Chapter one hundred and seventy-four, the three principalities
The aftermath was started, and the enthronement of the heroes was put on the agenda. The people below were impatient. If Franz had not had the prestige and reputation, he would have started to make trouble long ago.
It’s not that the military is inefficient, but mainly because there are too many people enthroned this time and there is too much coordination and communication work required.
Although it is voluntary in principle and respects personal wishes, it is impossible to do it in actual operation.
Good places are rushing to grab, and no one cares about the bad places. Many times, multiple heroes are targeting the same land, which requires the General Staff to coordinate.
The past few months have been spent mainly in disputes. In order to get more heroes to agree to go to America and Australia, the General Staff has also tried their best.
After several months of hard work, I finally came up with a plan that most people can accept.
The general principle remains unchanged: the better the place, the smaller the area of fiefdom you can get; conversely, the worse the land, the larger the area of fiefdom.
In order to allow more people to open up land, Franz also allocated a special fund to provide direct financial assistance to the lords of the inland and remote areas.
It mainly provides assistance to infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water conservancy projects, etc., and directly submit projects that meet the application requirements.
In addition, there are special policy-based low-interest loans to ensure that everyone has enough funds to build a fiefdom.
Compared with the nobles who first engaged in colonial development and had to find ways to find everything by themselves, the current military aristocrats are much happier.
Policy-based loan benefits are not only for nobles, but also for ordinary officers and soldiers who have obtained military merits.
If it weren't for the overlord's dividend, Franz would never dare to spend money like this. You should know that in the era of the gold standard, the government's pockets were limited.
However, as the world overlord, it is different. ASUS has replaced the pound and became the only international currency. The country that originally held the pound now has to replace the foreign exchange reserve target with ASUS.
The market expanded suddenly, and it turned out that the Aegis circulating in the market was not enough, so printing money became inevitable.
As for the issue of gold reserves, there is no need to worry about it now.
With the reputation bonus brought by the world overlord, as long as it is not flooded, you don’t have to worry about the run. It doesn’t matter if you increase the leverage ratio slightly.
One of the important factors that the Vienna government was able to quickly get out of the financial difficulties after the war was to issue additional ASCHELL to the market.
If you have money in your pocket, you will be tough in everything you do. You can comfort heroes from the inside and continue to be strong from the outside.
It is not easy to award titles to thousands of nobles. It is naturally impossible to have a separate title ceremony. Not only Franz has no time, but everyone can't wait.
Even if you want to play wholesale in groups, the rituals you should have must not be missing. In the most glorious moment of life, it is not enough to not give enough exposure.
In order to achieve 360 degrees without blind spots as much as possible, the photographers were busy, and the reporters' cameras were also "kick" and kept ringing.
As one of the protagonists, Franz was even more overwhelmed. Fortunately, he held on, otherwise he would have fun.
Franz never wants to do the same thing again. Time urges people to grow old, and they are almost eighty in a flash. You can't accept old age.
"abdicate"!
"abdicate"!
"abdicate"!
At this moment, Franz's determination to abdicate was particularly strong. If the state had not been established, he would have issued an edict for abdication now.
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In the Vienna Palace, the direct members of the Habsburg dynasty have gathered together, and the time to determine the future fate of everyone has come.
As a parent, Franz looked at the energetic juniors and asked seriously: "Are you all ready?"
You must know that taking this step, you have to work hard on your own in the future. The outside world is definitely not beautiful, and the difficulties you will face in the future will be several times, or even dozens of times, than before.
All kinds of conspiracies and human calculus will come to you. If you don’t have the ability to face all this, it is still time to retreat now.
Don’t feel embarrassed. It is important for people to have self-knowledge. To become a qualified monarch, clear self-knowledge is crucial.
If you go out, get driven back, or be sent to the guillotine, that is truly embarrassing."
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, everyone looked at Masimirino I in unison.
As a negative example of the family, Masimirino I has not had a good life for all these years. If it weren't for the idea of restoring the country, I would have collapsed long ago.
Franz can only express regret for all this. He didn't mean it just now. He just wanted to alert the younger generation, and he had to use a heavy hammer.
As for hurting my younger brother's self-esteem, I was completely overthinking. Over the years, because of the fundraising for restoration, I have never experienced it because of the problem of fundraising for restoration and irony.
Idealists are powerful. As long as they can realize their ideals, they can eat any suffering and bear any energy.
This grand enthronement is essentially intended to diversify risks and increase the family's survival ability. It is natural to help Masimirino restore the reign of his life.
However, it will no longer be Masimirino I himself who completed this plan, but his son will directly succeed to the Emperor of Mexico.
All parties communicated almost the same. After a round of social beatings, the powerful Mexicans became royalists and invited Masimirino I to return to China to preside over the overall situation.
However, Franz did not trust Masimillano I's ability. In order to avoid being dragged into the water again to clean up the mess, he directly stopped him on the grounds that he was worried about the unlucky brother's body.
This reason is very sufficient. It takes a long month to take a boat from Vienna to Mexico. The storm and waves on the sea are heavy, so young people will feel tired, let alone those in their seventies.
As a good brother, Franz naturally wanted to prevent the tragedy from happening. The great cause of restoration cannot be separated from Franz's support, and Massimirino was forced to accept reality.
Realizing the embarrassment of the unlucky brother, Franz decisively changed the subject: "If no one quits, then I will issue the appointment letter.
Next is your last chance to accumulate strength. Once a country is established, it will be difficult to gain support from the central government.
I believe you all understand what to do. If this little thing cannot be solved, then quit quickly and not embarrassingly.
You can use the family resources, but the family is not a certain family, but a family that everyone shares.
Support you to go out and develop, and the family will provide support, but the resources that everyone can obtain are limited, and I hope you can use them with caution."
There are many people, and the Habsburg family has been prosperous in recent years. Influenced by Franz's incest, several younger brothers are still alive.
These old guys naturally cannot go out to start a business, but their juniors can participate. As long as they prove their abilities, Franz is willing to provide opportunities.
Anyway, the territory obtained this time is large enough, so it is okay to enfeoff a few more countries. Splitting apart can also reduce the risk of making trouble in the future.
But the son and nephew are different after all, and the resources obtained from the family can be the same, but the funds that can be obtained from him, the emperor are very different.
Not to mention anything else, the emperor's sons are all grand dukes, while the nephew can only obtain the title of Count, and not everyone can obtain it.
The gap is definitely not a small part. Since the rules of the game have been formulated, as an emperor, you must also abide by it.
Franz could enthrone his son and his younger brother as the Grand Duke and support them in establishing a state, but he could not allow a group of nephews to establish a state.
Otherwise, there would be a lot of earls from the Holy Roman Empire, wouldn’t everyone be able to establish the Kingdom of Be?
Now these nephews go out to start businesses, they are all under the banner of their fathers, and they call it the management of fiefdoms instead of their fathers.
Whether or not one can achieve state status in the end is an unknown. At least Franz will not use his authority to force it to implement it.
Not only the nephews, but also Franz's grandchildren, it is difficult to establish a country.
In addition to the issue of identity, the most critical issue is "no contribution to the country". Under the military merit system, "merit" is the core of the Holy Roman Empire.
It’s not that Franz didn’t arrange gilding, but he was too young. He was only in his twenties and could not be competent for important positions.
In contrast, the sons were different. They arranged to serve as governor overseas early, and they were all commanders during the World War.
Although these military achievements are not enough to obtain the title of a true grand duke, considering the status bonus of the prince, no one can pick out the sect.
Although the nephews also made arrangements, Franz invested significantly smaller resources. Because he did not have extraordinary military talent, he ended up just following the same as he played soybeans.
The resources you obtain now are different, and the gap will only be even greater in the future. Unless they work hard and achieve extraordinary achievements themselves, they will be a noble fiefdom noble.
Of course, Franz would not say these words. For the Habsburg family, even if it was just an extra overseas fiefdom noble, it was also a kind of growth.
The greater the family power, the more stable the imperial power will be. Even if you lose in the power struggle in the future, your political opponents will not dare to do too much.
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On September 18, 1905, Franz issued an edict, conferring his second son Peter as the Grand Duke of Latin America, and his fiefdom belonged to the Central American colony; his third son William as the Grand Duke of Nanyang, and his fiefdom to the islands south of Malacca; his fourth son George as the Grand Duke of Maple Leaf, and his fiefdom to the Canadian region.
It is not news that the enthronement of the Grand Duke is that the fiefs of these Grand Dukes are extremely large.
However, the people only discussed it and there was no trouble. The area of the fiefdom is large, but many of these fiefdoms have owners.
After deducting the previous military merits and nobles' fiefs and soldiers' military merit fields, the remaining land is their actual fiefs.
Most of the best lands are already famous and have owners, and the rest are wastelands that have not been developed. In the short term, in addition to being relatively famous, there are not many truly valuable lands.
Considering the identity of the prince, such treatment is not surprising. As for the establishment of a country, it is now only circulating in the upper circle.
This is an open conspiracy. The emperor's enthronement is fully in line with the procedures and no faults are found. The government cannot find any reason to object.
The fiefdom nobles themselves are equivalent to one prince. Except for having no seats in the imperial parliament, other political powers are similar to those of the state.
In the future, if these guys want to gain more political voice, they either promote localization or apply to the emperor to establish a state.
There is no doubt that the Vienna government does not have the ability to localize so much land, so it is natural to establish a state.
The naked political hints can't be hidden from anyone who is interested. However, facing a strong emperor, he is playing with open conspiracies, and the opponents don't know how to oppose them.
While everyone was attracted by the newly released three grand dukes, Franz made a steady progress in posting personnel appointments and arranged several nephews and grandsons to serve in the Colonial Department.
After completing the colony transfer, they will go to New Zealand, Australia, Austria, South America, Malay Peninsula and other regions as the governor of the regional colony.
Establishing a country is not a matter of overnight, let alone domestic reactions. There is no direct team in hand, and even if Franz issued a licensing edict, he would not have the ability to rule the local area.
What we can do now is just to help them pave the way. The final result still depends on the future development of the situation.
If it can be established in a short time, only these three major priests will not be able to withstand the pressure no matter how many Franz has.
Chapter completed!