Chapter 173 Industrial Regulation

Changes in people's hearts are the most difficult to understand. Franz naturally did not know about the episode in Pace City. As an emperor, as long as the world is at peace, the thoughts of individual people are not within his scope of consideration.

By now, the Austrian government bureaucrats have become accustomed to three assessment indicators: education, stability, and economy.

The easiest thing to do is to stabilize the society, the government is strong enough, the local power factions are all in their own way, and some bad elements that undermine social stability can be dealt with.

The second is "education". The rules and regulations are there, and it is enough to cooperate with the plan of the Ministry of Education and proceed step by step.

Of course, if you want to make achievements in this, you have to adapt to local conditions and work hard.

The most troublesome thing is to develop the economy. Prosperous big cities are okay. Now the domestic economy is developing rapidly, and big cities are the main force of economic growth. As long as appropriate local policies are formulated.

Economic development in remote areas will be much slower. In some places, they simply stand still. Even if the bureaucrats want to work hard, they don't know where to start.

Unbalanced regional economic development has become a problem that plagues the Austrian government, and it is still an unsolved problem.

Franz couldn't do anything about it, not to mention now, even in a hundred or two hundred years, these problems will still be a problem that plagues all countries in the world.

There are many factors restricting regional economic development, including: transportation, resources, climate, geographical environment, population...

In contrast, the easiest thing to solve is the traffic problem. The big deal is building roads. As long as you are willing to invest, it can be solved sooner or later.

There are also ways to solve the population problem, but the climate, resources, and geographical environment cannot be solved by manpower, at least in the 19th century.

Looking at the economic development report in his hand, Franz sighed helplessly.

Knowing that the government will put a lot of resources into big cities, it will exacerbate the imbalance of regional economic development, but it still needs to continue to do so.

There is no way to do this to get the highest rate of return. If you are thrown into the backcountry, not even a bubble will pop up, it is really hopeless.

"Prime Minister, why is all the investment in this water conservancy project in the plains?" Franz asked with concern.

Industrial development is all in big cities, which is no problem. Agricultural development cannot and only consider plain areas. Many mountainous areas also have development potential.

Due to political considerations, when the government reinvests, it must also take into account various regions.

Felix explained: "Your Majesty, it is mainly a matter of population distribution. At present, the population of Austria is mainly concentrated in the plains, and the population in other areas is relatively small.

From the perspective of optimal allocation of resources, we will focus on the development of plain areas with a large population. Other areas have less population and less competition pressure, and the demand for water conservancy projects is relatively small. "

Franz nodded. From the perspective of agricultural development, plain areas are more suitable for growing food, and there is a greater demand for water conservancy projects.

Mountainous areas are more suitable for planting cash crops according to different geographical conditions.

Don't think that growing cash crops is more profitable. It's the 19th century, and people's living standards are limited. Except for a small number of industrial raw materials that are in great demand, most cash crops are not suitable for vigorous development.

The market demand for high value-added agricultural products is really small in this era, and ordinary people cannot afford it at all, and there are too few people with purchasing power.

There is no need to promote off-season agriculture at all. The spontaneous production of farmers alone is enough to meet the market demand. If you want to develop greatly, please wait until everyone has money to consider it!

Franz thought for a while and said: "Make a national agricultural production report, and localities can carry out pilot economic agriculture according to the actual situation, and then gradually promote the fruitful ones. For example, raw silk can be grown in Italy.

In recent years, domestic grain production has grown rapidly, and we must take precautions. In case of unexpected changes, it will not be good for grain prices to hurt farmers. "

Food production is not the more the better, if not for the establishment of the Holy Roman Economic Union, Austria's agriculture would now have overcapacity.

In this context, it is necessary to promote some suitable cash crops in some areas.

The growth of the grain demand market in this era cannot keep up with the growth rate of grain production, and blindly increasing grain production is not suitable for Austria.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Felix replied.

Continuing to look at the report in his hand, Franz suddenly remembered the industrial pollution of later generations, and he did not want Vienna to become the London of today.

Environmental pollution caused by industrial development is inevitable, but where the pollution is, this can be controlled artificially.

For the sake of a better life for the rest of his life, Franz thought it necessary to limit Vienna's industrial development, even at the expense of the city's speed of development.

Franz thought for a while and said, "Vienna's development is so fast that within a few years, the city's population will exceed one million. The population has increased, but the city's supporting facilities have not kept up. Problems will happen sooner or later.

Taking into account the actual situation, the government has to find a way to divert some enterprises to other cities, and the enterprises that are more polluting should not be placed in Vienna. "

Diverting some of Vienna's resources into other areas, and creating a new industrial city, is very worthwhile in Franz's view.

Vienna is an inland city, and a lot of resources are concentrated here.

In fact, it is a waste of resources.

Urban development is not the bigger the better, but also the carrying capacity. In Franz's plan, there are two or three million people in Vienna in the future, which is the limit.

A giant with a population of more than 10 million, Austria does not need and does not have the ability to carry such a mega city.

Prime Minister Felix thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, capital inflows are all market adjustments, so it's not good for us to interfere like this?"

In this era, the economies of various European countries are naturally regulated by the market. Austria is an exception. The government has personally intervened in economic development.

However, this kind of intervention is not through executive orders, but through the formulation of some economic development policies to guide the market, or through state-owned enterprises.

What Franz is proposing now is to let the government intervene in the market through executive orders, which rarely happens in the world.

Franz shook his head and said: "Let's explain it to the outside world, it is said that Vienna's carrying capacity has reached its limit, the population growth rate is too fast, and our resource supply cannot be guaranteed.

Let the media publicize the adverse consequences caused by the rapid population growth, such as the decline in the per capita living area of ​​the city and the lack of material supply.

The government will come forward to do work for the capitalists, regardless of the factories that have been built, and let them move to other cities if they have not yet been built.

In the next five years, Vienna will no longer approve the establishment of any factories. Established factories must also undergo strict audits and must not engage in heavily polluting industries.

Regarding the problem of enterprise pollution, the government can set a level according to the harm to the environment, and optimize the configuration in the construction of factories.

With the development of industrial technology, heavy polluting industries will continue to increase in the future. If comprehensive consideration is not taken, a factory may destroy a city. "

Vienna is Austria's political center, economic center, cultural center, Franz does not want to add another industrial center.

Austria is more suitable for industrial development than Vienna, and there is absolutely no need for factories to cluster together.

If you want to invest in Vienna, you can set up a factory. Franz is not welcome from now on.

It is better to refuse entry now than to drive people out when factories are established in the future.

The problem of environmental pollution has not been realized in this age. In other words, the harm caused is not serious.

"Your Majesty, isn't it so serious, a factory can destroy a city?" Prime Minister Felix said in disbelief

"Is it difficult? For example, if our steel plant has a large enough production capacity, it can pollute a river by just discharging industrial waste water.

If the water source of a city is polluted, can the city still exist? ' Franz asked rhetorically.

This is not an alarmist, because the water source is polluted in future generations, and the final destruction of the city is not one or two.

It does not mean that the discharge of industrial wastewater into the river will only pollute the river water. In fact, the groundwater is also not immune.

If other places are polluted, it will be polluted, but not in Vienna. Franz was not ready to move the capital, and preventing micro-duplication has become an inevitable choice.

The pollution in Vienna is not serious now, and if it has been a few decades, it will not necessarily be. With the development of the chemical industry, one after another chemical plants are built up, and the consequences are serious.

London is a negative example. At its peak, tens of thousands of people died from smog every year. Franz couldn't live in that kind of environment, and he probably would have moved long ago.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Felix replied.

If you can't understand it, go back to understand it slowly. Anyway, the concept of "environmental pollution" with serious consequences has already been taken into his mind.