Chapter 160: When Beijing Meets Berlin XIII
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Taking advantage of the crisis of the strike in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and with the acquiescence of Crown Prince Frederick and the old Chancellor, Joey set up the famous German polling institute of his previous life, the Ahrensbach Institute of Investigation, 65 years earlier, and on a quiet day in mid-June, at 56 Kurenburgstrasse in Berlin, without notice.
Ahrensbach means "Gathering Creeks" in German, and the name Joey gave it to Crown Prince Frederick to a veritable taste.
Similarly, the old chancellor held the same view: "The opinion of a single person or a small group may be an inconspicuous stream, but when these streams come together, they become the Danube, the Rhine, and the Elbe, and these rivers have the power to change German history." Paying attention to an individual's public opinion from the source is a smart thing that a smart person does. ”
After the evening of spring, Master Bismarck also liked to talk about public opinion with his mouth open and closed, and liked to talk about the workers' labor security, mutual relief, and labor insurance.
At the following cabinet meetings, the old chancellor proposed to the cabinet ministers present how Germany should guarantee the rights and interests of workers suffering from illness, how to protect unemployed workers, how to compensate disabled workers, and even put forward a record number of years that workers should enjoy the rights and interests of retirement pension.
As in history, the three most famous social security bills in Germany and the Nordic countries, the Workers' Sickness Insurance Act, the Workers' Compensation Act, and the Workers' Disability and Pension Insurance Act, were all written by Bismarck in history, except that they were advanced by the old chancellor by 5-10 years and put in the cabinet meeting in 1879.
As the prime minister of the German Empire, Chancellor Bismarck's social security bill was based on the German national identity, rather than the promotion of Britain and France, and proposed a social security system through democratic elections and voting.
At the cabinet meeting of the German government, Lao Zai made it clear to his cabinet members, "Through reflection on the strike crisis in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, I believe that it is necessary to protect the basic rights and interests of workers, eliminate their worries about work, and solve the problem of workers' survival, so as to avoid the increasingly serious social turmoil in Germany and maintain the situation of German unity." ”
"The three bills I am going to propose to the Federal Assembly of the Reich that the three bills on health insurance for industrial workers (historically in 1883), accident insurance (historically in 1884), and retirement and work-related injury insurance (historically in 1889) are not my whims!"
"These three acts are my inheritance and development of the patriarchal protective relationship between the Junkers and the hired peasants in Germany. As you all know, on German soil, the Junkers had a tradition of providing housing, medical care, education, and relief for hired farmers. What I am doing now is nothing more than to extend this tradition, which has lasted for thousands of years on German soil, from the countryside to our industry and then to the whole country. ”
"This patriarchal relationship of protection is a tradition in our German national culture, and only by inheriting the traditions of the German nation can we ensure the continuation of the German national spirit, and only in this way can we establish the centripetal force, identity and commonality of the German nation for a long time."
After glancing at Crown Prince Frederick, who was sitting next to him with a serious face, the old chancellor spoke with great seriousness, "The strike in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach has made me realize a serious problem. In the current workers' movement and communist ideology that is now rising in Germany and even in Europe, some people are trying to destroy the German nation and the German empire built on the basis of the German nation. ”
"The rhetoric used by these people, who are trying to replace nationality with class character, and who obscure the German nation's sense of identity with their own nation, are taking advantage of the poverty of the labourers resulting from industrialization to incite strikes and riots with ulterior motives. This practice was, and had endangered, the durability and harmony of the German Empire, and was, and had a devastating and destructive effect on the process of German national integration within the Empire. ”
"Their intention is simple, they are ready to bring down the newly unified German Empire to the ground!"
"The three bills I have proposed are not only to avoid possible serious social turmoil and maintain social stability, but also to strengthen the self-identity of the German nation, safeguard the national character of the German nation, and ensure the long-term prosperity of the German Empire!"
"It is now the industrial workers in Germany who will soon enjoy the social security that I have proposed, and in the near future I guarantee that these social insurance systems will also be applied to the peasants."
"I will defend the unity of Germany with an iron will, and I firmly believe that the kinship of the German nation, whose blood is thicker than water, is the foundation of the German Empire standing tall in the world!"
"Bang Bang!" Crown Prince Frederick saluted the great iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck with his red hands.
Historically, the social security system established by Chancellor Bismarck in the form of legislation, whether it is the German Empire in the past or the Federal Republic of Germany today, has very little difference between its legal text, its degree of implementation and the degree of realization. It is especially important that all Germans believe in the sustainability of the social security system created by Bismarck, and that the "Universal Health Insurance" (AOK) established during Bismarck's time is still the public law institution in Germany that accepts health insurance for the general population.
In line with the principle of the king in law, the inherent seriousness and unshakability of the German legal text make all German workers understand that the era of a country protecting the rights and interests of all workers is coming.
When Joey first knew the old chancellor's idea of three social security bills, he immediately understood that the best opportunity for himself to show the Ahrensbach Institute of Investigation had come, and a practical opportunity to change the image of the old prime minister of iron and blood was placed in front of him and the Ahrensbach Institute of Investigation.
This is the world's first legislation on the social security of workers proposed by the state, and it is also the foundation and prototype of the world's most famous Nordic welfare society in Joey's previous life.
Through newspapers, posters, posters, rallies, and workers' demonstrations, in less than a week, the public approval rating of the cabinet under Prime Minister Bismarck exceeded 80 percent. A new title, "People's Chancellor", resounding louder than "Chancellor of Peace", appeared in German newspapers.
In the German public opinion circles and the people respectfully presented the title of "people's chancellor", the old prime minister turned gorgeously from the reputation of iron and blood, and in the face of the three bills proposed by the old prime minister, the public opinion circles of other European powers can only admit, "people's chancellor" is really deserved for Bismarck.
The French public opinion circles, which have always been characterized by freedom, democracy and republicanism, are full of resentment, red-eyed, and sourly do not forget to be in front of the "people's prime minister", and always hang the title of "iron-blooded prime minister", reminding the ordinary French workers, peasants and craftsmen not to forget the shameful defeat suffered by France in the Franco-Prussian War, so as to offset the great temptation of a social security and welfare system for the workers.
Unfortunately, history has always proved one thing, that is, no one can stop the people's yearning for good things, especially about their own vital interests.
The manipulation of public opinion on the great discussion of diplomatic relations between Germany and Qing, and finally giving the old prime minister the title of "Prime Minister of Peace", was actually the second shot of the Ahrensbach Institute of Investigation, and the shouting for Bismarck's social security bill was actually the first shot of the Ahensbach Institute of Investigation and Research in manipulating public opinion.
Of course, this public opinion research agency is also fully funded by the Crown Princess Victoria Foundation, and according to Joey's vision, this public opinion research agency should not only pay attention to public opinion in Germany, but also pay attention to public opinion against Germany in Britain, France, Russia, Austria and the United States.
Therefore, when the French public opinion finally found an opportunity to anger the Germans in the diplomatic relations between Germany and Qing, through the intelligence summary of the Allensbach Institute of Investigation, Crown Prince Frederick, the old chancellor and Joy immediately grasped the public opinion trends of the old enemy French.
After experiencing the shadow of the defeat of Indochina being intervened by the Qing Dynasty, the stupid unjust behavior of borrowing money from Russia, and the stagnant African colonization plan, although there are the bright spots of the victory of Peru and Bolivia, the traditional French forces, but after all, they cannot resist the heavy blow of Germany to establish a social security system.
As a feud with the Germans, the French will not give up any opportunity to ridicule the Germans, in short, no matter what the Germans do, scolding first is a manifestation of French political correctness.
When they heard that the Germans were going to apologize to the Qing people, almost all French newspapers and magazines turned on the mockery mode. Now is the time to slam the "people's chancellor" and the "peace minister" who are in charge of German diplomacy, and the oppressed French public opinion is unusually excited.
Among them, the satire of current affairs cartoons is the strongest. In the nineteenth century, the cartoons of current affairs were the vanguard of French public opinion, and under the agitation of public opinion, the cartoons of French politics began to ridicule Prime Minister Bismarck, the German government, ordinary Germans, and even the German royal family without restrictions. The image of a German with a pear-shaped face began to appear on the streets of Paris.
The form of comics originally came from Italy, while political cartoons were invented by Martin Luther during the Reformation to resist the oppression of the Vatican.
The British people's current affairs caricatures pay attention to elegance and subtlety, just like the gentlemanly spirit of the British, while the French current affairs cartoons are vulgar and direct, if the current affairs cartoons do not have genitals in them, they cannot be called satirical current affairs cartoons in the eyes of the French.
Especially during the Bourbon dynasty in France, the merciless ridicule of Charles X and King Louis-Philippe marked the high-profile appearance of the French current affairs cartoons, in which the face of King Louis-Philippe was depicted in the shape of a pear, which is a representative work of French current affairs cartoons with genitalization, and in the context of spoken French, the pear is metaphorically used as a female genital.
In the face of criticism from the German gentlemen of morality, the French often say, we are just painting the king as a pear, and you are painting the pope as a donkey's head, and don't let the eldest brother laugh at the second brother.
After reading the intelligence summary of the Allensbach investigative agency, Joey said in all fairness that the French public opinion circles are like the Frenchmen who are accustomed to freedom, and they are also free and accustomed to spraying Germany in the matter of anger, without any spraying power at all, and they cannot be like the German public opinion manipulated by the Allensbach Institute of Investigation, so that they can move in step and tune in unison.
This intelligence summary clearly shows how different and strange the various parties of French public opinion are in the diplomatic relations between Germany and Qing.
As for the apology, the French ultra-leftists angrily criticized the Germans for taking too small steps to apologize, how could they let an emperor and a minister come forward, if the Germans were sincere, they should let the Shotgun Emperor and the cruel old prime minister come forward to apologize together, so as to show the apologies of Western countries to the Qing Kingdom.
Of course, some ultra-left public opinion believes that it is completely wrong to apologize to the corrupt Qing government, that the Qing government cannot represent the great Qing people, and that the Germans should apologize to the Qing people.
The center-left believes that the motives of the German royal family and government for apologizing are not pure, and that the purpose of the German apology is to seek the economic interests of the Qing country, and that they are completely representatives of incorruptibility and shame.
The centrists were angry that the Germans did not take their Western friends to play together, and they did not know how to get friends when they made a fortune in the Qing Dynasty, and asked Germany to learn from the first two Anglo-Qing wars, and the British dragged the French to the Qing Kingdom to make a fortune.
The political position of the French people likes to be either left or right the most, and this kind of brazen remarks about the centrist made the French public opinion immediately pinch first, when will the Gallic rooster be friends with the damned Germans! Fight this law rape wallgrass!
As representatives of the middle and lower classes of the French people, the center-right who has always emphasized conservative values seems to have completely violated the law of the jungle in Western society, and the strong will apologize to the weak.
As for the French far-right forces, they shouted the slogan that the Germans are not worthy of being white, get out of Europe
Just when Joey was preparing to forcefully counterattack the French public opinion circles, which had no discipline at all, it was not the Germans who fired the first shot of the counterattack in France, but a Qing countryman, Zeng Jize, the minister of the Qing Dynasty to Britain and France.