Agriculture accounts for too much economic output, with the number of people employed in the entire industrial chain reaching tens of millions. Once the impact is not resisted, the Austrian economy will be severely damaged.

Despite the colonies, the local area is still the core. It is far from time to transfer the primary industry. Before the birth of fertilizers, the dividend period of Austrian agriculture will not end.

Due to actual needs, Franz can only promote the development of the aquaculture industry in advance and artificially increase food consumption.

The reason why it is said to be ahead is that the income level of the people has not yet increased, and the market demand for meat food is relatively small.

According to the original plan, Franz was planning to place the breeding industry after 1875, which was determined based on the economic development of European countries.

Those who study the economy are accustomed to putting 1870 to 1890 in a cycle, mainly due to the outbreak of the Second Industrial Revolution. During this period, the economies of European and American countries were growing rapidly, and the income of people also increased greatly.

As income growth is also accompanied by the increase in consumption levels. According to data analyzed by economic experts, five years will be the golden age for promoting animal husbandry.

Due to the restrictions of the times, there is no need to worry about the impact of beef and mutton in Argentina, Canada, and Australia in this era. At least there is no need to worry about the fresh meat market.

The freezing technology is not up to standard, and if you want to deliver fresh meat to Europe, you must send live food.

It is not easy to transport the living cattle and sheep from thousands of miles away to the European continent. If a little accident occurs at sea, you will suffer heavy losses.

If these transportation costs are amortized, even if they are shipped to the European continent, the price is not cheap. At most, they can be sold for beef jerky or cured meat.

There are no strong competitors in the short term, and it is another agricultural product bonus period. However, this bonus period must be generated at a time when market demand is strong.

Now that the breeding industry is started to develop in advance, it is still difficult to start the market in the early stage.

In fact, the development of animal husbandry was not something Franz thought of himself. The Ministry of Agriculture had already made plans, but he did not expect that the Russians would return to the agricultural product export market so soon.

After the Tsarist government announced that it was absent from the debt, European countries took retaliatory measures, radically confiscating Russian exported products to repay debts, and eased the debt tax.

Well, this debt tax was first created by Franz, which is to withdraw a certain proportion of taxes from Russian imported goods to repay the debts owed before.

The relationship between the Russian-Austrian alliance is that this debt tax is just a symbolic collection, and other European countries will not give face like this.

The specific proportion depends entirely on everyone's mood, and it will generally not be less than 30%. Affected by this, in the past two or three years, the Russian Empire's export trade has shrunk by eight layers.

Now the Tsarist government proposes to pay off the debt in order to break these restrictions, otherwise, no matter how cheap their food prices are, it will be difficult to have market competitiveness.

It is easy to find problems, but difficult to solve them. After realizing the actions of the Russians, the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture became busy.

Christian, the Minister of Agriculture, who is nearly 70 years old, has to take back his vacation report. If this problem is not solved, he should not want to go on a safe vacation.

This time is not far away. Perhaps from the second half of the year, Russian agricultural products will appear in the international market again.

In another two or three years, Austria's hard-working dominant position in agricultural products exports will no longer exist.

The international market is so big that as long as the Russians transport grain from Ukraine and Moscow, they can seize a large market share.

In this era, there were only a few major grain importers, including Britain, Italy, the Federal Empire of Germany, and the remaining Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Switzerland, although the demand was not too large.

Overall, there is a market of about 30 million people in the European food market.

Of course, this only refers to staple food. The demand for other agricultural and sideline products has changed a lot, and it is difficult to conduct effective statistics.

This market is still increasing at a rate of 2 million per year, which is caused by population growth in various countries. In the absence of agricultural technology, population growth and grain output have not increased simultaneously, and the gap has emerged.

24.6% of the agricultural products produced in Austria are now used for export, and this part is the biggest impact.

After sorting out the information, Christian sighed. The Minister of Agriculture is difficult to do, and it is too difficult to achieve results, and it is too easy to have problems.

Export accounts for too much and is easily impacted by the international market, which is the biggest problem. If you want to transfer to domestic sales, the domestic market cannot consume it.

The snow is still falling, and this winter in Vienna seems to be in love with silver clothes. The cold wind blows on my face, and Christian, who had just come out of the carriage, shivered.

Without pause, Christian quickly entered the palace and transferred to another carriage.

Schönbrunn Palace covers a considerable area. After Franz succeeded to the throne, the unfinished project began to be rebuilt, and the current area is even larger.

Of course, I mainly circled into a hunting ground, which was strongly requested by Grand Duke Carl. The reason was that Empress Dowager Sophie was worried about his body and did not allow him to go out to hunt. In order to facilitate the elderly father to hunt, Franz naturally agreed.

Anyway, Vienna is the territory of the Habsburg family, and most of the land is royal. There is no land cost, so adding a wall won't cost much.

Franz didn't like to stay in the original palace, so he took the opportunity to add several more buildings as daily residential areas.

This makes the palace gate farther away from the emperor. For safety, the palace prohibits any foreign carriage from entering. Either transfer or walk. This multiple-choice question is easy to do, and Christian doesn't want to be frozen.

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The phone was a good thing. As soon as Christian entered the palace, someone notified Franz.

Franz, who was sympathetic to the old minister, had already made people prepare coffee according to his preferences.

Of course, if anyone knows that all kinds of drinks in the palace are always available and changed every fifteen minutes, it may be of little effect to win people's hearts.

Of course, even if someone knows, they will most likely pretend to be confused. Some drinks are good, so there is no such a lot of nonsense. If they tell the truth, they will never be able to live this life.

How could Franz remember the minister’s personal preferences? Only subordinates have always paid attention to the preferences of their superiors. Which emperor was full and ran to care about the personal preferences of their ministers?

Taste hobbies are not just someone who makes records. If you make a mistake, you can change it to another cup. The relationship between the monarch and the ministers in Europe is not that complicated, and the sub-sections in daily life are not worth mentioning, so don’t worry about accidentally losing your head.

After taking a sip of coffee, dispelling the cold, and after resting for more than ten minutes, Christian reported to Franz.

"Your Majesty, this is the data counted by the Ministry of Agriculture. At present, the supply and demand of domestic meat products are basically balanced. If you want to expand domestic demand, the best way is to reduce the price.

It’s not that the people don’t like to eat meat, but the current domestic meat price is still a bit high compared to their income.

The international market is even worse. Although the supply and demand relationship of fresh meat market is still balanced, the supply of beef jerky and cured meat is a bit large. Most of these products come from the Union countries of the United States.

It is preliminary judgment that the increase in the supply of 600,000 tons of beef every year, the increase in the supply of 400,000 tons of mutton, and the 350,000 tons of other types of meat products is the limit of the market.

If this supply exceeds, it will have a huge impact on the market and may cause prices to plummet."

Franz obviously cannot do the things that have broken the market. As the largest exporter of agricultural products, the market has suffered a shock, and the biggest loss is Austria.

After thinking for a while, Franz asked, "What if this time is put in one year, or two years later?"

Animal Husbandry breeding also takes time. In this era, feed is not popular. It is all fodder and grain, and the time for slaughtering is relatively long, and at least one year is required.

Agriculture Minister Christian thought for a moment and replied: "Your Majesty, although the population of Europe is growing steadily now, the breeding industry itself is expanding its production capacity. If the time is put into two years, it will increase by about 10% at most."

After wandering indoors for a few steps, Franz made a decision: "The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to promote a breeding plan, calculated based on the increase in two million tons of meat products.

First, press down the price of meat and cultivate the market. If the market cannot digest it, we will increase the strategic reserve materials. It only takes two or three years to get much capital."

The direct food consumption of cattle and sheep is not large, but planting forage will inevitably squeeze out the land where the originally grown grains will be planted, thereby reducing grain production.

Unlike later generations, pork was not very popular in this era. It was determined by eating habits and it took a long time to change it.

In fact, the per capita meat consumption in Europe in this era was not too low, perhaps because it was pulled up by rich people. Take Austria as an example, the per capita meat consumption was 82 pounds. (about 37 kg)

After pausing, Franz added: "Pig production can be increased. Compared with beef and mutton, pork prices are relatively cheap, and the people are more acceptable.

If the pork production goes up, I plan to add 300 grams of pork every week on the table where the children are receiving compulsory education."

Don’t say whether you like it or not, those who are qualified to be picky in food will go to private schools. Austria’s compulsory education schools are not as good as private schools in all their facilities, and those who are attending the lower class are all children of ordinary people.

It’s good to eat meat. You should know that the school only provides meat once a week. Don’t think about beef and mutton, unless it’s a festival or Franz’s birthday.

In normal times, the only meat supply in schools is fish. There is only one reason, that is, it is cheap. You can buy more meat for the same money, and the budget-oriented Ministry of Education can only provide this cheap meat.

There is no way to promote pork. The price of beef and mutton is too high. This cannot be reduced just by wanting it. If pork is cheap, promote it.

Before this, the government had already promoted fish, and the only ones that were popular in the market were sea fish.

This is a sequelae brought by industry. With the development of industry, the inevitable environmental pollution has been brought about by fish and shrimp mutations in many rivers.

Mutant fish and shrimp are not good things. After food poisoning occurs, no one dares to eat them. The Vienna government has also legislated a ban on the sale and consumption of mutant fish and shrimp.

This has implicated the entire freshwater fish and made them unpopular. Unless it is in the inland mountainous areas, almost no one is eating freshwater fish.
Chapter completed!