Chapter 138: Summer in Milan

The guns produced by the Belgian state-owned Herstal that far outperform the competition are from Swiss precision instrument cars, right? Bismarck felt a trace of fear, as if he saw the terrible military potential of the Grand Duke after possessing Lombardy, and he now had a new concept of supporting the Grand Duke to seize power, but if it was not for the good relationship with the Grand Duke, he would not have had the opportunity to see this brilliant black technology.

Napoleon III, who was the most sluggish in the audience, felt the deterrent power of CNC machine tools, and the newly appointed governors of Lombardy and Venice were demonstrating the terrible technological prowess of god-level industrialists to France, Sardinia, and Prussia, and the voice of "the consequence of being my enemy is ......" sounded in the ears of the three great powers.

Hugo was the happiest of them all, asking: "Will this technology be made public?" ”

Everyone pricked up their ears.

"Yes. When the world is free, equal, civilized, and open enough, it will be made public. This was the Grand Duke's answer, a disappointing and reasonable answer.

Although a sensitive politician like Bismarck had anticipated the wonderful use of CNC machine tools, Downing still had to show off as planned, and brought the barrels of several rifles to everyone to admire, so that everyone could see how perfect, elegant, standard, and consistent the rifling machined by CNC machine tools was. Again, in an era when carpet bombing cannot be consumed, guns are the soul of the Army.

Downing had completely dominated the atmosphere, and he offered to have dinner for a while, and treat everyone to Mediterranean bluefin tuna. While walking from the real room to the conference hall, Tang Ning introduced to everyone: "Ordinary fish do not exercise much and have underdeveloped muscles, so the meat is white, while the meat of tuna, a large sea creature that can reach up to 100 kilograms, is more like beef, the meat is bright red, and it maintains a lot of exercise every day. The meat of tuna has the characteristics of fish, and the fat contained in it is mainly unsaturated fat, which is healthier than beef. Unsaturated fatty acids not only do not clog blood vessels and internal organs like saturated fatty acids, but they also clear blood vessels. Red represents iron, an important element for human health, and a nutrient that is lacking in both plants and white meat. Therefore, tuna is my favorite, and I recommend everyone to eat it often, it is delicious and healthy. ”

The great master of medicine is here, what else do these rookies of science have to say? Only a nod of praise. The canteen of a factory actually provides a large number of bluefin tuna delicacies, which is not specially provided for the powerful, how rich are the big tyrants? How high is the salary of a worker in Swiss precision instruments?

Downing explained with a smile: "Of course, ordinary employees can't eat tuna every day, mainly from Lake Geneva. Speaking of Lake Geneva, it's heart-wrenching to find that a lot of industrial emissions have started to pollute this beautiful lake. Managing industrial emissions from the lake will require Switzerland and France to work together, and the Emperor is invited to take a little care of the issue. ”

Finally, the atmosphere was less tense, and Eugenie quickly took over the conversation and said that she was willing to work together, but no one was Downing in sewage treatment, and the solution for London was world-famous, and even Paris longed to have the same sewage treatment system as London.

Is it just Paris? Doesn't Berlin need it? Doesn't Turin need it? Everyone found a common topic here to ease the atmosphere, and listened to Tang Ning, an environmentalist, who advocated that the environment should be prioritized over economic development, and that there should be a premise while developing industry, that is, the environment must not be polluted, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses, and environmental degradation is a severe blow to human health and spirit. Downing's technology in this area can be completely open.

How good is it to protect the environment together? This is also a good opportunity for countries to develop friendly and cooperative relations. The BBC later made a big splash in the news about the Quad talks and reached a memorandum of understanding on joint environmental protection, which made the world's audience gasp, you ...... Is it here to discuss this issue?

That night, after careful consideration, Downing once betrayed his old friend Hugo, deciding not to attack France in this confrontation, but to provide France, Prussia and Sardinia with industrial development opportunities, and most importantly to expose to these three countries the automotive technology except fuel cells, so that the entrepreneurs of the three countries could build their own cars in exchange for their support for Downing's rule in Lombardy and Venexia.

Fuel cells are of course the most core secrets, windshields, suspension systems, these technologies are also very good, especially the French, their bus technology is excellent, even the bus system in London is run by the French, their steam engine is currently the power of the bus, if Downing also out of the bus, it will kill the French steam engine bus in an instant, so Downing's plan The French will be very happy, this plan is thrown, and the public opinion in France will instantly fall to Downing's side, Napoleon III couldn't stop him.

The mood of the Sardinians was almost cold, and Cavour sought the initiative in Tuscany, Bama, and Modena, demanding that the people of the three regions be allowed to vote on whether to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. No problem, the referendum will be referendum, not only these three places can be referendum, even Lombardy, Venezia will be counted, now that the Austrians have a firm grip on Venexia, Downing will not go out of his way to sign an agreement that allows Venetia to also have a referendum. However, the timing of the referendum can be very specific, with Tuscany, Bama and Modena in three years and Lombardy in six years.

The agreements of these referendums were superficial, with the exception of the French and Sardinia forces in Lombardy, which were to withdraw, and the rest were under the de facto control of Sardinia, who had a variety of means to get the referendum through. Therefore, the administration of the Lombardy region is the strictest. Downing's plan was to maintain order in Lombardy for the next six years, with his soldiers in the majority, the East India Company's motley army of 10,000 British, Indians, and Malays, as well as the 1,000 Hessian Guards transferred from Luxembourg to Milan, and because Luxembourg was therefore empty, he had to negotiate with Belgium and seconded 2,000 Belgian troops. In addition, Switzerland, Sardinia, France, and Austria each sent 1,000 troops, indicating that Lombardy was an undetermined region.

After the negotiation, Austria was dissatisfied with this plan, originally the Austrian emperor only wanted to get Downing's support to defeat the Fas-Sa coalition army, but now the plan made him feel that losing Lombard was not counted, and he made Downing the governor of Venice in vain, coupled with religious reasons, the Austrian nobles felt that they could not accept Downing as the new governor. So the Austrian side did not reply to this plan for a long time, the French army withdrew, the Sardinian army withdrew, the Swiss army came, the East India Company army came, and the Austrian army did not come, and for a long time, the actual area of Downing's rule was limited to the Lombardy region, and Venesia was still occupied by the Austrian army.

On the surface, there were not many Tang troops in Lombardy, but these three powers, who had seen the precision instruments and equipment of Switzerland, would never want to start a war with the Tang army, which was so well armed, unless they had to do so.

When the Milanese discover that the prime minister of the new Lombardy is actually their Mazzini, the last trace of resistance disappears, and Milan ushers in a new era that is expected to be. As soon as he took office, Mazzini gave a speech: "I am now Prime Minister, but I do not like this position, I am still a republican-minded person, and I firmly believe that one day there will be democracy and republic in all of Italy, and this day is not too far away!" ”

The audience was shocked and applauded.

"The Governor said to me that there are two things that we should respect, one is human rights, and the other is financial rights. If human rights are not manifested, the people will not be happy, and if capital is not protected by the divine, the whole country will not be competitive. If this were said by another capitalist, I would not believe his sincerity, but what Mr. Windsor said, I would believe his sincerity. And, I would like to be a humble servant of Italy, to give life to this idea, and to see if we can make the Apennine Peninsula safe, rich, free and confident. ”

Applause again, I don't know why, some glass-hearted Italians have tears in their eyes. Later, the mainstream newspapers in Turin had this headline: Well, maybe Windsor didn't need iron to rule Lombardy.

In his speech, Mazzini mainly expounded on the structure of the new government's plan, that freedom of the press is certain, as long as it is not malicious rumors and slander, anyone can run a newspaper. Parties can also be created at will, and Mazzini intends to form the Italian Republican Party and continue to promote his republican ideas. Note that it is not the republican party of Lombardy, but the party of the whole of Italy, and his ambitions are obvious.

Milan's freedom is to the extreme, even opening ****, smoking marijuana is free, but this must be supervised. No government in the world has blatantly and unashamedly proposed plans for the Red Light District, but Downing demanded that Mazzini must mention and explicitly establish the legal status of dark workers. Their personality should also be respected, protected, and taxed in accordance with the law, and these high-risk groups should have regular physical examinations. (http：／/）。 Marijuana is less addictive than alcohol and tobacco but produces hallucinations, so it is more dangerous and must be done under the supervision of a sober third party. Legality only provides a way for a minority to vent, and it is not encouraged.

Mazzini also mentioned a welfare system that Downing had pioneered: the one-hour workday. You read that right, you only have to work one hour a day, five days a week, so that you can get food and shelter, jobs are provided by businesses but subsidized by the government, and any business that offers this kind of welfare job opportunity gets a tax rebate from the government. The advantage of this welfare system is to cultivate the working habits of lazy people, and to give comfort to those who change jobs, you can find a job no matter what, and even find a new career from this easy job. Enterprises can also get the benefits of developing a reserve army for their own companies for free, in case they are too busy one day, and there are skilled people to recruit. In fact, it's a vocational training mechanism, in a clever way.

The new government has the House of Lords and the House of Commons, before the referendum, the House of Lords led the legislation, by the Governor of Windsor established by the Governor of Windsor as the main body, this party does not take democracy as a selling point, saying that it only believes in rationality, civilization, and elite government, and its policies are not subservient to public opinion, only what is right, not what is right, which is composed of a large group of scientists, engineers, financiers, industrialists, politicians, etc., and sets up various committees to specialize in a certain specialty, such as medicine, to provide expert advice to policymakers, in such a professional field, the opinion of the population is shit, they don't understand. Do you understand the large-sample randomized double-blind trial? Ask ordinary people and faint directly.