Chapter 283 283 Set off a new climax of construction, a new climax
The next few days will basically be the end of the financial capitalists.
Under the leadership of the various NERV branches, the workers' pickets broke into the homes of the old nobles one by one, from large to small, according to the canonical list of the old German Empire, and raided all those who had no industry in their names and no active soldiers, and at the same time had a lot of money. So many old aristocrats who were not actually involved in business and financial speculation were also implicated, but Lin Youde didn't care, because these people had no common interests with him Lin Youde, and they might become his enemies in the future.
All the famous paintings and antiques found in the house were sent to the cultural relics experts for appraisal, and then temporarily kept by the local branches, and then sent to the museum.
The gold and silver objects that had no cultural value were melted into gold and silver nuggets and sent to the vault of Lin Youde's bank.
The nobles who were confiscated were assigned to the corresponding factories or research institutes if they had technical expertise, and those who did not have expertise were all assigned to accept labor reform, and the men did rough work and the women worked as weavers.
In order to receive these people, Lin Youde ordered the construction of labor camps in the southern mountains, and at the same time, a great deal of propaganda was launched, and sending these people to labor reform was whitewashed as a great salvation for them.
All of them seem to be showing the world that NERV is merciful, and that NERV will not even slaughter the moths, but will give them a chance to mend their ways and start a new life.
Of course, Lin Youde would not have been so merciful to the de facto big financial capitalists, and all the big financial capitalists caught in the Capitol on the day of the sudden outbreak of the movement were shot, and the politicians who served them were thrown into labor camps.
Under the cover of a vigorous popular movement, his bank forcibly took over several other large banks in Germany, taking control of the treasury and accounts. On February 26, 1936, Lin Youde announced the reorganization of the former Deutsche Foreign Exchange and Investment Bank into the Greater Deutsche Bank, a super bank that combined the management functions of the central bank and the de facto banking function.
In addition, Lin Youde also took over all the capital in the hands of the opposition financial capitalists, and instantly completed the control of many factories in Germany.
On February 27, Lin Youde announced the end of the operation and called on the workers to go home and rest and prepare to go to work as usual on the 28th.
This time, Lin Youde's call was not carried out as quickly as expected, and by March 1, the factories of the industrial union still reported that a considerable number of workers did not show up for work.
Lin Youde had an idea and announced to the whole country that in consideration of everyone's revolutionary enthusiasm, he would continue to have a day off on the 28th, and all the workers who had already arrived at work would be paid according to the overtime standard.
As a result, on March 1, all the factories under the name of NERV resumed normal production order.
After the operation, there was no one in Germany who could contradict Lin Youde. On 5 March, the German government announced that early parliamentary elections would be held because the current parliament was no longer able to fulfil its duties. Similarly, since the Parliament was no longer able to perform its duties, the administration of the Senjo forces would be temporarily replaced by Viola's German government, while operational command would remain with the Wehrmacht High Command.
As for the management of Shenji's use of magic armor, it was taken by Lin Youde on the grounds that it was convenient to act at any time. The armor of the Divine Queen, who had kept the military magic workshop in the suburbs of Berlin, was quickly packed onto the train, and the magicians who maintained the armor were pulled to Potsdam.
A British journalist who followed the events in Germany wrote in his report: "Now there is no one in the whole of Germany who can stop this Oriental man, who can do whatever he wants." When Kaiser Wilhelm II mocked the Eastern Empire, he probably never imagined that one day Germany would fall at the feet of a young man from the East. ”
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Early March 1936, Sanssouci Palace.
Viola sat on the table across from Lin Youde's desk, looking very good.
"Now there is no one to accuse me of staying in Potsdam all day and not going back to Berlin."
Lin Youde glanced at his petite and lovely wife, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth and smile.
Viola continued: "You are really thorough this time, which has made the people of those member countries panic, and the nobles of Bohemia and other countries are afraid of death, so you have sent people to visit me again and again in the past few days. Hungary is also very nervous, after all, many of the old nobles you killed are related to the Hungarian aristocracy, and one family just married their daughter to Hungary and you sent the whole family in Germany to the labor camp......"
"Indeed," Lin Youde pouted, "this action is a bit too violent, and it is easy to make the nobles of the member and vassal countries worry that they are also concocted in the same way, but in comparison, we have also obtained huge benefits corresponding to these negative effects." The mere crackdown on speculative businessmen in the market will be of great benefit to the economy, and it is foreseeable that the German economy will develop rapidly for a long time to come. ”
Lin Youde paused, pushed the Wen Jiàn in front of him to Viola and continued: "Look at this, I am going to convert all the aristocratic properties and manors confiscated in the movement into other uses, and these historical buildings will be preserved and turned into museums; These in the city center will be converted into public libraries; In the suburbs, these were zoned as public residences, which were renovated and awarded to intellectuals, public administrators and model workers who had made outstanding contributions. ”
"Let the model worker live in such a mansion?" Viola frowned, "That's not enough to score at all, after all, there are so many model workers......"
"I mean, the interior is cut and remodeled, and many homes are turned into homes and then distributed among these outstanding contributors."
"You're really planning to offend all the nobles of the world." Viola shook her head.
Lin Youde shrugged.
"Didn't you tell me a long time ago that my pan-humanism will sooner or later become a thorn in the side of the old forces in the world. So what's the relationship? These actions will make the people more supportive of us, and at the same time they will be a powerful tool for spreading panhumanism in the rest of the world, and I can't think of any reason not to do so. ”
Viola was silent for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I haven't found any reason to stop you from doing so—I mean, other than offending the nobles of other countries. ”
"In addition to the houses, the estates owned by the nobles will be included in the development plan, the forests in the estates will be preserved, but things like green gardens will be turned into farmland or factory land."
Lin Youde rummaged on the table and quickly pulled out a report.
"This is our assessment of Turkey, which is now in need of a lot of industrial products, including clothes, daily necessities, farm tools, fertilizers and pesticides. We can provide these to Turkey, and they can't afford to pay for it, but we can book this year's produce from them, and at the same time we can exchange it for mineral deposits from them, and I have seen the gold in this report. "So we have to build more factories, and now there are not many things left to export after the daily necessities and light industry factories are supplied to the markets of Germany and the member countries, and Turkey cannot afford our cars, motorcycles and airplanes......"
"Okay, I see." Viola waved her hand, "I'll ask the Ministry of Lands to approve your use of those lands." ”
"No, these lands will be sold by tender, and I hope that the production of light industry and the like will be handed over to the private sector." Lin Youde put down the report, "Compared with operating and managing these light industries, my industrial alliance has more important things to do." ”
Lin Youde stood up and came to the edge of the large map on the wall. After the end of the Turkish War, the map of Turkey on the wall was removed, and now there is a map of Europe on the wall, on which you can clearly see all of France and Germany, as well as all of Turkey.
"I have several huge projects to realize, and these projects require the full investment of my industrial alliance to be completed." Lin Youde said and pointed his finger at Austria, "First of all, I want to continue to promote the transformation of Austria's railway system, in the past year, my engineering team has built two railway bridges in this section, which has greatly reduced the running time of trains, and then I want to build more railway bridges to open up the half-dead meridians left by the original Austria-Hungary." ”
Austria was mountainous, especially in the south, so Austria's railroad construction was far inferior to that of his brothers in the vast plains of his country. During the First World War, the Austrian army's mobilization and assembly speed was far lower than that of the German army, and even less than that of the Russian army, which was the weakest in World War I.
Lin Youde comes from the future, and a concept in his head has been ingrained: to get rich, build roads first.
Therefore, in order to give full play to the potential of Austria, Lin Youde believed that the first task was to strengthen the railway system left by the former Austria-Hungary.
However, the reason why the Austro-Hungarian Empire built the railway is largely affected by the terrain, in order to strengthen the Austro-Hungarian railway system, the technical requirements for bridge construction engineering are very high, Lin Youde has sent his best bridge experts to Austria-Hungary for field exploration. But the information from experts does not seem to be optimistic.
"In addition to Austria, the construction of the railway from Istanbul to Basra must also be restarted as soon as possible." Lin Youde's hand slid out of Istanbul to the southeast, until it slid off the map, "Judging from the preliminary exploration, there are still quite a lot of roadbeds built under the command of the Germans before 1914, and we have found the planning materials and topographic exploration data along the way in the archives. The next thing we need to do is continue to pave the roadbed and move the railroad tracks over at the same time. Luckily, Vale's steel smelter in Port Hedland is now complete and can provide us with some of the tracks. This allows us to start construction from Basra and Istanbul at the same time, moving forward on both sides, thus significantly slowing down the construction period. ”
After the armistice was signed, Germany held talks with Serbia, which had taken a few people to make soy sauce, and then reopened the railway from Berlin to Vienna and then to Istanbul via Belgrade at the cost of a transit tax, so that the rails produced in Germany could be transported directly to Istanbul.
Rails produced in the Port of Hedland can be transported by sea to the vicinity of Basra.
Lin Youde turned around from the map and spread his hands to Viola: "These two big projects alone will consume a lot of energy from NERV, not to mention oil exploration in the Persian Gulf and other things." We also have to build and arm the African Army to support Vale's colonization and expansion in Australia, and we are very busy. ”
Viola said, "That's why you want to hand over these light industries to the people." I understand. However, all these projects will take a lot of time, will Russia give us so much peace? ”
Lin Youde shrugged.
"That's a question for our intelligence chief," he said, glancing at the clock in the corner, "and she's going to come and give us a routine briefing." ”