The development of South Africa was also one of Austria's measures to deal with the agricultural crisis, and the new jobs were just right to settle bankrupt farmers and avoid a wave of unemployment.

The European public has always had a strong interest in gold, and gold mining was the easiest way to make a fortune in this era. If you are lucky enough, you will be able to make a fortune.

Five out of ten Austrian immigrants to Africa started their careers through gold mines, and two of the remaining five worked as logistics services for gold mining.

In this era, colonies in various countries lacked immigrants, and if you want to stand out from the crowd, propaganda is the key.

A beautiful painting cake is indispensable, as for whether you can find a gold mine and make a fortune when you get to the place? Franz can say with certainty that 99 percent of the people do not get rich.

There is a good joke: the two brothers went to look for gold, only to find that they did not know how to prospect at all.

This is the case, unless it is an open-pit gold mine, and it is still a particularly high gold content, which can be seen at a glance, otherwise ordinary people will not be able to find it even if they encounter it.

Now that the gold mines have been discovered, I don't know how many prospecting teams there are in South Africa, and the domestic elites are also organizing prospecting teams, and most of the gold mines are also owned by these people.

If it weren't for the Vienna government's opening of the gold mine acquisition function, ordinary people could sell gold mines directly to the government when they found them. Otherwise, even if they find gold, they will not be able to mine it, and if they do not, they will be killed.

Seeing that everyone was very positive, Franz was very salty. Everyone else wanted to make a fortune in gold mines, so he invested in local farms and plantations.

It turns out that the traverser is not omnipotent, a point on the map, when it reaches the place, is thousands of square kilometers, and the deviation is 180 kilometers.

Whether or not you can find gold mines is a matter of luck, and although South Africa's gold mines are large, they are not large enough to have deposits of tens of thousands of square kilometers.

Relying on paper to find gold mines is not much different from relying on luck. It was a very famous gold mining area in later generations, and it didn't even have a name in this era.

Even if the name appears, after Franz's butterfly effect, only God knows how big this error is.

In that case, it's better to have salted fish at all. The gold diggers may not be able to make money, but the logistics will definitely make money.

If you invest in a nearby farm or plantation and sell bread, cheese, fruits, vegetables, meat products and other necessities of life, you will definitely not lose money.

Don't look at the outbreak of the agricultural crisis, where the prices of agricultural products have plummeted, but this has had little impact on the interior of Africa.

Food can be brought in from outside, cheese, fruits, vegetables, fresh meat products, these things can't also be transported from outside, right?

Although canned food has appeared, if you eat it every day, few people can stand it.

If you're lucky, you might find a gold mine beneath the farm. Who can say for sure? In West Africa, minerals were found more than once under the royal plantations established by Franz.

Not to mention the South African region, where gold mines are all piled up. It is not wrong to buy land near the gold mine, there is a gold mine underground, and you can make a small profit without a gold mine.

The news of the discovery of a large number of gold mines in South Africa is still circulating in small circles, and the outside world is still immersed in the panic of the agricultural crisis.

In Berlin, after the outbreak of the agricultural crisis, the Prussian government became nervous. This is a matter of self-interest, and there is no room for sloppiness.

I don't know when Austria became the bellwether of European agriculture, and Wilhelm I also kept an eye on the Vienna government.

Watching the Vienna government introduce a fallow law to limit the increase in grain planting area, calling on all countries to reduce production together. Instead of feeling relieved, William I had an even greater headache.

Cutting grain production is not a matter of one word, but also involves the interests of all parties, and most importantly, the interests of the agricultural Junker aristocracy.

Unlike in the past, Prussia was a grain importer and naturally did not worry about these problems, but now they have become a grain exporter.

If the Russians were the craziest in reclamation, followed by Austria, then the Kingdom of Prussia was in third place. In recent years, the area of arable land in the Kingdom of Prussia has also increased by half.

The enthusiasm for growing food was very high, and the land that was originally wasted in the hands of the Russians was now being used efficiently by the Junker aristocracy.

Now the trouble is coming, there is an overcapacity of food. This is not a star-and-a-half surplus of more than 21 percent, according to data released by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture.

No matter how overcapacity there is, it is impossible for grain-importing countries to reduce their own production capacity, and they are all grain exporters who need to reduce production.

Even if some of this food is wasted for various reasons, the production capacity that needs to be reduced is apportioned among countries, which is still not a small number.

The main culprits for this are the Russians. According to the estimate of Russia's agricultural acreage, if all this grain can be shipped out, even if other agricultural exporting countries stop grain exports, Europe will still not be short of grain.

The reality is so cruel, the international market is too small.

With the increase in the agricultural population of various countries, the amount of land reclaimed is also growing, and the improvement of agricultural technology, the food production of all countries is increasing, while the market is growing far behind.

In the case of Greater France, imports are expected to fall by two percentage points this year due to an increase in domestic grain production.

These data are released by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, which is published once a year, and word of mouth has been established, and Wilhelm I has no doubt about the accuracy.

This is not the first time that countries have been called upon to work together to reduce food production capacity. From 1870 onwards, the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture issued warnings of overcapacity in grain.

However, it did not work, and even Austria itself was not able to reduce its production capacity, let alone other countries.

"The agricultural crisis is really coming, the Austrians have already taken real action to reduce production capacity, and we are calling everyone here today to discuss whether we should follow up or not."

Deep down, Wilhelm I was in favor of cutting grain production capacity. If the market is not restored to normal, no one should want to have a good life.

"Your Majesty, Austria is the world's largest agricultural exporter, and they have been hit the hardest by the agricultural crisis.

The current reduction in production is actually a last resort. Prices in the international food market have collapsed, and now the more you export, the more you lose.

On the surface, it was the Anglo-Russian agreement that triggered the current agricultural crisis, but in fact Russian grain had just entered the international market, and it was Austria's dumping activities in the first half of the year that caused the collapse of grain prices.

According to the information we have gathered, Austria has so far vented about 34.2 million tonnes of agricultural products to the international market, of which more than 30 million tonnes are grain.

This is already more than 81% of the total turnover in the international grain market in 1871. If in the second half of the year, the Vienna government does not restore its strategic reserves and buy grain from the market, then prices will continue to collapse.

It seems that it is just to stop the Russians and prevent them from returning to the international market, but in fact it is an excuse to drag everyone into the water.

If measures are not taken, international food prices will remain depressed for the next two to three years. During this period, the more grain you sell, the more you lose, and if you don't sell it, you can't get back the funds.

Our share of international grain exports is only 6.6 percent, and even a reduction in production capacity will not be able to restore the situation. Unless the Russians are willing to follow suit with the cuts, the crisis will not end anytime soon.

The top priority is to protect the local market. I propose to reduce or exempt agricultural taxes and export taxes on agricultural products, and at the same time to raise import duties on agricultural products, and if necessary, to follow the example of Austria and adopt a minimum purchase price for grain, in order to safeguard the returns of farmers. ”

Moltke's opinion was very clear, the government should not interfere with the freedom of cultivation. The reason is very simple, if Prussia cuts production and the Russians don't cut it, they are making a wedding dress for the enemy.

"Prime Minister, it is easy to raise import tariffs on agricultural products, but the chain reaction caused by it has to be considered.

Pur-Polish relations are at a critical juncture, and now the import tariffs on agricultural products are raised, what will the Poles think?

If they raise import tariffs on China's industrial and commercial products-for-tat, then the agricultural crisis will also affect industry.

Let's not forget that our financial situation is already very bad. If this is done, the fiscal deficit will increase significantly this year. Maybe it won't be long before we can declare bankruptcy. ”

It was not that Gorman was unwilling to protect agriculture, the problem was that as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he knew very well how much crisis Prussia's finances were.

Just the reduction of agricultural taxes and export duties on agricultural products will reduce the financial revenue of the Kingdom of Prussia by more than 56 million marks, which is already very dangerous.

If the tariff on agricultural imports were to be raised, which led to an increase in the import duty on Prussian industrial products, the fragile industry and commerce of Prussia would also be hit hard.

This will set off a chain reaction, or it will be an industrial crisis, and the final loss will not be a small number.

Prussia did not have a colonial market to drain from, and its products did not compete internationally with Britain, France and Austria, and the Polish market was very important to them.

Moltke smiled indifferently and explained casually: "It's not that serious, the Poles don't dare to turn their faces with us."

It's easy to deal with them, just stir up the Polish radical groups, get them to make territorial claims to Austria, and then we will come out and deal with the aftermath.

Having offended two behemoth neighbors, does the Polish government have a choice? ”

This explanation left Gorman speechless, there was no way, the current Poland was not a normal country, and there was internal chaos.

This trick doesn't work much for other countries, and no one is so self-conscious, but Poland is an exception, and they can do this kind of thing.

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