Chapter 348 What to Do After Graduation

Royal Academy for Women in Vienna.

"This is the list of graduates, 135 in the middle school and 370 in the elementary school." Thalia took out two lists and handed them to Franz.

The academic system at this time was very confusing. The Royal College for Women temporarily adopted a four-year system, with four years of primary school, four years of secondary school, and four years of university.

Primary school focuses on literacy, supplemented by home economics, etiquette, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.

Middle schools focus on popularizing general knowledge. Students can choose three subjects including home economics (family affairs management) as their majors. However, German, mathematics and home economics are usually chosen. After all, for women living in the Austrian Empire in this era These three doors are more practical.

Other auxiliary courses such as communication, art, music, dance, literature, etc. will also be gradually opened, of course, such as natural sciences, medicine, law, mechanical engineering, and theology.

Of course, not everyone is perfect. During the exam, they will only take three majors and three minors. Of course, there are also many people like Ou Shioshanyin who choose more than a dozen subjects.

As for whether you can understand it or stick to it, it's hard to say.

In fact, in short, judging from the level and content of knowledge learned by these high school graduates, they are of no help to Franz's plan.

So Franz unintentionally showed some contempt, which made Thalia very unhappy. After all, she used to be the former's tutor and part-time nanny.

At this time, Thalia felt like a mother struggling to prepare a large table of dishes, while the child was chewing snacks and saying that she was not hungry anymore.

But now times have changed, she is no longer the tutor living in the palace, and Franz is no longer a little girl who can be rubbed.

Thalia had no choice but to ask Franz patiently.

"What are you going to ask them to do? Although there is a shortage of people everywhere in this country, there are not many jobs that can satisfy them or match their status."

During this period, aristocratic women hardly participated in work, so female workers not only had a low social status, but also had very few types of jobs.

Usually divided into four categories, the first category is farm work. This scope is very wide, including but not limited to carrying water and manure, washing and milking cows. In some areas, there is a small male labor force, and women have to help with plowing, weeding, fertilizing and other tasks.

The second category is entering the factory. They are the female textile workers known to everyone in later generations. They work in front of the machines day and night for a mouthful of food, until they are involved in the machines or die suddenly on the roadside.

The third category is to be a servant. At that time, it was very common for noble families to hire maids. If they had skills, they could get higher wages as cooks.

But hotels at that time would not allow female chefs, because the mainstream thinking in society at the time was that women could not cook, and hiring female chefs was disrespectful to guests.

The upper and lower limits of this industry are very outrageous. There are many people who can succeed in becoming mistresses in the end, but there are also many people who end up not as good as black slaves.

The fourth category is those like Talia who are tutors. Such women are usually well-educated and have a relatively good background, but they often have to fend for themselves due to some changes.

Such as military officers, missionaries, or orphans or widows of ocean-going merchants. Although missionaries had a bad reputation, they were indeed a high-risk profession at the time. People who traveled across the ocean to preach in foreign lands usually required a lot of courage.

Although female governesses earn their living based on their ability, they are the least respected people, and many people regard them as disaster stars and aliens.

Outside, you have to bear the glare of others and compare you to a prostitute. Within the family, the masters and men, and even the servants, do not regard them as their own.

A plot like the one in "Jane Eyre" is difficult to happen in reality because of serious status inequality. respect? love? nonexistent. The possibility of skin-flesh trading is quite high.

In nineteenth-century London, Mrs. Brown lost a gold necklace worth 25 pounds. She suspected that the governess hired by her husband had stolen it.

After receiving the report, a detective confirmed Mrs. Brown's guess, and then led the military police to break in directly and kill the female teacher who was still sleeping. However, the string of strings was not found during the subsequent search. Lost gold necklace.

Until someone found it on the garden lawn, Mrs. Brown was crying for her mistake and her uncertain future.

But the detective comforted her and said, "I can't blame you. After all, no one would have thought that the cunning witch would hide the necklace in the garden."

Although this is a cold joke in the 19th century, it does reflect the embarrassing situation faced by the so-called tutors at that time and the distrust of society from another perspective.

"We are the witches of the nineteenth century." A tutor wrote in her diary. This sentence should be the best reflection of their status.

Of course, the above four categories are not suitable for graduates of the Royal College for Women. After all, if the first batch of graduates are allowed to do these things, I am afraid it will greatly reduce women's willingness to receive education.

Of course, if they are made unemployed, although it will not have a too bad impact, it will not achieve the purpose of publicity.

"Tell them they can choose to continue their studies, or work for the government as a scribe or something like that."

In fact, Franz's answer was to allow those graduates to choose to enter the government as civil servants. Scribes are very common, and various agencies need a large number of scribes. They need to uniformly copy the information that officials consider important.

At the same time, some draft documents need to be copied so that they can be sent to the printing factory for printing.

Although the copyist seems to be an inconspicuous job, there are actually a lot of great people among them, and their achievements are also world-renowned.

Of course, a step further than the copyist is the secretary, but this is not something that middle school students can do. Of course, there are other advanced jobs such as editors and calculators.

At this time, the number of civil servants in the Austrian Empire was seriously insufficient. 80,000 people were really pitiful for a large empire with a population of 38 million. After all, the number of grassroots people usually determines the efficiency of policy implementation.

Although the outside world and historians are madly criticizing the Austrian Empire for having too many officials and being a sitting army, in fact, France with a population of 35 million at this time had a civil service team of 100,000.

In the eyes of later generations, the number of civil servants in both France and Austria was seriously insufficient. Franz set the goal of expanding the Austrian Empire to 400,000 first. He didn't want to be like Britain, where there were temporary workers everywhere, and finally he couldn't even find a responsible person, but everyone was crazy about corruption.

The British have always been proud of the fact that their government has less than 3,000 civil servants, but in fact, as a super empire with more than 33 million kilometers of territory, spanning four oceans and five continents, this number is obviously not enough.

Therefore, agents and temporary workers play an extremely important role in it. The advantage is that it has indeed streamlined the organization, but the disadvantage is that there is no control at all, and no one supervises.

Rights are a good thing, but once they lose supervision, they will be like a flood and beast that can devour people's reason and morality in an instant.

Therefore, the British Empire, at its most powerful moment, planted the seeds of its own decline.

Franz needs to unite more people, and his government naturally needs more people. After all, only by establishing a bond of interests can the relationship be more stable.

"Let them be officials?!" Talia looked indignant, and she immediately understood what Franz was planning.

But as an official fan, Talia was very unhappy with Franz's approach. She worked so hard and ended up being a nanny in a university.

Those students can enter the imperial government and become officials directly after graduation. Although the status of a scribe is not very high, he can have his own desk, chair, and teacup.

Talia felt very unbalanced.

In fact, many officials will never be able to climb up to the position she is in in her lifetime, and her power and status are much higher and greater than those of ordinary officials.

Just like the playboys in Vienna who were driven away by her, this group of second-generation and N-generation people may not be described as evil, but can be described as extremely vicious.

If ordinary officials get involved with them, they may not only ruin their future, but also ruin their reputation.

However, Talia's identity makes these people dare not have any temper. After all, things like fighting against the royal family in the imperial capital usually only appear in novels and people's imagination.

Talia is Franz's tutor, and Archduke Franz is very likely to become emperor in the future, although no one believes the heroic deeds promoted by the imperial government and the church.

Besides, they are not afraid of heroes and saints. After all, good people will not kill indiscriminately and will give them opportunities.

But Archduke Franz has a mother who sinks people into the Danube River at any time, and everyone in Vienna knows it.

Moreover, the royal family's industry is much more than in history, and it has reached the point where it can compete with the imperial finances. This is actually a good thing for the empire, but it is not a good thing for nobles and businessmen.

Because it means that the empire's dependence on loans is reduced, and the imperial power is greatly strengthened.

"It's just a small civil servant. It's better for you, the principal, to manage thousands of people. This is a big official."

Franz knows Talia better, and naturally knows what she is thinking, so he comforts her.

But obviously the effect is counterproductive, and Talia immediately complains.

"What big official!? You can see which big official doesn't look majestic when he goes out, and people avoid him. Look at me! I am harassed by a group of playboys outside all day long, and I am also stuck by a group of children in school.

Besides, the thousands of people under my command, those scientists, they can't even manage their own laboratories, how can I manage them?"

Franz built some laboratories in the Royal Women's College to cover up his tracks. After all, ordinary spies can't get in here, and even if they get in, they can be easily found out, which can prevent the leakage of secrets to the greatest extent.

But some experts just like to do extreme research. Others study the explosion of picric acid, and he, who is engaged in building materials, also wants to have a big explosion.

Then one day two little girls sneaked into his laboratory and scattered all the cement of the expert. At night, a thief sneaked into the laboratory under the cover of night to steal some precious experimental instruments. When he took out a match and tried to light a candle, a violent explosion occurred in the laboratory, and the school was closed for a week.

Franz knew that it was useless to reason with Talia, so he changed his approach.

"Can you be a discipline committee member?"

"Discipline committee member?" Talia looked confused, after all, she had never heard of such a term.

"Yes, it is to check the appearance of students and priests, as well as etiquette standards." Franz said.

"Isn't that what the old man did?" Talia looked like she was sneering, but in fact she was already a little moved, and her two big black eyes were spinning rapidly.

In order to prevent her from over-exerting her subjective initiative, Franz took the lead.

"Of course you can make some systems yourself, but don't go too far, at least it should look reasonable on the surface."

"It's settled!"

Talia stretched out her hand, and Franz stretched out his hand helplessly, and the two of them high-fived as a "conspiracy".

"How is that thing going?"

"Don't worry, there are only two of us here."

Franz looked at the other party with a nonchalant look and frowned.

"There are not many people who meet the requirements. After all, most people don't have the kind of awareness you said." Talia said seriously.

"How many people are there?" Franz asked.

"Five people, two of whom chose to graduate, and the remaining three will stay in school to continue their studies and help me develop downlines."

Franz was very satisfied with Talia's answer, because everything was going according to his instructions, and it was not so easy to cultivate high-level spies.

"Where are the list and information?"

"As you said, one is kept in the school archives, and the other is in your hands."

There are some codes that only Franz and Talia understand, so even if others find the information, they need to distinguish among hundreds of people.

"Let the two graduates contact Ajani, after all, she is an expert in this field."

"Okay, I'll arrange it. Elena Harrington and Miss Da Yan Shanyin, they are really excellent and can do great things."

"What do you want to say?" Franz asked helplessly.

"Will you give them a chance?" Talia looked indifferent on the surface, but in fact she was excited and scared in her heart.

"Yes. As long as they are capable enough, I will entrust them with corresponding responsibilities."

Franz understood Talia's regret. She really wanted to be an official to reform this society, but she no longer had the chance.

Even Franz could not go against the entire ruling class. Talia was destined to be unable to realize her ambitions. The position of the dean of the Vienna Royal Women's Academy was the highest official position Franz could give her.

Unless one day Franz becomes the emperor and lets her enter the palace to take over the position of the palace chief steward. But Talia herself knows very well that she is not suitable for the palace, so Franz will naturally not harm her.

As for the latecomers, Franz will try his best to make the best use of their talents. After all, what he wants is a universal empire. If he can't even accommodate a few girls, how can he accommodate the millions of mobs?

Franz hasn't seen Talia for a long time, and he still lies down according to his childhood habits. Then the other party moves a little, and Franz falls straight to the ground.

It is still a lively scene outside, and everyone seems to be in a carefree paradise.

What they don't know is that all the gifts of fate have already been marked with a price in secret.