Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

The rubber seeds have been sent directly to the royal greenhouse, waiting for the seedlings to be cultivated before being shipped to Chenla, where Ambrosius and the people of the church can promote the cultivation in Chenla.

Rubber trees have a long cycle, taking 8 years to start tapping, and tapping to peak after five years.

Franz looked at the check and the wheat seed in front of him, and he felt that Talia had gone a little too far.

"What's the matter with these 100,000 florins, but they signed a contract. You're a robber, a Westerner who doesn't have the spirit of contract at all. ”

Talia didn't care.

"Now that the contract is gone, do you still need to keep it?"

"What about the contract?"

"He tore it up himself, it's none of my business."

"How is that possible!"

Talia gestured to stop, then took a bag from the pocket of her skirt.

"It's a gift for you, and you'll be able to use it later." Talia thought for a moment, then added, "Hopefully you won't need it." ”

"Costa tore up the contract himself, how is that possible?" Franz asked.

Talia gestured to the bag on the table.

"The powder in it makes people feel powerless and submissive. Costa did something in my tea..."

Franz looked at Talia and asked curiously.

"Are you alright?"

"Of course I'm fine, he's reaping the consequences." Talia said proudly.

"Well, it looks like he's been punished as he deserves."

Franz looked at the check on the table and thought to himself that it had been written anyway, so it might as well just spend it.

"Talia, things are well done, do you want any reward?"

Talia looked at Franz with some surprise, what was this little kid thinking? Do you want to control me, but I'm... Talia suddenly remembered that she seemed to be Franz's man now.

"Reward?!" Talia rolled her eyes.

"In other words, do you have any dreams?"

"Dreams? I want to read like a man, be an official, and have people worship me..."Talia seemed to remember the stupid things she had done.

As the stronghold of conservative forces in Europe, Austrian women at this time had just had the right to receive education, and women were not allowed to enter universities, let alone become officials.

"Why don't I help you build a women's academy and make you the headmaster. In this way, you will be both an official and a man of worship. Franz suggested.

"If you become a principal, you can be worshipped?" Talia asked.

"I ask you, who's the best in the zoo?" Franz asked rhetorically.

"Tiger... Lion? ... Elephant bar .." Talia doesn't have a definitive answer to this question.

"It's the principal!"

It dawned on Talia that Franz had a point.

That's when she reacted, women's college!? This was an unprecedented event, as Vienna had not yet had a school for girls.

It was not until 1835 that Ferdinand I approved the decree that women could go to school.

However, there was no compulsory education in Austria at that time, and attending a public school or hiring a tutor usually meant expensive tuition fees.

Ecclesiastical schools, or private schools established by the aristocracy, had strict requirements for admission.

The extremely high illiteracy rate in the Austrian Empire is the best proof of this.

In Austria, education was completely free and compulsory in the time of Empress Teresa and Joseph II, and it was abolished in the time of Leopold II.

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Franz II briefly recovered, but the finances were unable to make ends meet, so he asked the school to find its own way.

The illiteracy rate of 70%+ is matched only by Russia in the east.

"Franz, are you serious? The establishment of a women's college requires the approval of His Majesty the Emperor. Talia gestured and touched Franz's forehead.

"What's this, I'm Franz." Franz did not brag, although Franz did not dare to interfere easily in national affairs, but as long as it did not involve the national level, even if Franz wanted to build a playground in Vienna's Central Garden (that is, Vienna Central Cemetery) tomorrow, no one would object.

"Oh, so I can be the headmaster?"

"Of course, I have two estates in the north of the city that can be converted into schools. It is a good place to build a school in front of the Danube, with the Karon Mountain in the back, and even the houses are ready-made, and I won't live there anyway, so I'll give it to you. ”

Talia had seen it from afar once before, it was two beautiful royal estates, and she hugged Franz very excitedly, and the weak, poor and helpless Franz was squeezed and breathless.

Talia suddenly let go of Franz, and she thought of another question, there were only a few strange people like her in the whole of Austria, and three of her predecessors had already been burned to death, and she herself was almost hanged in front of the chancellor's palace, on the chestnut tree.

"Where am I going to enroll students? How many girls in Austria have a high school education, let alone a university student. ”

One of the major problems faced by Austrian women graduating from university is that there is no suitable job for them, so they have to choose between husbands and children, or go to other aristocratic families to work as governesses.

So in the Austrian Empire, the education of women usually stopped at reading and writing.

"It's simple, Austria doesn't have it, can it be recruited from foreign countries? And you don't have to teach the course like a regular university, you can tailor the course to you.

Simple courses such as etiquette, housework, arithmetic, languages, literature, and theology are taken together with complex subjects such as economics, law, society, psychology, natural sciences, engineering, and mechanics.

You can start in elementary school and work your way up to secondary school, high school and university. Anyway, the women's colleges in Vienna are still blank. ”

Talia was a little speechless.

"Where do I find so many female teachers?"

"The ladies of the Viennese court, those who have retired, and those who are too old to continue working in the court."

"You want to change to something young and pretty, right?"

In fact, Franz would have preferred to carry out compulsory education for all, but with the current situation, this project would not have passed.

Even if the emperor had approved it, it would have been rejected by the Regent Council's Korolav and Metternich, because Austria's finances simply could not support it.

The French used their influence to reduce bank lending to the Austrian Empire, while deliberately suspending the construction of the railroad contracted by French merchants.

Friedrich Liszt, on the other hand, used the connections he had established while working in the Austrian Empire to promise Austrian officials favors and make it difficult for them to build the railway.

Hungary introduced a new law refusing to sell pig iron, sand and logs to Austria. Although Hungary is not the main supplier of Austrian railways, the original suppliers have demanded a price increase when they see the law.

As a result, the merchants of the Austrian Empire, who had been enthusiastically investing in the railways, were enveloped in panic and sold off their railway stocks, and the result of the outflow of funds was a widespread shutdown.

The Count of Korolav and the Prince of Metternich were also arguing over whether to protect the south or the north.