July 20, 1842.

Vienna, Royal Women's College.

Today, the academy was extremely noisy, but no one stopped it.

Because today is the day of graduation of the first graduating class of the Royal Women's Academy in Vienna, no one wants to do anything to spoil the atmosphere on this memorable day.

The school cafeteria was full of the work of the graduates, who wanted to make more food to feed the "poor professors" because they were leaving the school.

For those girls, the weekly cooking class is an opportunity to feed their "pets".

It's just that the quality of these students' works varies greatly, and Franz will not let those valuable talents risk their lives casually, even if they have diarrhea.

The school staff will taste the food first, and the professors will eat it if there is no problem with the taste and toxicity identification, and a large number of inferior and undesirable food will be sent to the nearby garrison camp, and the last leftovers will be used to feed the poor.

The food, which was rated inferior in school, became a delicacy for the soldiers when it arrived in the army, after all, in this era, cooks were divided into ordinary cooks and army men, ordinary cooks were for cooking, and army men just wanted to cook things.

At that time, there was a popular food in the Austrian Imperial Army called vegetable broth, which was simply made by boiling vegetables, beans, meat, and spices in a large pot.

Don't be surprised if you find hairy pigskins, unwashed leaves, muddy peas, unidentified meat, and strange bugs inside, because the soldiers around you are used to it.

Of course, the food left over from the army at the end not only looks hard to swallow, but also tastes horrible, too spicy, too bitter, too sour, too salty, too cold, too hard. There can always be one or several things.

If you don't really can't live, or if you're hungry, you won't eat it.

Normally, the recipient will not be allowed to take the food with him, because it is easy to create a chain of benefits. In that case, the relief itself becomes an evil deed, and Franz is not a virgin, but he also does not want to be a hypocrite, and since he has done it, he must do it well.

However, at this time, the Austrian Empire was thriving, especially in the imperial capital of Vienna, and it was almost impossible to survive, so leftover food was often brought back to feed pigs and used as fertilizer.

Of course, this is exactly what Franz wants to see, and he wishes that those scraps would never be cared for, and that is the best proof of the strength of an empire.

When it comes to graduation, it is natural to take a group photo.

Cameras were still a novelty at this time, so when I heard that the school would give all graduates free photo shoots, even those who were on their toes all day long couldn't help but be impressed.

In 1839, Daguerre successfully prototyped a daguerreotype camera, and the world's first camera was born.

The camera was bulky and fragile, so it took two professionals to move it.

At the same time, due to the large brightness and long sensitivity time required for the daguerreotype, taking pictures has become a very painful experience, and people have to persist in the scorching sun on sunny days for more than ten minutes, or even dozens of minutes, to get a photo in order to record the beautiful moment.

But fortunately, the Austrian Empire was the first country in the world to develop a concentrating lens, and in 1841, a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna designed the famous "Pittsval lens" because he was unable to bear the hardship.

However, Pittsva joined the Royal Society of Science in Vienna and completed the design in 1840 with the help of other experts.

And not long ago, they completed a study that almost shocked Franz's jaw, and that was silver halide technology. You must know that silver halide emulsion plus gelatin substrate is the starting thing of Kodak.

In addition, techniques such as wet Colo tincture baseplate and wet negative sulfonated silver photographic paper photography have also sprung up. Sure enough, eating, drinking, and having fun is the fundamental driving force of human beings.

Soon they came up with a camera that was unique in the world, weighing about one-tenth of an ordinary camera, but transmitting dozens of times more light than other cameras, which took more than ten minutes to take a photo, while this camera only took a few seconds.

Several professional photographers didn't know what to say in the face of the girl who had been ready to hold the same pose for more than ten minutes.

When the girls found that taking pictures was so easy, they couldn't help but have fun and choose scenes everywhere to commemorate the occasion. Photographers in this era are "big names" in the true sense of the word, they not only have professional skills, but also need a certain amount of capital to afford cameras and negatives.

Naturally, they would not normally agree to such an impudent request, but the order was given by the Grand Duke Franz, and they did not dare to slack off.

And this new camera is so amazing that they want to buy one because they want to break the bank.

But in fact, this new camera uses so much advanced technology that if you do buy one, you will definitely go bankrupt.

Franz also promised the photographers that he would give each of them one in a few years.

At this time, the price of the camera was too high, not because of the cost of materials, but because of the cost of labor and technology, which made the price ridiculously high.

Once industrial production is introduced, costs will fall sharply, but of course prices cannot be set too low in order to maintain scarcity and sufficient profits.

Graduation season is also a time of breakup and confession, but some situations are not quite what Franz thought. There is almost no teacher-student love, but a group of girls crying and laughing endlessly.

Franz looked at the headmaster, Talia, on the side.

"Don't look at me! It's not like I made them look like that, don't you always say that they have been in love for a long time, it's normal for them to have some feelings when they've been together for a few years. ”

Of course, Talia knew what Franz was going to say, and she wouldn't carry the blame, but in the few years she was the principal, she still understood some human feelings, and she didn't directly put all the blame on Franz as in the past, or directly say what Franz had to say.

In fact, Franz is still a little skeptical, after all, there is a lace-edged principal, and if you don't do it, you will bring a group of students.

"Well, hopefully this school won't be a club or anything like that."

"How dare you say it! If I hadn't stopped me, the music in the city would have turned this place into their playground. ”

Talia, the principal, usually deals with the harassment of nobles and rich sons the most, but fortunately she has the backing of the royal family, and she herself is also spicy enough, so that those noble sons are jealous.

This kind of thing can only be handed over to Talia to do, Adjani does this kind of thing completely depends on the mood, if you are in a good mood, you will be able to survive and not die, and if you are in a bad mood, you may be directly physically erased.

Of course, there is a certain chance that she will be in the same league as others.

Franz suddenly felt that there didn't seem to be many people around him who could be used, and the Zhu Qiongying he met in Nanyang before was firm enough, but unfortunately she couldn't speak German, and Nanyang couldn't do without people, so she could only give up.

By this time, she had completed high school and graduated with the highest grades in the school, and the teachers at the school spoke very highly of her as the smartest "inferior person", but it was not enough for Franz.

(End of chapter)