Before proposing the gold standard reform, Franz had already considered the issue of gold reserves, and the best option was naturally to occupy the gold-producing areas and organize manpower for mining.
Unfortunately, most of the world's principal gold-producing regions had no relation to the New Holy Roman Empire, with the majority of them in British hands.
In this era, easily mined gold deposits were mainly located in South Africa, Russia, Canada, Australia, the United States, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea among other regions.
There was no way around it: the European Continent was short on gold mines, and even those that existed had been largely developed, what remained lied deep underground, and surface gold mines no longer existed.
Franz was not an encyclopedia; he could not possibly remember every gold mine's location, so naturally, he couldn't find all the potential gold mines within the country.
