Holy Roman Empire

The New Holy Roman Empire is a major cotton importer and consumer, importing five or six million Aegis of cotton from the outside world every year.

Even so, it is still unable to meet the needs of domestic industry and commerce. Austria is also a major cotton importer.

Of course, this is also related to the economic development policy promoted by the Vienna government. The cotton spinning industry has not been included in the key development projects.

In order to maintain the status of Europe ’s largest grain exporting country, the government does not advocate the cultivation of cotton locally. Insufficient raw materials have become an important factor restricting the development of the Austrian cotton textile industry.

In this context, promoting cotton cultivation in the colonies not only saves a lot of foreign exchange, but also attracts domestic textile capitalists.

For example: Bavaria is the traditional cotton spinning industry center in Germany. Many capitalists ran to West Africa to open plantations because of lack of raw materials.

Everyone will still calculate this political and economic account.

Prime Minister Felix made a calculation and said: "Your Majesty, the biggest problem in growing cotton is that it requires a lot of labor when harvesting. The colony is different from the country. It is too difficult to hire a large number of people in the short term.

Unless we study Americans and train a batch of cheap slave labor, we cannot solve this problem.

However, the extensive use of indigenous labor is contrary to our long-term strategy and is not conducive to long-term stability."

This is the most realistic question, otherwise Franz will not go to plant rubber trees.Now the royal plantation, the cotton planting area can not go up, the main reason is lack of labor.

In fact, rubber plantations also require a lot of labor, but rubber trees do not grow up in a day, and the demand for labor before the rubber harvest is much smaller.

The current number of immigrants is still limited. These people cannot all go to grow cotton, and not all areas are suitable for growing cotton.

In addition to cotton, coffee, palm, cocoa, rubber, tobacco, soybean, peanut and other cash crops are also the focus of development.

Although agricultural products such as wheat, corn, rice and potatoes are not the focus of development, self-sufficiency still needs to be done.Planters who are careful about their budgets are reluctant to pay for it.

These industries require labor, but the colonies are vast and sparsely populated.The shortage of labor is not a fraction of a star, Franz has no doubt that even if there are 10 million immigrants, it can be easily digested.

Franz said helplessly: "Insufficient labor force can only rely on everyone to find a way. In addition to recruiting immigrants from the country, they can also recruit labor overseas.

In short, there is only one principle. Foreign workers must be assimilated and meet all our requirements before they can be registered."

At this time, Franz suddenly hoped that the Russians would abolish serfdom.Once the tsarist government liberated the serfs, a large number of bankrupt farmers would appear in a short time.

Such bankrupt peasants who don't know a lot of characters are high-quality immigrants.Without cultural heritage, it is always the easiest to assimilate.

Unlike the current serfdom society, serfs are the property of nobles. If you want to recruit labor in Tsarist Russia, pay for it!

The trade in population that cannot be carried out on the surface of the market secretly still exists, but the cost is too high.

Recruiting labor from overseas is easier said than done.There are too many options for immigrants from continental Europe, and everyone has their own circle.

In addition to domestic, Austria has a little face in Germany and Italy, and can recruit immigrants.In Western Europe, basically no one bought it.

It was a last resort and everyone turned their attention to the Far East.In any case, the labor force in these areas is easier to use than the local indigenous people.

Anyway, in this era, Europe ’s per capita income is more than ten times that of Asia, and hiring labor in East Asia is also inexpensive.

This is not without hidden dangers. At least in terms of ethnic integration, the difficulty has increased several times. Of course, this is also better than the failure to integrate local indigenous people.

Colonial Minister Josip Jelacic reminded: "Your Majesty, if you recruit a large number of overseas laborers, future security and labor conflicts will become serious social problems."

He didn't worry about being bullied by local immigrants. On the contrary, Yosip Yelacic worried that local immigrants bullied foreign workers and caused social conflicts.

Never test the ethics of the colonists. In addition to Franz ’s family, who loves feathers and pays attention to eating, many farmers, planters, and mine owners are omnipotent for the benefit.

In this regard, the veteran nobles did better. Most of the labor they recruited were their original serfs.

It is different for those who are still in the process of primitive capital accumulation. Arrears, salary deductions, and even delinquency often occur.This is true for everyone, not to mention foreign workers.

Because of these people's misconduct, the workload of the colonial government increased greatly.Finally, the labor employment registration system had to be implemented.

The household registration system, which was not implemented in the country, was first implemented in the colony.If it were n’t for technical issues, Franz was ready to issue ID cards.

Now there are few people in the colony, so this management is OK.With the continuous increase of the population in the future, the difficulty of this management will rise linearly.

After hesitating for a while, Franz said fiercely: "In times of trouble, the colonial government must establish a social order and crack down on criminals.

Gang organizations, street gangsters, and unemployed homeless people who have been swaying for a long time all throw me into the mine.

For the issue of labor-management conflicts, it is better to catch the typical example.Catch a few serious problems seriously, and then publicize."

Frankly speaking, the name of Franz is contrary to the law, but the colony is not native, and the Vienna government has never said that it would use native laws.

The main cause of social security problems is employment. If everyone has a legitimate job, the triad ’s living space will be small.

Franz ’s order is equivalent to cutting off the development of the gang organization from the source. Now the rules are changed. There is no need to wait for the crime to be arrested. As long as the gang elements are sent to mine.

Even for those who are constantly involved in small incidents and do not commit major incidents, the police do not need to search for evidence of crimes and directly throw them into the mine for labor reform.

The same is true of unemployed homeless people. In a colony where there is a serious shortage of labor, no one can find a job, so the government simply arranged the job.

Don't worry, Franz is a good man.If no criminal evidence is sent to the miners, the government still has to pay wages at the market price, and there is no such thing as injustice.

Criminals and potential criminals have gone mining. If social order can still get worse, then colonial officials can mine themselves.

Compared with social security, the labor-management conflict is actually a minor issue.Market demand determines the relationship between employers and employees.

When there is a serious shortage of labor, dare to withhold wages, not afraid of others, not afraid of picking people out?

Franz doesn't think there will be many such idiots.The people who did this before were all stupid people who did not put their minds right. Now they have paid a terrible price for this.

The real trouble is that these talents dare to act arbitrarily when there is a surplus of labor.The government wants strict supervision, but also considers the unemployment problem.