My Italian Chapter 8

Becoming the king of Italy, Carlo still hasn't gotten rid of the fate that he still has to attend classes. Not only that, he needs to take more classes. This made Carlo, who wanted to make a big splash, to bury his head in a lot of homework.

However, he is not without benefits, that is, he can read all kinds of Italian materials at will, which also gives him a clear understanding of Italy.

But I don't know if I don't see it, I was startled when I saw it. The situation in Italy is not good at all, even very bad.

First of all, the domestic population of Italy has reached 28.21 million. Although this number is not comparable to that of Germany and France, it is higher than the 25.7 million of the British mainland.

However, compared with the UK, which is dominated by industrial finance, Italy has more people involved in agriculture, and it is well known that the output value of agriculture is the lowest. The proportion of Italian agriculture has always been greater than 50%, which is also among the best in Europe. It is conceivable how much the Italian economy relies on agriculture.

(One more thing, in 1900, the proportion of Italy's domestic agriculture did not fall below 50. It can be seen that in these two decades, Italy's domestic industrialization has not been promoted at all.)

However, the key point is that Italy relies so heavily on agriculture, but the Italian terrain is not suitable for agricultural production. Italy's domestic terrain is dominated by mountains and hills, with small plains only on the coast.

It is precisely because of this that the Italian economy relies heavily on cities such as Turin, Milan, Genoa, and Venice in the northern plains.

At the same time, the gap between the rich and the poor in the north and the south of Italy has also caused the opposition of the people of the two places. Of course, economic reasons alone cannot create such a big confrontation. In addition, religion, language, culture, customs, etc. are also mixed. These are all serious tests for the Italian government and him.

Of course, this is also the reason why Italy has been divided for too long. Although its national thinking has been recognized by the people, it is because the habits of many years are hard to change.

Of course, it would be nice if the Italian problem was really that simple. In fact, the problem in Italy is even more serious. First of all, although the unity of Italy gives people a sudden feeling of luck, it also causes a lot of problems.

First of all, that is Italy, which is not financially rich and mainly relies on agricultural tax revenue. In fact, Italy does not have much fiscal revenue. Its annual fiscal revenue is only 1.2 billion lire, while in France in the same period, it is 2.95 billion francs (1 franc for 1 lire). From here, you can It can be seen that the fiscal revenue of France is 2.45 times that of Italy.

With more fiscal revenue, you can do more things alone, and with less fiscal revenue, you can do less things.

However, the most urgent thing in Italy now is to connect all parts of the country, so the construction of railways is the top priority.

Italy has successively built many railway lines in recent years, such as the railway from Rome to Milan, the railway from Turin to Milan to Venice, etc. Of course, these railways are also beasts of gold, which are extremely difficult for Italy, which has low financial income. The Italian fiscal data that Carlo has seen so far shows that the current annual fiscal deficit reaches 300 million lira.

Then large-scale borrowing becomes the only option.

But fortunately, Italy's current debt situation is good, so Italian government bonds are not cold in the bond market. If it is as high in debt as Spain, it is estimated that the market will not accept it unless it offers an interest rate of one or two cents.

However, seeing this situation, Carlo is worried, because the national debt, which currently increases by a quarter of fiscal revenue every year, will make Italy's debt burden too heavy, and it might really have to borrow money like Spain to pay interest.

Although Carlo is worried about this, he has nothing to do now. Although he is the king, the one who exercises the power of the king is his uncle Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, but now he needs to be called the regent.

It's just that unlike his father, the regent didn't worry about the kingdom as much as his father did, and he didn't spend as much time dealing with government affairs as going to the ball. At this point, Carlo looked very painful, but he couldn't do anything about it. Because according to European practice, it is impossible to hold power before you reach adulthood.

Even so, his heart is still oriental thinking Carlo, and he still understands the situation in Italy.

There are currently fewer Italian workers, and their wages are at a low level in Europe. This also has a lot to do with the large number of unemployed people in the country. According to government statistics, the current unemployment rate in Italy is about 6%, but Carlo believes that this figure is wrong, because the number of Italian migrants reaches more than 100,000 people every year.

At present, Italy is the second largest immigrant country in Europe, second only to the United Kingdom. However, compared with the main immigration of the United Kingdom to its own colonies, Italy's foreign immigrants are more unable to survive and want to immigrate. UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com It needs to be pointed out here that Germany, which has always been a famous source of immigrants with Italy, is now rapidly reducing the number of foreign immigrants. linear decrease. And it can be clearly seen that German immigration will be tightened, because the current economic situation in Germany is much better than that in Italy.

When it comes to the economy, Italy really has nothing to say. Compared with other countries currently vigorously developing industrialization, the country is still dominated by handicrafts. The only good areas are the few northern areas such as Milan and Turin.

However, its industrial scale is simply not enough compared to countries such as Britain, France and Germany. Not to mention that large companies employing more than 500 people are extremely rare. Guess what made Carlo think of these situations?

That's right, the Celestial Dynasty in the Far East. Carlo's first reaction was that Italy was really similar to the Celestial Dynasty. All are agricultural countries, all are overcrowded (disgraceful Italy), all have insufficient domestic finances, and all have weak industrial scale. Of course, one of the strengths of Italy is that it knows that industrialization is the only way out.

However, compared with the Celestial Dynasty, which has vast land and abundant resources, Italy's resources are not suitable for industrialization. Famous marble, clay, how to industrialize, rich in geothermal resources, let people come to hot springs to get rich?

It can be said that the more Carlo looks, the more he feels that Italy's poor performance in modern times is completely limited by resources. See how much the Ruhr coal mine, occupied by Germany, has contributed to industrialization.

And Italy, even in the later generations with such advanced exploration technology, is still a country that lacks resources.

For this reason, Carlo felt that he was under a lot of pressure. To develop the Italian economy and industry, he had to catch up with the shuttle bus of the second industrial revolution.

For this reason, he plans to talk to his uncle and the Prime Minister.

Chapter end