Franz makes a much better Pilsner beer than the historical Pilsner beer, both in terms of brewing process and shelf life.

Joseph Fgurol, a Bavarian brewer, was involved in almost the entire design of the Pilsner beer, but he didn't know why it had such a long shelf life.

This is a matter of course, as pasteurization was not proposed until 1862 by Louis Pasteur.

The principle is to use the characteristics of the bacteria themselves to reproduce, treat them with appropriate temperature and holding time, and kill them all, so as to achieve the purpose of extending the shelf life.

Franz respected Pasteur as a great biologist, so the secret about pasteurization was not hidden.

On the contrary, Franz sincerely invited him to study in Vienna, but Pasteur flatly refused.

"From what you have seen and heard in Vienna during this period, you should understand that the center of the scientific community in the future must be in Austria. And with my support, your future research path will be smooth. ”

Franz was not very good at dealing with scientists, because he always felt that the group of people were too divergent in their thinking, and they always thought of some messy things.

But generally speaking, this routine still works by laying out facts and reasoning.

"Thank you for your mistaken love, Grand Duke Franz. I did see a lot during my time in Vienna. In particular, the study of invisible creatures has benefited me a lot, but please allow me to decline your invitation. ”

Pasteur said it with certainty, and it seems unquestionable.

"Science knows no borders, Mr. Pasteur. The arrogant fools of Paris, who don't recognize your true talents. ”

In fact, at this time, Pasteur had just turned 20 years old, and after graduating from high school, he became a teaching assistant at the Busong Hill Middle School, which was extremely rare at that time.

However, his path to university did not go smoothly until August 1843, when at the age of 21, Pasteur was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he studied the pedagogy of chemistry and physics.

Franz's condition was that if Pasteur was willing to come to Austria, he could choose any university in the Austrian Empire and study whatever course he wanted.

The royal family would not only bear all of Pasteur's expenses, but would also be willing to give him an annuity of 5,000 florins a year.

At the same time, Pasteur will be invited by the Royal Society of Science in Vienna to become the youngest member of the organization since its founding.

"Science knows no borders, and scientists have their own homeland."

Franz's answer surprised Franz, after all, the latter had always thought that this sentence should be said by a Chinese person, but in fact, it was Louis Pasteur who first said it.

Austria and France have been feuding for a hundred years, and this contradiction has long been integrated into the blood of all strata of both sides.

As a nationalist, Pasteur could never have served his sworn enemy, the Austrian Empire, but Franz respected his choice and did not stand in the way.

In fact, it is very easy to make a person disappear in Vienna with Franz's energy, let alone a gringo.

Adjani walked in and said when she saw Franz looking stunned.

"Broken in love?"

This was very embarrassing for Franz, after all, the living conditions of scientists in this era were mostly poor, and he usually had to pay a very small price to persuade him to succeed.

"It seems that the contradiction between France and Austria is deeper than I imagined."

Franz didn't want to answer, and Adjani naturally couldn't continue to tease, so she followed Franz's words.

"The two families of Habsburg and Bourbon, from the earliest Blasphemous League, to the Thirty Years' Wars of Religion, the French Revolution. The contradictions between the two sides cannot be explained in one or two sentences. ”

That's right! If shameless enough, you can even see Catholic countries in the Protestant Union.

France is truly worthy of the name of the great filial son of Catholicism.

In fact, Pasteur's words just now made Franz fall into deep thought, and he began to doubt whether he was capable of turning the tide in this national era.

Maintaining the dignity of a universal empire seems so out of reach again.

Looking at Franz's thoughtful expression, Adjani felt that now was not a good time to talk about things.

In fact, the previous Mr. Pasteur was not a difficult figure in Adjani's eyes.

He looked at his appearance, magnified by Yu Yun, lowered his head and walked away, which was completely the performance of an innocent little boy, in other words, he was a chick.

Judging from Adjani's many years of experience, as long as he finds a veteran in the love field, let alone talk about the motherland, it is not a problem for him to kill his biological parents.

Of course, she wouldn't have done that without Franz's orders. Because Adjani could see that Franz respected her very much, and although her own method was feasible, it was too despicable and might cause Franz to be dissatisfied.

She had come to report to Franz on the sales and promotion of Pilsner, a cheap beer that was undoubtedly in good demand.

Franz set its price at 3 groschen, and that alone has choked the throat of traditional ale.

In fact, Adjani didn't understand why she didn't just push the price down to 2 groshen. In this way, the beer industry in Austria and Germany will be completely unified.

At this time, no country can compete with Austria in the beer industry, and even if some country steals this technology later, Austria can still make the other party pay a considerable royalty with its strong strength and influence.

Franz naturally had his own considerations, and if the price was pushed too low, the profit might be reduced. At the same time, after a large number of cheap liquor enters the market, it will inevitably cause the effect of bad money driving out good money.

Although the quality of Plzeň is consistent, Franz does not deny that there are some ales that are better than the former.

And Franz didn't want to offend all the beer merchants, after all, rabbits can bite when they are in a hurry, let alone a group of big living people.

As a traverser, Franz knows the truth that the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys.

So after the development of the Pilsner beer was completed, he handed over the promotion to Adjani.

In fact, Franz himself is a good billboard, but he and his friends are just a group of 12 or 3-year-old teenagers at this time.

It's not good if you drink in a group and cause something that is difficult to end.

At that time, beer had a reputation as liquid bread, but it was still a poor man's drink that could not be put on the table.

Adjani placed the beer in the royal family's department stores and shops near the train station, the former to raise the profile of the beer, which is usually not far off quality with royal endorsements.

The latter is to sell the liquor, because with the development of railways and industry, a large number of laborers will travel to all parts of the country by rail, and they are the main consumers of beer.

Of course, the army is also a good sign, and due to the long shelf life of Pilsner, it is very suitable for sea voyages.

So the Imperial Austrian Navy threw a lot of orders at the brewery, but the soldiers didn't really leave it at sea to drink, they drank the low-alcohol beer as water.

Friedrich was very fond of this low-alcohol wine, according to his own words.

"We finally don't have to sail the seas with a bunch of drunken drunkards."

But in reality, low-alcohol alcohol does not solve the problem of soldiers getting drunk, because they will drink more than before.

The army also praised Franz's development of Pilsner beer, knowing that wine and sugar were important guarantees of military morale during this period.

This so-called Pilsner beer is not only cheap, but also has a long shelf life. This was very useful to the generals of the War Department, and at the call of the Count of Latour, it became a must-have for army banquets.

In fact, the military is a relatively easy group to satisfy, after all, they can even enjoy that super unpleasant instant coffee, let alone this refreshing beer now.

Instant coffee at this time was far from having the taste of later generations, according to the description of the officers of the time.

"Those damn things are like a mixture of pebbles and sawdust, and the taste is bitter and astringent, and you can't help but be disgusted."

But in fact, in the Austrian Imperial Army at this time, ordinary soldiers were still very satisfied with instant coffee.

First of all, it has a refreshing effect, and secondly, this coffee is not a hassle, as long as there is hot water, it can be brewed.

Especially for the soldiers of the border army, this coffee is really a gift from God, and what they lack most when performing patrol tasks in the field is time.

Faced with a large number of orders from the army, Franz had to expand production capacity.

Soon Plzeň became one of Bohemia's pillar industries, and it also led to the development of a number of surrounding industries.

For example, in the glass manufacturing industry, Austria was the world's largest exporter of glass at this time. Pilsner is different from traditional ale in that it has a longer shelf life.

This means that it can be individually packaged, and Bohemia happens to be Austria's largest centre for glass manufacturing.

With the expansion of Austrian beer into the German Confederation, the German states, led by Prussia, began to oppose this beer, which violated the Beer Pure-Brewing Act.

Prussia, Bavaria and other countries felt that Austria's actions were contrary to the spirit of the German Customs Union, while Austria insisted that Bohemia was an integral part of Austria.

However, at the time of the Beer Brewing Act, it did not belong to Austria and should not be complied with.

In the face of the cries of the German states to kick Bohemia out of the German Customs Union, the local Germans, who had been bewitching the Czechs for independence, finally stopped.

The German aristocracy in Bohemia preached Czech nationalism all day long, only because it would bring them greater benefits to independence.

But if independence would bring Bohemia out of the German Customs Union, they would never do it, because the German Customs Union was too profitable.

Of course, not everyone could react, and some of the German aristocrats who had fooled themselves really felt that the Czechs should be independent.

Although they were also Czechs, the Czechs in Moravia expressed deep concern about secession from the Austrian Empire.

Although Moravia did not benefit as much from the German Customs Union as Bohemia, many of the local industries depended on the Austrian Empire as a platform.

If they leave the Empire, they may be nothing.

Franz's desire to dominate the beer industry was frustrated by the cost of transportation in this era, but henceforth all ships that sailed at sea carried Pilsner beer.

In fact, once people's living standards improve, the consumption of beer will surge. At this time, beer production was far from keeping up with the pace of development in Austria, and of course it was also a huge food consumption.

For this reason, Franz had to consider continuing to reform agriculture, and chemical fertilizers were the basis of modern agriculture. But ammonium sulphate was clearly too backward, and Liebig and his assistants worked out potash.

Historically, this potash fertilizer was not developed until 1850, but by this time Franz's intervention had brought it forward by eight years.

But Franz was still not satisfied, he had a golden plan in mind.

"Mr. Liebig, since you think nitrogen is so important for plant growth, why don't you just develop nitrogen fertilizer?"

Franz's words made him ponder, it is true that a direct use of nitrogen as fertilizer can definitely greatly increase the yield of crops.

Liebig was an undoubted genius of chemistry, and his ideas and discoveries were a perfect fit for Franz's plan.

He believed that plants needed inorganic substances such as carbonic acid, ammonia, magnesium oxide, phosphorus, nitric acid, and compounds of potassium, sodium, and iron.

Human and animal excreta can only be absorbed by plants if they are converted into carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitric acid. These ideas are the basis of modern agricultural chemistry.

He also believed that animal food required not only a certain quantity, but also a variety of different kinds, organic or inorganic, and a considerable proportion. The principle of fermentation is also proposed.

He was a strong advocate of using inorganic fertilizers to improve harvests, which was especially rare in this era.

South Africa, 1842.

The British Cape colony in South Africa annexed the new Boer Republic established by the Boers, of course, with the official explanation given to protect white South Africans from the poison of the two black states of Ndebel and Zulu, but in reality it was only to avoid getting involved in an unnecessary all-out war.

But in fact the Boers have long complained that the British did not take a hard line against the Xhosa on the eastern border of the Cape colony.

The Xhosa people are actually the natives of South Africa, and they are not strictly a people, but the British and Boers are the name given to all the black people who do not submit to the rule of the region.

In recent history, the Xhosa have waged a series of wars to protect their land and stop white invaders from plundering their homeland further.

These primitive tribes were so brave that they even captured a British warship, but these nomads living in the steppes had nothing to do with these giant beasts floating on the sea, and finally had to return in vain.

The Xhosa persisted in this weak but courageous resistance until the appearance of a liar wizard really broke their resistance.

The sorcerer, Moharrakza, spread false prophecies that the British would be defeated through sacrifice, which eventually led to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Xhosa people.

The devastated Xhosa could no longer pose any effective threat to the colonists, and eventually had to live on reservations established by the British, ending up on a par with the Indians of North America.

(End of chapter)