Chapter 309: Troubled times

The New Holy Roman Empire is a large cotton importing and consuming country. Every year, 5 to 6 million Aegis cotton is imported from the outside.
Even so, it still cannot meet the needs of domestic industry and commerce, and Austria is also a large cotton importer.
Of course, this is also related to the economic development policy implemented by the Vienna government, and the cotton spinning industry has not been included in the key development projects.
In order to maintain the status of Europe's largest food exporter, the government does not advocate the cultivation of cotton locally. The lack of raw materials has become an important factor restricting the development of the Austrian cotton spinning industry.
In this context, the promotion of cotton cultivation in the colonies can not only save a lot of foreign exchange, but also attract domestic textile capitalists.
For example: Bavaria is the traditional cotton spinning center in the German region. Many capitalists have rushed to open plantations in West Africa because of lack of raw materials.
Everyone will calculate this political and economic account.
Prime Minister Felix calculated again and said, "Your Majesty, the biggest problem in growing cotton is that when harvesting, it requires a lot of labor. Colonies are different from domestic ones. It is too difficult to hire a large number of people for a short time.
Unless we learn Americans and train a group of cheap slave labor, we will not be able to solve this problem.
However, the heavy use of indigenous labor is contrary to our long-term strategy and is not conducive to long-term stability. "
This is the most realistic problem, otherwise Franz would not run to plant rubber trees. At present, the main reason for the imperial plantation's cotton cultivation area is the lack of labor.
In fact, rubber plantations also require a lot of labor, but rubber trees do not grow in one day, and the demand for labor is much smaller before rubber harvesting.
At present, the number of immigrants is still limited. It is impossible for all of them to go to plant cotton, and not all regions are suitable for planting cotton.
In addition to cotton, coffee, palm, cocoa, rubber, tobacco, soybeans, peanuts and other cash crops are also the focus of development.
Although agricultural, wheat, corn, rice, and potatoes are not the focus of development, self-sufficiency still needs to be achieved. Careful plantation owners can't bear to pay for it.
All of these industries require labor, but the colonies are sparsely populated. The shortage of labor is not small, and Franz has no doubt that even if it is a migrant, it can be easily digested.
Franz said helplessly: "Insufficient labor force, we can only rely on everyone to find a way. In addition to recruiting immigrants from the country, you can also recruit overseas labor.
In short, there is only one principle. Migrant workers must be assimilated and meet all our requirements before they can register. "
At this time, Franz suddenly hoped that the Russians would abolish serfdom. Once the tsarist government liberated serfs, it would not take long for a large number of bankrupt farmers to emerge.
Such bankrupt peasants who do not know a lot of characters are high-quality immigrants. Those without culture are always the easiest to assimilate.
Unlike today's serfdom society, serfs are the property of nobles. If you want to recruit labor in Tsarist Russia, pay for it!
The population trade that cannot be done on the bright side still secretly exists in this market, but unfortunately the cost is too high.
Recruiting labor from overseas is easier said than done. There are too many options for immigrants from continental Europe, and everyone has their own circle.
In addition to the country, Austria also has a little face in the German and Italian regions, and can recruit immigrants. In Western Europe, almost no one bought it.
As a last resort, everyone set their sights on the Far East. In any case, the labor force in these areas is better than the indigenous people.
Anyway, in this era, European per capita income is more than ten times that of Asia, and hiring labor in East Asia is also cheap.
This is not without its hidden dangers. At least in terms of ethnic integration, the difficulty has increased several times. Of course, this is also better than the inability to integrate local indigenous people.
Colonial Minister Josip Jelacic reminded: "His Majesty, if a large number of overseas labor are recruited, future security and labor conflicts will become serious social problems."
He didn't worry about being bullied by local immigrants. On the contrary, Josip Jelacic worried about bullying migrant workers by local immigrants and causing social conflicts.
Never test the integrity of the colonists. In addition to Franz, a family that loves feathers and pays attention to eating, many farmers, planters, and mine owners know everything for their benefit.
In this respect, the old nobles did a better job. Most of the labor they recruited were their original serfs. They belonged to the roots of the family, and have converged for the family reputation.
The outbreak households that are still in the process of primitive capital accumulation are different. Arrears, wage deductions, and even unaccounted for happen from time to time. This is true for everyone, let alone migrant workers.
Because of these people's mischief, the workload of the colonial government increased greatly. Finally, a registration system for labor employment has to be implemented.
The hukou system was not implemented in China. Instead, it was first implemented in the colonies. If it weren't for technical issues, Franz would be ready to issue ID cards.
There are few people in the colonies, so the management is OK. As the future population continues to increase, the difficulty of this management will also rise.
After hesitating for a while, Franz said fiercely: "The chaos is a code, the colonial government must establish social order and crack down on criminals.
Gang organizations, small streets, long-time unemployed vagrants all threw me into the mine.
The issue of labor-capital conflict, it is better to catch a typical kill. I caught a few serious problems and dealt with them seriously. "
Frankly, Franz's name is contrary to the law, but the colony is not native, and the Vienna government has never said that it should use native law.
The main cause of social security problems is employment. If all people have proper work, the living space of the underworld will be small.
Franz's order is equivalent to severing the development of gang organizations from the source. Now the rules have been modified. There is no need to wait for the crime to be arrested. As long as it is a gang member, it will be sent to mine.
Even if the small things are constantly happening and the big things are not committed, the police do not need to find evidence of crimes and directly throw the mines to labor reform.
The same is true of unemployed nomads, who cannot find jobs in colonies with severe labor shortages, so the government simply arranges for work.
Don't worry, Franz is disciplined. If no criminal evidence is sent to the miner, the government still pays the wages at the market price. There is no such thing as injustice.
Criminals and potential criminals have all been mining. If social security can worsen, colonial officials can mine on their own.
Compared with social security, labor-management conflict is actually a small problem. Market demand determines the relationship between employers and employees.
When the labor force is severely scarce, dare to withhold wages and not be afraid of others, or afraid of others to pick and choose?
Franz doesn't think this kind of idiot will be a lot. The people who have done this before are a bunch of idiots who have not put their minds right. Now they have paid a bitter price for this.
The real trouble is that when there is a surplus of labor, these talents dare to act wildly. If the government wants strict supervision, it must also consider the problem of unemployment.
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