Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Adjani was reporting to Madame Sophie what Archduke Franz had done during the day.

Madame Sophie frowned when she heard this, this prestigious violet did not seem to be a big deal, even a child could not handle it, and it was in vain that she had spent so much time on training.

In fact, Adjani also felt very wronged, she thought she was very good at tracking and searching, but the little duke seemed to know that she was being followed, and actually called a horse.

No matter how good she was at tracking, she only had two legs, how could she keep up with the horses, so she had to give up.

In desperation, Adjani tries her luck in Franz's bedroom, where she manages to find three secret passages and a storage room that has been sealed for at least a few decades, but none of these are what Madame Sophie wants.

Madame Sophie only wanted to know what Franz had done lately, and if there was anything she felt was inappropriate, so that she could intervene in time, and she wanted to know where the money Ajani had said was.

If such a large sum of money is not kept well, sooner or later it will be remembered, and it is better to hand it over to her, the mother, for safekeeping, than to cheapen others.

Franz was actually interested in the beautiful lady-in-waiting, but he also knew that Madame Sophie had sent her to keep an eye on him, after all, it was hard to stop a mother's desire to control.

Historically, Mrs. Sophie has intervened in national politics several times because of her excessive desire for control.

Even after Franz ascended to the throne, he still influenced the political situation, and due to the limitation of political vision, the Austrian Empire made several wrong decisions.

As a result, Austria was isolated in the Austro-Prussian War, and her second son, Maximilian, died in Mexico, and she herself died in agony and self-blame.

In this life, Franz told a lot of bedtime stories for Mrs. Sophie, although it broadened her horizons, but the nature of the country is easy to change, and she still wants to hold Franz firmly in her hands.

Franz is not a real child, so how can he accept the control of others? At the same time, under strict control, Franz can do very little.

If Franz is really content to be a spectator of history, then he will sit back and wait for the Spring of Nations storm to come, but it would be too sorry for his identity as a time-traveler.

And who can guarantee that the rebels in this world will not storm the palace and exterminate the Habsburgs?

Franz often listened to Talia read the newspapers, most often about the assassination of big shots.

In the Austrian Empire, there were several very bad assassinations every month, some because of money, some because of hatred, some because of lovers, separatists, anarchists, and even some people who just wanted to prove that there was no one else in this world but himself.

There are even more celebrities who have been assassinated in this era, including but not limited to Lincoln, who has a big brain, Princess Sissi, who has an extra heart, Ritsu Okubo, whose head is used as a football, and Tsar Alexander II, the first roller coaster passenger in human history.

Franz didn't want to add his name to it, so he chose to be the master of fate rather than resign himself to fate.

Vienna, State Exchange Center.

Baron Brooke's high-profile appearance at the Vienna Exchange attracted the attention of many bankers and speculators.

After all, this is an investment adviser to the royal family, and his choice is most likely the choice of the royal family, and his operations in the two transactions of American land and Austrian railways are enough to make him famous in history.

Although it was Archduke Franz Karl who swept the goods that day, no intelligent person would believe that a fool could play the entire Austrian financial community in the palm of his hand.

As for the speculation of American land, it is naturally impossible to hide it, you must know that it has made fifty times more money in Chicago alone, although it has not been sold at the highest point, but it is also a miracle in the eyes of investors in the industry.

Baron Brooke was accompanied by a large number of well-known Viennese tycoons and elites, as well as bankers and prominent speculators.

Baron Brooke invited almost all the potential investors in Vienna, and he openly announced that he wanted to hoard grain, because neither the people nor the country could do without it, and the European continent could not have a good harvest every year, and now was a good time to buy it.

However, this idea is not new at all, and countless people have tried it before, and they have all lost their money and left the scene with hatred.

And due to the opening of the German Customs Union, Prussian grain actually entered Austria in reverse, and now there is so much grain on the Austrian market that it is impossible to buy it, and some grain-producing areas have begun to control prices and costs by reducing production.

The crowd of onlookers suddenly decreased by half. Most of the rest of the people were just giving Baron Brooke face, and their minds had already flown elsewhere.

Baron Brooke threw a million florins on the spot to buy wheat, a million florins was a lot, but in the whole market, there was no wave, except for a very small number of people, no one followed.

Every day after that, Baron Brooke would go to the trading center and throw out an order of one million florins, which was usually only enough for a big merchant to eat, so someone would be willing to offer Baron Brooke a discount.

This continued until the seventh day, when Baron Brooke had no money, but fortunately Madame Sophie entered in time.

In fact, Madame Sophie was very puzzled by such crazy actions, but his Franz never disappointed her, and she believed that Baron Brooke's professionalism would never be swayed by a child.

However, Madame Sophie and Archduke Franz Karl did not have much liquidity, and it took a patchwork to get a million florins.

On the eighth day, the Taffy family of Moravia entered, and as the great tyrants of Moravia, the Taffy family's financial resources should not be underestimated.

Thomas Taffe, Edward Taffe's father, had arrived in Vienna with three million, he had received the news a month earlier, and at first he was a little incredulous, but he decided to take a gamble.

At this time, the price of grain in Austria finally began to rise, because the spot was almost bought and the stock had fallen to a dangerous value.

The unusual fluctuation of food prices caught the attention of Solomon Rothschild, who felt that this was a good opportunity for revenge, because the grain collateral he had received over the years due to debt problems had piled up.

As long as he makes a move now, he can immediately suppress the price of food to the previous price, or even lower than before.

In this way, Solomon was able to resolve the backlog of inventory and return the funds, which was no reason for him to refuse, who had lost a lot of money in the railroad deal.

So Solomon Rothschild threw out the spot in his hand in two parts, and once again brought the price of grain in the Austrian Empire back to its original position.

Just as Solomon celebrates his successful revenge, a heavyweight of the royal family enters the scene, and as the richest nobleman in all of Austria, Archduke Karl's every move receives extra attention.

In the end, the huge order of 15 million florins thrown by the Grand Duke Karl directly ignited the grain trading market, and for a time a large number of speculators poured in, almost sweeping away the grain spot in Austria.

The Austrian grain trade was hot, and the Prussians, as good neighbors of Austria, could not let go of this good opportunity to pour cold water?

(End of chapter)