Chapter 40 The Wartime Economic System

After the Vienna rebellion was suppressed, Franz immediately ordered the military to take charge of the whole city, and then he was busy raiding his house, which was so widespread that it was unclear for a while.

In order to appease the people, Franz distributed relief food as soon as possible, anyway, it was all obtained by raiding the family, and if it was divided, it would be divided, and he was not distressed at all.

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

For the sake of political needs, Franz also decisively defined the rebellion and threw the black pot to the capitalists.

The media in Vienna were all controlled by him, and all the articles published at this time were "Beware of the conspiracy of the capitalists", "The role of the international mafia in the Vienna rebellion", and "The capitalists ran away with money......

"Raiding the house", "raiding the house", or "raiding the house", now the most important work of the Austrian Provisional Government is to raid the house, and the capitalists and nobles who participated in the rebellion did not all concentrate their industries in Vienna, so this raiding work still has a long way to go.

Without waiting for Franz to appoint a cabinet, the news of the outbreak of the Lombard rebellion reached Vienna, which was another heavy blow to the conservative aristocracy.

When alarmism became a reality, reform was inevitable, and reformist voices in the Austrian government were rising again, and conservatives had to accept this reality in order to avoid the collapse of the empire.

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

appointment of Karl Ludwig von Brück as Chancellor of the Exchequer;

appointed Count Stein of Leo von Tus Hoh as Minister of Education;

appointing Archduke Louis as Minister of the Interior;

appointing the Earl of Koroft as Minister of State;

Clemens-Metternich was appointed Foreign Secretary......

Franz still took conservative measures for political reform in Austria, and did not make a big move at the beginning, as can be seen from this list.

The political approach was vividly displayed, with a prime minister who advocated a strong suppression of the revolution, a chancellor of the exchequer who advocated fiscal reform, a secretary of education who advocated education reform, and a conservative home secretary and state secretary.

Even for the sake of checks and balances, Franz recalled the discredited former Prime Minister Metternich as foreign secretary.

Of course, the main reason is that Metternich is diplomatically strong enough, and there is no more suitable candidate for Austria at the moment.

The first thing that happened to the new government was the aftermath of the Vienna rebellion.

The present model of distributing relief grain will certainly not last long, but now the capitalists are deeply trapped in the revolution and cannot extricate themselves, and one by one they have run away, and there is no way to talk about resuming production.

Now half of the city's population is unemployed, and without the government's relief supplies, Vienna will be in chaos.

Franz presided over the cabinet meeting without holding: "Now that the Vienna rebellion is over, the post-war reconstruction work must begin immediately, and nearly 40,000 prisoners are urgently waiting for us to resettle, what is the plan of the cabinet?" ”

No way, now is a critical moment, they have to perform their duties as soon as they take office, but there is no time to familiarize them with the business.

Prime Minister Felix replied: "I propose a wartime economic system, with the government taking over these ownerless factories, resuming production first, and ensuring the employment of the people."

Specifically, we can fine-tune the production line according to the actual situation and adjust the production line according to market demand to avoid waste! ”

As expected, historically, Austria was also a wartime economic system, and it survived the initial difficulties.

What is better than the historical situation is that Franz acted quickly enough to seize the hands of the capitalists and directly confiscate these factories.

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

"The situation in Austria is very bad at the moment, there is already a rebellion in Italy, and there is a stir in Hungary, and it is very necessary to adopt a wartime economic system.

However, if the government now confiscates so many factories and we organize the resumption of production, labor costs will have to increase! Chancellor of the Exchequer Karl spoke

There is no doubt that the government is embarrassed, and its own laws must be followed, and the "Labor Protection Law", which has been shelved, will certainly not be used as toilet paper now.

Franz shook his head and said: "The cost of labor does not increase much, and it is calculated at the average wage level of the industrial workers in Vienna before the rebellion, as the basic salary."

In the vast majority of industries, we can also adopt the piecework system, more work and more rewards, stimulate the enthusiasm of workers, labor wages increase, and the products produced by workers will also increase.

If we turn to the wartime economic system, the waste generated by market competition will no longer exist, and as long as there are no problems in our management, there should be no so-called losses! ”

The market competition is gone, and if the production is carried out according to the plan, if there can be losses, or the cost will be greatly increased, Franz will kill people.

Anyway, the planned economy only exists for a short time, and it will only take two or three years at most to concentrate on suppressing rebellions in various places as much as possible, and the speed of degeneration of the leadership is not so fast, right?

As soon as the Crimean War broke out, Austria took advantage of the war to transfer the pain of economic change and healed its wounds with war money.

Karl's eyes lit up, they understand economics, and if they use the piecework system, they can perfectly circumvent the "Labor Protection Law".

If 99 percent of the people are paid more than this standard, the remaining 1 percent still have a big opinion?

"His Royal Highness's suggestion is very good, in fact, all industries can adopt the piecework system, which requires the cooperation of many people, and can also be grouped, so that the enthusiasm for production can be effectively exerted!" Carl said with a smile

"Stop, this suggestion has nothing to do with me, this is what experts have found through research, and we must do a good job of explaining it to the outside world, as long as the workers get more money, there will be no problem in implementing it!" Franz hurriedly stopped

He doesn't want to be scolded by Cheng Xiang in the future, no matter how beautified he is, this is essentially a more advanced way of exploitation, and it would be strange if his identity was not hacked.

It's better to push it to the experts, anyway, they are used to carrying the black pot, and they don't care about one more.

As long as they need to, they can come up with any conclusion, even the tomb of Sun Wukong has been excavated, and the "piece system" is really nothing.