Chapter 62: The Queen of Darkness
Vienna.
Soon after the Emperor's decree was issued, the ministers added the prohibition of drugs to the Austrian Imperial Code.
Because of the Hell Mapping incident, the ban on drugs has become the consensus of the entire upper class, and Prince Metternich and Count Korolav will never provide protection for the drug traffickers, they prefer to unite the upper echelons of Vienna.
With the endorsement of the emperor and the imperial legal code, the anti-drug people were fearless, and coupled with the appeal of the Habsburgs and the Church among the people, a vigorous anti-drug campaign began.
After a month of high-profile publicity by the government and the church, the decree was officially implemented.
But even so, there are still people who continue to sell and produce drugs with a fluke mentality.
Only this time they got not bitter persuasion, but the shackles and chains of the gendarmes.
One by one, the opium dimples were uprooted, and the opium dealers either paid hefty fines or were thrown into the mines for hard labor.
Austria's railways urgently need a lot of pig iron, and an important reason for the low production of pig iron in Austria is that no one wants to go to the mines.
Therefore, it is too wasteful to put him to death if he is caught. The Austrian Empire was on the rise, and labor was needed everywhere.
In this era, compared to going to the mine to dig coal, it is easier and more comfortable to go to the river to clean up the silt, or to beat the iron pile with a sledgehammer against the wind and sun.
Building a railway or cleaning up a river and killing dozens or hundreds of people can be regarded as a major accident, but if dozens of people do not die in a single month in the mine, the overseers feel unaccustomed.
In this era, no more than 10% of people are still alive after three consecutive years of mining.
The proposal to send drug dealers to the mine has been widely endorsed by the upper class, after all, it seems more humane.
It's just that those drug dealers are suffering, some people just think they have found a way to get a trick, and some people want to be a big drug lord like the Sassoon family.
It's just that before the dream of these people as a drug lord has been realized, they were first arrested into the gendarmerie, and then sent to the mine to serve their sentence under the verdict of the provisional court.
In fact, the success of the anti-narcotics operation in Vienna was naturally inseparable from the broad support of all classes, but objectively speaking, the drug traffickers in Vienna had not yet formed a scale and had not yet formed a complex network of interests.
The influence of the royal family and the Church on the common people was enormous, and the opium wine business also affected some of the local merchants in Vienna, the most affected of which was the winery.
Naturally, the merchants would not let go of this good opportunity to crowd out their opponents, so the drug dealers in Vienna died unjustly.
Solomon Rothschild cut off the drug dealers as soon as he saw that the opium business was over.
After all, the cost of selling opium is very low, and during this time, he not only recovered the cost of his investment a long time ago, but even made a small profit.
As for those drug dealers and opium wine lovers, what does it have to do with him?
It's just that Solomon Rothschild's operation can offend the gang forces in Vienna miserably.
There was even a drug trafficking gang called the Sweet Wine Gang that offered a reward of 20,000 florins for the assassination of Solomon Rothschild, but the leader of the Sweet Wine Gang was in turn rewarded by Solomon, and on the third day, he was killed in the streets.
Looking at it this way, some people say that the Rothschilds are the number one gangster in Europe, and this sentence is not groundless.
For Solomon, who was able to make so many ups and downs during the lockdown, Franz was really a little unaccustomed.
Franz had thought about attacking Solomon's Vienna business alliance before, but Talia was very bad at this kind of thing, she couldn't handle those big businessmen, and Franz was not Zhuge Liang, so it was impossible to solve everything by letter alone.
But now Franz has an extra helper by his side, and this Adjani is a veteran of the social scene.
Vienna, Franz study.
Talia confesses to her crimes and is very proud.
"You said it all?" Franz asked.
"Yes, she is your attendant, and I am also her subordinate." Talia replied.
"What's her reaction?" Franz asked.
"She said I was funny." Talia rolled her eyes.
β.β
Franz let out a sigh of relief, but fortunately the other party didn't believe it.
"How can you tell me all the details?"
"What if she knows? Are you going to sue your mother? Talia looked nonchalant.
"Yes"
"If Madame Sophie thinks that these things may be against you, the unlucky one must be the one who tells the secret. I really don't understand, what are you afraid of, are you afraid that your mother won't love you?
The last person in this palace who is likely to harm you is Madame Sophie. I always have a feeling that you didn't think that Mrs. Sophie was your mother, because you didn't raise you herself? β
Talia lay on Franz's desk, fiddling with the globe on the bookcase.
β.β Franz had to admit that the guy in front of him was right.
Franz should pay attention to the people of Empress Anna and Carl von Sluth, who are the only ones who do not want Franz to ascend to the throne, and most people in this country don't care if Franz is a natural saint or some kind of demon or something.
However, after Madame Sophie gave birth to three sons, Empress Anna should have despaired, even if Franz could not inherit the throne, it would not be her turn to interfere in Austrian politics.
One of the purposes of the Regency Council left by Franz II was to prevent Empress Anna from getting involved in politics.
Mrs. Sophie is actually with Franz, but Adjani's identity, Franz is not clear, so she simply doesn't pretend and asks Mrs. Sophie directly.
After all, after Adjani entered the palace, she was trained by Madame Sophie for three months before reporting to Franz, and Madame Sophie should know everything.
Madame Sophie's bedchamber.
Count HΓΌssel is talking to Madame Sophie about the future of the Bavarian Gang, who have just taken over the territory of the Sweet Wine Gang, but these people cannot live on protection money, they must go to work, otherwise these Bavarian immigrants will have no value at all.
The Bavarian Gang, originally a Bavarian mutual aid organization, was soon discovered by Mrs. Sophie, who was a former member of the Bavarian royal family and now the Grand Duchess of Austria, quickly mastered the organization.
Of course, the Bavarians would like to have a big man to support them, not to mention that this big man is from Bavaria like them.
Originally, Mrs. Sophie planned to use this organization as a black glove, to gather some information, and to do things that she would not be able to do in advance.
However, with the accession of Austria to the German Customs Union and the arrival of large numbers of Bavarians in Vienna, the number of people in this organization grew exponentially.
The Bavarian Gang has become the largest gang in Vienna, as the so-called forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and the Bavarian Gang has also changed from the original mutual aid organization to the current semi-military organization, and the amount of expenses has been somewhat unaffordable for Mrs. Sophie.
Gangs in this era just like to grab territory and collect protection money, and just now the Bavarian Gang annexed the leaderless Sweet Wine Gang, and Madame Sophie felt that if she didn't do something, she would soon become the queen of the underworld in Vienna.
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