Chapter 27: A Sudden Change in Painting Style

In the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, there are many things about winning the lottery. Many remote princes, even ordinary people with royal blood, became kings and emperors overnight. Even in contemporary times, Comrade Chuan Jianguo has been a businessman all his life and became the number one person in the opposite door through the general election, isn't this change in identity and position even more amazing?

Having said that, Comrade Jianguo became the boss of country A, and he did a lot of ridiculous things that shocked people at the beginning, but these absurd things did not cause social turmoil, most of them were implemented, and some even played an unexpected role, which benefited from the separation of powers system set by those cattle people. In the Free Confederation of Aster, in the federal state of Lorraine, it is precisely this mechanism of separation of powers. It is said that Weiss does not have to worry about any big negligence or mistakes he will make, and the acting governor Brinders is also happy to impart various experiences and know-how about local management to him, but on the one hand, there is too little time left for him to learn, and on the other hand, although the Lorraine administration plays the role of a small government, mainly to maintain order and statutory approval, and generally does not interfere with market behavior, but in times of war, this federal state is occupied by the enemy, and all administrative organs are zeroed. After the war, it was largely possible to rely on the work of temporary officials led by Blinders around the clock.

To put it bluntly, he's about to take over a very challenging mess!

Federal laws and decrees clearly stipulate the relationship between government officials and economic entities, once they become government officials, they cannot continue to serve as the actual managers of enterprises or other non-governmental organizations, and can only retain the status of corporate shareholders, but they need to be repeatedly inspected and supervised to prove that there is no transfer of interests between the status of corporate shareholders and the role of government officials, so all this must be properly arranged. No one would be choked, so Weiss happily relinquished his position as president of the Union of Lorraine Industrialists and returned the title of operating officer of the Clumber-Heisen plant to the Lord. Prior to this, Sir Wise had also resigned as deacon of the alliance and transferred the position of president of the family business to his younger brother. In this way, the "Big Seven" of the Lorraine Industrialists Alliance temporarily became the "Big Five", and the position of president of the alliance was taken over by the young and energetic Nordic Mick.

After the election results were federally recognized, Weiss and Blinds, the interim acting governor, went through the handover and sat in the same office that he had not imagined just a few weeks earlier. In an instant, he seemed to be a VIP gamer, and the dark map opened up in front of him......

Under the federal constitutional system, the governor is actually the chief operating officer of the federal state, and the management of the state government and the management of a huge enterprise have similarities in many places, and even simpler, because what to do and what not to do are clearly written in the laws and decrees, and many government officials are also relatively stable groups, no matter what their ability is, under normal circumstances, they will run along the established track and inertia, and there will be no mistakes, and there are few people who make trouble and change jobs. It is also common for local councils to reject local government proposals, but it is only a form of legitimacy of differences of opinion and uneven interests, and is generally an internal reconciled contradiction.

On the first day of sitting in this office, Weiss had two main documents in front of him, one was an inventory of institutions and personnel, and the other was various reports. Thinking about his first day as an operations executive at the Clumber-Heisen plant, and reading similar materials, Weiss couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Despite this, he still spent a lot of time seriously and looked at these things one by one, through his mind, and through his heart. At this moment, he overlooks Lorraine from the perspective of God, and all the population, resources, and productivity are displayed in front of his eyes in the form of data or reports - although it is not so convenient, but the principles and laws are much the same.

As a remote area on the western border of the Federation, the land of Lorraine is very vast, and the resources are also very rich, but the population is much less than that of other federal states, especially those rich places, according to the official information of the Lorraine government, three years ago, the total population of this federal state was 37 million people, they were distributed in 1,633 large and small towns and nearly 200,000 villages, and the permanent population re-registered after the war was 32.96 million, with 3 fewer towns and nearly 4,000 fewer villages. Just looking at the numbers, you may think that this is nothing special, but if you pick up a report of other federal states, you will find that the inhabitants of Lorraine live very scattered, and the size of the towns is also small, you know, due to the large-scale relocation and concentration of the capital city during the war, the population of the capital city once skyrocketed to nearly 40 million, that is, the population of a capital area can be compared to Lorraine, which is more than 100 times the geographical area of Lorraine.

The strength of a region, population is an important factor, but the federation has not adopted the policy of household registration control, the population will flow naturally with the development of the region, as long as the region develops, the increase in population is not a problem, the real factors restricting the development of Lorraine, Weiss has been very detailed and scientific analysis before, that is, the development of transportation and industry.

To analyze the industrial structure of Lorraine, we can actually look at the distribution of the labor force. Lorraine has a population of more than 30 million, and less than half of the registered labor force, that is, excluding the elderly and children who have no labor force at all, among those who are healthy and mentally normal, the proportion of women in the workforce is very small, and the total number of jobs in enterprises is less than 6 million, and most of the labor force is either buried in the land or exported labor to other federal states.

Of the more than 5 million existing corporate jobs, industrial enterprises account for two-thirds, indicating that industry is the absolute pillar industry of Lorraine, but whether it is economic data or tax status, Lorraine does not look like an industrial-dominated region at all. The reason for this is mainly the low technological content of Lorraine's industry - from the state government's statistical data, Lorraine's industrial production capacity is not backward, but very backward, in addition to mining enterprises everywhere, downstream industries such as metallurgy, casting, chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, not only the number of enterprises is small, the strength is very weak, take the Clumber-Haisen family as an example, before receiving external investment, their main industry is to make hunting rifles, craft rifles and some military firearms, the production method and scale are almost the same as half a century ago, And this is a microcosm of Lorraine industry. After the devastation of the war and the plundering of the Normans, the current industrial situation of Lorraine is even worse than before the war, and the financial, medical, and educational industries are also completely characterless, and generally backward.

People are not blind to the various flaws in the development of Lorraine, but the previous governors of Lorraine have not had a very good way to speed up economic and social development, all they can do is to save money and invest as much government spending as possible in education, health care and public infrastructure. But in a booming industrial age, honesty alone is not enough to promote the rapid development of a region. To this end, after the formation of the Union of Lorraine Industrialists, Weiss communicated with the acting governor Brynders many times, suggesting that the state government formulate measures to encourage industrial and social development, and Blinders was very sympathetic to those suggestions, but limited by the authority of the interim governor, he could only take a limited number of them, and most of them were left to his successor. At that time, they could never have imagined that Weiss would become the successor they had spoken of, and now the baton was in his hands, as if it were predestined. Now, he can put his original ideas and recommendations into practice, and it will be a golden age for him to show his strength, but if you look at the relevant laws and regulations, you will find that things are not as simple as you think—some orders can be signed by the governor to take effect, some need to be submitted to the state legislature for a vote, and some powers are vested in the federal government, and these have to be dealt with separately.

With the geographical and cultural conditions of Lorraine, Weiss has always believed that it is suitable for the development of heavy industry with metallurgy, chemical industry and machinery manufacturing as the pillars, and the first condition for the development of heavy industry is that it needs to be rich. Drawing on the development experience of later generations, Weiss planned to bring together the heads of various financial institutions and consortia and persuade them to work together to finance the development of Lorraine, in the form of a huge development fund led by the Lorraine government, and the state government to provide start-up capital and credit guarantees, which is legal and compliant at the federal level. Financial institutions and consortia provide financing and enjoy preferential policies and economic benefits on a share-by-share basis, while Lorraine industrialists apply for loans from this fund, which are used exclusively for the development of industry, and the construction of infrastructure related to industrial development can also be operated through this fund. In order to increase the attractiveness, the return on investment can be increased by 5% on the basis of the general market price, although it is only a small 5%, but considering the active role of the Canton of Lorraine, the actual financial institutions and consortia have taken much less risk, and the investment direction of this fund is indeed in line with the local characteristics and characteristics of Lorraine, and the shrewd financial institutions and consortia are very accurate about these and will not miss such an opportunity.

The arrival of the governor means that the candidates for various functional departments must be quickly determined, and the entire state government will enter a normal state of operation. In the Federation, the appointment of officials does not require rigorous examinations or qualifications, and it feels a bit like a person who has been granted the right to ascend to heaven. From the point of view of the appointment of government officials, it is true that the governor is given unlimited powers, and he can even appoint an illiterate person as the governor of the education department, but the consequence of such willfulness and recklessness is likely to lead to him being impeached by the parliament or investigated by the security inspection department, and even being criticized by the people and stepping down, so in reality, especially the fierce Lorraine, no one will do this. The most sensible and appropriate way is to examine whether there are suitable candidates among the previous officials. For example, the head of the education system should be a professional who is familiar with the education system, understands the management of education, and has a good understanding of the distribution of educational resources in Lorraine, as well as in the medical, industrial, and economic sectors. There are so many things that Weiss has to keep busy for a while.