Chapter 283 Encouraging Immigration

Looking forward to the stars and the moon, in July, the news of the Indian uprising finally reached Vienna, and Franz knew that the British were in trouble.

During this period, 40,000 British troops and 230,000 Indian troops controlled the Indian subcontinent. Since the beginning of 1857, news of mutiny from the Indian Army has been continuously reported, but they were all suppressed by the British.

On May 10, three Indian regiments launched an uprising, occupied the ancient capital of Delhi, and announced the restoration of the Mughal Empire, which caused a shock in India, and the uprising quickly spread throughout the country.

Needless to say, Franz fulfilled his ally obligation and notified the St. Petersburg government as soon as possible. What will happen next, I don't know.

If the Anglo-Austrian negotiation goes well, the Vienna government will be very peaceful in the future and will do nothing; if the negotiation breaks down, it is not unreasonable to support the independence movement of the Indian people.

Prime Minister Felix said murderously: "Your Majesty, the time has come.

The war between the British and Persia is still not over, and now the Indian uprising has broken out. I am afraid that St. Petersburg's ambitions for India will be unbearable.

The London government is too busy to take care of itself. It is necessary for us to pay a friendly state visit to the Ottoman Empire to enhance the friendship between the two sides. "

Friendship, when did the Habsburgs have friendship with the Ottoman Empire?

Open the family history, that is a history of blood and tears with the Ottoman Empire, not just an ancestor who wants to bring down the Ottoman Empire.

In the generation of Franz, finally saw the dawn, the Ottoman Empire was driven out of the Balkan Peninsula, and the behemoth that once threatened the survival of the Habsburg dynasty has now become a soft-footed shrimp.

Franz smiled and said, "Then choose a sunny day to pay a state visit to the Sudanese government!"

In view of the long-standing traditional friendship between the two countries, bringing down the Ottoman Empire is an inescapable and sacred responsibility of the heirs of the Habsburg dynasty, which must be carried out without any compromise.

Colonial Minister Josip Jelacic suggested: "Your Majesty, we should also move on the African continent. Now that the French have accelerated their expansion on the African continent, we will fall behind if we drag on."

Interest is always the best catalyst. Only three years ago, with the support of Franz, the Vienna government only passed the national policy of overseas colonization with a slight advantage.

By now, even traditional conservatives have no objection to overseas colonization.

On the face of it, the Austrian colonies are still in a state of loss on the whole, but the account is not calculated in this way. The colonies increased the market for domestic industrial and commercial products, and the gold excavated also solved the embarrassment of Austria's lack of gold reserves.

The gold mines excavated in this era are all rich mines that are easy to mine. Dozens of tons of gold flow into Austria every year, stabilizing the currency value of Aegis.

It can be said that without the gold in the Gulf of Guinea, the reform of the gold standard system of the Vienna government would not have been so smooth.

In addition, there are fewer unstable elements in the country, and the colonies have given room for ambitions to display, and many people have made a fortune.

Franz thought for a while and said, "Yes, but the kingdom of Tekel in Nigeria is very ambitious, wants to build an empire further, and launched a so-called holy war, we'd better not join in in a hurry.

Let the locals fight, and when they are almost done fighting, we can sell them some old-fashioned weapons. "

Leaving aside the underground resources, the Nigerian region is close to the equator, with fertile land and sufficient rainfall, suitable for growing tropical crops, such as: peanuts, palms, cocoa, rubber...

For those who are keen to open up a farm, this is a treasure trove. The area of ​​arable land that can be developed reaches more than 60 million hectares, enough to feed hundreds of millions of people.

At present, it is the domestic aristocrats who are pushing for Nigeria. Many people who lost their land in the Great Revolution want to make up for it overseas.

This is the result of the guidance of the Vienna government. It is effective from the top to the bottom, and it is universal in any country. The Vienna government has done a very good job in this regard.

High-level government officials have set up plantations overseas one after another, which made many people feel profitable and joined in this activity one after another.

The royal family was the first to staking lands in Guinea and Congo colonies. Currently, seven or eight plantations have been planned, including rubber plantations, cotton plantations, coffee plantations, and cocoa plantations. The total area exceeds 1.5 million hectares.

Of course, this is only a theoretical plan, and it is still unknown when it will be completed.

Up to now, the royal family has developed more than 15,000 hectares of land, and the remaining area is still a group of loggers working hard.

The trees must be chopped down, the grass on the ground burned, the water in the depressions drained, and the local poisonous insects eliminated before the farmland can be developed.

In the absence of sufficient labor force, it is difficult to improve the work efficiency by being forced to use local people as laborers.

Franz has sent people to introduce labor in East Asia. Farming is also a technical job, especially wasteland reclamation requires skills. The local indigenous people are obviously not suitable for this job.

Austria prohibited the use of slaves. For the long-term stability of the colony, the colonial government also prohibited the use of slaves, and even labor protection laws were required to be strictly enforced.

Of course, "strict enforcement" is also a case-by-case basis. Of course, immigrants from the country are strictly protected. These are valuable assets.

For local labor, the supervision is naturally not so strict, and the biggest problem is a fine. Unless someone makes a half-breed, they're not going to go to jail.

Essentially, this is also to limit the dependence of capitalists on local labor and the spread of disease.

Through the labor protection law, we have clearly told everyone that once the problem of labor shortage in the colonies is solved, the labor protection law will be strictly enforced, and it is better to use as little local labor as possible.

In order to reduce the conflict between the colonial government and the indigenous tribes, the colonial government implemented a policy of encouraging immigration, which includes two parts: one is to encourage domestic people to immigrate to the colony; the other is to encourage local indigenous immigrants to the Americas.

On this issue, the Vienna government has reached immigration agreements with the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Spain and other countries.

The treaty stipulates that countries are free to introduce indigenous immigrants in the Austrian colonies, and the colonial government does not impose any restrictions.

The Vienna government will also reward individuals or organizations with outstanding performance in immigration work. The current standard is: for every ten local immigrants taken away, 2 Aegis will be awarded.

Under these favorable conditions, more than 100,000 black immigrants left the Austrian colonies every year, which greatly reduced the conflicts between the colonial government and the local indigenous tribes.