Holy Roman Empire

At the same time that the railway plan was launched, Franz did not forget the other two core industries, but in these two industries, the government directly interfered much less.

To a certain extent, the processing and manufacturing industry can be seen as a whole.The agricultural products processing industry can be stripped out alone, without other factors, it can simply make money.

At present, the largest foreign exchange source of the Austrian Empire is the export of agricultural products.These include the export of refined agricultural products and the export of original agricultural products.

There is no doubt that the profit of grain exports after processing is much higher, which can drive a large number of people to work and bring a lot of taxes to the country.

From the perspective of economic development, this is the GDP growth point.Franz also expected to make up for the trade deficit with the profits from agricultural exports.

In international trade, the Austrian Empire is in deficit for most of the time, which is also the main factor that causes the continued devaluation of the Austrian Shield.

The currency of this year is not the credit system of later generations, it is completely real gold and silver. When international trade is settled, everyone uses gold and silver.

International Monetary?Pound sterling can barely be counted, but it did not reach the status of the late 19th century, and most countries and regions do not recognize it.

In this context, if the trade deficit continues, it will cause the outflow of wealth and affect the domestic economic development.

After the administration of Franz, in order to allow the normal development of the domestic economy, the currency of the Austrian rupiah was stabilized.

Finding ways to quell the trade deficit as soon as possible has become a top priority for the government.

In the short term, the Austrian government can achieve trade balance by exporting refined agricultural products and earning added value.

In August 1849, the Austrian government issued regulations: to reduce the tax rate of agricultural products processing companies by 2 points, and also announced that after 1850, the export tariffs of original ecological agricultural products will be increased by 1 point.

In order to encourage more people to invest in this industry, the Austrian government also stipulates that newly established agricultural processing enterprises will enjoy tax-free treatment for the first year and half-tax treatment for the next three years.

Affected by this policy, Austria added 221 agricultural product processing companies in the latter months of 1849, including Franz.

Austria has always been a major exporter of agricultural products. The development of agro-processing industry has natural advantages. It is enough to introduce policies to encourage it.

The manufacturing industry is in trouble. The scope of this coverage is too wide. Austria has advantages in certain fields. Most industries have begun to fall behind.

However, this backwardness is only relative to the British who have completed industrialization. Austrian industry in Southeast Europe still has an advantage.

In Franz's view, to promote the development of the manufacturing industry is actually to accelerate the pace of industrialization, and mechanized production has too many advantages over the handicraft industry.

This cannot be done in a short time, but the government still supports the heavy industry, such as the steel industry and the machinery and equipment manufacturing industry.

This care is not just about lowering tax rates, but also local governments will help solve infrastructure problems, such as industrial water and transportation problems.

The most important thing in developing the manufacturing industry is to live in loneliness, not to mention one year, even in three or five years, you may not see results, but after ten or twenty years, you will definitely achieve results.

Innovation?

It is too early to say that this problem, before the completion of industrialization, the Austrian manufacturing industry followed the path of plagiarism of the British. Of course, there is an occasional windfall, which is also pleasant.

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In general, from the second half of 1848 to the end of 1849, the economic reforms carried out by the Austrian government were aimed at removing obstacles to the development of the domestic economy.

As a unique country with a semi-planned economy and a semi-market economy, Austria achieved remarkable economic results in 1849.

The most intuitive feeling for the citizens of Vienna is that the price of food has fallen, which is 15% lower than in 1847.

Do n’t look at this data, it seems inconspicuous. In fact, this is very important in industry. The decline in food prices means that the cost of feeding workers has been reduced.

The reduction in the cost of living also makes the lives of the citizens at the bottom better.Many people have insignificant savings in their hands. Some people choose to store the money and others choose to consume it.

One or two are inconspicuous, and the number of people will not be a small number when they are gathered together. The prosperity of the market has increased.

These inconspicuous consumptions are finally fed back to industrial production. Naturally, there is production in the market, which promotes the increase of industrial production capacity.

If this effect is negligible, then without internal tariffs, the market in Hungary will be opened and the impact will be greater.

No matter how backward the economy is, there are more than 10 million people.After the liberation of serfs and redemption of land, these people became property owners.

With assets, there is naturally purchasing power. Perhaps this market has not yet fully grown, but the increase in total consumption is also an indisputable fact.

Without tariffs, the competitiveness of Austrian industrial and commercial products in the Hungarian region has greatly increased, and the expansion of the Hungarian market has naturally stimulated the development of domestic industrial and commercial industries, and there has been a small prosperity.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Austria ’s industrial production capacity in 1849 increased by 15% compared with 1847. This data was unexpected and reasonable in Austria.

Industrial capacity cannot be leaped in a leap, and it takes time to expand production. This generation is no later than later generations, and equipment can be obtained immediately after placing an order.

The next few years will be the outbreak of Austrian industrial capacity.

In addition to the expansion of the domestic market, the establishment of the Holy Roman Economic Union, the domestic industry and commerce has a broader market, and will naturally stimulate industrial production.

As Franz imagined a better future, bad news came.

"Your Majesty, the news came from St. Petersburg, and the patience of the Russians was exhausted.

A week ago, after the Prussian government announced a national mobilization, Tsar Nicholas I made a tit-for-tat decision, and the army of the Russian Empire was gathering towards the border between Russia and Russia.

Yesterday morning, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the Prussian ambassador to Russia.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Prussian government will soon compromise with the Russians, and they dare not fight the Russians now."Metternich frowned

It is in Austria ’s interest for Russia and Russia to confront each other because of the Danish war. While consuming the strength of the Prussian government, it also worsened relations between Russia and Russia, highlighting the importance of the Russian-Austrian alliance to the Russians.

But the Russians were impatient, so the Prussian government could not persevere.

In the beginning, the Prussian government also had confidence in the annexation of the two principalities of Schleswig-Holstein. Later, after seeing the tough attitude of the Russians, their confidence gradually declined.

By now, the factor that supported them not to give up was not the annexation of the two principalities of Schleswig-Holstein, but the popular will in the German region would not allow them to back down.

The Russians are terrible, and their neighbors feel the most deeply, and the German states separated by Pu'o can't feel it.

In order to please the domestic public opinion, the Saxon-Gotha Principality government openly announced: "For the territorial integrity of the German Federation, we will not hesitate to fight the Russians!"

The Kingdom of Hanover also strongly stated: "As long as the Russians dare to invade Schleswig-Holstein, we will fight the Russians to the end!"

Even Franz had to say: "If you need to send troops to defend Schleswig-Holstein, Austria will not fall behind."

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The toughness of these kingdoms and principalities is just lip service, and then the free-city-like areas ruled by public opinion have already taken practical action.

The German National Expeditionary Force in Hamburg, the German National Self-Defense Force in Lübeck, the German National Volunteer Army in Bremen

Do not need to pay too much attention. These troops with very famous names are actually composed of three-digit nationalists, whose political significance is greater than practical significance.

Everyone did this, and the Prussian government was naturally embarrassed to back down.

Frederick-William IV stated that he also had a face. If there was no reason to convince everyone, he would flinch, or would he want to mix in Germany?

But the hard top is not enough. If Prussia and the Russians fought, do you believe these earth-shattering people who shouted these slogans immediately changed their positions?

What do the politicians think of a good man?There are thousands of excuses, are you afraid to find it?

This is really not possible. Organizing a group of volunteers to work as reinforcements in the past and stuffing unsightly enemies into cannon fodder is not something that everyone cannot do.

Just look at the Austrian government's approach. Anyone who wants to go to the front line to join the war can sign up and send them over after the war broke out.

In the end, even the parade was gone, and the Austrian government did not suppress or expel, just sent a few clerk to record the list of participants in the parade.

The people on the list are all activists who love the German Federation. Get ready to go to the front.The war has broken out and the Federation needs you to defend.Shouting slogans is not enough. You must prove your patriotism with concrete actions.

The mouth gun party counseled them to let them call these slogans. Let them go on the front line and let others go.

It should have been the main student force, and it is still reading books at the school. Although they are concerned about what is happening outside, can't they get out?

Coupled with the government's performance, it seems to be very positive. They don't need them to do anything, can't they violate school rules?

Ordinary people all have jobs and support the recovery of Schleswig-Holstein. The two principalities are one thing, and the street parade is another. Is it possible for the parade to recover the land?

Everyone is rational. It is enough to cheer the Kingdom of Prussia. There is no need to add chaos to the country. It is important to know that demonstrations also affect economic development.

"The Prussian government wants to compromise, and we can't do anything about it. After so long, the Kingdom of Prussia will have a hard time this year.

Frederick-William probably regrets this. It has cost so much before and after, and now it is actually a bamboo basket to fetch water, empty."Franz said with a wry smile

He really did not gloat. If the Prussians did not stimulate the Russians to carry out national mobilization, Nikolai I would not be so easy to get angry, so it would not be a problem to delay the Pudan war until next year.

By that time, the funds invested by Franz had already withdrawn part of the funds, and the savings funds absorbed by the Royal Bank could fill the hole in which he embezzled donations.

Now that the Prussians are clearly unable to persevere, they deliberately stimulated the Russians to use the Russian military threat to persuade the nationalists to make concessions.

Otherwise Frederick-William IV was fed up, and ordered a national mobilization?

The current military strength of the Kingdom of Prussia, Denmark, is enough. If the Russians are beaten, the national mobilization is not enough?

Nationalist elements in Prussia can be persuaded. After all, anyone who wants to fight the Russians will be guilty. This time the national mobilization of the Prussian government has included them into the army.

Everyone shouted slogans. After arriving at the barracks, many people began to rethink.Can't we let them take their lives for the two principalities of Schleswig-Holstein?

Once Prussia started the war, even if the German states fully supported them, Prussia was also the biggest loss.If you lose, not only will the two principalities fail to collect them, but you will have to cut them out.

If the military odds are too low, everyone ’s enthusiasm will naturally be low.As long as the country is persuaded, the Prussian government will survive the difficulties.

Public opinion in the German region, Frederick William IV clearly gave up.With such an obvious problem, how could the German states join forces to give them a stumbling block?

If you are scolded, you will be scolded. Anyway, you will not lose a piece of meat.

They have the ambition to unify the German region, but they do not have the corresponding strength. Even if they have the support of the people, is it not worthless to win on the battlefield?

The Prussian government has made the right choice. Stop loss in a timely manner if things are not to be done. Compared with actual benefits, fame can be sacrificed.

Without the prestige in the German region, the relationship between Russia and Russia has deteriorated. The Kingdom of Prussia basically has no chance to unify Germany.

Strategically, Austria won.But Franz couldn't be happy. Money, money, and money are impossible.

After gritting his teeth, Franz decided to use procrastination.Once the Prussian government gave in and gave up the two principalities of Schleswig-Holstein, he asked the Royal Bank to request donations from the Prussian government.

You must know that the war has dragged to the present. The Royal Bank has paid donations of more than four million rupiah to the Prussian government. The money has been used in the war. The Prussian government is obviously impossible to refund.

Delaying time in the name of retrieving donations and creating time for the repayments, although a little mean, did offend the Prussian government, and Franz couldn't care about that much.

If he doesn't do this, what kind of money will he return to the people?

If in accordance with prior commitments and in proportion to the remaining funds, Franz ’s fiscal hole will soon be exposed.

As long as the Prussian government cheated on donations and asked all the people who donated money to return them, diverting everyone's attention, they can earn enough time for fundraising.

"Contacting the governments of the German states, once the Prussian government gave up the two principalities of Schleswig-Holstein, everyone would make trouble together and encourage the people to ask the Prussian liar for the money to be donated." Franz thought Want to say

"Yes, Your Majesty." Metternich replied