Chapter 73, Germany has defaulted

Italy was successfully managed by the military, but unfortunately the war reparations that the Allies wanted were still out of reach, and the Italian economy deteriorated further due to the entry of the coalition forces.

In the Kingdom of Italy, where the unemployment rate is as high as 50 percent, the people are already poor, don't look at the payment of war reparations, they still count on the Allied forces to send relief food one by one?

Fortunately for the southern Italian region, the local industry is backward, the agricultural population accounts for a considerable proportion, and there are not too many people in need of relief.

After reaching an agreement with the British consortium, Ferdinand ordered the garrison to distribute a batch of relief food, and then began to work for relief, such as leveling the land and building factories......

The French in the north are tragic, and millions of people are pointing to the French army to eat?

Make them in a dilemma, distribute relief food, the congressmen can't pass the level, and if they don't distribute relief food, Italy will soon be in chaos.

As soon as Italy is in chaos, the war reparations will also be blown up, and the French government is worried!

The British, who reacted a step slower, are now starting to see the jokes. Due to the strength of the troops, they only controlled Rome, and relatively little pressure on them.

Withdrawal of troops from Italy? Just think about it, if you don't return, how can you explain it to the country? And not everyone is like Bulgaria, who has sold their debts!

The cooperation between the Bulgarian and British consortiums was not kept secret, and soon everyone became aware of it, but it was still out of the wait-and-see stage.

In 1924, after the first batch of factories were put into operation, stimulated by interests, the participating British consortiums increased their investment.

Soon the French began to follow suit, and the world's first industrial migration broke out, and Italy seemed to be transformed into a huge industrial park, with factories all over the coast.

The government of London suddenly realized that it had suffered a loss, and they had not yet received the share that belonged to the British Empire?

Bulgaria and France occupied Italy on both the east and west, so how could the British Empire have only one Rome?

Negotiation, negotiation must be made! The share that belongs to the British Empire must be returned, especially the areas controlled by the French!

The southern Italy occupied by Bulgaria was developed in partnership with the British consortium, which they could accept, but the French controlled the most elite northern part of Italy, and all of them were eaten by the French consortium, which was unbearable.

Negotiations on the Italian question had not yet begun, and Germany had another problem.

The war reparations, which were supposed to be paid at the end of 1923, were postponed by the Germans, and with the support of the British, the Entente agreed.

At that time, everyone was held back by the Italian problem and did not want any more problems in Germany, and the French also made concessions and agreed to the Germans to delay the payment for a quarter.

Now that the time was near, the German government again asked for an extension, and at the same time demanded to the Entente the Allies to reduce part of the war reparations.

The Weimar government really had no choice this time, and the major kingdoms with the best economic recovery in the country only subscribed to the part they had originally divided, and the rest fell on the central government.

In the areas controlled by the central government, the Weimar government was carrying out liberal political reforms, such as establishing a parliamentary system and opening up universal suffrage, so that anyone over the age of 20 could participate in elections.

On the one hand, it is also improving social welfare, such as: the eight-hour work system, the weekend and weekend system, the granting of trade union rights to government personnel, the simultaneous operation of the dual-track system of regional social security and welfare and central social security welfare, and comprehensive free education and free medical care......

On the surface, these policies are good, but unfortunately, except for the right to vote, everything else is in the air, and the people can't see it and touch it.

For example, the eight-hour workday, yes, is an eight-hour work system in the whole country, but they have to work four hours of overtime every day without compensation, and they have to continue to work overtime on weekends, and the reason of the capitalists is that in order to repay the war reparations, everyone has to work at least 40 hours a week without compensation.

There is no problem, half of Germany's industrial products have been offset to pay off the debts of the Entente, so this class must be added free of charge, and if you don't work overtime, you will get out, and if you dare to make trouble, you will go to prison.

Another example: social security benefits, because of the lack of finance, so these welfare funds are in arrears for many years, many people have a high pension in name, but unfortunately it is issued according to the depreciation of the mark.

It has depreciated more than 4,000 times the mark, is it the same as the original gold mark? So these so-called pensions, except for self-deception, have no effect.

Free education, the Germans are still doing well, basically all of them have been implemented.

Free medical care is completely fooling people.

The so-called free medical care is only effective in the public hospitals established by the Weimar government, and there are only two such public hospitals in the whole of Germany, and the total number of medical staff is less than 100.

On such a scale, will the German public be able to find these two hospitals?

Even if you find it, you go to the queue, and then the doctor tells you that there are more than seven figures in the queue in front of you, and come back in a hundred years!

Don't look at these projects as empty shells, in fact these projects are all gold-swallowing beasts, and half of the German government's annual finances are swallowed up by the bureaucratic class.

The accusations of the French against the German government for deliberately defaulting on its debts are not unfounded. If you have money for social welfare, why don't you have money to pay off your debts?

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"Tell the Germans that if they can convince the British consortium, we have no opinion, and now they are only in debt with the British consortium, and the Bulgarian government is just routinely collecting money!" Ferdinand said coldly

How is it possible that the Germans, perhaps looking at Bulgaria for good talk, actually wanted the Bulgarian government to give up Germany's war reparations?

The debts have been sold, is it possible that the Bulgarian government will pay off the debts for the Germans?

Even if he hadn't sold his debts, Ferdinand wouldn't have forgiven their debts, these are all money, could it be that they gave up for the sake of the so-called German-Paul friendship? It seems that the relationship between Germany and Bulgaria is not so important!

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Metyev replied

Perhaps annoyed by the attitude of the Germans, Ferdinand added: "At this Paris conference, we will be in charge of watching the show, and if the British support the Germans' proposal, let them be in charge of the domestic consortium!" ”

Get a domestic consortium? If the London government had been that capable, they wouldn't have to worry about financial problems.

The capitalists are not easy to mess with, and whoever dares to touch their cheese will invite them to eat sweet potatoes!

The politicians of London, who were not so impartial and selfless, put their lives on the line for the benefit of the Germans.

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