Chapter 40: Daily Life (1)
Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.
Talia was doing a squat in the corner of the wall alone, while Franz was lying on Adjani's lap to supervise her.
Franz likes to rub Adjani's thighs, and the latter likes to rub the former, and the two can be regarded as taking what they need.
Since Adjani arrived, Talia's size has rapidly developed in the direction of Aunt Deutschland.
On the one hand, it's because Franz is given more and more tasks, and these two guys eat sweets like crazy when they get together.
Adjani's fat went where it needed to go, and Talia's fat was as free as herself, and Franz decided to exercise them for the sake of his eyes.
Fifty push-ups, fifty sit-ups, fifty squats a day, following Franz around the Royal Gardens is a must, and then randomly punished for every mistake.
In two years, their figures have improved a lot, and the vest line, peach buttocks, and beauty nests are all there.
Franz's training was quite easy for Adjani, after all, she had dancing skills and had practiced assassination.
It was a very painful process for Talia, who looked tall and tall, but her physical strength was so poor that she had to sit down and rest once she ran a few hundred meters.
After a long period of training, something magical happened, and Talia completely smoothed out her already meatless breasts. But she didn't care, and Franz couldn't ask for anything.
Adjani also said goodbye to her corset completely, and Franz originally planned to give Adjani the new underwear as a reward, but Mrs. Sophie took the lead.
Adjani herself loved this kind of underwear, and she was the first to set out to improve it, after dozens of modifications and Franz's mention.
This new style of underwear is getting closer and closer to modern underwear, but the style is still 19th century.
Later, Franz took Adjani to exchange experiences with Mrs. Sophie again and again, and with Franz's unremitting efforts, he finally attracted Mrs. Sophie's interest to clothing design and modeling.
Mrs. Sophie has poor business acumen and political vision, and instead of letting her mess with herself, she should be asked to do something she already enjoys.
She could use her connections to sell new underwear between the nobility and the royal family, after all, the cost of new underwear at this time was relatively high, and the aristocracy was more receptive to new designs than the poor, and the most important thing was that it could be sold as a luxury product.
In the same way, the rubies, sapphires, pearls, ivory and other luxury goods that the Austrian Church had collected from real wax were also handed over to Mrs. Sophie.
Luxury is a matter of patience and vision, as well as brands, which Mrs. Sophie has all these things, and Franz could not find a better brand than the Habsburg family.
Madame Sophie was born into the Wittelsbach family, which was rich in beauties and faint kings, and four of her five sisters became a queen.
Only the youngest sister, Maria Ludovica Williammine, was married to a duke of the royal family, who would later be the mother of Princess Sissi.
So Madame Sophie was very well connected in the European royal family, and she herself was willing to take these jewels and designs with her and show them off everywhere, just as she often showed off her children.
At this time, Mrs. Sophie had three sons and a daughter, and parents always unconsciously favored the eldest son and the youngest daughter, and Franz seemed a little weird, so the well-behaved and sensible Maria became her favorite "toy" to show off.
Maria Anna is Franz's youngest sister, and she is very cute and chubby, but because she is too arrogant, she often eats indiscriminately, so she often has diarrhea.
Franz specially prepared a box of allicin capsules for her to carry with Mrs. Sophie.
In 1730, pharmacists in Vienna began to make capsules from starch, but there were some differences between capsules and modern capsules, but soon, in 1846, the familiar two-section capsule was introduced.
Allicin has a wide range of effects, and there are few adverse reactions like penicillin, which is definitely a miracle drug in this era of lack of medical treatment.
But Franz didn't produce it on a large scale, didn't patent it, and no one except a few people even knew what it was.
Because at this time, the biggest benefits were Britain, France, and the United States, and if Franz really promoted this kind of thing, he did not know how much patent fees he could recover, but the world would be divided up in less than 20 years, and there was no need to wait until the end of the nineteenth century.
At that time, Austria will only be able to drool over the meat in other people's bowls, or forcibly colonize the Balkans, and finally disappear into the smoke and flames of civil war.
Now that most of Chenla's territory has fallen into the hands of the Austrian Church, Chenla's economic situation has improved much since the recapture of the northern silver mines occupied by the Siamese.
Precious stones and copper, although valuable, are commodities after all, and they are only valuable when they are sold, and silver can be minted directly into currency after being brought back to Austria.
In fact, there are gold deposits in the northern region of Chenla, but they have not yet been discovered, and Franz has hired a group of geologists to find gold.
Of course, let geologists go, and the most important thing is to carefully explore resources, after all, the technology in the Zhenla region is very primitive, and their understanding of resources is very backward.
In addition, copper was indeed very valuable in Europe at that time, because Europe was the most scarce region of copper resources except for Antarctica, and the role of copper in the future will be huge, and the consumption is astronomical.
In Chenla, the people mainly used wood and stone tools, their copper smelting skills were poor, and iron resources were very scarce, so there was never a real power in the region.
What Archbishop Rauscher feared, did not happen. The King of Siam was not annoyed by the robbery of the silver mines, and raised an army to attack him, or joined forces with the Vietnamese to flank the cathars.
Instead, he wrote a letter admitting his mistake to the church, and at the same time sent a large amount of treasure and slaves. He also expressed his willingness to carry out trade exchanges with the Austrian Empire, and was willing to sign treaties to establish long-term political and economic relations.
When Franz saw all this, he couldn't help but sigh, "Rama III is really the first emperor of Thailand." "As the saying goes, if you don't hit a smiling person, people have handed you all the unequal treaties, and there is no reason to continue to beat people.
Historically, it was by virtue of this almost shameless traitorous act that King Rama III retained Thailand's independent status, and later even became the only country in Southeast Asia that had not been colonized.
Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands, and Portugal all thought about Thailand, but whenever a country wanted to dominate the country, a group of foreign powers would always jump out to oppose it, and in the end it had to be stopped.
Siam's geographical location is very important and rich in resources, but it is too far for the Austrian Empire, but it can be used to build primary industry in Chenla with the help of its rich coal and iron resources.
(End of chapter)