Holy Roman Empire

In a quaint castle in Prague, an elder in his fifties seriously asked, "Holst, are you really ready?

Once accepted by the government, for a long time in the future, you will have to live a hard life, and then it will be too late to repent."

Holst replied seriously: "Father, the Vickers family has fallen. In the last power struggle, our network of relations in the government suffered a lot.

If you want to enter the government for a job, you can only pass the civil service exam.There are too many competitors on this road, and our family has always been developing in the military. There is no advantage in this respect, and I am not sure about mixing up.

The situation on the European continent is stabilizing, and there will be no wars in Austria for a long time to come, which again breaks the chance of a battle on the battlefield.

Now is an opportunity. With the military achievements accumulated on the battlefield, now I stay in China at most and become a glorious knight.

The family needs to make up some money before they can exchange for a manor from the government, but now they can cross the Balkan Peninsula and become a hereditary knight, directly owning a doubled manor.

Under normal circumstances, I have not been able to succeed in my domestic struggle for two decades.If so, why not take a risk?"

In order to strengthen control of the Balkans, the Vienna government mobilized in the country.As Prime Minister Felix expected, the lower aristocracy could not resist this temptation.

Compared with the development of overseas colonies, the Balkans are still at their doorstep, even if they are poor now, they can still look forward to future development.

As one of the base camps of conservatism, Austria still maintains an ancient tradition, the eldest son inherits the family business, and the second son goes out for business.

The big nobles also have the ability to provide enough titles for their immediate descendants. The offspring or the little nobles can only rely on themselves.

In order to limit the number of nobles in the country and ensure the quality of the nobility, the Vienna government is still considering the introduction of a "Noble Law".

Once this law is implemented, noble succession must pass the examination of the noble council, and it is difficult for the young children to inherit the title.

In addition to the eldest son who inherited the title, even the non-military title won by the nobles of the noble family will also lose hereditary ability.

Because the influence is too great, it is still under discussion in the noble council.After all, this law is too unfriendly to the nobles, and it is too difficult for them to pass the assessment.

Franz was planning to implement this law when he opened the colony, and let these nobles go to the colony to fight for wealth.

The domestic plate is so big, obviously it is not enough for everyone to share, even if the territory of the Balkan Peninsula is added, the cake is still not big enough.

The collapse of the Anglo-French colonies is largely due to the uneven distribution of benefits. The capitalists took too many benefits, but they needed someone else to sell their lives. How could this be possible?

Since ancient times, the sub-enclosure system has been a weapon of expansion.The counties and counties directly managed by the central dynasty were often lost; but the land that was subdivided was rarely divided.Even if it is independent, it cannot do without the influence of local culture.

Of course, this is only one factor, and the bigger reason is class solidification.Either make a big cake and leave a rising channel for everyone, or you can only revolutionize. This multiple choice question is very easy to do.

The old man pondered for a while and said: "Well, I respect your choice of children. Now the family can't provide you with much help, but you can recruit a group of people from the manor to leave, just to ease the population pressure.

These people depend on family life for generations, loyalty is not a problem, with their help, I believe you can open up the situation soon."

In this era, the nobility had a great influence, not only because of status, but also because there were a number of vassals.

Although serfdom was abolished, this influence has not dispersed.

Now the Austrian government encourages these nobles to go to the Balkans for development, not just to let the nobility pass.If you are fighting alone, and you are in a place where you are unfamiliar, no one may rule.

Moreover, now that everyone ’s previous industries are land, ca n’t they be cultivated by the nobles themselves?

Organizing immigration by these people is much easier than organizing by the Austrian government.

The densely populated area of ​​Germany has reached the limit of population capacity in the era of agricultural countries, and now the diversion of some people just leaves to ease internal conflicts.

Anyway, industrialization is not very demanding for labor this year. Austria is still the second most populous country in Europe, and the population of the Balkans has reached the 50 million mark.

The most important thing now is to promote national integration. Against the background of the unification of language and words, there will be a large number of mixed races in the next generation. Who can do things with nationalism?

It can be said that as long as Franz does not wave, the future of the new Holy Roman Empire can be expected in the future.

Another unexpected benefit of developing the Balkan Peninsula is that immigration to the United States has decreased.

After all, it is also risky to travel across the oceans in this era. Compared to the unknown United States, the risk of the Balkan Peninsula on the doorstep is much lower, and the Danube River is convenient for transportation, and you can return in ten days and a half months.

Especially if there is a small family, immigrants to the Balkan Peninsula can still drag their homes. If they go to the United States, it is a parting of life and death.

After the Great Revolution, a climax of immigration broke out in the German region, with an average of 60,000 or 70,000 people leaving each year, and almost 20,000 or 30,000 people leaving the Austrian region every year.

These immigrants caused the population of the United States to skyrocket. In 1850, the United States accepted 310,000 immigrants. In 1851, the United States accepted 379,000 immigrants. In 1850, the national population of the United States was only 23.192 million. In 1860, it increased to 31.443 million. .

The immigrants of this era are young and strong, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled can not bear the sea bumps, and all are high-quality labor.

Every time I think of this, Franz can only lament the South American countries' inconsistency, and clearly that their own conditions are not bad, but they don't even know to rob immigrants with Americans.

Not to mention that they act together, as long as several countries attach importance to attracting immigrants and divert the American population, Americans cannot develop as fast.

In this case, Franz is also helpless, and European countries have not yet realized the threat of the United States, and have not taken measures to limit their growth.

Of course, he did n’t do anything. At least every third of the time in the newspapers, black and black American upsets are popular. This is an entertainment program that Europeans like to see and love, which is very popular.

In any case, immigration to the United States can be reduced by tens of thousands, counted by tens of thousands, and the accumulated number is not a small number, which is also considered to weaken the strength of competitors.

It is important to know that these immigrants relied on the Germans to become the first nation in the United States. It can be said that the rise of the United States was a great contribution to the Germans.

Vienna

Franz is carefully reading the Cabinet and submitted the "Development of the Balkan Peninsula Plan."

The strength of a country is not just a large territory, a large population, and abundant resources. These are just one of the necessary conditions, and more is the degree of development of the territory.

The Russian Empire is big enough to be bigger than the two Europes. In terms of land area, resources and population, their strength should sweep the Liuhe like Qiang Qin and invade the world.

The reality is that the Russian empire with so many advantages, let alone encroach on Europe, any two big powers can join forces, they can not eat them.

The biggest problem is that the level of local development is too low. If the Russian Empire has now completed industrialization, then there is no doubt that embezzlement of the European continent is not a dream.

The New Holy Roman Empire is not as bold as the Russians. It can also become a member of the top powers with its extensive management system.

In Franz's view, if the territories obtained cannot be effectively developed, these territories that cannot be transformed into national power will become a heavy burden.

It is difficult to continue to expand on the European continent, and it is the king that works hard to develop the existing land.

Prior to this, the Vienna government had formulated a lot of development plans. Except for a few states with a high degree of autonomy, the rest of the regions have entered the government planning outline, and many places have begun to organize the implementation.

The current development plan for the Balkan Peninsula is only a preliminary idea, and there is still a long way to go before it is actually implemented.

Franz thought for a while and said: "Prime Minister, according to this development outline, the future two principalities of the Danube Basin will be the second granary of the empire.

However, we have to consider an issue. Once Russia-Australia relations deteriorate, the export of products in these regions can only be sold along the Danube to the German region, or by sea transportation.

There are also supporting these industries, which look more like a Russian customized business. Do I doubt that the Russians have such strong purchasing power?

Now they are still a serf empire. Even if social reforms are carried out in the future, I think their ordinary people's purchasing power can reach at most half of the Austrian people.

If you target the Russian market industry, it is best to take two routes, either high-end sold to their nobility; or take the low-end route and sold to civilians, the price of these goods must be cheap enough."

Hesitant about the relationship of geographical location, the economy of the two Principalities of the Danube Basin will inevitably be affected by both Austria and Russia. The internal market is the Austrian local market and the external market is the Russian market.

Economic development must also be centered on these two markets, as far as further away, other European countries will be considered.

Prime Minister Felix explained: "Your Majesty, no one can make clear the future Russian-Austrian relationship. But even if the relationship deteriorates, they are very unlikely to block us.

Even if the tsarist government wanted to do this, their domestic interest groups would not agree, and the execution power of the tsarist government could not be implemented at all.

This is known from the current situation. Because of the war, the Russians cut off trade with Britain and France, but in fact, Ukraine and central Russia were really cut off.

The main reason for the severance was not because of the embargo order of the Tsarist government, but because the war blocked the Black Sea transportation routes, and these areas were robbed of the market by our commodities.

The entry into the Russian-British and French commodities from the Baltic Sea has never been cut off. The main reason for not entering the central and southern part is the high cost of transportation and the loss of competitiveness.

As for industrial issues, these are only preliminary ideas. The final choice is in the hands of capitalists, and their sensitivity to the market is absolutely above us.

The government is only formulating corresponding policies and will not directly invest in these light industries. I believe the capitalists will do better."

Franz nodded. He never had any illusions about the execution capacity of the tsarist government. The possibility of being blocked was indeed very low.

After the breakdown of Russian-Austrian relations in history, the Russians did not block the Danube. Obviously, this method of provoking war will not be so reckless by the tsarist government.

Not to mention the industrial problems, since the cabinet government is not prepared to invest in person, let the capitalists go on their own. The profit and loss will be at your own risk. This emperor does not need to worry about him.

From a development perspective, in the future, Russia and Austria will probably become competitors economically. The pillar industry of the Russians is grain exports, which is also a pillar industry of Austria.

It's just that the refined agricultural products exported by Austria, and Russia directly exported the original ecological agricultural products, but the competition between the two sides also exists.

If this situation is not resolved, it is almost inevitable that competition in interests will affect relations between the two countries.

In this respect, Franz also had to rejoice that the tsarist government is a dictatorship and that such conflicts will not erupt in the short term.