Holy Roman Empire

Agriculture accounts for too much of the total economy, and the entire industry chain employs tens of millions of people. Once the impact is not withstood, the Austrian economy will be hit hard.

Despite the colonial floods, the homeland is still the core.It is far from the time to shift the primary industry. Before the birth of chemical fertilizers, the dividend period for Austrian agriculture will not end.

Due to practical needs, Franz can only advance the development of the aquaculture industry in advance and artificially increase food consumption.

The reason for the advance is mainly because the income level of the people has not increased, and the demand for meat in the market is relatively small.

According to the original plan, Franz is preparing to put the aquaculture industry after 1875, which is determined according to the economic development of European countries.

People who study the economy are accustomed to put 1870 to 1890 in a cycle, mainly the outbreak of the second industrial revolution. During this period, the economies of Europe and the United States have been growing rapidly, and the income of the people has also greatly increased.

The increase in income is also accompanied by an increase in consumption levels. According to data analyzed by economic experts, five years later is the golden period for the promotion of animal husbandry.

Restricted by the times, there is no need to worry about the impact of beef and mutton in Argentina, Canada and Australia in this era, at least in the fresh meat market.

Freezing technology is not enough, if you want to deliver fresh meat to Europe, you must send it alive.

It is not an easy task to transport live cattle and sheep to the European continent from thousands of miles away. If there is any accident at sea, it will cause heavy losses.

By amortizing these transportation costs, even if it is shipped to continental Europe, the price is not cheap.At most, it sells dried beef, or cured meat.

Without these strong competitors in the short term, it is another agricultural product dividend period.However, this dividend period must occur at a time when market demand is strong.

Now that the development of the aquaculture industry has started ahead of time, it will still be difficult for the pre-market to do well.

In fact, the development of animal husbandry is not what Franz himself came up with.The Ministry of Agriculture had made a plan long ago, but it was not expected that the Russians would return to the agricultural export market so quickly.

After the Czar ’s government declared bad debts, European countries took retaliatory measures, a little bit more aggressive to directly confiscate Russian export products for debt relief, and a little relief also imposed a debt tax.

Well, this debt tax was initiated by Franz, which is to extract a certain percentage of tax from Russian imports to repay the debt owed before.

In the relationship between the Russian-Austrian alliance, this debt tax Austria only charges a little bit, and other European countries do not give such a face.

What is the specific ratio depends entirely on everyone's mood, and it is generally not less than 30%.Affected by this, in the last two or three years, the Russian Empire ’s export trade has shrunk by eight layers.

Now that the Tsarist government has proposed food debt relief, it is actually to break these restrictions. Otherwise, even if their food prices are cheaper, it will be difficult for them to have market competitiveness.

It is easy to find problems and difficult to solve them.The Austrian Ministry of Agriculture became busy after being aware of the actions of the Russians.

Christian, the Minister of Agriculture in the late seventies, had to withdraw his leave report.Without solving this problem, he should not want to go on holiday in peace.

This time is not far away. Perhaps from the second half of the year, Russian agricultural products will appear on the international market again.

In the next two or three years, the dominance of Austria ’s painstaking agricultural exports will cease to exist.

The international market is so big that as long as the Russians transport grain from Ukraine and Moscow, they can seize a large market share.

There were only a few major grain importing countries in this era, Britain, Italy, and the German Federal Empire. The remaining Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Switzerland also imported grain, but the demand was not too great.

In total, there are about 30 million people in the European grain market.

Of course, this only refers to staple food. The demand for other agricultural and sideline products varies greatly, making it difficult to make effective statistics.

This market is still increasing at a rate of 2 million per year. This is due to the population growth of various countries. Without the improvement of agricultural technology, the population growth and the production of food have not increased synchronously, and a gap has appeared.

At present, 24.6% of agricultural products produced in Austria are exported, and this part is the most affected.

Organizing the information, Christian sighed.The Minister of Agriculture is not easy to do, it is too difficult to get results, and it is too easy to have problems.

The proportion of exports is too large and vulnerable to the impact of the international market, which is the biggest problem.If you want to transfer to domestic sales, the domestic market can not be consumed.

The snow is still falling, and this winter's day in Vienna seems to be like silver.The cold wind blew, and Christian, who had just come out of the carriage, shivered.

Without a pause, Christian quickly walked into the palace and changed to another carriage.

Schönbrunn Palace occupies a large area, and after Franz succeeded to the throne, the project was rebuilt, and the current area is even larger.

Of course, the main reason was to go into a hunting ground. This was strongly requested by Grand Duke Karl, because Empress Sophie was worried about his body and would not let him go hunting.In order to make it easier for the elderly father to hunt, Franz naturally agreed.

Anyway, Vienna is the territory of the Habsburg family. Most of the land is royal, there is no land cost, and it does not cost much to add a wall.

Franz did not like to stay in the original palace, and took the opportunity to add a few more buildings as daily living areas.

This made the gate farther away from the emperor.For safety, the Royal Palace prohibits any foreign carriages from entering.Either change or walk.This multiple-choice question is easy to do, and Christian doesn't want to be frozen.

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The phone is a good thing. As soon as Christian entered the palace, someone notified Franz.

Franz, who is sympathetic to the veteran, has not made people prepare coffee according to his preferences.

Of course, if someone knows that the various drinks in the palace are always available, and if they are changed every fifteen minutes, perhaps the effect of buying people's hearts is not great.

Of course, even if someone knows, most of them will be confused.Some drinks are good. There is so much nonsense. If you tell the truth, you can't live this day.

How can Franz remember the minister's personal preferences? Only the subordinates always paid attention to the boss's preferences. Which emperor ate enough to care about the ministers' personal preferences?

Tastes and hobbies are not specifically recorded by someone.In case of a mistake, it's a big deal to change a glass.The relationship between the monarchs and ministers in Europe is not so complicated, and the daily life is not worth mentioning. Don't worry about accidentally losing your head.

After a sip of coffee, the chills were dissipated, and after a break of more than ten minutes, Christian reported to Franz.

"Your Majesty, this is statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture. At present, domestic supply and demand of meat products are basically balanced. The best way to expand domestic demand is to lower prices.

It's not that people don't like to eat meat, but the current domestic meat price is still a bit higher than their income.

The international market is even worse. Although the supply-demand relationship in the fresh meat market is still balanced, the supply of dried jerky and cured meat products is somewhat large. Most of these products come from the United States of America.

According to preliminary judgment, increasing the supply of 600,000 tons of beef and 400,000 tons of lamb every year, and 350,000 tons of other types of meat products are the limits that the market can bear.

If this supply is exceeded, it will have a tremendous impact on the market and will likely cause prices to plummet."

Franz clearly couldn't do anything to break the market.As the largest exporter of agricultural products, the market was hit, and the biggest loss was Austria.

After thinking about it, Franz asked: "What if we put this time one year or two years later?"

Livestock breeding also takes time. In this era, feed was not popular. It was all forage and food. The slaughter time was relatively long, and the shortest time was more than one year.

Agriculture Minister Christian said after thinking for a while: "Your Majesty, although the European population is steadily growing, the aquaculture industry itself is also expanding its production capacity. If you put the time in two years, it will increase by up to about 10%.

After wandering indoors for a few steps, Franz made a decision: "The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to promote the breeding plan based on the increase of two million tons of meat products.

First push down the price of meat products to cultivate the market.If the market cannot digest it, we will increase our strategic reserves.About two to three years, you do n’t need much money."

The direct grain consumption of cattle and sheep is not large, but planting forage will squeeze the land that originally planted grain, thereby reducing grain production.

Unlike later generations, pork is not very popular in this era. This is determined by eating habits, and it will take a long time to change.

In fact, the per capita consumption of meat products in Europe in this era is not too low, maybe it was pulled up by the rich.Taking Austria as an example, the per capita consumption of meat products is 82 pounds.(About 37 kg)

After a pause, Franz added: "It can increase pork production. Compared with beef and mutton, pork prices are relatively cheap, and people are more acceptable.

If pork production goes up, I plan to add 300 grams of pork every week on the table of the children who receive compulsory education."

Do n’t say whether you like it or not, those who are eligible to picky eaters go to private schools.All compulsory education schools in Austria are inferior to private schools, and all of them are children of civilians at the bottom.

It ’s good to have meat. You should know that the school only provides meat once a week.Don't think about beef and mutton, unless you meet a festival or Franz's birthday.

In normal times, the only meat that the school supplies is fish.There is only one reason, that is cheap.More meat can be bought with the same money, and the budgetary Ministry of Education can only provide this cheap meat.

There is no way to promote pork, beef and mutton prices are too high.This is not something that can be lowered if you want to. It is cheaper to promote it.

Prior to this, the government has promoted fish meat, and only the sea fish is popular in the market.

This is a sequelae brought by industry. With the development of industry, environmental pollution inevitably brought about, and fish and shrimp mutations have appeared in many rivers.

Mutated fish and shrimp is not a good thing. After food poisoning, no one dared to eat it.The Vienna government also legislated to prohibit the sale and consumption of mutant fish and shrimp.

This has affected the entire freshwater fish school, making them unpopular.Unless it is an inland mountainous area, almost no one is eating freshwater fish.