The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven

【War court and knee pillow, Austria's destiny】【】

, the War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Franz's rhetoric of "making everyone in Austria have clothes to wear" is not empty words. With the expansion of the market space within the empire and the formation of a relatively stable cotton supply chain, clothing with a low price advantage will flood into all parts of the country with favorable transportation conditions.

In this way, it can not only reduce production costs, but also greatly meet the needs of the people for daily necessities, and it can also stimulate employment.

At the same time, these clothes are also a sharp weapon in the hands of the Austrian Empire. For example, Saxony, its strongest textile industry, cotton is provided by Austria, and the market is dominated by Austria. As a middleman, it can only choose to follow in the footsteps of Austria.

In recent years, Prussia, the second child of the German Confederation, has been in a state of constant discomfort. Originally, its own pillar industry - the textile industry of the once glorious Silesia was already in decline, and it had to face the trade dumping of the Confederation by the British giants.

It was hard to establish the German customs union, but the Austrian tiger was killed halfway. Originally, the Prussians hoped to use state subsidies to support their own clothing industry to fight against the Austrians. However, the heavy blow from the Americans directly killed them.

Not only lost millions of Thalers, but also consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, but ended up selling factories and machines cheaply. What makes them even more unacceptable is that Austria has become the ultimate beneficiary of this big acquisition.

However, compared with the fiasco in the clothing market, Frederick William IV had something more troublesome for him, and that was the dissatisfaction of the constitutionalists in Prussia.

The military led by the Junker nobles took a tough stance, advocating taking this opportunity to abolish the constitutionalists and attack and weaken those speculators, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Due to the food crisis in the past few years and the impact of the Austrian Empire's entry into the German Customs Union, the strength of the liberal constitutionalists in Prussia is much weaker than in history, but the voice of the Junker landlords continues to grow louder.

However, William IV did not have the guts to upset this fragile political balance. He was worried that once the liberals were not restrained, the conservatives and the military would overwhelm the sky, and finally the wild horses would escape the control of the monarch, and he was even more afraid that this move would repeat the tragedy of the French Revolution.

At the same time, another dangerous force in Prussia was growing rapidly, that is, the radicals. These are people whose views are much stronger than the combined threat of conservatives and liberals, such as their strong support for abolishing the monarchy and replacing it with a republic.

In fact, not only Prussia, but the entire German Confederation is full of such voices, and even Austria cannot be spared.

Especially in some small vassal states, it is even more serious, and even the political party that governs the country is a republican. This made William IV so terrified that he could not sleep at night, so he and the conservative leader Metternich jointly enforced the law across the country The frequency is also becoming more frequent.

But even so, the situation has failed to improve. Now he does not want to anger those constitutionalists, nor does he want to hand over his precious power. After thinking about it, I decided to be a wooden man who turned a deaf ear and ignored those voices for the time being...

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【War court and knee pillow, Austria's destiny】【】

Although it is constantly challenged by radical ideological trends in politics, Austria can be said to be reporting frequent successes in the economic and trade fields.

After entering the German Customs Union and the Apennines Customs Union, its ready-made garments also poured into Serbia, Wallachia, Moravia, and the Balkan territories under the Ottoman administration along the Danube River.

Sadly, the ready-to-wear collection didn't make much of a splash in the area. The main reason is that the living standards in these countries and regions are too low.

The poor locals prefer to buy rough fabrics rather than ready-made clothes. Although the profit of the fabric business is lower, as the saying goes, there is meat in the fly legs, not to mention that this is just a stepping stone.

In fact, Franz's real intention of opening up the Balkan market is to export culture so as to cultivate a group of spiritual Austrians.

After the Turkish-Egyptian war, Egypt and the Ottomans opened their doors to Austria. The only trouble was that the clothes sold to them needed special modifications to make them more in line with the local aesthetic.

In fact, Ali and the Ottoman Sultan's "Westernization Movement" has nurtured a large group of spiritual Europeans in these two places for many years, which is why Austrian goods can sell well here unexpectedly.

However, Egypt and Ottoman also have their own considerations in doing so. With the war in the Near East coming to an end, the French have temporarily withdrew from the competition, and the remaining two powers, Britain and Russia, one hopes to monopolize their market, and the other has never concealed their ambitions for their land.

Although in comparison, the methods of the British are gentler than those of the Russians, but the trade hegemony they pursue still makes Turkey and Egypt somewhat overwhelmed.

At first, the goods imported by the British seemed to be of high quality and low price. However, after the French, a strong competitor, left the field, they tore off their masks and exposed their bloodthirsty fangs.

Weapons were the first to increase in price, followed by cotton cloth and saltpeter. In just one year, the prices of commodities other than grain and wood almost doubled.

The trade of grain and timber was occupied by the Russians. They did not manipulate the price, but the output volume was really unacceptable to the Ottoman Empire.

McGidd could only borrow money from the British to build ships, and a large amount of grain became a war reserve.

Mejid was not an incompetent monarch, and he quickly recognized the problem, which was that the Ottoman Empire was becoming more and more dependent on Britain and getting less and less profit from trade.

In the past, a high-quality carpet could be exchanged for twenty guns, but now it can only be exchanged for ten, and they are still old-fashioned flintlock guns, not the latest percussion guns.

Mejid knew that this was the fate of only one tiger in the mountains, so he hoped that another tiger would appear and let them compete, so that the Ottoman Empire could gain the maximum profit.

In fact, the first person he thought of was the French. Although they used to be supporters of Egypt, Mejid believed that France was the only country in the world capable of competing with England economically, politically, and militarily.

Not only him, many of Ottoman's top management who have been to Europe admire France, a country that once almost ruled Europe by itself.

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From a historical point of view, when the Ottoman Empire was at its most glorious, it relied on the "Sacrilege Alliance" formed with its half-brother France to suppress Habsburg. Think back to the time when Emperor Suleiman swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, defeated Hungary, beheaded its king, surrounded Vienna several times, and beat European countries to pay tribute...

It is a pity that the French did not intend to give themselves this once close comrade-in-arms the opportunity to relive their old dreams, and ruthlessly rejected McGidd's proposal. Kizuo, the leader of the pro-British faction, even reached an agreement with the British to jointly control commodity prices.

Russian products are not competitive at all, and no normal person would choose Russian products. The products of the Prussians were better than those of their neighbors to the east, but their scarcity and expensive shipping made them prohibitive.

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General goods are simply not enough to offset the huge impact of British goods on Near East trade. At this time, there was no German craftsmanship that later generations talked about. Now Prussia is called Yiwu in Europe, and their products are famous all over the world for their low-quality and cheap imitations.

Originally, because of the feud between the two parties~www.wuxiaspot.com~Austria itself was not in McGide's consideration, he did not have any good impressions of this country, and the other side's behavior of looting during the Near East War deepened his disgust feel.

But when he saw those cheap ready-made clothes, he was shaken. Soon Mejid showed his agility as a qualified monarch, and he decided to let the Austrians join the game of beasts in order to lower the price of British goods.

Ever since, with the official support of the Ottoman Empire, Austrian products quickly became popular in the Near East. The British immediately felt the pressure, so they had to mark down the price of their goods, causing profits to plummet.

You must know that the Anglo-Saxons have never been players who abide by the rules, so they immediately found the Americans and prepared to solve their competitors at the source.

Prior to this, the newly inaugurated President John Tyler had put forward a request to re-determine the border between the United States and British North America. The British who asked for each other had to agree to their request and promised not to cross the border to invade American territory.

Soon the clothing items of the Austrian Empire were withdrawn from the Anatolian market.

Just when the British were complacent about achieving their goals, they didn't know that this was actually a deal reached by the representatives of Franz and John Taylor, making the latter owe the former a huge favor again.

The Americans won the border negotiations, and the Austrians successfully completed their plan to show weakness to the British. After all, Franz didn't want to be missed by the British. What Austria needs most now is time. And McGidd successfully used the products of his former enemy to suppress the prices of British products.

After this game of chess, everyone felt that they had won.