The Rise of the Empire

Chapter 1886: Big Cake on the Eastern Front Three

"Wait a minute, I haven't finished yet." Seeing that the Grand Duke of Baden hesitated to speak. Crown Prince Ruprecht made a gesture to signal the other party to continue to listen to his words: "The entire oil field was laid down by Bavaria, and we can give up some of the oil mining rights. However, this cannot be given to some people for free. These payments must be discounted or used as capital shares for certain mines! At the same time, other mines under the control of Bavaria will also be handled in the same way during the transfer process.”

"Then I would like to ask, are there any restrictions on the participants in the transfer of these resources? How will Bavaria allocate these mineral resources and fixed assets?" asked the Grand Duke of Baden.

"There are no restrictions on the participants. It can be a state, a company, or even an individual, as long as we can offer our basic consideration. As for the specific list, I will give it after the meeting." Rupre Hitt thought for a while and said.

Ruprecht is going to sell about half of the benefits. Naturally, these things cannot be given away for nothing. As a future king, what does Ruprecht need? On the one hand, it is money, and on the other hand, it is an interest group that can share weal and woe with oneself! And through the mutual holding of capital, small groups will also be tied to the Bavarian chariot.

For example, what should the Württemberg royal family want to invest in a tungsten mine without sufficient funds? Bavaria can give some shares for free in exchange for political or administrative concessions from the other party. This is a kind of benefit exchange. Now, the Kingdom of Bavaria has a lot of chips in its hands, so it is natural to make good use of them!

"We accept this." The Grand Duke of Baden agreed very simply.

"If Bavaria is entirely responsible for the sale of these assets, then the process is not transparent. We suggest that a supervisory committee should be formed to manage this matter." Albert jumped out again and said.

"I would like to remind you that these assets now belong to Bavaria and have nothing to do with Prussia and the Empire! Who we want to sell to and what price we want to sell to is our own decision! Didn't you say Freedom? Doesn’t a businessman even have the freedom to dispose of his own goods? Can the imperial government control how the following states dispose of their assets?” Crown Prince Ruprecht sneered.

"Due to the unfriendly attitude of your Excellency and the Social Democratic Party, I have now decided to make some changes, that is, an additional agreement must be added to the sale agreement of all properties under the name of Bavaria, and all Social Democratic Party personnel will not be exempted Welcome!" The crown prince's counterattack came directly! And as soon as this sentence came out, it caused a commotion in the audience.

"You are blatantly discriminatory! You have violated the constitution of the empire!" Albert said angrily.

"The imperial constitution does not have this article. In addition, everyone present, whoever agrees with my opinion can raise his left hand to vote. Those who disagree can raise his right hand!" Ruprecht finished speaking and raised his left hand. As soon as the words fell, the Grand Duke of Baden, Grand Duke Albrecht of Württemberg and the King of Saxony first raised their left hands, and then, representatives of the Bavarian and Kaiser families also raised their left hands one after another.

But what about the parliamentarians? Except for Albert alone, even the former allies did not choose to stand by Albert, and did not raise their hands, expressing their abstention would already be very embarrassing to Albert!

"I've never seen such a domineering act! This is a blatant provocation to the Imperial Council..." Feeling that he had fallen into isolation, looking at the contempt, gloating, and indifferent people in the entire venue, Albert only felt that his blood was surging, and his face was ashen as an eggplant.

"Okay, if that's the case, then this resolution will be passed." Ruprecht said with a smile. Then the crown prince glanced at the somewhat distraught Albert and continued: "I want to remind Mr. Albert. The venue must be quiet. If you continue to make loud noises, then I can only ask my guards to ask you to go out and calm down." gone."

In fact, the actual effect of this ban is very mediocre. After all, if people from the Social Democratic Party want to participate, they can instruct others to participate. It is not too difficult for them to avoid this restriction. (The premise is that Bavaria is not serious, otherwise it is okay to come up with a stricter agreement, or make trouble.) The most important thing is that this is a signal, a signal that expresses the attitude of the Kingdom of Bavaria and the crown prince himself .

There is a saying in later generations, when you can use your attitude to make money or influence others, you are a successful person, and now, as the most successful crown prince in Germany and Europe, his attitude will obviously be Affecting quite a few people, among other things, people in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire who want to contact the Social Democratic Party must first think about it. Will doing so by themselves cause the dissatisfaction of the Bavarian royal family? You know, at the level of the crown prince, there is no need to deliberately target, it is enough to make those self-righteous people unable to eat and walk around! And for this reason, the Grand Duke of Baden said that he would fully cooperate...

At this stage, the dust has actually settled. All the mines sold by Bavaria account for about half of the mines in the currently controlled area. Of course, some resources may be controlled more and some less, such as the oil in Baku, Bavaria controls 70%, some important non-ferrous metals and aluminum ore, copper ore, which are relatively scarce in China, should be controlled more, and other coal mines and iron ore should be sold more, don’t think that these are not profitable You know, the current size of Germany is very large, and the Transcaucasus region is thousands of miles away from the mainland of Germany. It is obviously impossible to rely on the coal mines in the Ruhr area for supply.

What? You said that the oil can be burned directly? please! Petroleum is very valuable. Isn't that a waste of resources when heavy oil is mined and burned directly? Therefore, the fuel for life and production in the Caucasus still depends on coal. So if you only look at it from an economic point of view, these coal and iron mines can still make a lot of money, and you don’t even need to consider transportation issues, and you can sell them directly after they are produced.

It will take a long time to process these mineral resources. After all, everyone is here to discuss important issues, not to do business. So these things will naturally be dealt with slowly later. After allocating the benefits of mineral resources, the remaining thing to do is the security of the Transcaucasus.

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