Chapter 990: A New Era——Aegis Settlement System

Politics has always affected the whole body with one hair, and what seems to be an ordinary beating is actually Franz closing the expansion valve and suppressing the voices of the main domestic fighters.

Everything has two sides. It was too easy to win the European war, and the loot was too rich. The most important thing was that the emperor was willing to share the benefits, so that "fame and fame can be obtained immediately" became the mainstream of society.

Stimulated by interests, the empire has become unprecedentedly warlike. Ordinary people want to stand up through war, ordinary officers and soldiers who have risen due to military exploits want to cross the threshold of nobility through war, and nobles want to go further through war.

"The wages of avarice is death".

The survival law of nature is vividly expressed here. Stimulated by interests, everyone has forgotten the risks brought about by war.

It's not that no one noticed the problem, but everyone tacitly pretended not to see it. The reason is very simple. The collapse of France made the Vienna government lose its sense of crisis.

In the eyes of everyone, without the old enemy of France, there is no one in the world that can rival the Holy Roman Empire.

Even though the Royal Navy is still number one in the world and the big bears are still strong, their weaknesses are all too obvious.

The industrial strength of the Russians is weak, the government is clinkingly poor, and the economic lifeline is still in the hands of the empire. We must look at Vienna's face.

Although the British navy is number one in the world, it is only temporary. Once the empire decides to fight for supremacy at sea, it is their turn to exit.

If you can't compete in quality, then pile up quantity. The big deal is that if Britain builds one warship, the empire will build two. Two against one can always win.

Money is such arrogance. The integrated Holy Roman Empire has a financial revenue that exceeds the sum of all European countries. As long as the government tightens its belt, even if it is land power and sea power, it will not hesitate to play with it.

No matter how other people drifted, Franz was not drifting anyway. Income and expenditure are directly proportional. Ordinary people only see the government's huge fiscal revenue, but ignore the government's huge expenditure.

If it hadn't been for the adoption of the original enfeoffment system, which greatly reduced administrative expenses, the current income of the Vienna government might not be able to support this huge empire.

You know, because of the war, the Vienna government has been in deficit for three consecutive years. To achieve financial balance, the fastest is 1894.

"Although a country is large, it will perish if it is warlike."

It is universal in any period. Reality has proved that as long as the scale of the war reaches a certain level, no matter how rich the spoils are, it will lose money in the short term.

The outside world only saw the scenery of the victorious country, but did not know the suffering behind it. Only when the booty is digested is the real wealth, otherwise it is the data that stays on paper.

Not only is the government poor, but even the pockets of the aristocrats are not rich, especially the military aristocrats who have just risen, their pockets may be cleaner than their faces now.

There is no way, all the money is thrown on the fief. Their own fiefdoms are managed by themselves, and of course they have to pay for their own construction.

Not to mention the emerging aristocrats, even the old-school aristocrats, it is not easy to come up with such a large sum of money all at once.

The construction of fiefdom itself is not a matter of one person. All the emptying is not only of their own wallets, but many people also empty the wallets of relatives and friends.

Of course, this is also an investment, and it is the most stable investment. As long as you don't fiddle around, you can never lose money in running a fiefdom.

Now the only rich people are probably the capitalists, but these guys are trembling at the moment, each of them is as low-key as possible, for fear that they will be caught by the poor and crazy Vienna government and confiscated.

If all of them are legal property, naturally there is no need to hide and hold them. The problem is that the capital these days is all bloody, and it is almost certain to check.

But the Vienna government likes to play like this. When it is short of money, it will fight corruption, and then involve a bunch of capitalists by the way, or just stare at a few fat sheep to investigate.

Since Franz took the throne, similar things have happened three times, and every time the capitalists are leeks on the table.

Every time, the one who dances the most will die the fastest, especially those idiots who ran to manipulate politics, one counts as one, and now the graves are covered with grass.

It has nothing to do with Franz, behind this is the game between the aristocratic group and the bourgeoisie. In order to ensure their own political dominance, the aristocratic group has always been within the rules of the game to suppress the rise of the bourgeoisie.

Similar things are not only staged in the Holy Roman Empire, but almost the entire European continent is where two major classes are fighting.

It is nothing more than the fact that the conservatives in the Holy Roman Empire are stronger, overwhelming the bourgeoisie.

Of course, struggle is a struggle, and it actually has little to do with ordinary people. Even ordinary nobles and small and medium-sized capitalists are not qualified to participate in this game.

Even big capitalists will not be targeted as long as they do not get involved in politics.

It's a pity that many people don't know it, and they still fantasize about building a powerful political network. As a result, the taboo of the aristocratic group has brought their own family into it.

learn from mistakes.

Although they didn't know that the emperor drew a warning line for them, if they crossed the line, they would die. After enough social beatings, capitalists have grown up.

Most people think that too much money is causing trouble, so that now the most popular is no longer "fighting for wealth", but "wealth is not revealed" which is more popular in the East.

After realizing that the Vienna government was short of money, one and two began to pretend to be poor. Many capitalists would rather keep their money in the basement than let the outside world know that they are very

rich.

Hoarding money is not a crime, and one has the right to control one's own money. The Vienna government is well-mannered, and legal private property is sacred and inviolable, and you can do whatever you want.

In a sense, the capitalists are hiding and pinching, and they are also helping the Vienna government to stabilize the currency value and overcome the financial crisis.

Otherwise, the previous currency is overissued, and the value of Aegis's currency will no longer be guaranteed. Compared with the franc that has plummeted, the Aegis, which is also super-issued, has almost no major fluctuations in the currency value, which is a miracle in itself.

Insufficient currency circulation is no longer a problem in the era of paper money. If it is not enough, it will be printed directly. The circulation market of Aegis has expanded, and it is logical to increase the currency circulation.

Just like the US dollars in later generations, as long as the market has confidence in them, Lao Te dares to let go... water, water, water.

The era of great military expansion is over, and the era of great economic expansion has just arrived. Now as long as a small short-term goal is achieved, the Vienna government can immediately get rid of the current financial difficulties.

In the middle of the 19th century, the gold standard system was successively established in continental Europe. The mainstream settlement method in international trade was also gold, and the pound sterling and Aegis were both auxiliary for gold settlement.

In addition to bearing the name of an international currency, neither Aegis nor the pound is actually an international currency in the true sense. It can actually become a settlement currency relying on gold.

Only by turning the "Gold-Aegis System" into the "Aegis System", Aegis is the real international currency. At that time, we can imitate the Americans of later generations and get rich by printing money.

Prime Minister Carl hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, apart from our reputation, the value of the Aegis is more important because it is linked to gold and can be freely exchanged.

Once we get rid of gold and there is no limit on gold reserves, we can print as many Aegis as we want, and the outside world will definitely not accept it. If it fails, it will collapse directly like the current franc. "

This is an inevitable result. Although the reputation of the Shenluo Empire is not low, it has not yet reached the point where everyone loves it.

If Aegis and gold are really decoupled, it is estimated that the British will immediately take advantage of it and launch the pound to snatch the market.

Seeing that the Prime Minister was misled by the superficial problem, Franz shook his head and explained: "This is a long-term goal, and Aegis cannot be decoupled from gold in the short term.

It's just that in addition to the fixed exchange ratio with gold, we can also add some bargaining chips, such as: grain settlement, oil settlement, etc.

In these fields, we have an absolute advantage. If we propose to use Aegis to settle directly, the resistance of various countries should not be too high.

First establish the Aegis settlement status in the European continent, and then gradually spread to the world, and then implement the last step after the overall situation is determined. "

Who wouldn't know how to copy homework!

Although I don't know what happened in the process of establishing the dollar hegemony in later generations, Franz has heard about the coquettish operation of linking and delinking the dollar to gold.

Now that you succeeded in the original time and space, then follow along and copy your homework. The Americans were able to handle the episode that happened in the middle, but the Vienna government couldn’t handle it for no reason.

The Americans have food hegemony and oil hegemony, and the Holy Roman Empire also has these things, and the bargaining chips of the two sides are evenly matched.

In a short period of time, it is unrealistic to promote the Aegis system all over the world, but it is still very promising to implement it on the European continent.

When selling monopoly materials such as grain and oil, they insisted on using Aegis to trade, not afraid that European countries would not compromise.

These days, the European continent is still the center of the world. As long as the Aegis hegemony is established in Europe, it will be much easier to promote it overseas.