Chapter 254: The Great Proving Ground
The outbreak of the British economic crisis made Windsor Turnover decide to enter the insurance industry to alleviate the banking bankruptcy caused by the economic turmoil, mainly to provide a certain amount of deposit guarantee for small and medium-sized depositors, and all banks insured with the Zurich Bank Insurance Company, the Bank of Zurich will provide its depositors with a deposit guarantee of up to 1,000 pounds, and put these depositors in a priority position in the re-employment plan. Of course, these banks have been regulated by the Bank of Zurich since then, and they can't enter high-risk, high-yield industries.
Downing has been thinking about this plan for a long time, but the public always remembers what they don't think about, and they don't take into account the risks of high-yield investments until the economic crisis comes.
Lloyd's insurance market is flooded with a large number of small and medium-sized insurance intermediaries, their business often has great risks, often a fire, a shipwreck can make an insurance company fail, the lack of insurance companies of insurance companies, this requires huge financial resources, therefore, this historic responsibility also fell on the shoulders of the Windsor consortium, following the bancassurance, Zurich Bank issued a day to insure the insurance company.
After a period of tossing in the UK, Germany, which now seems to be the more important home of Downing, has a heavy toss, and he will build the world's first social security system for Germany. The most feared thing about the social security system is that the country's financial burden is too heavy, so the system promoted by Downing is not national, it is divided by state-level administrative regions, and each state decides the strength of its social security.
He divided the size of welfare into the following levels: 1. Survival guarantee, providing basic food for residents, in order to improve efficiency, this is all in cooperation with enterprises, the canteens of enterprises provide residents with a certain amount of food, and the state gives tax reductions, so the state can pay less.
2. Accommodation guarantee. The government provides land and hands over basic affordable housing communities to companies to bid for. It is conceivable that Shell Construction, which has the world's lowest-cost technology, will bid and be quite competitive. This would allow displaced people and bankrupts to have at least slave-like collective dormitories.
3. Minimum wage allowance. It is foolish for the government to impose a minimum wage on companies because it would reduce employment and, better yet, subsidize low-income employees.
Fourth, the benefits of job transfer. The government collects data from the job market and provides free or low-cost training opportunities to the unemployed. This thing is a future-oriented model that Downing attaches great importance to, because the economic crisis is often overcapacity, and some industries have to release a large number of labor, so the better the job transfer training, the sooner the crisis will be resolved.
5. Health security. India's kind of universal health insurance is Downing's most optimistic, but unfortunately in Germany it may not be possible to pass such an extreme plan, if it is not handed over to Windsor Hospital, the cost of medical insurance will not know how high it is.
6. Work-related injury insurance.
7. Natural disaster protection.
8. Pension system.
After Chairman Tang's eight social security level bills were introduced, they were publicized to each state, and each state's parliament discussed which level of social security system to join. Government officials from California, India, Malaya, Brazil and elsewhere have come to Germany to see how these systems are being implemented. Bavaria is the first region in the world to have all eight benefits covered and has an enviable level of social security benefits.
After spending some fun time in Munich with his family, Downing was ready to go on a trip around the world. This time the destination remains with a certain danger to Siberia. The Russians had in fact lost absolute control of Omsk and the east of it, because Shi Dakai's army had occupied the main communication route of Omsk, and at the request of the Windsor consortium, all the occupied Russian territory was handed over to the multinational mercenaries of Windsor, and at the forefront of this was the Danish and Swedish mercenary corps of Downing.
Omsk is only 1,000 kilometers from Yekaterinburg, a major Russian military city, and if it were to stop, the Russians would lose more than two-thirds of their territory. It is the largest city east of the Ural Mountains except for the city of Novosibirsk, the seat of the Governor's House of the Western Siberian Region, and will be the western terminus of the Siberian Artery planned by Downing.
In order to rule over a land that is now larger than all of Europe (including the uninvaded parts of Russia), Downing will implement here the communist system that Marx and Engels have longed for! He named it the Union of Soviets, appointed Marx as the first General Secretary of the Soviet Union, and Marx's policies in Israel were often rejected by the upper house and he was very depressed, so he decided to come to the Soviet Union, anyway, he was full of energy and soon learned Russian.
The general secretary was in charge of the executive power of the Soviet Union, and formulated the world's first purely planned economic system for the country, and Downing intended not to interfere in Marx's ruling for the first time, and let him do it, but the Soviet Union would be a protectorate, and there would be no ** military department.
The capitalists of the world were stunned, if they took a small country as an experiment, it would be fine, and now Downing handed over a place bigger than Europe to Marx to mess around, what a mess in the world, the New York Times reporter asked Downing worriedly and hurriedly: "Are you really optimistic about the social model that eliminates the market?" ”
Downing said: "I will try my best to help Marx succeed, if he can't do it, I guess no one will do it in the future." ”
Marx is no longer the poor and destitute of the past, and even his favorite daughter is sick and has no money to get medicine, he is full of resentment against the whole capitalist world, and it is strange that he does not advocate violence. Now Marx has been almost corroded by the sugar-coated cannonballs of the world's largest capitalists, and even Downing can hardly imagine that his mentor still insists that a planned economy is better than a market economy.
The Russian nation is a fighting nation, and in order to rule the stolen land, Downing must adopt extreme policies, which is one of the reasons why he supports the general secretary, and the other reason is that he hopes that this complete practical situation will be able to conclude with a decisive conclusion whether mankind can engage in a planned economy.
Downing vaguely felt that if he relied on his own ability to innovate, it was likely to be possible, and in fact he alone established the Windsor Consortium, which was similar to the communist system, and all aspects of the members of the consortium were protected by the organization, which seemed to be not much different from a communist country.
But he was curious about how Marx would toss the country, and in order to show his support for the work of the general secretary, the Bank of Zurich scraped together an interest-free loan of 10 million pounds to the Soviet Union, without specifying how Marx would use it or when he would repay it.
This crony is the foreign exchange reserves of the USSR, which will be issued in rubles internally with the help of the Bank of Zurich. In the end, simply the Central Bank of the Soviet Union adopted the platform system of the Bank of Zurich, which was not the result of Downing's request, but Marx himself did not have the energy to understand the operation of the complex financial system, and the great Soviet Union still had so many affairs to be guided by his old man, and it was not safe to hand it over to others, so it was better to leave it to the Bank of Zurich.
Not only Marx is assured, but others are also assured, you say that in a place that claims to eliminate capitalists, if there is no guarantee from the Bank of Zurich, which entrepreneur would dare to invest? The new Soviet Union was a really poor country, there were no foreign entrepreneurs to set up factories, and many industries were backward, so the golden sign of the Bank of Zurich was indispensable.
A term familiar to Downing came into being, when Marx established the financial system and established the most important administrative branch, the Soviet State Planning Commission. However, Marx is superior to the planning committees in history in that he did not draw up a "five-year plan" or anything like that, because it seems foolish to set a fixed time, and if you do it well, you can quickly end one stage and start the next, and if you don't think about it, it is normal to have more than five years.
The first stage of the Planning Commission was determined to be the construction of national infrastructure, because the national policy is not to allow private capital to be deposited, so even if an entrepreneur comes to do things, they are all working for the state, the government gives money, you help do things, if you don't want to do it, don't come, this kind of policy is obviously not very attractive, and the people who come to work for the Soviet Union are imbecile factory directors who can't get along in other countries.
Tang Ning snickered on the side, haha, Lao Ma will soon encounter a problem, a real eloquent entrepreneur must be profit-seeking, and he has no habit of working for others, even if he works for the country. He will not order his enterprises to work for the Soviet Union, lend money to others, and go to work for others, is this sick?
Now the most powerful factory to build roads is no longer Downing's factory, since he created the model of prefabricated cement roads, many road and bridge companies have followed, and some have done better than Downing's company through their own painstaking exploration, one of which is the father of Ruhr, the guy who once ate LPG girl flying vinegar with Downing in Luxembourg. Bouilon switched from the cement business to the cement road paving business and was the road king of Luxembourg. Of course, the necessary machinery such as cranes and bulldozers had to be purchased from the Suez Canal Company.
After arduous negotiations, the Ministry of Communications of the Soviet Union finally moved the Luxembourg Highway King to jointly invest in the establishment of the Soviet Road and Bridge Corporation, and Bouilon provided all the technology and engineers, which could account for 10% of the shares of this road and bridge giant. At this time, the capitalists in Europe and the United States suddenly had a stirring in their hearts, wow, it seems that participating in the construction of the Soviet Union can obtain shares in a monopoly company, which is a bit interesting, this is a monopoly on a country larger than Europe.
As if smelling fishy, the bloodthirsty capitalists were finally lured by the opportunity to take part of the shares, and the world's best companies came to the Soviet Union to inspect it. In this wave of small foreign investment, the Soviet Union set up a number of state-level monopolies: the Soviet Petroleum Corporation, the Soviet Chemical Corporation, the Soviet State Grid, the Soviet State Water Corporation, the Soviet Construction Corporation, the Soviet Iron and Steel Corporation, the Soviet Life Insurance Company, the Soviet Property Insurance Company, the Soviet Social Insurance Company, the Soviet Automobile Plant, the Soviet Mining Corporation, the Soviet Ordnance Industry Group, the Soviet Post Group, the Soviet Metallurgical Group, the Soviet Aluminium Corporation, the Soviet Commercial Real Estate Corporation, USSR Building Materials Corporation, USSR Electric Corporation, USSR Grain Corporation, USSR Coal Industry Group, USSR Shipbuilding Corporation, USSR Heavy Industry Group, USSR Civil Construction Corporation.
One of the characteristics of these national monopolies is that foreign capital can only hold a maximum of 10 percent of the shares, and because of the foreseen monopoly position, there are still quite a few outstanding enterprises that come to participate in the shares, so the quality of the partners is quite high. Among all these enterprises, the most bizarre is the Soviet State Telecommunications Group, because almost no other company in this industry can compete with the Windsor telecommunications empire, but it is an indispensable industry, so the Soviet State Telecommunications Group has to be owned by the Windsor Empire, and it has the highest stake of all monopoly state-owned enterprises, reaching 50%.
As for what does the Trans-Siberian Artery belong to? This is difficult to say, because the general secretary of the Soviet Union was very ambiguous about this, and the Times called it a line of "a state within a state". However, it is also the most important transportation route in the Soviet Union, so the Windsor consortium actually controls the three key departments of finance, telecommunications and transportation in the Soviet Union, and is called by the New York Times as "treating the state as a business model, monopolizing all the enterprises in a country, which is too good to make money." ”
Heaven and earth conscience, Downing is not optimistic about the administrative monopoly model at all, and the British monopoly model of the original East India Company and the guild monopoly model that have been abandoned have long proved that this is not efficient? Now it is the initial stage, so Europe and the United States think that the 10% of the monopoly company shares are very promising, hmph, wait and see.
At the request of Comrade Marx, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, the Siberian Artery, a great project for the benefit of the country and the people, should start as soon as possible, so the "Human Footprint Company" replanned the construction plan, and the two-way construction army starting from Sapporo became the three-way road, and the extra was of course going straight to Siberia to build the most important infrastructure "Siberian Artery".
Unlike the Soviet Union in history, the Soviet Union was very free, and from the very beginning it was criticized by various media in the Soviet Union for the suppression of private enterprises by state-owned enterprises, but fortunately, Marx was used to it when he was in Israel, and he still went it alone to save humanity from the whirlpool of economic crisis.
Economists in Europe and the United States sarcastically said: "The economic crisis is really eradicated, because there is no prosperity at all, and it is the virtue that is not a crisis or not." ”
Li Hongzhang also ridiculed the Soviet Union, saying that their level seemed to be similar to that of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they hoped to achieve maximum equality, but wait and see, equality locked up the enthusiasm of the workers, and the factories had no vitality at all. The Qing Dynasty deeply agreed with this remark, and the Qing media called the Soviet Union the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the Soviet Union."
No matter how ridiculed by the outside world, the Soviet Union at least managed to save the workers and peasants of the lowest proletariat from the brink of deprivation to death, at least the state guaranteed that they had something to eat, there was no unemployment rate at all, all workers and peasants had to arrange jobs, and the salary was another matter. (http://.)。
The policy arrangement work is one of the things that the capitalists are most afraid of, and that is the biggest killer of reducing the profits of enterprises, and the capitalists who have invested in monopoly enterprises are desperately trying to stop the government from doing this, so there is an unprecedented world spectacle in the Soviet Union, and the capitalists take to the streets to demonstrate. They often carry slogans like "Please don't stuff people into our company anymore, or I'll go bankrupt!" Investor of the Soviet Union of Roads and Bridges Builon".
The scene was published in the New York Times as a front-page photo, a hilarious scene that sounded the alarm bell for entrepreneurs who invested in the Soviet Union again.
Whenever there is such a hilarious incident, the Soviet telecommunications that recruit people completely autonomously are particularly proud, they maintain a good state of operation, internally they are still the capitalists who manage the workers, they are well organized, the business logic is clear, in the Soviet Union, the telecommunications company is the best state-owned enterprise, and the nursery rhyme "marry someone to marry telecommunications" is circulating in the capital Novosibirsk. Beechcraft Tip: How to quickly search for the books you're looking for
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