I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 342 What is a Grand Duke?
George is very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the parliamentary system. Taking turns to sit on the throne has indeed increased the political participation of all strata of society and given all strata a channel to express their political demands. However, the disadvantages of the parliamentary system itself are not obvious in Britain and France. It has been clearly reflected.

The United Kingdom is a little better. In name, it has two houses of parliament, but in fact the king and the aristocratic group are in power. The so-called parliament is just a thing to fool the British.

France was really in chaos. It only took 100 years to go from sweeping Europe to being unable to defeat the Qing Empire.

St. Petersburg is about to form a State Duma, and Amur is no exception.

The two largest groups in Vladivostok are the conservatives led by Milyutin and the industrialists led by Mikhail.

Just looking at the names, you can tell how perfunctory these two groups are. They don't even have a fixed charter, let alone a program or goals. They were established entirely to deal with St. Petersburg.

How can this work.

If you don't occupy the ideological position, the enemy will. George will not leave any chance to the enemy.

"The Trans-Siberian Railway has not yet opened to traffic, and the construction of the Eastern Railway will start next spring. Within two years, we will build wireless telegraph relay signal towers all over Siberia and East Asia, and install wireless telegraphs on all large warships and merchant ships in the empire. Shipyards The equipment of the steel plant needs to be expanded, the equipment of the steel plant needs to be upgraded, thermal power plants need to be built in Khabarovsk and Yuriev, and sites need to be selected to build hydropower stations. How can I have the time to do these things?”

Mikhail is too busy and wishes he had only three heads and six arms.

George's main idea is to take other people's paths and leave them with nowhere to go.

Compared with Mikhail, Milyutin's work is even more important.

George did not mean to belittle Yaer and Milyutin, but the reforms of Yaer and Milyutin were not reforms at all in George's opinion, just improvements.

To put it bluntly, Yaer and Milyutin lacked the cunning and tact of the British.

Miliugin was once a man in trouble.

The previous salary system in Vladivostok was inherited from St. Petersburg, which was relatively confusing and no longer met the needs of Vladivostok.

Milyutin, together with Kanunnikov and Igor, divided the salaries of staff in the Vladivostok military and political system into 21 levels, from the lowest monthly salary of 15 rubles to the highest monthly salary of 300, truly legal.

Generally speaking, George wants to form a super group in the Amur region that will bring in all the elites as much as possible and work hard to build a stronger Russian Empire.

"Don't look at me, I'm busy too—"

"George, it's just because I've been deeply involved that I'm not interested."

Milyutin is currently working with Kanunnikov and Igor to design the salary system in Vladivostok.

When it comes to playing politics, if you don’t say that everyone is an old fox, it will definitely not work to be straightforward.

George was very angry, but Mikhail didn't care. After all, Milyutin was a minister of war and was deeply involved in Alexander II's reforms. Why did he have no political sensitivity at all.

"Your method is wrong and it is impossible to succeed."

Milyutin said that he was also not interested in parliament.

"No matter how busy we are, we still have to do this. This is very important to us."

This is just salary and does not include benefits or year-end dividends.

"What are you going to do?"

Milyugin was curious and expected George to play new tricks.

In this way, even if someone wants to decentralize power, they will not be able to gain a majority in the parliament because their power is weak.

"Oh, why do you think the Tsar was assassinated?"

Milyutin is not optimistic about George's idea.

Ya Er is not stupid and will not give up power. The parliament he designed has similar ideas to George. It is precisely because of this that those opponents who can't stand up to Ya Er will assassinate Ya Er.

"Because those assassins didn't realize the seriousness of the matter."

George really didn't mean to laugh at anyone. The rulers of the Russian Empire had a too superficial understanding of power.

We can't blame them. The history of the Russian Empire is only a few hundred years old, and there is no way to learn from it. The Tsar usually regards himself as the "father" of all Russians. If his son makes a mistake, he must always be given a chance to correct it.

If only it were a trivial mistake.

Assassinating the Tsar was tantamount to treason. How could exile for such a crime serve as a warning?

Let alone murder here in Vladivostok, insulting and beating others for no reason will violate the criminal law and be sent directly to the mines for mining.

Some time ago, there was a case in Vladivostok that attracted widespread attention from the whole society. A sailor of the Siberian Fleet beat a passerby after drinking and was arrested by the Vladivostok Police Station. The Commander and Chief of Staff of the Siberian Fleet went to the Vladivostok Police Station in person, but still failed to arrest him. Walk.

The case finally ended with the Siberian Fleet paying 150 rubles to the victim, apologizing to the victim in person, and obtaining the victim’s forgiveness.

Even so, the sailor who hit the man was sentenced to 6 months of hard labor.

After this case occurred, newspapers in Vladivostok conducted intensive reporting for a month.

Now basically everyone in Vladivostok knows to call the police if something happens.

"Speaking of seriousness, I suddenly remembered something. Elberman established a socialist party a few days ago, and I heard that many people joined it."

Mikhail provided a new situation.

George was stunned for a moment before he remembered that Alberman was the general manager of the Vladivostok branch of Dosson Bank.

"Very well, send me someone to keep an eye on him."

George was very happy that someone actually came to his door.

Elbermann is also very happy. Vladivostok is a new environment for him, and Elbermann is ready to flex his muscles.

Vladivostok is indeed a good place, with a developed economy, rich products, a large number of industrial workers, and new companies emerging every day. This environment is very suitable for banks to conduct business.

The largest bank in Vladivostok is the Bank of Siberia. This bank almost monopolizes the entire financial business of Amur. Dousheng Bank hopes to compete with the Bank of Siberia, but is surprised to find that Dousheng Bank in Vladivostok is not even qualified to absorb savings. .

If you don't let people deposit money, what profit will you make?

The total capital of Daosheng Bank is only 600 million rubles. If it is all released, how much interest can it earn in a year?

This was obviously unreasonable, so Elberman took the initiative to come to George, hoping that George could relax the restrictions on Dowson Bank.

"It's not impossible to absorb savings. First lend me an interest-free loan of 1000 million rubles, and then we will discuss this matter."

George was very unhappy. If it hadn't been for this, Elberman probably wouldn't have come to Yuriev Palace to pay homage to the dock.

George had to let Elberman know who had the final say in Amur.

"why?"

Elberman didn't expect George to be so fruity.

"You are not qualified to ask me to answer."

George slapped him directly in the face.

(End of this chapter)