Austria suffered heavy losses from this sudden rainstorm, but Prussia did not take advantage of it, the Elbe overflowed, flooding several towns, and this year Prussian agriculture is likely to suffer heavy losses, and the drought and current floods may even fail in some areas.

The Hungarians suffered as soon as the Hungarians opened the sluices, but the flood broke the embankments on both sides of the river and redirected the Hungarian plain.

Serbia in the lower reaches of Hungary also suffered heavy losses, and the Danube valley was in mourning.

The worst in Eastern Europe was Poland, where many cities were washed away by floods, as many of them were built along rivers.

The Russians, on the other hand, had a non-caring attitude and were even ready to raise taxes to completely wipe out the Polish aristocracy.

This natural disaster did the Russians a great favor, not only to weaken the power of the Polish nobility, but also to make a lot of money, and the Poles, French, and Prussians were waiting for Russian food.

The drought of 1838, whether it was a flood or a flood, had little impact on Russia, and the only thing the Tsar was now troubled by was his eldest son, Alexander.

Alexander was fond of messing around, and his reputation for the morning had already spread in Europe, and Nicholas I was powerless about it.

Alexander had recently arrived in England, and as soon as he arrived in England, he saw a crowd of celebratory people on the docks.

At first, Alexander thought it was a welcoming ceremony held by the British, but in fact the dock workers were celebrating, and the queen had promised the people that they would limit the number of hours they would work and that they would be paid double wages for any form of overtime.

Alexander immediately said that if he waited for him to ascend the throne, he would also have to implement a twelve-hour workday.

Alexander expressed his affection for Victoria at first sight, but in fact the two were about the same age, he was only a year older than Victoria.

Alexander's absurd behavior did not arouse Victoria's displeasure, and the queen praised him for his humor.

The British officials were very frightened, and they must not let these two messy guys be together, otherwise Britain will be finished.

Alexander's madness soon reached St. Petersburg, where Tsar Nicholas I demanded that Alexander be brought back to Russia so that he would not be embarrassed further.

When the St. Petersburg envoy arrived in London, Alexander tied up the Tsar's envoy and his attendants and threw them into the Thames, causing the latter to leave in anger.

However, Alexander's absurd journey was not over, and when he met Queen Victoria again, Alexander folded a red rose directly in the queen's garden and used it to propose to the queen.

A handsome and aggressive prince is always easy to capture the hearts of young girls, even for the Queen of England, who has just turned nineteen.

When the two were about to spark, British officials and Alexander's entourage stopped it.

In fact, some British officials were quite supportive of the union of the queen and Alexander, so that it would be possible to unite the two most powerful countries in the world and thus avoid war.

If Britain, with the world's strongest fleet, and Russia, with the world's strongest army, were united, they would be invincible.

However, most officials were worried that the Tsar would kill people indiscriminately, and that the Tsar liked to eat brains, especially Jews, British officials with Jewish ancestry expressed unease, and the Tsar's power was too great, would the British constitution be ruined at that time?

Although the British officials did not know whether the Tsar liked to eat people, they knew very well that the Tsar would kill people.

In fact, the contradictions between the two world hegemons cannot be resolved by marriage, only one side defeats the other, or divides spheres of influence to implement a short-term peace.

Victoria rejected Alexander, but Alexander was not discouraged, and he went to accompany the queen every day on horseback riding, hunting, and dancing.

Victoria also enjoys this feeling of being pursued, which is at least happier than she is pursuing others.

The two often soak on the dance floor and also participate in parades together.

One day at the Queen's estate, when the stubborn Queen refused to offer her stirrups from her servants, she found herself unable to climb the tall white steed.

At this time, Alexander did not say a word, picked up Queen Victoria, and put her on horseback.

Alexander's behavior made the British officials present eager to drive this guy out of Britain immediately.

However, the queen extended an invitation to Alexander to stay in the queen's castle.

Alexander even publicly announced that he would renounce his position as crown prince of Russia, leaving British officials at the mercy of their enemies.

The servants and maids of Windsor Castle were told that they must keep an eye on the movements of Alexander and Queen Victoria, and that all secret passages in the castle must be blocked to prevent them from doing anything.

Eventually, the Russian envoys entered Windsor Castle with the Queen's consent, and they tied Alexander, who was still asleep, into rice dumplings to take back to Russia.

The queen watched the slowly departing carriage from the window, and a tear welled up in the corner of her eye.

Maybe she was thinking how good it would be if she wasn't the queen, maybe she would be able to be with the person she loved, but the Queen of England has no choice, she must be a cold political animal.

The contradictions between Britain and Russia in their struggle for world hegemony cannot be reconciled, and there will inevitably be a war between the two countries. Even if Alexander abdicated the Russian throne, he, as a member of the Romanov family, would not like the enemies of a family, right?

Alexander finally returned to Russia, he hated the Russian court, but there was no way, it was his home, he hated the autocratic tsar, but there was no way, it was his father.

Fate seemed to ask him to accept it all, but Alexander did not want to give in, and his relationship with Queen Victoria was just a small episode in his life, and he soon fell in love with someone else.

Zhenla, Kampong Sun.

In the battle at the beginning of 1837, 1,300 of the Zhenla puppet soldiers were captured, the able-bodied ones were left to work as coolies, and the others were sent to the mines to dig.

In fact, Kampong Xun is adjacent to the Xiangshan Mountain Range, and there are really a lot of mineral deposits, such as copper, iron, manganese, zinc, lead, phosphoric acid, lime, and even red and sapphire mines, but there is only a lack of coal, so it is almost impossible to develop large-scale industry here.

But small factories could still be built, and the Austrians built a small arsenal, a smelter, and a steel mill here just to keep Kampong Son running and reduce costs.

At this time, the only goods that Zhenla could supply Austria were copper, rubies, sapphires, and high-quality wood, and the rubber trees that were planted would have to be tapped.

For this reason, the Austrian Imperial Government was not at all interested in this place, and only the Church spared no effort to develop it.

Even for the church, Franz still paints a big pie for them every day, saying that the future of this place is great because it is bordered by Siam to the west and Vietnam to the east, and they are filling the gap of Catholicism in Southeast Asia.

(End of chapter)