Chapter 123 Passing By

A man named Gushan Kaser wrote an anonymous letter to report the misdeeds of Archduke Franz.

This letter actually reached Madame Sophie, which shocked her a little. She was shocked that there was such a stupid person under her.

"Who brought this letter?"

A maid she brought from Bavaria stood up.

"Archduke, this letter was entrusted to me by my uncle."

"You can go back to Bavaria." Madame Sophie turned to Count Schüssel and said, "Find out who wrote the letter and break his legs."

Gushan Kaser was the cellar steward who neglected his duties before. After being fired by Franz, he held a grudge and wanted to teach Franz a lesson and take back his position.

Madame Sophie gave him a severe punishment, but Gushan Kaser did not back down. Instead, he became a liberal fighter in the future and even became friends with Alexander Bach.

Note: Alexander Bach, a famous Austrian liberal fighter, firmly opposed all the policies of Prince Metternich and advocated constitutional monarchy.

Franz watched Szechenyi leave from the window, and did not contact this pioneer who once campaigned for the rise of the Hungarian nation, because it was he who opened Pandora's box and brought Hungary into the abyss of civil war.

Hungary's agricultural problems are more complicated than Szechenyi thought. With the deepening of modern agricultural specialization and commercialization, the dependence on capital has become stronger.

The nobles and landlords established agricultural associations, but kept farmers out because they did not want the poor to master these technologies. This should be regarded as an early technical barrier.

Ordinary farmers have too little land and are too scattered. They have no time to improve good varieties, and no money to buy new technologies and agricultural machinery. They don't even have channels to buy fertilizers. The money they earn is only enough to barely make a living and maintain their current lives.

As for borrowing money, there are no special bank loans at this time, only Jewish usury.

Everyone must understand what usury is, and the risks involved are also clear to everyone, and farmers are precisely the most risk-averse group of people in the world.

If it was just a matter of money, wouldn't Franz just gather a group of rich people to set up a special agricultural bank?

However, relying solely on capital cannot solve Hungary's problems, because the nobles and landlords not only control capital, but also control huge rights and social resources, and can even influence laws and taxes. The nobles in some areas have territorial jurisdiction.

The poison of a hundred years cannot be eliminated overnight.

As for Kossuth, he was just a clown born for the times. He could neither solve Hungary's land problem nor unite the ethnic minorities in Hungary.

There is no point in assassinating him. He was raised by the nobles and landlords, so he naturally would not take action on Hungary's land problem, and his extreme nationalism, which made him famous, made it impossible for him to treat ethnic minorities in the country equally.

It is much better to leave this "greatest" Hungarian than to kill him and usher in an uncertain future.

Vienna Royal Women's College.

Doppler and a group of physicists are debugging air conditioners with better performance. This is certainly not Franz's plan to make a living by selling air conditioners from now on. After all, this kind of extreme weather does not happen every year. Franz values ​​the important role of air conditioners in the industry in the future.

This includes the production of explosives and industrial printing to ensure the normal operation of precision instruments. Of course, the main function at present is just to make yourself more comfortable.

Another good news is that the hybrid experiment of high-yield wheat has finally succeeded, and what makes Franz even more excited is that the man who successfully cultivated hybrid wheat is called Mendel.

Franz has heard of the name of "Pea Shooter" Mendel. Although his theory is a bit advanced, Franz never thinks that these advanced theories are useless. At least they have laid a theoretical foundation for the progress of agriculture and medicine.

But what disappointed Franz was that he did not see a fat priest, but a standard Austrian farmer, thin, a little hunchbacked, and always with a flattering smile.

"Are you Father Mendel?"

"No, Archduke. As you can see, I am a gardener, Mendel from Heinzedorf." The farmer smiled naively.

"Mr. Mendel, would you consider staying as a gardener in my estate? You should have received the bonus of 20,000 florins. I believe you should know that I am not a stingy person."

After Franz finished speaking, old Mendel was stunned. He clearly received 4,000 florins. The deacon clearly said that the Archduke reduced the amount of the bonus, but 4,000 florins was still a huge sum of money for the gardener, and he did not take it too seriously.

Why did the Archduke say it was 20,000 florins now? Old Mendel was not a fool, and he quickly understood the trick.

Franz also knew how bad the officials and housekeepers of this era were, but he often had to rely on these people, which made people very disgusted.

Now Franz has figured out the details of the manor and found a replacement. Now he just needs to see if he needs to give the former deacon a decent treatment.

"Archduke Franz, your generosity is amazing, but your deacon is not generous. I only got 4,000 florins. It was originally agreed to be 5,000 florins, but before the bonus was issued, your deacon said that you cut the budget and only this much was left."

Old Mendel spoke frankly, but out of a bonus of 20,000 florins, he actually embezzled 16,000 florins. This deacon was really a hopeless scumbag.

"Mr. Mendel, do you have any evidence?" Franz asked pretending to be casual.

"Archduke Franz, here is the receipt for the bonus, please take a look." Old Mendel said.

This scumbag is still so careless despite having both stolen goods and stolen goods. I really don’t know how he survived all these years.

Franz turned to look at the deacon.

"Do you have anything else to say?"

".No"

"Give Mr. Mendel his money back and leave. Or I'll have Mr. Parrish send you to the gendarmerie and do a good inventory of your property."

The deacon was still not convinced that he had stolen the stolen goods and was caught, but he was not as persistent as Gushan Casse because Franz's punishment was already very light, so he happily returned the 16,000 florins. Mendel then quietly left.

In fact, Franz did not want to be punished so lightly, but as long as he had some relationship with the royal family, the interest relationship was so complicated that Franz was disgusted by it. For example, the deacon's uncle was the butler of Prime Minister Metternich. His grandfather was once the royal steward

"Mr. Mendel, won't you consider my proposal?"

"Archduke Franz, I am very grateful for your generosity, but my wife was ill before and I owed a large sum of money for this. Now I want to pay back the money to those kind people first."

"What happens after that?"

"I want to build a house, buy some land, hire two servants, and let my wife live a good life for a few days. She gave birth to five children for me, but she never had a good life. Then I will give my wife a good life." My younger sons are all sent to school, and my eldest son wants to learn a craft from me so that he can inherit the family business and prepare a good dowry for his daughter.”

This is the dream of a simple farmer. Franz is unwilling to break his peaceful life, and he is not the Mendel he is looking for, so he might as well bless him.