Chapter 566

Alberti frowned when he heard the word "professional." In all honesty, silencing people wasn't his specialty. His job was to capture criminals.

He wanted to argue, but considering that this was a critical moment, he couldn't care less about these small details.

Alberti shook his head. "Your Excellency, the situation is very tense right now, and there are too many people involved. It's difficult to silence them without attracting the attention of the outside world."

This was inevitable. It was understandable if one or two criminals had accidents, but if dozens of people had accidents at the same time, everyone would know that something was wrong.

Silencing people wasn't difficult, but the key was how to deal with the government's subsequent investigation. Any trace of evidence would be exposed, and they would be beaten down to the mundane world.

Hearing this answer, the atmosphere in the room became even gloomier. Someone lit a cigar, and for a moment, the secret room was filled with smoke.

Seeing that the atmosphere wasn't right, Sir Ledes suggested, "I've been to the Alps Tarot Prison. The environment inside is terrible, and many criminals have accidents there every year.

If we can take care of the prison guards and create an accident, it shouldn't be a problem as long as we keep our hands clean. "

Alberti shook his head. "You haven't been in the police system, so you don't know the ropes.

There are a lot of things that we can find out if we want to. Even if we do it cleanly, there will still be traces left behind.

It's easy to create an accident, but how do we ensure that we kill everyone we want to kill in one go? What if there are fish that slip through the net?

As long as there is one survivor, all the problems will be exposed. We can't expect the prison guards to personally kill them, right?

Even if we succeed, it won't be the end. These Jewish capitalists aren't good people, and I don't believe that they didn't prepare a backup plan.

If we kill them right now, someone will report them with evidence, and the result will only be worse. "

It was because of this understanding that Alberti knew how unreliable this kind of large-scale silencing was.

It wasn't impossible to take care of the prison guards, but for such a high-risk matter, they would at most pretend that they didn't see it. It was impossible to make them risk their lives.

The most troublesome thing was that silencing them was only the beginning of the matter, not the end. Don't be fooled by the fact that they were threatening the families of criminals.

The families of criminals of this level would have been captured and interrogated long ago. Even if they wanted to do something, it would be after the dust had settled.

Generally speaking, even if they wanted to retaliate, they wouldn't do it directly. Instead, they would use their power to arrange a good place for them.

For example: exiled to Alaska to mine, or sent to the desert to build a railroad, etc.

Count Waiters sighed and said slowly, "If we can't kill him, then we'll have to cut off our tails to survive.

We haven't received any money from the Jews, so they shouldn't have any direct evidence pointing to us. The only hidden danger is the few companies that have had business dealings with them.

If everyone is willing, I suggest that we sell all of these properties and cut off all ties with us. "

Everyone's expression changed greatly. These industries were not just a small amount. Apart from the transfer of benefits, a part of it was their own investment.

If they really gave up on these businesses, everyone here, including the families behind them, would suffer a great loss of strength.

Alberti objected. Let's not talk about the heavy losses we'll suffer if we abandon these industries. More importantly, will we really be able to get away?

"It is, we, we., we, we, we., we, we, we, we we...

Perhaps these things are not enough to convict us, but they are enough to ruin our careers.

"Don't think too much. The most important thing is to keep the capitalists and buy time for us.

"Next, everyone, use your influence to sell these industries as soon as possible, including the surrounding industries.

"We haven't shown our faces yet. Cut off the chain of interests and send the people involved abroad. That will solve half of the problem.

"Mobilize our power and find a way to get the court to sentence these Jewish capitalists to death, preferably immediately.

"As long as we are fast enough, we can take action as soon as the verdict is out. They won't have a chance to speak."

They were both cutting off their own flesh, but the latter was obviously more clever, especially the silencing operation, which was full of professionalism.

No one cared about the death row prisoners. It didn't matter if they died earlier or later.

In a country as populous as Austria, people were executed every day. Generally speaking, those who were sentenced to immediate execution would be executed three days later or seven days later.

The time left in between was for family members to say goodbye. However, this was just an unspoken rule, not a written rule.

In theory, as long as the verdict was issued, the criminals could be executed.

Even if he was a little too fast and attracted the attention of people with ulterior motives, he could blame the problem on anti-Semitism.

Count Wittes' eyes lit up when he heard this suggestion. "That's a good idea. Alberti, you're a genius.

Sir Leides, I'll leave the task of keeping these scumbags in check to you. "No matter what method you use, you have to fool them first.

"We can use extreme measures when necessary, but you have to be careful. If the matter gets out of hand and attracts attention, we won't be able to cover it up.

"From now on, we're the vanguard of anti-Semitism. We have to punish the evil Jewish capitalists!"

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The wave of anti-Semitism continued to rise, but it was no longer enough to attract Franz's attention. He was busy taking inventory of his gains and distributing the windfall.

The Minister of Economy, Reinhardt Haldegen, handed over a document. "Your Majesty, this is the reconstruction plan for an old industrial city.

The Ministry of Economy has two main viewpoints. The first one is to build a new city on a new site. The second one is to rebuild the city on the spot and learn from the British to build subways to improve the city's transportation.

Both of these plans had their own advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages of building a new city were: after the redesign, the city's population and transportation capacity would be greatly increased, and there would be no need to worry about it for a long time.

The disadvantages were: too much money needed, and the construction period would be long.

In comparison, the reconstruction of the old city would be more effective in a short period of time, and the investment would be much less.

However, many of the streets in the old city can't meet the current needs. The reconstruction would only solve the urgent problem, and it would still need to be rebuilt in the future. "

The problem of occupying land was not within the scope of consideration. Austria had a lot of land, which was also an advantage in urban planning.

After thinking for a while, Franz made a decision. "We have too many things to do, and we can't put all of them into the construction of the city. We'll rebuild the old city first, and then we'll consider building a new city in the future."

The problem of money was only one aspect. The more important thing was that there was not much machinery and equipment these days. The main force of construction was manual labor, and most of the work had to be done on their shoulders. Naturally, the construction progress could not be fast.

It was different from the Near East development plan, where the population was limited. A plan for the city's construction was enough, and the rest could be considered after the population grew.

The cities that needed to be rebuilt were all large industrial cities, and they all had a population of 1.8 million people. The construction of a new city was very large, and it would take at least a decade or two to complete.

That was a long time, and the daylilies would be cold. The international situation was ever-changing. If Austria plunged headfirst into the construction, it would be troublesome if there was an emergency.

As for the problem of reconstruction in the future, that was inevitable. Economic development was changing with each passing day. Even if a new city was built, it would still face similar problems decades later.

Social productivity determined that the construction of a city could not be completed in one step. Replacement was the law of social development.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Reinhardt Haldegen did not continue to fight for it. Building a new city was important, but there were many more important projects in Austria.

For example, traffic.

As the number of cars continued to increase, the original roads could no longer meet the needs of reality. Upgrading and rebuilding the roads had become the future development trend.

There were almost no cars in the remote areas, so it could be ignored for the time being. However, the reconstruction of the roads around the big cities was an urgent matter.

Take Vienna as an example. There were more than 8,000 cars in the city, and the number of trucks and tractors was more than 10,000.

The urban area was still fine. When the city was rebuilt, the roads were wider, and there was no need to worry about traffic jams for the time being. However, the main roads around the city were not good.

The roads that carriages and cars ran on were completely different concepts.

It could accommodate four carriages abreast, and at most two trucks abreast. If there was an accident on the way, there would be a traffic jam immediately.

There were not too many cars now, and the traffic jam was bearable. At most, it would only be a matter of ten minutes.

The key was that the dirt roads were suitable for carriages, and not suitable for cars. Especially on rainy days, the muddy roads were the enemies of cars.

To change this situation, as early as two years ago, the Vienna city government began to build cement roads.

There were many cities that wanted to follow the trend, but unfortunately, not every city had so much money, so they could only ask the central government for help.

There were too many people asking for money, and the central government could not afford it, so the plan was temporarily put on hold.

There was no other way. Improving traffic was definitely beneficial to economic development, but investing in roads was a loss-making business. Even if they opened up tolls, it would be a drop in the bucket.

The Ministry of Economy had already done an assessment. According to the current scale of vehicles in Austria, even if the annual growth rate was 20%, it would be difficult to break even with tolls within 20 years.

One had to know that this was only the break-even in operation and maintenance, and not the return of capital.

This was also in theory. In reality, there were very few roads that could be used for 20 years.

Other than a few roads that could recover the construction cost before they were scrapped, most of the roads had been scrapped, and the project was still losing money.

If it could be profitable, the capitalists would not be indifferent and would have thrown money into it.

To put it bluntly, it was still too early. If it was 20 or 30 years later, there would definitely be many capitalists willing to invest.

Now, even if they built a bustling road from Vienna to Prague, the end result would be a loss.

The reason was very simple. Austria's railway industry was too developed, and the cost of rail transport was lower than road transport. Many areas also faced competition from water transport, which had lower operating costs. Long-distance freight did not go by road at all.

Without long-distance freight, it was impossible to rely on family cars to collect tolls before cars were popularized in millions of households.

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