Chapter 18, Worried Sick

Capital is always profit-driven. After the announcement of the heavy industry plan in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the number of people traveling to the area to explore opportunities surged, thanks to the preferential policies.

As for whether to invest or not, that still has to wait for the results to come out. Usually, a company will only commit to investment after purchasing a mine.

In this era, there was no talk of importing ores from overseas. Despite the abundance of mineral resources in Austria's colonies, the cost of mining and transportation back was enough to bankrupt any enterprise.

Apart from minerals not found locally, there were few instances of importing ores during this period. Europe's main industrial powers were mostly self-sufficient in industrial raw materials, with the colonies serving only as a supplemental source.

Franz believed capitalists were all shrewd; they would figure everything out themselves. Those who weren't sharp were essentially out of the game.