Holy Roman Empire

Chapter 40: wartime economic system

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After the Vienna Rebellion was suppressed, Franz immediately ordered the military to control the whole city, and then he was busy raiding his home.

In order to appease the hearts of the people, Franz distributed relief food as soon as possible. Anyway, they were all obtained by raiding their homes, and they would be distributed if they were distributed. He did not feel distressed at all.

Food, coal and other necessities of life are now being distributed free of charge, and the people who have just been stimulated have finally settled down.

For political needs, Franz also decisively characterized the rebellion and threw the blame on the capitalists.

The media in Vienna was under his control, and all the articles published at this time were "Beware of the conspiracy of the capitalists", "The role of international black hands in the Vienna rebellion", "The capitalists ran away with money"...

The most important job of the Austrian Provisional Government is to search homes. The capitalists and aristocrats who participated in the rebellion have not all concentrated their industries in Vienna, so the work of searching homes is still a heavy task. Far.

Before Franz was appointed to form a cabinet, news of the outbreak of the Lombard Rebellion reached Vienna, which was another heavy blow to the conservative aristocracy.

When alarmism became a reality, then reform was inevitable, and the voices of reformists in the Austrian government rose again. In order to avoid the collapse of the empire, conservatives had to accept this reality.

On March 18, 1848, Franz appointed Marquis Felix Schwarzenberg as Prime Minister;

Appointment of Karl Ludwig von Bruck as Chancellor of the Exchequer;

Appointment of Stein, Earl of Leo-von-Tus-Horhen as Minister of Education;

The appointment of Grand Duke Louis as Minister of the Interior;

the appointment of Earl Croft as Secretary of State;

Appointment of Clemens-Metternich as foreign secretary...

For Austria's political reform, Franz still took conservative measures and did not make big moves at the beginning, as can be seen from this list.

The political means are vividly displayed, a prime minister who advocates strong suppression of revolution, a finance minister who advocates financial reform, an education minister who advocates education reform, and the conservative interior minister and state minister.

Even for the sake of checks and balances, Franz recalled the infamous former Prime Minister Metternich as foreign minister.

Of course, the main reason is that Metternich's diplomatic means are strong enough, and there is currently no more suitable candidate in Austria.

The first thing the new government established was the aftermath of the Vienna Rebellion.

The current mode of distributing relief food will definitely not be sustainable for a long time, but now the capitalists are caught in the revolution and cannot extricate themselves.

Half of the city's population is now unemployed, and if there is no government relief supplies, Vienna will soon be in chaos.

Franz presided over the cabinet meeting: "At present, the Vienna rebellion has ended, and the post-war reconstruction must begin immediately. Nearly 40,000 prisoners are waiting for us to resettle. What plans does the cabinet have?"

No way, now is a critical moment, they must perform their duties just after taking office, but there is no time for them to familiarize themselves with the business.

Prime Minister Felix replied: "I propose to adopt a wartime economic system, where the government takes over these unowned factories, restores production first, and guarantees the employment of the people.

According to the specific situation, we can make fine adjustments according to the actual situation, adjust the production line according to the market demand, and avoid waste! "

As expected, Austria was also a wartime economic system in history, and it survived the initial difficulties.

The current situation, better than history, is that Franz took action quickly enough to seize the capitalists and directly confiscated these factories.

In other words, the current state-owned economic system is dominated by the people at the bottom, and the people at the bottom will definitely not object, because state-owned enterprises cannot be exploited as recklessly as private enterprises.

"The situation in Austria is very bad at the moment, there has been a rebellion in Italy, and the Hungarian region is just around the corner. It is very necessary to adopt a wartime economic system.

However, if so many factories are now confiscated by the government and our organization resumes production, labor costs will have to increase! ' said Chancellor Carr.

There is no doubt that the government wants its face, and its own laws must be abided by. The shelved "Labor Protection Law" must not be used as toilet paper now.

Franz shook his head and said: "The labor cost will not increase much, and it is calculated based on the average salary of industrial workers in Vienna before the rebellion as the basic salary.

We can also adopt the piece-rate system in most industries, so that the more you work, the more you get, to stimulate the enthusiasm of the workers for production. As the wages of workers increase, the products produced by the workers will also increase.

If we turn to the wartime economic system, the waste generated by market competition will no longer exist. As long as our management is not problematic, there should be no so-called losses! "

There is no market competition, and if the production is carried out according to the plan, if there is a loss, or the cost is greatly increased, Franz will kill.

Anyway, the planned economy only exists for a short period of time. Concentrate as much as possible to suppress rebellions in various places. It will only take two or three years at most. The degeneration of the leadership is not so fast, right

When the Crimean War broke out, Austria just took advantage of the war to pass on the pain caused by economic changes, and used the war money to heal the wounds.

Carl's eyes lit up. They understand the economy. If the piece rate system is adopted, they can perfectly avoid the Labor Protection Act.

If 99% of people's salary exceeds this standard, does the opinion of the remaining 1% still matter

"His Royal Highness's suggestion is very good. In fact, all industries can adopt the piece-rate system. If multiple people are required to cooperate, they can also be divided into groups, which can effectively exert their enthusiasm for production!" Carl said with a smile.

"Stop, this suggestion has nothing to do with me. It was discovered by the experts through research. It must be explained to the outside world. As long as the workers get more money, there will be no problem in implementing it!" Lanz quickly stopped

He doesn't want to be scolded as a sage in the future, no matter how he beautifies it, it is essentially a more advanced way of exploitation, and it would be strange if his identity was not hacked.

It's better to push it to the experts. Anyway, they are all used to taking the blame and don't care about another one.

As long as they need it, they can draw any conclusions. Even the cemetery of Monkey King has been archaeologically discovered. The "piece system" is really nothing.