Chapter 234: Balkan Development Plan

In a quaint castle in Prague, an elder over 50 asked seriously: "Holster, are you really ready?
Once you are accepted by the government, you will have a hard time in the future for a long time, but it will be too late to repent. "
Holst replied earnestly: "Father, the Vickers family has fallen, and in the last struggle for rights, our network of relationships in the government suffered heavy losses.
If you want to get a job in the government, you can only pass the civil service exam. There are too many competitors on this road. Moreover, our family has always been developing in the military. There is no advantage in this area. I am not sure about mixing up.
The situation on the European continent is stabilizing, and there will be no war in Austria for a long time to come. This has broken the chance of a fight on the battlefield.
Now is an opportunity. With the military achievements accumulated on the battlefield, now I stay at home and become a glory knight at most.
The family can make a little money before they can exchange for a manor with the government, but now they can cross the Balkan Peninsula and become hereditary knights.
Under normal circumstances, I haven't succeeded in the domestic struggle for twenty years. So why not take a risk? "
To strengthen control of the Balkans, the government of Vienna mobilized domestically. As Prime Minister Felix expected, the lower nobility who wanted to go further could not resist this temptation.
In contrast to opening up overseas colonies, the Balkans are still at their doorstep. Even if they are a little bit poor now, their future development can still be expected.
As one of the strongholds of conservatism, Austria still maintains the ancient tradition, the eldest son inherits the family business, and the second son goes out.
Big nobles also have the ability to provide enough titles to their immediate descendants, and the children or other nobles can only fight on their own.
In order to limit the number of nobles in the country and ensure the quality of the nobles, the Vienna government is still considering promulgating a "Nobility Law".
Once this law is in place, nobility inheritance must pass the assessment of the noble parliament, and it is difficult for the son-in-law to inherit the title.
In addition to the eldest son who inherited the title, even the non-military knighthood won by the children of the nobles will lose hereditary ability.
Because the impact is too great, it is still being discussed in the aristocratic parliament. After all, this law is too unfriendly to declining nobles, and it is too difficult for them to pass the assessment.
Franz intends to implement this law when he opens a colony, so that these nobles will go to the colony to fight for wealth.
The domestic plate is so large that it is obviously not enough for everyone to share. Even if the territory of the Balkan Peninsula is increased, this cake is still not large enough.
The collapse of the British and French colonies was largely due to the uneven distribution of benefits. The capitalists took too many benefits and needed others to kill them. How could this be possible?
Since ancient times, the sub-sealing system has been a weapon of expansion. The counties and counties that were directly managed by the central dynasty were often lost; but the land that was sealed off was rarely divided again. Even if it is independent, it cannot be separated from the influence of local culture.
Of course, this is just one factor. The bigger reason is class solidification. Either make a big cake and leave a rising channel for everyone, or you can only revolutionize. This multiple choice question is very easy to do.
The old man thought for a while and said, "Well, I respect your choice of children. Now the family can't help you much, but you can recruit a group of people to leave from the manor house, which can alleviate the population pressure.
These people have lived in the family for generations. Loyalty is not a problem. With their help, I believe you can open the situation soon. "
The influence of the aristocracy in this era was not only because of status, but also a group of subordinates.
Although serfdom was abolished, this influence has not yet dissipated.
Now the Austrian government encourages these nobles to develop in the Balkans, but not just to let them pass. If you are alone and you are in a place where your life is unfamiliar, no one may rule.
Moreover, everyone's previous industries are all land, so nobles can't go down to cultivate it themselves?
It is easier for these people to organize immigration than for the Austrian government.
The densely populated German region, in the era of the agricultural nation, has reached the limit of its population capacity, and now diverting some people away just relieves internal contradictions.
Anyway, the labor demand for industrialization is not very big these years. Austria is still the second most populous country in Europe. In addition, the population of the Balkan territory has approached the 50 million mark.
Now the most important thing is to promote national integration. In the context of unified language, a large number of mixed-race children have appeared in the next generation. Who can use nationalism to do things?
It can be said that the future of the new Holy Roman Empire is as long as Franz does not have a wave.
Another unexpected benefit of developing the Balkans was the reduction in immigration to the United States.
After all, crossing the ocean in this era is also risky. Compared with the unknown United States, the Balkan Peninsula at the doorstep of the house is much less risky, and the Danube River is convenient for transportation. You can return in ten days and a half months.
Especially if there is a small family, immigrants in the Balkans can drag their families. If they go to the United States, it will be life and death.
Since the Great Revolution, a climax of immigration broke out in the German region, with an average of 60,000 to 70,000 people leaving each year, and in Austria, almost 20,000 to 30,000 people leaving each year.
These immigrants caused the population of the United States to soar. In the year 1850, the United States accepted 310,000 immigrants. In 1851, the United States accepted immigrants 379,000. In 1850, the national population of the United States was only 23.192 million. In 1860, it increased to 31.443 million. .
The immigrants of this era are all young and old, the sick and the sick can't bear the bumps at sea, and all are high-quality labor.
Every time I think of it, Franz can only sigh that the South American countries are not fighting, obviously that their own conditions are not bad, they don't even know they are robbing immigrants with Americans.
Don't say that they act together. As long as a few countries attach importance to attracting immigrants and diverting the US population, Americans cannot develop so fast.
In this case, Franz is also powerless, and European countries have not realized the threat from the United States, and have not taken any measures to limit their strength growth.
Of course, he didn't do nothing, at least every black and black in the US broke out in newspapers. This is also an entertainment program that European people love to see and are very popular.
In any case, the number of immigrants to the United States can be reduced by tens of thousands, which is tens of thousands, which is not a small number over time, which can also be considered to weaken the strength of competitors.
You need to know that by virtue of these immigrants, the Germans later became the largest nation in the United States. It can be said that the rise of the Germans in the United States contributed greatly.
Vienna
Franz is carefully reading the Cabinet's "Plan to Develop the Balkans."
The strength of a country is not only due to its large territory, large population, and abundant resources. These are only one of the necessary conditions, but also due to the extent of its development.
The Russian Empire is large enough, larger than both Europe. From the perspective of land area, resources, and population, their strength should sweep Liuhe as the Qiang Qin and invade the world.
The reality is that the Russian Empire with so many advantages, let alone invade Europe, any two great powers can make it impossible for them to walk around.
The biggest problem is that the level of local development is too low. If the Russian empire has now completed industrialization, there is no doubt that the invasion of continental Europe is not a dream.
The new Holy Roman Empire was not as arrogant as the Russians, and relying on an extensive management system, it was able to leapfrog into a top power.
In Franz's view, if the territories that have been acquired cannot be effectively developed, then those territories that cannot be converted into national power will become a heavy burden.
It is already difficult to continue to expand on the European continent, and intensive cultivation and development of existing land is the king.
Prior to this, the Vienna government has formulated many development plans. Except for a few states with high autonomy, the remaining areas have been included in the government planning outline, and many places have begun to implement them.
The current plan for the development of the Balkans is just a preliminary idea. There is still a long way to go before it can be implemented.
Franz thought for a while and said, "Prime Minister, according to this development outline, the two duchyes of the Danube Valley in the future will be the second granary of the empire.
But we have to consider a problem. Once Russia-Austria relations deteriorate, the products exported from these regions can only be sold along the Danube to the German region, or they can be transported by land to the sea.
There are also supporting industries that look more like a Russian-made custom business. I wonder if the Russians have such a strong purchasing power?
Now they are still the serf empire, and even if social reforms are carried out in the future, I think their ordinary people's purchasing power is up to half of the Austrian people.
If targeting the Russian market, it is best to take two routes, either selling them to the nobles at the high end, or selling them to civilians at the low end, and the prices of these goods must be cheap enough. "
Regarding the relationship of geographical location, the economy of the two principalities of the Danube River will inevitably be affected by Austria and Russia. The Austrian market is the internal market and the Russian market is the external market.
Economic development must also focus on these two markets, and further afield, other European countries will be considered.
Prime Minister Felix explained: "Your Majesty, no one can tell clearly the future of Russia-Austria relations. Even if the relationship deteriorates, they are very unlikely to block us.
Even if the Tsarist government wanted to do this, their domestic interest groups would not agree. With the Tsarist government's execution power, it could not be implemented at all.
This point is known from the current situation. Because of the war, the Russians cut off trade with Britain and France, but in fact Ukraine, Central Russia and other regions were really cut off.
The main reason for the severance was not because of the blockade order of the Tsarist government, but because the war blocked the Black Sea transport corridor, and these areas were robbed of our market by our goods.
The entry of Russian, British and French goods from the Baltic Sea has never been cut off. The main reason for not entering the central and southern parts is that the transportation cost is too high and it loses competitiveness.
As for the issue of industry, these are only preliminary assumptions. The ultimate choice is in the hands of capitalists, and their sensitivity to the market is absolutely above us.
The government is only formulating corresponding policies and will not directly invest in these light industries. I believe that capitalists will do better. "
Franz nodded. He never had any illusions about the execution ability of the Tsarist government. The possibility of being blocked was indeed very low.
After the collapse of Russia-Austria relations in history, the Russians did not block the Danube. Obviously, the tsarist government would not really be so reckless as this might provoke war.
Not to mention the industrial problems, since the cabinet government is not prepared to invest in person, let the capitalists go on their own.
From a development perspective, in the future, Russia and Austria may be economically rivals. The pillar industry of the Russians is grain exports, which is also the pillar industry of Austria.
It's just that Austria exported the processed agricultural products, while Russia directly exported the original agricultural products, but the competition between the two sides also exists.
If this situation is not resolved, competition in interests will almost certainly affect relations between the two countries.
In this regard, Franz also has to be grateful that the tsarist government is an authoritarian government, and this contradiction will not erupt in the short term.
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