Chapter 9 Friedrich List

Author: Seven Years Period

Chapter 9 Friedrich List

Germany's Article 38 tariffs have paralyzed domestic traffic. They are tantamount to tying a person's hands and feet and preventing blood from flowing. Only by abolishing internal tariffs and establishing a unified tax system for the entire federation can national trade and nationality be restored.

Industry also benefits the working class.

—Friedrich List

Friedrich Liszt, the father of the German Zollverein and the challenger of Adam Smith, the author of "The Wealth of Nations", his life is legendary. (The full name is always used here to distinguish him from the musician Liszt who followed him.

Distinguish.)

On August 6, 1789, Friedrich List was baptized in Reutlingen.

(Baptism is usually performed on the day the baby is born)

Friedrich List was born in a family of craftsmen. His father was a famous leatherworker. When he was a student, he worked as a leatherworker apprentice part-time to help his father work.

But soon he showed amazing talent and passed the financial officer examination of the Württemberg royal family and became a government clerk.

After working in the government for several years, he was sent to university to become a professor due to his work ability.

No one would have thought that this was just the beginning of his cheating life. Afterwards, Friedrich List left the university and became the president of the Württemberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

After that he became a member of Parliament for Württemberg, when he had just turned thirty.

Afterwards, he left Württemberg and went to the New World (the United States). In the United States, he built a farm, opened a newspaper, and opened a railway company. Finally, he used the money he earned to buy a mine. He also wrote "American Political Economy" in his spare time.

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Later, he was even appointed as the U.S. Consul General to the German Confederation by the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson.

In 1832 he returned to Württemberg and began to outline a railway network covering all of Germany.

However, his national railway system plan failed due to feudal separatism and the narrow profit-seeking nature of the bourgeoisie.

In the end, only a 115-kilometer-long emasculated version of the railway was obtained, from Leipzig to Dresden.

Friedrich cooperated with others to open a joint-stock company in order to build railways, but the shares that should have belonged to him were assured to him that "Leipzig people" are different from "Yanks" and that Germans do not deceive Germans.

My friend cheated me.

The two swindlers convinced Friedrich List that all that was left was just a formality, so he did not sign the contract.

By the time Friedrich List realized that he had been cheated, the other party had successfully cashed out and disappeared without a trace.

In the end, this investment not only failed to bring him any income, but also caused him to lose 10,000 thalers.

The somewhat destitute Friedrich List had to stay in a cheap family hotel.

He dragged his exhausted body back to his room, only to find that the door was ajar.

He immediately rushed into the room. An old gentleman was drinking tea leisurely in his room. The attendant standing next to him was quite handsome and tall. He looked intently and knew at a glance that he was a servant of a powerful person.

The old gentleman put down his teacup and spoke first.

"Mr. Lister, please sit down."

Friedrich List took off his hat, bowed deeply, and said, "Sir, this is my room."

"It's mine now." The old gentleman smiled and took out a piece of paper and motioned to the attendant to show it to Friedrich List.

Friedrich List took a look and saw that it was a land deed.

"Then can I take my things?" Friedrich List pointed to the cabinet beside him.

"Mr. Lister, please don't be anxious. I'm here to give you a gift."

"Are you Santa Claus?" asked Friedrich List.

"If you wish, yes. Let us get to the point. My name is Berg Turner, and I am Master Metternich's butler. I have two things to do today. The first is to give you a gift and return your losses to

You, and I also brought two friends."

Berg clapped his hands, and two burly men walked in carrying two sacks, and then threw the sacks heavily on the ground, making a dull sound.

Then the sack was opened, and it was revealed that they were the two liars who made Friedrich List hate him.

Friedrich List immediately stepped forward and kicked them twice. At this time, the hands and feet of the two liars were tied, and rags were stuffed in their mouths. They could only make two muffled groans.

"Are they the Austrian secret police?" asked Friedrich List.

"No, they are just enthusiastic citizens who happened to pass by." Berg replied slowly, and then said, "Mr. Lister, are you satisfied with this gift?"

"Satisfied, let's talk about the second thing." Liszt is a sensible person, so he naturally knows that the other party will not show courtesy for nothing.

"My master wants to meet you. He thinks you are very talented and should serve His Majesty the Emperor."

"What if I say I won't go?" Liszt asked tentatively, and then pointed at the two big men next to him, "Will they put me in a sack?"

"No, Mr. Lister. My husband is a civilized man, but I am not. No matter if I say you are a X or a dangerous person, as long as you have my face, it is enough." Berg stood up and spoke.

Straighten your clothes.

"You convinced me, Mr. Berg."

Vienna, Hall of Mirrors.

Francis II was on the throne, and the ministers and dignitaries below all had their own thoughts, but they seemed to be performing their duties in an orderly manner.

Franz II said proudly, "My child, look. The most important temperament of an emperor is that you must first have the aura of a king, and then you can make them bow their heads."

Obviously the old emperor was distracted. But Franz still pretended to admire him and said in a child's tone, "Grandpa, why do the French oppose Austria's joining the German Customs Union?"

"The French are all bad guys. They are afraid of us. We in Austria are the chairman of the German Confederation and should protect the interests of the German states, so we must join the German Customs Union." Franz II wanted to educate his grandson, but he accidentally

Got around myself.

Franz saw the old emperor digging a hole for himself, so he pushed again.

"Grandpa, grandpa, those who have the same views as the French are all bad people, aren't they?"

"." Franz II was silent.

Metternich almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood. This was really the savior of Austria. Unexpectedly, the clearest person in the entire royal family was actually a child.

It's just that the dignitaries in the Hall of Mirrors didn't have a good expression, especially Prince Windigoretz. He felt that the old emperor was looking at him, and his gaze could kill him.

He quickly made an excuse and left the Hall of Mirrors as if running away.

When the other dignitaries saw the two bosses, one was exiled to Hungary and the other escaped. Their confidence also collapsed, so the only thing they could do was scatter.

Looking at the people frantically escaping from the Hall of Mirrors, Franz II fell into deep thought. Why didn't he find out in the past that what he trusted was a group of treacherous villains?

Count Korolaf thinks this is good. It seems that the workload can be reduced a lot.

Count Latour continued his work. He felt that those guys would not give up so easily and must guard against it.

Of course, this is also related to Count Latour's personal character. After all, he is a soldier, and if he makes a mistake, his life will be lost.

Now Metternich, Korolaf and Brooke were all thinking about the same thing, whether to bring Archduke Franz with them to the next political meeting.
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