Hoping for the stars and the moon, news of the great Indian uprising finally reached Vienna in July, and Franz knew that trouble was coming for the British.

During this period, 40,000 British troops and 230,000 Indian troops controlled the Indian subcontinent. From the beginning of 1857, there were constant rumors of mutinies in the Indian Legion, but they were all suppressed by the British.

On May 10, three Indian regiments launched an uprising, occupied the ancient capital of Delhi, and declared the restoration of the Mughal Empire, causing a shock in India, and the wave of uprising quickly spread throughout the country.

Unexpectedly, Franz fulfilled his obligations as an ally and informed the St. Petersburg government as soon as possible. What will happen next, then it is not known.

If the Anglo-Austrian negotiations go well, then the Vienna government will be very peaceful in the future and will do nothing; If the negotiations break down, it would be good to support the Indian people's independence movement.

Prime Minister Felix said murderously: "Your Majesty, the time is ripe.

The war between the British and Persia was still unfinished, and now that the Great Indian Revolt had broken out, St. Petersburg's ambitions against India could not be resisted.

The London government is preoccupied with its own affairs, and it is necessary for us to make a friendly state visit to the Ottoman Empire to enhance our friendship. ”

Friendship, when did the Habsburgs have friendship with the Ottoman Empire?

If you open the family history, it is a history of blood and tears with the Ottoman Empire, not just an ancestor who wanted to take the Ottoman Empire down.

By Franz's generation, the Ottoman Empire had been driven out of the Balkans, and the behemoth that once threatened the survival of the Habsburgs was now a soft-footed shrimp.

Franz smiled and said, "Then choose a good day with a good day and pay a state visit to the Sudanese government!" ”

In view of the long-standing traditional friendship between the two countries, it is the sacred responsibility of the heirs of the Habsburg dynasty to fall into the grave for the Ottoman Empire, and it must not be discounted in any way.

The Colonial Chancellor, Josip Jelačić, proposed: "Your Majesty, it is time for us to move on the African continent. Now that the French have accelerated the pace of expansion on the continent, we will fall behind if we drag it any longer. ”

Profit is always the best catalyst, and only three years ago, with Franz's support, the Vienna government had only narrowly adopted the policy of colonizing abroad.

Today, even traditional conservatives have no objection to overseas colonization.

On the surface, the Austrian colonies were still in a state of loss, but this was not the case. The colonies increased the market for domestic industrial and commercial products, and the gold excavated made up for Austria's lack of gold reserves.

The gold mines excavated in this era were all rich ores that were easy to mine, and dozens of tons of gold flowed into Austria every year, stabilizing the value of the Aegis.

It can be said that without the gold of the Gulf of Guinea, the reform of the gold standard system of the Vienna government would not have been so smooth.

In addition, there are fewer unstable elements in the country, which gives careerists room to display and makes many people rich.

Franz thought for a moment and said, "Yes, but the Kingdom of Tekrul in the Nigerian region is ambitious, wants to further establish an empire, and has launched a so-called holy war, so we better not rush into it."

Let the locals fight among themselves first, and when they are almost done, we will make a move, and we can sell them some old-fashioned weapons. ”

Underground resources aside, the Nigeria region is close to the equator, and the land is fertile and rainy, making it suitable for growing tropical crops such as peanuts, palms, cocoa, rubber, ......

For those who love to start a farm, this is a treasure. More than 60 million hectares of cultivated land can be developed, enough to feed hundreds of millions of people.

At present, it is the nobility at home who are pushing for the move into Nigeria, and many of those who lost their land in the Revolution want to make amends abroad.

This is the result of the guidance of the Vienna government, which is common in any country, and the Vienna government has done a very good job in this regard.

High-level government officials have opened plantations overseas, which has made many people feel profitable and have joined in the campaign.

The royal family was the first to stake land in the colonies of Guinea and the Congo, and has now planned seven or eight plantations, including rubber plantations, cotton plantations, coffee plantations, and cocoa plantations...... The total area is more than 1.5 million hectares.

Of course, this is only a theoretical plan, and it is still unknown when it will be completed.

By now, the royal family has developed more than 15,000 hectares of land, and the rest of the area is still a group of lumberjacks working hard.

The trees must be cut down, the grass on the ground burned, the water in the depressions drained, and the local poisonous insects eliminated before the farmland can be developed.

When there is not enough labor, it is difficult to improve the efficiency of the work by being forced to use local people as laborers.

Franz has sent people to bring in labor in East Asia, and farming is also a technical job, especially for land reclamation, which is obviously not suitable for this job.

Austria was forbidden to use slaves, and for the sake of the long-term peace and stability of the colony, the colonial government also banned the use of slaves, and even labor protection laws were required to be strictly enforced.

Of course, "strict implementation" is also a case-by-case situation, and of course immigrants from the country are strictly protected, and these are all valuable assets.

For local workers, the supervision is naturally not so strict, and the biggest problem is a fine. Unless someone makes a half-breed, they won't go to jail.

Essentially, it was also to limit the dependence of the capitalists on local labour and the spread of disease.

Through the labor protection law, it is clearly told that once the problem of labor shortage in the colony is solved, then the labor protection law will be strictly enforced, and it is better to use local labor as little as possible.

In order to reduce the conflict between the colonial government and the indigenous tribes, the colonial government implemented the encouragement of immigration, which consisted of two parts: one was to encourage the internal population to migrate to the colony; Part of it is to encourage local indigenous immigrants to the Americas.

On this issue, the Vienna government has reached immigration agreements with the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Spain and other countries.

The treaty stipulated that countries were free to bring in indigenous immigrants in the Austrian colonies, and the colonial government did not impose any restrictions.

The Vienna government will also reward individuals or organizations that have performed well in immigration work, and the current standard is: 2 Aegis for every 10 local immigrants taken away.

Under this favorable condition, more than 100,000 black immigrants left the Austrian colony every year, which greatly reduced the conflict between the colonial government and the local indigenous tribes.