Chapter 40: Magic Duel

Those guys in the National Assembly like to talk about democracy, freedom, and equality, so Franz will show them what real democracy, freedom, and equality are.

First of all, the system of seven insurances and three funds was implemented within the German Empire, and the seven insurances were endowment insurance, medical insurance, maternity insurance, work-related injury insurance, unemployment insurance, critical illness insurance, and supplementary medical insurance; The three golds refer to the hospitalization mutual aid fund, housing provident fund, and enterprise annuity.

All insurance and annuities are issued by the government, and if any enterprise fails to pay seven insurances and three pensions for workers, the government has the right to take compulsory measures and impose corresponding penalties. Peasants enjoy the same rights as workers.

If the factory owner runs away, the government has the right to forcibly collect the money owed, and if he is insolvent, he will be forced to exile himself to the colony to pay for it.

Women, child labourers, and equal pay for equal work must be strictly enforced, and temporary workers are also protected by the Labour Code.

Establish a minimum wage standard, reduce the original 14-hour working day to 10 hours, take Sundays (Sundays) and all statutory holidays as rest days, and pay overtime pay three times the usual wage for overtime.

Establish trade unions that were responsible for communicating with workers and factory owners, as well as communicating imperial directives. Workers are given the right to supervise and prevent tax evasion, tax evasion, tax evasion, and tax fraud by factory owners and businessmen.

We should adopt a progressive tax system with excess amounts, and at the same time severely crack down on the transfer of property and make compulsory education universal.

The property restrictions on elections were abolished, universal suffrage was adopted, and nobles, monks, and women were given equal rights to vote and to stand for election.

Workers, peasants, and minorities, including Roma and Jews, must not be discriminated against.

But now they are close to their dreams, and in Franz's ultimate vision, they will enjoy a good life that they could not have hoped for in the past.

The other shrugged his hands and said he didn't know.

Excitedly and proudly, people raised their fists and held newspapers aloft as they walked towards the square in front of the town hall.

"Your Majesty the Emperor is a bit extreme."

There is no doubt that Franz's vision of freedom, democracy, and equality was far greater than people in the nineteenth century imagined.

"Is this fair? Is this reasonable? Is there still a heavenly principle? Is there still a royal law? ”

"Why do the rich pay more taxes?"

"Long live Emperor Franz!" and "Long live the Empire!" The slogan resounded in the sky, and the pigeons flew in all directions.

"This is the naked exploitation of the rich!"

There were foreigners and Jews in the Frankfurt National Assembly, but there was not a single worker or peasant, and the German Workers' Brotherhood, which was later formed by the merger of the German Workers' Association and the German Craftsmen's Association, was also excluded from the National Assembly.

Every piece of news in the newspapers was enough to drive people crazy, and the ultimate vision of Emperor Franz soon silenced other voices.

Just as they were about to ask someone, a newspaper flew by.

One of them asked.

They were afraid of competition and lower wages, but Franz's vision was so comprehensive that their fears were meaningless.

"This is naked discrimination and robbery!"

"What's going on?"

One of them was just about to throw it away when he was attracted by its contents, and after reading it for a long time, they finally came to a conclusion.

As a result, the original programme seemed to be no longer relevant, and the entire nineteenth-century workers' organisations were opposed to the employment of women and the right to vote for women.

A flock of pigeons swept over the Trevi Fountain, and the two dusty bearded men looked at everything in front of them with some blankness.

At this time, the workers' associations and the craftsmen's unions in Germany were blown up, because for so many years almost all organizations in the German region had refused to give workers the right to vote.

The industrial and commercial capitalists behind the national elite in the National Assembly in Frankfurt could not accept Franz's vision, and it would be a disaster for them.

"This violates the principle of the sanctity of private property!"

"This is the tyranny of the majority over the few!"

"It will make the rich lose their pity!"

"It only makes the poor lazier even lazier! According to the latest research in the United Kingdom, the cause of the Great Famine in Ireland was the punishment caused by the British government's excessive indulgence of Irish laziness. ”

"The bottomless connivance will only expose the shameless faces of those poor ghosts, and we, the rich, have to pay for those damn poor ghosts!"

"That's right! Why give preferential treatment to the poor and exploit the rich! Against exploitation! ”

"Is the lazy poor ghost still reasonable? If they don't work hard, do they blame us? ”

"But you listen to so many people out there, and they all approve of it."

"So what? How many people are there? The poor ghosts want to raise their wages, and they vote for it, are we going to give it? If they want to prostitute themselves, will you give them their wives as well? ”

"But don't we want to be democratic?"

"Fuck democracy! From ancient times to the present, the law of 28 is the iron rule of society! The emperor doesn't understand what democracy is at all! ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Well said!"

"That's right! We should be like the ancient Greeks, with we, the true elite, ruling over the ignorant and shameless slaves! In this way, the light of European civilization can be continued! ”

"That's right! The reason why our European civilization is so developed depends to a large extent on our low taxes, if we are like the Ottomans, or the Qing Dynasty, we are still drinking blood!

Imagine what the world would be like if the rich didn't want to make money, didn't want to make money, didn't dare to make money? I am afraid that the inheritance of the German nation will be severed! ”

"You don't want to make money, but many people are willing to earn it."

"Who said that? Who? You make money from those shameless slackers, and they will only put it all in their pockets and will not do great good deeds like we do!

We are all Protestants, and making money is a manifestation of God's glory and a testament to our God's chosen people! Our willingness to give our hard-earned money to charity is noble, not as barbaric and hypocritical as the government. ”

"Then how come the disasters and wars over the years have been led by the Austrian Imperial Government, with the assistance of the governments of various states?"

"That's because we've been treated unequally, unfairly! The government, the slackers, and the damned Austrians, they all want to exploit us! Can our hearts be balanced? Why should we be merciful to them! ”

"The progressive tax system is the whimsical whims of the freaks of the Habsburgs, and you imagine that the starting point of the progressive tax in the Austrian Empire was 200 florins.

A worker's annual salary is 190 florins, but the worker earns 20 florins by copying a book during his breaks, then he has to pay 21 florin taxes.

As a result, not only did he not make any money, but he even lost 1 florin! Do you think this progressive tax system is the enemy of the progress of the working people? ”

A group of people thought so, and when they thought of the Habsburgs' genetic disease, they all smiled contemptuously, and even those who had previously defended the Austrian Empire began to waver a little.

At this time, Bombavik, who had returned home first, couldn't stand it, and as an economist, he couldn't stand sitting with a group of guys who didn't even understand basic economics.

"The Austrian Empire adopted an excess progressive tax system, in which the part of 200 florin and below was not taxed, and the income of 210 florin should be paid only 1 florin."

"The lackey of the Austrian Emperor! You don't have the right to sit here! ”

A group of big men threw Bombavik out without saying anything.

The man was particularly puzzled and said indignantly.

"And that damn minimum wage! Those slackers want a minimum wage! To whom do we go? We must not accept the approach of Austrian freaks! ”

"Isn't that the Emperor's ultimate vision?"

"I can't even think about it! We can't let such freaks get their hands on our country! We should behead the emperor and his lackeys like the French! ”

"That's right! I am categorically against this empire that lies on the rich and sucks blood! ”

"The puppet emperor should be punished!"