Development of South Africa is also one of Austria's measures to deal with the agricultural crisis. The new jobs are just right to resettle bankrupt farmers to avoid the emergence of unemployment waves.

Europeans have always been very interested in gold. Gold rushing is the easiest way to make a fortune in this era. As long as you are lucky enough, you can make a fortune.

Austria first immigrated to Africa and broke out. Five out of ten started through gold mines, and two of the remaining five were responsible for logistics services for gold mines.

In this era, colonies in various countries were short of immigration, and to stand out from many competitions, publicity was the key.

A beautiful painting cake is essential. As for whether you can find gold mines to make money when you arrive? Franz can say with certainty that 99% of people cannot make money.

There is a joke that goes: the two brothers went to find gold mines, but when they arrived at the place, they found that they could not prospect the mine at all.

This is the fact. Unless it is an open-pit gold mine and has a very high gold content, you can see it at a glance, otherwise ordinary people will not be able to discover it even if they encounter it.

Now the gold mine has been discovered. There are countless prospecting teams in South Africa. The domestic powerful people are also organizing prospecting teams. Most of the gold mines belong to these people.

If the Vienna government had not activated the gold mine acquisition function, ordinary people could sell the gold mine directly to the government if they discovered it. Otherwise, even if they discovered it, they would not be able to mine it, and they might even cause death.

Seeing that everyone is very active, Franz is very salty. Others want to find gold mines to make a fortune, so he invests in farms and plantations in the local area.

As it turns out, time travelers are not omnipotent. At a point on the map, they are thousands of square kilometers to the place, and the deviation is 180 kilometers.

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

It is not much different to relying on paper to find gold mines and luck. It is very famous for gold mines in later generations, and there is no name in this era.

Even if the name appears, after Franz's butterfly effect, God will know how big the error is.

Since that's the case, it's better to forget about salted fish. Gold diggers may not be able to make money, but logistics will definitely make money.

Invest in farms, plantations, and sell bread, cheese, fruits, vegetables, meat products and other daily necessities nearby, but you will definitely not be able to pay for it.

Don’t look at the outbreak of the agricultural crisis and the price of agricultural products in various places plummeted, but this has little impact on the inland areas of Africa.

Grain can be transported from outside, cheese, fruits, vegetables, and fresh meat products. It is impossible for these things to be transported from outside, right?

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

If you are lucky, maybe there is a gold mine under the farm. Who can tell you this? In West Africa, there were more than one minerals discovered under the royal plantation established by Franz.

Not to mention that gold mines are everywhere in South Africa. It is correct to buy land near gold mines. There are gold mines underground, and you can make small profits without gold mines.

News of a large number of gold mines found in South Africa is still circulating in small circles, and the outside world is still in panic about the agricultural crisis.

In Berlin, after the agricultural crisis broke out, the Prussian government became nervous. This was related to its own interests and could not be careless.

I don’t know when Austria has become a weather vane for European agriculture, and William I also stared at the Vienna government.

Seeing the Vienna government introduce fallow laws, limiting the increase in grain planting area and calling on all countries to reduce production together, William I did not feel relaxed, but instead became even more troublesome.

Cutting grain output is not a matter of one sentence, it also involves the interests of all aspects, and the most important thing is the interests of the aristocrats of agriculture.

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

If the Russians are the craziest to open up land, Austria follows closely behind, then the Kingdom of Prussia ranks third. In recent years, the arable land area of ​​the Kingdom of Prussia has also increased by half.

Everyone is very enthusiastic about growing grain. The land that was originally wasted in the hands of the Russians has now been efficiently utilized by the Junker nobles.

Now the trouble is coming, food overcapacity. This is not a surplus. According to data released by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, the rate of food overcapacity in Europe exceeds 21%.

No matter how overcapacity of food production capacity is, grain importers cannot cut their own production capacity, and they are all grain exporters who need to compress production.

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

The culprit for this reason is the Russians. According to the estimates of the Russian agricultural planting area, if all of these foods can be transported out, even if other agricultural exporters stop exporting food, Europe will still not be short of food.

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

With the increase in agricultural population in various countries, the amount of land reclamation is also increasing, and agricultural technology is increasing, grain output in various countries is increasing, but the growth rate of the market is far less than that.

Take Greater France as an example. Because France's local grain production has increased, foreign imports are expected to drop by two percentage points this year.

These data were released by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and are announced to the public every year. The reputation has been established, and the accuracy of William I has no doubts.

This is not the first time that all countries have called on them to jointly reduce their food production capacity. Since 1870, the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning for overcapacity of food production.

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

"The agricultural crisis is really coming. The Austrians have taken practical actions to reduce production capacity. Today I ask everyone to come and discuss whether we should follow up."

Deep down, William I agreed to reduce food production capacity. If the market does not return to normal, no one should think of having a good life.

"Your Majesty, Austria is the world's largest agricultural exporter, and after the outbreak of the agricultural crisis, they were hit the most.

It is actually a forced way to reduce production now. Prices in the international grain market have collapsed, and now the more exports are, the more you lose.

On the surface, it was the UK-Russia Agreement that triggered this agricultural crisis. In fact, Russian food has just flowed into the international market, causing the hemorrhage of grain prices to collapse, and Austria's dumping activities in the first half of the year.

According to the information we have collected, so far, Austria has vented 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 81% of the total transaction volume in the international grain market in 1871. If the Vienna government does not restore its strategic reserves and purchases grain from the market in the second half of the year, the price will continue to collapse.

It seems to be just to block the Russians and prevent them from returning to the international market, but in fact it is an excuse to drag everyone into the water together.

If no measures are taken, international food prices will continue to be sluggish in the next two or three years. During this period, the more food you sell, the more you lose. If you don’t sell it, you will not be able to recover funds.

Our share of international food exports is only 6.6%, and even if we reduce production capacity, it cannot save the situation. Unless the Russians are willing to reduce production, the crisis will not end in a short period of time.

The most urgent task is to protect the local market. I suggest reducing and exempting agricultural tax and agricultural product export tax, and at the same time increasing agricultural product import tariffs. If necessary, we can follow Austria and adopt the minimum purchase price of grain to protect farmers' income."

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

"The Prime Minister has easily increased tariffs on agricultural products, but the chain reaction caused has to be considered.

The Polish-Pokém relations are at a critical moment. Now that tariffs on agricultural products are raised, what will the Poles think?

If they raise tariffs on my country's industrial and commercial products imports in a tit-for-tat way, the agricultural crisis will also affect industry.

Don’t forget that our fiscal situation is already very bad. If we do this, the fiscal deficit will increase significantly this year. Maybe it won’t take long before we can declare bankruptcy.”

It’s not that Gorman is unwilling to protect agriculture, the problem is that as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he knows very well how crisis the finances in Prussia are.

It is only a reduction of agricultural taxes and agricultural product export tariffs, and the fiscal revenue of the Kingdom of Prussia will be reduced by more than 56 million marks, which is already very dangerous.

If the import tariffs on agricultural products are increased, which leads to Poland increasing import tariffs on Prussian industrial products, Prussia's fragile industry and commerce will also be severely damaged.

This will trigger a chain reaction. Maybe it will be an industrial crisis, and the final losses will never be a small number.

There is no colonial market for Prussia to discharge floods, and its products are not competitive internationally, and the Polish market is crucial to them.

Moltke smiled indifferently and explained as if nothing had happened: "It's not that serious, the Poles dare not turn against us."

It is easy to deal with them. Just inspire the radical Polish groups and ask them to make territorial demands to Austria, and we will come out and deal with the aftermath.

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

This explanation left Gorman speechless. There was no way. Poland is not a normal country now, and it was in chaos.
Chapter completed!