Chapter 81, Legal Weapons
It was not only the Austrian government that took action, but also the European governments joined the feast.
It is true that Jewish capital has a hatred, but this is just a secondary factor. After all, capitalists these days are all birds of a feather, and no one is more noble than anyone else.
The essence of the anti-Semitism movement has always been the same point:
First, social contradictions are intensifying, and the rulers adopt the method of transferring contradictions in order to consolidate their rule;
The second is that he has no money in his pocket and cannot afford to pay back the usury of Jewish capital. The ruler does not want to be accused of tying up the debt, so he relied on the debt under the banner of anti-Semitism and can also pay for it.
Religious factors and Jewish capitalists are also one of the reasons for the outbreak of the anti-Semitism movement, but in modern times, most of them have become secondary factors.
Of course, there are exceptions. Sometimes Jewish capital is really silly, and often has no bottom line in the face of interests, which has triggered many anti-Semitism movements, but most of them are partial.
The essence of this anti-Semitism movement is very simple, that is, the French government has no money, and other European countries are following the trend.
Taking the Tsarist government as an example, after the outbreak of the anti-Semitism movement in Europe, Alexander III confiscated a large number of Jewish capitalists' industries, especially the banking industry, and all nationalizations with Jewish capital backgrounds.
Well, the latter one was added by the bureaucrats.
Mainly, more than ten years ago, the Russian Empire had just launched a massive anti-Semitism campaign. Now the Jewish capitalists in Russia have not had time to recover their energy, and their family background is simply not enough for everyone to divide them up.
In desperation, everyone had to play and expand.
Other industries are not easy to move, which involves the employment problem of workers. If they are not handled well, it is easy to cause chaos. In addition to greed, bureaucrats are also afraid of trouble.
The only exception is that banks themselves hold a lot of cash. Taking advantage of the opportunity of nationalization, everyone completely embezzled a part of the cash and then blamed the Jewish capitalists.
If the methods are a little more clever, you can find an excuse to sell the nationalized banks to private capital at a low price and then make a profit from them.
As for other capitalists involved, it depends on whether their backend is strong enough.
The backend is naturally the return of the industry. After a bribe, it may even join the division team and take the opportunity to annex the shares left by the Jews.
If the background is not strong enough, you can only regret it. It is considered luck to protect your own interests. If you are not lucky, you will confiscate it directly.
The Tsarist government did not eat the appearance. Not only did the national capitalists in China suffered heavy losses, but even foreign capital such as Britain and France were no exception.
The feast lasted until after the loss of Austrian capital, when the Vienna government protested against the Tsarist government, and Alexander III stepped in to intervene.
But that was already half a year later. The bad luck in the early stages, many people have grass growing on their graves.
In contrast, Austria is still quite good at eating. The unlucky ones are Jewish capitalists who commit crimes, and those who are obedient still escape the disaster.
Although there are very few people who are obedient, this is not important. It is not easy to kill them all, not deliberately expand them, and involve more innocent people.
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Winter goes and spring comes, the earth begins to recover, and trees begin to sprout.
The rows of toon trees in the Vienna Palace have now drawn new branches, grown tender green leaves, and spit out fragrant red buds, indicating the prosperity of Austria.
This wonderful time is just like Franz's mood at this moment.
Seeing the Prime Minister handed over the income statement, Franz finally understood why European countries like to anti-Semitism and why they did not wipe out all the Jews.
It’s not that everyone doesn’t want to, it’s completely reluctant to let go. This is a great leek that can be harvested every few decades and can get rich returns every time.
What if it is done in one go and the descendants are short of money? In a sense, this is also a sustainable pig farming model.
The cash confiscated was not too much, with less than 200 million ASCH, but the seized series of assets such as real estate, bonds, stocks, etc. are astronomical.
According to the preliminary estimates of the Vienna government, the value of these assets combined exceeds 3.5 billion Aegis.
Of course, many of these are virtual assets that exist theoretically.
For example: the market value of a listed company is 30 million SHIELD, but its actual assets may only be 10 million SHIELD, or even a few million SHIELD.
No one can tell how much water there is. Franz doesn't know how the Vienna government's valuation is calculated.
If you really sell it out, you will definitely not be able to sell it for so much money in a short period of time, and you may not even be able to sell it half of it.
With so much money, no consortium in the world can take out, and even the royal consortium founded by Franz does not have this strength.
After all, wealth and cash are two concepts. In terms of theoretical assets, Franz, Queen Victoria, and Alexander III are definitely among the top three in the world, and each of them is 10 billion ASCH.
However, these wealth is only nominal. Theoretically, Franz's biggest wealth is a bunch of royal direct subordinates, with an area of tens of millions of square kilometers. Compared with these, the royal consortium is nothing.
The colonies of Britain are theoretically the queen's property, and this value cannot be estimated at all.
The same is true for Alexander III. The Russian Empire was large enough that the Tsar had land in name as many as tens of millions of square kilometers. Even if most of these lands were frozen, it would be of great value.
If these theoretical wealth can be cashed out, all the consortiums around the world will be weak.
A total of more than 5,000 Jewish capitalists were involved in the case, accounting for 68.5% of all Jewish capitalists.
There is no doubt that most of these more than 5,000 people are small and medium-sized capitalists. Only a few are truly at the top of the capital world, and these few are the ones who have the most wealth.
According to the statistics, the top ten rich people have more than 100 million ASCH, and the top 100 people have mastered more than 2.5 billion ASCH, and the fewest assets are more than one million.
It is impossible to say that the guys listed separately are dead. Although they are dealt with according to the law, their rich family background is the driving force behind the Vienna government's black history.
So much money is legal income. Whether others believe it or not, Franz doesn't believe it anyway.
For details, please refer to the Habsburg family. A royal family that has been passed down for hundreds of years, the total assets of Franz added up before the acquisition of the current ASUS currency is less than 100 million.
This has nothing to do with hard work, it is more about the productivity limitations of the times. There is only so much wealth in society, and no matter how powerful you do business, the upper limit is stuck there.
There were too many cases behind, and Franz was too lazy to go backwards. Anyway, he was not a judge, and it was not his job to judge criminals.
Putting down the documents in his hand, Franz asked curiously: "According to the current laws and regulations, how will these people judge?"
Prime Minister Carl replied with a wry smile: "In fact, there are far more than so many people suspected of committing crimes. This list is the result of the government's slight retribution.
If the crime is relatively minor, we just gave a fine and did not include it.
According to the current law, these guys on the list start at least ten years. More than half of them can be sentenced to hanging.
This is just an investigation based on the information provided by the whistleblower, and there is no excessive investigation into the results of other criminal acts. Otherwise, I would doubt whether these people can survive."
When Franz heard this answer, he was also shocked. Isn’t this the real version of “Nine out of ten capitalists killed, and one out of the net”?
Franz has reason to believe that the guys who escaped were not because of how clean they were, nor because they were lucky. More often than not because they were involved.
In order to reduce political influence, the Vienna government cannot execute tens of thousands of people at one time, so it can only catch "fat sheep" and "extremely sinful" guys.
As for why this happens, we have to ask about Austrian laws. Compared with later generations, the legal punishments these days are much more powerful.
After all, the nobles are in power now, so they will naturally not be lenient with the bourgeoisie that may threaten their own status.
A simple example is that if the hoarding is accumulated in Austria, all property can be confiscated if the circumstances are serious, and the head will be lost.
Bribery of government officials, regardless of the severity of the circumstances, both bribery officials and bribers have the same crime, and both have the same years of imprisonment.
It would be a tragic thing to bribe multiple officials. The years of imprisonment can be accumulated and the upper limit will not be capped.
If the official who has been lucky and who has bribed is sentenced to death in the future, then there is no way to say that he will be imprisoned for 100 years.
Is this fair?
It is definitely unfair, but the world is unfair.
When it comes to power struggles and in order to curb the proliferation of corruption, Franz chose to default.
Besides, there is a back door. If you want to escape punishment, report it.
Reporting officials who have bribed you can reduce your sentence. Theoretically, reporting a few more will offset the crime and you can be released from prison after paying a fine.
Affected by this, basically every major anti-corruption case will involve a large group of people.
In Austria, both bribery and bribery are high-risk activities. So far, the highest record for years sentenced to prison is 3,416 years.
Franz asked nervously: "How many officials are involved?"
Now he is really scared. If another thunder comes out, the performance of the creator this year will be overwhelming.
There is no way, the dignity of the law must be maintained. If it is found out, it must be dealt with. Franz will not use amnesty for these scumbags.
Prime Minister Carl lowered his head and replied: "So far, 4,864 public officials have surrendered themselves to the Anti-Corruption Bureau and submitted 1,347 million spysimmons.
How many officials are involved in the case are still under investigation. Many criminals have reported to the government, but they are suffering from the lack of evidence and cannot file a case directly."
When Franz heard this answer, he felt relieved.
The number of people involved in the case is large and the amount involved is also large, but the amount of bribes per person is not large. In addition, the crime of surrendering oneself can be handled internally.
If you confiscate dirty money, get rid of public office, and punish voluntary labor with varying time, the matter will be over, and there is finally no need to kill.
As for the stubborn elements who are being found, there is nothing to say, and they just happened to take it out and kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
Franz had a premonition that most of these guys who refused to confess were extremely guilty and that when the incident happened, ordinary people would not resist stubbornly.
"Investigate! No matter who is involved, I will investigate it to the end. I will never tolerate any criminals this time."
After taking down so many Jewish capitalists, no government officials were unlucky, and no one would believe it if they said it.
The surrendered shrimps did not count, and the big fish behind them did not surface. Franz did not believe in Jewish capital and had no foundation in Austria.
The success of the Vienna government's action this time was because they caught them off guard. No one knew that the government would use the law as a weapon.
After all, Austria does not have any of the two core elements of the anti-Semitism movement. The Vienna government does not need to divert social conflicts and does not encounter financial difficulties.
According to past experience, the European anti-Semitism movements started violently, and the Vienna government had no signs before the action.
In particular, the government has also strengthened police forces to stop anti-Semitic actions by civil extremists, which has made many people feel at ease.
This empirical illusion misled the judgment of Jewish capitalists. The Vienna government did not make any preview and suddenly issued an arrest warrant, leaving no response time for them.
It is true that money is powerful, but no matter how much money it is, it is not worth mentioning in front of the state machine.
The relationships and networks that were managed in the past have become fragmented at this moment. At least until now, Franz has never encountered any pleading for Jewish capitalists.
If it is not activated, it does not mean that it will no longer exist. If you are less involved, you can take the opportunity to kick away the Jewish capitalists. The guys who have been tied up long ago will be difficult to escape at this time.
Franz would not be able to sleep without pulling out these Jewish capitals buried in the government.
"Yes, your Majesty!"
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Chapter completed!