Chapter 1230: Changing Rice to Mulberry

Chapter 1230: Changing Rice to Mulberry

However, Franz did not think so. In the final analysis, it was still the saying "some people do business that will get them killed, but no one does business that will lose money".

In terms of personnel transportation, no country in the world had more say than the Austrian Empire at this time. At this time, conventional ships, whether cargo ships or passenger ships, could only carry 500-1000 people.

It would take at least 150-300 ocean-going ships to transport 150,000 people, and this was only the case of transporting personnel. Because the whole family was moving, the number of ships required would at least double if the luggage and cargo of these people were included.

So many ocean-going ships could not be gathered at once, and even if they were gathered, hundreds of ships could not be accommodated in ordinary ports.

Whether for safety or economic considerations, the ports of Texas could not be opened to French ships without restrictions, so they could only be transported in batches, and the detention costs incurred during the period would be difficult to estimate.

This only took into account sea and land transportation, not land transportation, and the issue of resettlement after returning home.

The French survivors in Texas were not refugees on the island of Ireland, and they would not accept it.

The entire plan conservatively estimates that it will cost 30 to 50 million francs, which is just a drop in the bucket for the French treasury before.

But France is experiencing an economic crisis at this time. Can Louis Napoleon really come up with so much money? Will the parliament agree?

Franz is also very clear about the infighting between Louis Napoleon and the Order Party. Both sides will not miss this excellent opportunity.

And even if the French government is really willing to pay this money, will the French in Texas be willing to leave?

The so-called attachment to the land, people engaged in agricultural work will have this kind of plot to some extent, not to mention that many lands are reclaimed by them personally, and the local complex must be even stronger.

So Franz thinks it is important to stimulate the French government, and it is also important to combine pulling and beating. The two signs of Louis Philippe and Count Chambord are still very useful. People who support the monarchy are very important to the German Confederation, and the opposite is a tumor.

Finally, Metternich felt that the German Confederation still had a misunderstanding of colonies. Many of them simply equated colonies with places of exile and seriously underestimated the value of colonies.

In addition to Austria, the Netherlands, and Denmark, the two "French kings" were the most important to Texas in the entire German Confederation. Their family background made their vision far higher than that of the royal family in the German region.

The rest of the German states sent revolutionaries and liberals, and they even wanted to set up a German version of the Continental Congress.

It's just that Metternich could deal with them in Europe, and he could also deal with them in North America.

In addition, the Germans who came to the New World generally had some national sentiments, and they hated the French very much, which caused the whole of Texas to fall into turmoil again.

On the other side of the world, an unprecedented peasant uprising was brewing. But no one thought that this failed show who pretended to be a ghost had any ability. After all, the Qing Dynasty was a behemoth like Russia.

Franz knew the scale and impact of the uprising, so he had already started planning. Kenya in later generations was the largest tea producing country in Africa, and Franz naturally would not waste this Feng Shui treasure land.

However, the tea varieties of this era should not have been improved, and the quality of the tea grown is really not good. Not to mention Far Eastern tea, even Indian tea is not as good as it.

But Kenya's black tea has a strong taste, which is very suitable for the taste of people outside the Austrian Empire.

At that time, because the British highly praised black tea, and some countries followed suit, the price of black tea in the European market was very high.

And the Austrian Empire is not sure whether it is because of the short coastline or the wallet problem. In short, it is one of the very few countries that imports more green tea than black tea.

In fact, the refreshing green tea is more suitable for the taste of Austrians, and they prefer matcha to black tea and green tea. No one can stop Austrians from adding sugar and honey to the drink.

In the German region, tea is not the main drink. People prefer coffee and beer. Only a few elites and nobles have the habit of drinking tea.

At this time, the Austrian Empire is the leader of the entire German region, and the elites naturally have to keep pace with the leader.

In addition to tea, the price of silk will also be popular. Soon the wealthy Jiangnan region will be corrupt, and the world's demand for silk will not decrease.

Fortunately, Franz had purchased a large amount of raw silk from Japan and Southeast Asia and stored it in the country. He was ready to make a fortune when the price rose.

Due to the agreement with the Tokugawa shogunate, the Austrian Empire actually monopolized Japan's raw silk, and the whole of Japan was carrying out a vigorous plan to change rice to mulberry.

After all, growing mulberry and raising silkworms is much more cost-effective than growing grain. On the other hand, the Austrians' grain is not only cheap but also tastes good. Japan's grain merchants and merchant groups were defeated and could no longer threaten the rule of the shogunate and daimyo.

Every year, the shogun would lead the daimyo to worship the west, but they didn't know why they had to worship the west because the grain was shipped from the east.

In short, the Austrians resolved their ruling crisis, improved their living standards by more than one level, and helped them defeat the arrogant British. They were simply like gods.

In fact, the plan to replace rice with mulberry trees was opposed by many Japanese military strategists and knowledgeable people as soon as it was introduced. They felt that the Austrian Empire had a sinister intention to make Japan completely lose its ability to resist and become a lamb to be slaughtered.

However, in the face of the rolling benefits, their voices were completely inaudible.

So these Japanese samurai established an organization called Isshin Group, vowing to save Japan from the brink of danger.

Their idea was to defeat the superior with the inferior, but the samurai did not dare to go to the heavily guarded official residence, and they did not dare to think about the merchant ships guarded by the army.

But the samurai were willing to give a try to a shrine with only women.

After repeated research, these samurai took the shrine built by the Austrians as their first move. After collecting enough intelligence, they decided to select 20 elite soldiers and leave a suicide note and launch a surprise attack at night.

They wanted to make the Austrian Empire lose face and make it shameless to continue to stay on this land.

However, with the sound of a dog barking, the imagined scene of long sword against naginata did not happen. There was a burst of gunfire, and all the twenty elite warriors were killed, except for one who had his limbs broken to survive.

When the news reached Edo, the 12th Shogun Tokugawa Ieharu fainted on the spot.

The elders of the Tokugawa family in the Imperial Palace were as sad as if they had lost their parents. They didn't know what the consequences would be if they offended this powerful ally.

What scared them even more was that twenty fully armed elite warriors couldn't even deal with a few women in a sneak attack at night. The gap between the two countries was like a world of difference.

In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate knew very well that the local daimyos were trying their best to please the Austrian Empire, and they were very likely to add insult to injury.

After all, it didn't matter to the Austrian emperor who ruled Japan, and there were many people willing to be his agent.