Chapter 196: Christmas II
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When the 24th candle on the Advent wreath is lit, Christmas Eve will be upon us. According to German tradition, Christmas Eve is a big day for the whole family to reunite, and as in previous years, Crown Prince Frederick's family rushed to Charlottenburg Palace with a variety of gifts.
Joey's uncle's family, Frederick Wilhelm Ludwig, the sixth Grand Duchy of Baden, also celebrated Christmas at Charlottenburg Palace.
In order to distinguish himself from his son Frederick the Younger, Archduke Frederick was also called Frederick I, the third son of the former former Archduke Leopold of Baden and Sophie Wilhelminnie of the Swedish princess Holstein Gottorp.
However, Frederick I inherited the title of Grand Duke of Baden not from his father, but from his second brother Ludwig II, due to family genetic reasons, Ludwig II suffered from mental illness since childhood and had no children, so Frederick I became the crown prince and regent of Baden, and on September 5, 1856, he became Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden.
Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, married Joey's aunt, Princess Louise-Marie-Elisabeth of Prussia, in 1854, and had two sons and a daughter after marriage.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of the Baden army in history is also quite good, in the Battle of Wiessenburg in the Franco-Prussian War, among the Prussian army, the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of WΓΌrttemberg, the first to attack the French Wiesenburg was the troops led by Frederick I, the Grand Duke of Baden.
Archduke Frederick I of Baden was loved and respected by the Hohenzollern family because of his superhuman intelligence and emotional intelligence.
In the Palace of Versailles during the Franco-Prussian War, the person who took the lead in shouting long live the emperor and resolving the conflict between his father-in-law and Chancellor Bismarck and other federal allies about the title of emperor was Frederick I.
When Crown Prince Frederick and his wife insisted that their eldest son go to school instead of joining the army, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, resolutely let his eldest son Frederick II go to school with William, because of this, he has always been grateful to Crown Prince Frederick and his wife.
When Wilhelm I appointed Frederick as the number one person in charge of the empire's economy, it was Frederick I, the Grand Duke of Baden, who took the lead in shouting hooray, making the matter a certainty that Prime Minister Bismarck could no longer question it.
In World War II, Sweden was able to firmly support Germany behind the scenes, also because of the silent help of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
Frederick the eldest son of Archduke Frederick of Baden was called Frederick Wilhelm Ludwig Leopold Auguste, who would later be Archduke Frederick II of Baden, and he was a 22-year-old friend and alumnus of Wilhelm, who also studied at the University of Bonn, which was famous for its liberalism.
Like William, Frederick II had a beautiful horned mustache and was one of the avid suitors of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse.
The second daughter, a beautiful lady of 17 years old, named Sophia Marie Victoria, was currently in love with Gustav, the crown prince of the alliance between Sweden and Norway, and according to Joey's second sister, Princess Charlotte, if all went well, the two lovers would be married in the spring of 1882.
The third son, Louis Christopher Ernst, is currently attending school in Karlsruhe at the age of 14, a handsome boy who inherited the supple blonde hair of his father, Frederick I, and is a familiar guy like Dreyer, and after greeting everyone, he whispered to Joey, "Hi Jojo, is the crocodile I gave you okay?" β
Louis's words reminded Joey of the origin of the crocodile in his foster home in Charlottenburg Palace....
"They're hibernating in a pond.... Louie, have you ever seen a crocodile hibernate outside? Joey asked.
"No, I haven't seen how they survive the winter since I gave you all the crocodiles I just got my hands on the year before last." Louise shrugged her shoulders.
"I'll take you to the pond tomorrow and show you what they look like outdoors for the winter." Joey smiled and prepared to sell off, "You would never think about how they survive the winter. β
"Jojo is abusing his stupid pets, they used to spend the winter in warm indoors, but this year Jojo has to cut the cost of raising them and throw them in the pond outside the palace for the winter."
"Now they expose their mouths to the ice and let the ice freeze themselves, and we tell Jojo that his pet is frozen to death, but Jojo says that his crocodile will come back to life next spring." Sophie said quickly.
"Jojo made a bet with Sophie and me that if the crocodile survived next spring, Sophie and I would lose him 5 gold marks each, and if we won, Jojo would pay us 10 gold marks each." Marguerite added, "Louie, you are one of the witnesses to our bet. β
Since Joey's two younger sisters made a bet with Joey about whether the crocodile survived the winter and whether it died or not, they had to tell the bet after meeting an acquaintance, just to prevent Joey from defaulting in the future.
"No, my bet with you is a total of 10 gold marks, how did it become 20 gold marks?" Joey suddenly realizes that the bet amount is wrong.
"We've counted Mary, and here are 10 gold marks for Mary." Sophie said to Joey with a twinkle in her eyes.
"Mary said that she needed to pay the bookseller a fee to publish a novel, and Margaret and I were going to sponsor Mary. Well, we've taken out all the pocket money we have and bet with you, anyway, Jojo, you're going to lose, so it's better to lose more, and think of it as a fundraiser for Mary. β
"Louie, do you want to participate in this bet, if you want to participate, you must first agree to a condition, after winning, you will donate 50% of your income to Sophie and my Novel Foundation." Margaret began to encourage Louis to participate in the gamble.
"The Fiction Foundation?" Joey was a little puzzled when his sisters had their own foundation, and it was also fictional.
Joey asked, somewhat suspiciously, "Sophie, Meg, when did Mary start writing novels?" Why don't I know? β
Sophie and Margaret glanced at each other, and then tacitly pretended to be deaf and dumb at Joey's questioning, and after Louise agreed to pay 20 gold marks to participate in the bet, the two little princesses happily went to find the next sponsor.
"Don't they know that crocodiles survive the winter?!" Louise touched her nose and suddenly said to Joey.
"Huh?!"
"Jojo, don't look at me like that, since I can give you the crocodiles, of course I'll ask if they can spend the winter in Berlin." Louise raised an eyebrow, "The guys who brought the crocodiles to Germany promised that they would be fine even if they were frozen, but I never saw them." β
"You know you're going to lose, but you're still participating in this gamble?" Joey asked curiously.
Louise looked at the figures of the two little princesses shuttling through the crowd, and said with a smile, "I just know that they are short of money now, and I just want to find a suitable reason to support them." β
Joey found out that the 20 gold marks that Louise bet on were held by Sophie, these two little people, are raising money with everyone through their own gambling contracts, when will their sister also fish without bait (empty gloves white wolf) tricks?
"If they win, Jojo you'll have to pay for it; If you win, we're willing to gamble and lose, and that's all that's left is the debt between the two of them and you. Louise smiled and said, "Even if it is a debt problem between you, but I always feel that they have a way to solve this problem, so in the eyes of the two princesses, whether the crocodile can survive the winter or whether it can survive the winter is not the most important thing." β
Joey rubbed his nose and chewed the smell of this matter carefully, he had to admit that Louise was right, he had to pay everyone obediently if he lost, even if he won, he would be charged to his two younger sisters, but that was also after winter, and this time was enough for his two younger sisters to use the money to do what they wanted to do.
Take advantage of the time difference to make money.... When did your little follower become so powerful?!
"Hey, Jojo, I heard you're in charge of your aunt's foundation?" After receiving Joey's affirmative reply, Louis continued, "I would like to recommend a few scientists from Baden to you, I don't know if you would like to fund them. β
"He is the proudest student of Professor Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Jojo, Professor Magnus, you know?"
"Of course, I know that all the standards of weights and measures in the empire today were established by Professor Magnus at the Frankfurt Conference in '65, and the scientific basis for replacing the smoothbore rifle with rifled rifles is also based on the Magnus effect of Mr. Professor."
Next, Joey almost told Professor Magnus about his achievements with his fingers, like discovering a metallic ammonia complex, and experimentally confirming the existence of the complexation reaction and ammonia complex.
In the words that ordinary people can understand, ammonia complexes are the most important way of industrial extraction of non-ferrous metals, and they are also the preparation principle of antidotes for metal poisoning in medicine.
In Joey's previous life, alkaline earth metal-based metal amino complex hydrogen fuel cells were the mainstream power source for AIP submarines, of course, this is a story for another time.
Of course, in areas such as gas exchange tests in the blood circulation, gas thermal expansion tests, and gas heat conduction, Professor Magnus has done the first experimental verification, especially the heat transfer experiment of gas and steam (gas-vapor heat transfer), which is an important field of thermal engineering.
The theoretical development of the German boiler industry is based on the experimental results of Professor Magnus.
At the same time, Professor Magnus is also the teacher of Professors Helmholtz, Clausius and Gustav Heinrich Widdermann, Helmholtz and Clausius, Joy is seen at least once a month, and Professor Widdmann is also the person Joy knows best.
In the history of physics in the world, there is one of the most important academic journals, the "Annals of Physics" (Annalen der Physik) published in Berlin, Germany in 1799, until the end of World War II, the world's physics intellectuals were proud to publish articles in German in this academic journal, for example, Einstein's theory of relativity that changed the world in 1905 was published in German in this journal.
After 1950, the journal was forced to use English in 1950 due to the voluntary/forced transfer of Germans to the United States and the Soviet Union.
The work of the current Crown Princess Victoria Foundation funded physicists is published in the Annals of Physics, and the editor-in-chief of this journal from 1877 to 1899 was Professor Widman.
So it was natural for Joy to become acquainted with Professor Magnus and his students, and had it not been for the professor's death in 1870, Joy thought he was perfectly qualified to receive a Nobel Prize with his students.
Professor Mholtz, Professor Clausius and Professor Widmann themselves have all met in Berlin, so who is this Professor Magnus student in Louis's mouth?
Joey's curiosity flooded on Christmas Eve.