Chapter 20 Christmas Sixteen
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Like Joey's previous life, Christmas in 1879 was a public holiday for all Germany. Even Jewish or Orthodox believers who only had Christmas need to close their business and take leave. Therefore, in the hundreds of years since they converted to Christianity from Germany, in Germany, work was work, and vacation was vacation, and there would never be a 24-hour shop that would be open all year round.
Maybe some people wonder, isn’t the West proclaiming freedom? I don’t believe in God and the existence of Jesus, so why can’t I open my business as usual?
Speaking of this issue, it involves the scope of German public order and good customs and unique guild system.
Public order and good customs are literally explained in English, which means public order (public policy). There are many different opinions on the specific content, not only scholars from Europe, but also in Europe, but also in the world. We will not discuss academically here, but only directly quote the statement of the German Civil Code.
The definition of German public order and good customs is kind customs.
Kind customs refer to the customs and habits of a nation or country. For Germany, the main ethnic group of the country is Germans, and the custom of the Germans is that Christmas requires a full vacation, so for you, a minority, you need to respect the customs of the main ethnic group.
Nothing in the world is perfect, and so is kind customs. According to the view of the left-wingers in Europe, the custom of following the majority can easily form the tyranny of the majority against the minority. For example, in American history, the ban on alcohol, anti-pornography, and even the verbal siege of popular music and computer games are all the categories of tyranny of the majority against the minority.
Therefore, in the German Civil Code, a restrictive legal requirement first created by Germany is added, which must be socially appropriate (social justice) before it can be implemented. The simple explanation is that good customs should be the standard of behavior that all people in the country who have independent and correct thinking feel appropriate (comfortable).
Surrogate mothers, keeping mistresses, human body banquets, and open promiscuous behaviors themselves belong to the category of social morality. It is difficult for the law to find applicable clauses to punish them. At this time, they must be used as the basis for legal punishment based on their own folk customs.
About the kind customs of any nation, the above behavior will never make a person with the ability to think correctly, but will feel appropriate.
Among the kind customs, some content belongs to the customs unique to certain countries and nations. In the simplest way, Europeans oppose eating dog meat is the custom of Europeans. East Asians like to eat dog meat is the custom of East Asians. You can do whatever you want in their own customs, but eating dog meat in Europe violates the customs of Europeans and is a crime.
Similarly, eating pork in the Middle East is an offense to local customs and culture, which is a crime, but it is also a crime for a Middle Eastern person to restrict you from eating pork in your home.
When you go there, you always follow the guests and there is no reason to overtake the guests. That's how I am in my own home, so I can also make excuses for you at your home.
Secondly, kind customs gave birth to the second legal term, legal behavior, given to the world by Germany.
The simple explanation is that you conceive a crime in your brain every day, which is not a crime, but you tell your ideas to the person you want to kill, for example, you shouted to a casual person on the streets of Germany, "I'm going to kill you!"
Sorry, you will have great trouble. It is the lightest to be taken away by the police for a few days. The parties can apply for a personal restriction order for your court at any time. If you get close to someone you have threatened, you will be in jail.
If you don't shout at people, but go out to buy a kitchen knife, if the kitchen knife you bought is not properly kept and is held in your hands, then the police will check you. If you tell the police that you are going to use this knife in your own kitchen, it is not a crime, but the police will accompany you home.
If you tell the police and you are going to the street with a knife to kill someone, given that you have shown your intention to commit a crime and have a kitchen knife to go to the street with a knife, then you have committed a crime.
It will never happen in Germany. Only when the knife is cut on a person's body will it be determined that the fact of harm exists, nor will it happen, because your bones are too hard and force your knife to stop, which is called the end of the injury.
In short, thoughts are not crimes, crimes are behaviors. This is why the German court supports Prime Minister Bismarck to implement the anti-socialist workers' law. The political behavior of the social workers' party is illegal, but socialist thoughts are not illegal.
To add one more thing, the Germans have another pioneering in their own Civil Code, namely, commercial profit-making behavior is illegal.
This civil law provision is also the basis of two legal provisions in Germany in the future. One is the Anti-Commercial Bribery Act. The contract terms of this bill are attached to the contractual clauses of the two Dingyuan-class warships signed by Germany and the Qing Dynasty in history.
Another one is the Antitrust Act.
Due to the existence of civil law provisions on anti-commercial profit-making behavior, German rich people have become rich far less than their counterparts in Britain and the United States.
Finally, it is the requirement of the seriousness of social contracts in the German Civil Code, which gave birth to the unique guild system of Germany.
A common saying is that Germany no longer has a guild system in 1874. In fact, this statement is wrong. The correct statement should be that the feudal guild system was abolished and replaced by a guild system that meets the requirements of capitalism.
In Joey's previous life, there were still 83 industrial and commercial guilds in Germany in 2017, with a history of more than hundreds of years. The laws on which these public law organizations were established can be traced back to the era of Frederick the Great.
German industry associations are divided by regions and have a forced membership nature. The task of these industries is to represent the interests of members of the association - independent institutions that protect the interests of enterprises, maintain and maintain the long-standing credibility traditions of the business community, and promote the economic development of the industry.
It can be said that all German businessmen are members of the organization. In addition to expressing extensive and principled opinions in terms of economic, legal and political aspects, these guilds often serve as legal and government appraisers on special occasions.
Simply put, if you open a grocery store in Berlin, you also need to join the shop guild in Berlin. The shop guild agrees that members will close on Christmas. If you insist on opening on Christmas, you will be sued by the shop guild in court, and the court will determine that you are illegal based on the appraisal of the shop guild.
The German Guild is such a domineering existence.
Let me put it this way, as a worker, you may not join a trade union, but as a businessman, it is impossible for you to not participate in a guild.
The German Empire was called "the state of military personnel" and also called "the state of guilds". To this day, the Federal Republic of Germany still retains the nickname "the state of guilds".
Therefore, Germany, which is always inseparable from the so-called holiday economy, is destined to prevent Joey from going shopping or visiting famous attractions. Not being able to visit does not mean that Joey is very free. On the contrary, Joey on Christmas is quite busy. In addition to praying and blessings in the church as usual, he also has to help his mother raise funds and distribute free Christmas lunch and dinner to the poor.
If you ask, on Christmas Day, there are the most Germans there, that is, the church, and there is no one but only one.
There is no country without faith in this world. It is nothing more than the difference between believing in God and Allah’s heaven, the Pure Land of Buddha, or the Utopia of Master Ma’s land kingdom.
Or to put it bluntly, it is the difference between whether you are practicing this life or the next life, which is the so-called, whether you are preparing to live to realize a certain utopia, or whether you are atoneing your sins or doing good in your life, so as to enter heaven after death.
Don’t say that you have no faith, you believe in money, power, power, power, strong, self, and live in the present... These are all faiths.
If you have ideas, you have faith, and God is also God.
The ingredients for the free lunch and dinner in the Berlin Cathedral were funded by the Crown Princess Victoria's foundation. The venue was provided by the church. The chefs who cooked the food were volunteers. The Crown Princess and the Grand Duke of Baden and other adults were responsible for carrying items. The task of distributing food fell on Joey, his brothers and sisters, as well as a group of half of the young men.
The food distributed is very simple, with three different soups, the staple food is black bread, and sausages of various flavors.
Thanks to the blessing of Christmas, because of the Christmas closure, many businesses usually donate food that cannot be sold before Christmas to the church, so the free lunch and dinner on Christmas is much richer than usual.
The three soups fully reflect the Prussian "stewed" character. The first course is "Wheat Sauce Soup", which is to boil smoked meat, sugar, dried plums and barley shreds together. Hunger resistance is the biggest feature of this soup. The second course is the beef soup bun purchased by Joey from Oxo Food Company, which is served with carrots, celery, onions, pork, and sour cream, laurel, caraway, juniper beef, marjoram, nutmeg, bay leaf celery, etc. Its characteristic is that it tastes fragrant, smells fragrant, and is fragrant when eaten.
The last dish is called beer soup (biersuppe). The name sounds wonderful, but the ingredients are pitiful beer, butter and flour. Some people who are very particular will use milk instead of butter, and add sugar and cinnamon to improve the taste.
But after Joey took a sip, he was convinced that the ingredients of this beer soup were mostly added to beer, butter and flour.
The Hohenzollern family in history, from the time of Frederick the Great to the era of Frederick-William IV, the only soup in the palace was this beer soup (the taste was salty/sweet noodle soup). Today, when the old emperor William I would drink it from time to time when he was having lunch alone.
There are two versions of the story of Frederick the Great who loves to drink this soup. One version is that William Frederick I, the "Soldier King", invested 80% of his income in the military, so Frederick the Great, as his son, could only drink beer soup since he was a child. The other version is that during the war with the three continental powers, Frederick the Great promised his soldiers that he would eat whatever the soldiers had.
"We are ragged and open the mountains and forests, fighting alone, not for money, but for glory, never tire of being tired, but for the sake of satisfaction." This is probably a sentence from Joey who likes the most.
Today, the people who volunteered in the Berlin Cathedral are not only Frederick and Baden, as well as the foundation staff, but also many people who are enthusiastic about public welfare in the upper class of Germany who were mobilized. Perhaps some of them value more the opportunity to have close contact with the crown prince and his wife, as well as the opportunity to increase their fame or political capital.
But Joey, no matter what the motives of these German upper nobles, was enough as long as he was willing to accept the invitation and participated in charity activities together according to the prescribed arrangements.
In a sense, all charity activities require is the positive attitude of the upper class.
Among them are the Quant family who came from Pritsvark, Brandenburg, and several important textile manufacturers in Saxony-Turingen, because today's charity event is actually Joey's soft advertising time for an important textile product.
Joey from the 21st century, if you want to say what is the biggest difference between him and the Germans in the 19th century, it is that the commercialization tastes stronger, and the expression is to know how to cleverly promote himself.
The product Joey is preparing to recommend is a blue jumpsuit. The style of this jumpsuit is neither the silk jumpsuit worn by French noble children in the 18th century, nor the low-waisted rough-cut work trousers that appeared during the gold rush on the West Coast of the United States in 1850. It is the ultimate combination of the two, which is extremely similar to the design style of the peak of the 1940 jumpsuit.
Prussian blue canvas texture, wide trouser legs, wide pockets on the chest and outside the thighs, the front is like an apron, and the back is an adjustable strap. On the strap on the shoulders, the abbreviation of the Victoria Crown Princess Foundation is embroidered with white silk thread. Next to the abbreviation is a cute red heart, while on the wide pocket on the chest is embroidered with a dark red phrase, "niemals aufgeben! (Never give up!)"
Whether men and women, the one-piece work pants are covered with a white linen shirt, and they don’t wear any jewelry on their necks and hands, and they wear black high-top leather shoes with a rubber sole. In the hot flash kitchen and dining room, the body feels just right, and the rubber sole leather shoes will not slip even when they work on the wet ground.
No matter when, with a suitable outfit, the working people are always the most beautiful, not to mention that the Crown Prince Frederick and the Grand Duke of Baden are middle-aged uncles, and with Prince August and Prince Heinrich in charge of the handsome young men, they can be said to be a walking scenery in the Berlin Cathedral.
Even if the Crown Princess Victoria, who inherited the height of her mother, Her Majesty Victoria, was like a windy woman when she walked.
In addition to these most dazzling characters, there are also a large number of hard-working nobles who have become excellent photographers for journalists. On one hand, there are nobles who are beautiful in their labor, on the other hand, there are helpers who are satisfied with food, and on the other hand, there are busy journalists. The Berlin Cathedral has become Christmas Day, the busiest place in Berlin.
Let’s look back on this outfit that is the same style as the one-piece workwear in 1940. This idea is naturally derived from Joey’s idea, but what drives Joey to do this is an industry requirement, a German textile industry’s urgent desire for change.
Compared with the British industrial revolution in history, the German industrial revolution actually started with heavy industry, and the light industry capacity represented by the textile industry has always been terrible. In 1835, the level of German cotton textile was only equivalent to that of Britain in 1788. In 1850, the lint processing capacity invented by Britain in 1850, and Germany did not reach it until 1900.
The textile technology advantage is inferior to the British, and the raw material market for cotton and linen is not as good as that of Britain. The German industrial revolution is destined to start with railways. In nearly 40 years, Germany's heavy industry has developed tremendously, but the foot of light industry is still lame. As the head of the German economy, Crown Prince Frederick also realized that light industry is also an important part of the industrial industry, and its important value in creating industrial output value and expanding employment.
Faced with the British textile industry with huge advantages, the Germans must not be able to continue to use the experience of the British textile industry development. A plan to produce chemical fiber fabrics instead of cotton and linen fabrics based on Germany's advanced chemical industry was recommended to Crown Frederick by Sir Grusen and Joey. However, the achievements of the German chemical industry cannot appear in an instant. Therefore, in order to cheer up the German textile industry, Joey can only be asked to provide some unique and creative cotton and linen textile designs.
So the individual soldiers of the German Marine Corps were pushed out first. After slightly suppressing the hunger of the German textile industry, the Quant family and the textile giants from the hometown of His Majesty the Queen came to the door again and said bluntly that at the same time, the members of the German Textile Guild could not favor one or the other, and forced Joey to push out the jumpsuit in advance.
Joey's idea is very simple. He has no foundation in fashion design. If he designs beautiful (weird) modern clothing, he will definitely do something bad. On the contrary, the most practical clothing designs are something he can control.
The low-waisted work pants that appeared in 1850 are now the money coin of Levitra Company in the United States, so Joey was not interested in fierce competition with Americans in this pants market segment. Instead, the ones-piece work pants that appeared in 1911 were his goal.
There are many benefits to choosing ones-pieces. First of all, it is the first type of work pants that can protect the human body at the waist. Secondly, the development of industrialization and the subdivision of work will lead to the emergence of large factories. It is an inevitable trend to unify workers' clothing. This kind of work pants have many benefits as workers' labor clothing. It not only allows mechanical workers to slide out or get into them when they work, but also makes workers feel very safe while they are wrapped around their bodies and are very free to move.
Finally, this kind of clothing can be used with safety helmets and labor protection shoes for workers in various industries, whether it is flammable and explosive industries, mechanical manufacturing, steel smelting, etc.
This is a kind of work clothes that is once and for all. This time, Joey decided to completely take the lead in the market segment of ordinary labor protection work clothes.
Since the road is about to go to the extreme and not to leave a way for future generations, the advertisement must be in place at once. Fortunately, the clothing trend of the nineteenth century was led by the nobles. If a large number of nobles were invited to do free clothing advertisements at one time, the effect would be absolutely sensational. Therefore, the Quant family and the textile giants in Saxony-Thuringia were completely happy to see it.
Advertising has never been free. Joey is not going to spare these things and forces himself to design clothing. The guys who have whitened their hair have the same design fee as advertising fees.
In the Berlin Cathedral, he watched a large number of German, British, Austro-Hungarian, and even French journalists taking crazy photos. Mr. Quant and several textile giants in Saxony-Thuringia were very happy. Even when he was having a chance to chat with the Crown Prince Frederick and his wife, he also said that he would donate an additional donation to the German Poor and Jewish Foundation.
The Crown Prince Frederick and his wife and the Grand Duke of Baden naturally knew what the reason was, and these textile giants were so generous. In addition to feeling that Joey could always miss any business opportunity without any trace, the Crown Prince Frederick also heard a passage from his son to him.
"Dad, for Christmas charity, please ask you, mom, and all the nobles to wear this civilian outfit, because wearing it is not just about advertising for the German textile industry."
"The more important significance is to show the world that the Hohenzollern family has made new changes. We are showing the German people a new image of the Hohenzollern family. It is willing to be so close to the people, pay more attention to industrial workers, and be willing to seek welfare for urban residents."
Chapter completed!