Chapter 651 The Trajectory of History (Main Content in the Second Half)

"What's going on!"

This time, Sir Franklin was even more excited than the young officer, and grabbed the other's collar.

"Sir, listen to my explanation. It's normal for one or two of the eight thousand cans to be bad."

The custodian was still quibbling, but there was no canned food in the world that would stink less than a month after delivery, unless the beef itself was bad.

Then the expedition members opened the other cans and found that almost all of them were bad, and the canned fruit next to them was even more outrageous. Not only were they not peeled, but there were even dead insects inside.

Then these people who were about to risk their lives to explore the Arctic expressed strong "dissatisfaction" with the warehouse keeper and his colleagues.

When the Royal Navy guards arrived, the warehouse keeper had been beaten into a pig's head.

After interrogation, it was learned that the sales staff of the canning factory bribed the custodian and passed off inferior goods as good ones. Sir Franklin naturally could not trust Duket and his London canning factory anymore.

So Elena got the deal, but she couldn't help but worry. After all, Sir Franklin was 59 years old at this time, but the latter responded to the former with the unique humor of British gentlemen.

"Miss, I'm not even 60 yet! Wish me good luck! If we return safely, we will never forget the help you and your canned food provided to us."

However, only two months after Sir Franklin set sail, his expedition lost contact with London

There are many different opinions about the reasons for Sir Franklin's failure in history, but it is certain that most of them died of lead poisoning and scurvy.

There are also many theories about why the crew would rather eat their compatriots than the canned food in the cabin.

One school of thought believes that many of the canned food were bad before they were sent to the ship and were not edible at all, so the crew chose to find food for themselves.

Since Austria developed canning compression technology, these 8,000 cans still made some money. After all, the mainstream of this era relied on manual canning and sealing, which would cost several to dozens of times higher.

However, this level of funds is almost invisible in Franz's account. But then again, not many people buy canned food in peacetime, so it can't be said that it is a worthless thing.

Of course, whether the canned food of the Austrian Empire can become popular in Britain depends on whether Sir Franklin and his expedition team can come back alive. After all, they are the best billboards.

In fact, Austrian canned food has a price advantage, but the British charge high tariffs, which greatly offsets its competitiveness.

After that, Elena got a new task, which is to promote the canned food of the Austrian Empire to the world. Although it sounds very high-end, it is actually a senior salesman.

However, such words are still very useful to the ears of people in the 19th century. She felt that she was valued and started to work harder.

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Some news from the other side of the earth made Franz very depressed. The Americans were buying piglets from the Qing Dynasty and planned to build the Pacific Railway.

After all, the Americans found a way to the Pacific Ocean from the cracks, and they were working hard for their destiny.

However, this also means that the mobilization capacity of the United States will be enhanced in the future, and the war with the California colony is inevitable.

After all, there are British people in the north of Oregon, Russians in the northwest, and Austrian colonies across a mountain.

If Americans want to gain a foothold, they can't do nothing, and their biggest enemy is Austria.

This is mainly because the number of Russians and British is too small, and the colonists of the two countries probably do not exceed 2,000 people.

And there are hundreds of thousands of Germans in California, Austria, not to mention the local indigenous people and the Central American population that has been diverted, as well as the rapidly increasing Japanese workers.

In fact, the main reason why Franz used Japanese workers instead of Qing workers is that the latter are too strong in combat.

Although the Japanese also have a tradition of defeating the superiors, it only exists in the samurai class.

On the other hand, since the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the Qin Dynasty, the idea of ​​"kings, princes, generals, and ministers, are they of the same species" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of Chinese workers.

Let's not talk about the clan and party issues in the south, just talk about the northerners who are considered weaker and more docile.

The latter undertook almost all the large-scale uprisings in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, including the Pu Shao uprising of Laoguanzhaijiao; the Wang Lun uprising of Qingshuijiao; the Li Wencheng and Lin Qing uprisings of Tianlijiao and the White Lotus uprising in Sichuan and Chu.

Even in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, there were the Twisted Army in the north, as well as the Wenxianjiao uprising and the White Lotus uprising in northwestern Shandong.

The Boxer Rebellion that followed caused chaos in the world, as a famous invader of later generations said.

"The Chinese people have infinite vitality. No matter Europe, America, or Japan, they do not have the brainpower and military strength to rule a quarter of the world's lives!"

The enemy's evaluation is often extremely pertinent, and Franz has no doubt about this.

When someone mentions the fighting nation, they always think of Russia, and when they mention the powder keg, they think of the Balkans. The Qing people are indifferent and easy to rule.

But the reality is that according to the records in "The Veritable Records of the Qing Dynasty", from the Opium War to the demise of the Qing Dynasty on February 12, 1912, more than 5,000 uprisings broke out.

The most turbulent period between 1856 and 1865 saw more than 2,000 uprisings, and the Qing dynasty’s own records were good enough to record a lot, and there was almost no exaggeration or falsification.

The 24 years known as the most turbulent in Japanese history, from the arrival of the black ships in 1853 to the end of the Southwest War on September 24, 1877, saw only less than 50 large-scale civil riots.

In comparison, aren’t the Chinese fighting spirit much stronger?

Therefore, if Franz wants to save his life, it’s better not to touch the Chinese workers, after all, Austria itself is also a powder keg.

Franz is fighting a civil war here, and he can’t stand the sudden words “Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?” in the backyard.

At the same time, the Japanese are relatively easy to rule and assimilate, whether in terms of tradition, thinking mode, or national character.

To put it simply, Japanese civilians didn’t even have names at the time, and the stickiness of village communities was not strong.

This is mainly due to the mountainous and island-rich environment of Japan, as well as the fact that it is located in a volcanic earthquake zone, and with the blessing of various natural disasters such as typhoons and tsunamis, human life is not guaranteed at all, so they are not too obsessed with the inheritance of blood.

On the contrary, these people are both indifferent and fanatical, extremely cruel to the weak and extremely flattering to the strong.

In ancient times, Japan did not rely on blood-based society, but was divided by region and class, which led to the Japanese being "model students" wherever they went, because these people would spare no effort to integrate into the local society.

Like the Japanese who fought for the US military in World War II, they even did not hesitate to exchange the lives of their compatriots for military merit.

As for the spirit of hard work and endurance, this is shared by all East Asian peoples. Although Franz hates Koreans, those people can really endure hardships.

Even those Korean entertainment stars who are often ridiculed may have very distorted personalities, but their serious and hard-working attitude is worthy of recognition.