As soon as the news of the railway company's public offering came out, it immediately caused a sensation. Within three days, the initial shares of these five companies were all divided up, and a total of 30 million dong of start-up capital was raised.
I have to say that the big nobles are arrogant, and the family invested 1.8 million dong without blinking an eye.
Everyone is well-informed, and it is very clear that the government's purpose in doing this is to win over local elites to make a fortune together, so that no one disturbs the railway project.
Even so, there is no reason for everyone to refuse to make a fortune, right
Franz Ken took them to make a fortune together, which meant that the emperor regarded them as his own, which reassured many people.
As for the people who killed the rebellion last year, they were automatically ignored by them. Unconsciously, the butt moved again, and the traitor should be killed.
With so many powerful factions investing in shares, Franz doesn't need to worry about the rest. These people are even more anxious than him. The railway will be built one day earlier, and everyone will be able to make money one day earlier.
The exploration team of the Ministry of Railways has already set off. In order to speed up the process, the newly established railway company has also organized its own exploration team and joined the exploration work.
At the same time, five railways will be started, namely: Shuangbu Railway (Prague to Bratislava), Wieser Railway (Vienna to Szeged), Vimy Railway (Vienna to Milan via Venice), Lusa Railway (Luble Jana to Zagreb).
Of course, the actual construction distance is definitely more than that. These five are just the main lines.
For example, there is a branch railway connection between the Shuangbu Railway and the Wisser Railway. The Wisser Railway will extend westward to Salzburg, and the Shuangbu Railway has a bunch of branch lines.
Not to mention the Lusa Railway, the straight-line distance between the two places is only more than 100 kilometers. How can such a short distance become the main line
Naturally, it extends to both sides, to the west to the Villach and the Vimy railway linking it together, and to the east to Slavonski Brod.
There are four or five thousand kilometers of main roads alone, plus the miscellaneous branch railways, more than 10,000 kilometers is appropriate.
There is no doubt that the Ministry of Railways has brought smuggled goods into it, and has adopted a bundled method to package some difficult routes.
This is also acquiesced by Franz. As compensation, the Austrian government will provide some free labor for the railway company, and the specific situation will be determined according to the construction conditions.
They are all on the boat, and now you still want to quit? It is not easy for the railway company to build the railway without the labor that can be used as consumables in the hands of the government.
Once the casualty rate is too high, even everyone's hands and eyes can't cover it
Think about the social impact of tens of thousands of deaths? If nothing else, the pension alone can make them vomit blood.
This is also one of the reasons for the slow growth of railway mileage in European countries. Hundreds of kilometers of railways are built every year, and the number of casualties is controlled within a certain range, which everyone can bear.
If the casualties are heavy, the workers will also strike. Are slaves brought back from overseas for construction? The price of slaves in this era is also not cheap, and the shipping fee is not a small sum.
Building railways in this era can be said to be very cruel. There are too few mechanical equipment, and most of them have to be carried on the shoulders manually, and the dangerous areas are often finished with people and equipment.
Opium, and many unscrupulous railway companies prepare daily necessities for workers. Most people can't bear the pain. They rely on opium to paralyze themselves. After a few years, people will be abolished.
There is no doubt that these newly established railway companies in Austria are all representatives of unscrupulous railway companies, and the shareholders behind the scenes are a group of sanctimonious aristocrats.
Because of the nobility, they must take into account their reputation. Many things can be done secretly, but they can't do it on the surface.
It is not easy to clean up, and the reputation accumulated by the ancestors is even more undefiled. Just look at Franz's performance. The emperor himself is not involved, and the Habsburg family must invest in a vest.
In this situation, what better reassurance than with a criminal? No matter how many die, public opinion will not condemn them, at least in this era.
Of course, it is necessary to find a few managers, presidents, etc., to blame them for their management mistakes, and then there will be no more.
These people are chaotic parties, and they have been hacked to the bottom of the pot in public opinion. As long as the Austrian Empire exists, it is impossible for them to be overturned.
Don't think that the Austrian government will not be involved if there are no nine tribes in Europe. Involved in the rebellion, the nobles at the top will be finished, not to mention the rising peasants
Everyone is pretending to be confused. Ordinary people will never admit that there are people in their own family who rebel. As long as they stay safe, the government also pretends that they don’t know anything.
Anyway, the war was so chaotic, and it was very difficult to find out the situation, so it was directly dealt with as the death toll, otherwise how did Metternich come up with the death toll
These people have been deceased on the household registration, and their families have regarded them as dead, and many funerals have been held in advance.
Except when Franz initially suppressed the Vienna Rebellion, the "rebels vying to defect" were lightly dismissed, the rebels in Italy and Hungary were basically dead.
These people have also become the best laborers. People who have died once cannot be killed again.
No wages, no pensions. No family troubles, no media condemnation, and no follow-up trouble.
The only problem is that these people are in the hands of the government, and there is a price to pay for their use. According to the prior agreement, there are not so many additional road sections, but there is also no commitment to provide free labor, right
Without hesitation for a long time, everyone decided to repair it. It's just that these road sections are repaired at the back, which saves the largest piece of labor expenses anyway, and does not increase the budget much.
In the future, if there is profit, it will be put into operation. If there is no profit, it will send a car every ten days and a half month. This is also their freedom.
As long as the Austrian railway controls the operating frequency, the possibility of losing money is not very large. In even remote areas, it can collect a truckload of goods in ten days and a half months.
The routes planned by the Ministry of Railways connect all the cities, not the villages. How can there be no business
The unpopular route cannot make money, but the problem of capital preservation is not big, even if it is a loss, it will not be too much.
This is the advantage of private railway companies. They can flexibly allocate train schedules, and both freight and passenger transport can be deployed according to actual needs.
The government operation will not work. If the dispatchers below are given such great authority, it is estimated that the railway system will soon be hollowed out by them, which is very troublesome to supervise.
The owner of a private company will keep an eye on it himself, and no one from the government will be able to keep it from being corroded. Can’t the Emperor Franz pay attention to this issue every day
In addition, the government has to consider political factors. Many local economic development requires railways to operate every day. In the short term, the railway system will lose money, but the local economy has also been driven, and the government's tax revenue has increased.
In the end, whether the government made a loss or made a profit is difficult to calculate.
In order to avoid large-scale corruption and reduce losses, most of the railways operated by the government are usually fixed in frequency.
If you want to schedule, you must report layer by layer. Unless it is a special case, most of the time, few staff will ask for trouble, and the operating cost will naturally go up.
After a series of bargaining, everyone finally reached an agreement, and the railway construction in Austria started.
In order to recover the cost in the shortest time, the "three-sided plan" (exploration, design, and construction) was adopted this time.
The railway construction work has just started, and everyone found a problem helplessly. It seems that the sand and gravel mines around the railway have fallen into the hands of the Austrian Sand and Stone Group.
This made many people regret it. Before the construction of the railway, the sand and gravel around the city were still worth a little money, and the sand and gravel in the wilderness was completely ignored.
But it is different now. A lot of sand and gravel raw materials will be used for building railways. In this era, there are no cars, and transportation can only be done by human or animal power. There is no choice but to collect materials on the spot.
As soon as they got this news, the management of the railway company became angry. They were originally invited by the shareholders to do the dirty work, and it was their turn to appear at this time.
It is a pity that there is no chance for them to perform. When the Austrian Sandstone Group showed up backstage, one by one, it was assumed that nothing had happened.
No, it happened. When I came, I was ready to smash the field. After I figured out the situation, it became a business talk. When I left, I took away a supply contract signed with the Austrian Sand & Stone Group.
The real fair trade is fair. All the supply of sand and gravel is based on the market price. If the market price is not controlled, it should be considered a fair trade.
Franz still knows the importance, it's okay to make a small profit, but if you overplay it, it won't be good if it spreads out.
Therefore, the market price of sand and gravel has not been greatly increased, but it has increased by three floors compared to before the construction of the railway. Of course, the railway company is a major customer, and it has been given a 20% discount.
Taken together, the unit price has only increased by 4%, and there is almost no price increase, which is definitely a conscience price.
This is also within the rules. As early as the first half of the year, Franz bought these minerals at the price of cabbage, and many of them were bought from the nobles.
The most valuable thing in this era is information. There is no way that they are not well-informed, and they are greedy for small gains, so they can only admit defeat.
The only thing that reassured them was that it seemed that His Majesty the Emperor did not come specifically for the railway. Not only the sand and gravel mines were bought, except for gold mines and silver mines that were too expensive, all other messy mines were bought.
Even these sand and gravel mines are not all located along the railway, but in the barren mountains and mountains. Obviously, they are making money by casting a wide net.
With so many sand and gravel mines, it is naturally impossible for Franz to send someone to manage them. After all, the unit price of sand and gravel is not high, and the profit mainly depends on the volume.
As an emperor who cherishes feathers, he naturally cannot do anything about squeezing workers, including the fact that he is the boss behind the scenes.
At this time, it is necessary to find a contractor. The big aristocrats don’t look down on the business of second-order dealers, aren’t there still small aristocrats and small capitalists
This does not require Franz to worry about it. After the wind of subcontracting was released, someone soon contacted the person in charge of the Austrian Sand and Stone Group.
With an order contract in hand, it is still very easy to negotiate a business that is destined to make money.
The contractor is responsible for recruiting workers to mine, manages all work on the mine, and is legally responsible for it.
According to the actual situation, Austrian Sand & Gravel Group extracts 20% to 30% of the profit from the contract, and the rest is at the discretion of the contractor, including paying taxes and paying labor wages, and the contract is terminated after the completion of the railway construction.
Whether they can make money depends on the management level of these people. Anyway, the Austrian Sand & Stone Group signed the contract with them, and they left all the responsibilities to the contractor. The vest number of the Austrian gravel group was traced.
Then there is no more, the vest is still behind the vest, and it stops at this step. Those in the know are smart people, and no one will lift the lid.
No matter what other people do, or how they fight, Franz made the biggest profit as soon as he changed hands.
It is estimated that when these railways are completed, Franz will recover all the money he invested in buying mines, and the mines are his greatest profit.
You must know that this is just the beginning, only a part of the sand and gravel mines have been developed, and there are still a bunch of mines waiting to be developed. At this moment, Franz discovered that the mine owner was the happiest.