In fact, trucks and tractors are more popular with consumers in the market than family cars.

The former is a luxury that can only consume wealth; The latter are the means of production and are able to create more wealth.

Rich people are not stupid, and they know which is more important. When doing multiple-choice questions, of course, you have to come according to your own needs.

In general, capitalists in the cities are more inclined to cars. Because cars can show their noble status and bring them convenience in the business field.

Well, it's just a delusion in the heart. Unless it's going out to be a liar and deliberately showing off your wealth to fool people, it probably has some effect.

In normal business, we still talk about how we should talk. In the face of interests, no one will give in easily.

The real function of the car is probably to fool the employees under it. Operate in an invisible way to show off your wealth and tell everyone: the boss is rich, don't worry.

The buyers of trucks and tractors, in addition to the transportation companies, were mostly farmers in the countryside, as well as some aristocrats.

Farmers are a real need, and unlike expensive cars, tractors have been defined as cheap cars since their inception.

This is not a matter of Franz, in a large agricultural country like Austria, after the discovery of such an artifact as a tractor, the Vienna government would have a problem if it did not intervene.

From 1883 onwards, the Vienna government issued a decree exempting tractor manufacturers from taxes and encouraging them to sell to farmers at low prices.

Up to now, a number of state-owned enterprises have been involved in the tractor production industry, directly hitting the sales price.

Compared with the high profits of cars, tractors are really the price of cabbage.

The market price of tractors for pulling goods and cultivating fields is only 200~300 Aegis, and 150 Aegis for a single purpose can be bought.

Of course, you get what you pay for. The practical value is not low, and the comfort should not be counted on.

In order to reduce production costs, some manufacturers don't even bother to equip seats, and they also ask consumers to install them themselves after buying them.

The pungent smoke, the harsh sound of "sudden, sudden, sudden......" when running, if there is a sense of user experience, it is estimated that many people will score zero.

In contrast, a truck can be seen as a modified version of a car. It is nothing more than the addition of a compartment in the rear, under which several cylinders are added to act as power.

Comfort is much better than a tractor, but not as good as a car. The price is somewhere in between.

After all, it is a large man, and the technical difficulty of production is much lower, and the cost is slightly lower.

If it weren't for the traffic constraints, it is estimated that the speed of the promotion of trucks would be much faster than that of cars that only move in the city or in the surrounding areas.

Anyway, as soon as it was launched on the market, it was favored by the aristocracy. Whether it is pulling grain and vegetables from home to the city to sell, or taking the belongings out to hunt, the truck is more worry-free than the horse-drawn cart.

Showing status, that's what the nouveau riche need. Since the Great Revolution of 1848, the Austrian aristocracy has kept a low profile.

The new capitalists have taken their place in the role of pulling hatred, as can be seen in the daily newspapers.

In most of the news that exposes social reality, most of the villains are outburst capitalists, or second-generation.

In contrast, the proportion of gentlemen among the nobility was much lower. Of course, this may be the social environment that limits their room to play.

There are many classes for the children of the nobility, and when they become adults, one is counted as one, and they will enter the army for a few years.

By the time they returned home from the army, they were no longer young, and they were no longer second-year teenagers, and they knew how to use their brains to do things.

In fact, there are a lot of bad things in the aristocracy, and all kinds of strange pregnancies are endless.

It's just that these people have to worry about the reputation of the family, and except for a few idiots, most of them know to keep things hidden and not exposed to the spotlight.

Compared with the old nobles, the newly rising military nobles have no experience in dealing with this aspect of things.

After taking power, many people are addicted to power and cannot extricate themselves, and there is more chaos in the making.

For Franz, these were minor issues.

The matter has not been exposed, so naturally it is hello, hello, hello, everyone, anyway, he, the emperor, will not know.

If the matter is exposed, then one will be counted as one, and it will be dealt with in accordance with Austrian law.

After watching one chicken after another being killed, it still worked. I don't know if there was a frightening monkey, anyway the rest of the chickens were frightened.

With the vigorous development of the automobile industry, many peripheral industries have also benefited from this new industrial chain.

Iron and steel, machinery manufacturing, petrochemical ...... and a series of industries, the development speed in recent years has increased significantly.

Taking the steel industry as an example, it seems that the current automobile production capacity is not high, and it does not consume much steel every year.

However, what the auto industry needs now is stainless steel, or special steel that is widely used in the military, rather than a pile of scrap iron that needs to be recycled.

The customer is God, and if there is a demand in the market, there will be service. As long as the money is in place, everything is negotiable.

There is no law in Austria that states that special steels for military use cannot be used for civilian purposes. Before that, no one used it because the price was too high.

Now it's different, low-end cars can't afford these high-tech, but the luxury version must be arranged.

Affected by this good news, in the first half of 1885 alone, Austria's special steel production directly exceeded 50,000 tons, while in 1880 the whole of special steel production capacity was only a pitiful more than 30,000 tons.

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Economic development was not all smooth sailing, time passed quickly, and by the end of 1885 trouble came to the door.

Franz was surprised and asked, "What is the problem with the traffic?" ”

Not to brag, these days, Austria's domestic traffic is known as the second in the world, and no one really dares to call it first.

The extensive railway links Austrian cities of all sizes, and on the map, it looks like a dense spider web.

Austria's economy has been able to grow at a high rate, and this "railway spider web" has also contributed a lot. It can be said that without convenient transportation, there would be no Austrian Empire today.

Transport Minister Sterrence explained: "In the empire as a whole, our traffic situation is still at the world's leading level, but there is already serious congestion in some areas.

Mainly the major industrial cities of the empire, the traffic pressure has also increased with the continuous influx of people in recent years.

Especially after the birth of automobiles, the original urban planning has not kept up with the development of the times.

At present, the problems are mainly concentrated in: Prague, Plzeň, Brno, Ostrava, Munich, Stuttgart, Kaišenitz, Linz, Milan and other old industrial cities.

Because of the large population, congestion often occurs during rush hour, and many people waste more than half an hour commuting to and from work.

In contrast, the situation in the newly industrialized cities of Belgrade, Sarajevo, Saghrap, and Bucharest in the south of the empire was much better.

In addition to the city, there is also the fact that our previous road construction is not wide enough, and many sections of the road are too narrow, and it is difficult for two large trucks to stagger when they meet. ”

These problems are the inevitable result. Even if the old industrial city has been upgraded, it is still carried out on the original basis, and there is no major change in urban construction.

Thirty years ago, the changes were enough to meet the demand. The designers did not have the ability to foretell the future, and they could not have imagined that Austria would develop so quickly.

Franz is also not a professional urban designer, and he has no way to get involved. In addition, by that time, the Vienna government was already heavily indebted, and the shriveled wallet directly dispelled Franz's idea of demolition and construction.

Thirty years later, the problem was exposed, and the government needed to find a way to solve it.

The industrial cities in the south were established at a later stage, and by the time they were developed, the Vienna government's finances had gradually improved.

In addition, the foundation is thin and there is not so much historical baggage, so it is not a pity to dismantle it directly. Therefore, the cities in the south are more modern and have much higher transportation carrying capacity.

"Congestion" is also relative, and compared with the congested cities in later generations, squeezing the bus for half an hour is nothing at all.

It's better than walking a few hundred meters at the bus stop for more than half an hour on the way to work, and not walking as fast as you can.

Urban traffic needs to be improved, and traffic outside the city is even more problematic. Before the advent of automobiles, Austrian roads were among the best in Europe.

However, roads and highways are two different concepts entirely. The former is a horse runner, and at most it will consider the passage of carriages.

Thirty years ago, the cars were all big steam cars, and it was okay to pull the mine in the mine, and the problem of car traffic was not considered at all.

The service life of dirt roads is very long, and after so many years of tinkering, the roads are still operating normally.

There is no problem of building roads in advance, because roads also have a service life, and it is estimated that the construction in advance will not wait for the appearance of cars, and the roads in front of them will be retired.

If these problems are to be solved, a round of large-scale infrastructure construction is indispensable.

Prime Minister Karl objected: "In the short term, we are not suitable to launch a new round of major infrastructure construction. At least until the first phase of the Near East Development Plan is completed, the government should not be distracted.

The problem of urban traffic congestion can be strengthened by the transportation department, or the number of buses can be increased to release greater transportation capacity as much as possible.

Although it cannot solve the problem fundamentally, it is still feasible to delay the problem for a while.

The roads outside the city are not intended for cars in the first place, and it is inevitable that they will not meet the demand. Theoretically, upgrading all roads across the country can meet this demand.

But we all know that this is not possible. If we were to build a road that would cover the whole country, the cost of construction would be a drop in the cost of our rail network.

This is beyond the government's financial capacity, and we cannot issue unlimited bond financing.

These things are not urgent, you can plan first, and the specific implementation will not be delayed for a while. ”

Problems arose, and Franz learned that Austria was still poor. The cost of replanning and upgrading an old industrial city is not much lower than rebuilding a new city.

More than a dozen of them were launched in one go, and the Near East Development Plan was already being implemented, and the Vienna government really did not have the financial resources to start another wave at the same time.

There are no ready-made examples of road network construction, but a reference to Austria's railway network can basically explain the problem.

If it had not been for the ignorance of a large number of international enthusiastic acquaintances and friendly sponsorships, it would have been unknown whether the Vienna government would have been opened to traffic by itself alone.

"Eat a trench, grow a wisdom."

has been cheated once, and international capital has also learned a lesson, and if they want to fool people with a big pie, it is now difficult to find so many "enthusiastic people" to sponsor them.

Roads are different from railways, and the investment prospects of railways are bright, as long as they carry through the long investment cycle, there will be financial resources rolling in behind.

What the road relies on to make a profit is a complete mess, and there is no example to emulate.

Even in the most economically developed areas, the money received from the establishment of toll booths is not necessarily enough to pay the salaries of toll collectors.

It is too difficult to buy and sell without seeing the prospect of profitability, and want to fool the big man to come in and fill the hole.

Not to mention investors, even Franz, a traverser, is not optimistic that the road project will be profitable.

There is no way, it will take time for cars to become widespread. Only when the market develops to a certain extent, it is possible to rely on fees to recover investment costs and obtain investment returns.

However, the capitalists could not afford to wait. Even if it is a "value investment", it is not possible, because without waiting for the road project to recover the investment cost, I am afraid that the road built in front of it will be scrapped.

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