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Like Joey's previous life, Christmas in 1879 was a national public holiday in Germany, and even Jews or Orthodox believers who did not celebrate Christmas were required to close their businesses on vacation, so in the hundreds of years after the conversion to Christianity from Germany, work was work, vacation was vacation, and there would never be a 24-hour shop all year round.

Some people may wonder, doesn't the West flaunt freedom, I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the existence of Jesus, why can't it be business as usual?

Speaking of this question, it has to deal with the category of public order and good customs and the unique guild system in Germany.

Public order and good customs, according to the literal interpretation of English is public order (public policy), for the specific content, not only in Europe, but even all over the world scholars are also different opinions, we will not do academic discussion here, just directly quote the "German Civil Code".

The definition of good customs in Germany is good customs.

Good customs refer to the customs and habits of a nation or country, for Germany, the main nation of the country is the Germans, and the custom of the Germans is that Christmas needs to be taken on a holiday, so for you who are a minority, you need to respect the customs of the main nation.

According to the European left, the customs of conformity can easily form the tyranny of the majority over the minority, such as the prohibition of alcohol, the anti-pornography campaign in the history of the United States, and even the encirclement and suppression of pop music and computer games.

Therefore, in the German Civil Code, good customs have been added to the restrictive legal requirement of Germany, which must be socially appropriate (social justice) in order to be enforced, and the simple explanation is that good customs should be the standard of behavior that all people in the country who have independent and correct thinking feel appropriate (comfortable).

Surrogate mothers, raising mistresses, human banquets, public fornication, these behaviors themselves belong to the category of social morality, and it is difficult for the law to find applicable provisions to punish, so it is necessary to use the folk customs of the country as the basis for legal punishment.

In the good customs of any nation, the above behavior will never make a person with the ability to think rightly feel that it is an appropriate behavior.

In the good customs, there are some contents that belong to the unique customs of certain countries and nations, the simplest thing is that Europeans oppose eating dog meat, which is a European custom, and it is an East Asian custom that East Asians like to eat dog meat, and you are free in your own custom circle, but if you eat dog meat in Europe, it is a violation of European customs, which is a crime.

Similarly, it is a crime for you to eat pork in the Middle East as an offense to the local customs and culture, but it is also a crime for a Middle Eastern person to restrict you from eating pork in your home.

Going there as a guest, it has always been a guest and a host, and there is no reason to dominate the host, so how I am in my own home, so I can also be in your home and how to excuse it, or stop.

Secondly, good customs gave birth to the second legal term that Germany gave to the world, legal acts.

The simple explanation is that you think about a crime in your head every day, it's not a crime, but you say your idea to the person you're going to kill, like you shout at a random person on the street in Germany, "I'm going to kill you!" ”

Sorry, you're in big trouble, being taken away by the police and locked up for a few days is the lightest, the person can apply for a court habeas corpus order against you at any time, if you get close to the person you have threatened, then you will go to jail.

If you don't shout at people, but go out into the street to buy a kitchen knife, if you buy a kitchen knife that is not properly kept, but is in your hand, then the police will check you, and if you tell the police that you are going to use the knife in your kitchen, it is not a crime, but the police will accompany you home.

If you tell the police that you are going to kill someone with a knife in the street, given that you have shown your criminal intent and are going to go out on the street with a kitchen knife, then you have committed a crime.

In Germany, it is never the case that the fact of injury is judged to exist only after the knife has been slashed on the person's body, and it will never happen, because your bones are too hard and the knife that cuts you is forced to stop, and the act of injury is terminated.

In short, ideas are not crimes, but crimes are deeds, which is why the German courts supported Chancellor Bismarck's implementation of the anti-socialist workers' law, and the political actions of the Socialist Workers' Party are illegal, while socialist ideas are not.

It should be added that the Germans also have a first-of-its-kind legal history in their own civil code, that is, commercial profiteering is illegal.

This civil law provision is also the basis of two laws in Germany in the future, one is the "Anti-Commercial Bribery Act", which is attached to the contract clause of this bill after the contract signed between Germany and the Qing State for two warships of the Dingyuan class in history.

The other is the Anti-Monopoly Act.

Due to the existence of civil law provisions against commercial profiteering, the German billionaires are far less wealthy than their counterparts in Britain and the United States.

Finally, it was the requirement of the seriousness of the social contract in the German Civil Code that gave rise to the guild system that was unique to Germany.

It is a common argument that the guild system no longer existed in Germany in 1874, but this statement is wrong, and the correct statement should be that the feudal guild system was abolished and replaced by a guild system that met the requirements of capitalism.

In Joey's previous life, there were still 83 industrial and commercial guilds in Germany in 2017, with a history of more than a few hundred years, and the laws on which these public law organizations were established date back to the time of Frederick the Great.

Trade associations in Germany are regional, compulsory in nature, and their mission is to represent the interests of their members – independent bodies that protect the interests of business, to preserve and maintain the long-standing tradition of credibility in the business community, and to promote the economic development of their industries.

It can be said that all German businessmen are members of this organization, and these guilds, in addition to expressing a wide range of principled opinions in economic, legal and political fields, often serve as legal and administrative experts in the courts on special occasions.

To put it simply, if you open a grocery store in Berlin, you also need to join a merchant guild in Berlin, and if you insist on opening on Christmas, then you will be sued by the merchant guild to the court, and the court will determine that you are breaking the law based on the identification of the merchant guild.

The German guild is such a domineering existence.

Let's put it this way, in Germany you can not join a union as a worker, but as a businessman, you can not join a guild.

The German Empire was known as the "Nation of Soldiers" and was also known as the "Kingdom of the Guilds", and to this day, the Federal Republic of Germany retains the nickname "Guild Nation".

Therefore, Germany, which is forever insulated from the so-called holiday economy, is destined to make Joey unable to go shopping, or to visit some famous attractions, and not being able to go to play does not mean that Joey is very idle, on the contrary, Joey at Christmas is quite busy, in addition to praying and praying in the church according to the custom, but also to help his mother with fundraising, and to distribute free lunch and dinner on Christmas Day to the poor.

If you ask about Christmas Day, where there are the most Germans, that is, the church, there is no one, only the only one.

There is no such thing as a country without faith in this world, but the difference between believing in God and Allah's heavenly kingdom, or believing in Buddha's Elysium, or Maguru's terrestrial divine utopia.

Or, to put it more bluntly, it is the difference between whether you are cultivating this life or the afterlife, that is, whether you are preparing to live to fulfill a certain utopia, or whether you are going to atone for your sins or do good deeds before you die, so that you can go to heaven after death.

Don't say that you don't have faith, you believe in money, power, power, power, the strong, believe in yourself, and live in the moment..... These are beliefs.

Where there is an idea, there is faith, and there is no god as a god.

The ingredients for the free lunch and dinner at Berlin Cathedral were purchased by Crown Princess Victoria's Foundation, the venue was provided by the church, the chefs were volunteers, and adults such as the crown prince and the Grand Duke of Baden were responsible for carrying the goods, and the responsibility of distributing the food fell to Joey, his brothers and sisters, and a group of half-grown teenagers.

The food distributed is simple, with three different soups, the main dish being brown bread, and sausages in a variety of flavors.

Thanks to Christmas, because of the Christmas holiday, many merchants usually donate food that cannot be sold before Christmas to churches, so the free lunch and dinner at Christmas are much richer than usual.

The first is the "wheat soup", which is to boil smoked meat, sugar, dried plums and barley ballast together, hunger resistance is the biggest feature of this soup, the second is the beef soup package that Joey bought on credit from OXO Foods, with carrots, celery, onions, pork, and sour cream, laurel, caraway, juniper berries, marjoram, nutmeg, bay leaf celery, etc.

The last course, called Biersuppe, sounds like a wonderful name, but the ingredients are a pitiful beer, butter and flour, and some very particular people use milk instead of butter and sugar and cinnamon to improve the taste.

But Joey took a sip and was convinced that the ingredients of this beer soup were at most beer, butter and flour, and a lot of salt was added.

Historically, the Hohenzollern family, from the time of Frederick the Great until the time of Frederick Wilhelm IV, the only soup in the court was this beer soup (the taste is salty/sweet noodle soup), and to this day, the old emperor Wilhelm I still drinks it from time to time when he eats lunch alone.

There are two versions of the story of Frederick the Great's love for drinking this soup, one version is that the "soldier king" William Frederick I invested 80% of his income in the military, so Frederick the Great, as a son, could only drink beer soup since he was a child, and the other version is that during Frederick the Great's war with the three European powers, Frederick the Great promised his soldiers that he would eat whatever the soldiers ate.

"We are ragged on the road, to enlighten the mountains and forests, fighting alone, not for money, only for glory, tireless, but to be worthy of our hearts." This is probably one of Joey's favorite quotes from Frederick the Great.

The people who are volunteering at Berlin Cathedral today are not only Frederick and Baden, as well as the staff of the foundation, but also many people who have been mobilized to be enthusiastic about public welfare in the German upper class, and perhaps some of them value the opportunity to get close to the crown prince and his wife, and the opportunity to increase their fame or political capital.

But Joy didn't care what the motives of these German nobles were, as long as he was willing to accept the invitation and participate in the public welfare activities according to the prescribed arrangement, it was enough.

In a sense, public welfare activities actually require the positive attitude of the upper echelons.

Among them were the Quandt family, who had come from Pritzwalk, Brandenburg, and several important textile merchants in Saxony-Thuringia, because today's charity event was actually Joey's soft advertising time for an important textile product.

Coming from the 21st century, if there is any biggest difference between Joey and the Germans of the 19th century, it is that the taste of commercialization is heavier, and the other way of expression is to know how to subtly promote himself.

The product that Joey is about to introduce is a blue coverall, which is not the style of the silk jumpsuit worn by the children of the French aristocracy in the 18th century, nor the low-waisted coarse cloth cargo pants that appeared during the gold rush on the West Coast of the United States in 1850, but the ultimate combination of the two, very similar to the design style of the one-piece cargo pants at the peak of the 1940s.

Prussian blue canvas texture, wide trouser legs, wide pockets on the chest and outside of the thighs, the front is like an apron, the back is an adjustable strap, the shoulder strap is embroidered with white silk thread with the floral abbreviation "VP" of the Victorian Crown Princess Foundation, next to the abbreviation is a lovely red heart, and the wide pocket on the chest is embroidered with a dark red phrase, "Niemals aufgeben!" (Never give up!) ）”

For both men and women, the coveralls are wearing a white linen shirt underneath, no jewelry around the neck or hands, and high-top leather shoes with black suede soles on their feet, which are just the right temperature in hot kitchens and dining rooms, and rubber shoes that don't slip when working on wet ground.

No matter when, with a suitable outfit, the working person is always the most beautiful, not to mention that Crown Prince Frederick and the Grand Duke of Baden are middle-aged uncles with good looks online, plus Prince August and Prince Heinrich are in charge of the young handsome guys, it can be said that they are a walking scenery in the Berlin Cathedral.

Even Princess Victoria, who inherited the height of her mother, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, is a windy woman when she walks.

In addition to these most dazzling figures, there are also a large number of hard-working aristocrats who have become excellent subjects for journalists, on the one hand, the nobles who work beautifully, on the other hand, the recipients who are satisfied, and on the other hand, the busy journalists, Berlin Cathedral has become the busiest place in Berlin on Christmas Day.

Turning back to the same style as the 1940 coveralls, the idea was naturally born from Joey's idea, but what drove Joey to do it was an industrial demand, a German textile industry's desperate desire for change.

Historically, compared with the industrial revolution of the British, the industrial revolution of the Germans actually began with heavy industry, and the light industry capacity represented by the textile industry has been miserable, the level of German cotton textile in 1835 was only equivalent to that of Britain in 1788, and the lint processing capacity invented by Britain in 1850 was not reached in Germany until 1900.

Textile technology advantage is inferior to the British, cotton, linen raw material market is not as good as the British, destined to the Germans' industrial revolution to start from the railway, nearly 40 years have passed, German heavy industry has a huge development, but the light industry is still lame, Crown Prince Frederick as the head of the German economy also realized that light industry is also an important part of the industrial industry, in the creation of industrial output value and the expansion of employment of important value.

In the face of the British textile industry, which has a huge advantage, the Germans must not continue to use the experience of the development of the British textile industry, a plan to rely on the advanced chemical industry in Germany to produce chemical fiber fabrics instead of cotton and linen fabrics, was recommended to Crown Prince Frederick by Sir Gruson and Joy, but the results of the German chemical industry can not appear in an instant, so in order to cheer up the German textile industry, Joy can only be asked to provide some unique creative cotton and linen textile design.

So the individual soldiers of the German Marines were the first to be pushed out, and after slightly suppressing the hunger and thirst of the German textile industry, the Quandt family and the textile giants in Her Majesty's hometown came to the door again, bluntly saying that at the same time, the members of the German Textile Guild, Joey could not favor one over the other, forcing Joey to push out the coveralls in advance.

Joey's idea is very simple, he doesn't have any background in fashion design, and designing those beautiful (weird) modern clothes will definitely mess things, but the most practical clothing designs are something he can control.

The low-waisted cargo pants that appeared in 1850 are now the cash cow of the Levi Company in the United States, so Joey is not interested in competing fiercely with the Americans for this pants segment, but the one-piece cargo pants that appeared in 1911 are his goal.

There are many benefits of choosing one-piece cargo pants, first of all, it is the first kind of cargo pants that can protect the human body up and down the waist, and secondly, the development of industrialization, the subdivision of work will lead to the emergence of large factories, and the uniform dress of workers is an inevitable trend.

Finally, this kind of clothing with hard hats and labor protection shoes can be used on all kinds of industrial workers, whether it is flammable and explosive industries, machinery manufacturing, or steel smelting, and so on.

This is a kind of work clothes that belong to the nature of once and for all, and Joey decided to completely eliminate the road of ordinary labor protection work clothes in this market segment.

Since the road is going to be exhausted and not ready to leave a way for future generations, then the advertisement must be in place at one time. Fortunately, the clothing trend of the 19th century was still led by the aristocracy, and if a large number of nobles were invited to do free clothing advertisements at one time, then the effect would be absolutely sensational, so the Quandt family and the textile giants of Saxony-Thuringia were completely happy to see Joey use the Christmas charity event to make this soft advertisement.

Advertising has never been free, and Joey is not ready to spare this, forcing himself to engage in clothing design, and the guys who have boiled a gray hair all their lives will receive a lot of design fees as well as advertising fees.

Watching a large number of German, British, Austro-Hungarian, and even French journalists running back and forth at the Berlin Cathedral, Monsieur Quandt and several textile giants from Saxony-Thuringia were so happy that they even took the opportunity to chat with Crown Prince Frederick and his wife, and even offered to donate an additional donation to the German Foundation for the Poor and the Jews.

Crown Prince Frederick and Archduke of Baden naturally knew what the reason was for these textile giants to be so generous, in addition to feeling that Joey could always let go of any business opportunity without a trace, Crown Prince Frederick's heart sounded a passage from his son's words to himself.

"Dad, for the charity event at Christmas, it is important that you, your mother, and all the nobles wear this commoner's costume, because wearing it is not just about advertising the German textile industry."

"It is more important to show the world that the Hohenzollern family has made a new change, and that we are presenting a new image of the Hohenzollern family to the German people, a new image that is willing to be so close to the people, to pay more attention to the industrial workers, and to work for the well-being of the city dwellers."

"Dad, our ancestors can be the king of soldiers, and I hope that you, father, can become the king of workers in addition to being the king of soldiers!"