Chapter 779 Three-Year Agreement

The previous blind date was very successful, and Mrs. Sophie decided to strike while the iron is hot and settle the marriage in advance.

Franz thought it was not a bad thing. After all, it was not a bad thing to make the relationship with the Russians known.

On the contrary, it could deter those who wanted to sow discord between the two countries to a certain extent, and at the same time make other powers afraid to threaten either Russia or Austria easily.

In fact, if you want to win the Crimean War, no matter how much supplies Austria provides to Russia, it is not as practical as the Russians building a railway to Crimea themselves.

There is a joke in this war, that is, the transportation cost of the Russians in their own land is higher than the cost of the British and French coalition forces crossing the ocean.

After the marriage between the two countries, Franz can micro-manage the future layout to a certain extent.

But Franz did not want to get married too early, because 1848 was coming soon, Austria would become very unsafe and there would be many uncertainties.

Franz did not want to increase the possibility of accidents, so he thought the wedding should be postponed as much as possible.

"Franz, what are you thinking about? It's normal to get engaged this year and get married next year. What the hell is a three-year agreement?!"

Mrs. Sophie was furious. She didn't know what Franz was thinking, but it would be troublesome if the Russians thought this was humiliating them.

"Mother, I think it's too early to get married now! And there are still many hidden dangers in the country"

"What's early? Others of your age have sons! It's not your turn to bear the brunt of the sky. Get married first, and we'll talk about it later."

"No, mother. Believe me, our situation is not safe.

Austria's rapid development has affected the survival of the Hungarian government. They are unwilling to give up their privileges and embrace the new era. Sooner or later, there will be a war between us."

Mrs. Sophie is very clear that the Hungarians are becoming more and more arrogant, but those radical events broke out in Hungary, at least so far, they have not affected Austria.

And at this time, everything in the Austrian Empire is developing at a high speed, even if there is a fight, the Hungarians will never win.

"Then you should get married quickly. Then we can use the power of the Russian Empire to help us attack the Hungarians from both sides."

"Mother, that is definitely not a good idea. The Romanov family will not give up their ambitions just because the other party is their in-law.

And the most difficult thing to repay in this world is the debt of favor. You don't want people to say that our Habsburg family repays kindness with enmity one day, right?"

Mrs. Sophie became more and more confused as she listened, but she had a bad premonition that her son was making a big plan again.

Thinking carefully, it seems that Franz had foreseen everything today seven or eight years ago. She didn't want to admit it, but she did give birth to an incredible monster.

"Franz, I don't know what you're thinking, but you're not the only one in the history of the Habsburg family who has great ambitions and is difficult to understand.

But what happened to them? Frederick III had to live in seclusion, and Joseph II died. I don't want you to join them for future generations to amuse themselves."

Franz naturally understood Mrs. Sophie's intention, but he couldn't tell her everything because it was too sensational.

"Mother, doesn't the archbishop always say that I'm a natural saint? I will succeed."

"Whether you succeed or not, you should first tell me how to stabilize the Tsar's family and let a 24-year-old girl wait for you for three years. I don't know how to start.

If you're too old to have children, don't think about using illegitimate children to inherit the throne. Do you understand?"

Mrs. Sophie was very dissatisfied. She still hoped that Franz could get married as soon as possible to avoid more trouble.

In fact, after learning about the history of the Habsburg family, the latter didn't really care whether his descendants could inherit the throne. After all, there had been no particularly sensational fratricide in this family.

As for not having offspring, it was not bad. After all, the path Franz was going to take was very hated. Naturally, no one dared to do anything when he was alive, but it was not certain after his death.

It was a relief to be free of worries.

In fact, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna had never given birth in history, but Franz did not know because the princess was not famous in history.

"It is actually easy to stabilize the Tsar's family. Nicholas I was so active and proactive because he saw the benefits of marrying with Austria, so we can pay the betrothal gifts first."

"What kind of gold and silver can shut the Tsar's mouth? I want to see it."

"A railway from Moscow to Sevastopol Fortress, three new steel battleships."

"What about Olga?"

"She will be willing to wait."

"Why?"

"A poem."

Russia, St. Petersburg.

Nicholas I paced back and forth in his office. Sometimes he wanted to shout excitedly, and sometimes he tore his hair, not knowing what to do.

Because the gift sent by the Austrians was too precious, and it happened to be what Russia needed most urgently. Although the railway and warships did not reach their own hands, they gave the whole country hope.

Russia's finances have always been very tight, and the cost of building railways for the Russians is much higher than that of other European countries, almost ten times that of Austria.

As for the warships, the Austrian warships are probably not as good as the British, but at least they are ironclad warships and are worth looking forward to.

Note: Russia did not have the ability to produce ironclad warships at this time. Even during the Crimean War, they could not manufacture large ironclad warships.

The marriage between the two countries also facilitated the further expansion of trade. Once Franz became the emperor of the Austrian Empire, Russia's economy would inevitably improve.

However, all this had to be at the expense of his daughter's happiness. Nicholas I civilized the future generations with brutality, but he was unwilling to rise in this way.

Nicholas I could not figure out why Austria set the wedding date three years later. The reason given by Austria was that the body and mind were not yet mature and needed to be tempered.

If this sentence was applied to the brothers Ferdinand I and Franz Karl, there would be no sense of disobedience, but didn't the Habsburg family of this generation have many talents?

Whether it was Albrecht, Friedrich, or the collateral Ambrosius, they were all outstanding talents. Mrs. Sophie's four sons were even more amazing, ranging from saints to geniuses who were born in the world.

Suddenly Nicholas I thought of something. Albrecht and Friedrich were both geniuses in the army and navy, but they were both idiots in the ways of the world.

Albrecht was still unmarried at an old age, and he always gave people military knowledge when he went on blind dates. Friedrich was said to have robbed an Arab as his wife, and now he has become a joke in the aristocratic circle.

If the latter's father was not Archduke Karl, he would have been expelled from the family or honorably executed.

Ambrosius's situation was similar.

According to this situation, I'm afraid that Mrs. Sophie's sons are not much better.