Holy Roman Empire

Chapter 669

To fight a trade war, it does not mean that we must let the industry develop wildly.Numerous cases have proved that uncompetitive enterprises are the first to fall when the crisis comes.

Large but not strong industries are difficult to gain a foothold in international competition.Austria has passed the era of blindly pursuing quantity, and now it needs both quality and quantity.

To calm down the market, before Christmas 1879, the Austrian government issued the "Market Risk Warning", a total of 39 industries were listed as overcapacity industries.

At the same time, it also raises the entry threshold for investment. In addition to the requirement for registered capital, it also puts forward technical requirements. Capitalists who want to invest in these industries must adopt the most advanced technology in the world.

These thresholds are not really a problem for capital.In addition to high-tech fields, as long as there is money in other industries, any technology can be easily purchased.

Franz does not expect investors to heed the government's advice. People always like to ignore risks in the face of benefits.

Forcing everyone to adopt more advanced productivity and increase product competitiveness is mainly to allow these latecomers to support the period of time when the crisis breaks out.

This is very important. Once the global overcapacity crisis erupts, the enterprise will fight for its comprehensive strength, and the cost and capital will determine who can live to the end.

The winner is king, and the remainder is king. The enterprise that survived last is the real winner.

It is the same for the country. Whoever survives has more enterprises and stronger strength, and who is the new industrial hegemon.

Perhaps at the beginning of the crisis, the British and Austrian capitals will join forces to kill their competitors. In the later period, the two countries will still have to do a business.

It's just that both are colonial empire, free trade belongs to free trade, and the colonial market is still reserved.With such a spillway, there will never be a collapse across the board.

The most intuitive feeling in a hot market is that money is easy to make.Almost every industry has enjoyed the war dividend, and the immigration industry is the only exception.

Yes, immigration in Austria is also an industry.Affected by the grand immigration strategy, hundreds of thousands of immigrants and even millions of people migrate to the African continent every year. From transportation to settlement, a complete industrial chain has been formed.

Regrettably, the immigration industry has always been inversely proportional to economic development. Only when there is a problem with economic development can the immigration industry flourish.

With the influx of large amounts of hot money, the number of new jobs has skyrocketed, and local people can make money, and the number of people willing to emigrate overseas has naturally decreased.

There is an ancient building full of Renaissance atmosphere around Vienna ’s ring road. The hustle and bustle of the past is gone, and the staff gather together in twos and threes, basking in the sun.

If it is not the sign at the gate, no one can believe that this is the Austrian government department, yes it is the famous immigration department.

If this situation occurs in other government departments, it has long been visited by the inspection department, with the exception of the immigration department.

It can be brightly lit day and night when you are busy; in your spare time, you can get a day's work in ten minutes of work, and the rest of the time will naturally be okay.

The general staff was idle, and the Director Gold was worried.All are idle, what about the grand immigration strategy?

Even if the cabinet government understands his difficulties and does not hold accountable, but the political stains will never be erased without completing the task.

In the conference room, Gold put down his report: "Everyone, since the outbreak of the Russo-Prussian War, the number of people applying for immigration has dropped sharply, and this year's immigration plan has not been completed.

If we do not take action, I am afraid that immigration work next year is not optimistic.

Pushing it one year a year, if this continues, the big immigration strategy formulated by the government will die.

The failure of the immigration strategy will directly affect the economic development of the colonies and the localization process of Africa. This consequence is not something we can afford.

From now on, everyone must move.Activate your personal connections and promote immigrants as much as possible."

Everyone looked bitter, obviously it was a chore.At this moment, everyone is missing the economic crisis and they don't need to speak up. A group of people took the initiative to find a door to pull the relationship.

A senior official objected: "Director, this is probably very difficult to work. We have posted immigration advertisements all over the country, even in the most closed mountain villages.

After so many years of publicity, immigrants have long been popular among the people.But the homeland is hard to leave, the people are unwilling to leave the country, and we cannot force them to emigrate."

Not everyone is willing to toss about it, and many older officials have lost interest in such political tasks after losing further possibilities.

This is nothing, as long as the order is issued, everyone will still execute it.

What hurts Gold is the phrase "it's hard to make a difference." If it doesn't work, even sending all the people out for publicity will be in vain.

After hesitating for a while, Gold said fiercely: "If the locality does not work, go to other countries in the German region to promote it. As long as you are a German immigrant, you can count your achievements.

In particular, the Kingdom of Prussia, which is at war, can be used as a key publicity area. Even if it is caught, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will bail you out.

Let's discuss it, set a goal, and work in groups.The people who participated in the meeting today will be the heads of the publicity team, including me."

No way, the Austrian Immigration Agency is already infamous in the German region, and governments of all countries take strict precautions against them.

For example, the Kingdom of Prussia has long listed them as unwelcome objects, as long as they are staff of the Immigration Department, they cannot even get visas.

But there are countermeasures on the top and policies on the bottom.The Immigration Department is also a government department, and it is normal to fabricate a new identity.

Promoting immigrants does not violate the law. Even if they are caught, the Berlin government does not have the authority to deal with them, usually by notifying the leader of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Austria is strong enough that the Berlin government ca n’t do anything on the surface, but it ’s indispensable to secretly let them suffer.

Gold didn't want to do this, but there was no way, if he didn't do his best, how would the outside world know that they would work harder?

After working hard and not working hard, the final strategic plan was not completed, that is also two completely different concepts.

Taking the lead personally to run, no matter what the result is, is better than watching a helper basking in the sun every day.

Retirement, Gold is not yet forty years old?As the most important person in charge of the Immigration Department under the Colonial Department, he still has a long political life and can go further.

Franz naturally did not know how much pressure the original immigration strategy had put on the immigration department.

In fact, not only the work pressure of the Immigration Department is high, but also the work pressure of many Austrian government departments.

Civil servants are not as rampant as their descendants these years, but there are not too many tasks.

Taking the immigration department as an example, the total number of staff is less than 1,500. The scope of work covers the entire European continent. At its peak, it organized up to 1.3 million immigrants a year and went to overseas colonies.

Of course, a large part of this is already organized by the colonial company. The Immigration Department only collects statistics to coordinate the relationship between the parties.

What to do if there is insufficient manpower?The answer is naturally overtime.Don't dream about the eight-hour work system. When you are busy, being able to work in the morning shift can be counted in 1996.

There is nothing unbalanced. In the general environment in which overtime is popular in the whole society, there is nothing to complain about. The factory overtime is actually more serious.

According to the statistics of the Vienna government, the average working hours of urban employees is 9.1 hours per day, which is calculated on the basis of 365 days a year.

If after deduction of holidays and rest days, many people work more than 12 hours a day, the work intensity is quite large.

Of course, the capitalists will not admit it.Many enterprises calculate working hours, and also deduct the necessary rest time, meal time, toilet time, and even deduct mechanical intermittent time.

The purpose is very clear and less overtime pay.To put it another way, the daily working hours are reduced by 1 to 2 hours, and the data looks a lot better.

The grief of the Immigration Department did not affect the Austrian people, and everyone still worked hard for a dreamy tomorrow in the joy of increasing income.

There is a good saying: happiness is contrasted.

Compared with the two countries that are in the middle of war, the Austrian people naturally feel happy compared with the greater France, which is caught in a resource dilemma, and the many small countries that are in trouble.