Expedition to Europe

Entering June, Lanfang, France, the United Kingdom, and Australia began their general elections almost at the same time.

The candidates for Prime Minister Lanfang are Huang Bohan of the People's Party and Lu Zhengxiang of the Alliance Party; the French presidential candidates are Pierre Foch of the Left Alliance, Edouard Hauriou of the National Alliance, and Gaston of the Radical Socialist Party. Doumergue; in the UK, Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party and Ramsay McDonald of the Labor Party are running for prime minister; as for Australia, James Scullin and Billy Hughes of the Labor Party have formed an alliance to fight against The advantage is getting smaller and smaller Stanley Bruce.

The general elections in several other countries are a bit troublesome. It takes several months to see the results. Lanfang's was the fastest. The National Assembly held a plenary session on June 1. Huang Bohan and Lu Zhengxiang each made campaign speeches in the morning and voted in the afternoon. , the results were calculated two hours later, and he took office the next day.

Of course, the previous warm-up is definitely indispensable, and there are various canvassing behaviors, but they are all within the controllable range. Gao Hongshi personally led the team to monitor the entire campaign process, and no secret operations were found.

Huang Bohan and Lu Zhengxiang's speeches each had different emphases. Huang Bohan focused on "rejuvenating the country through business" and said that if elected, he would focus on promoting business development and use business development to drive the gross national product to continue to increase steadily, striving to bring Lan Fang to power during his term. Develop into one of the world's great powers.

Huang Bohan is originally a businessman. It is not surprising to have such a statement. The business field is also the field in which Huang Bohan is best at.

Lanfang has developed to this point, and its achievements in the industrial field can be described as "miraculous". It will definitely continue to develop in the next few years, but it is not easy to maintain the high-speed status of previous years.

What Huang Bohan means is that if Lanfang wants to ensure the current development speed, it must make a fuss in the commercial field, circulation field, and service field. Compared with the industrial field, these are considered soft power, but they are also an indispensable part of the market. If the method is right, it is not impossible for Lanfang to maintain rapid development.

The service industry is indeed an important part of the market economy. Generally speaking, the higher the development level of the service industry, the higher the development level of the economy. The two complement each other.

If you think about it, you can understand that industrial production has bottlenecks after all. The reason why economic crises often occur in the world these days is because the circulation of goods is insufficient. The appearance of economic crises is insufficient market purchasing power and excess productivity. But this excess productivity is fake. , let alone the 1920s, even in the 21st century, productivity has never been truly surplus. On the one hand, the products produced by enterprises cannot be sold, and on the other hand, people who really need these products cannot buy them. They can't afford it or can't afford it, so the economy is in crisis.

Huang Bohan focuses on solving the problem of "over-productivity". Lanfang held the first Coconut City Expo last year, which was very effective. It objectively solved part of the problem of "over-productivity", but it has not yet been completely solved. Huang Bohan pins his hopes on a long-term In terms of the "expo" mechanism, that is to say, the Lanfang government has set up a service platform that includes all Lanfang enterprises. Both foreign and domestic merchants can find the products they really need on this platform. The government here It plays a matchmaking role.

I have to say that Huang Bohan's talent in business is really amazing. The way Huang Bohan said it cannot be said to be backward even in the 21st century. Especially for the positioning of the government, Huang Bohan is very accurate.

Yes, the government plays an "intermediary" role in business activities.

Lu Zhengxiang focused on the development of "people's livelihood". The expansion of Lanfang's territory to the current extent was almost the ultimate. It is impossible to expand further, unless it is a war with the British, but this kind of thing cannot be taken. Therefore, Lu Zhengxiang decided to work hard on his "internal skills" and make "developing people's livelihood" the top priority of government work. He focused on increasing people's income, alleviating the gap between rich and poor, and striving to build Lanfang into a middle-class city. Mainly, spindle-shaped social structure.

Lu Zhengxiang emphasized his concern for farmers in his speech.

The farmers in Lanfang are actually quite miserable. When Lanfang was founded, the basic policy of not collecting agricultural taxes was established. This made all the farmers happy. The new immigrants fell in love with Lanfang almost as soon as they set foot on the land. Go to this country.

There are advantages to not collecting agricultural taxes, but there are also problems.

The problem is that there is too much food——

The Lanfang government allocates one hundred acres of land to each family that immigrated to Lanfang. There is no need to pay any taxes on this land. Even if gold is grown in the land, it belongs to the farmers themselves.

Most of the farmers in Lanfang are Chinese. There has never been such a good thing in the history of the Chinese people, so the farmers are very enthusiastic about farming. Many farmers work in the fields almost day and night, fearing that the Lanfang government The policy will change in a few years.

The policy will definitely not change, and Lanfang has been doing well in the past few years, so the fields are producing more and more food, more and more——

The farmers must be ecstatic about this situation. There is no food in the granary, and they can't sleep well. Many farmers don't even dare to take out the food they threshed and dry it, for fear of being remembered.

This situation only existed in the first two years, and in the following few years, the situation began to change.

It is certainly a good thing to have more grain, but if there is too much grain to store in the granary, and if turning and drying the grain has become the most arduous labor in daily life, then the grain will become a sweet burden.

At this time, if you still store grain, you will be stubborn. Everyone knows that grain is delicious in the past. Old grain will have a smell of rotten grass no matter how you eat it. When there is too much grain to eat, how to digest the grain in the granary becomes a big worry for farmers.

The Lan Fang government has a purchase policy. In order to protect the interests of farmers, the Lan Fang government will purchase a certain amount of grain at the lowest price every year to stabilize grain prices and prevent low grain prices from hurting farmers. Faced with more and more grain, government purchases are also a drop in the bucket, and the key is that the grain in many farmers' homes has rotted and moldy and cannot be eaten, and they can't sell it even if they want to.

In response to this problem, Lu Zhengxiang proposed the development of agricultural and sideline product processing.

Lan Fang is not short of food now, but there are many places in the world that are short of food. Although people are rarely starving to death in the Republic of China, the economic situation is still not optimistic. Zhang Yuting is good at fighting, but not good at developing people's livelihood, and the economy of the Republic of China has not improved much.

Russia is even worse. Russia has a vast territory, but because of years of war, people in the country live in poverty. Many people lack clothes and can only die miserably in hunger and cold.

As for Africa and the Middle East, people in these places have almost never had enough to eat, and people in many places still retain the habit of eating two meals a day or one meal a day.

Lan Fang's food can't be eaten up, so it can be exported abroad to alleviate the survival crisis in food-deficient areas, or develop animal husbandry, which can not only increase farmers' income, but also provide meat, milk, eggs and other animal foods to the market, enriching people's tables.

The election results were not unexpected. Lu Zhengxiang was elected with a high vote and successfully re-elected.

During the years when Lu Zhengxiang served as prime minister, Lan Fang developed very fast. The current territory has expanded more than doubled compared to the original, and the total economic volume has quadrupled. The average annual economic growth rate is more than 30%, which makes Lan Fang present a real political and social harmony. The people and parliamentarians are very satisfied with Lu Zhengxiang.

In fact, an important reason why Lu Zhengxiang was re-elected is that he has no offspring.

The original text can be read in Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

When Huang Bohan was in office, he was implicated because of his son's affairs, so he had to resign sadly. It has only been a few years since this incident, and the parliamentarians still remember it.

Huang Bohan is a wealthy family with a lot of wives and children at home. If Huang Bohan comes to power again, he may fall into his wife and children again. How can Lu Zhengxiang, who has no children, worry less.

Let Lu Zhengxiang seek personal gain, Lu Zhengxiang has no "private" to seek.

This result is not unexpected, and Huang Bohan also accepted it calmly.

In fact, since Qin Zhiyuan started to rectify the banking industry, Huang Bohan had a bad feeling in his heart. Maybe Qin Zhiyuan was not targeting Huang Bohan, but it was definitely a signal.

Politicians are the best at guessing from clues, but this kind of guessing is usually close to the truth.

Huang Bohan did not gain nothing. At least Huang Bohan retained the position of Speaker of the National Assembly. Although he did not make further progress, it was more or less the affirmation of Huang Bohan by the parliamentarians, which made Huang Bohan feel a little comforted.

Come back in five years, Huang Bohan told himself.

Qin Zhiyuan also comforted Huang Bohan in this way. Huang Bohan has a special status in Lan Fang, and Qin Zhiyuan cannot let Huang Bohan down.

Huang Bohan was also reviewing himself. A few days after the election, Huang Bohan took out a donation plan, ready to give full play to his own advantages and devote himself to public welfare in exchange for more support.

The first project Huang Bohan donated was afforestation. Although he is no longer the richest man in Lan Fang, Huang Bohan still donated a lot. The first batch of donations was 100 million Lan Fang yuan, part of which was designated to be donated to the Institute of Biology of Lan Fang Imperial University.

Qin Zhiyuan strongly supported Huang Bohan's approach, and Lu Zhengxiang was also pleased. After reading Huang Bohan's plan, Lu Zhengxiang even laughed and said: If Huang Bohan did this before the election, Lu Zhengxiang might take the initiative to withdraw from the election.

Although Lu Zhengxiang's campaign speech is more practical, it will take some time to see the effect. Huang Bohan took out real money, which is visible and tangible. Even if Lu Zhengxiang draws a bigger pie, it is not as tempting as direct benefits.