On November 17, 1881, Bismarck read the Emperor's decree to the Imperial Diet, announcing that the country was ready to implement a social security system. There were three main categories: the Sickness Insurance Act, the Accident Insurance Act, and the Old Age and Disability Insurance Act.
Bismarck said of this system of social security, "I am ready to support any effort aimed at the positive improvement of the condition of the working man. The cure of social ills must not depend merely on the suppression of the excesses of the Social-Democratic Party, but on the active promotion of the welfare of the working class."
The Prime Minister dedicated his life to fighting against the bourgeois Social Democratic Party, and the social security system was also one of the Prime Minister's means, as he explained to the true core members, "A person who expects a pension is the most dutiful person, and the easiest person to rule. Social security is an investment that eliminates revolution. As long as the healthy workers are given the right to work, and guaranteed that they have medical care and old age, those gentlemen (socialists) will become empty birds. "
Compared to the Prime Minister, the social security system of the Min dynasty was officially enacted into law and became a set of reliable systems. It was only proposed by Vézé at the Third Conference that began in November 1890.
Uncle En helped Vézé the most on this matter. Although he was very dissatisfied with Vézé's imperialist aggression, Uncle En hoped to be able to establish a more effective social security system. Therefore, the two of them had several discussions about 'self-sufficiency' and 'trading operations'.
Vézé's final plan was a mixed system plan. Seeing that the United States would soon be completely solved, Vézé could finally borrow the American food stamp system. In Vézé's time and space, since the beginning of the 20th century, the United States had been the world's largest food exporter. From the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, the United States and Canada were the world's granaries. Based on the current development situation, Vézé felt that by the 21st century, China's population would be as high as two billion. In other words, the current territory was just enough to meet China's own food needs.
"As a citizen of China, I shouldn't be left alone on the road because of hunger, illness, or a combination of poverty and illness." When Wei Ze said that, he didn't laugh or get angry. His voice was very serious. Everyone knew that this meant that the commander-in-chief was serious. As long as the commander-in-chief was still around, he would probably not hold a contrary attitude.
Vézé continued to express his opinion with such an attitude. "Of course, this doesn't mean that people with limited ability to work should enjoy the same treatment as model workers. This does not mean that those who have more confidence in the national social security system should enjoy the same pension as those who have less confidence in the national social security system. The food stamps were the social security system, the universal health care was the social security system, and the pension was the labor welfare system. Everyone must be clear about the difference. "
As an observer of the conference, Uncle En was very interested in the contents of the China conference. In the core of power of the Min dynasty, in the National Committee of the Restoration Party, Uncle En saw an unimaginable concentration of power that he had never heard of. At the peak of power was naturally Emperor Vézé, who was endowed with the highest executive, legislative, and judicial power by the National People's Congress. Surrounding Emperor Vézé was the Central Committee of the Restoration Party, an organization that controlled all the important administrative, financial, and judicial power of the country.
There was no one to check and balance, and all the power of the Min dynasty was concentrated in the hands of these less than two hundred men and women. If this happened in Europe, Uncle En believed that such an organization would become Satan's lair. Such a small group of exclusive power would only use the power in their hands to the limit, using all their strength to squeeze the country and society.
Under the command of Emperor Vézé, such a group that was destined to be the root of evil in Europe was working hard for the whole of China. Of course, Uncle En knew Europe's view of China. Europe's modern Age of Enlightenment was the propaganda and longing for China's' King of Saints' and 'King of Philosophy', as well as the government system that gathered all kinds of 'moral men'. After arriving in China, Uncle En learned that the government that gathered moral men had an exclusive China term called 'group of righteous men', which in China was considered to be 'flattering nonsense'. Uncle En admired the Chinese people's attitude towards the term 'group of righteous men'.
On both sides of the conference hall of such an organization were the slogans of Military Governor Vaize: 'Serve the working people wholeheartedly' and 'Working people are the masters of the country'. On the wall behind the conference hall was Uncle Ma's' Productivity is the fundamental driving force to promote social development '. The topic led by the chairman of the Restoration Party on the podium was how to promote social development, and the topics that these members participated in were how to solve social problems.
Uncle En knew that as a human, he would be biased, delusional, and conjectural. As Uncle En believed, such a high concentration of power was probably impossible to promote social progress so efficiently. With such a high concentration of power, the world should be discussing how to extract benefits more effectively.
Chinese people ridiculed 'group of righteous men' as a kind of flattering nonsense, but Chinese people were not led by a group of murderous vampires. Such a vibrant situation fascinated Uncle En.
When Vézé finished speaking, a member stood up and spoke. "Commander-in-chief, I think in your plan, the original corporate pension system will be abolished in areas where the new social pension system has been implemented. The original corporate pension will be transferred to the national pension system. There are too many other problems involved. "
This member was in charge of the work of the social security system. Vézé looked at his frowning appearance and felt a burst of emotion in his heart. In the 21st century, China had begun to use the Internet on a large scale, but there was still no way to solve many problems. Of course, a large part of those problems were left behind by the original system. Now Vézé was faced with such a problem. Such a huge amount of data required a lot of management and layers of operating methods.
Based on Vézé's experience, establishing such a system and making it operate normally required a lot of effort from the bureaucratic system. Driving the bureaucratic system to expend so much effort was a very painful thing in itself. Once such a system operated well, replacing it with something else would probably cost more effort and cause more pain than when the system was established.
"It's very dangerous to let those companies continue to develop their own social security system. Companies don't have the ability to assume social responsibility. Forcing them to assume it will only cause huge problems. "Vézé spoke very decisively.
"But Commander-in-chief, this matter is hard to say. Those who have participated in corporate insurance will definitely trust the company more. "As soon as the person in charge thought of the specific problem, he showed a great deal of pain in his application. It was very difficult to convince people.
Vézé did not criticize or blame the person in charge. He said with a smile, "This kind of thing is easy to say. I've said many times, let's tell the truth. The common people said, "Let's not be ugly at the beginning, let's make it clear to the people, that the Manchurian Qing Dynasty, this kind of rubbish regime, still maintained for over a hundred years, how many businesses and shops have collapsed in these hundred years?" Hundreds of thousands of businesses and shops have collapsed in a hundred years, and only a country has collapsed. So what company pension can be more reliable than the state pension? "
Uncle En, like most of the participants, smiled. This was not funny, it was just a simple statement of fact. However, there was a problem with this statement. Uncle En found that he also felt that businesses and shops in a sense were more reliable than the state. Uncle En pondered for a while and finally came up with an explanation for this. Perhaps businesses and shops were closer to the people, so the people believed in their existence more. But for the state to serve the people, no matter how one looked at it, it felt that the ratio was not equal.
Perhaps this really was a new model of human society, a country where the government and the people directly communicated. Uncle En could not help but think so. However, as a materialist, Uncle En overturned his own hypothesis. For a big shot like him, he was very clear about the thinking trap of using hypotheses to prove hypotheses.
If you look at the problem from the reality of what happened, with the information Uncle En collected. The Min dynasty had always promoted political ideas and programs, and the people of the Min dynasty themselves were opposed to the arbitrary acts of the people in power, and opposed the people in power who exploited the people. The officials sitting here were not the hereditary nobles or capitalists of Europe, they were also screened through the selection system of China. They finally fulfilled their obligations under the leadership of a strong leader. … … Was this a coincidence?
The accidental emergence of a system to serve the people sounded like a joke. But from a practical point of view, this was a very realistic situation.
At this time, Vézé was explaining to the comrades of the Central Committee on how to promote. What Vézé said was the truth. Why did the people refuse to believe in the security system provided by the state? It was because they had no money now and wanted to earn every penny. Therefore, people had no confidence in the pension that would only be received in the next few decades. And the state could not deal with the human nature of the people like commercial organizations. This originally very cold topic was very lively in Vézé's words, and the group of Central Committee members laughed from time to time.
Uncle En suddenly let out a sigh. The heroes in human history, no matter how great their achievements were, would eventually be like Xin Qiji's poem: "The wind will always be blown away by the wind and rain." But history would record how those heroes refreshed the upper limit of human beings again and again. The heroism, wisdom, benevolence, and ambition in the history books could clearly tell future generations how great human beings could be. Of course, there were also some people who used their own refreshing actions to tell future generations how despicable and shameless human beings could be.
China was a country that attached great importance to history, and Vézé was a person who attached great importance to history education. Uncle En suddenly had a thought that even he himself felt was very petty. He wanted to see how people in the future would evaluate Vézé. Now that Vézé had put forward a practical idea, how many years would it take for it to be realized, and how many years would it become outdated.
Just when Uncle En was thinking about it, Vézé began his concluding speech. "Comrades, the problem we are facing now is to establish a new social system. It is very important for people to realize what the real world is like. I believe that people who realize the real world will definitely participate in the national social insurance, and will work hard to build the country, supervise and improve the operation of the system to ensure their interests. In the Min dynasty, the ownership of the means of production is a core issue. "
No matter how many times this kind of cliché was said, Vézé still couldn't help but continue. In fact, this was something that Chinese people could easily understand. Owning a large amount of land meant owning the means of production. In fact, no one in China would object to being a big landlord, preferably a big landlord whose status was guaranteed by the state.
After listening to it for a long time, everyone didn't care. All the departments that participated in the construction of the system felt that the workload was too heavy. Just the establishment of the database meant a huge amount of work. Vézé looked at these guys and was very grateful that he was a China student. China's education focused on theoretical education, so Vézé knew about database theory. Even if he didn't understand computing, such a set of database itself could reduce the difficulty of future computer applications. Directly from paper data to computer data, as long as the core concept didn't change, a lot of trouble would be reduced.
Of course, Vézé's imagination quickly spread out. In "The Shawshank Redemption", which Vézé once admired, there was an era of big data in the United States, which directly led to the problem of social credit. Those who knew about the problem could use the loopholes in the system to create a non-existent person out of thin air. And this "person" actually had complete tax and work information. Until this virtual person became a real person one day.
Of course, this thought only made Wei Ze feel that his mind was moderately relaxed. It was not a comedy that drove the process of social development, but a tragedy. Just as Uncle En said, great social tragedies often bring about a kind of compensated happiness. Although Vézé himself didn't quite agree that compensation would bring happiness. But human beings accumulated little by little in order to have a glorious civilization.
The three meetings were a relatively complicated process. The system of the Min dynasty had such a characteristic, in the three meetings, the government meeting and the party meeting, had a high degree of overlap. Under the civil service system, the overlap between government personnel and party members began to decline. Because the goal of most civil servants was a stable life, only enterprising people would work hard to join the party. Vézé wasn't pretentious, he wouldn't give power to others.
Therefore, the three meetings were the government's first report, which was reviewed and discussed by the party meeting, and finally made a judgment. Then the government would explain to the National People's Congress. The solutions submitted by the government, as well as the new policies, were all decided by the party meeting. After the review and approval of the National People's Congress, the final party meeting would make a judgment on the whole situation.
In the second half of December, especially after Vézé decided on the key work to be implemented in the National People's Congress, the National People's Congress was finally convened. As expected by the Central Committee of the National People's Congress, the new social security system caused a great shock in the National People's Congress.
The people could actually not worry about food and clothing when they were old. In fact, there had been various theories about this future. There were also some good units of state-owned enterprises that had implemented it, but they didn't expect things to become real. When the emperor, Comrade Vézé, publicly announced that it would be implemented, the comrades of the National People's Congress were stunned at first, and then there was a thunderous cheer.
In fact, the Central Committee of the National People's Congress thought that this was probably the people who got the news and were overjoyed. After cheering, they thanked the emperor and left. So when they participated in the discussion of the National People's Congress, they didn't care too much. Everyone hoped that these comrades of the National People's Congress would be the same as before. After learning how to explain to the people, they would go back to perform their work as members of the National People's Congress like reciting machines.
They didn't expect that in the face of such a matter related to their own interests, the people would take it seriously. The first question was naturally how to pay. After learning that they would pay 30% and the enterprise would pay 70%, everyone continued to ask state-owned enterprises and provincial enterprises how to pay. The personnel of state-owned enterprises were not forced to pay, of course, they were encouraged to pay. As a result, the deputies to the National People's Congress raised another question, "Since it's all money, can this money be given to everyone now?"
Originally, the comrades of the Central Committee thought that the comrades of the National People's Congress were generally of a certain level of existence, but they didn't expect that these guys' attitudes on these matters were very, very, very, very utilitarian. The members of the Central Committee went back for a meeting. At the beginning of the meeting, many comrades first closed the door and first scolded the group of deputies to express their emotions. Then, everyone held a meeting to explain various problems.
This process made Uncle En very happy to see this. Uncle En had never been to the United States. He only relied on information and listened to some people who had contact with the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. As for the European parliament, Uncle En had seen some. In general, the European parliament was a meeting attended by all kinds of local forces, and it had a very strong European feudal flavor. As for the United States parliament, Vézé said it was' a group of imprisoned bandits and mountain bandits carnival '.
In China, there was no scope for such imprisoned people to speak. The Min dynasty government only had a unified centralized government that could issue issues. So when this centralized power faced the problems of the people, they were angry and dissatisfied because of poor communication. But from the perspective of solving problems, they really showed a considerable degree of responsibility.
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