Chapter 11 Sunshine, Afternoon and Knee Pillow

Austria, Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

The sun was warm and the leaves were bright.

Under the tree, Franz was lying on Talia's legs.

Talia was the tutor hired by Madame Sophie for Franz Joseph.

According to Talia's own words.

"The little prince is good at everything, but his homework is a little" "too strong!"

Although the little prince still couldn't write many words, he could always draw inferences from physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The little prince could quickly understand many things that Talia didn't understand.

So much so that Talia could only read newspapers to the little prince most of the time.

And the little prince had some quirks, that is, he liked to sleep with his arms around someone's thighs.

Talia thought of the royal family's regulations that the Grand Duchess could not raise children personally, and the little prince was also very pitiful.

Little did she know that Franz was lying on her thighs, wandering in the sky.

For Franz now, getting the old emperor to agree to join the German Customs Union was the limit of what he could do.

As for whether he can join, and whether he can reap the benefits of Prussia after joining, it all depends on fate.

For Franz, what he should do now is to enjoy everything that his identity brings. Sunshine, grass, white legs

After all, if you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences, and if you don't take what the time is right, you will suffer the consequences!

In the afternoon, Franz stretched and found that Talia was already asleep.

After trying to poke her twice, Talia didn't wake up, but just turned over, and her sleeping posture became worse.

So Franz walked to the table in the garden alone and opened the newspaper.

In the corner of the page, there was a piece of news:

The rise in land prices in the United States hit a record high. In just four years from 1830 to 1834, Chicago's land prices rose by 2 times. The current trend of rising land prices is unabated, and it is expected to double again in the next three years.

Franz smiled. It seems that Austrian economists are still conservative. From 1834 to 1837, Chicago's land prices rose 64 times, which directly caused the economic crisis in 1837.

Finally, the land returned to its original value. At the peak in 1837, the land could be sold for $12,000, but in 1839, it could only be sold for $100.

The countries that suffered the most from this economic crisis were Britain and the United States, of course, because the economic exchanges between the two sides were too close. At the same time, trade protection policies were generally implemented on the European continent, which was less affected.

It was a pity that Franz could not invest, otherwise he would definitely help the Americans.

Let the Austrian royal family buy it? What if they refused to sell it during the economic crisis? Franz did not dare to gamble with human greed.

The newspaper used two pages of huge space to report the news that the Austrian Empire was preparing to join the German Customs Union.

Two pages, one side praised Franz II, and the other side told that joining the German Customs Union would bring huge benefits.

As soon as midnight on January 1, 1834, the four-wheeled carriages that were anxiously waiting at the borders of various states rushed past like crazy, fully loaded with goods, because the various taxes that had to be paid to enter other countries were cancelled, and profits increased a lot at once. All German merchants were busy driven by interests.

In 1834, the total trade in the German Confederation in just one quarter exceeded the trade volume in 1833. However, Austria's trade volume increased by only 6%. If this continues for a long time, the merchants of 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 desirable, it is not advisable to pour cold water on merchants at this time.

Prince Metternich's book and newspaper censorship system was implemented well, and no opposition was found in the newspapers.

There were also some reports about rebels in various places. From 1833 to 1834, a total of 12 uprisings occurred in and around Austria.

Three uprisings have occurred recently, all of which were quickly suppressed. One was small in scale, with only 20 people in the smallest one, and the other was because the garrison had been on guard for a long time. For this reason, Count Tural assigned Austria's most capable generals to the most likely place for an uprising.

Only one uprising in Genoa had the largest number of people and lasted the longest. Franz also saw two familiar names, Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Franz watched a section and finally understood what was going on. The general sent by the Austrian Empire to suppress the uprising was Richie, who was very powerful.

During the Napoleonic Wars, he was a famous surrender king and the money bag of the French. He was captured eleven times by the French army and its allies, and each time he returned to Austria with the ransom of his family.

Moreover, this brother was a loser, and he was captured by the French every time, and he asked the emperor to lead the troops to fight again every time.

As the Governor of Venice in the Year of Storm, he had 20,000 troops stationed in Venice. When faced with the citizens who were rebellious, he ordered the soldiers to surrender their weapons without firing a shot and left the city with only the flag.

He also indirectly ruined the Austrian Navy. At that time, the former Austrian Navy Marshal died unexpectedly, and the successor Navy Marshal was on vacation with beautiful women on the beaches of Belgium.

Without a commander, most of the officers and soldiers of the Austrian Navy fled, leaving only an unknown captain with less than 100 sailors, who fought fiercely with the rebels for five days, and finally all died for their country.

If the Austrian Navy's fleet was still there, there would not be such a ridiculous scene as the seven warships of Genoa blocking the Austrian Empire's military port of Trieste.

The city of Venice could not hold out for so long, and Marshal Radetzky did not have to divide his troops to prevent the Venetian army from cutting off the Austrian army's supply lines. More troops could be deployed to the front line, and the war could end faster.

Afterwards, General Li Qi was not held accountable, and he took over the Bohemian Front in northern Austria and lived to be 85 years old.

This kind of waste led more than 10,000 people and chased 800 people from Genoa to Rome, and actually let more than 300 of them escape.

After capturing more than 20 prisoners, he had the nerve to take credit in the newspaper. Franz was speechless for a while, and made up his mind not to let such people continue to be idle.

Mazzini, the mastermind behind the uprising, successfully fled to Switzerland. The Swiss Confederation rejected the proposal of the Austrian and Sardinian governments to expel Mazzini.

Historically, Mazzini did not continue to prepare for a new uprising in Switzerland, but traveled across the ocean to Britain to seek salvation.

At this time, Garibaldi, who was just a gunman, did not attract the attention of various countries. Instead, this unknown gunman will set off storms in the future Italy.

This man got on a merchant ship and later went to South America. He also participated in the independence war of a small country and made great contributions.

Just when everyone thought that Gallipoli would continue to enjoy the treatment of a hero in that small South American country.

The president of that small country suddenly had a brain twitch and actually wanted to reverse the country that was more than ten times larger than his own land and dozens of times more populous than his own.

As a result, Garibaldi could only return to Italy.

In an inconspicuous corner, it was written: Friedrich Liszt from Württemberg will serve as a special adviser to the great Emperor Franz II for a period of five years.

Franz yawned, probably because he was too young, he was sleepy after just looking at it for a while. So I put down the newspaper, followed the undulating mountains, and went in.

Thanks to my book friend Shenzhou Buwu Tianxia Fengdao for the reward.