Holy Roman Empire

Chapter 40 Wartime Economic System

After the Vienna rebellion was suppressed, Franz immediately ordered the military to control the city, and then he was busy copying the house. This time, the implication was very wide, and it was unclear for a while.

In order to appease the people's hearts, Franz distributed relief food for the first time, anyway, it was obtained from the family, and the points were divided, and he was not distressed at all.

Food, coal and other daily necessities are now distributed free of charge. The people who have just been stimulated have finally settled down.

For political needs, Franz decisively characterized the rebellion and threw the black pot to the capitalists.

The media in Vienna were controlled by him, and all the articles published at this time were "to be alert to the conspiracy of capitalists", "the role of international blackhands in the rebellion in Vienna", "capitalists run away with money" ...

"Copies", "copies", or "copies", now the most important job of the Austrian interim government is to make copies, the capitalists and nobles involved in the rebellion, the industry is not all concentrated in Vienna, so this copy job is still a heavy responsibility far.

Not waiting for Franz's appointment to form a cabinet, the news of the outbreak of the Lombard rebellion reached Vienna, which was a heavy blow to the conservative aristocracy.

When alarmist talk became a reality, then reform was inevitable, and reformist voices in the Austrian government rose again. To avoid the collapse of the empire, conservatives had to accept this reality.

On March 18, 1848, Franz appointed Marquis Felix Schwarzenberg as Prime Minister;

Appoint Karl Ludwig von Brooke as Chancellor of the Exchequer;

Appointment of Count Leo-von-Tuss-Huoheng Stein as Minister of Education;

Appointed Grand Duke Louis as Secretary of the Interior;

Appoint the Earl of Croft as Minister of State;

Appointment of Clemens Metternich as Minister of Foreign Affairs ...

Regarding Austria ’s political reforms, Franz still adopted conservative measures and did not amplify his moves from the beginning, as can be seen from this list.

Political means are most vividly displayed, a prime minister who advocates a strong suppression of the revolution, a finance minister who advocates fiscal reform, an education minister who advocates education reform, and a conservative interior minister and state minister.

Even for power checks and balances, Franz recalled the infamous former prime minister Metternich as foreign minister.

Of course, the main reason is that Metternich ’s diplomacy is strong enough, and there is no more suitable candidate for Austria.

The first thing the new government established was the aftermath of the Vienna rebellion.

The current mode of distribution of relief food is definitely not going to last long, but now the capitalists are deeply trapped in the revolution and unable to extricate themselves. They are all running away and there is no way to resume production.

Now in this city, half of the population is unemployed. If there is no relief materials issued by the government, Vienna will soon be in chaos.

Franz presided over the cabinet meeting: "At present, the rebellion in Vienna has ended, and post-war reconstruction must begin immediately. Nearly 40,000 prisoners are waiting for our resettlement. What plans does the cabinet have?"

There is no way, now is the critical moment, you have to perform your duties just after taking office, but there is no time to familiarize them with the business.

Prime Minister Felix replied: "I suggest adopting a war-time economic system. The government will take over these unowned factories and resume production first to protect the people's employment.

Specific circumstances, we can fine-tune according to the actual situation, adjust the production line according to market demand, to avoid waste!"

As expected, Austria was also a war-time economic system in history and passed the initial difficulties.

What is better now than in history is that Franz shot fast enough, seized the capitalists, and directly confiscated these factories.

In other words, it is now dominated by the state-owned economic system, and the people at the bottom will certainly not oppose it, because state-owned enterprises cannot be exploited as unscrupulously as private enterprises.

"The current situation in Austria is very bad. There has been rebellion in the Italian region, and the Hungarian region is also eager to move. It is very necessary to adopt a wartime economic system.

However, if so many factories are confiscated by the government and the production is resumed by our organization, the labor cost must increase!"Minister of Finance Karl said

There is no doubt that the government has a face to face, and the laws it enacts must be obeyed. The “Labor Protection Law” that has been put on hold must not be used as toilet paper now.

Franz shook his head and said: "The labor cost will not increase much, calculated as the average salary of the workers in the industry in Vienna before the rebellion, as the base salary.

In most industries, we can also use a piece-rate system to work harder and more to stimulate the production enthusiasm of workers. With the increase in labor wages, the products produced by workers will also increase.

If we switch to a wartime economic system, the waste caused by market competition will cease to exist. As long as our management does not cause problems, there should be no so-called losses!"

The market competition is gone. If the production is carried out according to plan, if all can make a loss, or if the cost is greatly increased, Franz will kill.

Anyway, the planned economy is only a short-term existence. Concentrate on suppressing the rebellion in various places as much as possible. It will take at most two or three years. Isn't the rate of degradation of the leadership so fast?

When the Crimean War broke out, Austria just took advantage of the pain caused by the economic transformation passed on by this war and used the war money to heal the wounds.

Karl's eyes lit up. They understand the economy. If the piece-rate system is adopted, they can perfectly avoid the Labor Protection Law.

If ninety-nine percent of the wages exceed this standard, the remaining one percent of the opinions are still important?

"His Royal Highness's suggestion is very good. In fact, all industries can adopt the piece-rate system, which requires multiple people to cooperate, and can also be grouped, so that the enthusiasm of production can be effectively played!" Karl said with a smile

"Stop, this suggestion has nothing to do with me. This was discovered by experts through research. It must be explained to the outside world. As long as the workers get more money, there must be no problem in implementing it!" Langz quickly stopped

He doesn't want to be scolded by others in the future, no matter how beautified, this is essentially a more advanced method of exploitation, plus his identity is strange if not hacked.

It ’s better to push it to the experts, anyway, they are used to it, they do n’t care about adding more.

As long as they want, they can draw any conclusions, even Sun Wukong's cemetery has been archaeologically, "piece-piece system" is really nothing.