In Zhou Lang's view, the greatest impact on the ethnic issue is often military strength, because the soldiers in the army are not united enough, they dismantle each other, and cannot cooperate, and the national identity of ethnic minorities is low, so they cannot carry out national mobilization like the nation-state, and establish a simple national concept that transcends the nation, Chinese it has been used for thousands of years, and the effect does not seem to be very good, and finally it has returned to the old way of the nation-state, creating the concept of a Chinese nation.

Austria's old rival Ottoman Empire also encountered this problem, Mahmoud and other Ottoman sultans have been promoting the concept of Great Ottomanism over the years, hoping to use a Great Ottoman concept to allow the Greeks, Albanians, and Bulgarians in the country to establish a common identity, but unfortunately what the result is, history has long given the answer.

Therefore, the Austrian Empire is also facing this kind of predicament, promoting nationalism, even China can not do it, thousands of years of education has only cultivated in the scholar class the feelings of the family and the country that transcend the national boundaries, Austria is simply impossible to do in the short term, so after the Napoleonic Wars, Austria has few bright military results, the reason is that a modern national concept that began to form, so that the mobilization ability of the Ottoman Empire was even lower than that of the dynastic wars of the Habsburg era.

These potential problems are still clear to others at this time, but Zhou Lang is clear. It is possible that the cost of co-opting Austria is greater than the defeat of the country. But after the collapse of Austria, how can the geopolitical vacuum in southeastern Europe be filled? If this huge geopolitical vacuum is not done well, it is an extremely cruel national vendetta. Will there be other forces that will take advantage of the situation here, or after they have killed enough, they will unite for a long time and unite in the face of a super China.

The possibility of union is too small, and the unification of Europe is a joke, but it is very likely that it will be infiltrated by other powers, and through a complex system of royal succession, it is possible for some small states or old aristocratic families in North Germany to establish power here. German monarchies were formed that were dependent on the North German Empire. This cleared the way for Germany to unify Central Europe.

In addition, bringing down the Austrian Empire and plunging this place into chaos is not what Zhou Lang wants to see. China's current international status is in fact equivalent to that of the Soviet Union during the period when the United States and the Soviet Union were vying for hegemony, and its national strength is equal to that of the United States. As a hegemonic country, if it wants to win the recognition and respect of its allies and neutral countries, it is not possible to rely solely on force, as is the case with the Soviet Union, which constantly exported revolutions, and the United States, which exported culture, was more popular.

The United States was able to establish its sole hegemony because it was better able to share benefits with its allies, while the Soviet Union relied on military and political control of its allies, and then made economic tilt policies, such as imposing unbalanced prices on Soviet and Eastern European Union goods, to shear the wool of the allies. This Napoleon-like approach to enriching oneself made it impossible for the Allies to be of the same mind as the Soviet Union.

As a result, after the Soviet Union took over and political and economic control disappeared, the countries of Eastern Europe turned to the Western world led by the United States.

When the Soviet Union joined the Soviet Union, it was more tolerant and did not let Russia inherit a little inheritance and create a situation where everyone was invincible.

Since China wants to be the leader of the world, it must maintain the world order, and after the collapse of Austria, it is bound to clean up the mess, and it is better to let the order not collapse than to maintain it at a high price at that time.

So this is the reason to make some concessions to Austria, to woo them, just not to want the premature collapse of the Austrian Empire.

Therefore, in addition to promising some political benefits, it also gave Austria some economic preferences, and China did not deliberately raise tariffs on Austrian goods in the case of Austria's high tariff protection. As a result, Austria's cotton textile industry was even exported to western China.

It is difficult for other countries to export goods to China with China's current production capacity, but Austria is strategically located to allow steamships to sail directly to China's ports on the Black Sea via the Danube, and China's railways were quickly diverted to the North Caucasus port of Novorossiysk.

In the case of the same coal burning, the transportation cost of steamships is obviously much lower than that of railways, first of all, the cost of construction is lower, and secondly, the operating cost of arable land, so from eastern China, cotton cloth is transported to the Caucasus by rail, the distance is more than 7,000 kilometers, and from Vienna to the Caucasus port, the distance is about 2,000 kilometers, and all the way by water, you can imagine who has a higher cost.

In addition, in recent years, China's cotton cloth is no longer cheap, controlling too many gold mines, and a surplus in commodity exports, resulting in a large amount of gold flowing into China, and prices have risen to catch up with the United Kingdom. China's dependence on imports of cotton, as domestic immigrants have easier access to land, resulting in the need for cities to compete with migrant areas for surplus labor in the countryside, and labor prices have risen repeatedly after the war, all of which have led to the ex-factory price of Chinese cotton cloth has exceeded that of most European countries.

As a result, the market on the western frontier of China was opened up, full of some European goods, British goods were the cheapest, and quickly occupied a large part of the market after the war, Greece relied on convenient conditions to cut away the second piece of cake, and Austria, although it was belated, found that this market was promising, China is immigrating to the west in large numbers, from the Urals to the Caucasus, and even deep into the Kazakh region, Austrian goods can occupy an advantage, this is an incomparably huge market.

Although it is the least densely populated area of Chinese, it also has four or five million people, and China's land policy has allowed Russian serfs to be allocated land and become tax-free homesteaders, and economic conditions have greatly improved. Most importantly, the Chinese began to migrate here on a large scale. According to the intelligence of the Austrian consuls in various countries, the Chinese government plans to emigrate at least one million people to the two border regions of the Urals and the Caucasus every year.

This means that the market in China's western frontier is not only huge, but also has huge growth potential.

In the past, Austria also exported goods to China, the largest is Bohemian crystal products, according to the Chinese customers to create a variety of crystal lighting, in China is still very popular, there are always people like these shiny things. Even if China's literati class doesn't like it, there is a market for the increasingly affluent urban middle class.

There are also Austrian precision optical instruments, Austria is the country that invented the microscope, and there are few countries that can make microscopes in this era.

There are also Austrian pianos, although they are exported only a few hundred units a year, but this industry is not large, and Austria itself sells this volume.

However, these products before are luxury goods born under the aristocratic consumer culture, the output is limited, the sales volume is also limited, and the promotion of modern industry is of little significance, in this era, there is no more than the cotton textile industry to promote the development of industry, even Switzerland has begun to develop the cotton textile industry, let alone Austria.

Therefore, the Austrian business department believes that the export of cotton textiles to China has broad prospects and supports its own businessmen to develop the export of textiles.

In addition, Austria also found that their machinery products can also be exported to China, which actually has a huge machine manufacturing capacity. Strangely, once the economy began to expand, it was as if there would never be enough machinery and a lot of imports were required. The economy is too large, and the speed of training professional mechanics cannot keep up.

Austria is an old country, although the industrial revolution has just begun, but the machine manufacturing is still quite large-scale, such as the machine and machine tools made in the Kingdom of Bohemia, which are famous in Europe.

The Kingdom of Bohemia is the most industrially developed area in the Austrian Empire, before the Communist Revolution, there was a developed handicraft industry here, mainly because of the geographical situation, unlike the Austrian Duchy centered on Vienna in the Alps, Bohemia has a direct navigable river flowing into the Elbe, which can directly go to the sea, so the products in Austria are sold to Central Europe through here, and the import of British goods also passes through Central Europe, from Bohemia into the Empire. As a result of these geographical advantages, Bohemia rapidly accumulated capital, manpower, and technology in the pre-industrial era.

In addition, Bohemia is different from Austria in that it has abundant coal and iron resources, and the industrial revolution broke out in this region first. Austria is relatively backward, but mainly backward in terms of scale of production, not backward in technology and culture, Vienna is still a cultural center, although industry has not developed, but education, finance has developed, a large part of Bohemia's industrial capital, is from Austrian funds, including investment by the big nobles.

Before the outbreak of the World War, Bohemia had a population of 4.2 million, and the Duchy of Austria had a population of only 2.4 million, half of whom lived in Vienna, Bohemia provided twice as much tax as the Duchy of Austria, and the per capita tax payment was already higher than that of the Duchy of Austria.

At the end of the war, the railway from Prague in Bohemia to Vienna in Austria was opened, and now there are more than 2,000 kilometers of railways in the Austrian Empire, with Vienna as the center, and Pest-Buda, Venice and other large cities are connected to the railway network.

Now the industrial goods of the Bohemians, mainly machine tools, steam engines and cotton textiles, entered the Chinese market in large quantities through Vienna and then on the Danube.

In fact, China imports not many machinery products every year, accounting for only one-tenth, but it is enough to double Austria's machinery industry.

Relying on the Chinese market, Austria's economy is booming, and whether they can maintain political harmony with China depends on their own choice.