Chapter 530： Unlucky egg

Affected by the agricultural crisis, farmers in all European countries have a hard time. Families with savings are fine. Families without savings can only borrow.

Grain is grown at home, and the cost of living is not large. The biggest expenditure is government tax. Agricultural taxation in most areas is not heavy. There is also a way to cobble together. There is no money to owe. With.

Some countries have also reduced or exempted taxes or accepted tax offsets in kind. The bankrupt farmers are only a few, and most of them can survive.

If the agricultural crisis ends in 1873, then this is only the equivalent of a year of bumper agricultural products, which will cause prices to fall, and it will not shake the smallholder economy in Europe.

Obviously, this is impossible. In the spring of 1873, everyone went into production again with enthusiasm. In addition to the reduction in the area of ​​grain cultivation in some countries and regions, there are still many areas where the area of ​​grain cultivation has continued to increase.

This is not that farmers do not know that the price of grains is not good, and that the benefits of growing grains are not high. It is mainly because generations have been accustomed to this method of planting. If they do not grow grains, they do not know what to plant.

Austria is regarded as a country with a large reduction in food production capacity. The farms owned by state-owned agricultural companies have been ordered by Franz to stop important grains and uniformly change to cash crops.

If it was more than a decade ago, this executive order alone could allow Austria to survive the agricultural crisis.

Unfortunately, many people have joined the land redemption. For so many years, the area of ​​state-owned cultivated land held by the Vienna government has been less than 3% of the national cultivated land area.

In order to pursue higher yields, agricultural companies also rarely grow grain. Apart from growing a small amount of rations for their own consumption, most of them grow cash crops.

These cash crops do not need to be sold. Agricultural companies have their own processing plants. What they play is production + processing and integrated agriculture.

Not only state-owned agricultural companies, but many big aristocrats are also developing this model. In the face of benefits, everyone's learning ability is very strong.

Everyone adjusts the planting model as soon as possible according to market demand. Relatively speaking, this integrated agriculture is less affected by the agricultural crisis.

The Ministry of Agriculture originally planned that this year's grain production would fall by 5.2% to 8.6%, but the results were very embarrassing. Even if the government has already advertised it, calling on the people to reduce the area of ​​food cultivation, the big data of the end of spring ploughing tells them that they think too beautiful.

In the spring plowing of 1873, the area of ​​grain planted in Austria fell by only 1.3%, which is the result of fine-tuning by the Vienna government.

The data may not be accurate. In such a short period of time, the Vienna government has not been able to make comprehensive statistics. This is only the result of a sample survey.

Franz doesn't think how much this error will be, even if the error is as high as double, it is only 2.6%, which is more than double the booking target.

This is the result of Austria, and other countries can imagine. Not to mention the reduction in production, Franz feels that if they do not increase the area of ​​grain cultivation, even if the government regulates it hard.

The agricultural crisis will continue, and Franz is prepared to do so, which is also planned by the Vienna government.

Use the agricultural crisis to impact the agricultural production systems of European countries, promote the land merger movements of various countries, and create a large number of bankrupt farmers.

The colonial ministry is ready to accept a total of 10 million European immigrants in the next 15 years to provide labor for the development of Austrian colonies.

This is also no way out. The German region has long been fooled away from wanting to immigrate, and Austria is almost the same.

From the peak of immigrants every year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants are generated each year in Austria. The German Federation can provide about 5,000 to 6,000 migrants each year. Other European countries will contribute about 20,000 to 30,000 migrants.

Of course, the entire European continent does not only immigrate every year. The problem is that these people cannot go to the Austrian colonies. Both Britain, France, and Hopsey immigrated in Europe. There are also a bunch of countries in the Americas that are also the choice of immigrants.

Every year, 70,000 to 80,000 immigrants will be scattered in the more than 20 million square kilometers of Austrian colonies.

In this regard, Franz Fudge and the Prussia opened overseas colonies, and are also grabbing immigrants with themselves.

Throughout Europe, Russia is the only country with the greatest potential to become a major exporter of immigrants, and the potential of the German region has basically been squeezed out.

The agricultural crisis was the best method. Alexander II's great wasteland really solved the farmers' land problem.

But the tsarist government liberated serfs for too short a time, and before these people had time to accumulate wealth, they encountered an agricultural crisis.

In terms of anti-risk capabilities, these Russian farmers who have just acquired land still owe the government a debt, which is undoubtedly the lowest.

The land is newly reclaimed and the yield is relatively reduced. Russia's natural environment is not good. Many places can only be planted for one season, and the cost of food planting is relatively high. Subject to transportation and food transportation difficulties, it is difficult to create economic value.

According to preliminary estimates, the agricultural crisis of 1872 created tens of thousands of bankrupt farmers in the Russian Empire. Such a person, naturally can not set off the storm, was immediately absorbed by the Russian industry and commerce.

Want to absorb immigrants, is it still early? Only with the emergence of a large-scale bankruptcy that exceeds the absorption limit of the Russian industry can a large outflow be possible.

Otherwise, go to Russia and grab labor with Russian local capitalists. They are earth snakes, and safekeeping makes people learn to be human again.

This plan does not include Austria. Although with the development of the times, in order to reduce production costs, land merger is the best choice, Franz is not ready to do so in the country.

Stability overwhelms everything. In front of "stability," everything else must lean back. Boil the frog in warm water, the subtle influence is the best choice. Letting farmers go bankrupt directly to increase immigration is the next step.

Putting down the information in his hand, Franz looked at Hols and asked: "The grain reduction plan failed. What is the Ministry of Agriculture prepared to do?"

If you cannot reduce output, you can only increase consumption. Prior to this, the Vienna government had a plan to develop animal husbandry, which is now beginning to take shape.

The main reason for not being able to grow and develop is that the market consumption capacity has not kept up. Comparing the latter generation with a per capita meat consumption of over 100 kilograms, Austria now only reaches one third.

It is not that the people do not like to eat meat. The problem is that everyone has a limited income and cannot afford to eat meat at all. Being able to manage enough bread is already a brilliant achievement in the reform of the Vienna government.

Franz's promised meals for compulsory education students has been implemented. After the fall in agricultural product prices, students have increased their supply of 300 grams of pork every week.

Adding 550 grams of fish, 100 grams of chicken or goose, this intake is enough to meet nutritional requirements. Continue to increase, maybe Austria will be rich in fat.

In fact, per capita meat consumption is also a fallacy, which is usually averaged out. According to Franz, sailors and fishermen have the highest consumption of meat products in Austria, followed by capitalists and aristocrats.

It's not that sailors and fishermen are richer, mainly because it is relatively easy to obtain meat products at sea. The cheapest in their hands is probably fish, and the staple food is often fish.

People in coastal areas have higher meat consumption than inland areas. Take the port of Venice as an example. The local fish price is less than one tenth of that of beef. The main meat product of civilians is fish.

If you get to the inland areas, the difference will not be so big. Especially in the Hungarian steppe, the price of beef is only five times that of fish, and the consumption of beef by the people is relatively high.

This height is actually very limited, and most people still cannot open their belly to eat. Even in the most economically developed Vienna, the annual per capita consumption of beef does not exceed 20 kg.

However, the per capita consumption of meat products in Vienna has exceeded 85 kg, ranking among the top five in all cities, greatly boosting the per capita level in Austria.

In terms of cost, increasing fishing is the cheapest way to increase the consumption of meat products.

Many issues can not only consider the cost, but also the ripple effects. It is not a joke to blindly increase the supply of fish meat and overwhelm the domestic animal husbandry industry, but it may actually happen.

The reason is only one word-poor! For most ordinary workers, cheap is the most important, and eating habits are not impossible to change.

Minister of Agriculture Halls: "His Majesty, the Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to promote livestock breeding, increase food consumption, and enrich farmers' tables."

Franz heard the implication, that is, sacrificing livestock. Once the livestock breeding volume increases greatly, the overcapacity of the livestock industry will appear.

However, the scale of farmers' free-range farming is usually not too large, and they can only eat it if they cannot sell it.

In short, it is artificially increasing food consumption. By the way, the price of meat products will be lowered to increase the meat consumption of the people.

Only in this way, the farmer engaged in animal husbandry will be tragedy. Squeezed profits are inevitable, and you will lose money if you don't.

There is no way, there are always people whose interests will be damaged. Compared with the wide-ranging agriculture, Austria's animal husbandry is much smaller and smaller.

This is only theoretically feasible, and there are actually many more problems. After contemplating for a while, Franz shook his head: "Have the Ministry of Agriculture investigated in depth?

As far as I know, many farmers have the habit of raising livestock, especially poultry. Even if it is promoted, are farmers willing to feed with grain?

For example, if you raise geese, you can grow them up with grass even if you don't feed them. Cattle and sheep are similar. If it is a small-scale farming, feeding grass is the same.

As a result, the output of meat products has increased, but the consumption of food may not be able to increase. What does the Ministry of Agriculture rely on to complete the plan? "

Franz was not a fool, he had come from the countryside in his previous life. As a child, economic conditions were not good. No one used food to feed chickens, cows and pigs.

In spite of this, more labor needs to be invested, and livestock will grow longer, so everyone insisted.

Compare heart to heart. The economic conditions of Austrian farmers this year have not been much better. Everyone has just eaten a few years. It is almost an instinct to save food.

If economic conditions are better, the Ministry of Agriculture's plan is expected to be less problematic to implement. It really isn't working. You can also use grain to make wine.

European beer and wine consumption is large, and white wine consumption is small. Except for Russia, most European people are not interested in white wine.

Otherwise, Franz would have taken the grain to make wine. Even if it cannot be consumed in a short time, it can be stored for a long time. The longer the storage time, the better the taste.

Unfortunately, the most consumed beer is not suitable for long-term storage. Liquor can be stored without customers. The Russians also have a surplus of food. They have already produced it themselves and do not need to buy it at all.

At the current domestic consumption level, Franz feels that it is more cost-effective to burn down the food than to use it for large-scale brewing, at least it can be compensated.

The Minister of Agriculture, Halls, was dumbfounded that the carefully prepared plan had such a large loophole. If it is implemented, the agricultural crisis will not be resolved and the livestock crisis will be detonated again.

Now is the era of imperialism, what can we do if we cannot resolve the crisis? Of course, the most commonly used method is external transfer. The reality is so cruel, this is the style of the powers these days.

Among the powers, Austria is most concerned about eating. But in essence Austria is still a member of the great powers. Now that it is in crisis, the Vienna government will naturally be tempted to find a bad luck to bear the losses.

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