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After successfully opening up the Guinea colony, the footsteps of the Austrian colony did not stop, and they turned their attention to the Congo area.

Anyway, in this year, there is no land everywhere, and whoever takes it will be the one who belongs, and Franz will naturally not be polite.

By October 1854, Austria had successively opened 13 colonial strongholds on the African continent, sending more than 40,000 immigrants to the colony.

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Franz asked in doubt: "Prime Minister, why stopped sending immigrants to the colony?"

It is important to know that according to Austria ’s original plan, all refugees must be transported to the past, which is now less than one-tenth.

Prime Minister Felix explained: "Your Majesty, the plague in the Balkans has spread. If there is an urgent need to transport immigrants, I am afraid that the plague will be brought to the colonies.

Although we have tried to recruit doctors, the colonial medical and health facilities are still not optimistic. Once the plague spreads, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Franz shook his head and said, "Prime Minister, you think too much. How many people are there in the colony? Even if a plague breaks out, it is very easy to disperse and isolate.

Moreover, the winter is coming soon, and the plague should come to an end, even if it is brought to the African continent, the situation will not be too serious.

From the information we collected, the death rate of the Russian soldiers after the plague was only seven or eight points, which is not as high as the natural mortality rate of the African colonies.

The war in the Balkans is coming to an end. Most of these refugees will choose to return to their hometowns. It will be difficult for us to migrate in the future."

This is not an exaggeration. The mortality rate of immigrants to the African continent in this era has been so perverted, and usually a lot of deaths are on the road.

Is there a low mortality rate for refugees in the Balkans?the answer is negative!

In fact, their death rate in the Balkans will only be higher.

Without sufficient benefits, the Austrian government cannot spend a large amount of money to rescue refugees, and the Ottoman Empire is even more unlikely to rescue refugees. Can we still count on the French to be the Virgin?

In this era, everyone is working hard to feed themselves.Reliefing millions of refugees in the Balkans consumes a lot of financial and material resources. Who does it without sufficient benefits?

Without adequate relief, these refugees will turn into gangsters, and then go to more areas of scourge and turn more people into refugees.

Before the twentieth century, human productivity was limited, and there were only two ways to deal with the refugee wave: relief or killing.

Most of the time, it was solved by killing, and the feudal dynasty could not provide relief at all.There is no right or wrong for good and evil, everyone is for survival, if there is not enough food, we can only eat weak meat.

The African colonial movement in Austria was very cautious. The number of immigrants transported each time was about 5,000 to 8,000, and then scattered in more than a dozen settlements.It's not that I don't want more, but food restricts the number of immigrants.

If it is just to send people over, then one hundred and eighty cargo ships can be organized at a time, and tens of thousands of people can be easily sent away, so logistics becomes a big problem.

The African continent has a limited degree of development, and local indigenous tribes are too lazy to grow land and rely entirely on natural resources.The colonists who initially traveled to Africa also survived on local natural resources.

Obviously, this is only suitable for the colonial activities of a few people.There are thousands of people in a colonial stronghold. It is not that Franz does not have a population. It is more about worrying about unexpected situations. The logistics of the colonial stronghold are cut off.

When the number is small, they can also take risks and get enough food from the local area to survive. Once the population is too large, it will not work.

Prime Minister Felix continued to explain: "Your Majesty, our immigration rate is already very fast. As far as the number of immigrants is concerned, apart from the French, not even the British immigrants on the African continent.

There is not enough local output to support immigrants, and there is not enough return in the short term. If precious mineral resources are not found, these areas will bring heavy financial pressure in the future."

If you do not know the local resource situation, Franz will naturally worry about this problem, but this reason is obviously not applicable.

It is even more impossible to go it alone. Without the cooperation of the high-level government, it will eventually become a colony of the emperor alone, and the final result is obviously tragic.

Franz calmly said: "Then, we have to find a way to solve this problem. Our colonial strongholds are all in the coastal areas. We sent them a batch of fishing boats to teach them immigrants to fish.

There are so many fertile lands around, and just planting anything is enough to feed them.As long as the initial period of time has passed, the food problem can be solved gradually.

The colony does not raise lazy people. If it does not want to do anything, it is organized as cannon fodder, whether it is sent to fight local indigenous tribes or used to explore the inland.

After solving the food problem, the pressure behind it will be less.After the colony has stabilized, we can explore the local area. As long as there are one or two strongholds, we can recover the cost.

These colonial strongholds can also provide logistics supplies to overseas merchant ships, earning some expenses to subsidize administrative expenses.

If you ca n’t find minerals, go to log. I do n’t think there are even local timber resources; whether it ’s growing grain, cash crops, or raising livestock in the plains, it ’s OK to keep the colony running."

It's not that Franz is bragging and can't make a fortune by farming and animal husbandry, but it is still possible to be self-sufficient.

This kind of industrialized operation can't make any money, but it can never lose money.One of the main reasons for the loss of colonies in history is that there are not enough immigrants.

The number of immigrants is insufficient to effectively develop local natural resources, basic industries cannot develop, and the colonial government cannot obtain sufficient taxes, and it is normal to lose money.

Prime Minister Felix reminded: "Your Majesty, these require a lot of investment. Now we have invested millions of dongs in the colonial cause. To achieve a balance of revenues and expenditures in these areas, this investment will exceed tens of millions of dongs."

Franz replied with a smile: "Of course, I know very well what this is doing. The tens of millions of dong's funds are invested, and the Guinea and Congo areas are completely under our control.

For a large area of ​​land, I plant coffee, palm, cotton, cocoa, rubber, tobacco, and tea on it, and I can also make a profit of several million rupiah every year.

This has not yet calculated the mineral resources, we will never be so unlucky, have nothing to gain?

This account is easy to calculate. The British and French colonial powers did not do this, not because they did not want to do it, but because they did not have enough immigrants.

There are still 450,000 refugees in Dalmatia, waiting for settlement there.

We can engage in relief for workers first, leave them on the ground to improve local transportation, and then slowly emigrate them to the African colonies.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as the first stage of investment is completed, the harvest period will follow.If the government has insufficient financial resources, it can raise funds from the private sector.

The colony is different from the homeland. It does not require the government to directly participate in management. It is the same to hand over these businesses to private companies.

Even I am still considering whether to allow individuals to participate in the colonial cause and encourage the nobles to open colonies overseas."

Prime Minister Felix was persuaded that the colonial cause was different from others. As long as the cost can be guaranteed, the government would have earned it.

In the management of the colony, it may not have earned a lot of benefits, but it can provide enough industrial raw materials for domestic industry. The newly opened market has promoted the development of domestic industry and commerce.

Another advantage of the colony is to reduce the outflow of the local population.This situation is not obvious now, and it will become more serious after the completion of industrialization in the future.

Especially after the economic crisis broke out, the country could not find a job, and the people had to emigrate overseas due to their livelihoods. At this time, the role of the colony came out.

As long as the development is okay, the government can guide a large number of immigrants in the past and avoid the outflow of population.

The number of outflow immigrants in the German region is now quite large, and it is not necessary that only one-third or even one-fifth of them be fooled into the Austrian colony, and they are not afraid of any enemy challenge on the African continent.

To retain these immigrants, the development of the local economy is also inevitable.Without the basic industry of sustainable development, it is obviously impossible to attract people to settle.

People are powerful, and as long as the population of the Austrian-African colony is large enough, Austria will have an advantage in the new round of the African colonial division movement.

This advantage will be directly reflected in the domestic economic development in the future, and promote the development of domestic industry and commerce.