"How's the city?"

Ernst was already very comfortable with changing the topic, of course, this is also the reason why Maria didn't want to be more serious, otherwise it would be really difficult for this shoddy diversion method to hide Ernst's intentions. Following Ernst's finger, Maria looked out the window, and there was something beautiful in the sunset, but it was a pity......

"It's nice, but it's hard for me to feel like it's here."

Ernst couldn't help but look a little ugly when he said something profound, he hated Maria's entanglement in one thing, especially about the crown prince and some things between men and women, but Ernst couldn't say anything, because these things themselves were Ernst's fault.

After the planning of the mayor of Warsaw, Warsaw will face the world with a new face in the next few years, and the center of Europe has begun to gradually shift to the east, without the support of Britain and France, it will be difficult for Western Europe to maintain its economic status and international status. Warsaw is undoubtedly the center of Eastern Europe today, but the mayor of Warsaw is not willing to make Warsaw only a political center, and he still has great economic ambitions.

One hundred and twenty-three economic changes have made the entire Warsaw government busy, if it were not for the high salaries of government civil servants, it is believed that a large number of civil servants have begun to resign, even Ernst is a little unbearable, who can afford to work close to eleven hours a day? Of course, their real working hours are only the standard 6 hours, and the rest of the work is done outside of work.

Salaries can no longer be raised, because the citizens of the Quad Alliance have begun to express their dissatisfaction with the salaries of public servants, and continuing to raise them will only cause trouble for themselves, and both the Prime Ministers of the Quad and the Council of the Coalition have the same opinion on this matter, for which the Mayor of Warsaw can only compensate in other ways.

The staff of the labor association was very close, and the mayor of Warsaw did not want to use the name of overtime pay to increase his handle, so he could only do his best to add some "gas", "telephone" and "meal" expenses to compensate the Warsaw city government and the relevant departments of the city government.

In 1923, the Quad Alliance euro was approximately equivalent to the US dollar. The pound depreciated somewhat, but the exchange rate with the euro remained at about 1:2, the salary (month) of the average citizen of the Quad Alliance was about 50 euros, the soldier was almost three times that of the ordinary citizen, and the government civil servant was a little less, ranging from 80 to 120 euros.

Warsaw was almost the political center of the Quadruple Alliance, and with the arrival of a large number of nobles and wealthy merchants, the price level in Warsaw rose in a straight line, and the salaries of Warsaw government officials were naturally among the highest in the country. With various subsidies from the mayor of Warsaw. They are already close to the salaries of army soldiers.

It was not impossible that the staff of the city of Warsaw knew how busy they were, but the officials of the other cities of the Union did not know how busy they were.

Ernst didn't have a good solution to such a problem, after all, he implemented the government "contracting" policy from the beginning, you are the mayor, then everything in the city belongs to you, and if you are not qualified, you will be directly removed and promoted to a satisfactory level. Even the cabinet has no problems, simply put, everything depends on the results to speak.

This achievement is not only the improvement of the economy, the construction of the city, the satisfaction of the citizens is also a crucial one, the personnel department is mainly to look at the satisfaction of the citizens to judge, three consecutive years of evaluation is an important capital for your promotion.

Ernst ignored Maria, and Maria did not say anything directly about the military, which was commissioned by Massena when he came, and Massena was now an important supporter of Charles. Maria could not ignore the "general's" plea.

"The war has passed, and it is difficult to have a major battle in a short period of time. Prime Minister Massena wants you to reduce military spending, because the proportion of military spending is really ......."

Before Maria could finish her words, she was interrupted by Ernst with a very serious look, only to see Ernst ask directly: "This is also what you mean, I mean the reduction of military spending!" ”

If it was just a sentence, then Maria would naturally admit that this was also her idea, but now seeing Ernst's serious face, she couldn't help but hesitate, Ernst didn't seem to have any easy meaning in recent years. What is he worried about? Does he think there is still war?

Suddenly, Maria remembered something, the conflict between the British, French and American alliances has not yet been resolved, although they are now trying to restrain each other, but if there is a change in the strength of one side, I believe they will not tolerate it any longer. Where is Ernst's concern? But there was no reason why Massena could not think of anything he could think of, so why did he say it himself?

The suspicious Maria couldn't help but start to guess Massena's intentions at this moment, after all, the country is still in the hands of Ernst, and her wrong thinking is likely to affect Charlie, this is an undoubted thing, Maria has some doubts about Massena's true intentions......

"Are you suspicious of Masséna's intentions? There is no doubt that Massena was only a test of me, and his position dictated that his thinking had begun to suffer, or rather, ...... The financial pressure of this period of time made him want to gamble! ”

Massena really wanted to gamble, because 30 percent of the Czech principality's annual finances are now in the military, and now only 10 percent of the money needs to be put into economic construction, Massena can be much easier, he thinks that this will not affect anything, but he knows very well that what he said means that there is no way out, and it is most appropriate for Maria to speak.

Success is the best, failure has little to do with him, and he can mention it again if he has a good opportunity in the future, if this time he speaks directly and is rejected, then he naturally can't speak a second time.

Ernst helped Massena explain, but Maria was also puzzled, she directly admitted that she had the same attitude, a 10% reduction in military spending would not affect anything, of course, it was better to reduce the salary of soldiers, and it would not be too much to reduce 10 euros was a lot of money.

Maria's doubts were naturally clear to Ernst, so he shook his head very resolutely and said: "The question of military spending can be reduced, but it cannot be carried out from salaries, and the salaries of soldiers can only be increased and not reduced in any way, and ...... Maybe you don't think of a question, the army is the royal army but the country ...... But not the country of our Habsburgs. ”

A word woke up the dreamer, but in an instant Maria woke up, it doesn't matter if the country falls, what they need is the prosperity of the family, if they can't see which is more important, how can Ernst rest assured that Charlie will be handed over to her to educate? At this moment, Maria was very silent, and at the same time she was a little worried, worried that Ernst would take Charlie to her side and educate herself, after all, now that Charlie is more than three years old, it is time to do some basic education.

"Ernst ......"

"I just hope you remember that, nothing else!"

Looking out the window, Ernst naturally knew that Maria was worried, so he explained to her directly, but for some reason, Maria was actually a little disappointed at this moment. (To be continued.) )