Chapter 254: The Great Proving Ground
The outbreak of the British economic crisis has caused Windsor to enter the insurance industry to alleviate the bankruptcy caused by economic turmoil. It is mainly to provide a certain amount of deposit guarantee for small and medium-sized depositors. For banks that are insured with the Zurich Bank Insurance Company, the Zurich Bank will provide its depositors with a deposit guarantee of up to 1,000 pounds, and make these depositors a priority in the reemployment plan. Of course, these banks have been regulated by the Zurich Bank since then, and it is impossible to enter high-risk and high-yield industries.
Tangning has been considering this plan for a long time, but the public always remembers to eat and not beat. Before the economic crisis comes, they do not consider the risks of high-yield investment.
The Lloyds insurance market is full of small and medium-sized insurance intermediaries, and their businesses often have great risks. Often, a fire or a shipwreck can cause an insurance company to go bankrupt. The insurance company lacks insurance companies, which requires huge financial resources. Therefore, this historic task also fell on the shoulders of the Windsor Consortium. After bank insurance, Zurich Bank has made great contributions to insure insurance companies.
After a while in the UK, Germany, which seems to be more important now, has made a major struggle. He will establish the world's first social security system for Germany. What the social security system is most afraid of is that the country's financial burden is too heavy. Therefore, the system promoted by Downing is not nationwide. It is divided by state-level administrative regions, and each state decides its social security efforts.
He divided the following levels of welfare: First, survival security, providing basic food to residents, and in order to improve efficiency, this is all done with enterprises. The canteen of the enterprise provides certain food for residents, and the state reduces taxes, so the state can pay less money.
2. Accommodation security. The government provides land and hand over the basic affordable housing communities to enterprises for bidding. It is conceivable that Eggshell Construction Company, which has the lowest cost technology in the world, will bid and have quite strong competitiveness. This will allow displaced people and bankrupts to have at least a slave-like collective dormitory.
3. Minimum wage allowance. It is foolish to force the government to set a minimum wage for enterprises, because it will reduce the employment rate, and a better approach is that the government can subsidize low-income employees.
4. Transfer training benefits. The government collects data from the employment market and provides free or low-priced training opportunities for the unemployed. This thing is a future-oriented model that Tangning attaches great importance to, because economic crises are often overcapacity, and some industries need to release a large amount of labor. Therefore, the better the transition training is done, the sooner the crisis will be resolved.
5. Health protection. The universal medical insurance in India is the most optimistic about Downing. Unfortunately, such an extreme plan may not be possible in Germany. If it were not handed over to Windsor Hospital, the cost of medical insurance would be so high.
6. Work-related injury protection.
7. Natural disaster protection.
8. Pension system.
After Chairman Tang's eight social security-level bills were introduced, they were announced to each state, and the parliament of each state discussed which level of social security system to join. Government officials from California, India, Malaya, Brazil and other places came to Germany to inspect the implementation of these systems. Among them, Bavaria became the first region in the world where all eight security items were alive, and the social security payment was enviable.
After spending a pleasant time in Munich with his family, Tangning, who was unable to stay, was preparing to go to various parts of the world to inspect. This time the destination was still dangerous. The Russians actually lost absolute control of Omsk and the east, because Shi Dakai's army had occupied Omsk, a major transportation route. At the request of the Windsor Consortium, all the occupied Russian territory was handed over to the mercenaries of Windsor. On this front line, Tangning's Danish and Swedish mercenaries.
Omsk is only one thousand kilometers away from Yekaterinburg, a major military city in Russia. If it stops from now on, the Russians will lose more than two-thirds of the territory. It is the largest city east of the Ural Mountains except Novosibirsk City, and the seat of the Governor's Office in Western Siberia, and will become the western end of the Siberian artery planned by Downing.
In order to rule this land that is now more vast than the entire Europe (including the uninvaded part of Russia), Downing will implement the communist system here that Marx and Engels have longed for a long time! He named it the Soviet Union and appointed Marx as the first general secretary of the Soviet Union. Marx's various policies in Israel were often rejected by the House of Lords, which was very depressed, so he decided to develop it in the Soviet Union. Anyway, he was full of energy and soon learned Russian.
The General Secretary was in charge of the Soviet Union's administrative power and formulated the world's first purely planned economic system for the country. Downing planned not to interfere in Marx's rule for the first time and let him do it, but the Soviet Union would be the protector of EIC and had no independent military department.
Capitalists all over the world were shocked. It would be fine if they used a small country for experiments. Now Tangning handed over a place bigger than Europe to Marx to mess around. It would really bring chaos in the world. A New York Times reporter asked Tangning worriedly and hurriedly: "Are you really optimistic about the social model of eliminating the market?"
Tangning said: "I will try my best to help Marx succeed. If he can't do it, no one will do it in the future."
Marx is no longer poor and had no money to get medicine when his favorite daughter was sick. He was full of resentment towards the entire capitalist world, and it would be strange if he didn't advocate violence. Marx is now almost corroded by the sugar-coated cannonballs of the world's largest capitalist. Even Tang Ning can hardly imagine that the mentor is still insisting that the planned economy is better than the market economy.
The Russian nation is a fighting nation. In order to rule the stolen territory, Tangning must adopt extreme policies. This is one reason why he supports the General Secretary. Another reason is that he hopes that this thorough experiment can conclude with a firm conclusion whether humans can develop a planned economy.
Tang Ning vaguely felt that it would be possible to achieve it based on his own innovative ability. In fact, he established a Windsor consortium that was similar to the communist system. All aspects of the members of the consortium were protected by the organization, and it seemed that it was not much different from a communist country.
But he was curious about how Marx would torture the country. In order to show his support for the General Secretary's work, the Zurich Bank raised 10 million pounds of interest-free loan to the Soviet Union. There was no regulation on how Marx would use it, nor on when to repay it.
This ten million was the foreign exchange reserves of the Soviet Union, and the internal rubles would be issued with the help of the Bank of Zurich. Finally, the Central Bank of the Soviet Union simply adopted the platform system of the Bank of Zurich. This was not the result of Downing's request, but Marx himself had no energy to understand the operation of the complex financial system. The great Soviet Union still had so many things to guide him, and it was not safe to hand them over to the Bank of Zurich.
Not only Marx is relieved, but others are also relieved. You said that a place that claims to eliminate capitalists, if there is no guarantee from the Zurich Bank, which entrepreneur dares to invest? The New Soviet Union is a truly poor country. Without foreign entrepreneurs to run factories, many industries are too backward, so the golden signboard of the Zurich Bank is essential.
A very familiar noun, Tangning made a brilliant debut. After Marx established the financial system, the most important administrative department, the Soviet National Planning Commission. However, Marx's cleverness over the historical planning committee was that he did not formulate a "five-year plan" or something, because it seemed stupid to set a dead time. If he did well, he could end a stage and start the next stage soon. If he was not considered enough, it would be normal for more than five years.
The first stage of the Planning Commission was determined to be the construction of national infrastructure. Since the national policy does not allow private capital to exist, even if entrepreneurs come to do business, they will work for the country. The government will give money. If you help with work, don’t come. This policy is obviously not very attractive. Those who come to work for the Soviet Union are low-energy factory managers who cannot make it in other countries.
Tang Ning snickered on the side, haha, Lao Ma immediately encountered a problem. A truly talented entrepreneur must be profit-seeking and has no habit of working for others, even if he works for the country. He would not order his company to work for the Soviet Union, lend money to others himself, and even work for others. Is this a disease?
The most powerful factory for road construction is no longer Tangning's factory. Since he created the model of prefabricated cement roads, many road and bridge companies have followed suit. Some have already done better than Tangning's company through their own hard work. One of them is Builon, the father of Ruhr who once ate lpg girl in Luxembourg with Donning. Builon, Builon, has switched from cement business to cement road paving business, and is the king of Luxembourg's highway. Of course, cranes, bulldozers and other necessary machinery must be purchased from Suez Canal.
After arduous negotiations, the Soviet Ministry of Transport finally moved the Luxembourg Highway King and jointly invested in the establishment of the Soviet Road and Bridge Corporation. Builon provided all the technologies and engineers, which could occupy 10% of the road and bridge giant. At this time, European and American capitalists suddenly shuddered in their hearts. Wow, it seems that participating in the construction of the Soviet Union can obtain shares of a monopoly company. It is a bit interesting. This is a monopoly country larger than Europe.
As if you smell the fishy smell, the bloodthirsty capitalists were finally lured by the opportunity to occupy some of the equity. Excellent enterprises from all over the world came to the Soviet Union for investigation. In this wave of foreign investment, the Soviet Union established several national monopoly enterprises: Soviet Petroleum Corporation, Soviet Chemical Corporation, Soviet State Grid, Soviet State Water Resources Corporation, Soviet Construction Corporation, Soviet Steel Corporation, Soviet Life Insurance Corporation, Soviet Property Insurance Corporation, Soviet Social Insurance Corporation, Soviet Automobile Factory, Soviet Mining Corporation, Soviet Ordnance Industry Group, Soviet Postal Group, Soviet Metallurgical Group, Soviet Aluminum Corporation, Soviet Commercial Real Estate Corporation, Soviet Building Material Corporation, Soviet Motor Corporation, Soviet Grain Corporation, Soviet Coal Industry Corporation, Soviet Shipbuilding Corporation, Soviet Heavy Industry Group, Soviet Civil Construction Corporation.
These state monopoly enterprises have a characteristic: foreign capital that can only hold up to 10% of the shares. Due to the foreseeable monopoly position, there are still quite a lot of excellent enterprises coming to participate in the shares, so the quality of partners is quite high. Among all these enterprises, the most bizarre one is the Soviet State Telecom Group, because almost no other company in this industry may compete with the Windsor Telecom Empire, but it is an indispensable industry. Therefore, the Soviet State Telecom Group had to take the shares by the Windsor Empire, and it accounted for the highest equity among all monopoly state-owned enterprises, reaching 50%.
As for what Siberian artery does? It is hard to say, because the General Secretary of the Soviet Union's attitude towards this is very ambiguous. The Times called it a line of "the country among the country". But it was the most important transportation route of the Soviet Union. Therefore, the Windsor Consortium actually controlled the three key departments of the Soviet Union's finance, telecommunications and transportation. It was called by the New York Times that "took the country as a business model and monopolized all the enterprises of a country. This money was made too good."
The world is in a conscience, and Tangning is not optimistic about the administrative monopoly model at all. The abandoned primitive East India company monopoly model and guild monopoly model in the UK have long proved that this is not efficient? It is now in its inception stage, so Europe and the United States think that the 10% monopoly company shares are very promising. Hum, wait and see.
At the request of Comrade Marx, General Secretary of the Soviet Union, the great project of Siberian Artery, which is a great benefit to the country and the people, will start construction as soon as possible. Therefore, the "Human Footprint Company" re-planned the construction plan, and the two-way construction army that started from Sapporo became three-way. Of course, the extra one was to go straight to Siberia and build this most important infrastructure, the "Siberian Artery".
Unlike the Soviet Union in history, the Massacre was very free. From the very beginning, various media within the Soviet Union criticized state-owned enterprises for suppressing private enterprises. Fortunately, Marx was used to it when he was in Israel. He was still alone and wanted to save mankind from the whirlpool of economic crisis.
European and American economists sarcastically said: "The economic crisis is really eradicated because there is no prosperity at all. Whether it is a crisis or not is the virtue."
Li Hongzhang also mocked the Soviet Union, saying that their level seemed to be similar to that of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He hoped to achieve the greatest equality. Let's wait and see. Equality locked down the enthusiasm of workers and the factory had no vitality at all. The Qing Dynasty deeply agreed with this statement, and the Qing media all called the Soviet Union the "Soviet Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."
No matter how the outside world laughed at it, the Soviet Union at least saved the workers and peasants of the lowest proletariat from the brink of scarcity to death. At least the country guaranteed that they had food and no unemployment rate at all. All workers and peasants had to arrange their jobs, and the salary was another matter.
Policy-based work arrangements are the most feared thing for capitalists, and that is the biggest killer to reduce corporate profits. Capitalists who invest in monopoly enterprises desperately intercept the government to do this. Therefore, an unprecedented world wonder appeared in the Soviet Union. Capitalists went to the streets to march and demonstrate. They often put on slogans like this, "Please don't mess with people in our company anymore, otherwise I will go bankrupt! Builon, an investor in the Soviet Road and Bridge Corporation."
This scene was published as a front page photo by the New York Times, becoming a hilarious scene, and sounded the alarm for entrepreneurs who invested in the Soviet Union.
Whenever such a hilarious incident occurs, Soviet Telecom, which recruits completely autonomously, is particularly proud. They maintain a good operating state, and are still the same as capitalists managing workers. They are organized and have clear business logic. In the Soviet Union, telecommunications companies are the best state-owned enterprises, and the nursery rhyme of "marrying a telecommunications man when you get married" is circulating in the capital Novosibirsk.
Chapter completed!