Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Franz was engrossed in reading several letters from California.

It reads: "After much difficulty, Baron Bruno has finally found several huge gold veins. According to conservative estimates, its total is more than 1 million ounces, which is equivalent to 38,834,500 florins. “

Putting down the letter in his hand, Franz leaned back in his chair and sighed.

"It seems that the geology of this era is unreliable, even the most conservative estimates of later generations are that the total amount of gold in California is more than 12 million ounces, and most of the experts' estimates are between 20 million ounces and 30 million ounces."

In fact, this kind of open-pit gold mine is very easy to find, as for whether it is good or not, Franz does not know. However, in this era of scarcity of precious metals, it is human nature to have insufficient control, of course, that is just his most malicious speculation.

If the gold mines were hollowed out, they would be just enough to pay off the debts of the Austrian Empire. It's just that Franz didn't really want to do this, after all, why should he pay the debt he owes based on his ability.

Of course, the main reason is that there are a large number of usury in these debts, and the sum of principal and interest has even increased dozens or even hundreds of times.

Over the years, after Baron Bruno's unremitting efforts, an agreement has been reached with the creditors, otherwise Franz intends to directly kill all those who have eaten too much.

It so happened that in the previous Hungarian infighting, the empire had another group of creditor corpses, so its overall debt fell directly to more than 200 million florins.

Franz had previously asked someone to do a rough calculation, and found that as long as the creditors with serious anti-Austrian tendencies disappeared from the world, the debt level of the empire would be reduced by 60%.

While it would be cool to do so, what it did was just repeating the same choices made by countless predecessors in parallel worlds.

In order to truly break the cycle of reincarnation, Franz must take a path that no one has gone before. Of course, the road will be difficult, perhaps more difficult than fulfilling the ambitions of the Habsburg royal family, but he has no intention of backing down.

On the other hand, Baron Bruno also brought the bad news that the Mexicans did not keep their promises. With them turning a blind eye, a large number of American pioneers poured into California.

Although it has not yet formed a scale, it will definitely become a big problem here in the long run. In the ensuing picture, it is not difficult to imagine that they will compete with local Austrian immigrants for land and resources.

Once they discover the secret of discovering the gold mine, the consequences are unimaginable. This land will definitely become the object of fierce competition by major powers such as Britain and France.

By that time, not only would it not be possible to fulfill its promises to Mexico, but it would not even be able to recover the costs that the empire had invested for many years.

And the New Mexico Line, built under the auspices of Tasan Anna, was like a colander. The two northern neighbors have always been able to move in and out easily, allowing them to get a clear picture of the true strength of their southern neighbors.

It's just that France and the United States, because of each other's strength, do not dare to invade Mexico easily, unless God and his old man tell them the important information that there are gold mines in California tomorrow.

In this regard, Franz could only sigh with emotion, "It's really mud that can't support the wall".

Also moving to California were Spanish laborers, most of whom were refugees who had crossed the ocean during the Civil War.

These newcomers, unfamiliar with their identity, not only looked down on the local Mexicans and natives, but even plotted riots in some settlements to overthrow the rule of the Austro-Mexican United Company.

However, it was quickly suppressed by the Austrian soldiers, organized in time by Archduke Carl Ferdinand.

In addition to the 500 retired soldiers recruited by Franz in various places, there were also 200 elite guards of Archduke Karl, and it was precisely because of the presence of these people that the laborers who participated in the rebellion paid a heavy price.

Those who had come to California to escape the war to start a new job did not know gratitude, but instead thought they should be the rightful owners of the former Spanish colony. Deliberately instigated by local Hispanics, they either fled or joined the rebellion.

In one of the largest riots, 3,700 people were killed, and the Austrian soldiers showed no mercy due to language barriers and the depths of the wilderness.

Archduke Carl Ferdinand, unlike his proud brother and his martial brother, wanted nothing more than his mission, a truly ruthless killing machine.

Participants and facilitators, men and women, young and old, all those who participated in the rebellion would die. Even the instigators who hid in the village, believing that everything was all right, were not immune.

Although this practice is cruel, it is effective in the western region, where "natural selection is based on natural selection and survival of the fittest."

Moreover, the Austrians are at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and if they sit idly by and watch the opposing forces twist into a rope, then they will be treated cruelly.

After reducing the local population from 4,000 households to 1,000, the situation gradually stabilized. However, after nearly two years of development, the local Mexican population has not increased, but has declined a lot.

Austria's population has risen from 700 to 4,000. The number of indigenous people dropped from 20,000 to 8,000, and of the 20,000 Spanish laborers brought in, only 3,000 remained.

At this time, there were only about 15,000 white settlers in the entire 563,970 square kilometers of California, or an average of 39.59 square kilometers, to meet a single person.

This gave great opportunities to the pioneers from the United States and France, because of the limited number of Austrian immigrants and the need to train and draw enough militia to guard their homes, the available manpower was really stretched.

At the same time, finding and identifying invaders in the vast plains is not something that can be done overnight.

Even more fatal is Mexico's unreliable partner, which has no intention of contributing, and relying only on outnumbered Austrian immigrants will not solve the difficulties they face.

So Baron Bruno wrote several letters to Archduke Franz Carr, hoping that he could find a way to help them out of their predicament.

To be honest, it was quite tricky to deal with this matter, Franz had hoped that the Mexicans could be the black gloves, but what he didn't expect was that Austria actually carried the pot.

But this is also a helpless thing, there are laws of barbarism, and if you want to forcibly violate it, you will inevitably be counterattacked. The original 700 Austrians would have been a pile of bones if they had not risen up to resist.

In fact, it is not difficult to find a few hundred people who can speak Spanish from within the empire, but if the number is expanded to tens of thousands, even Austria, a linguistic power, will not be able to do so.

The reason why the Spanish workers rebelled so fiercely had a lot to do with the long-established national identity and preconceived notions, as well as the prejudices.

During this period, Europeans looked down on the Americans, and Mexico was once a Spanish colony, so these Hispanic immigrants still considered themselves superior people from their overlords.

Another point is the national identity, after all, the empires that tried to conquer Spain have all declined without exception. Neither the Berbers nor the invincible Napoleonic Empire could conquer the Spaniards.

And with the end of the Carlos War, there will only be fewer and fewer people willing to come to the New World, so Franz's Plan A should have failed.

Fortunately, he is not a person who likes stud, and it is always right to have a few more backup plans.

At this time, Franz set his sights on another place on the map, the Central American Federation.

The civil war in Central America escalated significantly as the French became more involved, and the same Spanish-speaking people lived in the land.

And most of them were of mixed race, and these people did not have the same self-esteem as the Spaniards, and were more able to endure hardships and stand hard work, and at the same time were relatively easy to rule with fewer people.

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