A man named Furuyama Kase wrote an anonymous letter reporting the misdeeds of Archduke Franz.

She was a little shocked that the letter had actually reached Madame Sophie, and she was shocked that there were such stupid people under her command.

"Who brought this letter?"

A maid she had brought with her from Bavaria stepped forward.

"Grand Duke, this letter is entrusted to me by my uncle"

"You can go back to Bavaria." Mrs. Sophie turned to Count Hüssel and said, "Find the man who wrote the letter and break his leg." ”

Furuyama Casse was the former negligent cellar steward, and after being fired by Franz, he held a grudge and wanted to teach Franz a lesson and take his place.

Madame Sophie gave him a severe punishment, but the Furuyama Casse did not back down. Instead, he later became a liberal fighter and even became friends with Alexander Bach.

Notes: Alexander Bach, a well-known Austrian liberal fighter, resolutely opposed all the policies of Prince Metternich and advocated a constitutional monarchy.

Franz watched Széchenyi leave in front of the window, and did not come into contact with the pioneer who had campaigned for the rise of the Hungarian nation, because it was he who opened Pandora's box and led Hungary into the abyss of civil war.

The problems of agriculture in Hungary were more complex than Széchenyi thought, and with the increasing specialization and commercialization of agriculture in modern times, the dependence on capital became stronger.

The big aristocrats and big landowners established agricultural associations, but they kept the peasants out because they didn't want the poor to master these skills, which should be regarded as an early technical barrier.

However, the land of ordinary farmers is too small and scattered, and they do not have time to improve their seeds, let alone buy new technology and agricultural machinery, and they do not even have the means to buy fertilizers, and they only earn enough money to make ends meet.

As for borrowing money, at this time there were no specialized bank loans, only usury by Jews.

Everyone must understand what usury is, and everyone knows the risks, and farmers are precisely the most risk-averse people in the world.

If it was just a matter of money, wouldn't it be nice for Franz to gather a group of wealthy people to set up a special agricultural bank?

However, relying on capital alone could not solve Hungary's problems, because the big nobles and large landowners not only controlled capital, but also held huge rights and social resources, and even influenced laws and taxes, and in some regions the nobility had territorial jurisdiction.

A century-old poison cannot be eliminated overnight.

As for Kossuth, he was just a clown born out of time, and he could neither solve the Hungarian land problem nor unite the minorities in Hungary.

There was no point in assassinating him, he himself was raised by a large aristocratic landowner, so naturally he would not attack the Hungarian land issue, and the ultra-nationalism for which he became famous made it impossible for him to treat the ethnic minorities in his territory equally.

It is much better to keep the "greatest" Hungarian than to kill him and usher in an uncertain future.

Royal Women's College of Vienna.

Doppler and a group of physicists are debugging air conditioners with better performance, which is certainly not Franz's intention to sell air conditioners for a living from now on, after all, this kind of extreme weather does not happen every year, and Franz values the important role of air conditioners in industry in the future.

These include the production of explosives and industrial printing to ensure the normal operation of precision instruments. Of course, at the moment, the main role is just to make yourself comfortable.

The good news was that the experiment with high-yielding wheat hybridization had finally been successful, and what made Franz even more excited was that the man who had successfully bred hybrid wheat was called Mendel.

Mendel's name Franz had heard of it, and although his theories were somewhat ahead of his time, Franz never felt that these advanced theories were useless, at least laying the theoretical foundation for the progress of agriculture and medicine.

To Franz's great disappointment, he saw not a fat priest, but a standard Austrian farmer, thin, somewhat hunchbacked, and always with a flattering smile.

"You're Father Mendel?"

"No, Grand Duke. As you can see, I am a gardener, Mendel of Heinzerdauff. The farmer smiled innocently.

"Mr. Mendel, would you consider staying and being the gardener of my estate? You should have already received the prize of 20,000 florins, and I believe you should know that I am not a stingy person. ”

After Franz's words, old Mendel was stunned, what he got was obviously 4,000 florins, and the deacon obviously said that the Grand Duke had cut the amount of the bonus, but 4,000 florins was still a huge amount of money for old Mendel, a gardener, and he didn't pay too much attention to it.

Now why does the Grand Guild say that it is twenty thousand florins? Old Mendel was not a fool, and he quickly understood the trick.

Franz also knows how bad the officials, housekeepers and the like are in this era, but many times they have to rely on these people, which is very disgusting.

Now that Franz has figured out the details of this manor, and the person to replace him has also been found, it is now necessary to see if he needs to give the former deacon a decent look.

"Archduke Franz, your generosity is astonishing, but your deacon is not generous, I only got 4000 florins, which was originally agreed to be 5000 florins, but before the bonus was handed out, your deacon said that you cut the budget, and there is only so much."

Old Mendel was blunt, but the bonus of 20,000 florins was actually greedy for 16,000 florins, and this deacon was really a hopeless scumbag.

"Do you have any evidence, Mr. Mendel?" Franz asked casually.

"Grand Duke Franz, here, there is a receipt of the bonus, please take a look." Old Mendel said.

People are stolen and seized, this scumbag is still so careless, I really don't know how he survived after so many years.

Franz turned to look at the deacon.

"Is there anything else you have to say?"

".No"

"Give him back Mr. Mendel's money and leave yourself. Or I will ask Mr. Parrish to send you to the gendarmerie and have a good inventory of your property. ”

The deacon was still not convinced that he had been caught for his stolen goods, but he was not as persistent as Gushan Casse, because Franz's punishment for him was already very light, so he happily returned the 16,000 florin to Mendel, and then quietly left.

In fact, Franz didn't want to punish him so lightly, but anyone who had something to do with the royal family, and the interests were so complicated that Franz was disgusting to look at, for example, the deacon's uncle was Prime Minister Metternich's butler, and his grandfather used to be the head of the royal family

"Mr. Mendel, won't you consider my proposal?"

"Archduke Franz, I thank you very much for your generosity, but I owe a lot of money for my wife's illness before, and now I want to go and pay back the money to those well-wishers."

"And what about after that?"

"I wanted to build a house, buy some land, hire two more servants, and give my wife a good day, and she bore me five children, but not a good day. After that, I sent my younger sons to school, and the eldest son learned the trade from me, so that he could inherit the family business and prepare a good dowry for his daughter."

This is the dream of a simple peasant, Franz is unwilling to break his peaceful life, and he is not the Mendel he is looking for, so simply bless him.

(End of chapter)