Warlock Royal Family

() On November 1523, 11, the first topic of the State Council was that Austria would establish a closer economic relationship with the Republic of Venice, starting with mutual reduction of tariffs.

In addition to compensating the big nobles who can talk to him directly, Ladislaus also needs to arrange a way for those small businessmen to survive. In his opinion, this is his job.

As the price of rebuilding the Port of Trieste, the same tax treatment as Venetian merchants and Austrian merchants will be given, which means that most of the Austrian coastal foreign trade merchants will not be able to survive. Fair competition and free trade have always been for the strong favorable.

Although this group of businessmen was originally operating in a bleak manner, their contribution to the national treasury was minimal.

However, Ladislaus still has to give them certain accommodation and compensation, and at the same time prevent their wealth and enthusiasm from being destroyed by the Venetians in vain, and prevent them from dismissing their own employees in a panic. Vienna's business still needs these people.

Moreover, free trade is limited to trade along the Adriatic Sea. Ladislaus can still provide powerful help to local businessmen around Vienna.

In fact, as long as Ladislaus does not have to do anything, the tax collectors in Vienna will not be polite. After all, being soft on the Venetians actually needs to be promoted from top to bottom.

In the past few days, Machiavelli has been contacting and encouraging all the Austrian merchants engaged in maritime trade one by one, especially those who lost a lot when Trieste was destroyed by Barbarossa. Ladislaus returned With their state compensation, this is unprecedented.

Of course, it is impossible for Ladislaus to give them any cash due to the current economic situation. The so-called compensation is that they can get a discount when renting a new warehouse on the Danube and a new store in Wiener Neustadt.This is a win-win plan, business people have a new start.Vienna also had a fresh start.

For these efforts, what Ladislaus wants in return is that the Republic of Venice will provide an interest-free loan of 80 thalers to the Grand Duchy of Austria to renovate the Austrian part of the road from Vienna to Venice.

Although this money still needs the approval of the Parliament of the Republic of Venice, it will not arrive until Austria really reduces its tariffs.

Ladislaus asked the Hohenzollern Minister to be responsible for this work, and to implement the loan as soon as possible and start work as soon as possible.

Even with an optimistic forecast, this project will take at least three years. However, Ladislaus requested that the renovation of the roads near Vienna be prioritized, so that the capital's economic circle can be revitalized as soon as possible.

The second issue is the improvement plan and assessment procedures of the officer corps, and whether to choose German or Latin as the language of examination for the officer corps.In fact, it is very different.

Just considering that Ladislaus's mother tongue is Italian, although he can also speak German and Latin, but if he rashly proposes to use German, it may make Ladislaus extremely unhappy, so everyone refuses to stand out.

In fact, Ladislaus has recently seized a large number of Italian territories, especially the Milan area where economic prosperity and talents gather. Ladislaus' memories of his previous life told him that the economic base determines the superstructure. Since Milan and Friuli are the richest provinces.So giving Italians a certain amount of respect is of great long-term value in maintaining national stability.

Choosing Latin is a choice acceptable to both parties, and after all, Dark Ri is the first religion of Europa, and choosing Latin as the official language of the Roman Church will also help to slightly ease the relationship between the warlock royal family and the Roman Church.

Frundsberg has been persuaded by Ladislaus, and the power to arrange the specific process and write the outline is still left to Frundsberg, which is still satisfactory to everyone.

Since Frundsberg, who was the chief trainer, did not fully object to this question, he naturally had no right to speak, so it was passed smoothly.

A unanimous state conference is valuable.Although Ladislaus now has enough ability to forcibly pass any national policy he wants to pass in terms of actual power and system votes, the State Council is essentially a place for major factions to show their demands. If a certain party is completely ignored interests, there will be more constraints in the implementation process, after all, success is hard to fail.

It's just that the harmonious atmosphere was destroyed on the third topic.Ladislaus had expected that there would be little opposition to the proposal.

The third issue is the reconstruction of the Austrian Navy. Ladislaus' plan to reorganize the Austrian Navy shocked everyone.Ladislaus' plan is simply not a plan.

He sincerely wants to withdraw from the struggle for maritime interests, and no longer tries to restore the military port on the Adriatic Sea. Instead, he will build a new military port on the Danube.

After all, there are still some experienced sailors left in the navy that cannot be wasted, and there is still a place for them in Ladislaus' grand strategy.

Opposite the city of Vienna, the north bank of the Danube will become the new base camp of the Austrian Navy. Of course, it is more accurate to say that it is the river army.

In Ladislaus' opinion, this construction plan has many advantages. First, it makes the Venetians more convinced that they have no intention of competing with them, and they can smoothly seek more and faster loans. Another unspeakable advantage is to further reduce the opponent's wary.

Secondly, this plan is also very good for the construction of Vienna Neustadt. Although it is a military port construction plan, in fact this plan is very valuable for strengthening Vienna’s logistics capabilities. Although it has been helped by the Amber Road for a long time, Vienna does not have enough To effectively utilize the transportation capacity of the Danube, no matter whether it is with the Bavaria Duchy and Ulm Imperial Municipality upstream or with the Hungarian Kingdom, Moldova Principality and Wallachia Principality downstream, the annual trade exchanges are very insufficient.

More importantly, these trade volumes are still very disorderly, and basically no tax is collected.

Under the protection and surveillance of the Inland River Fleet on the north bank, commercial activities on the Danube will become safer and more manageable.

If the trade is brought under the jurisdiction of the Vienna municipality, then the tax will give the government an incentive to crack down on river pirates and regulate the market.

Good law and order and an orderly environment will in turn further stimulate the prosperity of trade.

This plan is beneficial but not costly. There are already many private ports on both sides of Vienna. At present, they make almost no contribution to the country's finances. The forces that control the interests here are all small forces. They will definitely not have their direct patrons in the State Council.

Not having the right to speak also means that these forces do not have much obstruction ability.

These wild ferries and private ports can be directly confiscated or redeemed after a negligible compensation. On this basis, expanding the scale can immediately make Vienna take a big step towards the road of trade center.

But at the State Council, Ladislaus unexpectedly received a lot of opposition.

Governor Hohenzollern first expressed his objection: "His Royal Highness, Austria has spent more than 50 years in the past century to expand its territory to the sea. Since the time of the old emperor Maximilian, Austria has gone through It took half a century of operation to gain a foothold on the Adriatic Sea. The sea has been a dream of Austria for a long time. Even the Venetians will not openly ask us to destroy our own navy. Restoration of a minimum presence fleet at Port Sturt."

Minister Hohenzollern is a member of the Electorate of Brandenburg, but he resonates with Austria's desire to go to the sea. The Electorate of Brandenburg is also a landlocked country. Centuries of battle have been waged to gain access to the sea.

During these years of serving in the Grand Duchy of Austria, he, as an important minister, also devoted a lot of effort to the construction of the Austrian Navy. Starting from scratch is a very difficult process, especially for a career like the Navy.

Sazastan also expressed his true opinion: "Your Highness, the ocean is the future of mankind and the source of wealth. Although the river trade along the Danube will also have a great future, it is nothing compared to the wealth that the ocean can provide. It’s a drop in the bucket. Of course, I agree with concentrating on the Danube, where the competition is relatively small, but there is no need to completely withdraw the navy. You may not know how weak the aborigines on the New World are compared to our expeditionary force. Spain's relationship, if we ask, His Majesty Ferdinand will definitely consider giving us an island in the Windward Islands area."

The voice of support that Ladislaus thought he would definitely get did not sound.

Although Frundsberg hated the navy's competition for military spending for so many years, he found that it was against his heart to support Ladislaus at this time. As the spokesperson of the army, he should have opposed any attempt to expand the navy, but as an Austrian He was also heartbroken about giving up the Navy.

So he just kept his mouth shut.

"The grand blueprint is not important, what matters is the current state of the treasury. Since everyone knows that this is the result of decades of operation, then you should understand that the reconstruction costs after being completely destroyed by the Barbary pirates will be huge if the support is concentrated in a few years. How vast and unacceptable.” Machiavelli, who was still in charge of the money, jumped out to support Ladislaus, and he had good reasons.

"Those special military port facilities and a small fleet even if there is no resistance at all, will cost at least 20 thaler budget, and the special supplies and warehouses needed by the navy are another 20 thaler. Do people still take out loans?"

Although the expenditure is actually small compared to Ladislaus's trade center plan, the money has not been produced. In the near future, it is purely a kind of psychological satisfaction. Although national pride is not unimportant, it is still money after all. first.

After another half an hour of discussion and persuasion, both the Prosecutor of Hohenzollern and the Chief Inspector of Sazarstan reluctantly agreed to the "reconstruction plan" without reconstruction.

The investment quota of 300 million thalers has exceeded half, and Ladislaus really lost his arm for the construction of the Vienna Trade Center.