Conquer the world starting from the Kaiser's driver

The prime minister's office in the Capitol was very quiet, and Lin Shangzhou, who had worked for hours, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, ready to take a nap.

Just one afternoon's work turned the excitement and excitement of yesterday into pressure in his heart, not because he was tired from work, but because he was now the chancellor of the German Empire.

No matter what the country, the chancellor has to face this country, not to mention that he is now the chancellor of the world's most powerful hegemonic empire, the German Empire.

The victorious German Empire took the place of the British Empire as the world's number one power, and it is for this reason that the country was given the deadly "Black Monday" debuff by the invisible hand behind the fourth wall.

Lin Shangzhou knows that the world has changed, and the future path will definitely be different from the game, but he always believes that Black Monday will definitely happen, after all, economic crisis is one of the laws of capitalist development, and economic crisis will occur in capitalist society every once in a while, which is unavoidable.

Unless he takes Germany to a complete turn of red, then he can avoid an economic crisis... But if he was going to do that, he wouldn't be sitting here.

The outbreak of Black Monday was in February '36, and now it's March '32, and he still has four years to prepare.

Thinking

of this, he opened his eyes, looked at the ceiling above his head, and whispered this word, and the prime minister's secretary on the side, Bao Man, heard what Lin Shangzhou was saying, but he didn't hear it clearly, so he asked: "Mr. Prime Minister, what are you talking about?"

"Ah... It's fine, it's just something that comes to mind.

Lin Shangzhou replied, and then he leaned forward and picked up the documents on the table and looked at them, in fact, he was still thinking about Black Monday in his heart, and the countermeasures for Black Monday should be laid out in advance, striving to minimize its negative impact.

As for trying his best to avoid or postpone Black Monday, Lin Shangzhou didn't think about it, and he didn't plan to do it, and his other plan still needed the help of Black Monday to complete.

After reading the document for more than ten seconds, Lin Shangzhou turned his head to look at Bowman who was standing aside, and after thinking of his secretary's experience in the past two days, he asked: "

Bowman, how are you feeling now?" "How are you feeling?"

Bowman was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted to what Lin Shangzhou was asking, what he asked was how he felt after he jumped from the secretary of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper to the secretary of the chancellor of the German Empire.

Let Bowman speak for himself, he was extremely shocked when he knew that Lin Shangzhou became the prime minister at first, and then he was even more confused after receiving Lin Shangzhou's call, he didn't expect that his boss was willing to let him be his secretary, so he was the prime minister's secretary.

After receiving Lin Shangzhou's call, Bowman did not hesitate and immediately agreed to Lin Shangzhou's invitation, he will not miss this opportunity to ascend to the sky, as for whether he can do this job well, let's not talk about it, seize the opportunity first.

"Naturally, I was thrilled and delighted to be able to work for the Chancellor of the German Empire.

Bowman replied respectfully, Lin Shangzhou smiled, and then there was a knock on the door.

Knock knock -

a crisp knock sounded, Lin Shangzhou guessed in his heart who came to find him and answered the other party to let the other party in, a second the door was opened, Louis walked in first, and then he unexpectedly saw Erich Koch walking in with him.

"Louis, Erich, have you two written their reports?" Lin

Shangzhou asked the two, and he asked the ministers of each department to write a report after learning about the specific situation of the department he was responsible for, and he needed to have a specific understanding of the current situation in Germany.

"Hmm.

Louis and Erich Koch nodded, and then Louis handed the document in his hand to Lin Shangzhou, who took the document and looked at it in detail.

Erich Koch handed the documents to Baumann.

Louis also opened his mouth to tell Lin Shangzhou about the economic situation of the German Empire, Lin Shangzhou listened to him and looked at the report he wrote, and ten minutes later he had a specific understanding of the economic situation of the German Empire.

To describe it in one word: stability and improvement.

Lin Shangzhou put the report on the table, and when he saw this scene, Bowman immediately sent the financial report in his hand to Lin Shangzhou.

"Thank you.

After thanking Baumann, Lin Shangzhou took the report and looked at its contents, and Erich Koch began to tell Lin Shangzhou about the financial situation of the German Empire.

About ten minutes later, Lin Shangzhou also had a general understanding of the financial situation of the German Empire.

To sum it up in one sentence: it is stable on the surface, but in fact it is not optimistic, and the financial report makes Lin Shangzhou's brows furrow.

Although the German Empire is now in a period of economic prosperity, through Erich's report and his personal account, Lin Shangzhou knows something that ordinary people under the economic boom cannot know - for many years, the financial expenditure of the German Empire has been far greater than the fiscal revenue.

That is to say, the German Empire has been in a state of fiscal deficit for a long time, and the income is insufficient, so the German Empire has to find a way to make money, and the way the country used to make money was also very simple, that is, borrowing.

Lin Shangzhou didn't know much about this matter, but he knew that it was not a good thing to be in a fiscal deficit for a long time, and excessive borrowing was not a good thing.

Knowing the current state of the finances, how to reduce debt and expenses and increase income has become a matter of great importance to him.

In fact, Lin Shangzhou also knows the easiest way to reduce spending - cutting military spending.

Even in peacetime, the German Empire's annual financial expenditure on military expenditure is very high, and the military's requirements are one point, on the other hand, it is inseparable from practical factors, on the land, the German Empire needs to maintain a large army to maintain its rule in Europe and deter the French Commune and Russia in the east, and the German Empire also needs to maintain a large high seas fleet to safeguard Germany's maritime interests.

Moreover, the colonies also needed the support of the German Empire itself, Central Africa needed support, and German East Asia also needed support, not to mention that German East Asia also needed to maintain a large fleet, which could not be maintained by the financial revenues of the German East Asian colonies alone, and he needed the financial support of the homeland.

As a result, the military expenditure of the German Empire was very high, and a small reduction in military spending could reduce the financial burden of the German Empire.

However, Lin Shangzhou could only think about this idea by himself, how could the military agree to such a thing as cutting military spending, so he could only start from other aspects.

"The financial problem is a bit serious..."

Lin Shangzhou said to himself, Louis's expression also became serious, finance and other aspects are closely related, if the financial problem is not solved, it will become difficult to do anything in the future.

He is also thinking of a suitable solution, tax increase is the most direct and easiest way to increase fiscal revenue, but tax increase also depends on who is raising

taxes, and it is certainly not possible to raise taxes from the people, and the Social Democratic Party has just come to power, and if it has not done what it promised, it will raise taxes on others, and this is not a disservice to itself? In addition to the people, we can also start with the German capitalists, and the taxation of enterprises will generally not cause too many waves, but it is not a good thing to raise taxes when in power.

So Louis thought of another way to promote business investment, and use economic development to drive up fiscal revenue.

If the income of enterprises and other organizational forms increases, then they pay more taxes, and the corresponding fiscal revenue will be increased, but this also has the disadvantage, that is, the return cycle is very long, and it takes a year or two or even longer to see results.

"Fritz, we can promote business investment..."

Knock knock -

Louis said to Lin Shangzhou, but before he could finish speaking, a knock on the door interrupted him.

Although he was only halfway there, Lin Shangzhou knew what Louis meant, and promoting business investment was in his plan.

"Please come in.

Lin Shangzhou answered, and then the office door was opened, and Otto Wells walked in with a report.

Seeing him coming, Lin Shangzhou knew that Otto's report had also been written, and then ten seconds later he saw the government report written by the Home Secretary.

A few minutes later, through Otto's report, Lin Shangzhou found a place to ease the financial burden — starting with the government department.

If the Reich government is reorganized, the number of government departments is reduced, and useless institutions and departments are abolished, then a large amount of financial expenditure can be saved in the future, and the government of the German Empire can be more effective.

After thinking of this plan in his heart, Lin Shangzhou cast a grateful look at Otto Wells and said, "Otto, you have really helped me a lot!" Otto Wells

didn't know what had happened before, and was a little surprised by Lin Shangzhou's sudden thanks, but it was naturally best to be able to help.

"After reading Otto's report, I realized that the government of the Reich was quite bloated and had some unnecessary departments, so I wanted to reorganize the Reich government, eliminate useless institutions and departments, and reduce the number of personnel to improve the efficiency of the government, and at the same time reduce the financial burden to a certain extent.

"Do you have any ideas?"

said Lin Shangzhou looked at the three of them, waiting for them to express their opinions.

After hearing Lin Shangzhou's sentence of "reducing the financial burden", Otto Wells understood why he would say that he had helped him a lot, which was indeed a favor for him, and he had no opinion on it.

After a short thought, Louis nodded, and Erich Koch nodded himself when he saw the two of them nodding, and there would be no obstacles to the execution of this matter anyway.

Seeing that the three of them nodded, Lin Shangzhou's heart was very happy, and he was eager to carry it out, but he held back his mood and said, "I'll talk about it after I finish reading other people's reports." Lin

Shangzhou then asked the three of them to go back, and the matter of abolishing government agencies and departments should be fully discussed before it was done, and Lin Shangzhou needed to make sure that his decision would not have a big negative impact.