The busiest thing in the economic crisis should be the Immigration Agency under the Colonial Ministry. From the end of 1857 to the beginning of 1859, in just over a year, the Immigration Agency's achievements exceeded the total of the past few years.

In the face of survival, many people have to choose to leave their hometowns, among which the most immigrants to the Balkans, occupying four layers of the total number of immigrants.

This is the result of the government's intentional control, otherwise more than 80% of immigrants would choose to go to the Balkans.

There are only two types of people who voluntarily go to the African colonies: one is ambitious to make a fortune; the other is the jingling of poverty, and survival is a problem, and they have to go for a living due to their livelihood.

Immigration to the African continent can sign employment contracts with the government, planters, or miners, and have a stable income, so you don’t have to worry about the livelihood of the family.

Many people directly regard going to the African continent as working outside. Anyway, it is not a mandatory requirement for immigration. When the contract expires, stay if you are willing. If you don’t want to stay, you can come back.

For those who have had no meals after eating, as long as they can have a share of income to support their families, it is good, and the place will be farther away.

After completing the personnel adjustment, Franz said: "The Ministry of Colonial Affairs, talk about the development of the colony."

Colonial Minister Josip Yelachic replied: "His Majesty, we have now opened up colonies in Guinea Bend, Nigeria, Congo, Cameroon, Libya and other regions.

68 colonial strongholds were established, with 18 cities, more than one million immigrants to the colony, and directly controlled the colony's territory area for more than three million square kilometers.

Among them: The Gulf of Guinea has 25 colonial strongholds, including 8 cities, and the actual controlled territory area is about 700,000 square kilometers. The total local population is 1.848 million, of which 284,000 immigrants are the rest.

The Congo region has 14 colonial strongholds, including 4 cities, with an actual controlled territory area of ​​about 680,000 square kilometers. The total population of the jurisdiction is about 3 million, of which about 318,000 immigrants, and the rest are local indigenous people.

The Nigerian colony has just been opened, and we have only established 8 colonial strongholds in the local area, including 3 cities, with a territory area of ​​about 280,000 square kilometers. The total population of the jurisdiction is about 2.18 million, of which about 185,000 immigrants are.

The Cameroon region was developed even later, and there are only 5 colonial strongholds, including 2 cities, with an actual controlled territory of more than 100,000 square kilometers. The total population of the jurisdiction is about 560,000, and there are only 58,000 immigrants.

The Libyan region is still implementing the strategy of changing birds because the locals' boycotts are much slower than expected. About 150,000 people are still stranded in the local area, which may be delayed until next year to complete the plan.

We have controlled all cities in the region, transported 86,000 migrants, and have all coastal oasis, nominally controlling more than one million square kilometers of desert.

The resources of the Sinai Peninsula are too barren, and we did not develop them. We only transported 2,000 immigrants, nominally dominated the peninsula of more than 60,000 square kilometers.

Islands in Europe are directly included in the local rule and are not counted within the scope of the colonies.

In further overseas areas, colonial strongholds were spontaneously established by the people and have not been included in government management yet.

Up to now, except for the Gulf of Guinea colonies that have achieved balance between income and expenditure due to gold mine excavations and have a small surplus, other regions are in a state of loss.

Overall, in 1858, our colony's total income was negative 9.85 million, and immigration expenditure and military expenditure for foreign troops still accounted for the majority.

It is expected that the early development of the Congo region will achieve a balance of income and expenditure within the next two to three years. The rest of the colonies will take a certain amount of time, and it will take at least five years to counter-replenish the finances."

Franz nodded. Obviously, the Austrian colonies still have deep potential to tap. Now the colonial government controls only a small part of it, and there is still a large amount of land waiting for them to occupy.

Franz is not that optimistic about relying on colonial income to counter-fund the central government's finances. As long as the colonies can balance income and expenditure, it will be profitable.

After hesitating, Franz said: "The proportion of the population in the colonies is a big problem, and the large number of natives is not conducive to our long-term rule.

Next, the focus of the Colonial Ministry’s work can be on immigration, and send these indigenous people to the American countries as much as possible to alleviate the hidden dangers of our rule.

If the progress is not going well, then expel them, and you can grasp this yourself.

Anyway, I don’t care what method you use. The indigenous population will be reduced by three levels within five years, and within ten years our immigrants will exceed the indigenous people.”

Under normal circumstances, this is a nearly impossible task. However, it is not difficult to do this in this era. After all, there is no need to doubt the moral integrity of the colonists.

Even if they don’t know what to do, they can learn from their English and French counterparts, especially the British, who are most experienced in this regard.

"Yes, your majesty!" Colonial Minister Josip Jelachic replied in a deep voice.

Even though he knew that this task was not easy to do, but the emperor had already given the order, Josip Yelachic would not refuse. After all, it does not mean that he could not do it. If he didn't try it, how could he know that it would be possible?

What made Franz laugh and cry was that after the economic crisis broke out, the enthusiasm of the nobles to invest in plantations suddenly increased.

Compared with unfamiliar industries and finance, people are more willing to invest in industries they are familiar with. After all, the returns of plantations are relatively stable and the risks are not that great.

There are so many immigrants on the African continent now, but not just government-organized, but many of them were recruited by these planters.

The royal family is one of the best. As the earliest investment colony, tens of thousands of hectares of plantations have been developed.

Everyone is keen on growing wheat, cotton, cocoa, and coffee, which are all industries that can see returns in the short term.

In contrast, Franz, the existence of a key investment in rubber plantations, has become an alternative. Rubber is not as useful as later generations, and its investment cycle is long, so it is naturally unpopular.

If there were enough manpower, Franz was willing to plant cotton and coffee that made faster profits, but unfortunately he really lacked people now. In desperation, he had to plant rubber trees first.

At present, the royal plantation has recruited more than 30,000 workers, but it is still a drop in the bucket and has to use some local indigenous workers.

Recruiting high-quality workers from overseas is still underway. In this era, it will take more than half a year to go to Asia, and it is difficult to think about it quickly.

Franz is now very worried that if no restrictions are imposed, planters and mine owners will soon become obsessed with cheap local labor, and he does not want to see slavery revival in the colonies.

Now, it is just because everyone has no experience and these indigenous people have not been domesticated and often have sudden and injured people and fleeing incidents that have caused farmers and planters to have doubts about the large-scale use of indigenous workers.

The gold mine owners have begun to use local labor on a large scale and suppress the resistance with the powerful force in their hands.

Franz didn't believe how high everyone's moral integrity would be in the face of interests. What should I pay attention to is to learn from royal plantations and hire people from the chiefs of the indigenous tribes with salt, cloth and other materials.

Those who are cruel and ruthless are sent to capture slaves directly. The African continent is so chaotic that there are too many places that the colonial government cannot manage. There are many gold mine owners who work as part-time slave owners and part-time slave traders.

In the short term, this is indeed a good thing, reducing production costs and gaining more benefits.

From a long-term perspective, the large-scale use of slave labor will seize immigrant jobs, which not only seriously hinders the economic development of the colonies, but also increases social conflicts.

Another reason that cannot be said is that Franz wants to cheat his biggest competitors and weaken their development potential.

Historically, nearly half of the immigrants who went to the United States during this period came from Germany, Italy, and Southern Europe. Now most of these immigrants have been diverted by Franz.

The labor shortage in the United States is more serious than in history. Against this background, industrial owners in the north have greater conflicts with planters in the south.

Franz, who is willing to help others, naturally has to help them. If there are not enough white immigrants, they use black immigrants to make up; if the quality is poor, they use quantity to make up.

Just think about it, half of the population immigrating to the United States every year are black, so the future will definitely be very interesting. What is the point of paying a little price for this?

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Chapter completed!