In fact, Franz's immigration policy was very attractive, at least several times better than that of other countries, but the attitude of the people towards the colonies did not change.

Most people still see other continents as wild lands, but only if people are still able to get by.

At this time, when they can't eat enough and even go to prison, many people don't pay so much attention to it.

In order to get a settlement fee for their own family, or for their brothers and sisters to have a good dowry or dowry, they are willing to go to the unknown continent to gamble with their lives.

As a result, a large number of Germans began to go abroad, and traveled with the merchant ships of the Austrian colonies to various parts of the world.

Many people have already written suicide notes before leaving, but they soon find that things are far less bad than they thought, but in a sense more terrible than they imagined.

However, most of the immigrants attracted by the Austrian Empire were sent to St. Stephen's Crown Territory, where the land was abundant and fertile enough to support a large population.

And Franz also felt that there were enough people to be safe, after all, as the region most affected by the storm year in history, Hungary was bound to set off a bloody storm.

He didn't want the precious German immigrants to die in a bloody storm, but they had to put them to the test, because only then could they be beaten into real Austrians.

The number of workers in this group of German immigrants was very large, because all industries, except the Austrian Empire, were affected by the financial crisis.

Austria, thanks to its central bank, has been less affected, at least not in the outrageous situation of a broken capital chain.

Secondly, more than 50% of Austria's factories are in the hands of the royal family, that is, Franz, and these factories account for more than 90% of Austria's production capacity, and most factories rely on technological innovation to maintain competitiveness.

However, because of this, the demand for cheap labor in Austria was not large, and Franz had to make them construction workers in preparation for future expansion of production capacity, as well as the production of some durable goods as a strategic reserve.

Working conditions in Austria were actually much better than in other German states, because there was a lot of "rest" time.

During the "break" time, there will be a special priest or preacher to give lectures, and they will need to learn German, history, general knowledge, and patriotic courses, and even take exams.

In addition, the selection and differentiation of immigrants is also a skilled job, and honest people with families are classified into one category, and the elderly and skilled workers are classified into two categories.

The third group is young single women and children under the age of 16, and the fourth group is men who are alone and have no skills.

This is actually differentiating the danger level, and the honest people who drag their families have the most things to take care of, and they are also the most peaceful, so it is easier to manage.

Older people and skilled workers are also relatively looking forward to a stable life, and they can tolerate some injustices, the former with little time, and the latter with the skills to think that sooner or later they will have a good day.

Single women and children don't have much of the ability to resist themselves, but their ability to get things done is not bad at all, so they fall into the third category.

The most dangerous are men who are alone and have no practical skills, and need to be sent to the army or less important factories first, where they are disciplined and collectivist.

Second, Catholics are safer than Protestants, not because Franz was biased.

Rather, the Thirty Years' Wars of Religion cost the entire Holy Roman Empire half of its adult males and more than 30% of its population.

The contradiction between the two sides was not so easy to resolve, and although the Austrian Empire declared freedom of belief, more than 90% of the people were Catholic.

Many of the local and military nobility are centuries-old, their ancestors have been killed by Protestants, and not all of them can give up their hatred, especially if they are strong and weak.

Therefore, Franz acquiesced in some of the actions of the church and the government, and the church was naturally proselytizing, proselytizing, showing the goodwill (strength) of the Austrian church, and at the same time laying out facts and reasoning to tell immigrants the benefits of doing so.

If they still stay in their original place, they may not easily change their concepts, but at this time, out of their familiar environment, human nature is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and it is easy to change under coercion and temptation.

The government requires the registration of the religion of immigrants, in fact, to make it easier to manage, and they want to ensure that the proportion of Protestants in any community does not exceed 20 percent, so that there is no easy confrontation.

As for the extra population, it can be sent to the colony, after all, there are more powerful foreign enemies there, and they will not have time to fight.

Soon a report was on Franz's desk, an estimate of the immigrant population in 1847, which could have absorbed more than 2.4 million immigrants in 1847, which was equivalent to the previous six years combined.

Since Franz's statistical office began to operate in 1836, more than five million people have emigrated from Germany to Austria.

By the end of 1847, the population of the Austrian Empire was expected to exceed 49 million (compared to 38.5 million in the same period of history), with Germany reaching close to 15 million, Italy 12 million, and Hungary still around 6.5 million.

Of the remaining 14.5 million, the largest number are Czechs with 4.5 million (Bohemians, Moravians, and Slovaks are all included).

1.5 million Poles, 1 million Ukrainians, 3 million Croats, 570,000 Serbs, 1.6 million Slovenians, 100,000 Montenegrins, 2.33 million Transylvanians.

In addition to this, there were millions of Jews in Austria and hundreds of thousands of Roma (Gypsies), although they were not considered human by European statisticians at the time.

The actual population of the Austrian Empire would have exceeded 50 million, more than the combined population of France and Spain.

35 million in France, 13 million in Spain, 28 million in the United Kingdom, 22 million in the United States, 5.6 million in Mexico, and 18 million in Prussia.

Although Austria drew a lot of people from the German Confederation, the total population of the German Confederation actually increased compared to the same period in history, with a total population of 35 million (34 million in the same period of history).

Because if Austria had not absorbed these populations, they would have gone to the United States, the British colonies, and became their cornerstones.

In addition, Russia has 76 million and the Ottomans have 33 million, and Austria is already the second most populous country in Europe and the fourth in the world.

35 million in France, 27 million in the United Kingdom, 13 million in Spain, and 21 million in the United States.

Due to the constant wars (civil wars, foreign wars, lost territories), the population of Mexico is even smaller than at the same time in history, with only 5.5 million.

33 million for the Ottomans, 6.6 million for Brazil, 1.8 million for Argentina, 13 million for Persia, 950,000 for Serbia, 1.5 million for Denmark, 3.7 million for Portugal, 3.4 million for Sweden, 5.3 million for Egypt, 2.5 million for Afghanistan, 12 million for the Sikh Empire.

As a result of the acquisition of Limburg and West Luxembourg, Luxembourg has tripled in size and its population has increased by 1.5 times to 470,000 people.

The population of Russia has been described from 67 million to 83 million, but the average here is 75 million.