Chapter 234： Balkan Development Plan (1/2)

In a quaint castle in Prague, an elder over 50 asked seriously: ”Holster, are you really ready?

Once you are accepted by the government, you will have a hard time in the future for a long time, but it will be too late to repent. ”

Holst replied earnestly: ”Father, the Vickers family has fallen, and in the last struggle for rights, our network of relationships in the government suffered heavy losses.

If you want to get a job in the government, you can only pass the civil service exam. There are too many competitors on this road. Moreover, our family has always been developing in the military. There is no advantage in this area. I am not sure about mixing up.

The situation on the European continent is stabilizing, and there will be no war in Austria for a long time to come. This has broken the chance of a fight on the battlefield.

Now is an opportunity. With the military achievements accumulated on the battlefield, now I stay at home and become a glory knight at most.

The family can make a little money before they can exchange for a manor with the government, but now they can cross the Balkan Peninsula and become hereditary knights.

Under normal circumstances, I haven't succeeded in the domestic struggle for twenty years. So why not take a risk? ”

To strengthen control of the Balkans, the government of Vienna mobilized domestically. As Prime Minister Felix expected, the lower nobility who wanted to go further could not resist this temptation.

In contrast to opening up overseas colonies, the Balkans are still at their doorstep. Even if they are a little bit poor now, their future development can still be expected.

As one of the strongholds of conservatism, Austria still maintains the ancient tradition, the eldest son inherits the family business, and the second son goes out.

Big nobles also have the ability to provide enough titles to their immediate descendants, and the children or other nobles can only fight on their own.

In order to limit the number of nobles in the country and ensure the quality of the nobles, the Vienna government is still considering promulgating a ”Nobility Law”.

Once this law is in place, nobility inheritance must pass the assessment of the noble parliament, and it is difficult for the son-in-law to inherit the title.

In addition to the eldest son who inherited the title, even the non-military knighthood won by the children of the nobles will lose hereditary ability.

Because the impact is too great, it is still being discussed in the aristocratic parliament. After all, this law is too unfriendly to declining nobles, and it is too difficult for them to pass the assessment.

Franz intends to implement this law when he opens a colony, so that these nobles will go to the colony to fight for wealth.

The domestic plate is so large that it is obviously not enough for everyone to share. Even if the territory of the Balkan Peninsula is increased, this cake is still not large enough.

The collapse of the British and French colonies was largely due to the uneven distribution of benefits. The capitalists took too many benefits and needed others to kill them. How could this be possible?

Since ancient times, the sub-sealing system has been a weapon of expansion. The counties and counties that were directly managed by the central dynasty were often lost; but the land that was sealed off was rarely divided again. Even if it is independent, it cannot be separated from the influence of local culture.

Of course, this is just one factor. The bigger reason is class solidification. Either make a big cake and leave a rising channel for everyone, or you can only revolutionize. This multiple choice question is very easy to do.

The old man thought for a while and said, ”Well, I respect your choice of children. Now the family can't help you much, but you can recruit a group of people to leave from the manor house, which can alleviate the population pressure.

These people have lived in the family for generations. Loyalty is not a problem. With their help, I believe you can open the situation soon. ”

The influence of the aristocracy in this era was not only because of status, but also a group of subordinates.

Although serfdom was abolished, this influence has not yet dissipated.

Now the Austrian government encourages these nobles to develop in the Balkans, but not just to let them pass. If you are alone and you are in a place where your life is unfamiliar, no one may rule.

Moreover, everyone's previous industries are all land, so nobles can't go down to cultivate it themselves?

It is easier for these people to organize immigration than for the Austrian government.

The densely populated German region, in the era of the agricultural nation, has reached the limit of its population capacity, and now diverting some people away just relieves internal contradictions.

Anyway, the labor demand for industrialization is not very big these years. Austria is still the second most populous country in Europe. In addition, the population of the Balkan territory has approached the 50 million mark.

Now the most important thing is to promote national integration. In the context of unified language, a large number of mixed-race children have appeared in the next generation. Who can use nationalism to do things?

It can be said that the future of the new Holy Roman Empire is as long as Franz does not have a wave.

Another unexpected benefit of developing the Balkans was the reduction in immigration to the United States.

After all, crossing the ocean in this era is also risky. Compared with the unknown United States, the Balkan Peninsula at the doorstep of the house is much less risky, and the Danube River is convenient for transportation. You can return in ten days and a half months.

Especially if there is a small family, immigrants in the Balkans can drag their families. If they go to the United States, it will be life and death.

Since the Great Revolution, a climax of immigration broke out in the German region, with an average of 60,000 to 70,000 people leaving each year, and in Austria, almost 20,000 to 30,000 people leaving each year.

These immigrants caused the population of the United States to soar. In the year 1850, the United States accepted 310,000 immigrants. In 1851, the United States accepted immigrants 379,000. In 1850, the national population of the United States was only 23.192 million. In 1860, it increased to 31.443 million. .

The immigrants of this era are all young and old, the sick and the sick can't bear the bumps at sea, and all are high-quality labor.

Every time I think of it, Franz can only sigh that the South American countries are not fighting, obviously that their own conditions are not bad, they don't even know they are robbing immigrants with Americans.