Chapter 801: African Farm Project

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Napoleon IV shook his head, picked up a newspaper and said: "These newspapers have read compared to all of you, all of them say that France has fallen.
Including our domestic newspapers, we are equally pessimistic. It must be clear to you what this means.
If we do not take countermeasures, we will not be able to counterattack later. "
Although he did not want to admit it, everyone knew that France was indeed going downhill.
Especially economically, after quelling the domestic rebellion, the French economy receded directly to 1860.
Although it has recovered in the past two years, it has only caught up with the level of 1870. It takes at least three or four years to return to the peak of 1881.
One step is slow, and the next is step by step. France, which is economically behind France and Indo-Europe, is far behind by two competitors.
Now that the matter of Egypt has happened again, the prestige established by the French army has not been tossed.
No matter how good the reason for Governor Adolf's defeat is, if he loses or loses, the public will not care about the specific reasons.
The triple strikes of economy + military + politics are coming at the same time. Once it is not handled well, the foundation of the government will be shaken.
In order to consolidate the rule, Napoleon IV must now take a tough stance and reshape France's majesty.
Thinking and doing are always two concepts. Revenge for the English Olympics is simple to say, and it must be well thought out.
Navy Secretary Hamdi Halbowi: "Your Majesty, although the British and Austrian countries are strong, they are not completely flawless.
The core of the British colonial system is India, as long as you work hard from this point, just toss something, it is enough to make them uncomfortable.
We have controlled half of the Indo-China Peninsula, and we can continue to expand our power to Myanmar, allowing the British to cast their devices.
Although we ca n’t move the core colonies of Austria, it ’s okay to cause them some trouble, for example: to support the Republic of Colombia. "
It sounds good. In fact, these painless counterattacks can only add a little trouble to Britain and Austria.
However, this just shows that Hamdi Halbowy has the political mind to fight back the British and Austrian countries without completely tearing his face and keeping the contradictions within controllable range.
Napoleon IV shook his head: "This is not enough. Expansion to Myanmar can also make the British feel threatened. We can make the movement a little bigger and we can barely make it.
Supporting the Republic of Colombia is a long way off, and perhaps earlier, it can still play a role. But now that Colombia has been scared, it dare not dare to confront Austria.
Moreover, with their strength, if a conflict broke out with Austria, it might have given the Vienna government an excuse to annex them. "
It ’s not that Napoleon IV has high demands, the key is that now they must come up with a powerful counterattack and show it to people in various European countries and at home.
Being bullied by others, and not coming back, is that still a stunned France?
The reason why the powers are powers depends on their strength. Now France needs an opportunity to prove its own strength and choose to rub against Anglo-Austrian once, just to re-establish their status as the three great powers.
The results are not important, but the momentum must be enough to show everyone the style of a big country in France.
After a moment of effort, the Minister of Economy Elsa said in a bit of anxiety: "Your Majesty, to retaliate against Austria does not necessarily have to start from the military, but also from the economics.
It's just that, the consequences are serious. We may face both Russia and Austria at the same time. "
France is not England, and the strategic plan of two birds with one stone is not their highest pursuit.
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The French government has clearly felt the sequelae of too high a hatred value, and it has caused trouble for Austria alone, and a little revenge is no problem.
It is not in the interest of France to directly forge a confrontation with Russia and Austria.
After listening to the words of the Minister of Economy, everyone was stunned. Isn't it economically giving Austria the next black hand, and the two countries have become endless enemies with Russia and Austria?
Napoleon IV asked curiously: "Speak, what plan is so terrifying?"
Economic Minister Elsa explained: "The immediate start of the African agricultural development plan is different from the previous plan. This time we will not consider the benefits.
If no one invests in the private sector, the government will invest in the establishment of a state-owned farm to expand the area of ​​grain cultivation.
In a short period of time, a large amount of grain will be produced and put into the international grain market, which will bring down the grain price.
Agriculture has always been one of Austria ’s most important industries, and agricultural exports accounted for nearly 40% of Austria ’s total exports, contributing a large amount of taxes to the Vienna government.
Among them, the export of finished grains occupies the largest share of agricultural exports, which is estimated to account for about 53%.
If our plan succeeds and international food prices plummet, Austria will surely suffer heavy losses.
70% of the raw grain exported from Austria is imported from Russia. International food prices have plummeted, and the Russians will be the victims after Austria. "
There is no doubt that this is the common weakness of Russia and Austria. Once a third country dumps a large amount of grain, the international grain price collapses, and enterprises engaged in the processing of agricultural products and farmers growing grain will suffer heavy losses.
Enterprises are only faced with the pain of a sudden price drop, and the big deal is to lower the purchase price of raw grains and pass on the losses. The farmers who grow grains are truly lost.
Such an obvious loophole is naturally not a secret.
For colonial countries, there is no technical difficulty in dumping grain grown overseas to the European continent.
The problem is that increased food production will inevitably lead to a fall in international food prices.
Fortunately, the hard-grown food not only does not make money, but it also costs freight, not to mention recovering the cost of wasteland reclamation.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Vernon hurriedly opposed: "No! Africa is all undeveloped wasteland, Russia and Austria are developed lands, and our food plantation costs will certainly be higher than them.
This means that in the future competition, we are inherently disadvantaged. In order to ensure that food is not unsalable, only low-cost dumping can be done.
At that time, everyone struggles with financial resources. It depends on who can't hold down first.
What's more, the collapse of international food prices will also spread to the country, allowing domestic farmers to lose money together. "
Do n’t worry if it ’s not urgent. Once this plan is started, it will cost money like running water, and the shrunken pockets of the Ministry of Finance ca n’t hold it at all.
Napoleon IV: "Roy is right, it is undesirable to impact the price of food. This will only make us lose both Austria and Austria, the British who are on the cheap side."
Napoleon IV, who accidentally wounded the Russians, didn't care. Anyway, the relationship between the two countries was not too good, and the offense would be offended.
When it comes to the interests of French farmers, it will be different. The French peasants were the strongest supporters of the Bonaparte family, and Napoleon III relied on the support of the majority of peasants to gain the throne.
Even if it hits Austria a lot, this kind of self-destruction of the Great Wall cannot be done by Napoleon IV.
The words of politicians have been exported, and naturally cannot be easily recovered. Since Elsa made this suggestion, she could only go on with a scalp.
"Even if it is not to fight against Austria, we need to start the African farm program.
Since the annexation of the Italian region, France has become one of the major grain importers on the European continent, consuming large amounts of foreign exchange imported agricultural products every year.
If one day we turn our heads with Austria, a food crisis will soon break out in our country. For national strategic security, food self-sufficiency must also be achieved.
Anyway, we are all withdrawing from the free trade system, and tariff barriers can be adopted to ensure that domestic food prices are not interfered by the international market, so as to protect the interests of the peasant class.
We can even take a step back and not compete for the international agricultural product market, but only to achieve self-sufficiency in domestic grain and reduce Russian and Austrian hostility. "
Hearing "protect the market", Napoleon IV's heart shone. On the premise of ensuring that the interests of domestic farmers are not damaged, he is still very happy to attack the Austrian economy.
Although the economy is not equal to the national strength this year, the economy is developing well, the government has money in its pockets, and there are soldiers with money.
Perhaps the middle and lower levels have not yet felt the threat of Austria, but after the Paris Revolution, the upper levels of the French government realized that their former neighbors were not the same as before.
Suppressing Austria has become the consensus of the French high-level, has not taken action, that is the French government is very busy. After the suppression of the domestic rebellion, there are still a lot of messes waiting to be cleaned up.
Seeing that the domestic problems were about to be solved, the Egyptian rebellion broke out again. If it is not forced to help, the French government will not choose to fight back at this time.
Today, the Great French Empire is the second largest grain importing country after the British. Once this market is lost, Europe will inevitably have overcapacity in agriculture.
By that time, neither of the two major grain exporting countries in Russia nor Austria will want to have a good life, and may even trigger a new round of economic crisis.
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