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

Chapter 1197 Taxation and Population (Part )
Although mainstream economists could not accept Franz's approach of abolishing the poll tax, it aroused support from another group of people.

Most of these people came from Britain, the United States, and Brazil. Most of them were abolitionists, liberals, and some philosophers.

The most representative of them are John Stuart Mill, Henry David Thoreau and Doronium.

John Stuart Mill, a famous British philosopher, psychologist and economist, was a liberal but also supported utilitarianism.

Henry David Thoreau, an American writer and philosopher, was a representative of transcendentalism, an abolitionist and naturalist. He had anarchist tendencies and was arrested for opposing the poll tax.

Doronimus, a Brazilian poet, reformer, politician, and abolitionist, once launched a slave uprising on his estate, but was suppressed by his own steward.
Although these people may seem unreliable, they actually have many advanced ideas, and most of them sincerely want to change the world.

These people can serve as consultants, at least they can provide some experience with failure and they can also take the blame.

After the abolition of the poll tax, the burden on civilians was greatly reduced, and some people did not even have to pay direct taxes.

People no longer had to worry about the poll tax when giving birth, so according to the folk customs and religious traditions of the time, they would definitely give birth to as many children as possible.

After the implementation of the new tax system, civilians gradually became less afraid of tax officials and were even willing to pay taxes. After all, the tax was not much and they could enjoy rights such as compulsory education and regular free diagnosis.

At the same time, people's enthusiasm for exposing hidden property has greatly increased. This is a just act in public, especially those ill-gotten gains should be exposed and returned to their original owners.

This kind of behavior is also safeguarding the interests of the country and the public, and can even promote social equity, and is also part of social responsibility.

It feels good to do this personally. After all, the gentlemen who make money through tax evasion and tax avoidance will only think that they are very smart, and will only look down on law-abiding civilians even more.

But now that the empire has money, it will do some practical things that benefit the country and the people, and will also give certain material rewards to whistleblowers.

Coupled with the introduction of a progressive tax system, the tax revenue of the Austrian Empire not only did not decrease, but instead increased to a higher level.

As for the taxation issue, the problem of imperial power not going down to the countryside should have been solved long ago, which would also have solved the problem of the serious shortage of civil servants in the Austrian Empire.

Franz would certainly recruit a large number of civil servants, but these civil servants could not all sit idle in the city. It would be more appropriate for them to go to the countryside to teach and collect taxes.

Teaching and collecting taxes at the same time would not easily delay the talents. At the same time, Franz also wanted to establish a household registration system.

To strengthen central power, it is necessary to strengthen control over local areas and weaken the influence of local gentry. Franz took this opportunity to complete his control over the grassroots.

At this time, the population of the Austrian Empire was larger than that of the entire German Confederation. Although the German Confederation had absorbed the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, parts of Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine, it had only just exceeded 4300 million.

The situation in the German Confederation is rather complicated. Some countries have head taxes, while others do not. However, Franz will help them break the shackles one by one. After all, immigrants are also an important source of population for the Austrian Empire.

Its neighbor France was in a worse situation. After losing Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium, it also lost Texas, Algeria, Morocco, and almost all of its overseas colonies.

France's population has now fallen to 30 million, and this number is likely to continue to decline due to the economic crisis, political chaos, and declining health and medical conditions.

The situation in the UK is also not optimistic. Although the UK population has exceeded 2700 million and several megacities have emerged.

But while the British maintained an extremely high fertility rate, they also maintained an extremely high neonatal mortality rate. Due to cholera, extreme poverty, and the persistent problem of child labor, it was difficult for children from ordinary families to survive to adulthood. The figure was even less than 50% at one point.

As for Russia's population, it remains a mystery, but having just acquired the provinces of Trabzon and Erzurum and established the puppet state of Armenia, its population is bound to experience an explosive growth. Spain's situation is similar to that of Russia. The Spanish government did not successfully complete a census in the sixty years from 1797 to 1857, and the population is estimated to be around million.

The population of the United States has experienced explosive growth, breaking through the 20 million mark in one fell swoop, but the scale of the immigration wave is much smaller than the same period in history.

At this time, the main immigrants to the United States were the Irish and the British, followed by the Swedes and Norwegians from Northern Europe. The number of German immigrants dropped by 90%, and the number of Italian immigrants dropped by three quarters.

However, even so, the Irish still suffered very severe discrimination in the United States, and they were often required to do the most dangerous, dirty and lowest-paid jobs.

This discrimination is multifaceted and goes far beyond economic discrimination. Ireland's language, religion, culture and even population are all discriminated against.

They were not considered white. Americans believed that the Irish were descendants of an African tribe, and there were even doctors who claimed that the Irish's anatomy was more similar to that of black people.

The population of Mexico was on a downward trend. Franz also tried to save the population of Mexico, but the tyranny of Tassan Anna and the internal unrest in Mexico destroyed everything. The population of Mexico remained around 700 million.

Brazil's population remained stable, but due to the one-drop blood rule, there were more slaves than citizens, and the total population was around 750 million.

德意志邦联内部，普鲁士以1700万人口遥遥领先，巴伐利亚480万、荷兰430万、萨克森300万、汉诺威210万、符腾堡190万、丹麦160万、黑森155万、巴登140万、卢森堡68万。

(This is the data after the integration of the German Confederation.)
The situation in Alsace-Lorraine is more complicated. There are only 500,000 to 600,000 local Germans, while the number of French is rising sharply.

A similar situation occurred in Fribourg. The Count of Chambord was a legitimate Bourbon, and with the actions of Louis Napoleon, the area became one of the destinations for French immigrants.

The situation of the Austrian Empire's colonies was not included in the statistics. The population of the California colony was about 80, mainly Germans, Spanish, Italians, Mexicans, as well as 12 Japanese and 8 Irish laborers.

In the Central American colonies of the Austrian Empire, there were approximately 3.8 immigrants, 8 native whites, 17 natives, Japanese laborers, and Irish laborers.

The Austrian Empire's Togo colony had 1.5 immigrants, 1.6 Irish laborers, and 8000 black slave laborers.

In the Austrian Empire's Namibian colony, there were 1.2 immigrants, 1.5 Irish laborers, and 3000 black slave laborers.

The Austrian Empire's Cameroon colony had 7.9 immigrants, 2.5 Irish laborers, and 2 black slave laborers.

The Austrian Empire's Ivory Coast colony had 6 immigrants, 3.3 Irish laborers, and 1 black slave laborers.

In the Guinea colony of the Austrian Empire, there were 5.8 immigrants, 4.5 Irish laborers, and 1 black slave laborers.

The Austrian Empire's Hawaiian colony had 3700 immigrants and 2.8 Japanese laborers.

Austrian Empire Congo Colony, 370 immigrants, 1000 Irish laborers.

The Austrian Empire's Viceroyalty of Tanzania had a population of 31, 1.2 Irish laborers, and 58 Dalit laborers.

Austrian Zhenla has a population of 170 million and 1.3 immigrants.

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