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

Chapter 1488 Tian Hui’s Wilderness
In addition, there are many layers of hurdles in approving steel plant licenses. Unless the company has its own complete industrial chain, costs will definitely increase significantly.

A complete industrial chain cannot be built overnight. The simplest and fastest way is to make an acquisition, but the cost will increase exponentially, making them even more unable to withstand the dimensionality reduction attack from Europe.

In fact, even if there is a complete industrial chain, huge financial support, and even if it catches up with Europe in technology, with the intensification of social division of labor, such large steel mills will eventually decline.

Although the United States did not have the concept of environmental protection at that time, it did have the Federal Nuisance Act.

No normal person likes the noise, smoke and wastewater from steel mills, but all of these can constitute factors that hinder others.

But generally speaking, ordinary people in the United States cannot win a lawsuit against a company. After all, the sizes of the two parties are completely different. The company has enough financial resources to hire better lawyers and has a higher voice.

But if some officials interfere or enforce the law impartially, the outcome is uncertain.

Of course, American officials' frantic crackdown on their own steel companies was not entirely to please Austria and Britain and continue to act as compradors.

In fact, by strangling the enterprises in this way, they can easily receive more political donations, which can help them get into the government and lead a better life.

Franz was well aware of the principle that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, and he loved to be a teacher.

In short, they are willing to continue this win-win deal.

As for the labor force, Franz planned to continue using the model he had used in the previous Central American colonies, using Austrian immigrants as the skeleton and then filling it with Japanese and Irish workers.

Japanese workers will be the main force among them. Although Irish workers are free, these refugees have suffered a lot. Most of them are not suitable for work immediately and need a period of rest and certain treatment.

And as the famine in Ireland worsened, those who managed to survive and get on the rescue ships became increasingly despicable and sinister.

After all, most good people had been eliminated in this way long ago. Maybe they could survive, but it was not an easy thing to pass the British screening and finally board the rescue ship of the Austrian Empire.

Although the British did not regard the Irish as human beings, they would not easily give them to Austria even if they were trash they didn't want.

The British first selected the old, weak, sick, disabled, pregnant, and sick individuals. These people had a low survival rate and consumed a lot of resources. Even in the Austrian Empire, it was difficult for them to serve as labor, which was a pure negative benefit.

Whether the Austrian Empire accepted it or not, Britain had a way to discredit it.

However, as famine and war intensified, it became increasingly difficult for the weak to come to the port. It was impossible for the British to spend money to transport the old, weak, and sick to the port just to disgust the Austrians.

At least they weren't that crazy at this time.
As a result, the British gave priority to stuffing criminals and gangsters into the rescue ships of the Austrian Empire. Needless to say, these people's destructive power and reputation were beyond description.

Only a masochist would think that this group of people were excusable. During this period, there were even incidents of refugees hijacking rescue ships.

The Austrian Navy happened to pass by and thus prevented the disaster from happening. Franz spent a lot of effort to suppress the incident. However, after that, no rescue ship dared to ignore Franz's orders, and all rescue ships were honestly equipped with security teams.

In addition, some Irish people were proud of their British identity and looked down on the colonies of the Austrian Empire. Although it sounds outrageous, it really happened. The Austrian Empire resolutely repatriated these people without leaving any room for them. Their cognition was worthy of their suffering. Franz was committing a sin by keeping them in Austria.

Coupled with the association tradition in Ireland, Irish workers are very difficult to manage.

Hundreds of years of brutal British rule had made the Irish quite numb, and whether the Austrian Empire repatriated them or executed them directly, the effect would be minimal.

And the impact was quite bad, after all, the British had been keeping an eye on the Austrian Empire. It was already normal for both sides to smear each other, and the British would never miss such an opportunity.

Japanese workers were much better in this regard. In order to befriend the Austrian Empire, the shogunate and the daimyo of each domain had always strictly controlled quality and worked hard to provide the colonies with the best quality goods.

Before boarding the ship, the shogunate and the various feudal domains would ensure that the laborers had enough food and sleep, and would do everything they could to make them look stronger and more energetic. They would even provide them with simple Austrian language and etiquette training.

Ou Xue surpassed Dutch studies and Chinese studies to become the most prominent academic discipline in Japan at that time.

In fact, the largest pro-Austrian group in Japan was the shogunate, followed by local daimyo, and then the merchants and scholars who were influenced by the Austrian Empire.

Not only did no one discredit the Austrian Empire's behavior, but it was regarded as a favor from the superior country.

On the other hand, the Japanese workers at that time were actually very yearning for the Austrian Empire's colonies. After all, every time the Austrian Empire's fleet arrived, it would bring back a ship full of food, goods, and a large number of Japanese traitors who came forward to testify.

“The fatness of heaven, the grace of the emperor.

Gold grows from the sand, and the poor becomes rich overnight.

He who tills the land owns his land, and a poor family will produce a noble son.

Merchants travel the world, and wanderers become generals."

(I actually wanted to write a Japanese haiku, but after studying for a long time, I found that my level was limited, so I finally decided to release the original version.)
These people combined traditional Japanese Kabuki and opera to create a new kind of drama. The costumes of the actors were also very strange, including moon-headed samurai, traditional Kabuki Kumadori and whitewashed, and even people with cut hair and sailing hats.

Neither the shogunate's top brass nor Austrian officials could understand it, but the propaganda effect on ordinary people under the shogunate's rule was outstanding.

Another point is that Japanese workers are deeply influenced by East Asian culture. They like to involute themselves very much and often do not regard themselves as human beings. In short, they neither stick together nor resist much as long as they can survive.

The situation of being able to survive was defined by the Austrian Empire, and for most of the Japanese workers who traveled across the ocean, they were already satisfied.

The above four lines of poetry are not completely nonsense. The natural environment of both California and the Central American colonies is far better than that of the Japanese archipelago.

It is no exaggeration to say that the land is fertile and the products are plentiful. The gold mines in the two places are not fake, but if you want to pan for gold, you need to go through the procedures and pay the fees.

There were many people who became rich overnight, but there were also many who lost everything in casinos and brothels overnight. However, the worst were those who died at the hands of gangsters or their companions before they had time to enjoy their wealth.