Welcome to 19th-century Europe, where strength reigns supreme

All of August's policies were supported by the working class. They were not afraid of hardship or tiredness, but were afraid that their wages would not match their efforts. Now August forced the capitalists and aristocrats to give them a piece of their cake. The working class who had tasted the sweetness praised August as a great leader.

The workers held a large-scale demonstration in Berlin for this purpose. They held the Prussian flag high in their hands. Hundreds of thousands of people walked in joy and laughter for ten hours. The farmers also benefited a lot from the dividends of the policy. As long as they are honest and honest, If you do not engage in speculation, you can have a very stable income. For relatively poor people like farmers, the Junkers squeeze the living space of farmers, buy farmers' grain at low prices, and then sell them at high prices. becomes not allowed.

The number of police nationwide has increased from [-] to [-]. They are affiliated with the Berlin government and are used to catch those nobles who are still committing crimes. The interests of farmers have been protected, and incidents of annexing farmland have become rare. Farmers can take loans to alleviate their immediate needs.

Of course, since someone benefits, there must be someone who is unhappy. The capitalists hate these bills. They criticized August's bill through newspapers. They are not happy to see Tina as a female prime minister. They smear Tina in newspapers. Na, used to attack August's authority.

Compared with the powerful August, Tina is obviously an easier target to deal with, but they ignored one thing, that is, Tina is now the prime minister with real power, and she can just find a few provisions in the law to have a reason to deal with her. Those capitalists conduct routine inspections.

Moreover, Prussian capitalism has just emerged and is weak and easy to deal with. Tina also knows that these capitalists are the engine of the national economy and cannot attack them directly. So it is very simple. Just kill the chicken to scare the monkey as before. Some Capitalists with many black spots became Tina's targets.

After the blow, the capitalists had to be given some sweeteners. August expanded the path for capitalism through the contents of the Prussian Industrial Restoration Act, allowing them to directly connect with foreign purchase channels and sales channels through government departments. , for some private military and civilian enterprises, there are corresponding tax reduction benefits.

From March to June, the unemployment rate dropped directly to 3%. Almost everyone has a job, and depending on the size of the company, there are also maximum working hours and minimum wage standards, which allows workers to obtain corresponding rights and interests.

As the process of the bill continued to accelerate, the capitalists found that not only did they not lose money, but because of the government's help, they could make a steady stream of money from overseas, and they only needed to transfer one percent or even a thousand of their profits. If you give one part to the workers, they will be grateful to you. This does not seem to be a particularly bad thing.

Moreover, since Prussia abolished the gold standard, more and more orders came from France, Austria, and Russia, and a large amount of money flowed into Prussia. In the first half of the year alone, steel production was 1859% higher than the total in [-], and coal production It has reached [-] times the total amount last year. More and more people have become capitalists, relying on factories to make huge profits.

In less than a year, August's bill gave Prussia a completely new look. It successfully transformed from a backward and poor feudal agricultural country into a capitalist industrial country. However, new problems followed one after another. The first one was tolerance. He waited for the opposition from the old forces.

They have seen the power of capitalism. They used to sit comfortably in the position of the aristocracy, but now the speed of industrialization has exceeded their imagination. Prussia will soon change, and they will also have to find a new way out. , Prussia cannot belong to the capitalists, capitalists or Junkers, Prussia can only choose one of them.

Obviously Prussia chose the former, so how could the latter not be eliminated? It's very simple, if you can't beat it, join it. The emerging Junker aristocracy chose to join the ranks of capitalists and used their accumulated capital to impact the market. The stock market emerged in Prussia, and workers can now live a comfortable life. After living a good life, he naturally reached out to the stock market, hoping to make a lot of money in the stock market.

Everything seemed prosperous, but August was keenly aware of the dangers hidden under the times.

In August, Tina walked into August's office with a report, "August, Prussia's economy has improved now. It is estimated that next year, Prussia's financial stock prices will rise by another ten percent. percentage point, this increase seems a bit too exaggerated, it has become like this in just eight months, this is not what a healthy stock market should have."

Tina is also smart enough to realize this problem. Obviously, the crazy surge in the stock market is due to industrial development, but this is not healthy. Although industry is developing, compared with Britain and France, Prussia's industrial level can only be considered good, and The means of production used were second-hand data that was not available in Britain and France, but the Dow Jones Index in the stock market continued to surge upwards.

This means that opportunism has begun to spread. When people have spare money, they begin to invest randomly. More and more money is flowing into the stock market. The economy has begun to shift from real to virtual. The leverage of stocks is often as high as ten or twenty times. Optimistic about the market prospects, many private banks began to lend money, allowing more people to borrow money to speculate in stocks.

"Your concerns are very correct. All companies believe that it is better to use money to speculate in stocks than to develop industry. Although our production capacity can be sold now, it will be troublesome if we cannot sell it."

This situation is very much like the United States in the [-]th century. August did not want the economic crisis to impact the emerging Prussian industry. She needed an opportunity to let people know that stocks are not a profitable business.

"Tina, now you go prepare a new bill. We cannot allow the unhealthy development of the stock market. We must start to regulate it from now on. I plan to establish a Berlin Stock Exchange to regulate the stock market and the capitalist market."

August doesn't really want to believe in free economics. The last person who played this way was called Hoover. Everyone knows what happened to him. August believes that everything must be restrained so as not to deviate from the original track. , now Prussia's industry has just started, and people's confidence in the market has just been established, but they cannot let it be shattered just like that.

This opportunity came quickly. In October, the British stock market sneezed and the European financial crisis occurred.