"Next, we will quietly wait for the fight between Prime Minister Barrow and the Constituent Assembly. I believe this fight will be exciting!!"
Jérôme Bonaparte, who wished in his heart that the Party of Order and the Republican Montagnards would fight each other, both sides would lose.
As a little tiger, Jérôme Bonaparte transformed into a tiger-fighting hero and killed the sick tiger of the Party of Order.
When the time comes, some "meat" is torn off from the bodies of the Party of Order and some republicans and fed to the sucking tiger of the Bonapartists, and the Bonapartists will thrive and become a sharp blade in his hands.
After watching the theater, Jerome Bonaparte still did not forget the series of problems he would face in the future. Launching a coup did not mean the focus, but a new starting point.
Now he must make some preparations for this new starting point, such as...
Jérôme Bonaparte turned his attention to Morny and said, "Mr. Morny, what do you think of the railway?"
"Railway?" Molny was stunned at Jérôme Bonaparte's sudden inquiry. He waited for a long time before reacting and said step by step: "I think the railway is a huge project that requires a lot of investment.
Only with funds can it be built! The maintenance costs invested after construction will be an astronomical figure..."
Morny talked endlessly about his negative view of the railway, and Jérôme Bonaparte's eyes flashed with disappointment.
Of course, Jerome Bonaparte did not intend to criticize Morny's negative railway policy. Judging from the experience of later railways, railways have no intention of promoting the formation of a beneficial cycle between rural areas and cities in various regions of France. In layman's terms,
In other words, it means expanding the internal circulation of France.
You must know that France in the 19th century was still a closed environment with duality between urban and rural areas. Industrial products in the cities could not be transported to the countryside for use by rural farmers. Farmers in the countryside were also unable to transport food to big cities. This led to the failure of various industries throughout France.
Grain prices vary greatly from region to region.
Especially in 1847, it was clear that there was a serious shortage of bread in Paris, but flour from areas far away from the Seine remained below the French price level.
Unable to allocate large amounts of flour from other provinces to Paris, Guizot could only try to buy the Czar's bread. The bread under high tariffs frustrated the workers in Paris, thus inducing the February Revolution.
If we put aside the railway experience of later generations and focus on the present, it is not difficult to understand Morny's negative railway policy.
The speculative movement that began in Britain in 1845 has infected the entire European continent like a plague. The stock exchanges in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Brussels have set new highs in railway debt. As soon as each trunk line was planned, it was invested in the stock exchange.
During the period, many people rushed to buy up all the bonds in the stock market, and the prosperous railway bubble became bigger and bigger in the crazy speculation. Finally, in 1847, the Irish potato crisis broke out, which became the fuse that detonated the railway bubble. Iron-related bonds
It fell by about 40% overnight, and Great Western Bank, which holds the largest amount of railway debt, was almost in danger of bankruptcy.
The explosion of the British railway bubble was like the first card of a domino toppling. The Prussian, Austrian and French railway companies also went bankrupt one after another, and many planned routes were also forced to suspend operations.
If it weren't for France's long-standing good government habit of keeping everything in check, the entire French Railways would have been wailing all over the country.
The railway company, which barely managed to survive, faced the crisis of nationalization last year. If the June Revolution had not suddenly broken out, the railway company might have needed the government to continue to provide cover.
Given the pessimistic outlook for the entire railway industry, it is not difficult to understand Morny's negative remarks.
Understanding is understanding, Jérôme Bonaparte still has to continue to implement the contents of his plan.
After Morny recounted all the negative railway policies he had racked his brains to know, Jérôme Bonaparte said: "Mr. Morny, what you just said is all based on economics."
From an economic point of view, building railways is indeed a thankless task! What if we look at it from a political point of view?"
"From a political point of view?" Morny's eyes widened. He seemed not to understand what Jérôme Bonaparte meant.
"Let me tell you this!" Jérôme Bonaparte took out the green crystal dip pen placed on the mahogany table and drew a coordinate system on the paper. The x-axis marked stability and the y-axis marked employment.
rate, starting from 0 and drawing a 45-degree diagonal line, "The stability of Paris depends on its employment rate. Our government has just experienced two civil wars and is in an extremely unstable stage! If we want to stabilize Paris, we
The workers in Paris must be given something to do! The railway is precisely a project that can not only increase the employment rate, promote the cooperation of the upstream and downstream industrial chains, but also make a profit!"
"But we..." Morny still had concerns. The crisis in 1947 left Morny with lingering fears.
Jerome Bonaparte saw Morny's concerns. He patted Morny on the shoulder and said: "The incident in Britain was just because all the companies rushed into the railway and then planned it randomly.
It’s caused by the route! As long as we can regulate the railway route and carefully screen each company, we can completely eliminate these difficulties! Don’t forget, our Public Works Department also has a secret force!”
Morny suddenly remembered that the Ministry of Public Works also has a road and bridge force known as the Emperor of Railways. These national engineers who are mainly responsible for railway approval are not only excellent railway planners, but also an interest group that dares to fight.
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Since the first day of the French Railways in 1823, the road and bridge troops have been in tit-for-tat confrontation with private operating companies on the issue of nationalizing the French railways.
Although they were defeated in 1845, their power did not suffer any losses.
"We can design a railway committee in the Ministry of Public Works, delineate some qualified companies to license the issuance of stocks, and discuss the issue of railway transportation prices with the financial department..." Jérôme Bonaparte described the French Railways 40 years later.
The plan team came out, "We can also announce to the outside world that all railways will be in the form of public-private partnerships. In this case, the citizens will also have a sense of security!"
