Chapter 129 Fire and water are ruthless
In Europe, a strong convective weather visited here, and the typhoon also arrived as expected.
Typhoons and strong convective weather brought heavy rains, which directly caused flash floods in northern Spain.
The flash floods caused by heavy rains almost ended the Carlist War early. A flash flood destroyed the Carlist camp, and many senior officers were buried forever under the soil in their sleep.
Carlos and his children were also almost swallowed by the flash flood, but fortunately the "royal mule" woke him up in time and took them to safe high ground.
The royal mule refers to Carlos's "mount". Since Carlos was not good at walking on mountain roads, he was carried by a guide every time he marched, so he was also called the "royal mule".
This rare heavy rain even overturned two British supply ships, and the Carlist supply may be tight.
Of course, this was not good news for the Queen Regent, because the floods washed away river embankments and bridges, creating large floodplains, and the march of the Spanish government troops was greatly slowed down.
A large amount of farmland in southern France was flooded. The Moselle, Marne, Seine, Lot, Dordogne, Garonne, and Saone rivers all flooded. Hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland were flooded, and tens of thousands of people were injured. Homeless, hundreds of people died directly from the floods.
Important cities such as Lyon and Paris have suffered varying degrees of damage. French grapes have suffered the most serious losses. It is expected that the price of French wine will increase by 30% next year.
The grapes in France were first dried into raisins by the high temperature, and then washed away without a trace by a flood. The vineyard owners were really in tears. If they had known better, they would have sold the raisins directly.
Severe thunderstorms hit Rotterdam, causing port fires.
In Austria, riverbeds that have been dry for a long time suddenly experienced heavy rains. The result of the surge in water levels was massive floods.
Austria is a country with a dense network of rivers, which disperses the destructive power of floods to a certain extent, but on the other hand strengthens the impact of floods.
Other countries are experiencing flooding in some areas, but in Austria, flooding is occurring all over the country.
The Austrians followed the traditional practice of directly introducing floods into the Danube River, and then Vienna was flooded. Almost all the streets were engulfed by floods, and the slums were completely submerged. Although the Austrian official only admitted that two hundred people were killed, people continued to float out of the slums. The floating corpse is like a ruthless hand slapping the Austrian government in the face.
Franz came to the Vienna Women's College under the Karen Mountain. He hoped that Dobler and the scientists here could move to the city of Vienna. Because the continuous heavy rains had made the suburbs of Vienna unsafe, he did not want to suddenly Ruined a group of top Austrian scientists at this time
However, they rejected Franz's proposal and expressed their intention to live or die with the laboratory. Although Franz didn't know what was in the laboratory, he still admired their research spirit of risking life and death.
In fact, there is a reason why these professors are reluctant to leave. It is still the same old problem. In this era, you usually have to spend your own money to conduct research. After finally finding Franz, the professors really don’t want to give up their hard-won experiments. room.
These people were conducting various kinds of research in the laboratory that Franz didn't know yet, but most of them were useless.
Some people want to prove the existence of God, and some people want to develop glasses that can not only allow themselves to see clearly, but also blind other people's glasses.
Of course, there are also some relatively reliable studies. For example, an Austrian physicist is preparing to develop an aircraft. In order to make this aircraft fly into the sky, he built a super large slingshot... and the aircraft he designed is actually a flying saucer!
At this time, a large number of utopian and autistic scholars gathered in Austria, and those gathered here were undoubtedly the leaders among them.
Doppler said he would show Franz his latest research results, which excited Franz.
Because Doubler actually mentioned the sight, which is a battlefield artifact. If all Austrian troops can be equipped with sights,
However, when Franz saw the real thing, his jaw dropped and he was not excited at all.
The scope in front of me is more like a telescope than a scope. It is actually 800mm long. Not only does it increase in weight, it is also inconvenient to load and carry.
Although it can indeed improve the hit rate, the practicality of this thing is too poor, and it is really not conducive to use by snipers.
After that, Franz tried several more times, trying to make the scope smaller according to the modern design, but it didn't seem to be as simple as Franz thought, and the thing couldn't change the focal length, so it was really practical. It's limited. Maybe it will be better after long-term practice and increased proficiency.
Franz could only give Doubler some advice. After all, he knew very little about this kind of thing. First of all, it should have a zoom function to facilitate snipers to kill enemies at various distances. Secondly, the sight distance should not be too far. Just 4 to 8 times is enough. No matter how far it is, there are no special firearms to support it. Then try not to make it too long, easy to carry and disassemble, and finally don't reflect light.
As for the specific research, let's leave it to Mr. Doubler and those professionals.
Based on Franz's air-conditioning design, Doppler's team easily designed a cheap alternative that not only had good performance but was only 35 times cheaper than the original one.
After all, Franz only knew the general theory, made many wrong attempts, and hired craftsmen, etc., and the many expenses combined led to the high price of 70,000 florins.
For example, the latest hand-operated refrigerator in the UK costs only fifty pounds, but its price is as high as five thousand pounds each.
The first user of Franz's air conditioner was naturally the church. After Archbishop Rauscher saw it once in Franz's study, he was full of praise for it.
So Franz gave one to Archbishop Rauscher, which led to more people praying every day in the church.
In fact, except for the extreme weather this year, air conditioning is not of great value in Austria, except for churches. This kind of place is actually very suitable for air conditioning. As long as some noise is reduced, the coolness can make the church look more quiet and mysterious.
The weather in Southeast Asia is so hot that Archbishop Rauscher originally planned to buy four refrigeration machines for Kampong Son for emergency use. At this time, he replaced them with Franz air conditioners. The price remained unchanged at 50,000 florins each, and four refrigeration machines were included. A Franz replica refrigeration machine.
With such generous terms, Archbishop Rauscher naturally had no reason to refuse, so he readily agreed.
When these air conditioners traveled across the sea to Kampong Sohn, the Austrians suddenly discovered a huge problem, that is, there was very little coal here, and sometimes they had to use wood and weeds as fuel.
But the moment the cool breeze blows out...
"Oh my God! This is truly the greatest creation in the world. How can there be such a sacred gas?"
Due to the limited number of air conditioners, it was impossible to use them for personal use. In addition, there were a large number of believers here, so all four air conditioners were simply installed in the church. Local officials and church leaders moved directly into the church.