Chapter 444： Making money is just an accident (2/2)

By that time, rural electricity consumption can be taken into account. The newly increased construction and maintenance costs directly diluted the profits of the subsidiaries.

No longer a profiteering industry, the people naturally will not spray it. Keeping a reasonable profit of a dozen points, no one has anything to say.

Moreover, the decrease in the profit of the subsidiary does not mean that the profit of the head office has also decreased. Dividends are reduced, and later equipment maintenance costs and purchased component costs have gone up.

Even if someone calls for the nationalization of electricity, it depends on whether the local government dares to accept the offer. It's not a dozen points that the private company's increase in the cost of a state-owned company. It's no surprise that a profit-making company becomes a loss-making company.

If the government takes over the country, Franz wouldn't mind selling a good price. Companies with backgrounds never worry about being swallowed. This is a legal enterprise. If you want to nationalize, you must follow the rules. The government purchases enterprise shares at a premium.

Anyway, before that, I had earned enough. Accompanied by gains in other areas, there may be much more direct profits.

This is the advantage of a consortium. An industry drives a series of industries. Even a superficially losing industry has earned back in other ways.

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”Here is the city that never sleeps. It really is the most beautiful city in the world, not Tokyo.”

”Of course, the world can be compared with London and Paris. Tokyo wants to reach this point, I don't know how long it will take.”

The conversation was with Okubo Tori and Ito Hirofumi. After the victory of the downfall war in 1868, a ”reformer government” led by Emperor Meiji was established.

In order to regain sovereignty, Emperor Meiji sent a delegation to Europe to negotiate with governments. Negotiations are also part-time field trips to learn from European countries the law of power.

The more you see, the more you can feel the difference between the two sides. The Japanese in this era are not a little bit arrogant, they are exactly the image of a good student.

It can be seen that their interest is not high. They have visited many countries along the way, but the negotiations have not progressed smoothly.

The European countries did not take them seriously, they wanted to revoke the treaty and regain their sovereignty and dream! You can still spit out the meat you eat. Is that still the 19th century?

I don't know if they are lucky or not. Franz was visiting the Balkans at this time, accompanied by several cabinet ministers.

The big men are not there, and it is naturally impossible to rely on a three-inch tongue to persuade Austria to give in.

The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the answer early. If you want to revise the contract, you can exchange it for benefits, or you can buy it directly by paying the money.

It is natural to talk so deadly. I wanted to see high-level government officials but was rejected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There are not so many reasons, just because of contempt.

At present, Japan's international status is very low, and it is not even comparable to the Principality of Montenegro, and European countries directly treat them as indigenous people.

Ito Bowen and others visited six or seven European countries along the way and did not enjoy the corresponding diplomatic etiquette. Want to see senior government officials in other countries also have to pay for bribes, or people will not have time to receive.

If negotiations fail, you can only conduct field inspections and learn the law of strengthening the country. They all bear the banner of constitutional monarchy. In fact, the systems of Britain, France and Austria are still different.

According to preliminary observations, Ito Bowen has found that the modes of Anglo-French are not something they can play with.

These three are all established empires. At the time of their most decline in the past century, they were all European powers. The troubles they encountered were basically internal problems, and they never had the risk of becoming colonies.

This is not comparable to Japan. They don't have enough knowledge to be able to withstand external problems.

Okubo asked: ”Ito, did you find it? We didn't see thick black smoke in Vienna, which is very different from Paris and London.

Europe is said to be in an economic crisis and many factories have closed. Now that the Austrian emperors are inspecting the places themselves, does it mean that the Austrian economic crisis is very serious and no factories have opened in Vienna? ”

Looking at the bustling street, Ito Bowen pointed with his finger and said, ”It's not quite like this, it's a scene of the prosperous age. If the economic crisis is so serious, these ordinary people may not be able to laugh.

And Vienna is a city that never sleeps. With so many street lights, the monthly electricity bill is probably no less than four and a half million silver. ”

The new affairs they came into contact with after the electric lights entered London also shocked their cognition.

However, in London, electric lights are only the patents of a few rich people. In order not to be ashamed of Japan, they have only seen them from a distance.

It's different in Austria. Electricity companies have already promoted electric lights. Not only are there street lights on the streets, but even the hotels they are staying in have already installed electric lights. They will become numb when they see more.

Hiroshi Ito speculated that the cost of electricity bills of four and five million silver per month directly put the entire delegation to death. Everyone unconsciously made a comparison with Japan, and found embarrassingly that the electricity bill in Vienna was half of their fiscal revenue.

Of course, this number is not accurate. The price of electricity for road lighting and electricity for residents can be different. The monthly electricity bill will be more than 100,000 silver.

The money was not paid by the Vienna city government, but was distributed to the merchants. Everyone is willing to pay this tax. Since Vienna lights up, business has become more prosperous.

The name of the city that never sleeps still attracts many people. The arrival of these outsiders has led to commercial prosperity, and there are already signs of Vienna becoming a tourist city.

The head of the delegation, Iwakura, waved his hands and said, ”Don't go any further. This is the Austrian territory. No matter what happens, it has nothing to do with us. Maybe there is no industry in this city!”

Without industry, he would not believe it. Big cities without industries did exist in this era, but they were all in backward areas.

Almost every city in the big powers is full of smoke. Austria is no exception, Vienna was just an accident under Franz interference.

The thick black smoke soaring into the sky is also considered by many to be a symbol of the country's power. Even the smelly London is regarded as the ideal town by many people.

Not to mention the Japanese who are good at going to extremes, if you look carefully at their literary works of this period, there is no less positive description of these contents.

In short, these exhaust gases are fragrant.

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