Chapter 11: Sunshine, Afternoons, and Knee Pillows

Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria.

The sun is warm and the leaves are shiny.

Under the tree, Franz was lying on Talia's lap on all fours.

Talia was a tutor hired by Madame Sophie for Franz Joseph.

In Taria's own words.

"Your Royal Highness is good at everything, but your homework is a little..."

Although His Royal Highness still can't write many words, he can always draw inferences from physics, chemistry, and mathematics. There are many things that Talia doesn't understand, and His Royal Highness can quickly understand.

So much so that many times, Talia can only read the newspaper to His Royal Highness.

There are also some quirks of His Royal Highness, that is, he likes to sleep with his thighs hugged.

Talia thought that the royal family had a rule that the eldest princess could not raise the child herself, and the little highness was also pitiful.

As everyone knows, Franz is lying on her lap, wandering out of the world.

For the current Franz, getting the old emperor to agree to join the German Customs Union was already the limit of what he could do.

As for whether you can join it, and whether you can cut Prussian leeks after joining, it depends on the creation of God.

For Franz, all he should do now is enjoy what his identity brings. The sun, the grass, the big white legs....

After all, if Tianyu doesn't take it, he will suffer it, and when he doesn't do it, he will suffer it!

In the afternoon, Franz stretched and found that Talia was asleep.

After two attempts to poke and tease, Talia didn't wake up, just rolled over and slept worse.

So Franz walked alone to the table in the garden and opened the newspaper.

In the corner of the page, there is a message:

Land in the United States has risen at an all-time high, doubling in Chicago in just four years from 1830 to 1834. Land prices are currently rising and are expected to double again in the next three years.

Franz smiled, it seems that the Austrian economist is still conservative. From 1834 to 1837 the land in Chicago increased 64 times, which then directly caused the economic crisis of 1837.

Eventually, the land returned to its original value, and at its peak in 1837 it could be sold for $12,000, but in 1839 it was worth $100 and could only wait for a buyer.

The most serious losses in this economic crisis are the United Kingdom and the United States, of course, due to the excessively close economic exchanges between the two sides. At the same time, the European continent generally implements trade protection policies, but the impact is relatively small.

It's a pity that Franz can't invest, otherwise he will definitely help the Americans.

Let the Austrian royal family go and buy it? What if you refuse to sell in an economic crisis? The greed of human nature, Franz did not dare to gamble.

The newspaper devoted two pages to the news of the Austrian Empire's preparations to join the German Customs Union.

There are two pages, one in praise of Franz II, and the other in the case of the great benefits of joining the German Customs Union.

At midnight on January 1, 1834, the strings of horse-drawn carriages, which had been anxiously waiting on the borders of the states, whizzed like madness with loads of goods, because the taxes to be paid for entering other countries were abolished, and the profits were suddenly much higher, and all the German merchants were busy driven by profits.

In 1834 alone, the sum of trade within the German Confederation in one quarter alone exceeded the volume of trade in 1833 in one year. Austria's trade rose by only 6 percent, and in the long run, the merchants of the Austrian Empire would suffer huge losses.

The newspaper described the German Customs Union as providing Austria with a huge market of 23 million people.

Although blind optimism is not advisable, this is not a time to pour cold water on businessmen.

Prince Metternich's censorship of books and newspapers was well enforced, and no opposition was found in the newspapers.

There are also references to the rebels in various places, and from 1833 to 1834 there were 12 uprisings in and around Austria.

Three of the most recent cases were quickly suppressed, one small in size with no more than 20 men, and the other because the garrison had been on guard, for which Count Tural assigned Austria's most capable generals to the most likely places to break out in the uprising.

There was only one uprising in Genoa, which was the largest and lasted the longest. Franz also saw two names he was familiar with, Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Franz watched a paragraph and finally understood what was going on. The general sent by the Austrian Empire to suppress the uprising was Rich, and this general was very powerful.

During the Napoleonic Wars, it was the famous surrender king, the money bag of the French. He was captured eleven times by the French and his allies, each time returning to Austria on the family's ransom.

Moreover, this brother was addicted to food, and was captured by the French again and again, and asked the emperor to lead the troops to fight again.

As the governor of Venicia in the year of the storm, he had 20,000 troops stationed in the city of Venice, and in the face of the rebellious citizens, he ordered the soldiers to surrender their weapons without firing a single shot, and left the city with only the flag kept.

It also indirectly buried the Austrian Navy, which was just in time for the accidental death of the former Austrian Admiral, and the successor Marshal vacationed with beautiful women on the beaches of Belgium.

The Austrian navy, which had no commander, was scattered by most of its officers and men, leaving only an unknown captain with less than a hundred sailors, who fought fiercely with the rebels for five days and were all martyred.

If the fleet of the Austrian Navy had been there, there would have been no such comical scene as the blockade of Liast, the port of the Austrian Empire with seven Genoese warships.

The city of Venice could not hold out for that long, and Marshal Radetzky did not have to divide his forces to prevent the Venetian army from cutting off the Austrian supply lines. More troops can be thrown into the front line, and the war can end a little faster.

Not only was General Ritch not held accountable, but he took over the Bohemian Front in northern Austria and lived until he was 85 years old.

This waste took more than 10,000 people, pursued 800 people, chased them from Genoa to Rome, and actually let more than 300 of them escape.

After capturing more than 20 prisoners and being embarrassed to ask for credit in the newspaper, Franz was speechless for a while, and he made up his mind that he would never let such a person continue to eat in the corpse.

As the mastermind behind the uprising, Mazzini managed to escape to Switzerland. The Swiss Confederation rejected the Austrian and Sardinian governments' proposals to expel Mazzini.

Historically, Mazzini did not continue to prepare new uprisings in Switzerland, but traveled across the ocean to England in search of salvation.

At this time, Garibaldi, who was just a gunman, did not attract the attention of various countries. However, this unknown gunman will set off stormy waves in Italy in the future.

The man got on a merchant ship and later came to South America. He also participated in the war of independence of a small country and made great achievements.

Just when everyone thought that Gallipoli would continue to enjoy the treatment of a hero in that small South American country.

The president of that small country suddenly twitched his brain, and he actually wanted to push back the country that was more than ten times larger than his own land and dozens of times more populous than himself.

As you can imagine, Garibaldi had no choice but to return to Italy.

In an inconspicuous corner it was written: Friedrich Liszt from Württemberg, who will serve as a special adviser to the great Emperor Franz II for five years.

Franz snorted, probably because he was too young, and he was sleepy after just looking at it for a while. So he put down the newspaper and followed the undulating hills and climbed in.