Chapter 177 Daily Life (1)

Chapter 177 Daily Life (1)

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Thalia was doing squats against the wall alone, while Franz was lying on Adjani's lap to supervise her.

Franz likes to rub against Adjani's thigh, and the latter likes to lick the former. They both get what they want.

Since Adjani's arrival, Thalia's body shape has rapidly developed in the direction of a German aunt.

On the one hand, it’s because Franz is giving more and more tasks, and these two guys will eat sweets like crazy when they are together.

Adjani's fat has gone where it should go, and Thalia's fat is as free as herself. Franz decided to exercise them for his own eyes.

Fifty push-ups, fifty sit-ups, fifty squats, and running around the Royal Gardens with Franz are mandatory every day, and then there will be random punishments for every mistake.

In two years, their figures have improved a lot, and their waistcoat lines, peach buttocks, and beauty spots are all there.

Franz's training was relatively easy for Adjani. After all, she had dancing skills and had practiced assassination.

For Talia, it was a very painful process. Although she looked tall and powerful, her physical strength was astonishingly poor. She had to sit down and rest once after running a few hundred meters.

After a long period of training, something magical happened. Thalia completely flattened her already skinny breasts. But she didn't care, and Franz couldn't demand anything more.

Adjani also said goodbye to her corset completely. Franz originally planned to give Adjani the new bra as a reward, but Mrs. Sophie got there first.

Adjani herself fell in love with this kind of underwear, and she was the first person to start improving this kind of underwear, after dozens of modifications and Franz's suggestions.

This new style of underwear is getting closer and closer to modern underwear, but the style is still from the 19th century.

After that, Franz took Adjani to exchange experiences with Mrs. Sophie again and again. With Franz's unremitting efforts, he finally attracted Mrs. Sophie's interest in fashion design and modeling.

Mrs. Sophie's business talent and political vision are very poor. Instead of letting her make trouble for herself, it is better to let her do something she already likes.

She can completely use her connections to sell new underwear between the nobility and the royal family. After all, the cost of new underwear at this time is still relatively high, and the aristocrats are more likely to accept new designs than the poor. The most important thing is that they can be sold as luxury goods. .

Similarly, the rubies, sapphires, pearls, ivory and other luxury goods collected by the Austrian church from Zhenla were also handed over to Mrs. Sophie.

Managing luxury goods relies on patience, vision, and branding, which Mrs. Sophie possesses. At the same time, Franz cannot find a better brand than the Habsburg family.

Mrs. Sophie was born in the Wittelsbach family. Her family was rich in beauties and foolish kings. Four of her five sisters became queens of the country.

Only the youngest sister Maria Ludovica Wilhelmina married a duke from the royal branch, who was later the mother of Princess Sissi.

Therefore, Mrs. Sophie is very well-connected in the European royal family, and she is willing to show off these jewelry and designs everywhere, just like she often shows off her children.

At this time, Mrs. Sophie had three sons and one daughter. Parents would always unconsciously favor the eldest son and the youngest daughter. Franz seemed a little weird, so the well-behaved and sensible Maria became her favorite to show off. of "toys".

Maria Anna is Franz's youngest sister. She is chubby and very cute, but because of her overindulgence, she often eats random things and often suffers from diarrhea.

Franz specially prepared a box of allicin capsules for her and asked Mrs. Sophie to always carry them with her.

In 1730, pharmacists in Vienna began to make capsules from starch, but there were still some differences between the capsules at this time and modern capsules, but soon, in 1846, the familiar two-section capsule would come out.

Allicin has a wide range of effects and has few adverse reactions like penicillin. In this era of lack of medical means, it can definitely be regarded as a miracle drug.

But Franz didn't mass-produce it, he didn't apply for a patent, and no one except a few people even knew what it was.

Because the biggest gains from promoting this kind of thing at this time are Britain, France, and the United States. If Franz really promotes this kind of thing, he doesn't know how much patent fees he can recover, but the world will be divided up in less than 20 years. Done, there is no need to wait until the end of the nineteenth century.

At that time, Austria can only drool over the meat in other people's bowls, or forcefully establish colonies in the Balkans, and finally disappear in the fireworks of civil war.

Now that most of Chenla's territory has fallen into the hands of the Austrian church, Chenla's economic situation has improved a lot since retaking the northern silver mines occupied by the Siamese.

Although gems and copper are valuable, they are commodities after all, and they only have value if they are sold. After the silver is brought back to Austria, it can be directly minted into currency.

In fact, there are gold mines in the northern area of ​​Chenla, but they have not been discovered yet. Franz has hired a group of geologists to search for gold mines.

Of course, let the geologists go, and the more important thing is to carefully explore the resources. After all, the technology in the Chenla area is very primitive, and their understanding of resources is very backward.

In addition, copper was indeed very valuable in Europe at that time, because Europe was the region with the most scarce copper resources except Antarctica. In the future, the role of copper would be huge, and the consumption would be astronomical.

In Chenla, people mainly used wooden and stone tools. Their copper-smelting technology was very poor and they were very short of iron resources. Therefore, there has never been a truly powerful country in this area.

What Archbishop Rauscher feared did not happen. The King of Siam did not become angry because the silver mines were robbed, raise an army to invade, or join forces with the Vietnamese to attack the Skitarii.

Instead, he wrote a letter to the church admitting his mistake, and at the same time sent a large amount of treasures and slaves. He also expressed his willingness to carry out trade exchanges with the Austrian Empire, and was willing to sign treaties to establish long-term political and economic relations.

When Franz saw all this, he couldn't help but sigh, "Rama III is really Thailand's only emperor through the ages." As the saying goes, if you don't hit someone with a smiling face, they will hand you unequal treaties. What reason is there to continue beating people up?

Historically, Rama III relied on this almost shameless traitorous behavior to maintain Thailand's independent status, and later even became the only country in Southeast Asia that had not been colonized.

Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands, and Portugal have all considered Thailand, but whenever a country intends to dominate it, a group of powers will always come out to oppose it, and in the end they have to leave the matter alone.

Siam's geographical location is very important and its resources are rich, but it is too far for the Austrian Empire. Instead, it can use its rich coal and iron resources to develop primary industry in Chenla.