Politics has always affected the whole body. It seems like an ordinary beating, but it is actually Franz closing the valve of expansion and suppressing the voice of the domestic main fighting faction.
Everything has two sides. The European War is too easy to win, and the loot is too rich. The most important thing is that the emperor is willing to share the benefits, so that "fame but get it right away" has become the mainstream of society.
Stimulated by interests, the empire has become unprecedentedly belligerent. Ordinary people want to turn around through war, ordinary officers and soldiers who have risen due to military exploits want to cross the threshold of aristocracy through war, and nobles want to go further through war.
"The wages of avarice is death".
The survival law of nature is vividly expressed here. Stimulated by interests, everyone has forgotten the risks brought by war.
It's not that no one found the problem, but everyone pretended to be invisible. The reason is very simple. The collapse of France made the Vienna government lose its sense of crisis.
In the eyes of everyone, without the old enemy of France, there is no one in the world that can rival the Holy Roman Empire.
Even the Royal Navy is still number one in the world and the bears are still strong, but their weaknesses are all too obvious.
The industrial strength of the Russians is weak, the government is clinkingly poor, and the economic lifeline is still in the hands of the empire. Vienna must be seen.
Although the British navy is the first in the world, it is only temporary. Once the Empire decided to fight for maritime supremacy, it was their turn to step back.
If you can't compete in terms of quality, then pile on the quantity. The big deal is that if the British build one warship, the Empire will build two, and two against one can always win.
Rich is so arrogant, the integrated Holy Roman Empire, the fiscal revenue exceeds the sum of the European countries, as long as the government tightens its belt, even if the land power and the sea power play together, it is not cowardly.
No matter how others float, Franz didn't float anyway. Income and expenditure are directly proportional. Ordinary people only see the huge government revenue, but ignore the huge government expenditure.
If it hadn't adopted the original enfeoffment system, which greatly reduced administrative expenses, with the current income of the Vienna government, it would not have been possible to support this huge empire.
You know, because of the war, the Vienna government has been running deficits for three consecutive years. To achieve fiscal balance, the fastest is 1894.
"Though a country is big, warlikeness will surely perish."
It is universal in any period. The reality has proved that as long as the scale of the war reaches a certain level, no matter how rich the loot is, it will lose money in the short term.
The outside world only saw the scenery of the victorious country, but did not know the suffering behind it. The spoils of war are only real wealth when they are digested, otherwise they are data that remain on paper.
Not only is the government fighting poverty, but even the pockets of the nobles are not rich, especially the newly emerging military nobles, whose pockets may be cleaner than their faces now.
No way, all the money was thrown into the fief. The fiefs of the family are managed by themselves, and of course they have to be built at their own expense.
Not to mention the emerging nobles, even the old-fashioned nobles, it is not easy to come up with such a large sum of money all at once.
The construction of fiefs itself is not a matter of one person. All the emptying is not only their own wallets, but many people also empty the wallets of their relatives and friends.
Of course, this is also an investment, and it is also the most stable investment. As long as you don't make a fool of yourself, you can never lose money by running a fief.
The only people who are rich now are probably the capitalists, but these guys are trembling at the moment, each one is as low-key as they can be, for fear that the poor and crazy Vienna government will seize the crime and confiscated them.
If all the property is legal, there is no need to hide it. The problem is that the capital these days is all bloody, and it is almost a check.
But the Vienna government likes to play like this. When it is short of money, it will fight corruption, and then involve a group of capitalists by the way, or directly stare at a few fat sheep to investigate.
Similar things have happened three times since Franz came to the throne, and each time the capitalists are the leeks on the table.
Every time, the one who dances the most is the one who dies the fastest, especially those idiots who run to manipulate politics. One of them has grass growing on the grave.
It's not about Franz, it's a game between the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. In order to ensure their political superiority, the aristocratic group has always suppressed the rise of the bourgeoisie within the rules of the game.
Similar things are not only happening in the Holy Roman Empire, but almost the entire European continent is a battle between two major classes.
It is nothing more than that the conservatives of the Holy Roman Empire are stronger, and the bourgeoisie can't breathe.
Of course, struggle is struggle, and in fact it has little to do with ordinary people. Even ordinary nobles and small and medium capitalists are not eligible to participate in this game.
Even big capitalists will not be targeted as long as they are not involved in politics.
It's a pity that many people don't know it, and they fantasize about establishing a strong political network. As a result, the taboo of the aristocratic group has brought their own family into it.
learn from mistakes.
Although I don't know that the emperor has drawn a warning line for them, crossing the line will kill them. After enough social beatings, the capitalists have grown.
Most people think that too much money causes trouble, so that the most popular now is no longer "fighting the rich", but the more popular "wealth not showing whiteness" in the East.
After realizing that the Vienna government was short of money, one or two began to pretend to be poor. Many capitalists would rather keep their money in the basement than let the outside world know that they are rich.
Collecting money is not a crime, and you have the right to control your own money. The Vienna government is disciplined, and legal private property is sacred and inviolable, and you can do whatever you want.
In a sense, the capitalists are helping the Vienna government to stabilize the currency value and survive the financial crisis.
Otherwise, the previous currency was over-issued, and the value of the Aegis would no longer be guaranteed. Compared with the surging franc and the same super-issued Aegis, the currency value has hardly fluctuated, which is a miracle in itself.
Insufficient currency circulation is no longer a problem in the era of paper money. If it is not enough, just print it directly, the circulation market of Aegis has expanded, and it is logical to increase the currency circulation.
Just like the US dollar in later generations, as long as the market has confidence in them, Lao Te dares to release... water and water.
The era of great military expansion is over, and the era of great economic expansion has just arrived. As long as a small short-term goal is achieved, the Vienna government can immediately get out of the current financial difficulties.
In the middle of the 19th century, the gold standard system was successively established in the European continent. The mainstream settlement method of various countries in international trade was also gold. The British pound and the Aegis were both supplementary to gold settlement.
In addition to bearing the name of an international currency, in fact, neither Aegis nor the British pound is an international currency in the true sense, and the ability to become a settlement currency is actually based on gold.
Only by turning the "Gold-Aegis system" into a "Aegis system" can Aegis be an international currency in the true sense. At that time, you can emulate the Americans of later generations and get rich by printing money.
Prime Minister Karl hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, in addition to our reputation, the value of S.H.I.E.L.D. is more important because it is linked to gold and can be freely exchanged.
Once we get rid of gold and there is no restriction on gold reserves, we can print as many Aegis as we want. The outside world will definitely not accept it. Maybe it will collapse directly like the current franc. "
This is an inevitable result. Although the credibility of the Shinra Empire is not low, it has not reached the point of being loved by everyone.
If the Aegis and gold are really decoupled, it is estimated that the British will immediately take advantage of the situation and launch the pound to snatch the market.
Seeing that the Prime Minister was misled by the apparent problem, Franz shook his head and explained: "This is a long-term goal, and naturally Aegis cannot be decoupled from gold in the short term.
It's just that in addition to the fixed exchange rate with gold, we can also add some chips, such as: grain settlement, oil settlement, etc.
In these areas, we have absolute advantages, and we propose to directly use the Aegis to settle the settlement, and the resistance of various countries should not be too high.
First establish the status of Aegis settlement in the European continent, and then gradually spread to the world, and then implement the final step after the overall situation has been determined. "
Copy homework, who can't!
Although he doesn't know what happened in the process of establishing the dollar hegemony in later generations, Franz has heard about the peg and decoupling of the dollar from gold.
Since it was successful in the original time and space, just follow the homework. The small episodes that happened in the middle can be handled by the Americans, but it doesn’t make sense for the Vienna government to handle them.
Americans have food hegemony and oil hegemony, and the Holy Roman Empire also has these things, and the chips on both sides are evenly matched.
In a short period of time, it is unrealistic to want to promote the SHIELD system all over the world, but it is still very promising to implement it on the European continent.
When selling monopoly materials such as grain and oil, he insisted that he would use the Aegis to trade, and he was not afraid that European countries would not compromise.
The European continent is still the center of the world these days. As long as the Aegis hegemony is established in Europe, it will be much easier to promote it overseas.