In South Africa, since the large number of gold mines were discovered, a labor crisis has occurred in the local area. Many people have joined the gold dig team in order to get rich overnight.

With the emergence of the first wave of households, the gold rush craze was ignited. Farms closed, shops closed, and even many employees in the colonial government resigned to go to gold rush.

Shortage of people has become the biggest problem for the colonial government at present. Although the number of foreign populations has increased sharply in recent times, it is still useless. These people are gold diggers and will not work in the local area with peace of mind.

Even the arrival of these outsiders disrupted the order in South Africa. In order to maintain local stability, Governor Fickney doubled the police force in South Africa.

"His Governor, 386 more staff members of the government submitted their resignation letters last month, including 136 police officers, and 194 resignation applications have been approved in accordance with regulations.

In the remaining short period of time, we can only force the person to stay. According to regulations, this time must not exceed 3 months, which puts great pressure on our recruitment work.

Affected by the gold rush, the number of people applying for government public officials has decreased significantly. The Ministry of Personnel has reduced the recruitment standards to a minimum and is still unable to complete the recruitment task.

The Ministry of Personnel recommends seeking assistance from the country, and the central government will coordinate to draw some people from other parts of Africa to take over the work to ensure the normal operation of the colonial government."

Colonial government employees are not allowed to resign just because they want to resign. The government signed a labor contract like an individual. If you want to leave, you must complete the work handover according to regulations. Generally, this time is one month, and it can last up to three months.

The government cannot recruit people, and this kind of thing has not happened in Austria for many years. Since the Vienna government implemented compulsory education, the government has never lacked public officials.

Of course, the colonies are special, and jobs in some remote areas are still unpopular. However, as long as the standards are lowered and the treatment is increased, these problems no longer exist.

This will be different. The gold rush has too much impact. Young people are reluctant to apply for government public officials if they want to make a fortune.

It doesn’t mean that the government cannot find people, but mainly because it cannot find qualified public officials. No matter how low the standards are, basic abilities must be guaranteed, and some positions still have special skills requirements.

Governor Fickney frowned. This situation had been going on for several months, but unexpectedly there was a tendency to become more and more intense.

"According to your plan, we also ask the Central Government Organization Department to recruit 1,000 government employees and 3,800 veteran police officers from the country.

Anyone who is willing to come will have a salary and benefits that are twice the average domestic average of the same position, as well as bonuses and benefits that refer to the Vienna government employees’ standards.”

If a colony is difficult to recruit people, then recruit them from the country. With the emergence of gold mines, the South African colonial government has also become a wealthy unit and can afford money.

Director of Personnel Charlie: "Yes, Governor!"

After a pause, the Director of Mining Caspa Temso brought out a statement: "His Governor, this is the development report in recent times.

Last month, 12 gold mines were found in South Africa, all of which were of high quality. The ore gold content exceeded 5 grams per ton, and two of them had reserves even exceeded 50 tons.

So far, 78 gold ore large and small have been discovered in South Africa, and the total gold reserves with mining value have been initially judged to have exceeded 3,800 tons.

In addition, 5 diamond mines, 7 coal mines, 2 copper mines, 5 iron mines, 3 manganese mines, 1 chromium mine, and 2 phosphate mines were also discovered...

What's even more rare is that these ores are of very good quality. Judging from the current data, South Africa has become the region with the richest mineral resources in the Empire.

This is the advantage of South Africa, but it is very difficult to develop these minerals. The biggest problem is the shortage of people, followed by transportation.

To solve the transportation problem, we must first solve the human resources problem. According to the railway department's plan, if we want to solve the transportation problem within ten years, we need to provide at least 200,000 laborers.

To develop these minerals, more labor is needed. Without two or three million labor, it is impossible to effectively develop South Africa's mineral resources.

However, the reality is very bad. Not to mention two or three million laborers, even 200,000 laborers can't be made up in South Africa.

The existing labor resources are not enough to even mine gold. If we want to continue to develop, we still need a large population."

"Lack of people" is a common feature of all Austrian colonies and a common problem faced by major colonial empires.

No, the British are exceptional. They have Indian human resources supplements, and as long as they are willing to invest capital, it is enough.

Austria is different. Africa originally had a small population. With the previous labor export policy, over the past decade, Austria Africa has transported a total of 4.3 million labor force to the Americas and 1.1 million labor force to the Persian region.

The number of local indigenous people has decreased dramatically, and indigenous tribes are no longer visible in the West African region developed earlier.

At present, it is only East Africa, and South Africa has a slightly larger indigenous tribes, but the total population will definitely not exceed 3 million.

This can be seen during the British-British War that the late war actually developed to the point where cannon fodder was short. The whole of Austria and Africa were all together, and it was not enough to use the human sea tactics to push Cape Town.

What caused the sharp decline in population is not only labor exports, but more importantly, the population birth rate is reduced. The infamous "Dingkou Tax" is the culprit.

In order to increase fiscal revenue, the colonial government imposed a tax of 1 arsenal per person on all indigenous tribes, which directly led to a reduction in the birth rate of local people.

Governor Fickney smiled coldly: "The country has promised to solve the problem of shortage of people for us. The European agricultural crisis has broken out. It will take a shortage of farmers to go bankrupt. The country will give priority to immigration to South Africa.

In addition, the Nanyang Regional Colonial Government also promised to sell us 100,000 laborers in the next five years. The Arabian Peninsula Governor's District will have major actions in the near future, and they will deal with all prisoners of war to us at a low price.

If you want to increase your labor force in the short term, you can only tap internal potential. This will increase the tax on the tuition tax to 1 ASCHEU per person per month, and send it to me for mining if you can't afford the money.

The scope of Dingkou tax can be expanded, and all non-Austrian citizens are tax targets. Foreign immigrants can be given a one-year tax period.

If you learn German within one year, you can apply for naturalization. The inconvenience period of naturalization assessment will be 3 years, and you can also be exempt from taxes during this period.

If the assessment fails, either get out of here or stay and pay taxes. If you want to take advantage of us, there is no such easy thing!”

In order to increase the labor force, Viscount Ficney is ready to leave no room for any room. Each person has a monthly tax of 1 ASCHENG, which is simply forcing locals to go to mining and have to work hard, otherwise they will not be able to collect the tax of 1 ANSCHENG for the whole family.

Even foreign gold diggers have not escaped. If they cannot become explosive households within the first year, it is better to learn German early and apply for naturalization, otherwise the D-mouth tax will hurt their wallets.

Love comes or not. Anyway, Governor Ficney has never welcomed these unruly gold diggers. As a traditional aristocrat, Viscount Ficney hates speculators and outbreakers the most.

Although he made a fortune in gold mines, this did not affect Viscount Ficney's personal concept. Perhaps he was ruthless during the colonial period, but when he returned to Austria, Viscount Ficney strictly abides by the aristocratic standards.

This concept of double standards is not only Viscount Ficney, but many colonists have it.

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Vienna, the cabinet has become busy since the Austrian government decided to find a bad guy to transfer the crisis.

War is not a joke, it requires comprehensive weighing of pros and cons. The European continent finally stabilized, and Franz did not want to cause chaos in the world, so he had to be cautious when choosing a partner.

Prime Minister Felix: "Your Majesty, the situation is a bit complicated now. The only people who are suitable for us to do it are Poland and the Ottoman Empire, which are not very ideal.

By taking action against Poland, we can reduce a competitor in the international food market and alleviate the world agricultural crisis, but the sequelae are very serious.

First of all, the Russians may participate, and the Kingdom of Prussia will not be idle. The Kingdom of Poland is very poor. If we take military action, it is unlikely that we can directly obtain compensation, and we can only rely on cede land to recover the cost of war.

In this way, half of them may have the fourth division of Poland by the Pakatan and Austria, Russia and Poland, and forty percent may have the Pakatan and Poland merger, and only one-tenth of them may have the opportunity to maintain the status quo.

We also need to consider the reactions of Britain and France. They will not want to see us continue to grow bigger. Besides, Poland owes them a lot of money and if this debt is lost, the financial circles of both countries will cause trouble for us.

The situation faced by attacking the Ottoman Empire is also very complicated. It still involves Britain, France and Russia. Britain and France are also unable to avoid debt issues, and there are also strategic conflicts between countries.

Especially with Britain and Russia, the Tsarist government has been waiting for us to take action to take the lead in order to take the Ottoman Empire and retake the Transcaucasus region.

It would be fine if we did not occupy the territory of the Ottoman Empire. If we seized the Middle East and extended the sphere of influence to the Persian region, the British's sensitive nerves would probably be stimulated again.

They are still worried about the South African issue. If the British are stimulated again, the relationship between Britain and the Austrians will be over."

Franz also had a headache. The current situation is indeed not suitable for rash action. No matter which unlucky person is chosen, Austria cannot maximize its benefits.

"If you can't eat mutton, you will still get flirted with it." No matter how you look at it, Austria is suffering, which does not conform to Franz's style of acting.

After wandering around for a few steps, Franz suddenly turned around: "If you want to get benefits, you have to pay the price. This agricultural crisis hurts not only us, but also the Russians and Prussia.

Either everyone join forces to face the pressure from Britain and France together; or everyone holds it together to see who has stronger ability to withstand pressure.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs communicates with Pratt. Russia and the two countries, and we will cooperate with whoever bids higher. If the profit is too low, then we will give up the plan.

With our family foundation, it is not a big problem to last for three to five years, so there is no need to rush for a while. Pratt and Russia can't last for so long. Whoever can't stand it first will let anyone make the first bird!"

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Chapter completed!