Chapter 106 The Queen of Darkness

Vienna.

After the imperial decree was issued, the ministers quickly added the drug prohibition item to the Austrian Imperial Code.

Because of the hell drawing incident, drug prohibition became a consensus of the entire upper class. Prince Metternich and Count Korolov would never provide protection for drug dealers. They hoped to unite the upper class in Vienna.

With the emperor and the imperial code as endorsement, drug prohibitionists were fearless. Coupled with the appeal of the Habsburg family and the church among the people, a vigorous drug prohibition campaign began.

After the government and the church had publicized the drug prohibition order for a month, the decree was officially implemented.

But even so, some people still continued to sell and make drugs with a fluke mentality.

But this time they did not get earnest persuasion, but the shackles and chains of the gendarmes.

Opium wine dens were removed one by one, and opium wine dealers either paid huge fines or were thrown into the mines for labor.

Austria's railway construction urgently needs a large amount of pig iron, and an important reason for the low pig iron production in Austria is that no one is willing to go to the mines.

So it is too wasteful to execute people once they are caught. The Austrian Empire is in its rising period, and labor is needed everywhere.

In this era, compared with mining coal in the mines, it seems so easy and comfortable to go to the river to clean up the silt, or swing a sledgehammer to hit iron piles in the wind and sun.

It is a major accident if dozens or hundreds of people die in the construction of railways or clearing rivers. However, in the mines, if there are no dozens of people dying in a month, the supervisors will feel uncomfortable.

In this era, no more than 10% of people can survive after three consecutive years of mining.

The proposal to send drug dealers to the mines has been widely recognized by the upper class. After all, this seems more humane.

It's just hard for the drug dealers. Some people just think they have found a way to get away with it, and some people want to be a big drug lord like the Sassoon family.

However, before these people's dream of becoming drug lords could be realized, they were arrested by the gendarmerie and then sent to the mines to serve their sentences under the judgment of the temporary court.

In fact, the success of Vienna's anti-drug operation was naturally inseparable from the broad support of all classes, but objectively speaking, at this time, drug dealers in Vienna had not yet formed a scale and had not yet formed a complex network of interests.

The royal family and the church had a huge influence on ordinary people. In addition, the opium wine business also affected some businesses of local merchants in Vienna, among which the winery was the most affected.

Merchants naturally would not miss this good opportunity to exclude their opponents, so the death of drug dealers in Vienna was not unjust.

As soon as Solomon Rothschild saw that the opium wine business was going to end, he cut ties with those drug dealers.

After all, the cost of selling opium was very low. During this period, he not only recovered the cost of his investment, but also made a small profit.

As for those drug dealers and opium wine lovers, what did he have to do with him?

But Solomon Rothschild's operation offended the gang forces in Vienna.

There was even a drug gang called the Liquor Gang that offered a reward of 20,000 florins to assassinate Solomon Rothschild, but the next day, the leader of the Liquor Gang was offered a reward by Solomon in return, and on the third day, he was found dead on the street.

In this way, some people say that the Rothschild family is the largest gang in Europe, and this statement is not groundless.

Franz really couldn't stand Solomon, who was able to cause so many ups and downs during the confinement.

Franz had thought about attacking Solomon's Vienna Business Alliance before, but Talia was not good at this kind of thing. She couldn't control those big businessmen, and Franz was not Zhuge Liang, so it was impossible for him to solve all problems with letters alone.

But now Franz has an extra helper, this Ajani is a veteran in the social scene.

Vienna, Franz's study.

Talia confessed her crimes and was very proud of them.

"Did you tell me everything?" Franz asked.

"Yes, she is your attendant, and I am her subordinate." Talia replied.

"How did she react?" Franz asked.

"She said I was really funny." Talia rolled her eyes.

"."

Franz breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately the other party didn't believe it.

"How could you tell all my secrets?"

"What if she knew? Go and complain to your mother?" Talia looked nonchalant.

"But"

"If Madame Sophie thinks these things may be bad for you, the one who will be unlucky must be the one who tells this secret. I really don't understand, what are you afraid of, are you afraid that your mother doesn't love you?

The person who is least likely to harm you in this palace is Madame Sophie. I always have a feeling that you don't seem to think that Madame Sophie is your mother, because you didn't raise you personally?"

Talia lay on Franz's desk, fiddling with the globe on the desk boredly.

"." Franz had to admit that the guy in front of him was right.

Franz should pay attention to people like Queen Anna and Karl von Slote. They are the only ones who don't want Franz to ascend the throne. Most people in this country don't care whether Franz is a natural saint or a monster.

However, after Madame Sophie gave birth to three sons, Queen Anna should have been desperate. Even if Franz could not inherit the throne, it was not her turn to interfere in the Austrian government.

One of the purposes of the Regency Council left by Franz II was to prevent Queen Anna from getting involved in politics.

Mrs. Sophie was actually in the same group as Franz, but Franz didn't know Adjani's identity yet, so he simply stopped pretending and asked Mrs. Sophie directly.

After all, Adjani was trained by Mrs. Sophie for three months after entering the palace before reporting to Franz. Mrs. Sophie should know everything.

Mrs. Sophie's bedroom.

Count Schüssel was talking to Mrs. Sophie about the future of the Bavarian Gang. They had just taken over the territory of the Sweet Wine Gang, but these people couldn't live by collecting protection fees. They had to work, otherwise these Bavarian immigrants would have no value at all.

The Bavarian Gang was originally a mutual aid organization of Bavarians. Mrs. Sophie quickly discovered its potential. As a former member of the Bavarian royal family and now the Archduchess of Austria, she quickly took control of the organization.

The Bavarians were of course willing to have a big man to support them, not to mention that this big man was from Bavaria like them.

At first, Mrs. Sophie planned to use this organization as a black glove to collect some intelligence and do some things that she could not do in person.

However, as Austria joined the German Customs Union, a large number of Bavarians came to Vienna to work and live, and the number of people in this organization was also growing rapidly in geometric multiples.

The Bavarian Gang has become the largest gang in Vienna. As the saying goes, there are all kinds of birds in a big forest. The Bavarian Gang has also changed from an initial mutual aid organization to a semi-militarized organization. The amount of expenditure has made Mrs. Sophie a little unaffordable.

Gangs in this era like to grab territory and collect protection fees. Just now, the Bavarian Gang annexed the leaderless Sweet Wine Gang. Mrs. Sophie felt that if she didn't do something, she would soon become the queen of the underworld in Vienna.

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