On November 11, 1912, in the former Grand Residence of Luxembourg, now in the Royal Palace of Luxembourg, Downing Pedro signed and approved the new phase of the Luxembourg planning document.
"Dear, this planning document is too radical. If it is published, many Luxembourg citizens will fiercely oppose it."
Although Mary is not interested in politics, she still has a basic sense of politics. She is very aware of the current ethnic conflicts in Luxembourg society. Many Luxembourgers are very opposed to immigrants from Germany.
This new policy sets ambitious goals and calls out a loud banner to build Luxembourg, located in the heart of Western Europe, into the "Heart of Heavy Industry" in Europe.
In the final analysis, this new Luxembourg plan is to further industrialize Luxembourg, which is currently a heavy industrial base, and increase investment in steel, chemicals, and biopharmaceuticals. Luxembourg will expand its existing steel and automobile plants, and build a large number of new synthetic ammonia, sulfonamide, erythromycin and roxithromycin factories.
Such a large investment shows that the Portuguese imperial government attaches great importance to Luxembourg. Luxembourgers can feel this, but many Luxembourgers now feel that the status quo is very good and there is no need to go further.
Since Luxembourg joined the Portuguese Empire, with the empire's resource investment and financial support, Luxembourg's industry, economy, and people's livelihood index have soared. The quality of life of Luxembourg people has greatly exceeded that of neighboring countries such as Germany, France, and Belgium.
Luxembourg's sparse population of more than 200,000 people was simply not enough to meet the needs of the expanding industrial population, so it began to absorb migrant workers, and the Germans, whose population was exploding, were the main body of these migrant workers.
There are currently about 150,000 foreigners in Luxembourg. If the new plan is finalized, the foreign population will definitely exceed 200,000, and it is not impossible to overtake the local population by then.
Nationalism was prevalent in Europe at this time, but Luxembourg did not have any grand nationalism at the beginning. However, after Pedro's proposal and Guillaume IV's operation, through political control, historical transformation, and public opinion manipulation, it was added Living standards have been good and Luxembourg democracy has been successfully established.
It’s just that this time was not that time. Luxembourg, which had been controlled for nearly ten years in order to prepare for the First World War, began to let the wolf enter the country step by step under the operation of Downing Pedro and Guillaume IV.
Of course, the Germans will not let go of the opportunity to infiltrate Luxembourg. Now in Luxembourg, Germany's presence has reappeared and is slowly growing. The most obvious thing is that the Civic Party, which was originally a dominant party, has begun to be impacted. The Prime Minister
For the sake of the overall situation, Paul Inschen began to recruit pro-German factions into the cabinet.
Paul Inschen, the most talented man in Luxembourg and the most patriotic man, has been in this position since September 22, 1888. He has been regulating the parliament, maintaining the nativist, pro-French The balance between the pro-German faction and the pro-German faction.
Ten years ago, Luxembourg started democracy and internal control. The foreignist faction in the Luxembourg Parliament began to be suppressed and was finally swept out. The local citizen faction became the dominant one. This period was the most comfortable thing for Paul Inschen. .
However, with the change of time, Tangning Pedro and Guillaume IV did not tell the prime minister about the plans for World War I. Now Luxembourg seems to be going back to the past.
For the sake of national stability and balance, Paul Insichen would certainly not cause disharmony in public like some national parliamentarians, but he had actually secretly approached his monarch several times, but was finally defeated by Guillaume IV and Pei Dro III blocked it back because it was beneficial to the development of the country.
Most of the local citizens of Luxembourg have deeply recognized Luxembourgism. They are really happy and worried about the fact that the country is getting better and better, but the foreign population is increasing.
In the last year of Guillaume IV's reign, under his strong request, Parliament passed the six-year naturalization law.
With the passage of this law, many Luxembourg citizens are increasingly worried. Germany's desire for Luxembourg's merger is very strong. They are afraid that one day the country will be annexed and destroyed.
Luxembourgers are worried, but they do not have large-scale riots and protests to overturn government decisions, because under the government's governance, Luxembourg's living standards have truly improved. Now Luxembourgers are like low-end versions of the Middle East Gulf countries in later generations. , On the contrary, they can't find a good reason for the government.
The era that Luxembourgers are living in now is definitely better than any previous era. The people live a prosperous life and have easy jobs. Many of them have become civil servants and technicians. The imperial government provides high jobs and high salaries for Luxembourgers in Brazil and Portugal.
Luxembourg, a small country with few people, is located in the great Portuguese Empire. Life is so comfortable. As a citizen of the empire, Luxembourg can come and go freely within the Portuguese Empire and settle down at will.
In recent years, many Luxembourgers have immigrated overseas, and this trend is still increasing. Even those who do not immigrate will buy houses in other parts of the empire and travel from time to time.
The imperial government has such a good grip on Luxembourg. If it causes trouble to the government anymore, it would be ungrateful and immoral. If it is hit hard by the government, no one will sympathize.
Under such circumstances, the most egregious thing Luxembourgers do now is discrimination against migrant German workers, and they do not even treat them violently.
"Objection, of course. If there were no objections, wouldn't all these years of democratic education in Luxembourg have been in vain?" Pedro agreed with his wife's concerns.
"There will be opposition, but Luxembourgers are sensible and will not violently resist the government no matter what. The most they can do is target public opinion and further discriminate against German workers."
Tangning Pedro didn't care what happened to the German workers. As long as no violent conflict occurred, he would just pretend it didn't happen.
"Dear Mary, I know you are also opposed to the entry of those Germans, but these are temporary. I believe that the European War will happen soon.
The five-year plan for naturalization is just that I am relying on those German workers and the German government. The German government wants to enter the imperial market by penetrating Luxembourg. It is a beautiful idea, but it will never succeed. "
"Tang Ning, are you so convinced that the European War will happen?" It's not that Mary doesn't believe her husband, it's just that she really can't imagine the tragic war that Tang Ning said was going on and sweeping the world for a long time.
"The Three Kingdoms Alliance vs. the Three Kingdoms Entente, the world structure is already like this. Are they doing this just to play house? As long as the contradiction is big enough, the war will not stop.
When the European War begins, it will definitely be ten, fifty, or even a hundred times more powerful than the Russo-Japanese War. "
Tangning Pedro has this confidence as a time traveler. The First World War was so terrifying. Even the massacre of millions of people by the Z clan occurred in World War II. The First World War was not without it. Tuji did an outstanding job in this regard.
"As soon as the war starts, I will remove all the real Luxembourgers, and the remaining ones will be used as consumables."
