Chapter 669

To fight a trade war does not mean to let the industry develop wildly. Countless cases have proved that uncompetitive enterprises are the first to collapse when a crisis comes.

Large but not strong industry, it is difficult to gain a foothold in international competition. Austria has passed the era of blind pursuit of quantity, and now it needs both quality and quantity.

In order to calm the market down, before Christmas in 1879, the Austrian government issued the "Market Risk Warning", and a total of 39 industries were listed as overcapacity industries.

At the same time, the investment access threshold has also been raised. In addition to requiring registered capital, it also puts forward technical requirements. If capitalists want to invest in these industries, they must adopt the most advanced technology.

These thresholds are actually not a problem for capital. In addition to the high-tech field, as long as there is money in other industries, any technology can be easily purchased.

Franz doesn't expect investors to follow the government's advice, and people tend to ignore risks in the face of profit.

Forcing everyone to adopt more advanced productivity and increasing product competitiveness is mainly to allow these latecomers to support for a longer period of time when the crisis breaks out.

This is very important. Once the global crisis of overcapacity breaks out, companies will fight for their comprehensive strength. Cost and capital will determine who can survive to the end.

The winner is the king and the leftover is the king, and the company that survives in the end is the real winner.

The same is true for the country. Whoever survives has more companies and is stronger, and whoever is the new industrial overlord.

Perhaps at the beginning of the crisis, the capitals of Britain and Austria would join forces to kill their competitors.

It's just that both are colonial empires, free trade is free trade, and the colonial market is still private land. With such a flood discharge channel in place, no matter what, it would not collapse across the board.

In a hot market, the most intuitive feeling is that money is easy to make. Almost every industry enjoyed the war dividend, with the exception of the immigrant industry.

Yes, immigration in Austria is also an industry. Affected by the Great Migration Strategy, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people migrate to the African continent every year. From transportation to resettlement, a complete industrial chain has been formed.

Unfortunately, the immigration industry has always been inversely proportional to economic development. Only when there are problems in economic development can the immigration industry prosper.

With the influx of hot money, the number of new jobs has skyrocketed, and people can make money locally, and naturally fewer people are willing to immigrate overseas.

Vienna Ring Road, there is an ancient building full of Renaissance atmosphere, no longer the hustle and bustle of the past, the staff gathered together in twos and threes, lazily basking in the sun.

If it weren't for the sign at the gate, no one would believe that this is the Austrian government department, and yes, the famous immigration office.

If this happened to other government departments, they would have been approached by the supervision department long ago, and the Immigration Department is an exception.

When you are busy, the lights are bright day and night; when you are free, you can work for ten minutes to complete a day's work, and the rest of the time will naturally have nothing to do.

When the ordinary staff are idle, Director Gold is worried. All are idle, what about the big immigration strategy?

Even if the cabinet government understands his difficulties and does not hold him accountable, but it fails to complete the task, the political stain will never be erased.

In the conference room, Gold put down the report in his hand: "Everyone, since the outbreak of the Russian-Prussian War, the number of applicants for immigration has dropped sharply, and this year's immigration plan has not been completed.

If we don't take action, the immigration work next year will not be optimistic.

Pushing it year by year, if it continues like this, the great immigration strategy formulated by the government will die prematurely.

The failure of the immigration strategy will directly affect the economic development of the colonies and the process of African localization. This consequence is not something we can afford.

From now on, everyone must move. Mobilize your personal connections and do as much advocacy for immigrants as you can. "

Everyone's face was bitter, obviously this was a chore. At this moment, everyone is nostalgic for the period of economic crisis, and there is a group of people who take the initiative to come to the door to build relationships without having to speak on their own.

A senior official objected: "Director, I'm afraid this will not work. We've put immigration ads all over the country, even in the most isolated mountain villages.

After so many years of publicity, immigration has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, it is difficult to leave the homeland, the people are unwilling to leave the homeland, and we cannot force them to emigrate. "

Not everyone is willing to toss, and many older officials, after losing the possibility of further progress, are no longer interested in such political tasks.

This is nothing, as long as the order is issued, everyone will still execute it.

What troubled Gold was that the phrase "difficult to work", if it didn't work, it would be useless to send everyone out to promote it.

After hesitating for a while, Gold said fiercely: "If you can't do it locally, go to other German regions to promote it. As long as it is a German immigrant, it can be counted as your political achievement.

In particular, the kingdom of Prussia, which is at war, can be used as a key propaganda area. Even if you are caught, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will bail you.

Let's discuss it, set a goal, and work in groups. All the people attending the meeting today will be the leaders of the propaganda group, including me. "

No way, the Austrian Immigration Service is already notorious in the German region, and governments around the world are strictly guarding them.

For example, the Kingdom of Prussia has long listed them as unwelcome objects. As long as they are staff members of the Immigration Department, they cannot even get visas.

However, there are countermeasures above and policies below. The Immigration Department is also a government department. It is normal to fabricate a new identity and get away with it.

It is not illegal to promote immigrants, and even if they are caught, the Berlin government has no right to deal with them, usually by notifying the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Austria is strong enough, and the Berlin government can't do anything on the surface, but secretly making them suffer a little is still indispensable.

Gold doesn't want to do this either, but there's no way, if they don't look like they're doing their best, how can the outside world know that they're trying harder?

Efforts and no effort, and the final strategic plan is not completed, those are two completely different concepts.

Taking the lead in a trip in person, no matter what the results are, is better than watching a group of men bask in the sun every day.

Retirement, Gold is not yet forty years old? As the head of the most important immigration department under the Colonial Ministry, he still has a long political life and can go further.

Naturally, Franz did not know how much pressure the large immigration strategy formulated at the beginning had put the Immigration Department under much pressure.

In fact, not only the immigration office is under great work pressure, but many government departments in Austria are under great work pressure.

These days civil servants are not as widespread as later generations, but their work tasks are not much less.

Take the Immigration Department as an example. The total number of staff is less than 1,500. The scope of work covers the entire European continent. At its peak, it organized up to 1.3 million immigrants a year to go to overseas colonies.

Of course, a large part of this is already organized by the colonial company, and the Immigration Department is only statistical data, coordinating the relationship between all parties.

What to do if manpower is insufficient? The answer, of course, is overtime. Don't dream about the eight-hour work system. When you are busy, you can be considered to be off the morning shift in ninety-sixth.

There is nothing unbalanced. In an environment where overtime is popular in the whole society, there is nothing to complain about. You must know that overtime in factories is actually more serious.

According to the statistics of the Vienna government, the average working time of urban workers is 9.1 hours a day, which is calculated on the basis of 365 days a year.

After deducting holidays and rest days, many people work more than 12 hours a day, and the work intensity is quite large.

Of course, the capitalists will not admit it. Many companies calculate working hours, and also deduct necessary rest time, meal time, toilet time, and even deduct mechanical intermittent time.

The purpose is very clear, less overtime pay. In another way of calculation, the daily working time is reduced by 1 to 2 hours, and the data looks a lot better all at once.

The worries of the Immigration Office do not affect the Austrian people, and everyone is still working hard for a dreamy tomorrow in the joy of increasing income.

There is a saying that goes well: happiness is all contrasted.

Compared with Prussia and Prussia, which are in the midst of war, compared with Greater France, which is in resource dilemma, and compared with many small countries that are precarious, the Austrian people naturally feel happiness.