Make France Great Again

Chapter 382 Say no to high housing prices!

Jérôme Bonaparte's suggestion can be said to have sounded a wake-up call to George Haussmann. Osman has always paid too much attention to the transformation issues on paper and has never paid attention to the details of the transformation.

Many detailed issues regarding housing prices are left to his subordinates, and his subordinates only give him the price of subsidized housing per square meter in an area, and then he allocates funds from the municipal government's finances. This can indeed save a lot of time, but it completes the intermediate link that Osman cannot control.

Once a mistake occurs in a certain link, for example, the price of purchasing a house is inflated, public officials and landlords jointly raise the unit price, or the house that needs to be acquired is informed in advance, and some noble items that do not belong to one are placed in the home and falsely claimed to be. Animals in one's own home, thereby maliciously raising the acquisition price, etc., will cause the acquisition result to exceed one's own estimated value.

Excessively overdrafting the financial capacity of the city government will also give an opportunity to those city council members who want to counterattack.

You must know that there are not many candidates in the entire city hall who really support Ottoman's transformation, and the vast majority are opposed to Ottoman's radical policies.

If it were not for the support of the emperor himself, Osman would not even be able to get through the city hall.

Osman also understood that the support and trust given to him by the emperor would increase with his achievements in Paris urban transformation. Once Osman could not meet the emperor's needs in Paris urban transformation, the emperor would most likely replace him.

It can be said that the whole of Paris is the test given to Haussmann by the emperor. If successful, he will have the opportunity to challenge the Minister of Public Affairs/Minister of State. If he fails, he will have nothing.

Haussmann, who valued his political life second only to his own life, would never allow anyone to take action in this regard. From the time he presided over the urban transformation of Paris to the present, there have been only a few dozen people who want to have connections with him, and many of them have some high-ranking officials. A powerful minister.

Except for some ministers who really had no way to refuse (for example, Interior Minister Pesini, Minister of the Privy Seal Morny, and Minister of State Fuld) who wanted to pry out information from themselves, the remaining people who could shirk Osman had tried their best to shirk it. , he really didn't want his status in the emperor's heart to decline because of these problems.

Whether compared with his uncle, Emperor Napoleon, or with the kings of the previous two dynasties (Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe), this emperor was incredibly frugal, and at the same time, he was very concerned about the empire. Efficiency issues are also somewhat stringent.

If it weren't for the fact that the empire still bears the name of the empire and Jerome Bonaparte's own title is emperor, Osman would almost think that he was still stuck in the republic period.

Frugality is frugality, and Osman also discovered that the emperor was unimaginably persistent and generous in steel, construction, hospitals, and factories, and he also had extraordinary compassion for the poor.

In the months after the emperor's marriage, there were not as many serious balls as the number of times the emperor and the empress spent time in orphanages, almshouses, and charity hospitals. He met the nobility even less often than Jérôme Bonaparte himself met the sans-culottes.

There are no less than eight charity hospitals in Paris named by the emperor and empress, which is like a stingy but generous father.

However, this "father" has some poor children who are too close to him.

Under the rounds of propaganda from the emperor and the empress, a love for the lower class also arose throughout Paris. In order to stay with the empress, the ladies surrounding the empress rushed to build welfare homes and charities in Paris. Hospital.

So much so that the number of charity hospitals in Paris exceeds the reserve of Parisian medical staff.

Even those republicans who opposed the empire had to keep silent about this phenomenon.

If the First Empire left the impression of a luxurious nouveau riche, then the Second Empire was known for its frugality and charity.

How could the Ottoman Empire, under the influence of this trend, dare to take the initiative to get into trouble?

[PS: Historically, Osman was prosecuted by the Republicans for budget overruns, and no clear signs of corruption were found after he stepped down. It can be said that they are among the few public officials who are not corrupt. 】

As a high-ranking public official with ideals, Osman vowed that he would not fail in this aspect of corruption.

Having said that, although Osman himself did not have a strong desire for money, he underestimated his subordinates and the people around him.

After Jérôme Bonaparte's "prompts", Osman suddenly realized that there might have been some problems in the middle links.

"Your Majesty, please wait a moment!" Osman said to Jerome Bonaparte in a panic.

"Yeah!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded gently.

In the sight of Jérôme Bonaparte, Haussmann left the senior official's office and almost fell to the ground on the way.

Judging from Osman's behavior, Jérôme Bonaparte guessed that Osman was probably tricked by internal and external collusion during the previous transformation.

Valley/span "I hope the amount is not big!" Jérôme Bonaparte said lightly.

Not long after, Osman returned to the senior official's office. At this time, his face was inexplicably pale, and his cheeks were trembling visibly.

And in his hands were the housing quotation forms from the first round of urban renewal.

Osman staggered to Jerome Bonaparte and said to Jerome Bonaparte in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, this is the report of the last round of urban reconstruction!"

After speaking, Osman placed the urban transformation form in front of Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte flipped through the housing information on the form page by page, and soon he saw the clues in the housing information.

The area of ​​many rooms is not large, and the original compensation amount should not be much, but the furniture in the room is so expensive that one unit directly raises the subsidy price of the entire house by a level. .

What's more important is that the styles of expensive furniture in many rooms are exactly the same. Excluding the unrealistic assumption that Parisians have the same taste, there is only one possibility.

That is, the landlord on the street who needs to start construction rents a set of expensive furniture in the market in advance to deal with the negotiators.

After the funds are finalized, all the expensive rented furniture will be returned.

In this case, the house in their hands can be promoted.

However, apart from the insiders, the only people who could do this were the ministers who had approached Osman.

After receiving the news of the start of Ottoman construction, these ministers purchased houses from some people in advance at low prices, then hoarded them and shared them for the appropriate century, selling them at a price that was 30% higher than the purchase price.

Judging from the uneven prices on the report and the detailed information of the property owners, this kind of acquisition was probably leaked by insiders of the city hall in advance, and then people in the area deliberately raised the price due to the time difference.

"Alas!" Jérôme Bonaparte put the report in his hand on the table, crossed his hands and laid them flat. He looked at Osman in front of him and said lightly: "Be more careful next time!"

"Yes!" Osman, who was originally willing to accept punishment, finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Jérôme Bonaparte's gentle attitude, and also secretly vowed to find the damn mole.

"Also, you'd better establish a real estate review committee directly under your own, preferably with people from other provinces, so that they can cut off their suggestions from the mainland of Seine Saint, and then use the advance survey of the areas you need to renovate! In this case, The funds required may be less!" Jérôme Bonaparte once again made some suggestions to Osman, which would not have deeper ties with the local forces in Paris, and even said that there were some haters (both the suburbs of Paris and the local forces) who would serve as As for the Real Estate Review Committee, they will definitely be able to give the people of Paris a special "surprise": "One more thing, after every review! It is best to disband the original committee members and replace them with a new group, and then conduct the review again!"

"Yes!" Osman responded again, and he couldn't help but secretly admire Jerome Bonaparte.

There are some seemingly simple questions that most people never think of.

The reason why Jérôme Bonaparte was able to think of these was due to his previous efforts in mobilizing police forces from other provinces to purge the umbrella of evil forces in Paris.

Only people from Paris who have little experience in the world can govern Paris. This is an eternal truth.

"By the way! One more thing!" Jérôme Bonaparte suddenly thought of the purpose of his trip. He quickly got up and went to the map, pointing to the suburbs of Paris in a broad sense (the territory outside the 12th arrondissement of Paris). He said to Osman: "Tell me! If I build a "workers' residential area" here that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of Paris workers, will the Paris city government use this piece of land? Approval to me!”

"Accommodate hundreds of thousands of Parisian workers!" Haussmann was shocked by Jérôme Bonaparte's words.

The current transformation of Paris has not yet been completed, and the emperor has already thought of transformation outside the city.

Osman really didn't know whether he should praise the emperor for his foresight or say that the emperor was unfounded.

"Your Majesty, these lands are not under the jurisdiction of the Seine Province!" Baron Ottoman responded quickly to Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Don't worry! Soon this will be your administrative division! I plan to place all the current factories in Paris in the suburbs! Factories and workers should be closely connected!" Jérôme Bonaparte pointed to Paris on the map Said: "The original area of ​​Paris will become an area that attracts tourists and vacations from around the world."

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