Chapter 342: Outrageous Encounters Even More Outrageous

Vienna, Royal Academy of Sciences.

In fact, the periodic table mentioned above also brought some extra troubles to Franz, although the Austrian scientific community lived up to expectations and added all the elements that had been discovered at that time into it according to the rules.

However, due to his negligence, krypton (Kr), an element that has not yet been discovered, was also included.

As a result, a lot of opinions were raised in the chemical community, and curious people gave their own opinions on what Kr is.

Some people who know nothing about German think it is the abbreviation of King and Royal, representing the royal family, but the unlucky guy was quickly thrown out of the venue by other scientists.

Although it is not uncommon or shameful to flatter the royal family, it is a bit too much for a scientist to be so unscrupulous.

Then the spearhead naturally pointed back to the initiator-Franz.

Just when he was thinking about how to get away with it, the experts present determined through their imagination that this was an undiscovered element, and Archduke Franz hoped to give this opportunity to others.

"How great, how noble!"

Some people who had received the "favor" of this genius noble could not help crying on the spot, taking off their eyes and wiping the tears from the corners of their eyes with handkerchiefs.

In this way, he was temporarily saved. However, the krypton element was actually discovered by W. Ramsay and M.W. Travers of the United Kingdom in 1898. There is still a long way to go to find this element decades in advance.

The fierce exchange scene constantly emerged with new theories, new ideas and new technologies, which is the best way to evaluate and guide any theory.

And those scientists who are arrogant in front of others and even want to challenge God will listen to this great discussion of scientific truth with the most sincere attitude.

This is of course not only because Franz may be the future emperor, but also because almost every suggestion of his will become a major historical breakthrough in the scientific community.

Of course, the crazy hype of the church also contributed greatly. After all, these charlatans still like to hug thighs, no matter whether the other party is a child or something else.

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were magical times, and it was not uncommon for scientists to believe in religion. It is better to say that non-belief makes people feel that they are different.

The most outrageous among them is Sir Babbage. After listening to Franz's advice, he began to study the feasibility of binary and other carry.

But soon he ran into trouble. Although Miss Ada was a talented person in mathematics, she was still inferior to the real experts.

Babbage and Ada could not solve the problems they encountered, so they naturally sought help from other mathematicians in the Royal Academy of Sciences.

They wanted to find the best carry, but obviously these professional mathematicians were not experts in engineering.

After some research, these people came up with a so-called "perfect carry", that is, e is approximately equal to 2.71828.

This number is obviously completely nonsense for mechanical engineers, but after a lot of fuss by this group of mathematicians, the closest to perfection and industrially feasible is the ternary carry, and the binary carry can only be the second option.

During this period, Babbage's analytical engine still used gears and did not involve electricity, so he quickly concluded that in order to be infinitely close to perfection, he should take the ternary route and gave up the study of decimal.

However, the outrageous things have just begun. When the church heard that the three-digit number was the most perfect conclusion, all the bishops were boiling and knelt down to beg God for forgiveness.

Because this inadvertently fits the Catholic doctrine, the Trinity, which means that there is only one God, but it includes three persons: the Father, the Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. So, the church voted for Babbage's analytical engine project!

Babbage himself didn't know whether he was playing a trick with the charlatans or was really brainwashed. He actually wanted to take Miss Ada and his assistants to openly convert to Catholicism.

After that, the church leaders discussed and let Babbage wear a white robe and become a theological scholar.

When this farce reached Franz's ears, he decided to add fuel to the fire, that is, to ask this genius to design a new instrument that can help the church to count the national population together.

The current population statistics speed has the defects of being very inefficient and slow, usually in units of ten years, so we see some absurd and outrageous phenomena related to the current period.

It was not until decades later, in 1890, when the punching machine was invented, that this historic problem was solved. Now Franz was ready to throw this problem to Babbage.

After all, if the latter could accomplish this feat, it would benefit the country and the people, and it would also make his name more famous.

In the 19th century, when electricity was still in its infancy, computers, such epoch-making products, were still far-fetched high-tech, so the right way was to first create reliable and effective computers and statistical instruments as much as possible.

Of course, even if it failed, it didn't matter, after all, it was not uncommon for a statistics to take ten or eight years.

At the same time, Franz eventually encountered the byproduct of the customs union and regional economic integration - the theory of racial superiority; this was an extremely terrible trend of thought.

However, what was even more terrible was that similar arguments were very popular in Vienna at that time, and even successfully misled a considerable number of scientists and celebrities, because subconsciously they more or less had a high self-esteem and believed that they were better than others.

The propagator of this theory was a captain with mediocre military achievements. He had hardly won any battles, but he did not think it was his fault for his poor command of the troops.

Instead, he turned his spearhead toward the Italians and Jews in his army, especially the latter, who were simply a group of despicable thieves and dirty robbers.

Anti-Semitism is an old tradition in Europe. Although the social status of Jews in Austria is relatively high, such remarks are still very popular.

Some wealthy and powerful Jews became alert as soon as they heard such remarks. They have seen many such people for thousands of years, and what they want is nothing more than power and money.

As long as he is bought with power and money, he will be his most loyal lackey.

However, times have changed, and people's thoughts are also changing. Viscount Barron did not accept the bribe.

When the Jewish financiers failed in one plan, they resorted to another. If the soft approach didn't work, they resorted to the hard approach, and the death threat was sent directly to Viscount Barron's home.

But as a poor noble, their family was so poor that they only had backbone. Viscount Barron's father even bought a coffin for the whole family overnight and placed it in the garden.

After that, this person not only did not restrain his words and deeds, but became worse. He attributed all kinds of natural disasters, wars, diseases, employment and even natural phenomena such as solar and lunar eclipses to those "lower races".

What's more outrageous is that he also attributed the previous stock market crash to the Jews. Although it was a hollow search, it was unexpectedly close to the truth.

"It was the Jews who raised the stock price, and it was also the Jews who sold the stocks first, causing the stock market to plummet. They are the murderers who want to murder this country.

If the royal family hadn't taken out their own territory to save people, we would have lost our property and become slaves of the Jews..."

It is well known that the more radical and eye-catching the maker of this kind of speech is, the easier it is to gather a large number of fanatical fans, just like Kossuth, who advocated Great Magyarism, is more popular than Szechenyi, who advocated rational reform.

A large number of listeners soon gathered around him. Although most of them were brainless fans and speculators, there were also powerful businessmen and nobles.

The existence of such people made Franz uneasy, after all, Viscount Barron's ideas were obviously contrary to his desire to establish a universal empire.

History has proved countless times that a country can only have one path.