Chapter 585： Industrial Nationalization and Industrial Regionalization

Richard Metternich and Prince Metternich, you have sorted out all the advantages of the Austrian Empire.

"The region of the Kingdom of Bohemia has a large amount of iron ore and coal, which can serve as the industrial heart of the Austrian Empire!"

"Hungary and Galicia have abundant agricultural resources. If they are organized, they will surely become the most important granary of the empire."

"Lombardy-Venice is the most important textile industry base of the empire, and it can also provide a lot of finance for the empire."

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So, under the arrangement of Prince Metternich and Richard Metternich, the entire Austrian Empire was divided into several regions.

Among them, the Lombard-Venice Kingdom is the main, Slovenia, Croatia (due to the decisive action of Josip Jelacic during the 1848 Revolution, Croatia's independence is far greater than that of Croatia during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise) as auxiliary light industry, Tourism region.

Mainly Bohemia, Vienna, Buda, Pest (these three big cities were set up to prevent the dominance of Bohemia heavy industry) as the auxiliary heavy industry area.

There are also agricultural concentration areas and food processing industrial areas headed by the Hungarian Plain and Galicia.

There are also the newly occupied Danube Principality by the Austrian Empire (Metternich and his son have already regarded this as the inherent territory of the Austrian Empire) and Transylvania, because it is not as similar as Bohemia, Hungary, Lombardy-Venice. Areas with distinct characteristics do not have the same political significance as Vienna, Buda, and Pest, so Metternich and his son intend to build Transylvania and the Danube Principality into a commercial free trade zone around the Black Sea, of which Bucharest is also Prince Metternich has plans to build it into an "Advanced Industrial Demonstration Zone".

(mainly the most important strategic materials in Romania are in the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania. The cost of transporting coal resources from the Carpathian Mountains is far greater than the cost of mining in Bohemia. Before being applied to industrialization, the role of the Danube Principality was only to satisfy the monarch to expand territory and act as a buffer zone.

It’s just that Prince Metternich forgot one thing. The labor cost of the Carpathian Mountains is far less than that of Bohemia and Hungary. Where French capital is unwilling to set foot, it does not mean that the local capital of the Austrian Empire is unwilling to set foot in it. Sweatshops more draconian than Bohemia will be built in the Carpathians. )

Metternich's practice of assigning heavy industry, light industry, tourism and agriculture to different regions is actually a disguised practice of using economic means to bind nationalists from all over the world.

Except for the Lombardy-Venice Kingdom, all the lands could not survive alone without the Vienna government of the Austrian Empire, and at the same time, it also accelerated the industrialization trend of various nations in disguise.

Take the Kingdom of Bohemia as an example. If the future Kingdom of Bohemia leaves the Austrian Empire, then Bohemia will face competition from the German region while losing the huge market of the entire Austrian Empire. .

After the First World War, Czechoslovakia faced the dilemma of lack of market after the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, which led to Czechoslovakia having to cut wages for domestic workers to resist the invasion of foreign capital.

Once the industrialization of various ethnic groups is formed, the connection between the upstream industrial chain and the downstream industrial chain needs to rely on the regulation of the imperial government, and the Kingdom of Hungary can no longer influence the areas that it does not occupy the vast majority of.

In this case, the resistance of various ethnic groups will be smaller, and the imperial government is fully capable of using economic means to isolate a small group of resistance forces.

After Metternich told Richard Metternich about the responsibilities of the future industrialization of various regions and the means to prevent future national revolts.

Richard Metternich also recalled what Jerome Bonaparte said to him when he was at the train station.

Who is our enemy and who is our friend is the first priority of maintaining an imperial regime.

Who was the enemy of the Austrian Empire? Hungarians? Richard Metternich began to use dialectical analysis to analyze the problems facing the empire.

Do not! wrong! The Hungarian peasants were not enemies of the Empire! The real enemies of the empire are those big nobles who are entrenched in the land of Hungary, and they are the confidants of the empire!

Richard Metternich, who had figured out the internal enemies of the empire, said to Prince Metternich: "Father, I think the empire should distribute all the land that was confiscated from the Hungarian nobles to the Hungarians, and at the same time end the military rule of Hungary. ."

Prince Metternich looked at the son in front of him with a look of surprise. He didn't know whether this sentence was what his son realized or whether it was what Jerome Bonaparte conveyed to them through the mouth of his son.

"Tell me! What do you think?" Prince Metternich did not refute his son, but patiently asked Richard Metternich.

"Father, I thought of it through your division of the industrial area just now!" Richard Metternich responded to Prince Metternich, and then added: "Of course, there is also His Majesty Jerome Bonaparte. Those things you said to me at the train station!"

"What?" Prince Metternich asked curiously.

Richard Metternich repeats Jerome Bonaparte's words to Prince Metternich.

Prince Metternich showed a dignified expression on his face. After a while, he eased his eyebrows and praised: "As a descendant of the Bonaparte family, his achievements are likely to surpass his uncle!"

"Impossible!" Richard Metternich couldn't believe his old father's evaluation: "His Majesty Napoleon almost defeated the whole of Europe!"

"His Majesty Napoleon did almost defeat the whole of Europe, but he also almost destroyed the whole of Europe!" Prince Metternich shook his head and said, "A monarch only knows how to destroy, but if he can't build, he and his empire will sooner or later. Facing destruction. It is easy to destroy a thing, but it is difficult to rebuild it.

Although this Napoleon is far inferior to his uncle in the military field, his achievements in the diplomatic field and at home will greatly surpass his uncle. "

At this time, Prince Metternich basically no longer considered that the French Empire would one day threaten the Austrian Empire. He believed that anyone who could say this would take every step he took with careful consideration.

The Habsburgs no longer have to face the capricious monarchs like Napoleon. As long as the Austrian Empire has no ability to threaten the French Empire, the Habsburgs will always be the most loyal ally of the French Empire.

If the Austrian Empire is a threat to the French Empire... what a joke, unless the Austrian Empire can defeat the Prussian Kingdom in the north and the Russian Empire in the east.

Prince Metternich, who made a brief evaluation, once again led the topic to Hungary: "You are right! The Kingdom of Hungary really cannot use brutal military rule, which will only aggravate the resentment of the Hungarian people for the Habsburgs. ,but…"

Prince Metternich paused, spread out his hands and responded to Richard Metternich: "But do you think a monarch with a character like His Majesty would listen to you and end his military rule over Hungary?"

Richard Metternich shook his head subconsciously. He knew his own monarch too well, whether he was pedantic or arrogant, in short, he was a difficult monarch to get along with.

Although his willpower is weak and will be guided by external things (Jérôme Bonaparte showed a little dissatisfaction with the Austrian Empire, Franz Joseph brought his fiancée here), but he is often dissatisfied with the ministers he appoints. Maintain a ruthless style.

Such an emperor would never allow him to destroy the current political environment without setbacks.

Not to mention, Richard Metternich’s words of confiscating the land of the great nobles and distributing them to the peasants and ending Hungarian rule invisibly offended some Hungarian nobles and Bohemian civil servants headed by Bach.

Their interests in Hungary are contrary to the policy proposed by Richard Metternich.

"Father, what do you think we should do?" Richard Metternich was a little unwilling in his heart. He clearly saw the problems Hungary was facing, but he was unable to reform it.

"Richard, work hard to become prime minister!" Prince Metternich responded to Richard Metternich: "You can only change the entire empire with your own hands if you become the prime minister of the empire with more power than me! It's ours, the future is yours!"

"But, I..." After Richard Metternich hesitated for a few seconds, UU reading said to Prince Metternich, "Can I really do it?"

"Of course!" Prince Metternich nodded, comforting Richard Metternich in a confident tone: "You are my son!"

Hearing Prince Metternich's affirmation of himself, Richard Metternich nodded firmly.

"Okay! Hungary's problem is not something we can solve now!" Prince Metternich said to Richard Metternich: "Now let us father and son sort out the measures of imperial industrialization!"

Richard Metternich and Prince Metternich began to organize the industrialization of the empire in the form of official documents.

The contents include: 1. Completely liberate some serfs in Galicia and Hungary (serfdom in most regions of the empire has been abolished), so that they can participate in social production.

2. Establish a credit mortgage bank modeled on France to stimulate investment by private entrepreneurs within the empire.

3. Introduce the blast furnace, steam engine and textile machine technologies from Britain and France to improve the production efficiency of factories and textile mills.

4. The Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Railways (subordinate Railway Bureau) were established within the government, and public-private partnership was adopted to raise funds to attract foreign capital to build railways and highways.

5. Vigorously develop tourism and food industries to make them have high added value. (that is, Chanel, Hermes, etc.)

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