Prime Minister Felix: "Up to now, there have been 1,876 bankrupt enterprises in the country, and the number of unemployed people has exceeded 2.47 million, a record high.

Among them, the cotton textile industry suffered the most losses, with a quarter of the textile mills going bankrupt, more than half of the cotton textile mills announcing a reduction in production, and the production capacity fell by 37%.

This is followed by shipbuilding, which has seen few new orders from shipyards in recent months due to the reduction in international trade. Even a large part of the original orders were affected by the economic crisis and declared defaults.

Steel ......"

Bad news kept ringing in Franz's ears, which was an inevitable consequence of the economic crisis.

During the Great Recession, the market shrank, and companies cut production capacity and laid off employees in order to survive the crisis, causing the market to shrink further, forming a vicious circle.

Solving the crisis is very simple, either find a new market to divert the crisis, or wait for the market to pick up naturally.

Now the situation is very obvious, the whole of Europe is affected by Austria, and there is no place to transfer the crisis, and the market can only recover itself.

After the survival of the fittest, backward production capacity is eliminated. Most of the surviving enterprises have worked management or technology, and every time after the economy is also an explosive period of science and technology.

Unlike in the past, after the outbreak of the current economic crisis, the Vienna government did not increase investment in public facilities and jobs, but allowed the market to regulate freely.

Franz asked: "How's the immigration going?" ”

The crisis is not terrible, but the unemployed people who are born in the crisis are terrible. In these years, the working class's ability to resist risks is seriously insufficient, and it is okay to be unemployed for two or three months, but if there is no income for a year and a half, something will happen.

The way to survive the crisis is very simple, just direct migration. The colony was in a state of development and lacked a large labor force.

Under normal circumstances, except for those who are restless and want to make a fortune, few people are willing to leave their homeland to work hard in the colonies.

To put it bluntly, the golden time to make a fortune in the colonies has passed. As development continued, the conditions in the colony became better and better, but the opportunities for making a fortune became less and less.

Early immigrants, as long as they were willing to work hard and not die, were basically able to make a fortune. Until now, it can only be said that there are more opportunities than in China.

If you want to get ahead, in addition to daring to fight, you must also have a flexible mind and a little luck.

The temptation has diminished, and the enthusiasm for immigration has decreased. Even though Austria has begun to colonize the country, the time is still short, and the infrastructure is still far from being comparable to that of the country.

Especially in the fields of transportation, medical care, and education, there is a huge gap. The problem of transportation is that the development time is too short, and there is a shortage of medical and educational personnel.

It's not that Austria lacks doctors and teachers, but it's mainly that these people can live well in the country and don't have the motivation to go to the colonies.

In order to solve these problems, the Vienna government has also set up schools on the African continent to train doctors and teachers on the spot.

It's not something that can be seen in a short period of time, it takes time to accumulate. In particular, according to the current education system in Austria, there is no less than seven years for medical majors, and the training of a qualified doctor starts at ten years.

It's not that Franz is demanding, it's a practical need. In the era of lack of medical equipment, it is impossible to see a doctor by relying on the ability of individual doctors.

Colonial Chancellor Stephen replied: "So far, the number of people who have signed up for immigration has exceeded 1.2 million, and 680,000 have been settled."

The number of applicants continues to increase, and according to the current economic situation in the country, it is estimated that the total number of immigrants may exceed 3 million. ”

This is a characteristic of the economic crisis, and the people still have savings in their hands to support in the early stage, and the more they go to the future, the more difficult it will be.

In order to survive, it is not surprising that they signed up for immigration. If people really choose to do it voluntarily, it is estimated that there will not be a few people in the whole of Austria who want to go to the colony.

In order to encourage everyone to emigrate, the Vienna government also broke its heart. Many colonial companies recruited immigrants in two ways, one was direct migration and the other was to work in Africa.

Most people would choose the second option, and even if the government of Vienna, which immigrated directly, would subsidize the settling-in allowance, it would not shake everyone's determination.

Many people still fantasize about working the African continent for a few years, saving enough money and returning to their hometown to buy a house. The reality is that after a few years of living on the continent, most of them stayed.

There is no way, income is key. There is a shortage of labor on the African continent, and the average worker is naturally paid better than the local population.

After getting used to getting a high salary, and then going back to get a low salary, the standard of living does not rise but falls, and few people can stand it.

In order to attract more people, the colonial government encouraged people to bring their families. Africa is no longer a wild place, and many people will move their families to the colonies for the convenience of life.

Franz nodded: "Immigration work, continue to hurry." Now is the best opportunity, and once the economic crisis is over, it will not be easy to have so many immigrants in the future.

What is the situation abroad, and at that point in the Paris Conference, is it possible for countries to reach a consensus in the short term? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty! The Colonial Office had developed a plan to absorb immigrants as much as possible in the midst of the economic crisis. Stephen replied

Foreign Secretary Wessenberg: "Your Majesty, the countries of Europe are deep in the economy, and life is not very easy for everyone right now.

Overall, however, the situation has stabilized. The French had already suppressed the Italian uprising, Napoleon IV had taken direct control of Paris, and the opposition had the intention to cause trouble, but they were unable to implement it.

It is worth mentioning that relations between the two countries deteriorated sharply, because the outbreak of the Rhineland uprising directly pierced the last window paper that maintained relations between the two countries.

According to the agreement, when the Rhineland uprising broke out, it was actually close to the treaty handover period, and the German federal government wanted to hand over the matter early, but the Berlin government refused.

In order to gain more immigrants, the Prussians sent troops to suppress the uprising, forcibly relocated a large number of people away.

From what we have received, the government in Berlin has basically hollowed out the essence of the Rhineland, and the talents of engineers, scientists, doctors, and teachers have been almost exhausted.

With the intervention of European countries, the Berlin government has just made a handover to the German Federal Empire, but this progress is very slow.

According to preliminary estimates, the Berlin government may drag on until after the year. Now they are still using the last time to poach people, and maybe when the Federal Reich of Germany takes over, there will be no skilled workers in the area.

Due to the economic crisis, the Paris Conference did not go well. Governments were not on the minds of the meeting, and some even had the whimsical idea of passing on the crisis through the colonies.

In the battle for colonies, everyone did not give in. In addition, the British are deliberately doing things again, and it seems that they want to fish in troubled waters, which makes the prospects for the Paris conference even more unoptimistic. ”

Franz nodded, the Kingdom of Prussia had taken millions of immigrants from the Rhineland, and it was strange that the Federal German Empire could be happy.

This is all digging into the corners of the Federal German Empire, and the most valuable thing in the Rhineland is not the mineral resources, but these high-quality talents. The two sides did not fight directly, and they were already very restrained.

As for the British deliberately leaving hidden dangers among countries, these are all familiar recipes and familiar flavors. If they don't, Franz will find something wrong.

It is true that the Paris Peace Conference was convened to mediate the contradictions of various countries and reduce international conflicts, but from the standpoint of the British, the real purpose was to reduce conflicts between themselves and other countries.

Will other colonial empires clash with each other, and what does it matter to them? Deliberately sowing discord between countries is completely a habitual operation of John Bull.

If the contradictions of the European countries were gone, and everyone coexisted peacefully and were good-neighborly, would the London government still be able to sleep?