Chapter 925: The Crown Prince's "Mentor"

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"You're still a photographer?" Valerie admired Chen Wei more and more.

"It's an amateur favorite! After all, it is much easier and more accurate to photograph a warship than to draw with a paintbrush, and Mr. Lin gave me the latest camera he invented, which he was going to present to the esteemed Empress Dowager of the Great Qian, of course, it is still in the testing stage, but, I dare say, I can't find such a good camera in the whole of Vienna, would Her Royal Highness want to try it? This is the second time that Chen Wei has called her "Her Royal Highness the Princess", indicating that he already knows her identity.

"That's great, by the way, if it's you, James, don't call me Her Royal Highness, please call me Valerie, okay? I can also call you James. ”

"Okay, Valerie."

"Thanks, James."

Lin Yiqing watched Chen Wei and Valerie talk happily from a distance, Valerie laughed heartily from time to time, quite like the demeanor of her mother Princess Sissi when she was young, and couldn't help but feel that it was good to be young.

Unknowingly, he traveled to this era, and he was 36 years old.

Just then, Crown Prince Rudolph walked over.

"You see my sister?" Rudolph noticed Lin Yiqing's gaze and said with a smile, "She is as enthusiastic and active as my mother when she was young. ”

"She's a lovely angel." Lin Yiqing smiled, "Her current age is the best age to love and be loved, unlike us, we are all a little old." ”

"Yes! Time is really like flowing water! Rudolph listened to Lin Yiqing's words and was obviously deeply touched.

Through these days of communication, the conversation between Lin Yiqing and Rudolph **** has become as casual as two good friends.

After Lin Yiqing entered the territory of Austria-Hungary from Italy, because Empress Elizabeth did not return to Vienna, the Austrian Emperor could not hold a welcoming ceremony, in order to delay the time and wait for the Empress to return, the Austrian Emperor sent Crown Prince Rudolf as a representative to greet Lin Yiqing, and arranged for Lin Yiqing to visit the STT shipyard and the Skoda Arsenal in the port of Trieste.

Accompanied by Crown Prince Rudolph, Lin Yiqing visited the STT shipyard in detail, watched the two ironclad ships "Rudolph" and "Stephanie" named after Rudolph and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, and met with the Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, Friedrich? Feng? Admiral Pock and shipbuilding director Joseph? Kuchka. Lin Yiqing, accompanied by the crown prince, also boarded the meritorious ship of the Battle of Lissa, "Ferdinand? The visit to the ironclad ship "Grand Duke Max" is worth the trip.

It was during this time that Lin Yiqing and Crown Prince Rudolph became good friends who talked about everything.

Lin Yiqing didn't know much about the crown prince who committed suicide in the original historical time and space.

Rudolf was the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz? The only son of Joseph I. Due to a nervous breakdown, he committed suicide with his girlfriend. At that time, Rudolph's personal servant, Loschek, found the crown prince and his lover Mary? Vizla shot himself in his room in the Mayerlin Palace. When the news of the crown prince's death was reported to Empress O, she was very sad and soon summoned all the members of the royal family and ministers to report and urgently deal with the emergency. It was told that Crown Prince Rudolph "died of a myocardial infarction in the early hours of this morning due to extreme excitement". At midnight the next day, a hearse quietly transported the crown prince back to Vienna. Three days later, the Crown Prince's coffin was sent to the royal cemetery. Emperor Ao did not allow princes and kings from all over the country to attend the simple funeral. However, according to those present, the Emperor cried very sadly.

On the orders of the Emperor, two famous doctors performed an autopsy on the crown prince's body. Their report confirmed that the crown prince had "committed suicide due to a moment of insanity", but the Emperor did not believe it at all. People couldn't figure out why the young and promising crown prince committed suicide, and they speculated about the reason for the incident.

From the fact that the crown prince and his mistress committed suicide in Mayering, it has been concluded that the Mayerling tragedy was a love tragedy. Crown Prince Rudolph was engaged to Princess Stephanie of Belgium at the age of 16, but their married life was not happy. All along, Rudolph wanted a divorce, but the Emperor did not agree with him doing so. Disillusioned, the crown prince tried to relieve his mental pain by seeking pleasure everywhere, often staying up all night with other women.

At a ball held by the Poles, Rudolph was introduced to a woman named Mary? The maiden of Vizla. She fell in love with the handsome and dashing and suave crown prince at first sight and fell madly in love with him. The relationship between the two is obviously intolerable to the royal family, which greatly damages the elegance of the royal family. The relationship between the crown prince and his wife became more and more stiff, so much so that Rudolph once openly said to Stephanie: "Since there is no solution, I have to kill you first, and then I will kill myself." These threatening words reached the ears of the Emperor, which was really a headache for him, and finally he had to decide to have a showdown with his son, so that Rudolph would cut off the relationship with his lover for the sake of the stability of the royal family.

Early one morning, the Crown Prince suddenly summoned the crown prince, and the content of the conversation between the two is unknown. Rudolph came out of his father and returned to his office. There, he quickly wrote several letters to Stephanie, his sister, his mother, and some friends. Then he returned to his bedchamber, and after bidding farewell to his wife and daughter, he went to Mayerling Palace alone. At the same time, Mary also quietly went to the Mayerling Palace.

On the last night of the crown prince's life, he wrote a note to his personal servant, Loscheuk, asking him to go to a priest to pray for him, asking him to "bury me with the baroness." In the aftermath of the tragedy, people read the words in the letters written by the crown prince to his wife: "You are at last freed from my fetters and the pain I have caused you, and I wish you all the best...... People also read in Mary's suicide note to her sister that roughly the same meaning: "You can only marry for love." I couldn't do that, but I'd rather go to another world. Therefore, many people believe that the Emperor must have severely reprimanded Rudolph when he suddenly summoned him, and forced him to break off his lover immediately. The infatuated Rudolph had to choose the desperate path of martyrdom with his lover.

There are also some people who believe that there are political reasons behind the crown prince's suicide, and that it is not just because of love. As the heir to the throne, Rudolf received a different education from an early age, and his views were very different, and he even anonymously published articles in the Austrian press criticizing the Austrian aristocracy. His rebellious personality and activities have led him to be followed by disguised police officers every time he goes out, and his residence is under surveillance. According to legend, Rudolf had promised to declare the Austro-Hungarian partition as soon as the Hungarians raised an army against his father, and he could become King of Hungary. Therefore, it is also possible that Rudolph committed suicide for political reasons. Of course, there is a lack of sufficient material to substantiate this. However, in a letter to his sister, he said: "I passed away against my will. This seems to indirectly prove that Rudolph's death was forced.

In fact, there is a key point in the whole incident, that is, what was talked about during the emergency summoning of the crown prince by the Austrian emperor that morning, which is likely to be the real cause of Rudolph's suicide. Emperor Ao is the only person in the know of this tragic story. However, when he left the world, he took away the mystery of the entire Mayerlin tragedy. The tragedy of the Mayerlin Palace also became one of the six historical mysteries of Europe, and no one has been able to figure out the truth of the matter until later generations.

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