Chapter 523 Calculation

The development of South Africa is also one of Austria's measures to deal with the agricultural crisis. The new jobs are just to place bankrupt farmers and avoid a wave of unemployment.

European people have always been very interested in gold, and gold rushing is the easiest way to get rich in this era. As long as you are lucky enough, you can get rich.

The earliest Austrian immigrants to Africa broke out, and five out of ten started from gold mines, and two out of the remaining five provided logistical services for gold mining.

In this era, colonies all over the world lacked immigrants. To stand out from the many competitions, publicity was the key.

A beautiful painted cake is essential. As for whether you can find a gold mine to make a fortune when you arrive there? Franz can say with certainty that ninety-nine percent of people cannot make a fortune.

There is a good joke: the two brothers ran to find a gold mine, only to find out when they got there, they didn't know how to prospect at all.

The fact is that unless it is an open-pit gold mine with a very high gold content, it can be seen at a glance, otherwise ordinary people will not be able to find it even if they encounter it.

Now that gold mines have been discovered, South Africa doesn't know how many prospecting teams there are. The powerful people in China are also organizing prospecting teams, and most of the gold mines belong to these people.

If the Vienna government had not opened the gold mine acquisition function, ordinary people who discovered gold mines could sell them directly to the government. Otherwise, even if they discovered a gold mine, they would not be able to mine it, and they might even get killed.

Seeing that everyone is very positive, Franz is very salty. Everyone else wants to find gold mines to make a fortune, so he invests in farms and plantations in the local area.

Facts have proved that traversers are not omnipotent. A point on the map is thousands of square kilometers, and the deviation is 180 kilometers.

Whether or not gold mines can be found depends entirely on luck. Although the scope of gold mines in South Africa is large, they are not as large as tens of thousands of square kilometers of deposits.

Looking for gold mines on paper is not much different from relying on luck. The gold mining area that was very famous in later generations did not even have a name in this era.

Even if the name appears, after the butterfly effect of Franz, only God knows how big the error is.

In this case, it is better to forget about salted fish. Gold diggers may not be able to make money, but those who do logistics will definitely make money.

Investing in nearby farms and plantations, selling bread, cheese, fruits, vegetables, meat products and other daily necessities, will definitely not lose money.

Don't look at the outbreak of the agricultural crisis, the price of agricultural products has plummeted everywhere, but this has little impact on the interior of Africa.

Grain can be brought in from outside, cheese, fruit, vegetables, fresh meat products, these things can't be brought in from outside, right?

Although canned food has appeared, few people can stand it if they eat it every day.

With any luck, there might be a gold mine beneath the farm. Who can say such a thing? In West Africa, under the royal plantation established by Franz, minerals were discovered more than once.

Not to mention the South African region, gold mines are all clustered together. It is right to buy land near the gold mine. There are gold mines underground, and you can make a small profit without gold mines.

The news of the discovery of a large number of gold mines in South Africa is still circulating in small circles, and the outside world is still in the panic of the agricultural crisis.

In Berlin, after the agricultural crisis broke out, the Prussian government became nervous. This is related to self-interest, and there is no room for sloppiness.

I don't know since when, Austria has become the weather vane of European agriculture, and William I is also keeping an eye on the Vienna government.

Seeing that the Vienna government introduced the fallow law to limit the increase in the area of ​​grain cultivation, it called on all countries to reduce production together. William I did not feel relieved, but even more headache.

Reducing food production is not a matter of one sentence, it also involves the interests of all parties, and the most important thing is the interests of the agricultural Junker nobles.

Today is different from the past, when Prussia was a grain importer, naturally they would not worry about these problems, but now they have become grain exporters.

If the Russians are the most insane, and Austria is close behind, then the Kingdom of Prussia ranks third. The area of ​​arable land in the Kingdom of Prussia has also increased by half in recent years.

Everyone is very motivated to grow grain. The land that was wasted in the hands of the Russians is now being used efficiently by the Junkers.

Now comes the trouble, the overcapacity of grain. This is not a star and a half surplus. According to the data released by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, the overcapacity rate of grain in Europe exceeds 21%.

No matter how excess grain production capacity is, it is impossible for grain importing countries to reduce their own production capacity, and all grain exporting countries need to reduce production.

Even if some of these grains are wasted for various reasons, the production capacity that needs to be compressed is still not a small number to be apportioned to various countries.

The main culprit for this is the Russians. According to the estimation of Russia's agricultural planting area, if all these grains can be shipped out, even if other agricultural exporting countries stop grain exports, Europe will still not be short of grain.

The reality is so cruel, the international market is too small.

With the increase of agricultural population in various countries, the amount of cultivated land is also increasing, and the improvement of agricultural technology, the food production in various countries is increasing, but the growth rate of the market is far behind.

Take Grand France as an example, because of the increase in French domestic grain production, it is expected that foreign imports will drop by two percentage points this year.

These data are all released by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, which is published every year. The word of mouth has been established, and the accuracy rate of William I is very small.

Do not doubt.

This is not the first time that countries have been called on to jointly reduce food production capacity. Since 1870, the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture has issued warnings of overcapacity in grain.

However, it has no effect, even Austria itself has not been able to reduce production capacity, let alone other countries?

"The agricultural crisis has really come, and the Austrians have taken practical actions to cut production capacity. I called everyone here today to discuss whether we should follow up."

Deep down, William I was in favor of cutting food production. If the market does not return to normal, everyone should not want to have a good life.

"Your Majesty, Austria is the world's largest agricultural exporter, and after the agricultural crisis broke out, they were also hit the hardest.

It is actually a last resort to cut production now. Prices on the international food market have collapsed, and now the more you export, the more you lose.

On the surface, it was the Anglo-Russian agreement that detonated this agricultural crisis. In fact, Russian grain has just entered the international market, and it was Austria's dumping activities in the first half of the year that caused the collapse of grain prices.

According to the information we have collected, up to now, Austria has released about 34.2 million tons of agricultural products to the international market, of which more than 30 million tons of grain alone.

This has exceeded their 1871 international grain market turnover of 81%. If the Vienna government does not restore strategic reserves and purchase grain from the market in the second half of the year, prices will continue to collapse.

It seems that it is just to stop the Russians and prevent them from returning to the international market. In fact, this is an excuse to drag everyone into the water.

If no measures are taken, international food prices will remain depressed in the next two to three years. During this period, the more food you sell, the more you lose. If you don’t sell it, you won’t be able to get your money back.

Our share of international grain exports is only 6.6%, and even cutting production capacity will not save the situation. Unless the Russians are willing to cut production, the crisis will not end in a short time.

The top priority is to protect the local market. I suggest reducing or exempting agricultural taxes and export taxes on agricultural products, and at the same time increasing import tariffs on agricultural products. If necessary, we can follow Austria and adopt a minimum purchase price for grain to protect farmers' income. "

Mao Qi's opinion is very clear, the government cannot interfere with everyone's free planting. The reason is very simple. If Prussia reduces production and the Russians do not, they are making wedding dresses for the enemy.

"Prime Minister, it is easy to increase import tariffs on agricultural products, but the chain reaction caused has to be considered.

The relations between Poland and Poland are at a critical moment. Now that the import tariffs on agricultural products are raised, what will the Poles think?

If they tit for tat raised the import tariffs on my country's industrial and commercial products, the agricultural crisis would also affect the industry.

Don't forget that our financial situation is already very bad. If this is done, the fiscal deficit will increase significantly this year. It may not be long before we declare bankruptcy. "

It wasn't that Gorman was unwilling to protect agriculture, the problem was that as chancellor, he knew very well how bad Prussia's finances were.

Just by reducing or exempting agricultural taxes and export tariffs on agricultural products, the fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Prussia will be reduced by more than 56 million marks, which is already very dangerous.

If the increase in import tariffs on agricultural products causes Poland to increase import tariffs on Prussian industrial products, then the fragile Prussian industry and commerce will also be hit hard.

This will trigger a chain reaction, or it may be an industrial crisis, and the final loss will not be a small number.

Prussia does not have a colonial market to release floodwaters, and its products cannot compete internationally with Britain, France, and Austria. The Polish market is very important to them.

Mao Qi smiled lightly and explained casually: "It's not that serious, the Poles dare not turn against us.

It's easy to deal with them, just agitate the Polish radical groups and ask them to make territorial claims to Austria, and we'll come out and deal with the aftermath.

After offending two behemoth neighbors, does the Polish government still have a choice? "

This explanation leaves Gorman speechless, and there is no way out. Now Poland is not a normal country, and the internal chaos is not good.

This move has little effect on other countries, and no one is so overbearing, but Poland is an exception, and they can do this kind of thing.