Chapter Seventy-Two: The Armament Comes Out
Andrei's arrival puzzled Archduke Ferdinand, but when André took out a letter from Ernst and a chemical formula, everything was different......
The expression on Archduke Ferdinand's face was mixed, with dissatisfaction, disbelief, and incredulity, but in the end he left in a hurry, leaving André alone and forgetting about it.
Mysimilian did not appear, and although the Sophie lord made an appearance, for some unknown reason he did not have the same enthusiasm for André as he used to be, and did not ask about Ernst.
Duchess Sophie's body still looked very weak, and she cared very much about her son, but she left soon due to physical reasons, and only Leonner, the butler of Archduke Ferdinand's mansion, sat with André.
"Why haven't you seen His Highness Messilian?"
Although he felt that something was wrong with the situation here, André still inquired about his inner doubts, and he had a strong intuition that the main reason why the Sufi lord ignored him was that Messirian did not appear here.
"His Highness Mesimian...... If nothing else, now he is on his way to Germany. ”
"Germany?"
Leonner's words made Andre more and more confused, but Leonner did not continue to answer, and then turned to leave with a faint sigh, and André was the only one left in the hall.
The environment was so puzzling to André that he chose to ask some of his friends here, such as a few senior servants in the kitchen and some of the logistics chiefs.
"You said that His Highness Mysimilian has a disabled leg because of the fight?"
With an incredible face, Andrei didn't expect such a big thing to happen in Vienna in just over a month, but since such a thing happened, then Archduke Ferdinand didn't tell Count Ernst?
As if knowing Andrei's inner thoughts, the mansion logistics staff explained: "Speaking of the fight between His Royal Highness Messimilians and the sons of the Dominic family is also related to Prince Ernst, if it weren't for him saying that His Royal Highness Messimilians was too cowardly, His Royal Highness Messimilians would not ......"
The rest of the logistics staff didn't say much, but the meaning was already obvious, Andrei's face was very ugly, in his opinion, there was no doubt that this was suspected of pouring dirty water on Ernst, but everyone thought so, what could Andrei change? After all, he was just one of Ernst's guards, and he had no say at all.
Archduke Ferdinand didn't know a series of things in his mansion, so he hurriedly met with Emperor Franz, handed over the chemical formula and letter sent by Ernst to Emperor Franz, and Archduke Ferdinand stood quietly and waited for the results.
As a result, Emperor Franz was puzzled by what Archduke Ferdinand handed over, but as he read the letter, Emperor Franz's face finally began to change......
"Is the letter true?"
Archduke Ferdinand did not answer directly, but said: "I believe Ernst, he is not a child who likes to lie, and ...... There is no need to lie about this. ”
Oh, yes! What's there to lie about?
Emperor Franz was refreshed by this, and then hurriedly asked his servants to find some scientific researchers from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now testing the authenticity of these chemical formulas was the first priority.
The wait was always painful, but Ernst, who had already learned the results, was now very excited, and he devoted all his energy to the upcoming Moravian pharmaceutical company.
With industry, next year's harvest, Ernst borrowed 30,000 pounds in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and counting some of the wealth in his hands, these were the main funds for the formation of the pharmaceutical company.
Due to the severe shortage of workers, Ernst had to tear the nobility of Moravia apart completely, and a large number of preferential benefits began to spread in the territory, and in just one day more than 300 farmers from nearby territories moved here, and Ernst received no less than 5 provocative letters alone.
Ernst's approach was also not in the interest of Viscount Rossi of Klaliki, who had thought that after the division of the army regiment in two, Ernst would be able to form a brief peace with him, but now ......
As the leader of the Moravian aristocracy, even if the nobles below hated him more and loved him, this could not deny the unity of their interests, and Ernst was undoubtedly on the opposite side of them now.
For this reason, Viscount Rossi of Clarici sent a letter to Ernst, and there were no obvious threatening words in the letter, but the more Ernst did this, the more he could appreciate the warning of Viscount Rossi of Claricki.
"We should back down for the time being, after all, Viscount Rossi of Clariki has too much power here, and we are no match for them at all."
This was Bert's opinion, but Ernst was clearly not prepared to take it, for he looked at Kurt, the guard officer, who had always been reticent.
Who is Kurt? He was a soldier, and his attitude had always been very clear, only to die in battle without backing down, and now Ernst had almost made his attitude clear when he looked at him.
"The Moravian Army Regiment is ready to defend this territory and guarantee that no enemy will set foot here!"
This is the answer given by Kurt, and Bert looked at Ernst with some surprise, could it be that the Earl was ready to use force? How could it be otherwise......
Ignoring Bert's surprised eyes and Kurt's words, Ernst simply told Massena to manage the town well, not to let the town cause any disturbances, and to try to maintain his usual work and peace.
After telling him, Ernst let Massena leave, and then made a request to go to the station to have a look, and Coulter, the temporary governor, would not refuse, and Bert was full of doubts and prepared to follow.
"The soldiers had old weapons in their hands, and when they left the barracks, Colonel Yankulovsky refused to let them leave with their equipment, and the same goes for the weapons!"
Kurt was still full of resentment when he said this, but Ernst only smiled lightly, could he be short of weapons? It doesn't matter if he doesn't give it, sooner or later there will be a day when they will pay the price.
Without saying much, Ernst simply asked Kurt to select a few dozen soldiers and then let them follow them to a cave in the mountains.
This cave was found by Ernst with Talo Balbo, and it was used by Ernst as a transit point for transporting Soviet weapons from the 70s in a mysterious space.
5,000 M1891 Mosin-Nagant rifles, 100 M1910 Maxim heavy machine guns, more than 600 pistols, as well as a number of bullets and armaments, Soviet cotton coats, tights, shoes, water bottles......
Everything in the cave was enough to equip two-thirds of the Soviet Army, but luckily the things in the space could be taken out with just a thought, otherwise the mere carrying of them would have been enough to exhaust Ernst to death.
"This, these are ......"
"You don't need to know where this is, but I want you to keep it a secret, Bert and Kurt, it's about my safety!"
Ernst said very solemnly, as Ernst's two most loyal subordinates, Bert and Kurt naturally did not hesitate to make guarantees, even if Ernst did not trust such a thing too much.
Let the young soldiers who came with them into the cave, they were also stunned by the scene before them, but their task was to carry these things to the military warehouse in the town, and they could not be stunned for too long.
The young soldiers were very excited, these things did not need to be asked and knew that they would be assigned to them, the guns were put aside for the time being, these coats with good styles and high warmth must be worth a lot of money, and they also have the capital to show off in the future.
Of course, these young soldiers would not have imagined that what they saw as something worth showing off would be the most earthy and unpopular style in 100 years, even if it was indeed very warm.
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