Vienna, Franz's bedroom.

Franz had always wondered why Austria had closed its silver mines in Tyrol, when veins that had been mined at the end of World War II until 1957 stopped mining in 1827.

Talia found a report on the Tyrolean silver mines, which were due to the poor quality of the Tyrolean silver mines, which did not cover the costs and had to be stopped.

Franz rubbed his chin, why did he lose money year after year in the hands of the Austrian government, and then transfer it to his own hands to continue mining for a hundred years.

Franz compared several mine's income statements side by side and found that the Tyrolean silver mines were not as profitable as the iron mines under his own name.

Franz thought it was unlikely, that unless silver could not be mined, the profits of silver would not be lower than that of iron ore, and that Tyrolean silver mines were far from exhausted, judging from the fact that private companies could continue to mine them for hundreds of years.

Then there may be only one, that is, the supervision is not effective, just like the customs of the Qing Dynasty leaking everywhere.

What made Franz even more angry was that he didn't know who came up with the idea of blowing up the pit and burying it when he abandoned the Tyrolean silver mine.

Re-excavating the pit is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly.

But on the whole, the resumption of silver mining in Tyrol is still very beneficial to Austria, after all, this is a direct income, and it can also be used to mortgage fraudulent loans.

The problems of the Austrian army were solved, and the order of Chenla came again, and they wanted 20 cannons in addition to 6,000 rifles.

Only this time they did not pay the bill with silver, but with some silver, some gold, ivory, pearls, jade, and some precious wood.

It seems that Chenla's side has made up his mind, or is in big trouble, which may be a catastrophe for Jinla, but it is an opportunity for Austria, and it depends on whether Ambrosius can grasp it.

Of course, Franz will also ask the church to help, after all, Archbishop Rauscher has recently made a lot of money selling Holy Light and Holy Water.

Bleaching powder and alcohol have no cost, although some people have found out, but the influence is far less than that of the church, the same products just can't be sold, and the church is even in short supply.

In order to squeeze out possible competitors, the church frantically lowered prices, which also discouraged some people who were not strong.

With the spread of church products, the cholera outbreak that was supposed to have occurred did not appear in the slums of Vienna.

The number of deaths from dysentery in Austria as a whole is also plummeting, coupled with the bumper harvest and economic boom in recent years, the construction of railways and public works have absorbed a large number of displaced people, which has greatly increased the happiness of the Austrian people.

The problem of the navy is difficult to solve, if you want to build a fleet, then a few million florins will listen to it, at most a few frigates and cruisers, and then count the training of artillery and sailors, the cost is simply sky-high.

The Austrian navy proposed to build a strong formation of four fourth-class battleships, six cruisers, and ten frigates in order to maintain absolute suppressive power against the Sardinian navy.

In fact, the navy of the Kingdom of Sardinia had a second-class battleship as its flagship, a third-class battleship, and ten fourth-class battleships, although it was far less than the Austrian navy in terms of the number of ships, but the gap between gunboats and battleships could not be bridged by numbers.

In the naval battle of 1827, the British battleships "Asia" and "Easter" broke into the ranks of the Egyptian navy and shattered the Egyptian naval dream in only two hours.

However, they were not the strongest force of the British at sea, and they could only tremble in front of those first-class sail battleships.

Austria's opponents were not the British, nor the Kingdom of Sardinia, but the fleet of the Egyptians.

At this time, competing with Britain for sea power was tantamount to death, and the number of battleships that Austria could use was not comparable to the number of first-class battleships of the opponent.

The Kingdom of Sardinia borders Austria, and it can be pushed flat by the army, and there is no doubt that the Austrian army definitely has this strength.

The incompetence of Austria in the two Turkish-Egyptian wars was the real reason for the decline of Austria's international status.

Later generations always said that Metternich was weak and powerless, which led the British to skip Austria and punish Egypt alone.

In fact, the fundamental reason is that Austria does not have a strong navy all the time, and can only look at the faces of the British, the French, and the Russians, which causes Metternich to be indecisive, and in the end can only acquiesce to the British behavior and be the little brother behind the British back.

But the British did not intend to take the little brother of the Austrian Empire, and turned around and left Austria aside, and pulled it out again during the Crimean War.

In order to change the fate of Austria, a navy capable of defeating the Egyptian fleet was a must.

After the Battle of Navarino, Egypt's navy was devastated, and the Austrian navy was able to cope with it at this time.

But if everything goes according to history, the Ottoman fleet would have defected to Egypt, and the Ottoman fleet at this time had more than 30 ships large and small, including the largest sail battleship of the era, the Mahmoudiya.

This is not something that the Austrian navy can deal with, and it is naturally lacking in strength without strength, and of course it is equally unrealistic to expect Austria to build a fleet capable of defeating the Ottoman navy in two or three years.

But there was hope for the creation of a mixed fleet capable of quickly defeating the Egyptian fleet and capable of delivering the Austrian Army to Egypt.

Of course, the dispatch of Austrian troops to settle the dispute was only the last resort, but Franz still hoped that Prince Metternich would achieve a diplomatic victory.

There was good news for the Austrian navy, that is, the third son of Archduke Karl, Archduke Friedrich, was going to join the navy.

The Grand Duke, who loved model ships, would carry out a complete overhaul of the Austrian Navy, and the Austrian Navy would usher in its first glory days.

Archduke Friedrich graduated from the military academy at the age of 13, spent another two years studying shipbuilding, joined the navy at the age of 16 and began to work on reforms.

However, such a genius would not have imagined that four years later he would have to face a game that would change the fate of the Austrian Empire, and his reforms would still be too conservative.

Egypt was not the only loser in the Turkish-Egyptian war, Austria exposed its diplomatic weakness and naval weakness.

In 1840, the Austrian Navy, in coordination with the British Royal Navy, blockaded Alexandria, bombarded Sidon and Beirut, and organized a landing at Acre, bloodbathing the Egyptian army.

It looks very glamorous and shows off the prestige of the country, but in the eyes of the old empire, the Austrian navy is like a clown, and the improvised marines are even more ridiculous.

As the saying goes, the layman looks at the liveliness, and the insiders look at the doorway.

The Austrian nobles saw the sheer size of the Austrian fleet, with volleys of artillery filling the air.

However, the British and French fleet commanders saw a group of miscellaneous fish who did not understand naval tactics, and the shipbuilding technology was even more clumsy and terrible, and there were no large ships capable of supporting sea battles.

The main artillery was actually an 8-pounder gun, which once made the British fleet commander think that the other side was a group of land forces.

In fact, most of the officers of the Austrian navy were temporarily drawn from the army, and the technicians were also recruited temporarily, and many of the sailors were recruited from the port bars.

Such a makeshift patchwork force can hardly be seen by a powerful country with a deep naval tradition, such as Britain.