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The main trunk line of Austria's Inner Tania Railway has been basically completed. People can take a train directly from Tuscany, Italy to Hamburg in North Germany. The journey in the past few months now takes 30 hours.

At this time, in other countries of the German Confederation, except for a few main trunk lines, other railways were still under construction.

This provides the Austrian side with a huge advantage. The areas where the railway passes are full of Austrian commodities and cultural imprints.

Local residents began to learn South German, and even Viennese.

Viennese is a mixed language mainly German, the kitchen language is Czech, and Polish is used to order food and call the waiter, Ukrainian is spoken when cursing, Latin is spoken when going to church, and occasionally used Some South Slavic and Gypsy languages.

This greatly accelerated the speed of national integration in Germany, Austria, and Italy. The traditional aristocracy and local power in Italy were severely impacted, and the emerging bourgeoisie's dependence on the Austrian government was greatly strengthened.

At this time, Austria did not adopt a policy of appeasement towards northern Italy as it had in history, nor did it adopt a radical policy of national supremacy to forcibly Austrianize the local area. However, local forces that openly clamored for independence and tried to humiliate and beat soldiers and officials were dealt with according to law.

Small businessmen and capitalists were already suppressed and exploited by local forces, and what the imperial government did happened to protect their interests.

The tax imposed by the state is not worth mentioning when it is compared with the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes formulated by the local government. Naturally, these people have no reason not to support the rule of Austria. After all, only the landlords and lords are the ones who suffer losses. On the contrary, they have benefited a lot from the cancellation of tariffs.

As for the serfs and laborers, they regarded the empire as their savior.

At this time the Austrian Empire, the Vienna-Prague-Dresden Railway, the Vienna-Linz-Salzburg-Munich Railway, the Vienna-Graz-Udine-Venice-Milan-Parma-Modena-Luca-Florence Railway , Vienna - Brno - Lviv - Krakow railway has been completed.

The only thing that is not open to traffic is Graz-Ljubljana-Trieste. The terrain here is too dangerous and it is not a problem that can be solved by increasing investment.

The first phase of the railway project in the Austrian Empire has been basically completed. The main goal of the second phase of construction is to continue to refine the Inner Tania railway network and communicate with Zagreb and Belgrade at the same time.

Salzburg - Innsbruck - Feldkirch - Bregenz, Salzburg - Bischofshofen - Seltzer Valley - Graz.

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Linz - Graz, Vienna - Bruck an der Moor - Klagenfurt - Villach - Udine, Bruck an der Moor - Graz, Innsbruck - Bollina - Udine - Milan.

Prague - Brno - Prerov - Ostrava - Katowice, Brno - Brzeclav - Vienna, Prague - Pilsen - Domarzlice - Munich, Prague - Ust- Dresden, Prague - Wroclaw...

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The total length is about 1,000 kilometers, and it is expected to be completed in 25 years. This was a very reasonable expectation at the time. After all, the previous construction speed of the Austrian Empire was about 300 kilometers per year.

However, the above are basically smoke bombs released by Franz. Only a few important trunk lines and the Trieste-Zagreb-Belgrade line need to be repaired. This 550-kilometer railway is expected to It will be completed within five years, with a total planned length of 3,000 kilometers.

In this way, it can be ensured that Belgrade will always be under the control of Austria. In the event of a war, whether it is water transportation or railway transportation, troops and supplies can be delivered very conveniently.

In fact, the length of the Austrian Empire’s railways at this time was already dozens of times that of history. The overly dense railway network was too early for the fledgling Austrian Empire, mainly because the rate of return was too low, which could easily lead to the emergence of a railway bubble.

Infrastructure construction must keep up with economic development, but investment in infrastructure should not be excessive. The length of the railways of the Austrian Empire was calculated by experts according to the speed of development of the country and the total volume of goods at that time.

Franz was afraid that their numbers would be too conservative, so he increased it by 50% on that basis. After all, the development speed of this era far exceeded people's imagination at the time.

However, the development in the future showed that Franz should build the railway according to the plan customized at the beginning, because the speed of development of the country was not only beyond the imagination of the people at the time, but also beyond the imagination of Franz himself.

At this time, the powerful railway, industrial capacity, cheap raw materials, and unprecedentedly broad market, coupled with Franz's monopoly plan, the profits of colonies and multinational companies, gave the Austrian Empire a qualitative leap in finance.

310 million florins, more than twice that of the same period in the history of the Austrian Empire. The salaries of Austrian officials, which had not been raised for 30 years, were finally raised by 10 florins a year.

This may be a drop in the bucket for high-level or civil officials living in big cities, but it is a precious reward for officials living in rural areas, borders, and mountainous areas.

However, Austria's high-level executives still look like they are doing nothing to the bankers who come to collect debts. Anyway, they have owed them for decades, and they have long been used to it.

The unwilling bankers used various methods, and finally, by bribing Earl Korolaf, they got a reply that they only paid new debts but not old ones.

Although they are very disappointed, they also have to accept this reality~lightnovelpub.net~ In fact, repaying new debts is to borrow more debts. As for old debts, it depends on luck and mood.

Of course, this is not the result of the bankers bribing Earl Korolaf, but the legal embezzlement of the old slicker using poor information.

In fact, although the fiscal revenue of the Austrian Empire has increased significantly compared with the same period in history, it is still too little for this country that is taking off.

All departments are fighting for the budget, transportation, education, commerce, army, navy, internal affairs, justice, secret police, postal services, industry, agriculture, mining, fisheries...

Every department has its own reasons, and all of them have to be done. Every annual budget meeting of the empire is like a battle. In the past, when the country had no money, all departments were in a state of zombies, and each one was worse than the other.

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When the empire was rich, all the departments were like sharks smelling blood, vying for their own share of the budget.

According to statistics from the last meeting, the annual budget of the Austrian Empire was at least 600 million florins. This figure was obtained after cutting the budgets of many departments in half.

According to this calculation, there will be a deficit of more than 300 million yuan in one year, and this day will not be able to survive.

Prince Metternich and Count Kororav had headaches for a while, while Grand Duke Louis was drinking tea leisurely, and the seat of Grand Duke Franz Karl was still vacant.

Ferdinand I was still busy eating dumplings, while Baron Sloter, who survived the catastrophe, kept his mouth shut and said nothing.