The share price of the second phase of the Vienna-Neletania railway has risen almost fourfold. Such a huge basic market has risen so much in just two months, which can no longer be described by the word "horror".

You must know that Apple, the world's largest market capitalization in modern times, has a market value of about $2.1 trillion, and the U.S. fiscal revenue in the same period is about $4.89 trillion, which is less than half of the latter.

But by this time, the market value of the second phase alone had exceeded 1 billion florins, which was more than three times the revenue of the entire empire in 1841.

What's even more terrifying is that this crazy upward momentum is still not decreasing, but is getting faster and faster; According to the optimistic estimates of experts, its share price will break through the 100 florin mark in the near future.

To put it another way, it means that its market capitalization will break through the 5 billion florin mark.

You must know that at this time, the total gold and silver currency of the whole empire is only 500 million florins, and the financial nuclear bomb in front of you is rolling bigger and bigger like a snowball before a landslide.

The financiers who had promised Adjani had to admit that the stock had temporarily deviated from its true value, but they were still convinced that its return to its true value was an inevitable objective law, and it was only a matter of time.

Holding back the mentality of throwing these clichés into the Danube, she was still anxiously waiting for Franz's reply.

Yes, you read that right, Adjani's letters for help have been sent many times in a row, but apart from prayers, she can do little about the almost metaphysical sea communication of this era.

Even if two ships are moving in opposite directions, there is a high chance that they will miss each other.

Of course, at this time, the hot issue of overhyping and overheating of the stock price began to receive the attention of the Vienna side, because the so-called second phase of the Neletania railway project was nothing more than an empty shelf created by Franz and his men.

The only sections actually under construction are the planned major arterial lines and the Trieste-Zagreb-Belgrade line, a 550-kilometre railway that is expected to be completed within five years. Counting the railways that have already started construction, the total planned length is only 3,000 kilometers.

At this time, the massive amount of funds raised cannot be consumed at all, and can only be through the expansion of the production capacity of some industries, but the market has a limit after all.

Overcapacity, in turn, leads to a decline in product margins, and this option has to be abandoned. In the end, some route planning that had been abandoned had to be restarted.

Of course, if this momentum continues, it will soon exceed the total amount of funds required for the entire second phase of the project. But in the face of such a behemoth, no one dares to puncture this ball, and can only let it kidnap the country, so far Soros's plan has been completed by 25%.

Of course, just four or five times the profit is not enough to satisfy these greedy guys, and their desires are much more than that.

The southernmost point of the African continent, the Cape of Good Hope.

The Cape of Good Hope is located in the terrifying westerly wind belt, coupled with the "killing waves" and strange ocean currents, which combine all three dangers into one, and has achieved the most dangerous shipping route "Killing Cape" in the Age of Discovery.

Fortunately, it was the turn of spring and summer in May, and Franz and Friedrich would not have experienced the "boiling water" scene firsthand.

If it's the peak summer season, it's called a thrilling one.

Of course, Franz didn't like to look for "thrills", so after listening to the reports of the captain and other officers, he chose to pass the Cape of Good Hope at full speed in the safer season.

During his spare time in Bagamoyo, Franz established order in his newly acquired Tanzanian colony.

His methods opened Benny Erbyn's eyes and at the same time gave him a new appreciation for what he called "benevolence".

Eradicating evil and cutting the grass and roots, in the past, were just two abstract concepts in his mind. But in the past few days, too many dazzling things have happened, first of all, the two precocious nobles talked and laughed, and the once invincible Omani Navy was wiped out.

Later, at Franz's behest, several tribes who wanted to sit on the ground and raise prices were punished. The so-called wildfires are inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows, and that is only for the weeds.

If man turns to ashes, he will not be able to be reborn again, unless you see the return of dust to earth as the rebirth of life.

Naval warfare was fought by Friedrich, and land warfare was Albrecht's specialty, but neither of them was as good as Franz in terms of how to abuse vegetables and fight law and order warfare.

The method is very simple and intuitive, directly set fire to the grassland, deliberately leave an "escape route", and finally seal it.

Next, in order to truly cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, the land of those tribes was designated as a "rich" condition for rewarding their heads.

So even the clans closest to those tribes joined in this "hunting feast".

During the whole process, the Austrian army did not clash with the rebels head-on, so the direct casualties were almost zero, but the killing efficiency was surprisingly high.

A whole tribe of four thousand people was completely wiped out, and even the traces of their lives were artificially erased from this world.

Before Franz and his party set off, they successfully ambushed the Zavasan pirates, who were planning to take advantage of the fire. These pirates were defeated faster than the Omanis, because their job was to "thief", not "army", so the two armies naturally suffered more from each other.

Fortunately, there was no outpouring this time, otherwise it would have become the swan song of the Zavasan pirates.

Due to the huge generation gap between the weapons and equipment of the two sides, and the fact that they were ambushed when they thought they were sure of victory, those pirates chose to surrender at the first time with great understanding, and did not play the trick of deceitful surrender to take the opportunity to launch a war of jumping states.

(Jump state warfare, also known as broadside warfare, is a very bloody and brutal form of fighting.)

With the exception of a very small number of bandits who fought to the death and the unlucky ones who were shelled as soon as the battle began, most of them became prisoners.

Some of the pirate leaders had the wit to ask the two Austrian royals to surrender in order to fight their old enemies, the Omanis.

But Franz, who saw through his trick, did not intend to bite the lure, which was not sweet, but handed over all the captured pirates to Said at his disposal.

The mothers made the same offer to the sultan, saying that they could put aside their old animosities and fight the Austrians, but the latter did not accept the pirates' offer.

Because Said was afraid that this was a deliberate game set up by Franz to test him, and after learning the power of the opposing fleet, no one would be stupid enough to join forces with the Zavasan pirates to fight such a terrifying enemy.

Said had never been afraid of someone or a country in his life, but Majid told him that the enemy commander was a minor, and the commander was a child.

He really didn't know what a kid with so much power could do.

The pirates who thought they were invincible became witnesses to the brutality of the Omanis, and almost none of them left a single corpse.

Of course, the above sins are not remembered by the Austrians, but only by the Bagamoyo Declaration and the Treaty of Zanzibar, which is equal and reciprocal.

After these three wars, Tanzania has truly achieved the "great governance" of not leaving the road behind, not closing the door at night, and stopping the crying of children for a period of time.

However, these are not commendable for Franz, after all, he has multiple advantages such as equipment and intelligence, and if he can't completely defeat his opponent, it will only be his own incompetence.

After passing through the Cape of Good Hope without danger, the group arrived at Namibia, one of the final stops of the voyage, known as the "Gate of Hell".

It was one of the first colonies of the Empire, and the mining of gold and diamonds gave it a strong popularity.

The "Gold Rush" and the "Diamond Rush" led to the elevation of its status from a large trading post with only 200 people to a "model colony" in just a few years.

However, before he could get ashore, Franz received a letter from Adjani asking for help, and a huge financial catastrophe had just surfaced.

(End of chapter)