69novels Chapter 341
Chapter 341
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“Well, your second purpose is to ask for money, right?”
After listening to the report of the little mustache and seeing his impatient look, Mainz didn’t continue to keep him hanging and directly said what he wanted to say.
Hearing Mainz’s words, the little mustache nodded repeatedly. He now really believed that General Mainz had the ability to read minds. Otherwise, how could he guess his thoughts so accurately?
“Well, I see that the lands in the hands of the Junker nobles are very fertile and numerous, and there are also a large number of pastures, so I was thinking, should we take over these lands and then operate them into state-owned farms and state-owned pastures!”
After spending a long time with the little mustache, Mainz gradually discovered that the little mustache was not particularly averse to the bear’s ideas.
At least, he could accept the concept of state-owned companies!
Perhaps because of his poor background, the little mustache could smoothly take on the identity of a civilian, thinking and speaking for ordinary people. The state-owned system is not very friendly to capitalists, but it is good news for ordinary people.
After all, the country is not like a capitalist, and it does not aim to make money. The goal of the country is to govern the country better and let the people have a better life, so as to maintain the stability of the state power, so that the status and power of the rulers can be stable. Therefore, state-owned enterprises can give up part of their profits and distribute these profits to every citizen so that they can afford the basic requirements of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
The little mustache wanted to apply for financial subsidies to build large state-owned farms and ranches for this purpose.
Seeing that General Mainz did not speak, the little mustache was worried that Mainz would not agree with his proposal, so he quickly explained:
“General, food security is of vital importance to the country and the people. We have always faced the problem of insufficient food supply in the past. It is not that the arable land in our country cannot really meet the food needs of the people across the country, but these businessmen and landlords, in order to obtain higher profits, deliberately restrict the planting of grain, so that the output of grain is precisely controlled to be just a little bit worse.
In this state, due to the problem of insufficient food supply, the price of grain in the market remains high. In order to buy food, people have to pay more money, and most of this money flows into the pockets of these businessmen and landlords.
They can completely disregard the country’s food security and the lives of the people, and do such things just for their own selfish interests. It can be seen how risky it is to leave food security completely to the market and these unscrupulous businessmen.
Therefore, my idea is to operate some state-owned farms in the capacity of the country. In this way, we will have a large amount of grain in our hands, and we can directly intervene in the price of grain in the market. If they still dare to use this method of hoarding to resell grain at a high price, we can directly sell the grain in our hands to stabilize the grain price and prevent them from making huge profits!
Moreover, the output of those farms can also provide citizens with a large amount of eggs, meat and dairy products, which is of great help to improve the physical fitness of citizens!”
The eyes of the man with a mustache became brighter and brighter, and his pair of blue eyes almost glowed!
It seems that putting the man with a mustache in the position of Minister of the Interior is indeed a wise decision! Judging from his appearance, he is very dedicated to his current job, even to the point of devoting himself to it.
“General? What’s your attitude?”
After the mustache finished speaking, he didn’t hear Mainz’s response. He was originally frustrated and thought that Mainz didn’t agree with his proposal. As a result, he looked up and found that General Mainz seemed to be lost in thought. This kind of thing rarely happened to General Mainz, so he began to be curious and wanted to know what made General Mainz think so wildly!?
“I understand what you mean, but I don’t necessarily agree with it.”
Stabilizing food prices and controlling food prices are very important for any country.
Food is directly related to the survival of the people. If the food supply is insufficient, people will die.
Hans has always had a large population, so the problem of food supply in their country has always been very prominent. This problem is particularly important in Hans!
Without his reminder, the little mustache could think of this matter, which made Mainz very relieved!
It seems that the little mustache has really completed the transformation, from the heinous warmongerer in history to the patriotic young man who is concerned about the country and the people!
However, his idea is good, but his approach is not so good.
State-owned farms have advantages and disadvantages. In the short term, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and in the long term, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.
In fact, there is another simpler way to achieve the goal of controlling food prices as mentioned by the little mustache.
“The minimum purchase price of grain and the national reserve grain?”
After hearing the two concepts thrown out by Mainz, the mustache man was stunned.
He savored Mainz’s words carefully, and then thought about it.
“The Junker nobles themselves are the large landowners and bourgeoisie in our country, and now they have been uprooted, so most of the large landowner class in our country has been eliminated.
The lands confiscated from them can be distributed to the landless people and let them cultivate them.
As long as there are people cultivating these lands, they will not be abandoned, and there will always be grain output.
In this way, not only does our government not need to come forward to cultivate the land, but it can also absorb and digest a part of the idle people in the society and even solve the employment problem.
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The man with the mustache blinked, not quite understanding what Mainz meant by solving the employment problem. There is no shortage of jobs in Hans now. What they lack is labor!
In this case, they are also diverting people from the already exhausted labor market to cultivate the land. Doesn’t this aggravate the problem of labor shortage?
Seeing the puzzled expression of the man with the mustache, Mainz had to explain to him patiently:”At present, our country is in a period of rapid development.
The state has invested in the construction of a large number of infrastructure, so a large number of jobs have been created in a short period of time, but this kind of thing is impossible to last long.
When the government’s investment decreases in the future, or when these infrastructures are completed, these jobs created by the massive government investment will no longer exist.
If there is another global economic crisis at this time, a large number of factories will be affected, and the number of unemployed people will rise rapidly!”
Mainz’s words scared the man with the mustache, and he said with some doubt:”Will it really be such a serious situation? I mean, will there really be an international economic crisis?”
Mainz nodded affirmatively:”Economic crises in Western countries usually break out every ten years.
The outbreak of the First World War was actually caused by the previous economic crisis.
After the end of World War I, due to the consumption and destruction brought by the war, the economies of various countries grew rapidly in a short period of time, which delayed the arrival of the economic crisis, but the problem was not solved.
The economic crisis will happen sooner or later.
The earliest time will be in 1927 and the latest will be in 1930.
So we still have about two or three years to prepare!
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Seeing that Mainz was talking about it so seriously, the mustache guy had to take it seriously.
If a global economic crisis really broke out as Mainz said, Hans would definitely not be immune.
Economic crises have never stopped since the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution.
From the first economic crisis in the 18th century to the Victorian era, to the most recent economic crisis from 1906 to 1908 before World War I, economic crises have broken out 16 times!
After the Second Industrial Revolution, the scale and frequency of economic crises increased a lot, and their destructive power became stronger.
In this era, economic crises basically come every ten years, and each time they cause unrest in European countries.
, if the First World War had not broken out, the 17th economic crisis should have broken out between 199 and 1920.
However, due to the demand created by the war and the destruction caused by the war, this crisis was postponed.
However, the crisis after the postponement did not disappear but became more terrible.
The economic crisis in 1929 was far more severe and extensive than the previous economic crisis in history.
This economic crisis directly led to the outbreak of World War II.
The reason why Mainz was so cautious was because he knew that the economic crisis would definitely break out and would have a huge impact on Hans.
Therefore, in order to offset this impact, they must prepare from now on and plan ahead!