The Battle of Fort Paradise started too abruptly, and ended even more abruptly (I don't know how to describe it here).

The army of the Kingdom of Vegin collapsed almost the moment the Austrians appeared, and the death of the commander restored the army to its original state - a tribal army.

The corpses of black soldiers were littered inside and outside Fort Paradise, and the tribal wizard was blown into a mud by a direct hit by a siege rocket.

Without a spiritual leader, the soldiers, who thought bullets were magic, immediately scattered and fled. Before Friedrich could bring a lot of new equipment to use, the battle was over, which made him feel unsatisfied.

And Princess Sinnerka, who pretended to be calm on the surface, was already surging in her heart.

She had seen the scimitar warriors of her family riding high on their horses, but in front of the European nobles, they were like clowns on wooden horses.

And this is only the navy of Austria, I really don't know how terrible their army will be. However, Nesseka quickly calmed down and talked and laughed with Friedrich as usual.

A few days later, when the British fleet finally arrived, Vice Admiral Ravan Hobak complained that he had been searching for days in the waters of the Cape of Good Hope, but had not even found the wreckage of the Austrian warship.

In desperation, Friedrich had no choice but to entertain him again.

However, at this time, the depressed appearance of Bagamoyo City made the British feel refreshed in their eyes, and they felt that this group of Austrian rookies really did not know how to run the colony, and such a good place actually became such a ghost.

After a few days of rest, the combined Anglo-Austrian fleet set off again, first to Mumbai, where the local Indians gave them a grand welcome.

This was a great relief to Lieutenant General Hobak, who, although he did not like these lowly Indian ants, was pleased to be able to show his might in front of his Austrian counterparts.

However, it soon became clear to the British that something was wrong, and that it was true that the Indians had come to welcome the Austrians, not their "masters".

This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, the smuggling trade between Austria and India is prevalent at this time. As for the loyalty of businessmen, they have a flexible moral bottom line, and they naturally follow who has money to earn and who is loyal.

The third brother's two-faced stab has been seen too many times in the UK in recent years. It's just that Lieutenant General Ravine Hobuck didn't link the two things, after all, the two are thousands of miles apart.

Mainly in the eyes of the British, Indians seem to be the same to everyone, in short, inferior people like to wag their tails and beg for mercy on others.

Friedrich didn't really like Indians, but Princess Sneka was very interested in these stewards, who she thought were mysterious and interesting.

And after learning of the marriage between the Austrian Empire and the Omani Empire, these Ah San became even more attentive; Because in their eyes, the Omani Empire is a completely comparable existence to the British Empire, and it will bring them a lot of benefits.

As a representative of Indian merchants, Villawise naturally talked about his thoughts, and other merchants and princes who wanted to take the Austrian line also paid for a grand wedding.

Of course, this is just a one-sided over-interpretation by the Indians, and Friedrich and Princess Sneika are only engaged, and they are the kind that have not been agreed by the Habsburgs.

In the end, although there was no wedding, there was still a grand celebration.

The unmarried couple had a great time, with Friedrich lamenting that Franz had extended Austria's influence to the South Asian subcontinent, while Sneka was increasingly alarmed by the power of the empire.

Lieutenant General Ravan Hobuck and Baron Billy Mullen, Jr., head of the British Inquiry Mission, had unhappy expressions, but only laughed at the ignorance and stupidity of the Indians.

After all, the Austrian Navy's ghostly virtues, especially the deviant behavior of disembarking and fighting people on land at every turn, were not worthy of being an opponent of the British Empire.

In fact, Lieutenant General Hobuck was very depressed in his heart, all the way the Austrians were doing things on land, and he also wanted to find a pirate to practice his skills, but it seemed that God deliberately made things difficult for him, and there was not even a single prey that took the initiative to send to the door these days.

In fact, any pirate who sees a formation of dozens of battleships will avoid it, and any thought of provoking it is no different from looking for death.

After leaving Bombay and arriving in Calcutta, the locals behaved even more exaggeratedly, this time not only Indians, but also British compatriots of Lieutenant General Raven Hobak who joined in the welcoming procession, and even awarded Friedrich the Honorary Mayor Medal

This series of actions almost shocked the admiral's jaw, and in fact he did not know that the Austrian fleet had visited here.

After all, it happened to coincide with the Indian Ocean tsunami, and now many citizens and officials of Calcutta have been rescued from the rubble by Austrian naval officers.

Later, under Franz's strict control, Kolkata became the least affected and the most resilient region in the whole of India, almost eliminating secondary disasters, while other places were plagued one after another.

On the one hand, it was out of gratitude, and on the other hand, because Calcutta was also a "hard-hit area" for the smuggling trade with Austria.

The officials of the colonies knew very well that no matter how much they made from normal trade, they would not necessarily be their own, but smuggling was completely different, and even if the tax was low, they could make a lot of money.

Therefore, the officials here have also established a deep "friendship" with the Austrian side.

However, there were some people in Calcutta who did not welcome the Austrians, such as the opium traders.

The Sassoon family, known as the "Rothschild family of the East", Albert Sassoon, the eldest son of David Sassoon, the mastermind behind the Opium War, was so frightened that he peed his pants, hid in a tree and didn't even dare to go home or enter the house.

This is because Franz held a banquet in Calcutta to buy hearts and minds, and Albert Sassoon brought boxes of opium with a group of opium merchants.

Franz didn't know what the other party was thinking, but he only knew that he was upset and had to do something.

Albert Sassoon said that he asked the two royal dukes to taste the opium, but he himself knew that such young people were the most susceptible to drug addiction, because a strong competitive spirit and a strong intellectual curiosity would make them take the initiative to try this terrible thing.

So a group of opium merchants were locked up by Franz in a room that was almost flooded by the sea, which was actually like a water prison.

And in the icy waters, these people have no food, only opium tincture and smoking guns, which the guards outside will provide them with unlimited restrictions.

After just one day, several people died, but Franz didn't care, and only said that he would talk about it for two more days, and Friedrich forgot about it, and only remembered it a week later.

In the end, only single digits survived the 30-odd opium merchants, who maintained their basic body functions by drinking opium and eating rat carcasses.

So Albert Sassoon, the big drug lord who was feared by East Asians, hid in a tree and shivered when he heard that the Austrians had returned.

However, Franz did not forget about the family, and he even prepared coffins for these people.

(End of chapter)