Chapter 310: The War in the East Continues
Getting accustomed to a life without modern luxuries was indeed something that Bruno had to re-learn. He had been born in this life a year after the first private electric system was installed in Edison’s own home. And as a result, it would be several more years before the wealthy nobles of the German Reich got their hands on such technology.
As a result, Bruno had lived his first few years of his new life without electricity, which was a chore to be sure, but one he gradually became accustomed to. Only for the moment he truly began to thrive in such a primitive environment his family’s estate was retrofitted to include it.
His children however had never known a world without the modern luxury, and as a result, there was quite a bit of complaining and squabbling over the many, many chores that their mother forced them to aid the house staff with whom they had brought with them to Transylvania.
Nevertheless, Bruno and his family enjoyed a nice meal together in the evening before the man returned to the Castle’s study, where he was quick to go over the list of papers the Transylvanian government sent him at his personal request.
Whether it was the codification of law, or the local economic status. Things were more or less how Bruno had expected that would be. And he was quick to overhaul many, many matters. Bruno having extensive experience in running international corporations was quick to cut the bloat so to speak.
Arresting corrupt politicians, firing incompetent government bureaucrats, and shutting down departments that had no practical reason for existing. If there was a way for him to cut the government expenditure that did not affect the people of Transylvania, or the daily function of the Government than by god he did it.
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In addition to this, he changed the codification of laws, adding heftier penalties to crimes which were more deserving, while removing laws that had existed for centuries which made no sense whatsoever in a modern context.
Bruno also began to levy taxes to a far more ideal margin, one that not only gave the people of Transylvania a break but also stimulated economic growth. In addition to this, he began to invest his personal money into the mechanization of the local agriculture.
Transylvania was a nation that had extensive potential for agriculture. It could theoretically become the breadbasket of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But lack of investment in the region meant that the industry was still relying on technology and techniques one would have found in the pre-industrial era.