Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 310

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This is the status quo that Constantine faced politically.

Constantine made a gesture of powerlessness towards Sophie.

“The recent struggle between the two factions has focused on Greece’s participation in the war and the new inheritance tax.” After saying that, Constantine walked behind the desk, opened the drawer, and took out two documents.

Holding up the document on the left, he explained to Sophie, “This is a proposal initiated by the People’s Party. The main content of the proposal can be summed up in one sentence.”

“In order to prevent the phenomenon of one-party dominance in the Greek parliament and threaten the democratic system of Greece, legislation should limit the number of seats of a single party in the parliament, and clearly stipulate that no party can hold more than 45% of the seats in the parliament.”

As soon as Sophie heard it, she knew that the BJP was restricting the ever-growing Liberal Party, because now everyone in the Greek political arena knows that after the Liberal Party took office as Prime Minister Venizelos, politicians joined in one after another.

The total number of seats in Parliament is fixed, with the Liberal Party occupying more and more, naturally the other parties are shrinking.

Seeing that the Liberal Party is developing, it will exceed 50% of the seats.

In addition to the People’s Party and the Liberal Party, the Greek parliament also has a large number of small and medium-sized parties.

Now the Liberal Party of Venizelos has made remarkable achievements in recent years, and its support rate among the people has also been rising all the way. It is now the largest party in Greece.

The Liberal Party advocates taxing the wealthy more, providing workers with benefits, establishing a minimum wage, expanding voting rights, establishing an insurance system and pension system, and providing social security for workers.

At present, Greece has relatively high eligibility requirements for voting rights, requiring men over the age of 30, with stable income, and certain education.

How can ordinary people in society not support these views of the Liberal Party? This is for their own benefit. Naturally, they cheer and support it.

Therefore, the Liberal Party has a large number of supporters in the society, the public opinion is very high, and there is a further upward trend.

The BJP’s proposal is naturally aimed at dampening the momentum of the Liberal Party.

“This proposal is a coalition of the BJP and other smaller parties in Parliament to take on the Liberals”

Constantine put down the document in his left hand, held up the changed document again, and said to Sophie: “This is a new proposal of the Liberal Party, and the main idea is to sum up: in view of the increasingly obvious phenomenon of wealth division in Greek society. , a few rich people own most of the social wealth, in order to curb the gap between the rich and the poor and prevent society from tearing apart, the government began to levy inheritance tax”

Sophie only heard the name of the inheritance tax and imagined the waves it made in the Greek parliament.

It can be imagined how excited the rich and noble people of the People’s Party will be when they hear the Liberal Party’s proposal for an inheritance tax.

The inheritance tax is based on the amount of inherited wealth. The higher the amount, the higher the tax share. At the highest level, the property tax will reach 50%.

The Liberal Party is a blow to the rich in Greece.

“These days, the two parties have voted on these two proposals in parliament several times in a row. The disputes between the two sides are too big and the differences are obvious.”

“The Liberal Party launched the estate tax proposal, and the People’s Party all opposed it”

“The BJP has launched a proposal to limit the number of seats in the party’s parliament, and the Liberal Party will all oppose it”

Hearing Constantine’s confession, Sophie also sympathized with Constantine, she understood that Constantine was keen on political struggles, and he was a gangster all day long, fighting for interests, especially the battles between parties.

Constantine has always kept a distance from the political quagmire. As he said, a wise king does not need to be in front of the public all the time and maintain an aloof posture in order to show his majesty and authority, and he can put himself Its influence penetrates into every corner of the political arena, exerting its own influence invisibly.

In contrast, Constantine preferred to focus on immediate things, such as the successful commercial application of new technologies, things that were visible and tangible.

Noticing the fatigue between Constantine’s brows, Sophie naturally knew that although he didn’t like politics, Constantine still paid close attention to every move in the parliament and asked with concern: “Then what are you going to do? , the contradiction between the two major parties is so acute that they will ask you for help in order to pass their proposal.”

The Liberal Party’s inheritance tax proposal, although it does have the intention of hitting the BJP, is also a way to ease the financial pressure on Greece and increase government tax revenue.

The huge consumption of the two wars, government loans and national debt, Macedonia’s development and transportation construction, and now the war in the Balkans, the Greek army has spent a lot of money in response to the war.

These expenditures are a severe test for Greece’s fiscal revenue. The Liberal Party headed by Venizelos has also racked its brains in order to raise money and develop new tax sources for the government.

The Liberal Party is now the ruling party, and the government’s fiscal revenue is now their biggest headache.

Other opposition parties would love to see them deflated on the issue.

Now the parliament is in a stalemate due to the fierce struggle and insufficient tax revenue, which will inevitably affect Greece’s preparations for war and Macedonia’s development.

According to normal tradition, at this time, the king needs to come forward to mediate and ease the relationship between the various parties, so as to achieve a satisfactory result for all parties and help the government to tide over the difficulties.

Constantine shook his head, with a sly smile on the corner of his mouth: “The struggle between the two sides is fierce now, and both sides have strong revenge emotions. If I come forward now, I am afraid that I will be angry on both sides and I will not thank you for my efforts.”

Constantine sat on the sofa, leaning on his back, and stretched lazily: “Let them continue to fight, when both sides are exhausted, I will come forward to match the two sides to compromise. when.”

“Is there anything I can help you with?” Crown Princess Sophie still wanted to share her worries for Constantine.

Sophie has been busy with the Royal Education Foundation all these years, and about other matters of the royal family, Sophie seldom cares.

Of course, in fact, the education foundation itself is not easy, after all, it needs to provide funds to support the education of a large number of students in Greece, and the workload is also very heavy.

“No.” Constantine shook his head: “You just need to run the Royal Education Foundation well and continue to provide wisdom to the Greeks, which is the greatest help to me.”

With the development of the Royal Education Foundation, the scale of the Education Foundation is getting bigger and bigger. At present, the Education Foundation has clarified the responsibilities of both parties in the field of education with the Greek government.

The compulsory education stage of Greek students is completely funded by the education sector of the Greek government.

In addition to the compulsory education stage, the government only has public funding in a few universities, such as the Greek Army Academy, Maritime Academy, University of Athens and other special schools.

Students can enjoy discounted tuition fees at these public universities.

The Royal Education Foundation is mainly responsible for the non-compulsory education stage.

A portion of the investment profits of the Royal Education Foundation is allocated each year to meet the bursaries proposed by those students who have excellent grades but who come from poor families.

Before the outbreak of the war, every year there were a group of students funded by the foundation and overseas students who went to study in Western European countries. This Greece provided a large number of high-end talents.

“Okay then.” Seeing Constantine insisting, Sophie had no choice but to give up and changed the subject: “In that case, go and relax.”

“It’s like this. After returning from studying in Germany, overseas students sponsored by the foundation entered the Andros Machinery Factory to work in the research room there. They sent us an invitation today. It seems that the R&D handed over to them by the military Mission Breakthrough”

“Their test site is just outside the city of Thessaloniki, and I recently heard that Andros Machine Works is building a huge new factory in the Thessaloniki Industrial Zone.”

When Constantine heard Sophie’s invitation, he also thought that the aircraft developed by Andros Company had already achieved results, and he naturally wanted to see it with great interest.

With the progress of the war on the Western Front, the role of aircraft, a new type of equipment, in the war was more and more accepted by the Greek army.

Since all the companies in Greece deal with internal combustion engines and have huge technical strengths, Constantine also only wanted to talk about the Andros Machine Works.

Therefore, the development of military aircraft for the Greek army fell on the head of Andros.

Now Andros Machinery Factory, with the development of business, more and more products, it can be said that this company is more and more important to the Greek army.

Andros is now the largest tractor manufacturer, truck manufacturer and passenger car manufacturer in Greece.

It is not only responsible for the task of developing tanks for the Greek army, but also the production of heavy-duty military trucks for the army.

Now, at the request of the Greek military, the mission has been extended to the field of aircraft manufacturing.

Just when the two wanted to visit together, Constantine’s attendant suddenly came in and said, “His Royal Highness, the Minister of Armaments, General Manu Giananasky, asks to see you.”

“Please come in.” Constantine knew that the Minister of Armament must have something important to do when he came here.

Manu Giannasky walked in, and after saluted the couple, he said to Constantine: “Your Highness, the commanders of the Greek Army at all levels are now very concerned about the application of aircraft on the Western Front. .We also need the new weapon of the aircraft in the Greek army”

“I heard that a breakthrough has been made in the development of the aircraft, and they have produced a prototype, so I am in a hurry to inform you, Your Highness.”

“This requires the efforts of Andros. After all, in Greece, only this company has the technical strength to develop and manufacture aircraft,” Constantine replied.

“Just as you are here, let’s go and see how Andros’ R&D strength is.”

He called the guard and instructed: “Prepare the vehicle, we are going to the laboratory outside Thessaloniki for inspection.”

“Okay, Your Highness.”

When the Constantine convoy came to the experimental base outside Thessaloniki, Andros and Dr. Krigis, who was in charge of aircraft research and development, led a group of employees to greet the crown prince at the door.

After seeing the Crown Prince and his wife and the Minister of Armament get out of the car, the two stepped forward to greet them: “Welcome to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince”

Constantine looked at Andros and Krigis in their oil-stained clothes, and knew that they had also put in a lot of effort for the inspection of himself and others.

“We came here this time because we heard that a prototype of the aircraft has been made. Let’s see how your aircraft is developed.”

Dr. Krigis stepped forward to greet everyone and said, “Let’s go and see this plane together.”

Andros guided the group to the front of the tall warehouse, the researchers opened the door, and a propeller biplane appeared in front of everyone.

“His Royal Highness, this is the aircraft developed by our company.” Dr. Krigis pointed to the aircraft Edel saw.

“This is the result of the support of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the military, otherwise we would not have enough funds to complete the research and development work,” Dr. Krigis said flatteringly.

Andros also echoed.

“The demand for aircraft in the army is increasing now. You should speed up your progress. If the performance of the prototype can satisfy the military, you can put it into production first,” Constantine reminded the two Greek aircraft manufacturing pioneers.

“His Royal Highness, let me introduce this aircraft to you now,” Dr. Krigis said enthusiastically.

Constantine and his party, as well as several technicians sent by the military, stood in front of the plane and discussed in a low voice around the plane.

“Then you’re in a situation where everyone will take this plane.” Armament Minister Manu Giananaski said impatiently.

“This brand new aircraft, which we named the Ranger, is a skeleton made of wood with a skin on the outside.”

“The captain is 12.4 meters long, the wings are 1.1 meters wide, the distance between the wings is 1.3 meters, and the whole aircraft weighs 680 kilograms.”

“Due to the urgent time for research and development, we used the French Land God engine as power. After our test, the flight range of this aircraft is 90-110 kilometers, and the elevation is about 2300 meters. Enough for the army’s reconnaissance mission”

After listening to Dr. Krigis’s explanation, Constantine’s senses for the two were much better.

“You have done a good job. As long as the military is satisfied with this performance, I hope you can let this Ranger complete various inspections as soon as possible. At that time, I will let the military come to check and accept it. It is estimated that another large purchase list is waiting. you.”

The need for air combat arose after the successful development of the firing coordinator.

When the plane just appeared on the battlefield, its main function was to use it for reconnaissance and observation. If you want to attack ground targets, you can only use hand-throwing bombs, and the hit rate can be imagined.

The principle of the shooting coordinator is very simple, but it has a great effect. When another world war in time and space just broke out, in addition to a pilot, there must be a shooter on the plane, so that the plane can have a certain attack ability.

After the shooting coordinator appears, the pilot can attack the target while stance the aircraft. The position of the shooter is cancelled on the aircraft, which further reduces the weight, and naturally can load more bombs or more fuel. , to attack more distant targets.

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