Franz II's condition deteriorated suddenly, and as he lay dying, he summoned his three younger brothers, as well as the Prince of Metternich, to his side.

Archduke Louis announced the will of Franz II.

Franz II's personal property was divided into three parts, one part of which was left to his eldest son, and the rest to his second son and eldest grandson, respectively.

Franz Joseph was given land and estates worth 2.6 million florins, as well as all the palaces and estates of the Elthazy family in Austria, as well as a well-armed dragoon regiment.

Franz II left one hundred thousand florins to Archduke John and instructed him.

"My brother, you're no longer royal. You can't spend money as indiscriminately as you used to, after all, this is the last money my brother can provide. ”

Archduke John was a celebrity in the royal family.

Not because he studied music with Beethoven, not because he did business with the Rothschilds, not because he fought with Napoleon, and because of personal reasons, Archduke Karl's strategy fell short and succeeded in letting Napoleon go.

Instead, this Archduke John did not love the country and loved the beauty, and gave up the right to inherit the throne and the status of the royal family to marry the daughter of a commoner.

He has been in arrears with bank loans for a long time, borrowing everywhere and being blacklisted by many banks.

However, Archduke Johann can be said to be the king of traffic in Austria, and he can always attract wide attention from the public, so his reputation among the people is not bad.

Franz II gave a coin to Archduke Karl, which was the money that Franz II had won as a child.

Archduke Karl has always been obsessed with this, not because of the coin of Karl's big tolerance, but because he did not want to lose to Franz II.

And Franz II was reluctant to return the coin to Archduke Karl because it was the trophy of a match between Franz II and Archduke Karl.

Archduke Karl was excellent, and this coin was the only trophy of Franz II.

But because of this, the two brothers have been in discord for decades.

Today Franz II returned the coin to Archduke Karl, who accepted it.

This means that the two brothers have turned their rivalry into jade silk, and both of them have let go.

And to Franz II's little brother, Archduke Louis, he did not have any gifts, he just told Archduke Louis.

"You're a good man, my brother. Thank you for all these years of dedication, you must live well, and my descendants will please you. ”.

After saying that, Archduke Louis couldn't stop crying, he didn't have the military talent of Archduke Karl, nor did he have the communicative skills of Archduke John, he only did one thing in his life, and that was to guard his brother.

You are a good man, and there is no better compliment for Archduke Louis than this sentence.

In the end, Franz II opened a box containing four copies of the same will.

"This is my last request, ladies and gentlemen. You are my brothers, my friends, and the guardians of the Habsburgs, and I want you to keep a secret for me. ”

"My eldest son, Ferdinand, is not fit to rule the country. But the family has family rules, and I, as the patriarch, cannot break this sacred tradition. But times are changing, and some rules should be changed. ”

"So I want you to do one thing, to make this will public after Franz has completed his rite of passage at the age of eighteen. He is a good boy and will definitely become a good emperor in the future. ”

"Help him and honor him as you did me. The future of the family and the country is up to you...".

March 2, 1835.

Franz II, the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the founder of the Austrian Empire, and the head of the Habsburgs, died suddenly.

The torrent of the times does not stagnate in the slightest because of someone's death.

Franz Joseph calmly accepted this reality, but he still felt sad for his grandfather, who had been with him for five years.

Talia, who heard the news, fainted with sadness.

As a person with the soul of a modern person, it is difficult to understand what kind of affection ordinary people in the old era had for the emperor.

The emperor died, and all of Austria was immersed in grief.

Even Austria's busiest streets have quieted down.

People spontaneously took out candles and took to the streets to pray for the old emperor.

You must know that the light source at this time is not cheap, and many people are reluctant to light it at night.

These candles and kerosene lamps were most likely their only source of light.

At this time, standing at the highest point of the Imperial Palace, overlooking Vienna, the candles are connected together, and the quiet candlelight moves slowly, spectacular and sad.

The death of the old emperor represented the end of an era, and the biggest problem facing Austria was the death of the people.

When Ferdinand I was crowned Emperor of Austria in Vienna, the royal advisors, led by Carl von Sluter, immediately became arrogant.

The first thing they had to do was to halt all railway construction within the Austrian Empire.

They have produced countless evidence that railways will threaten the survival of humanity.

The reasons for this are absurd, such as:

The black smoke from the train can spread pneumonia throughout Austria.

And the human respiratory system cannot withstand speeds of more than fifteen kilometers per hour. Once this speed is exceeded, the person's lungs will collapse, and the circulatory system will become disordered, even allowing blood to fly out of the body.

The railroad tracks will become starved, and cows will not be able to produce milk and hens will not be able to lay eggs when they see the train passing by.

Of course, the Austrian forces, which had invested a lot of capital in the railway, would not agree with them.

Thus Karl von Sluth's opinion was magnificently ignored, and he had no real power in his hands.

However, in order to establish his personal prestige, he demanded that the Austrian government immediately recover the loans it had made to the countries of Central Italy in order to repay the debts of the Austrian Empire.

It was also a bad move, but fortunately the Austrian officials refused to carry out the orders of the royal advisor.

Enraged, Karl von Sluth ordered the dismissal of all advisers hired by the emperor, including, of course, Friedrich Liszt.

Friedrich Liszt was outraged by Carl von Sluth's arrogance, and Friedrich Liszt had made enough money to leave Austria and escape the shadow of Metternich.

Just in time to receive the edict of dismissal from Ferdinand I, he packed up his finances overnight and ran away with his family.

No sooner had Friedrich Liszt left Vienna than he received offers from Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria.

Friedrich Liszt chose Prussia without hesitation, because having worked in the center of the Austrian Empire, he knew very well that in the entire German Confederation, Prussia was the only one who could compete with Austria.