Chapter 11 Sunshine, Afternoon and Knee Pillow
Austria, Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.
The sun is warm and the leaves are translucent.
Under the tree, Franz was lying stretched out on Thalia's lap.
Thalia is the governess hired by Madame Sophie for Franz Joseph.
According to Thalia's own words.
"Your Highness, everything is good, but your homework is a bit" "too strong!"
Although His Highness still cannot write many words, he can always draw inferences about other cases in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His Highness can quickly understand many things that Thalia doesn't understand.
So much so that Thalia could only read newspapers to His Highness.
Also, His Highness has some quirks, that is, he likes to sleep on someone's lap.
Thalia thought that the royal family had regulations that the Grand Duchess could not raise the children herself, so the little Highness was pitiful.
Little did she know that Franz was lying on her lap, drifting away.
For Franz now, getting the old emperor to agree to join the German Customs Union is the limit of what he can do.
As for whether it can be added, and whether it can cut Prussian leeks after joining, it depends on the fate of God.
For Franz, what he should do now is enjoy everything that his identity brings. Sunshine, grass, big white legs
After all, if God doesn’t take it, you will suffer the consequences; if you don’t take it, you will suffer the disaster!
In the afternoon, Franz stretched and found that Thalia was fast asleep.
After trying a few pokes, Thalia didn't wake up, but just turned over, and her sleep state was even worse.
So Franz walked alone to the table in the garden and opened the newspaper.
In the corner of the page, there is a message:
Land prices in the United States hit a record high. In just four years from 1830 to 1834, land in Chicago tripled. The current upward trend in land prices continues unabated and is expected to double again in the next three years.
Franz smiled. It seemed that the Austrian economists were still conservative. From 1834 to 1837, Chicago land increased 64 times, which directly caused the economic crisis of 1837.
In the end, the land returned to its original value. At its peak in 1837, land could be sold for $12,000. By 1839, it was only worth $100, waiting for buyers.
The most serious losses from this economic crisis have been caused by the United Kingdom and the United States, of course because the economic exchanges between the two sides are too close. At the same time, trade protection policies are generally implemented on the European continent, but the impact is relatively small.
It's a pity that Franz can't invest. Otherwise, if it harms the Americans, Franz will definitely help.
Let the Austrian royal family buy it? What if you refuse to sell during the economic crisis? Franz did not dare to gamble on the greed of human nature.
The newspaper devoted two pages to reporting that the Austrian Empire was preparing to join the German Zollverein.
There are two pages, one is to praise Francis II, and the other is to tell the huge benefits that joining the German Customs Union will bring.
At one o'clock on January 1, 1834, the strings of four-wheeled carriages that had been waiting anxiously at the borders of various states were roaring past like crazy, laden with goods, because all the taxes that had to be paid when entering other countries were cancelled, and profits All of a sudden, the situation improved a lot, and all German businessmen were busy driven by profits.
In 1834, the total trade volume within the German Confederation in just one quarter exceeded the annual trade volume in 1833. However, Austria's trade volume increased by only 6%. In the long run, merchants in the Austrian Empire will suffer huge losses.
The newspaper described the German Customs Union as providing Austria with a huge market of 23 million people.
Although blind optimism is not advisable, we cannot pour cold water on businessmen at this time.
Prince Metternich's censorship of books and newspapers was fairly well implemented, and no objections were found in newspapers.
There are also some about rebels in various places. From 1833 to 1834, a total of 12 uprisings occurred in and around Austria.
There have been three recent incidents that were quickly suppressed. One was small, with only 20 people at the smallest. The other was because the garrison had been on guard for a long time. For this reason, Count Tural assigned Austria's most capable general to the one most likely to break out. The location of the uprising.
Only one uprising, in Genoa, was the most numerous and lasted the longest. Franz also saw two names he was familiar with, Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Franz watched it for a while and finally understood what was going on. The general sent by the Austrian Empire to suppress the uprising was Li Qi. This general was very powerful.
During the Napoleonic Wars, he was the famous surrender king and the French money bag. He was captured eleven times by the French army and its allies, and each time he returned to Austria with the ransom paid by his family.
Moreover, this brother was addicted to food. He was captured by the French again and again, and repeatedly asked the emperor to lead troops to fight again.
As the governor of Venice in the Year of the Storm, he had 20,000 troops stationed in the city of Venice. Facing the rebellious citizens, he actually ordered the soldiers to hand over their weapons without firing a shot, leaving only the flag and leaving the city.
It also indirectly ruined the Austrian Navy. At that time, the previous Austrian Navy Marshal died unexpectedly, and the successor Marshal was vacationing with beautiful women on the beach in Belgium.
Without a commander, most of the Austrian navy's officers and soldiers dispersed, leaving only an unknown captain and less than a hundred sailors, who fought fiercely with the rebels for five days, and finally all died.
If the Austrian Navy's fleet was still there, there would not have been such a funny scene as the seven Genoese warships blockading the Austrian Empire's military port in Trieste.
The city of Venice could not hold out for that long, and Marshal Radetzky did not have to divide his troops to prevent the Venetian army from cutting off the Austrian supply lines. More troops can be put into the front line, and the war can end faster.
Afterwards, General Reach not only was not held accountable, he also took over the Bohemian Front in northern Austria and lived until the age of 85.
This piece of trash led more than 10,000 people, chased 800 people from Genoa to Rome, and actually allowed more than 300 of them to escape.
After capturing more than 20 prisoners, Franz actually had the nerve to claim credit in the newspaper. Franz was speechless for a moment, and he was determined not to let such people continue to live in a state of solitude.
Mazzini, the mastermind behind the uprising, managed to escape to Switzerland. The Swiss Confederation rejected the Austrian and Sardinian governments' proposals to expel Mazzini.
Historically, Mazzini did not continue to prepare for a new uprising in Switzerland, but traveled across the ocean to seek salvation in England.
At this time, Garibaldi, who was just a gunman, did not attract the attention of various countries. On the contrary, this unknown gunman will cause waves in Italy again and again in the future.
This man got on a merchant ship and later arrived in South America. He also participated in the independence war of a small country and made great achievements.
Just when everyone thought Gallipoli would continue to enjoy hero treatment in that small South American country.
The president of that small country suddenly had a twitch in his mind, and he actually wanted to criticize a country that was more than ten times larger than his own land and had a population that was dozens of times larger than his own.
As expected, Garibaldi could only return to Italy.
In an inconspicuous corner was written: Friedrich List, from Württemberg, would serve as special advisor to the great Emperor Franz II for a period of five years.
Franz breathed a sigh of relief, maybe because he was too young, he felt sleepy after just watching for a while. So I put down the newspaper, followed the undulations of the mountains, and got in.
Thanks to book friend Shenzhou Buwu Tianxia Feng Dao for the reward.