Chapter 347 Graduation Ceremony

July 20, 1842.

Vienna, Imperial College for Women.

Today, the college is particularly noisy, but no one stops it.

Because today is the graduation day of the first batch of graduates of the Imperial College for Women in Vienna, no one wants to do anything to ruin the atmosphere on this memorable day.

The school cafeteria is full of graduates' works. Because they are leaving school, they hope to make more food to feed those "poor professors".

For those girls, weekly cooking classes are their chance to feed their "pets".

However, the quality of these students' works varies greatly, and Franz will not let those precious talents take risks casually, even if they have diarrhea.

The school staff will first taste the food, and only those with no problems in taste and toxicity will be eaten by professors. A large amount of inferior products and food that no one cares about will be sent to the nearby garrison camp, and the last leftovers will be used to help the poor.

Food that was rated as inferior in school became a delicious dish to reward soldiers in the army. After all, cooks in this era were divided into ordinary cooks and military cooks. Ordinary cooks were for cooking, while military cooks just wanted to cook things.

At that time, there was a popular food in the Austrian Empire Army called vegetable broth. Its method was very simple, which was to put vegetables, beans, meat, and seasonings in a big pot and cook them.

If you find pig skin with hair, unwashed leaves, peas with dirt, unrecognizable meat and strange insects in it, please don't be surprised, because the soldiers around have long been accustomed to it.

Of course, the food left by the army at the end not only looks hard to swallow, but also tastes terrible. It is too spicy, too bitter, too sour, too salty, too cold, too hard. There are always one or more of them.

If you are not really unable to survive, or if you are hungry, you will not eat this kind of thing.

Generally speaking, the recipients of relief are not allowed to take the food away, because it is easy to create a chain of interests. If that were the case, the relief itself would become a sin. Franz was not a saint, but he did not want to be a hypocrite. If he did it, he had to do it well.

However, the Austrian Empire was thriving at that time, especially in the imperial capital Vienna, where there were almost no people who could not survive, so the leftover food was often brought back to feed pigs and serve as fertilizer.

Of course, this was exactly what Franz wanted to see. He wished that those leftovers would never be asked for, which was the best proof of the strength of an empire.

Speaking of graduation, it is natural to take a group photo.

Cameras were still a new thing at that time, so when they heard that the school would take photos for all graduates for free, even those who were arrogant all day could not help but be moved.

In 1839, Daguerre successfully trial-produced the silver plate camera, and the world's first camera was born.

At that time, the camera was very heavy and easy to damage, so it took two professionals to move it.

At the same time, because the silver plate photosensitive film requires high light brightness and long exposure time, taking pictures has become a very painful experience. In order to record beautiful moments, people have to endure more than ten minutes or even dozens of minutes under the scorching sun on sunny days to get a photo.

Fortunately, the Austrian Empire was the first country in the world to develop a focusing lens. In 1841, a mathematics professor at the University of Vienna designed the "Pitzval lens" that was famous for posterity because he could not bear the hardship.

However, in this life, because Pitzval joined the Royal Academy of Sciences in Vienna, he completed this design in 1840 with the help of other experts.

Not long ago, they completed a study that almost shocked Franz, that is, silver halide technology. You know, silver halide emulsion plus gelatin substrate is the stuff that Kodak started.

In addition, technologies such as wet korotin base plate and wet negative sulfonated silver paper photography have also been developed like mushrooms after rain. Sure enough, eating, drinking and having fun are the fundamental driving force of human beings.

Soon they made a unique camera in the world. Its weight is only about one-tenth of that of an ordinary camera, but its light transmission rate is dozens of times that of other cameras. It takes more than ten minutes for other cameras to take a photo, but this camera only takes a few seconds.

Several professional photographers didn't know what to say to the girls who were ready to keep the same pose for more than ten minutes.

When the girls found that taking pictures was so easy, they couldn't help but play around and choose scenes to take pictures. Photographers of this era are all real "big shots". They not only need professional and solid skills, but also need a certain amount of capital to afford cameras and negatives.

They would naturally not agree to such rude requests, but they dared not neglect the order given by Archduke Franz.

And this new camera is so amazing that they want to buy one even if they have to go bankrupt.

But in fact, this new camera uses too many advanced technologies. If you really buy one, you will definitely go bankrupt.

Franz also promised these photographers that he would give each of them one in a few years.

The price of cameras at this time was too high, not because of the material cost, but because of the labor cost plus the technology cost, which made the price ridiculously high.

Once industrialized production is implemented, the cost will drop sharply. Of course, in order to maintain scarcity and sufficient profit, the price cannot be set too low.

Graduation season is also the time for breakups and confessions, but some situations are not what Franz expected. There is almost no teacher-student romance, but a group of girls are crying and laughing and quarreling endlessly.

Franz looked at the principal Talia next to him.

"Don't look at me! It's not me who made them like that. Don't you always say that love grows over time? It's normal for them to have some feelings after being together for a few years."

Talia certainly knew what Franz was going to say, and she would not take the blame, but in the few years she was the principal, she still understood some worldly ways, and did not directly put all the responsibilities on Franz like in the past, or directly say what Franz was going to say.

In fact, Franz was still a little skeptical. After all, a lesbian principal might lead a group of students astray.

"Well, I hope this school won't become a club or something like that in the future."

"How dare you say that! If I hadn't stopped them, those lechers in the city would have turned this place into their playground."

Talia, the principal, usually deals with harassment incidents from nobles and rich sons. Fortunately, she has the royal family as a backing, and she herself is also fierce enough to make those noble sons afraid to act rashly.

This kind of thing can only be left to Talia. Ajani handles this kind of thing completely depending on her mood. If she is in a good mood, she will make people want to live but not die, and if she is in a bad mood, she may directly physically wipe them out.

Of course, there is a certain probability that she will go along with others.

Franz suddenly felt that there didn't seem to be many people around him who could be used. The Zhu Qiongying he met in Nanyang before was quite determined, but it was a pity that she couldn't speak German, and Nanyang couldn't do without people, so he had to give up.

Oshio Sugi had already completed high school at this time and graduated with the highest grade in the school. The teachers in the school spoke very highly of her and called her the smartest "low-class person", but for Franz, this was not enough.