Chapter 335 Letter for Help

In Vienna, the share price of the second phase of the Neletania Railway Project has risen nearly four times. Such a huge base has risen so much in just two months. This is no longer "horrible".

You should know that the market value of Apple, the world's largest company by market value, is about 2.1 trillion US dollars. The US fiscal revenue in the same period was about 4.89 trillion US dollars, less than half of the latter.

But at this time, the market value of the second phase of the project alone has exceeded 1 billion florins, which is more than three times the fiscal revenue of the entire empire in 1841.

What's more terrifying is that this crazy upward momentum has not decreased, but is getting faster and faster; according to the optimistic estimates of experts, its stock price will break through the 100 florin mark in the near future.

To put it another way, that is to say, its market value will break through the 5 billion florin mark.

You should know that at this time, the total gold and silver currency of the entire empire is only 500 million florins, and the financial nuclear bomb in front of you is rolling like a snowball before an avalanche.

The financial experts who had promised Ajani before had to admit that the stock temporarily deviated from its true value, but they still firmly believed that its return to its true value was an inevitable objective law, and it was only a matter of time.

She resisted the temptation to throw these guys who would only repeat the same old things into the Danube, and at this moment she was still anxiously waiting for Franz's reply.

Yes, you read it right, Ajani had sent many letters for help in a row, but apart from praying, she was almost powerless to communicate on the sea, which was almost based on metaphysics in this era.

Even if two ships were heading in opposite directions, there was a high probability that they would miss each other.

Of course, the hot issue of over-hyped stock prices at this time also began to receive attention from Vienna, because the so-called Neretania Railway Phase II project was just an empty shell created by Franz and his men.

The actual sections of the road under construction are only several important trunk lines and the Trieste-Zagreb-Belgrade line. This 550-kilometer railway is expected to be completed within five years. Including the railways that have already started construction, the total planned length is only 3,000 kilometers.

At this time, the massive amount of funds raised cannot be consumed at all, and can only be used to expand the production capacity of some industries. However, the market has its limits after all.

Overcapacity in turn causes product profits to decline, so this option has to be abandoned. Finally, some abandoned route plans have to be restarted.

Of course, if this momentum continues, it will soon exceed the total amount of funds required for the entire second phase of the project. However, in the face of such a behemoth, no one dares to puncture this ball, and can only let it kidnap the country. So far, Soros's plan has been completed by 25%.

Of course, only four or five times the profit cannot satisfy these greedy guys, and their desires are far more than that.

The southernmost tip of the African continent, the Cape of Good Hope.

The Cape of Good Hope is located in the terrifying westerly belt, coupled with the "killer waves" and strange ocean currents, which combine the three dangers into one, making it the most dangerous route in the Age of Exploration, the "Killer Cape".

Fortunately, it is now May, the turn of spring and summer, and Franz and Friedrich will not experience the scene of "boiling soup and boiling water" in person.

If it is the peak summer season, it will be a thrilling experience.

Of course, Franz does not like to seek "excitement", so after listening to the reports of the navigator and other officers, he chose to pass the Cape of Good Hope at full speed in a safer season.

Taking advantage of the leisure time of repairing the ship in Bagamoyo, Franz initially established order in the newly acquired Tanzanian colony.

His methods opened Benny Erbin's eyes, and at the same time he had a new understanding of the so-called "kindness".

Eradicating evil and rooting out the evil were just two abstract concepts in his mind in the past. But too many dazzling things happened in these few days. First, the once invincible Omani navy was wiped out in the midst of the two precocious nobles' conversation.

Later, at the instruction of Franz, several tribes that wanted to raise the price were punished again. The so-called wildfire cannot be extinguished, and spring breeze blows and it grows again, that is only for weeds.

If a person turns into ashes, I am afraid there is no way to be reborn again, unless you regard the return of dust to the earth as the rebirth of life.

Friedrich is in action in naval battles, and Albrecht is good at land battles, but when it comes to how to bully weak and fight a security war, the two of them combined are not as good as Franz.

The method is very simple and intuitive, just set fire to the grassland, deliberately leave an "escape passage", and finally seal it.

Next, in order to truly eradicate the roots, the land of those tribes was designated as a "generous" condition for bounty on their heads.

So even the clans closest to those tribes joined this "hunting feast".

During the whole process, the Austrian army did not have a direct conflict with the rebels, so the direct casualties were almost zero, but the efficiency of killing was surprisingly high.

A whole tribe of four thousand people was completely exterminated, and even the traces of their lives were artificially erased from this world.

Before Franz and his party set off, they successfully ambushed the Zhavasan pirates who were planning to take advantage of the fire to rob. These pirates were defeated faster than the Omanis, because their main job was "pirates" rather than "soldiers", so the two armies would naturally suffer more.

Fortunately, they did not go all out this time, otherwise it would have been the swan song of the Zhavasan pirates.

Because there was a huge generation gap in the weapons and equipment of both sides, and they were ambushed when they thought they had a sure win, the pirates chose to surrender at the first opportunity, and did not play the trick of false surrender to take the opportunity to launch a war of jumping to another country.

(The war of jumping to another country, also known as the boarding war, is a very passionate and barbaric way of fighting.

Except for a very few fierce bandits who fought to the death and the unlucky ones who were bombarded at the beginning of the war, most people became prisoners.

Some of the pirate leaders had an idea and proposed to surrender to the two Austrian royal nobles, so as to facilitate the future attack on their old enemy, the Omani.

But Franz, who saw through their tricks, did not intend to take this not-so-sweet bait, but handed all the captured pirates to Sayid for him to deal with.

These fence-sitters who only care about milk put forward the same conditions to the Sultan, saying that he They could put aside their past grudges and fight against Austria together, but the latter did not accept the pirates' proposal.

Because Sayid was afraid that this was a trap set by Franz to test him, and after learning the power of the enemy fleet, no one would be stupid enough to join forces with the Zhavasan pirates to fight such a terrifying enemy.

Sayid had never been afraid of someone or a country in his life, but since Majid told him that the enemy commander was a minor, and the commander-in-chief was even more of a child.

He really didn't know what a child with great power would do.

So those who thought they were The pirates who wanted to be invincible became witnesses of the brutality of the Omanis, and almost none of them left a complete body.

Of course, the above crimes will not be remembered by the Austrians. Only the Bagamoyo Declaration and the equal and mutually beneficial Zanzibar Treaty are remembered in people's hearts.

After these three wars, Tanzania truly achieved "great governance" for a period of time, where no one picked up lost items on the road, doors were not locked at night, and children stopped crying.

However, these are not worthy of praise for Franz. After all, he has multiple advantages in equipment and intelligence. If he still can't defeat his opponent, then he can only It would be my own incompetence.

After passing the Cape of Good Hope without any danger, the group arrived at one of the terminal stations of the long voyage, Namibia, known as the "Gate of Hell".

This place can be said to be one of the earliest colonies established by the empire. The mining of gold and diamonds has brought strong popularity here.

The "gold rush" and "diamond rush" have upgraded it from a large trading post with only 200 people to a "model colony" in just a few years.

However, just after landing and before he had time to rest, Franz received a letter for help from Adjani, and a huge financial catastrophe had just surfaced.