"The whole world is turbid, I am alone, everyone is drunk, and I am sober."

"A saint is not stagnant in things, but can move with the world. The world is turbid, why not mud its mud and raise its waves? Everyone is drunk, why not eat it and get drunk? ”

———— Qu Yuan

Grand Hotel Pest, Hungary.

Now there are two paths in front of Franz, one is to turn a blind eye, return directly to Vienna, and continue to plan his own world affairs. The second is to join in and participate in this depraved carnival together and continue to make money.

The Hungarian government issued an announcement announcing that refugees can apply for immigration as long as they are between the ages of 14~25, regardless of gender, and pass the physical examination, and only need to pay 5 florins.

However, the number of places is limited each time, and it is on a first-come, first-served basis.

It all seems beautiful and fair.

However, the United States, Texas (a French colony), Brazil, Argentina, Franz can tell from the countries of these immigrants what they want to do.

The Hungarian government's final solution to the refugees was seen by Talia and Adjani as a very benevolent approach, and in the nineteenth century it was not uncommon to cross the ocean to make a living, and many people had heard of the legend of the Promised Land.

Franz hoped that his guess was wrong, but it was very likely that things would not be the same as everyone thought.

This is not a simple immigration, but a human trafficking.

These Hungarians would be sold to the French colonies, and in the end everything they produced would be turned into bullets for their fellow Austrian citizens.

At this time, the price of black slaves in the United States was approaching $600, and even the price of Indians had soared from $15 to $50.

The "white slave trade" never stopped, even after the Ottoman decline and the destruction of the Barbary pirates.

The British deceived the Italian laborers into coming to England with false contracts, which promised them high wages, high benefits, and the option to return at any time.

In fact, these contracts were not recognized by the British at all, and the laborers who had been deceived into England could only work endlessly under the whip of the overseers, and they did not even think about returning home, until they fell ill or lost the ability to work, and were thrown out of the factories and left on the corner of the street to die.

At this time, Hungarian refugees can be sold for $100~$150 each, and there are nearly 300,000 refugees outside the city, and selling them to the Americas is definitely a considerable income.

If you can sell half of it, you can make a huge return of $15 million.

The most terrible thing about this trick is that even if the whole thing is investigated, it is legal, and even if it is made public, there is nothing wrong with it except that it will make the Austrian Empire a little embarrassed.

Because the Hungarian government could well describe it as an export of labor, not a slave trade.

If Franz were to force a stop from this, he might even be besieged by angry victims.

Now the most sensible thing to do now is to leave Hungary at once, return to Vienna as if nothing had happened, and then wait for the opportunity, after all, it is not too late for the gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and then completely liquidate these scum in 1848.

Another way is to choose to mud and raise its waves, and be a tyrant. What the Hungarians can do, Franz can do, and he can use his knowledge to do it better and better.

This would not only weaken Hungary's strength, but also earn a good reputation for kindness, and make a lot of money to do more useful things. You can even get a group of Hungarians to colonize Africa, and then drive them back to China when they finish building.

However, these two paths are not what Franz wants, belated justice is not real justice, and people's bottom line is often lower and lower, an ordinary person without a bottom line may live a very happy life, but a capable and powerful person has no bottom line, it will make many people very painful.

This bureau was not completely inexplicable, first of all, to reduce the number of possible victims, and Franz bought a lot of land during the famine, which was still not fully digested by many German immigrants, although many German immigrants were already cultivating it.

Originally, Franz intended to continue to attract German immigrants, but he also had to change his strategy and open the royal estate to absorb refugees, which was the most effective means.

However, it should be noted that the proportion of Hungarians in the royal estates should not be too high, and at the same time, neither Germans nor Hungarians should feel discriminated against, and for the sake of safety, it is not appropriate to put Hungarians in a separate royal estate.

Franz spent 7.5 million florins to buy 3 million acres of wasteland in Hungary, but at this time it was only less than 300,000 acres, and there were 120,000 German immigrants, and it was considered that more German immigrants would come to Austria in the future.

Fifty percent of the Hungarians in the royal estates could be used, which means that Franz's estates could absorb up to 120,000 Hungarian refugees.

There were 180,000 refugees left, and Franz could naturally hire them to reclaim the wasteland, but even if he paid 50 florins per person, it would cost 9 million florins, and with other expenses, the total expenditure would probably exceed 12 million florins.

However, the reality is that the price of grain is twice as high as it used to be, and fifty florins is not enough to support a peasant for a year. The land that the farmers have just cultivated is not profitable, and the crops in the land will not even be able to make ends meet in the coming year.

So Franz needed far more than twelve million florins, just to tide these peasants through the difficult times, twenty million florins.

Franz also needed a second step, that is, to crack down on the speculators who were to raise prices, and if the matter were to be left to the Hungarian government, I am afraid that it would not be done in the end, and the hand of the Austrian imperial government would not reach Hungary.

In the face of this group of shameless people, Franz can only defeat magic with magic.

Franz could import grain from Russia and sell it to the poor in Hungary at a low price, although he would suffer some losses, but it was much better than starving, or buying grain in Hungary at double the price, and making the black-hearted merchants rich.

As long as the tsar is left with enough profit margins, the grain deal between Russia and the United States is a piece of waste paper, and the food crisis is in its final stages, and high food prices cannot continue forever.

Therefore, the tsar will not let go of this good opportunity to make money, Russia is too poor.

It was true that imports of goods from the Austrian Empire through Hungary were subject to customs duties, but the Imperial Family was not among them.

Although Franz did this, it was tantamount to offending the entire Hungarian aristocratic circle, but he did not care.

He cares more about his mood than those bullshit aristocrats in Hungary.

In order to get the traffickers to die, Franz decided to send people to blend in with the Khintaux.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the traffickers would die completely, he pulled in the church and the aristocracy.

In the aristocratic circle of Vienna, there are not a few people who like to die, and playing the exciting thing of being a slave being sold to the Americas can naturally attract a lot of nervousness.

As for the Church, it was already disgusted by the trafficking of Christians, and with the connections of Archbishop Rauscher, a group of devout clergy was soon arranged.

When Archduke Albrecht heard of Franz's plan, he volunteered that his participation would definitely make the traffickers even more dead.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, I wish you all book friends a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

(End of chapter)