Chapter 1893: Open and Honest II
"I can't control Prussia, but in my country, we will gradually give equal rights to the people who obey me, no matter whether they are Germans, Poles or Russians before. As long as they are loyal to the empire, Then I will treat them equally." Ruprecht is not in the mood to have a long debate with Albert, as the dominant party, he can do whatever he wants.
"I can understand the thoughts of His Royal Highness, but there is one issue that I have always expressed concern about, that is, even if we give generous conditions, what should they do if they still want to make progress? The Austro-Hungarian Empire is an example. When you are in charge of Bohemia Before Bohemia, the local non-Germans tended to be very independent. However, in addition to being gentle, you took more compulsory measures, such as ordering that all government personnel in Bohemia must understand German. At the same time, the content of German teaching in schools must not be Less than 50%. Your current assumptions seem to be somewhat different from what you used to do." Grand Duke Baden said carefully.
To be honest, he really has no idea of demolishing the situation, let alone this motivation. In fact, it is Prussia and Bavaria that are really facing the problem of increasing population and ethnicity. The new territories and population of other kingdoms are very limited. So it won't cause much trouble. Originally, it would have been better for Prince Albert to raise this matter, but after thinking about it, the young prince still lacked experience and sense of responsibility. If he offended Ruprecht because of this, it would be bad.
"Whether it is for the Czechs in Bohemia or for other nationalities now, my standards are the same. Government agencies and education must promote German, and national independence tendencies must be curbed. Back then, Bohemia was independent because of the tendency It was too serious, so I decided to contain it. But now the people in our new territory are facing a completely different situation from the original Bohemia. They are either loyal to us or attached to Red Russia. In addition, there is no other choice, can you imagine that besides Ukraine, Russians or Belarusians in other regions can choose to form their own country?"
"We are actually competing with the newly-born Red Russia for popular support. As for those Ukrainians or Poles who really want to be independent, we can arrange them to the new-born Ukraine, or simply get another Poland that is located in the east. It is all possible ’” Ruprecht continued. "I don't want to say too much about this issue. After all, it is a state's internal affairs. I just express my attitude and put forward my own point of view."
"However, the result of your actions is that if the future empire holds parliamentary elections, there will be a lot more voters in Bavaria, which has already formed an advantage politically. This is not just a matter of one kingdom. If other states want to balance If you lose the number of voters in Bavaria, you can only choose the same way as you. When you decide to do this, others have no choice. You have already won, but you have reaped everyone's dissatisfaction." At this time Balter finally spoke.
He is different from Albert who directly denies the prince from the perspective of national sentiment, and he analyzes it directly from the perspective of political interests. Barth is also willing to adopt the one-person-one-vote system on the election of parliamentary personnel, and if Bavaria gives votes to other nationalities, then the proportion of Bavarian voters will increase, and their weight will also increase, and the central government will not be able to interfere in Bavaria The result of this move is that either other states will also open up the right to vote, or they will suffer this loss. However, no matter what the result is, other kingdoms will be dissatisfied with Bavaria. It will even form a confrontation!
"We have never agreed to one person, one vote. His Majesty the Emperor still believes that the hierarchical parliamentary system is reasonable. Especially now, when we have added a large number of people from other ethnic groups." Before Precht retorted,
Prince Albert first stood on the opposite side of Barthes. Originally, Barthes thought that Bavaria would take away the hatred of other countries this time, but unexpectedly, he became the target of public criticism.
"I think we have discussed this issue before. The future imperial parliament will be divided into upper and lower chambers. The upper house can be elected by one person, one vote. The members are mainly from political parties. The lower house is mainly individuals and uses ranks. Elections are carried out in the form of elections. Both the upper and lower houses have the right to propose proposals and have equal veto power. The prime minister and cabinet members are elected by members of the upper and lower houses. At the same time, they are established after being confirmed by the Federal Parliament. But the cabinet only votes for The Bundestag is responsible, not to the Reichstag," Ruprecht said.
"This idea is very good. The British did the same thing. They still have the House of Lords. This plan takes into account the traditions of the empire and your requirements. I think this is our common bottom line." In fact, in previous exchanges, Ruprecht has already reached an agreement with the Kaiser on the issue of the future parliamentary system, but the parliamentary faction has no clear attitude on this issue, and this time, following this opportunity, Ruprecht and the Grand Duke of Baden made the same choice In order to put pressure on the parliamentarians to accept the system.
"However, this does not solve the problem of political power skewing due to the increase in Bavaria's electorate population," Barthe said. "His Excellency the Grand Duke of Baden, we can discuss the issue of hierarchical councils and one person, one vote in the future. Can we determine the number of voters now?" Barter really couldn't afford to be hurt. He didn't know whether the Grand Duke of Baden really didn't understand, or he was just pretending!
"I have also thought about this issue. Each state shares the seats of the Imperial Parliament in proportion to its population! Note that this population is the number of adult natural persons in a state, not the number of voters it has. A state with a large number enjoys more votes, and each state has at least a certain number of votes, and the votes of these small states are evenly divided from the votes of Bavaria and Prussia." Ruprecht said.
In fact, there was no real universal suffrage in this day and age. To become a voter, you must meet the income, property and education standards before you can have a vote, and there are many countries where ethnic minorities and women do not have the right to vote. For example, historically, only women over the age of 30 in Britain had the right to vote in 1918, while Americans had the right to vote in 1920. As for the French, it might not be until 1944. That is to say, now, at least half of the people in these countries do not have the right to vote and to be elected....
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