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Affected by the agricultural crisis, farmers in various European countries are having a hard time.Fortunately, families with savings can only borrow.

Grain is grown on its own, and the cost of living is not large. The biggest expense is government taxation. The agricultural taxation in most areas is not heavy. If you find a way to do it, you will have it. You can owe it without money. With.

Some countries have also reduced or exempted taxes, or accepted taxes in kind.The bankrupt farmers are only a few, and most of them can survive.

If the agricultural crisis ended in 1873, then this is only a small episode of a year of good harvests of agricultural products, which caused prices to fall, and it could not shake the smallholder economy in Europe.

Obviously, this is impossible.In the spring of 1873, everyone was enthusiastic about putting into production again.In addition to the reduction in grain planting area in some countries and regions, there are many areas where the grain planting area has not decreased but increased.

This is not because farmers do not know that the price of grain is not good, and the income from growing grain is not high. It is mainly because all generations are used to this kind of planting method. If they do not grow grain, they do not know what to plant.

Austria is considered to be a country with greater efforts to reduce grain production capacity. The farms owned by the state-owned agricultural company were ordered by Franzler to stop important grain and uniformly switch to cash crops.

If it were more than ten years ago, this administrative order alone would allow Austria to survive the agricultural crisis.

Unfortunately, this is not what it used to be. Many people have joined the land redemption. After so many years, the state-owned cultivated land held by the Vienna government has been less than 3% of the national cultivated land.

In order to pursue higher profits, agricultural companies rarely grow food. In addition to growing a small amount of rations for food, most of them grow cash crops.

There is no need to take out these cash crops. Agricultural companies have their own processing plants. They are engaged in production + processing and integrated agriculture.

Not only state-owned agricultural companies, but many large nobles are also in this mode of development.In the face of interests, everyone has a strong learning ability.

Everyone adjusts the planting mode as soon as possible according to market demand. In contrast, this integrated agriculture is less affected by the agricultural crisis.

The Ministry of Agriculture originally planned that grain production will fall by 5.2% to 8.6% this year.Even though the government has been hyping it up and calling on the people to reduce the area planted with grain, the big data on the end of spring cultivation tells them that it is too beautiful.

In the spring of 1873, the acreage of grain production in Austria fell by only 1.3%, which is the result of fine-tuning by the Vienna government.

The data may not be accurate. In such a short period of time, the Vienna government has not been able to make comprehensive statistics. This is only the result of a sample survey.

Franz doesn't think that this error will be large. Even if the error is as high as double, it is only 2.6%, which is more than double the difference from the booking target.

Austria has this kind of result, and other countries can imagine it.Not to mention the reduction in production, Franz feels that if they do not increase the area planted with grain, even if the government controls it hard.

The agricultural crisis will continue, and Franz has prepared for it, which is also planned by the Vienna government.

Use the agricultural crisis to impact the agricultural production systems of European countries, promote land mergers in various countries, and create a large number of bankrupt farmers.

The colonial ministry is well prepared and plans to accept a total of 10 million immigrants from continental Europe within the next fifteen years to provide labor for the development of the Austrian colony.

This is also something that can't be done. The German region has long been fooled by immigrants who want to emigrate, and the same is true in Austria.

From the peak period of immigration of hundreds of thousands of people every year, to the current annual immigration of Austrian natives is so 40,000 to 50,000, the German Federation can provide about 5,000 or 6,000 immigrants every year, and other European countries and regions will contribute 20,000 or 30,000 immigrants.

Of course, there are more than just a few immigrants throughout the European continent each year. The problem is that these people cannot all go to the Austrian colonies. Anglo-French Hopsey all flicker in Europe.There is also a group of countries in the Americas, which are also the choice of immigrants.

Seventy or eighty thousand immigrants are scattered each year in the colony of more than 20 million square kilometers in Austria, and even a single wave cannot be beaten.

In this respect, Franz flickered the German Confederation and Prussia to open overseas colonies, and was also robbing immigrants with themselves.

Throughout the European countries, Russia is the only country that has the most potential to become a major exporter of immigrants, and the potential of the German region has basically been drained.

The agricultural crisis is the best means. The great wasteland of Alexander II did solve the land problem of farmers.

But the time for the tsarist government to liberate serfs was too short. These people encountered agricultural crisis without having time to accumulate wealth.

In terms of the ability to resist risks, these Russian farmers who have just acquired land still owe a government debt, which is undoubtedly the lowest.

The land is newly reclaimed, and the output is relatively low; Russia's natural environment is not good, and many places can only be planted for one season, and the cost of grain cultivation is relatively high; subject to transportation, grain transportation is difficult, and it is difficult to create economic value.

According to preliminary estimates, the agricultural crisis of 1872 created tens of thousands of bankrupt farmers in the Russian Empire.Such a person naturally can't raise the storm, and was absorbed by Russian industry and commerce as soon as he came out.

If you want to absorb immigrants, is it still early?Only when there is a massive bankruptcy wave that exceeds the absorption limit of Russian industry can large amounts of outflows be possible.

Otherwise, go to Russia and compete with the local Russian capitalists for labor?Others are ground snakes, and the safekeeping makes people learn to be human again.

This plan does not include the Austrian mainland.Although with the development of the times, in order to reduce production costs, land mergers are the best choice, and Franz is not prepared to do so in the country.

Stability overwhelms everything. In the face of "stability," everything else must lean back.Boil the frog in warm water, the subtle influence is the best choice.Directly letting farmers go bankrupt and increase immigration is the next strategy.

Putting down the information in his hand, Franz looked at Hols and asked, "How did the Ministry of Agriculture prepare to respond to the failure of the grain reduction plan?"

If you cannot reduce output, then you can only increase consumption.Prior to this, the government of Vienna had a plan to develop animal husbandry, which is now taking shape.

The main reason for not being able to grow and develop is that the market's spending power has not kept up.Comparing the data of later generations with per capita meat consumption exceeding 100 kilograms, Austria now only reaches one third.

It ’s not that people do n’t like meat. The problem is that people have limited income and ca n’t afford meat.It is already a brilliant achievement in the reform of the Vienna government to be able to do enough bread.

Franz ’s commitment to add meals to compulsory education students has been implemented. After the price of agricultural products fell, students increased the supply of 300 grams of pork every week.

Adding 550 grams of fish, 100 grams of chicken or goose, this intake is sufficient to meet nutritional needs.Continue to increase, maybe Austria will be rich in fat.

Meat consumption per capita is actually a fallacy, and is usually averaged out.According to Franz, the highest consumption of meat products in Austria are sailors and fishermen, followed by capitalists and nobles.

Not that sailors and fishermen are richer, mainly because it is relatively easy to obtain meat products at sea. The cheapest thing in their hands is probably fish. Many times the staple food is fish.

The amount of meat consumed by people in coastal areas is higher than in inland areas.Take the port of Venice as an example. The local fish price is less than one-tenth of beef. The main meat product of civilians is fish.

If you go to the inland area, the difference is not so big.Especially in the prairie of Hungary, the price of beef is only five times that of fish, and the consumption of beef by the people is relatively high.

This height is actually very limited, most people still can not open their belly to eat.Even in the most economically developed Vienna, the annual consumption of beef per capita does not exceed 20 kg.

However, the per capita consumption of meat products in Vienna has exceeded 85 kg, ranking among the top five in all cities, greatly raising the per capita level of Austria.

In terms of cost, in fact, increasing the amount of fishing is the cheapest way to increase the consumption of meat products.

Many problems can not only consider the cost, but also consider the chain reaction.Blindly increasing the supply of fish and meat and overwhelming the domestic animal husbandry is not a joke, but it may happen.

The reason is only one word-poor!For most ordinary workers, cheapness is the most important thing, and eating habits are not impossible to change.

Secretary of Agriculture Halls: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Agriculture is planning to promote livestock breeding, increase food consumption, and at the same time enrich farmers' tables."

Franz heard the implication, that is to sacrifice animal husbandry.Once the livestock breeding volume increases greatly, overcapacity in animal husbandry will appear.

However, the scale of farmers' free-range breeding is usually not too large, and if they can't sell it, they can only eat it by themselves.

Generally speaking, it is artificially increasing food consumption.By the way, the price of meat products will be lowered to increase the meat consumption of the people.

Only in this way, the farmer engaged in animal husbandry breeding will be tragic.Profits are squeezed inevitable, and you will lose money if you fail.

There is no way, there will always be some people's interests will be damaged.Compared with agriculture, which is widely involved, Austria ’s animal husbandry is much smaller, and even smaller.

This is only theoretically feasible, and there are actually many problems.After pondering for a while, Franz shook his head: "Have the Ministry of Agriculture ever conducted an in-depth investigation?

As far as I know, many farmers have the habit of breeding livestock, especially poultry farming.Even if it is promoted, are farmers willing to feed with food?

For example, if you do n’t feed on geese, you can grow up on grass.Cattle and sheep are similar, if it is small-scale breeding, just feed the grass.

As a result, the output of meat products has increased, but food consumption may not necessarily increase. What is the Ministry of Agriculture preparing to complete the plan?"

Franz is not a fool, he came from the countryside in his previous life.When I was young, the economic conditions were not good. No one feeds chickens, cattle or pigs at home.

In spite of this, more labor is required, and the growth time of livestock will be longer, so everyone persisted.

Comparing the heart, the economic conditions of the Austrian farmers this year are not much better, and everyone has just been fed for a few years. Saving food is almost an instinct.

If the economic conditions are better, then the Ministry of Agriculture's plan is estimated to have little problem with implementation.It's really not possible, you can also use grain to make wine.

European beer and wine consumption is large, and liquor consumption is small. Except for Russia, most Europeans are not interested in liquor.

Otherwise, Franz had already taken the grain to make wine.Even if the market cannot be consumed in a short time, it can be stored for a long time. The longer the storage time, the better the taste.

Unfortunately, the most consumed beer is not suitable for long-term storage.Liquor can be stored without customers.The Russians also have a surplus of food, and they have already made their own products already, so there is no need for outsourcing.

At the current level of domestic consumption, Franz feels that it is more cost-effective to burn food in one shot than to use it for large-scale brewing.

Secretary of Agriculture Halls was dumbfounded, and there was such a big loophole in the carefully prepared plan.If it is implemented, the agricultural crisis will not be resolved, and the animal husbandry crisis will be detonated again.

Now is the age of imperialism, what if the crisis cannot be solved?Naturally, the most commonly used method is to transfer abroad.The reality is so cruel, this is the style of powers these years.

Among the powers, Austria pays the most attention to eating.But in essence, Austria is still a member of the powers. Now that it is in crisis, the Vienna government naturally cannot help but want to find a bad luck to bear the loss.