Chapter 1895: Open and Honest Four
The venue became very quiet in an instant, and everyone looked at Crown Prince Ruprecht. They knew that the Crown Prince had always regarded himself as promoting the development of the empire, and what he had done was indeed dedicated to the empire. Everyone was waiting, waiting for the prince to be furious and take revenge immediately. Even Barter is prepared to cut off with Buhler if necessary. Anyway, Scheidemann has already gone to prison under the pressure of Bavaria, and there are not many people like Buhler now.
"In this situation, do you have a better way?" Ruprecht glanced at Buhler and said. "You are different from Albert and others. You may be the most simple-minded among the top members of the parliamentary faction. Then, you made the seemingly most direct and efficient choice based on this simple thinking. And what is the result? "
"Your actions have directly caused the current weakening of the central government. And now I have reintegrated them together. You can come to this meeting with the intention of compromising. If you have a better way, you can say Come out and see if everyone here can accept it? And if there is no proposal from me today, and the agreement cannot be reached, what will be the result? Will you continue to use knives, guns and blood to solve the problem?"
Ruprecht then ignored Buhler. In the eyes of the prince, this former army colonel is a guy with good ideas, a simple mind, strong military qualities, but poor political acumen. Although the prince was a little upset by interrupting him suddenly, he directly elicited what the prince wanted to say The next topic, one that was not listed in the meeting minutes, but had to be mentioned. That is to establish a technology and engineering control system independent of the government!
"But what you said does have some truth. The efficiency of the government has declined due to the multi-level parliamentary approval system. The approval of a draft will be affected by many factors, resulting in a decrease in government efficiency. I have also thought of a solution to this point. Then It is to establish an institution independent of the government, which is responsible for the research and development of major technologies and the implementation of engineering projects. The projects under the leadership of this institution will not change due to changes in the government and annual resolutions of the parliament. In order to ensure that the empire is in the Leading position in key scientific and technological fields." The prince said the next topic.
After the prince said this, everyone in the room was in no mood to continue paying attention to whether Ruprecht would clean up the former army colonel, because now four words popped out of almost everyone's mind , that is the Navy Act!
What is the most important issue this bill addresses? It is to make the construction of the navy into law, thereby evading the annual review mechanism of the parliament, so that the construction of the navy can continue. To put it more clearly, it solves the problem of money and staffing! As long as the navy's budget does not exceed the standard, the navy can directly obtain its own funds from the treasury and expand its fleet. This is also one of the reasons why Tirpitz has been haggling over every detail in the shipbuilding budget in history. It is easy to say that it does not exceed the budget. If it exceeds, then the Navy Act will no longer exist. Z would rather cut down the performance of the battleship than let the "Navy Act" be abolished!
However, judging from the current situation, this Bavarian heir seems to want to make the special case of the "Navy Act" bigger? Have some similar bills been introduced in other engineering and technology research and development?
And after thinking about this, some politically astute people also realized that the result of such a bill would lead to the weakening of the prime minister's power, and at the same time lead to the redistribution of major domestic interests! The former is naturally easy to say, once some projects are established as a bill, there will be a special agency responsible for it, and it will be difficult for the prime minister to intervene. As for the latter? It is very clear to see how many German warships have been built by the Blohm-Fors shipyard belonging to Bavaria since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince dominated the navy.
A huge project must mean huge financial and material benefits.
And if the barriers between states are broken and competition is fully carried out, then the efficiency will be improved, and the empire will have more cost-effective things. But there is one thing, it is even more certain that a considerable number of enterprises will suffer. Come on, it's going to be a winner-take-all ending.
Just imagine, if before World War I there was an organization in Germany that uniformly called for tenders for weapons such as tanks and assault guns, then the cricket tank and the Wasp assault gun would surely win the bid, and then there would be no such companies as Krupp and Rheinmetall What's the matter, the entire German armored force will be directly equipped with armored vehicles from Bavaria. This is a good thing for the army, but it may not be true for the domestic military enterprises or even the economy in Prussia. Military enterprises that cannot get orders will surely have difficulty in surviving. And once the military industrial enterprises are in the end, what will happen to the tens of thousands of workers? If it is expanded to upstream and downstream enterprises, more people will be affected! This cost will be too high for everyone to accept!
"Your Highness, this is a kind of interference with the internal rights of the state. Any state can choose a product that suits its own national conditions. This kind of adaptation is not simply a good or bad product, and other things may also be considered. At that time, Bavaria The imperial government didn’t force you to buy products from Krupp and Rheinmetall when the kingdom’s military industry hadn’t risen, did it?” Prince Albert said.
After the so-called war is over, will swords and guns be sent to Kuma and released to Nanshan? This is indeed the case in terms of overall trends. But for the German army, the military equipment that should be upgraded still needs to be upgraded, and new arms that need to be formed, such as the strategic bomber unit, still need to be formed. Think of the combined total strength of the three German armies after the war of more than 1.3 million, as well as the colonial troops who may be on missions everywhere. After calculating the vehicles and other supporting equipment needed by these troops, everyone present knows that this piece of cake is really not small! And judging from the current trend, this prince of Bavaria seems to be a bit ambitious! Therefore, after figuring this out, even if they are unwilling to have a head-on conflict with Bavaria, the Kaiser faction and the Parliament faction will still not be silent!
"Sufficient competition will indeed get the best products. But from another perspective, once a company loses in a certain key competition, it is likely that it will not get orders for a long period of time, and the final result It is bankruptcy. Of course, bankruptcy is a very common phenomenon in a market economy, but have you ever thought that the most direct result of doing so is the formation of monopoly, and the winner takes all! The final result is that competition produces monopoly, and monopoly eliminates competition! After Barthes finished speaking, he looked at the prince with some anxiety: "And you hate monopoly."
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