Chapter 251： convince (1/2)

After successfully opening the Guinean colony, the pace of Austrian colonization did not stop, and it turned its attention to the Congo region.

Anyway, this year, there is no land everywhere, and whoever takes it will belong to whom Franz naturally will not be polite.

By October 1854, Austria had successively opened 13 colonial strongholds on the African continent, sending more than 40,000 immigrants to the colonies.

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Franz asked puzzled: ”Prime Minister, why stop sending immigrants to the colony?”

You know, according to Austria's original plan, but all refugees had to be transported through, and now this is less than one-tenth completed.

Prime Minister Felix explained: ”Your Majesty, the plague in the Balkans has spread. If immigration is urgently needed, I am afraid it will bring the plague to the colonies.

Although we have tried to recruit doctors, the colonial medical facilities are still not optimistic, and once the plague spreads, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Franz shook his head and said, ”Prime Minister, you worry too much. There are only a few people in the colony, and even if a plague erupts, it is very easy to spread and isolate.

Moreover, winter is about to come, and the plague should end, even if it is brought to the African continent, the situation will not be too serious.

From the information we gathered, the death rate of Russian soldiers after the plague was only seven or eight points, which is not as high as the natural death rate of African colonies.

The war in the Balkans is coming to an end. By then, most of these refugees will choose to return home. In the future, it will be difficult for us to want to emigrate. ”

This is not an exaggeration. The mortality rate of immigrants to the African continent in this era is so abnormal that it usually dies a lot on the road.

Is it low to leave refugees in the Balkans? the answer is negative!

In fact, they will only have a higher mortality rate if they stay in the Balkans.

Without sufficient benefits, the Austrian government cannot spend a great deal of relief to the refugees, and the Ottoman Empire is even less likely to rescue the refugees. Can we still expect the French to be the Virgin?

In this era, everyone is working hard for their own food. Relieving millions of refugees in the Balkans will consume a lot of financial and material resources. Who does not have enough interests?

Without adequate relief, these refugees will become rogues, and then go to more scourges and turn more people into refugees.

Before the twentieth century, human productivity was limited, and there were only two ways to deal with the refugee wave: relief or killing.

Most of the time, it was solved by killing, and the feudal dynasty could not provide relief at all. There is no right or wrong of good and evil, everyone is for survival. If there is not enough food, then we can only feed on the weak.

The African colonial movement in Austria was very cautious, sending about 5,000 to 8,000 migrants at a time, and then scattered across a dozen settlements. It's not that we don't want more, but that food restricts the number of migrants.

If it is just to send people over, then organizing one hundred and eighty cargo ships at a time can easily send away tens of thousands of people, then logistics becomes a big problem.

The development of the African continent is limited, and local indigenous tribes are too lazy to plant land and rely entirely on natural resources to survive. The first settlers to Africa also survived on local natural resources.

Obviously, this is only suitable for the colonial activities of a few people. There were thousands of people in a colonial stronghold. It was not that Franz had no population. Most of them were still worried about accidents. The logistics of the colonial stronghold was cut off.

When the number is small, they can also take risks and get enough food from the local area to survive. Once the population is too large, it will not work.

The Prime Minister Felix went on to explain: ”Your Majesty, our immigration speed is already very fast. As far as the number of immigrants is concerned, not even the British, but even the British, have emigrated to the African continent.

There is not enough output to support the migrants, and there is not enough returns in the short term. If precious mineral resources cannot be found, these areas will bring heavy pressure on finances in the future. ”

If you don't know the local resources, Franz will naturally worry about this problem, but this reason obviously cannot be used.

It is even more impossible to go it alone. Without the cooperation of high-level government, it will eventually become a colony of the emperor alone. The final result is obviously tragic.