Chapter 502: Beginning and Ending

Although the corruption and immigration problems in Austria are already very difficult, the previous gold transport ship incident is the most urgent to be solved, after all, it involves money and wealth.

California's gold is very important to Franz and his country. It is with the support of this unexpected wealth that the empire can develop colonies on a large scale while developing domestic industry, and even provide welfare benefits to citizens (shareholders).

But now that the Americans have learned of this secret, it is impossible to sit back and relax.

Although France and the United States have learned the heavy news of the California gold mine from information one after another, they did not know the specific output and detailed information of the gold mine before.

However, it is different now. The officials responsible for transporting gold have stolen not only gold, but also the secrets of California, such as troop deployment, defense focus, mobility strategy, and even urban and industrial structure.

Franz has no idea how many secrets these guys have taken away. As for assassination, don't think about it for the time being, because of the timeliness issue, it has taken too long from sending people across the ocean to investigate and draw conclusions and report to the country.

Besides, the so-called assassination is not an assassin's unparalleled assassin, and it is even less likely to be a frontal battle like Naruto. It requires a lot of intelligence support and long-term lurking and patient waiting, and the success rate is very low.

Now Franz is not sure whether the Americans will publish this information, or learn from the rich experience of their Anglo-Saxon ancestors and rob Austrian merchant ships everywhere from now on.

However, given the situation in North America at this time, Franz has a worst inference, that is, John Tyler may restart the Mexican-American War.

Although this is inevitable in a sense, the future crown prince still does not want to come so early.

In fact, the United States is also facing many obstacles at home and abroad at this time, the first of which is the French Texas colony.

That's right! The appearance of the French greatly reduced the Americans' ability to act and greatly suppressed their expansion capabilities. The latter also had to think about the possible impact of their actions on the former.

The French left a deep impression on the US military when they first fought with the US military in Texas. Eight years later, those who participated in it still remember it vividly, but the United States did not have many standing troops at that time.

After all, this is going to cost taxpayers money. Although all the presidents have argued for it, there are always countermeasures.

So the taxpayers decided to pay for the militia themselves. This sounds ridiculous, but it is actually legal.

Yes, some people say that the early US Constitution is a huge business license, which is true in a sense.

As long as you have enough financial resources, you can even build an army on your own and contract the defense of the state.

This so-called militia will naturally not pay attention to the so-called "talents", but pay attention to efficiency. So what kind of corps is the most efficient?

The answer is to eat empty salaries and hire temporary workers. So the former Governor of Texas said that he was sure to take back the land that France had lost.

Interestingly, the US military at this time actually had no fear of the French army, and even thought that the tactics of scattered soldiers and line shooting were ridiculous.

The funniest thing is that the French cavalry would use sabers when charging, instead of more efficient pistols.

You know, even children in the United States know that a cowboy can deal with twelve Indians at the same time, because a cowboy has only twelve bullets in his gun. (A cold joke at the time)

John Tyler was a very pragmatic man. He did not believe in those generals who sat in the house all day. He sent people to the militia on the border to ask the local soldiers how strong the French were.

The result made him feel excited. The French army was already vulnerable.

However, the British in Oregon were a real threat. Palmerston was very difficult to deal with, and those western immigrants seemed to only care about the immediate interests.

The United States seemed to have an advantage on this road to the Pacific, but it could not overcome this obstacle.

To be honest, Palmerston did his best for the interests of the British Empire this time. He refused to implement the appeasement policy of the Tory Foreign Minister, used thousands of colonial troops to fight wits and courage with hundreds of thousands of American immigrants, and fooled the other party to the point that they could hardly take care of themselves. It was really a stroke of genius.

However, his series of heaven-defying operations made Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Governor General of Canada, a little embarrassed.

You should know that the latter was forced by John Tyler to rebuild the US-Canada border as soon as he took office, and was suppressed by him in a series of events afterwards.

But at this time, the former had just arrived and reversed the US-Canada situation in the Oregon region, which made him even more incompetent. So John Tyler and the Governor General of Canada both used a trick, which was to bribe British officials.

With the money in place, things were easy to handle. Soon Whitehall (another name for the British London government) issued an order to transfer Palmerston to the Indian colony.

As for the reasons, of course, there were as many as he wanted, and this arrogant politician offended many people on weekdays.

At this time, there were naturally many people who wanted to see him in trouble. After all, India is now a powder keg, with constant internal uprisings, and two powerful enemies outside, the Sikh Empire and the Afghan Empire.

He was also helpless, but this genius who jumped back and forth could not disobey London's orders, even if he wanted to ask the Queen for help, but what Palmerston did in Windsor Castle, Victoria, who attached great importance to morality, would not speak to such a guy.

Prince Albert was a wise and informal ruler, but Palmerston had a bad relationship with him because the latter was an old fox, while the former was a natural hunter.

But the most important thing was that the two had different political views. The latter's radical diplomatic strategy disgusted the former; the former was more inclined to resolve domestic conflicts and reform the existing system of the British Empire.

Prince Albert was a people-friendly politician who would understand the suffering of the people. He was rigorous, rational, and very pragmatic.

He was enthusiastic about science, established public libraries and museums, funded universities, and even held the first World Expo (International Industrial Expo), the 1851 London World Expo, which showed the miracle of the Industrial Revolution to the public and greatly enhanced Britain's international prestige.

He campaigned for the unemployed, worked hard to increase workers' wages, and tried to change the treatment of the poor, showing great concern and sympathy for the poor.

At the same time, he took a tough attitude to exile William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne, the Queen's former mentor, and fired Palmerston, the "popular" Foreign Minister.

He was the first husband of the king who dared to say no to Parliament since William III, the husband of Mary II, in 1689. He was the strongest son-in-law in the 19th century.

He transformed London's public health facilities and personally delivered food and medicine to the most dangerous places when the plague broke out. He can almost be called a heroic figure.

Palmerston knew that his transfer was a foregone conclusion and did not hesitate, but he still left a "gift" for the Americans, which was a complete success.