Chapter 36: The Great Migration
Franz was reputable, and immediately after signing a treaty with the Ottoman Empire, he paid for 10 million Aegis worth supplies.
This time, the Vienna government did not discount in the slightest, there was no way to overcapacity, there was too much backlog of materials, and they couldn't sell it, so they directly destroyed Franz and was not so loser.
It would be great to make a deal with the Sudanese government. If possible, he would like to make the same deal with the Russians, no matter what, than to watch the supplies rot in the warehouse.
Especially for agricultural products, these refined finished products do not have a long shelf life. The preservatives of this era are too scummy, and if you add too much, you will die.
Even if everyone doesn't pay attention to food safety, it can't poison people, how can this kind of thing of smashing signboards be done?
When it comes to the issue of word of mouth, the Vienna government still controls it very strictly, and it is the bottom line of food safety not to poison people, even if it is an export product.
Of course, this is limited to this, the higher standards belong to high-end food, such as the products exclusively supplied by the nobility, and the quality grade is not much lower than that of later generations.
The difference between the prices of the two grades of goods is basically several times, or even dozens of times, which fully proves that there are no good goods that are cheap.
At the Vienna Palace, after listening to the report of the Minister of Agriculture, Franz thought for a while and said: "Since the export of agricultural products is declining, then we will artificially create a market."
Didn't an agreement just now be reached with the Ottoman Empire, and the population of these lands was withdrawn?
Now immediately organize the transportation of ships, it is a big deal that we will provide them with a year's rations as compensation for the early relocation, presumably the Sudanese government will not refuse such a good thing.
When the Ottomans are gone, we will organize immigrants to fill them in and take these areas into our hands.
In this way, shipping companies have new business, and we can also reduce the pressure of unsalable grain, which helps to stabilize domestic food prices. ”
Unlike other overseas colonies, the Vienna government had direct control, and even if there was no transoceanic telegraph, it would only take a week to deliver news.
As long as the local Ottomans were all evacuated and replaced by immigrants from within the country, then there was no need to worry about domination.
The Minister of Agriculture, Christian, replied, "Yes, Your Majesty. ”
After a pause, Franz added: "Remember to pack the people of the Ionian Islands and the Sinai Peninsula together and send them to the Ottoman Empire." If there is a problem, pay to bribe officials of the Government of the Sudan.
Anyway, the Ottoman Empire has no household registration, and the Sultan government is a confused account of how many people there are, and it should not be difficult to fool the past.
The issue of immigration should be completed as soon as possible, and in times of economic crisis, it is the least costly time to do this. It can also alleviate the crisis, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. ”
This is not speculation, the Ottoman Empire in this era is known as the most corrupt empire in the world, as long as money is given, there is nothing that these bureaucrats dare not do.
Hearing that the immigration work was to be completed as soon as possible, the colonial minister, Josipp Jelačić, had a headache. There is a lot of demand for immigration this time, and it is impossible to lose people to control these new territories forever.
At least 30,000 or 40,000 immigrants from Crete, at least 30,000 or 40,000 immigrants from the island of Cyprus, at least 20,000 immigrants from the Ionian Islands, 100,000 immigrants from Libya, and even if there are 5,000 immigrants from the Sinai Peninsula, they add up to more than 200,000 people.
These regions need people, and the African colonies still need people. Congo and the Gulf of Guinea are counted first, and the population of the two places is already quite large, and it is okay to suspend large-scale migration.
However, Nigeria, which has just started, Cameroon and Benin, which are infiltrating, are absolutely indispensable for immigrants.
Otherwise, when John Bull recovers, they will have to do things again. The best option is like the Gulf of Guinea now, even if the British are very hot, and after seeing that large group of German immigrants, they lose interest.
In this era, those who went to the colonies to make a fortune had nothing to bully. Especially the nobles who opened farms and plantations, they were all masters who could carry guns on horses.
On land, the British simply could not help them. If the colony has only 8,000 people, and one day it turns against Britain and France, the colony will immediately change hands.
The Vienna government was not only thinking about opening up the colony, but also thinking about how to hold the colony, and in this context, it was really not enough to have a dozen or two hundred thousand immigrants.
In addition to these regions, the Balkans are also considered. In order to control Wallachia, Moldavia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Vienna government also developed a million-dollar immigration program.
This emigration can only come from the German region in order to ensure the smooth progress of national integration, which is also an urgent task.
In order to avoid multiple orders and competing with each other for immigration, all the immigration work was handed over to the Colonial Department in a unified manner.
"Your Majesty, as the economic situation in the country improves, fewer and fewer people are willing to emigrate abroad, and we will not be able to make up as many immigrants in the short term," Jelačić explained.
You know, in order to facilitate assimilation, every time we organize immigrants, we have to break up and resettle, so that ethnic minorities do not gather in one area.
Refugees, including those who have migrated from the Balkans, are distributed in proportion to ensure that they do not have a dominant advantage on the ground.
So far, less than 200,000 people in China have signed up for immigration, and the total number of applicants in Germany has not exceeded 550,000.
The majority of the population is inclined to emigrate to the Balkans, and less than half of the population is willing to go to overseas colonies. ”
Franz nodded, this is normal, not to the point of last resort, how can ordinary people be willing to leave their homeland?
Even if you immigrate to the Balkans, you can still go back and forth once a month along the Danube, but overseas is different.
Even though the Vienna government offered preferential terms, opened farms and plantations in overseas colonies, directly recognized property rights, and even had policy loans, many people were still worried.
"The economy has only just reached the German region, and it will continue for some time, and the number of bankrupt people in the German region will increase in the future, and this is the opportunity.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has communicated with the governments of the countries and they will not stop you from moving, and until the end of the economic crisis, it is the peak period of immigration.
You now have to rush to get the migrants out as quickly as possible, and send them to the Balkans when it's too late to send them overseas. Once the economic crisis is over, people find jobs, and things are different. ”
The reality is so cruel, the unemployed in times of economic crisis are not wealth, but social hazards, and governments want them to go faster.
In this context, the Vienna Foreign Office has also worked with Switzerland, Belgium and other countries of the German cultural circle, and governments have welcomed the recruitment of immigrants from Austria.
Of course, this good opportunity is limited to times of economic crisis. Once the economy returns to normal, even if the governments do not stop it, the local capitalists will not agree.
Only when there is more labor will it be cheaper, which is why it is difficult for European governments to organize migration on a large scale.
If the Viennese government was not strong enough to subdue the capitalists at home, Franz would not have been able to organize emigration with such fanfare.