Chapter 600 Rubik's Cube

The Austrian side's reaction to the British entering Albania was extremely cold. In fact, this was not because everyone had the same mentality as Franz, or understood the power of the Balkans.

Rather, the vast majority of the imperial high-level officials felt that the northern mountains of Albania were insignificant, and the British occupation of the south was even more meaningless.

Friedrich was dismissive of the British troops deployed in southern Albania. Three thousand people and a dozen small boats of less than a thousand tons would not have any impact on the Austrian Imperial Navy at that time.

In fact, Friedrich had also studied with his elder brother, Archduke Albrecht, the possibility of attacking Albania on land.

The latter responsibly told the former that three thousand people could not stop the Austrian Army at all. At this time, Austria could mobilize tens of thousands of troops in the northern Balkans at any time.

If the naturalization of the north is completed, the number of troops that can be mobilized will increase exponentially. Once the railway is completed, it will not be a problem to send 100,000 troops and supplies to Albania within one to two weeks.

It's just that building railways in the mountains will be more troublesome, but fortunately Austria itself is a mountainous country, and it has accumulated a lot of experience long before this.

The Austrian Empire is the best country in the world at building railways in the mountains at this time, and there is no one else.

Of course, Friedrich still knows how to show weakness to the enemy, after all, he is no longer a child. The wars in the south and the north over the years have allowed him to accumulate a lot of experience, and Friedrich knows very well how to make the other side relax their vigilance.

All large warships of the Austrian Navy must stay away from British ports, and once British ships are found, they must slow down immediately.

The military observers sent to Durres by the Duke of Haddington believed that their trip was unnecessary because the Austrians' large warships were built in an unreasonable way, or they simply didn't know how to build ships.

(Durres was the largest port in Albania at this time.)

British military observers believed that the Austrians might have regarded building warships as building houses, thinking that the higher and bigger the better, but in fact those bulky structures hindered the original performance of the ships, after all, there was an upper limit to wooden structures.

After a lot of reports were sent back to Britain, the Duke of Haddington even began to doubt whether Austria simply wanted to expand in the Balkans, and at the same time was afraid of Russia, so it adopted such a stingy strategy.

If that was the case, then the British Navy's behavior at this time was a complete waste.

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Mozart's music has been echoing in the teaching hall. This is not because the family is a fan of Mozart, but Franz hopes to use the Mozart effect to improve the IQ of the family as much as possible.

Most of Mozart's works are pure, fresh, bright, and have a stable rhythm, which conforms to the unique physiological laws of the human body.

This feature can stimulate positive emotions such as joy and pleasure, which in turn can promote the improvement of cognitive processing levels. This is the so-called Mozart effect.

In fact, for the intelligence of his family, Franz can be said to be broken hearted, from food and music, to reading books and learning knowledge, and even toys.

For this purpose, Franz even built a toy factory to produce products including nine-link puzzles, puzzles, building blocks (traditional building blocks and Lego building blocks), and Rubik's Cube.

However, when the Rubik's Cube was first produced, it stumped a large number of experts and scholars of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

At first, everyone thought it was a toy of Archduke Franz, and no one took it seriously until a professor brought one of the replicas to his child.

As a result, his son, who was called a "genius" since childhood, could not restore it after four hours, and finally the professor decided to try it himself.

Although the professor majored in chemical engineering, he was very confident in his intelligence, but he did not succeed in restoring it after another four hours, but for the dignity of his old father, he could not give up.

As a result, the professor played with the Rubik's Cube all night but did not restore it, and finally had to ask for help from his colleagues-the group of people who were known as the smartest in the Austrian Empire.

Then a group of professors began to try one by one. Of course, since there was only one Rubik's Cube, everyone had a limited time to try, and it took a day to successfully restore it.

So Liebig thought it was a joke, it must be a joke of Archduke Franz.

Then Liebig asked Archduke Franz at the next regular meeting of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

"Archduke Franz, is your toy never able to be restored?"

"No." Franz's answer was very straightforward.

Liebig asked very unwillingly.

"Is there anyone who can restore it?"

At this time, some colleagues began to pull the Taishan Beidou of the chemical world, carefully reminding him to pay attention to his words and identity.

Franz: "Of course. I believe that a small toy like the Rubik's Cube should not be a big deal for someone like you."

Liebig: "I can't do it."

Franz: "How is that possible!"

Liebig said angrily: "Not only me, but all the professors in our School of Chemical Engineering can't do it."

At this time, Babbage stood up and said very seriously: "Mr. Liebig! Please pay attention to your attitude."

Franz waved his hand, signaling not to hurt the relationship. In fact, even scientists are not all straight men who only know how to do science and don't care about the ways of the world.

In fact, some people are quite experienced in the ways of the world, such as Babbage and some scientists from civilian backgrounds. After all, they have experienced the ups and downs of the world.

It is completely understandable that some people will deliberately flatter Franz, but people who are unwilling to flatter do not mean that they are unusable.

On the contrary, Franz appreciates this attitude very much, but if these people make mistakes, he still has to help correct them.

"Please give me the Rubik's Cube."

The Rubik's Cube was soon handed to Franz, and he took a deep breath while looking at the Rubik's Cube in his hand.

Then everyone saw that the various levels of the Rubik's Cube were spinning rapidly in Franz's hands.

"28 seconds."

Franz threw the restored Rubik's Cube to Liebig, who couldn't help but open his mouth and muttered as he looked at the Rubik's Cube in his hand that had been completely restored.

"What kind of magic is this?"

"This is not magic, this toy has rules. You should find some mathematicians to solve this kind of thing, they should be better at it.

But everyone has their own expertise, so don't be discouraged."

Franz had seen the teachings of later generations, and he had played with it for several years when he was young, so the three-order Rubik's Cube was not a difficult thing for him.

But Franz didn't intend to keep it a secret, after all, this thing itself has rules, and it was only a matter of time before they found it, not to mention that the deception would be exposed sooner or later.

But Liebig was still a little reluctant to believe what he saw, and scrambled the Rubik's Cube and returned it to Archduke Franz.

"Can you do it again?"

Franz was a little helpless, but the Rubik's Cube started to spin rapidly again.