Chapter 1,269: Harboring Evil Intentions 4
Chapter 1269: Hiding evil intentions 4
By the way, there is another group that we must mention, that is, the big capitalists and bankers in Germany! These guys are in a very delicate position. First of all, they will not stand directly at the front desk, but no one can ignore their influence! They have money, people, and probably a lot of armaments. The prince's intelligence agency investigated the production of certain factories and found that they sometimes periodically had problems with high defective rates. At the same time, there were also abnormalities in the scrap rate of some items returned to the factory for repair. Although these items accounted for the overall The proportion is not large, but considering Germany's huge armaments production, it would be a very terrifying number. Plus the massive amounts of supplies piling up in those factory warehouses. Well, it’s good and scary! They don't even need to give these things away, they just need to "tell" some people with ulterior motives, and then they can quickly organize an army that looks legitimate on the surface!
Although they remain behind the scenes, their purpose is also very clear. It is naturally best to establish a bourgeois government. The attitude towards the emperor is still unclear. But what the prince can be sure of is that they will definitely attack Bavaria! After all, the power of the latter directly affects their profits and income. They don't have the opportunity or ability to do so in peacetime. And if a big change happens, it's hard to say that they won't push behind!
They don't want the Social Democrats to stand in the foreground. Even if the prince wins, without conclusive evidence, it may not be easy to move them. So the prince really supports a small fight to a certain extent. Kill some annoying people along the way!
This is not because these capitalists are robbing the prince of money. Of course, in the eyes of the other party, this is the most important issue, but from the prince's perspective, the fundamental reason why the prince must have a fight with the other party is that these guys are too profit-seeking. , he values his own interests more than the interests of the country. Well, as the future king, Ruprecht will naturally take care of them. This is not to say that British and American capitalists are so patriotic, but because German capitalists do It's too much! Germany's production efficiency has not been able to improve in World War 2, and they have a share of the credit! To a certain extent, it is not too much to say that it is the enemy's internal agent!
The prince knew very well that no matter how he operated or what the result was, after the war, the German political system would not be the same as before the war. It was necessary to weaken the emperor's power. This was not only the idea of capitalists and social democrats, but also Ruprecht's idea!
But at the same time, the relatively independent rights of the states within Germany and the status of the Federal Parliament must not be weakened! Of course, to put it more clearly, Bavaria's independence and basic political status cannot be weakened. In fact, except for Bavaria, the various grand duchies are already the younger brothers among the younger brothers. They are extremely submissive. Saxony and Württemberg are better. But military power has also been greatly weakened.
Some people may say that doing this is equivalent to dividing Germany and will make all parties unhappy. In fact, the prince has no choice. If he is born in the Prussian royal family, then all problems will disappear. However, the prince is now the Crown Prince of Bavaria, and his butt determines his head. And to be honest, even if Germany reaches World War 2, they will never be united.
Even the level of mobilization and unity was not as good as the First World War in the Kaiser's era. This is not to say that, with a unified bourgeois government, the country is truly cohesive….
The mustache's ability to control big capitalists is even worse than that of the Kaiser. And the identification and dedication of those high-ranking Nazi officials to the country are definitely not as good as those of the Junker nobles in World War I. You can say that the Junker nobles finally abandoned the Kaiser, but you cannot say that this class did not try their best! They did have various problems, but they also sacrificed the blood of 100,000 people for this war, and thousands of family members died. Of course, this is also one of the fundamental reasons for the decline of the German aristocracy as a whole.
The German Empire was originally a country that lacked national identity and had confusing beliefs. To form a cohesive country took time, coordination from all aspects, and the elimination of some bad things. It was necessary to determine whether a group and force met the requirements of Germany's strength. It's not about conflicts with other forces, but whether what he does is conducive to Germany's progress.
At least in terms of promoting the development of productivity, efficiency, and Germany's external expansion, the prince believes that he has done much better than those capitalists and some Junker aristocrats.
In the future as a whole, the prince's vision for the Federal Parliament is this. In the future, the Federal Parliament should still be superior to the Imperial Parliament and have the final veto power. This is what the prince has always insisted on. Because the Imperial Parliament is not a battlefield for kings. It is the territory of the major political parties. This is also the last line of defense to maintain one's own interests at the German political level. If the Bundestag is deprived and the latter is weakened, then the prince and the Kingdom of Bavaria behind him will have no legal and political guarantees!
At the same time, the prince also needs to pursue the ability to veto unfavorable conditions for himself in the Federal Parliament! Previously, the German Bundestag had a total of 58 seats. Although the Prussian family only has 17 seats, according to the absolute majority principle of the Federal Parliament, three-quarters of the votes are needed to pass. Therefore, although Prussia is theoretically unable to pass what it wants to pass, it can completely block anything. Unfavorable resolutions were passed, and the Kingdom of Bavaria only had 6 seats. And it is foreseeable that in the future, the number of votes and seats in the Federal Parliament will definitely change!
The reason is simple, because the population base controlled by each country has changed! And some new grand duchies, duchies, or free cities will definitely be added in the future. There is no way, even in history, the Kaiser did not intend to annex all the acquired land to Prussia, because the things obtained in the Brist Treaty were too much to eat! Historically, Germany planned to let a German nobleman go to Lithuania to become the king... It just didn't succeed because Germany was defeated.
If the Federal Parliament is re-determined after the war, then the number of votes in Bavaria should increase, because the population of Bavaria has increased after all. The Kingdom of Bavaria, which had only a population of 8 million in history, now has more than 13 million, and taking into account the upcoming acquisition of Poland region, and Germans with dual Bavarian and Bohemian certifications, the population would be even larger. So if there are still 6 votes, it is obviously inappropriate.
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