so harmonious? These problems, all need him to solve.

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(End of chapter)