The Vienna government's plan for the development of the Near East was undoubtedly a boost to the domestic economy, and the stock market was the first to react.

The stock prices of many sectors such as construction, medicine, and engineering equipment have skyrocketed, as if a new bull market is about to open again.

In order to stimulate the stock price, related companies announced that they would join the Near East Development Plan, and overnight, "Near East Development" became the hottest term in Austria.

Not only domestic capital has been attracted, but also a lot of overseas capital has been moved.

The capital of the Great Depression in Europe has nowhere to go, and Austria's Near East development plan is undoubtedly a good time.

In order to attract attention, the Vienna government naturally did not put forward any advance plans, and the focus was naturally on the "one billion Aegis investment".

This is definitely the largest investment ever, and it is unlikely to be surpassed in this century, and there is no pressure to brag about it.

The capital of the original time and space Europe dared to invest even in the United States, which was thousands of miles away, let alone the Near East, which was close at hand.

It's a pity that these guys are too shrewd, and none of them are slippery, and Franz wanted to pit a few unlucky guys to undertake the construction of the railway, but no one took the bait.

Even if it is a licensed monopoly, no one cares, there is no way that the Near East is now a blank slate, and no matter how beautiful the Vienna government's plan looks, it is only a plan.

Capitalists are the masters who don't see the rabbit and don't scatter the eagle, and before the immigration plan is launched, who would not want to invest in the construction of railways?

Everyone participates to make a fortune, not to contribute. Even if the Near East development plan goes smoothly and becomes prosperous, it will only be more than a decade later.

Until then, investing in railways was bound to be a loss-making business. It is indeed a value investment to lose money for more than ten or twenty years in a row, and it is possible to make a profit.

It's a pity that making quick money is still popular these days, and long-term value investment is not in the scope of capitalists' considerations.

Everyone prefers to engage in a project that looks like it can make a lot of money, carry out artistic processing to draw a grand blueprint, and then go public to make money.

If you succeed, you will earn blood, and if you fail, you will also have a receiver to bear the loss. This is one of the reasons why people are reluctant to invest in railways.

The main factor of this economic crisis that has affected the entire capitalist world is the surplus of railways, especially in Western European countries such as Britain and France, where there are too many railways that have been rebuilt.

If you look at the stock market, you can see that the railway stock price fell the most.

In the stock market crash, the market value of many railway companies has been directly cut in half, and some of the particularly sharp declines are less than one-tenth of the peak.

Eat a trench, grow a wisdom.

Investors have just experienced a social beating, and have temporarily lost interest in the railway, and it is difficult for this project to fool the receivers, and the capitalists are naturally not interested.

No one jumps into the sinkhole of the railway, so the Vienna government can only go into battle on its own, but there are people who invest in the port and urban renovation.

Although the investment period is also long, these projects are less risky.

Even those who are not optimistic about Austria's plans for the development of the Near East do not think that the Vienna government is not even capable of developing the coastal zone.

It will take a while to report the plan, take the project and take the project, and really invest the funds.

After the end of the war, the Vienna government did not immediately disarm. At this time, hundreds of thousands of troops were busy suppressing bandits, and it was extremely irresponsible to go to construction before solving the problem of public order.

The development of the Near East is different from the development of Africa, and there was no way to do it back then, because the government had limited power to open up African colonies, so it had to rely on the power of the people.

Today, there are thousands of large and small civilian armed forces on the African continent, which together are more than the standing army of Austria.

While these forces established Austria's hegemony on the African continent, they also inevitably led to the expansion of local aristocracy.

In the context of European politics, this is naturally not a big problem. The nobles were in their own fiefdoms, and they were supposed to form a private army, but they didn't see anyone pulling the flag and rebelling.

The African continent was forced to rely on the power of the aristocracy. The Near East, which was so close at hand, that Franz was ready to take it into his hands.

At the recent Imperial Council, the property rights of Asia Minor, the Middle East, and the Arabian Peninsula were determined, and the delegates passed a bill by an overwhelming margin to make these areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Crown.

The number of votes cast by several small states together has exceeded 20%, and it is theoretically possible to reject the resolution.

However, this is only theoretical, and on the premise of not involving their own core interests, no one has deliberately found trouble with the emperor.

The main thing, of course, is that there is no reason to oppose it.

The Imperial Diet was very strict, and the Emperor had the power to remove members of parliament for the sake of opposition.

A meeting with the permission of the emperor has the force of law, as long as there are more than half of the delegates.

The parliamentarians were dismissed in the middle of the five-year term, and they were not filled, and they had to wait for the next term of office before they could be re-inforced.

For so many years since the establishment of the Imperial Council, no one dares to toss around, just for fear of being caught by the emperor and kicked out of the game, and losing the right to speak in the empire.

There are no people in the Near East now, and the conditions for independent provinces are not at all; There are no people, and naturally there is no basis for the implementation of colonial rule.

It is also a way to divide them into states. It is not known whether the governments of the states will oppose it, and the people below will definitely not agree anyway.

For the people of small states, spending money on building the Near East, thousands of miles away, has nothing to do with them.

The central government wants to develop the Near East, and everyone supports it, and the division between local finance and central finance is very clear, and whose territory is responsible for paying for governance.

There are so many legal attributes of the land in the HRE Empire, and nothing else meets the conditions, and it is not included in the direct domain of the emperor, how can the central government legally invest funds for construction?

Even if we don't consider strategic considerations, the Near East must be rebuilt for the sake of the "Roman Empire dream" in everyone's hearts.

It can only be said that the Roman Empire is too powerful, and its imprint on European history and culture is too strong, even if it has perished for thousands of years, there are still a bunch of heirs.

The French regard themselves as the heirs of Rome, the Russians as the heirs of Rome, the Italians as the heirs of Rome, and the Greeks as heirs of Rome......

As the legitimate successors of the Western Roman Empire, the Germans were no exception, especially after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the call for the rebuilding of the Roman Empire was even louder.

Of course, it is still at the stage of rhetoric, and the definition of the official media is very clear - the new Holy Roman Empire.

A few more words, the meaning is completely different. There are so many guys who claim to be the heirs of the Roman Empire, and it is very hateful to shout slogans.

Not only in the Near East, but in fact Franz was also preparing to include overseas colonies in the emperor's direct domain, but for the time being, in view of the mood of the small states, it was postponed for the time being.

After all, everyone paid for it together, and suddenly they have no legal relationship with them, and maybe some people can't figure it out.

These are all minor issues, and the overseas colonies are all vassals of Franz, the emperor, and not princes of the empire, which was determined de jure from the very beginning.

It's not that everyone doesn't want to be a prince, but it's a pity that Franz doesn't give him a title. If the emperor doesn't agree, no one can do anything, you can't jump out and make trouble with the emperor, right?

That is to tell everyone clearly: I have a problem, I have ambitions, I want to ......

Such a fool, Franz has not yet seen. After all, it is impossible to rely on military merit to get mixed up all the way, and it is impossible for the brain to be inflexible.

Since he is a vassal of the emperor, there is no way to deal with the emperor, otherwise he can be removed in minutes.

This is also the reason why the emerging aristocracy is more obedient, the glory and power are bound to the emperor, and if you don't follow the boss, all of them will be gone.

The biggest advantage of the emperor's direct domain, that is, theoretically, all the borderless lands belong to the emperor, and the government only manages the places for the emperor.

Of course, this is only theoretical. If you really eat alone like this, you will be alone.

High-quality fertile land, pastures, and forests, Franz did not leave a single acre, and all of them were taken out to reward the heroes, and these areas are also the government's next key construction areas.

(Note: Fertile land, pastures, and mountains and forests can all be converted into military fields, and the specific proportion is determined according to the actual situation)

After everyone has finished choosing, the remaining rotten land belongs to the emperor in law. Where to put it for the time being, and wait for the future when it needs to be developed.

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After the knighthood ceremony, Franz took a group of new nobles to draw circles on the map, which were all determined in advance, and now only from the legal point of view.

Looking at the excited crowd, Franz knew that the show had been successful. It's right to think about it, isn't it just for the glory of this moment that everyone is shrouded in horse leather on the battlefield?

From now on, no matter what their previous origins were, they now have a unified title - nobility.

With a political position, your pockets will soon bulge. The nobles who have fiefs in these years will not be too poor as long as they don't toss around.

The soldiers below can all get hundreds of acres of land to become farmers, not to mention the nobles, perhaps they should not use acres as units, it is more appropriate to exchange them for square kilometers.

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