"But the current president of the Academy of Sciences..."
Peter said calmly:
"It's been the same for more than ten years. I'll offer him an annuity of one thousand rubles. If he's willing to accept it, I'll let him retire as an honorary dean. He's not willing to retire directly."
Peter looked at Vorontsov. This matter had to be handled by the Privy Council. Vorontsov was in charge of internal affairs.
Vorontsov was stunned, crossed his heart for the poor dean of the Academy of Sciences, and immediately said:
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Seeing Peter's decisive arrangement, Romanosov and Andnov immediately stood up and saluted:
"Your Majesty, we will do our best to handle this matter and live up to your expectations."
Peter smiled and nodded.
Romanosov is the Peter the Great in the Russian scientific community and an encyclopedia. He is very accomplished in electricity, physics and chemistry, but according to Russia's current needs, he is not in a hurry in this regard.
Romanosov laid a solid theoretical foundation for the establishment of the second law of thermodynamics, and came to the conclusion of the law of conservation of mass. He also had some insights into the theory of storms and auroras, which now seem a bit useless to him.
Compared with these things that may benefit the human scientific community, he pays more attention to reality.
The first reality is to upgrade Russian from a crude and barbaric language, and not to mix it with German, a language that is considered low-level.
Let Frederick play by himself.
When this matter is over, Romanosov can still play a great role.
Then Peter looked at Darier.
Darier was very nervous. It was obvious that he, Romanosov and Andnov were called because His Majesty wanted to arrange their positions.
He is not interested in the president of the Academy of Sciences, but he is interested in the official position.
Darier waited nervously, and Peter was also pondering.
Daliya has a remarkable characteristic, that is, he represents a class that will have a great influence.
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Private monopoly of the government sector, which later became monopoly capitalism.
At the beginning of 1909, industry had been developing for some time, and there were 140 monopoly associations in Russia's 45 industrial sectors. Before World War I, there were about 200 all-Russian or provincial-scale cartels and syndicates.
Cartels are monopoly interest groups, and syndicates are labor unions. Both terms are monopolistic organizational forms.
The most obvious ones are coal companies, hardware companies, sugar and copper industries.
"Russian Metallurgical Factory Products Sales Company" unites 30 factories and monopolizes more than 80% of the products of the Russian metallurgical industry.
The various factories of the "Copper" syndicate provide 90% of domestic copper production.
In the oil industry, three monopolies control more than half of Russia's total oil production.
The "Coal Company" syndicate that dominates the coal mining industry in Donbas controls 75% of the coal mining volume in major domestic mining areas.
Many of these are private, even foreign-invested.
In 1900, foreign investment accounted for 45% of Russia's total domestic share capital.
Before 1917, 54.7% of all foreign investment, approximately 2.2 billion rubles, was used in the mining and metallurgical industries. Except for one or two metallurgical factories in the south, almost all of them belonged to foreign joint-stock companies.
Of the foreign capital, half belongs to France and Belgium.
The Yusupov family controls a large amount of mining, and the fact that he can spend so many rubles shows how rich the family is.
If this continues, we have to take precautions.
Under normal development, the main sources of national fiscal revenue are state-owned land, forests, mines, railways, military industry, banks and post and telecommunications.
He didn't want it to be a government department but controlled by private individuals, which would make it difficult for him to lose control.
But it's still early days. Some people control the business sector at most. The first bank in Russia was not established until 1754. Now they don't know what an oligarch is.
He has enough time to make the word oligarch cry and call him daddy.