Chapter 311: The Austrian Riots

The competition within the Quad has borne fruit, and all that remains is competition with its American banking counterparts, and it is said that the young man of the Morgan family is also eyeing the French fiscal crisis, which is undoubtedly a great enemy. The No.1 in the world's financial industry is the Rothschilds, and the second may be the Morgan family in the United States, and with the gradual strength of the United States, the Morgan family can even threaten the position of the Rothschild family at some times.

The financial industry of the Quad Alliance is also very prosperous, but it is relatively fragmented, so it is difficult to compete with the Rothschilds in terms of status. Ernst? Although he has the right to speak in the banking industry of the Quad Alliance, his status makes it impossible for him to compete with the Rothschilds in the financial industry, and people deliberately ignore Ernst's influence in various industries. is like the director of the Sports Bureau, even if he is the real NO.1 in the sports industry, who will put him in the ranking?

If the Royal Bank of Russia can defeat the American banking and financier group, then the banking industry of the Quad will naturally increase its influence in the future, and its development in Europe will be much smoother.

The two most important things in the banking industry are credibility and influence, and only with enough credibility and influence can you impress your customers and make them willingly believe in you and deposit their cash in your bank.

At the beginning of April 1927, the day after Ernst returned to Warsaw, the Warsaw government announced the relevant policies on taxis in 1927, and more than ten large cities in Warsaw, Prague and Vilnius would set up government-sponsored taxi companies, and the taxi business began to be officially born within the Quad Alliance.

In fact, a few years ago, there were private companies that started a taxi business. But because there are so many things involved. The government has had to take some of the responsibility on its own initiative. Of course, there is also a point where they see the profit in it. In a large city like Warsaw, a private vehicle is the best option when there is a delay in the tram ride and there is an urgent need to travel.

If you don't have enough money to buy, then taking a taxi is naturally the most suitable, according to covert statistics, a private taxi company in Warsaw can make a profit of up to tens of thousands of euros a year. This profit is not enough to impress the government? But don't forget that this is only a private taxi company, how many cars can they own? If it is replaced by government formation. It is already obvious how much profit hundreds or thousands of cars are, and it is not a big problem to break through hundreds of thousands or millions, and it can also provide some jobs.

Even after the advent of taxi companies, walking on the streets of Warsaw, Ernst was already able to see a lot of yellow taxis on the streets. Although they need to pay more than one-third of their income, these drivers are still very satisfied with other jobs.

Just over a week after the taxi incident, and a number of telephone companies were formally established, Ernst, who saw the potential in them, hurriedly convened a meeting of the prime ministers, and the order to nationalize the telecommunications industry was announced to the whole nation on the second day of the prime minister's meeting. The Four-Nation Alliance Telephone Communications Company, invested by the royal family and organized by the government, was launched. Several state-owned telephone companies were built on the basis of private telephone companies, for which the royal family and the government paid a lot of cash.

First there was the taxi service, then the telephone service. The attitude of the royal family made the merchants very dissatisfied, and they hoped that the king would open up the policy and let everyone share the profit cake.

Ernst also felt that he was very ugly, and even though the acquisition funds he gave seemed very attractive, it did not deny that he was compulsive in these two business matters. The businessmen's protest was silenced by Ernst, and a week later the government announced restrictions on business investment by the government and the royal family.

The telephone business is related to national security, so the royal family and the government must hold it, and the taxi business is also to rectify some of the shortcomings of the domestic taxi business, so in the following decade, the taxi business will gradually open up to the private sector, and there are other industries, and the government will choose to relax the policy one by one over time.

The media industry of the Quad Alliance is very hot, especially entertainment content, there are dozens of related entertainment newspapers alone, this is still a large newspaper, and some small ones are countless. And in 1927, the most popular star was undoubtedly a male artist in Far Eastern Yanjing - Shang Xiaoyun.

That's right, this Shang Xiaoyun is the Shang Xiaoyun of the Four Great Flowers, and the new Peking Opera "Modern Girl" he just starred in is not only popular throughout Yanjing, but also in Prague and Warsaw, and with Shang Xiaoyun signing with Jessica's film company, Xiaoyou has heard of it becoming directly popular throughout Eastern Europe.

Although Shang Xiaoyun is only one of the four major actresses in the Far East, he is no different from those actresses and actors, and even the best actor jury of this year's Prague Film Festival wants to award it to Shang Xiaoyun.

Speaking of the Prague Film Festival, we can't fail to mention the president of the film festival, he is also a bold man, he actually invited Ernst to be a jury member three times in a row, even if he was pushed down by Ernst's assistant every time, but the chairman did not give up at all, and still sent invitations again and again, even Ernst also knew about it at a banquet.

Ernst was not very dissatisfied with making himself a judge, although it was indeed very inconsistent with his own identity, but this also proved that the other party invited him sincerely, and the refusal was certain, but the punishment was not, and it was Ernst's attitude that emboldened the chairman.

There is a very strange thing about the Quad Alliance, that is, the media industry of the Quad Alliance is very biased towards the East, and it is often possible to see small political events in Europe and the United States in the evening political newspapers, and the remaining two-thirds of the space is all given to the East, which cannot but be said to be a strange thing.

Some people raised this matter as a question, to which the newspaper elders replied only with a mysterious gesture, pointing to the sky. Quite simply, this result was caused by Ernst, who often had to ask about the Orient, and for this reason the assistant had to remind the newspapers to remember to add more events to the Orient when printing them.

Once or twice, as time went on, the directors of the newspaper began to understand that this was an element of His Majesty the King, and since this was the case, things were much easier, and a large number of Chinese were recruited into the newspaper, and then they were assigned to the East to collect relevant materials, and gradually formed the current situation of the media industry, and introduced some events in the East at great length.

Of course, the Touhou incident was temporarily suspended until July, because a major event about the Quadruple Alliance took place in Austria, which at this time was a large powder keg, and countless workers and students surrounded the government, hoping that the government would give them an explanation.

What happened to make the citizens of Austria so angry? It also has a lot to do with the Quadruple Alliance, as the Quadruple Alliance occupies considerable influence in Europe militarily and economically, and East Prussia has become a member of the Quadruple Alliance directly under the compromise of Britain and France, as a thorn in the side, Austria has to panic.

Burrell also sat in the position of president of Austria for several years, and Ernst never attacked him, which made him really enjoy a period of peace in his apprehension. But with the annexation of Lithuania, Poland, and East Prussia one by one, Burrell began to get nervous, because he knew very well that he might be next.

Being able to sit in the position of the president of Austria is enough to prove Burrell's ability, he is not a person who likes to bow down and wait for trial, so he wants to take the initiative, not to mention the military at least to the extent that the four-nation alliance will be a mouse. Burrell knew it was hard, but no matter how difficult it was, he needed to work hard, because it involved his net worth and his life.

Burrell did not have as much control over Austria as anyone else thought, at least in the military he controlled only about two-thirds of the generals, and the rest were either on the sidelines or directly as political opponents.

If you want to reach the point where the Quad Alliance is jealous, the first thing Burrell needs to do is to improve the treatment and status of soldiers, of course, there is also a premise here that he can control military power, otherwise everything he does is not to help others? Burrell is not a fool and no one would think that the president of a country is a fool, but it is Burrell who does a very stupid thing.

It is not wrong to improve the status and treatment of soldiers, but he should not be connived at, let alone blatantly connived. With his connivance, several retired soldiers injured a worker and a child in a conflict, and then they made a lot of nonsense in the court, which caused dissatisfaction among the citizens.

What really makes citizens angry is that the court actually acquitted several veterans under the pressure of the military, which is undoubtedly equivalent to igniting a powder keg, and a large number of citizens began to march, they are already a little dissatisfied with the government's continuous improvement of the treatment of soldiers, and now they are directly let their own grievances be released.

The situation in the streets made Burrell more or less flustered, and just as he was flustered, things began to develop in a way that he had not even expected, and a police officer misunderstood Burrre's intentions, and he began to suppress the workers who occupied the school and marched, because of the repression of Austria, which led to a nationwide general strike and demonstration.

Burrell was very sad to help his subordinates carry a black cauldron, and a large number of workers and students looked at him, and at the same time aimed at him the anger of the workers and students. You know, more than 90 people were killed and more than 900 injured in the police crackdown, and some other parties in Austria began to call for Burrell to resign compulsively. (To be continued.) )