Chapter 300: The Great Migration
Chapter 290 – The Great Migration
Franz was reputable, and immediately after signing the treaty with the Ottoman Empire, he paid for 10 million Shenduan worth of supplies.
This time is the Vienna government did not play the slightest discount, there is no way the aftermath of overcapacity, the backlog of supplies is too much to sell and sell, direct destruction Franz is not so defeatist.
Bring it to make a deal with the Sudanese government, that is no better. If possible he would like to do the same deal with the Russians, no matter what, it is better than watching these materials rot in the warehouse.
Especially produce, these refined finished products don’t have a very long shelf life. Preservatives in this day and age were so crummy that adding too much would kill you.
Even if people don’t pay attention to food safety, that can’t poison people ah, this kind of smashing things how can you do it?
Relating to the issue of reputation, the Vienna government is still very strict control, can not be poisoned to death this is the bottom line of food safety, even if it is an export product does not work.
Of course, this is also limited to this, the higher standard that belongs to the high-grade food, such as playing on the aristocrats special products, the quality of the grade is not much lower than the latter.
The gap between the price of two grades of goods, basically are several times, or even dozens of times, fully proved that the cheap is no good.
Vienna Palace, listened to the report of the Minister of Agriculture, Franz thought for a moment and said: “Since the decline in agricultural exports, then we will artificially create a market.
Just now was not an agreement with the Ottoman Empire, the population of these lands, they are withdrawn back?
Now immediately organize ship transport, the big deal is that we provide them with a year’s rations as compensation for early relocation, I think the Sudanese government will not refuse such a good thing.
When the Ottomans are gone, we will then organize the immigrants to fill in, and put these areas completely in the hands.
This way, the shipping company will have new business, and we can also reduce the pressure of food stagnation, helping to stabilize food prices in the country.”
The Mediterranean region was different from other overseas colonies, the Vienna government was capable of directly controlling it, even if there was no trans-oceanic telegraph yet, transmitting news was only a matter of a week.
As long as the local Ottomans were all evacuated and replaced with domestic immigrants, then there was no need to worry about the problem of domination.
Minister of Agriculture Christian replied, “Yes, Your Majesty.”
After a pause, Franz added, “Remember to pack the populations on the Ionian Islands and Sinai Peninsula together and send them to the Ottoman Empire. If there is a problem, offer money to bribe the officials of the Sultan’s government.
Anyway, the Ottoman Empire does not have a household register, and the Sudanese government is confused about how many people there are, so it should not be difficult to muddle through.
The issue of immigration should be completed as soon as possible, and in times of economic crisis, doing this work is the time of the lowest cost. It also mitigates the crisis, so to speak.”
This is not speculation, in this day and age the Ottoman Empire is known to be the most corrupt empire in the world, and as long as money is given there is nothing this group of bureaucrats wouldn’t dare to do.
Hearing that the emigration had to be done as quickly as possible, Colonial Minister Josip Jelacic had a headache. The demand for immigrants this time is quite a lot, and it is impossible to control these additional territories forever without less people.
At least 30,000 or 40,000 immigrants from Crete, at least 30,000 or 40,000 from Cyprus, at least 20,000 or 30,000 from the Ionian Islands, a hundred thousand or so from Libya, and let’s say 5,000 immigrants from the Sinai Peninsula, which would add up to another two hundred thousand or so people.
These areas need people, and the African colonies still need people. Let’s forget about the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea for now; the population of both places is already quite large, and a moratorium on large-scale immigration would be fine.
But Nigeria, which has just started, and Cameroon and Benin, which are in the process of infiltration, are absolutely in need of immigrants.
Otherwise, when John Bull slows down, they’re going to mess things up again. The best choice is like the current Gulf of Guinea, even if the British are very keen, after seeing that a large group of German immigrants, they lost interest.
In this day and age, those who run off to the colonies to get rich are no pushovers. Especially the aristocrats who opened up farms and plantations were the ones who could carry guns on their horses.
On land, the British couldn’t do anything about them. If the colony had only 10,000 or so people, and one day the British and the French flipped out, the colony would immediately change hands.
The Vienna government is not only considering the opening of the colony, but also considering how to hold the colony, in this context there is no 100,000 to 200,000 immigrants really not enough.
In addition to these areas, the Balkans had to be considered. In order to control the regions of Wallachia, Moldavia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Vienna government also developed a million immigrant program.
This immigration could only come from the German regions to ensure the smooth progress of national integration, which could not be delayed.
In order to avoid a multiplicity of orders, each competing with the other for immigrants, all immigrant work was given to the Ministry of Colonization for unified responsibility.
Josip Jelacic explained: ”Your Majesty, as the domestic economic situation improves, fewer and fewer people are willing to emigrate overseas, and in the short term, we will not be able to gather enough immigrants.
As you know in order to facilitate assimilation, every time we organize emigration we have to break up the resettlement and not allow minorities to gather in one area.
Including the refugees who migrated over from the Balkans, they were all distributed according to a certain ratio to make sure they couldn’t develop a dominant advantage in the area.
This, in turn, has created problems for immigration, and as of now, the number of people in the country who are interested in signing up to immigrate is less than 200,000, and with the total number of people who have signed up in the German region, it is not more than 550,000 people.
Most of the people are inclined to emigrate to the Balkans, and less than half of the population is willing to go to the overseas colonies.”
Franz nodded this was normal, how could ordinary people be willing to leave their homes until the last resort?
Emigrating to the Balkans was even better, it was still on the mainland, you could go back and forth once a month along the Danube, overseas was a different story.
Even if the Vienna government offers preferential conditions, in overseas colonies opened up farms, plantations, the government directly recognized property rights, and even policy loans, many people are still worried.
“The economy has only just rippled through the German region shortly, and will continue for some time, the future of the German region of the bankrupt population will increase, this is the opportunity.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already communicated with the state governments, they will not stop your actions, until the economic crisis is over, it is the peak time for immigration.
You have to rush now, send the immigrants away as fast as you can, if it’s too late to ship them overseas, send them to the Balkans. Once the economic crisis is over and everyone finds work, things will be different again.”
Reality is so cruel, the unemployed population in times of economic crisis is not a wealth, but a hidden social danger, governments can’t wait for them to go faster.
In this context, the Foreign Ministry in Vienna has also done the work of Switzerland, Belgium and other countries in the German cultural circle, and the governments of these countries welcome Austria’s recruitment of immigrants.
Of course, this kind of good opportunity is limited to the period of economic crisis. Once the economy is back to normal, if you want to fool immigrants again, even if the governments don’t stop them, the local capitalists won’t agree.
Only when labor is plentiful will it be cheap, and this is the reason why it is difficult for European governments to organize immigration on a large scale.
If the government in Vienna was not strong enough to subdue the capitalists in the country, Franz would not have been able to organize immigration with such fanfare.
(End of chapter)