Holy Roman Empire

The change of the people's mind is the most difficult to understand. Naturally, the episode of Pest City happened, and Franz didn't know it.As an emperor, as long as the world is peaceful, the individual's ideas are not within his consideration.

Up to now, the Austrian government bureaucrats have been accustomed to three major evaluation indicators: education, stability, and economy.

The easiest thing to do is to stabilize the society, the government is strong enough, the local powers are all safe and secure, and some bad elements that destabilize the society will be dealt with.

The second is "education".The rules and regulations are there, in accordance with the plan of the Ministry of Education, and it is enough to advance step by step.

Of course, if you want to make achievements on this, you must adapt to local conditions and work hard.

The most troublesome thing is to develop the economy. The prosperous big cities are okay. Now the domestic economy is developing rapidly, and the big cities are the main force of economic growth. Just make appropriate local policies.

The economic development of remote areas is much slower.There are even places where they just stay where they are.Even if the bureaucrats want to work hard, they don't know where to start.

The uneven economic development of the region has become a difficult problem for the Austrian government, and it is still an unsolved problem.

Franz can do nothing about it. Not to mention that now, even after one hundred years or two hundred years, these problems are still the problems that plague countries all over the world.

There are many factors restricting regional economic development, including: transportation, resources, climate, geographical environment, population ...

In contrast, the easiest solution is the traffic problem. The big deal is road construction. As long as you are willing to invest, it can be solved sooner or later.

There are also ways to solve the population problem. Climate, resources, and geographical environment cannot be solved by manpower, at least in the 19th century.

Looking at the economic development report in his hand, Franz sighed helplessly.

It is clear that the government will invest a lot of resources in large cities, which will aggravate the imbalance of regional economic development, but it still has to continue.

There is no way to achieve the highest rate of return.It would be desperate to invest in a remote country without even a bubble.

"Prime Minister, why is this investment in water conservancy projects all in the plains?" Franz asked with concern.

Industrial development is in big cities. This is no problem. Agricultural development cannot always and only consider plain areas. Many mountainous areas also have development potential.

Due to political considerations, when the government reinvests, it must also take into account various regions.

Felix explained: "Your Majesty, it is mainly a matter of population distribution. At present, the population of Austria is mainly concentrated in the plains, and the population of other areas is relatively small.

From the perspective of optimizing the allocation of resources, we first concentrate on the development of plain areas with large populations. In other areas, there is a small population and low competition pressure. The demand for water conservancy projects is relatively small."

Franz nodded. From the perspective of agricultural development, the plain area is more suitable for growing grain, and the demand for water conservancy projects is also greater.

According to different geographical conditions, mountainous areas are more suitable for planting cash crops.

Do n’t think that growing cash crops is more profitable. It ’s the 19th century, and people ’s living standards are limited.Except for a small number of industrial raw materials with high demand, most economic crops are not suitable for vigorous development.

In this era of high value-added agricultural products, the market demand is really very small, ordinary people simply cannot afford it, and there are too few people with purchasing power.

There is no need to promote anti-season agriculture.The spontaneous production of the light farmers is enough to meet the market demand. If you want big development, consider it after everyone has the money!

Franz thought for a while and said: "To make a national agricultural production report, various regions can conduct pilot economic agriculture according to the actual situation, and then gradually promote the results. For example, raw silk can be grown in Italy.

In recent years, domestic food production has been growing at a rapid rate. We must take precautions. In the unlikely event that an accident occurs, it will not be good for the valley to hurt the farmers."

Food production is not as good as possible. If the Holy Roman Economic Union is not established, Austrian agriculture now has excess capacity.

Against this background, it is necessary to promote suitable cash crops in certain areas.

The growth of the grain demand market in this era can not keep up with the growth rate of grain output, and blindly increasing grain output is not suitable for Austria.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Felix replied

Continuing to look at the report in his hand, Franz suddenly remembered the industrial pollution of later generations. He didn't want to make Vienna into London now.

Environmental pollution caused by industrial development is inevitable, but where it is polluted, this can be controlled artificially.

For his own good life in the second half of his life, Franz believes that it is necessary to restrict the industrial development of Vienna, even at the expense of the city's development speed.

Franz thought for a while and said: "Vienna is developing too fast. In a few years, the urban population will exceed one million. The population has increased, but the city's supporting facilities have not kept up. The problem is sooner or later.

Taking into account the actual situation, if the government wants to find ways to divert some enterprises into other cities, the more polluting enterprises should not be placed in Vienna."

Franchising some of the resources of Vienna and investing in other regions can create a new industrial city, which is very worthwhile to Franz.

Vienna is an inland city. Concentrating a lot of resources here is actually a waste of resources.

City development is not the bigger the better, more bearing capacity must also be considered.In Franz ’s plan, there are two or three million people in Vienna in the future, which is the limit.

The Big Mac with a population of more than 10 million is not needed by Austria, nor does it have the capacity to host such a mega city.

Prime Minister Felix thought about it and said, "Your Majesty, capital inflows are all regulated by the market. Isn't it better for us to interfere artificially?"

In this era, the economies of all European countries were naturally regulated by the market. Austria is an exception. The government personally intervened in economic development.

However, this kind of intervention is not through administrative orders, but through formulating some economic development policies to guide the market, or through state-owned enterprises.

What Franz proposes now is to allow the government to intervene in the market through executive orders, which rarely happens all over the world.

Franz shook his head and said: "Explain it to the outside world, that is, the carrying capacity of Vienna has reached the limit, the population growth rate is too fast, and our resource supply cannot be guaranteed.

Let the media publicize the adverse consequences caused by the rapid population growth, such as: the decline in the per capita living area of ​​the city, the insufficient supply of materials, etc.

The government came forward to do work for the capitalists. Regardless of the factories that had been established, and those that had not yet been built, they were asked to move to other cities.

Within the next five years, Vienna will no longer approve the establishment of any factory.Factories that have already been established must also undergo rigorous audits and must not engage in heavily polluting industries.

Regarding the issue of corporate pollution, the government can set a grade based on the harmfulness to the environment and optimize the allocation during the construction of the factory.

With the development of industrial technology, the future heavy pollution industry will continue to increase. Without comprehensive consideration, a factory may destroy a city."

Vienna is the political center, economic center, and cultural center of Austria. Franz does not want to add another industrial center.

Austria is more suitable for industrial development than Vienna, there is no need to let the factories get together.

If you want to invest in Vienna, even if you build a factory, Franz will not welcome it from now on.

It is better to refuse to enter now than to build a factory in the future, and then rush people out.

Everyone has not realized the problem of environmental pollution in this era.Or the harm caused is not serious.

"Your Majesty, isn't it so serious that a factory can destroy a city?" Prime Minister Felix had difficulty channeling

"Is this difficult? For example, if our steel plant is large enough to discharge industrial waste water, it can pollute a river.

The water source of a city is polluted. Can the city survive?Asked Franz.

This is not alarmist, because the water source is polluted in later generations, and the city that was finally destroyed is not a two or two.

This is not to say that the discharge of industrial waste water into rivers will only pollute the river water. In fact, groundwater cannot be spared.

If it is polluted elsewhere, it will be polluted, but Vienna cannot.Franz did not plan to relocate the capital, and anti-micro-war has gradually become an inevitable choice.

The pollution in Vienna is not serious now, and if it is over the past few decades, it will not necessarily be.With the development of the chemical industry, one chemical plant digs up, and the consequences are serious.

London is a negative example, with tens of thousands of people dying of smog every year during the peak period.Franz couldn't live in that kind of environment, and it was estimated that he would have moved long ago.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Felix replied

If you can't understand it, go back and understand it slowly.Anyway, the concept that the consequences of "environmental pollution" are very serious has been remembered by him.