Although the problem of corruption and immigration in Austria is already very difficult at present, it is the previous gold ship incident that needs to be solved most urgently, after all, it involves money and wealth.

California's gold was very important to Franz and his country, and it was with the support of this windfall that the empire was able to develop its colonies in a big way while developing its domestic industry, and even to give benefits to its citizens (shareholders).

But now that the Americans have learned the secret, it is impossible to sit back and relax.

Although France and the United States have also learned about the blockbuster news of the California gold mine from successive information, they did not know the specific production and details of the gold mine before that.

But now it is different, the officials in charge of transporting the gold are on guard, taking away not only the gold, but also the secrets of this treasure land of California; For example, the allocation of troops, the center of gravity of defense, the strategy of mobility, and even the structure of cities and industries.

How many secrets these guys took away, Franz has no way of knowing now. As for the method of assassination, don't think about it for the time being, because of the timeliness problem, it has been too long since the other side of the ocean sent people to investigate and draw conclusions and report to the country.

Besides, the so-called assassination is not an assassin Musou, and it is impossible to fight head-on like Naruto, which requires a lot of intelligence support and a long period of lurking and patient waiting, and the success rate is very low.

Franz is now unsure whether the Americans will publish this information or whether they will draw on the experience of their Anglo-Saxon ancestors and plunder Austrian merchant ships everywhere and then.

But given the situation in North America at this time, Franz had the worst possible inference that John Taylor might restart the Mexican-American War.

Although this was inevitable in a sense, the future prince still did not want to come so early.

In fact, the United States also faced many domestic and foreign obstacles at this time, the first of which was the mountain of French Texas colony.

That's right! The appearance of the French greatly reduced the ability of the Americans to act, greatly inhibiting their capacity for expansion, and the latter also had to think about the possible effect of their actions on the former.

The French were impressed by their first engagement with the U.S. military in Texas, and eight years are still fresh in the minds of those who participated, but the United States did not have many standing troops at the time.

After all, this is a matter of taxpayers' money, and although successive presidents have argued for it, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

So the taxpayers decided to pay for the militia themselves, which sounds ridiculous, but in fact it is legal.

Yes, some people say that the early U.S. Constitution was a huge business license, and this is true in a sense.

As long as you have enough financial resources, you can even raise an army on your own and contract the defense of the state.

Naturally, this so-called militia group will not pay attention to the so-called "talents", but will pay attention to efficiency. So what kind of corps is the most effective?

The answer is to eat empty wages and hire temporary workers. That's why the former governor of Texas said he was sure to get back the land France had lost.

Interestingly, at this time, the U.S. military actually had no fear of the French army, and even felt that the tactics of stragglers and queues up to shoot were very ridiculous.

The funniest thing is that the French cavalry actually used sabers when charging instead of more efficient pistols.

You know, in the United States, even children know that a cowboy can deal with twelve Indians at the same time, because a cowboy has only twelve bullets in his gun. (Bad joke at the time)

John Taylor was a very pragmatic man, he did not trust the generals who sat in the house all day, and he sent people to the militia on the border and asked the local soldiers how strong the French were?

The results were heartening to the fact that the French army was already vulnerable.

But the British in Oregon were a real threat, Palmerston was a tough man, and the western immigrants seemed to be only interested in immediate interests.

The United States seems to have the upper hand on the road to the Pacific, but it has never been able to overcome this obstacle.

To be honest, this time Palmerston can be said to have done his best for the benefit of the British Empire, refusing to implement the appeasement policy of the Tories Foreign Secretary, using thousands of colonial troops and hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the United States to fight wits and courage, and fooling the other party into living almost unable to take care of himself, which is really a stroke of genius.

However, his series of anti-heaven operations made Sir Inspector Metcalfe, the Governor of Canada, a little uncomfortable.

You must know that the latter was forced by John Taylor to rebuild the US-Canada border as soon as he took office, and he was even more overwhelmed by it in a series of events after that.

But at this time, the former has just come to reverse the situation between the United States and Canada in Oregon, which makes him even more incompetent. So John Taylor and the Canadian governor at the same time came up with a trick, that is, to pay bribes to British high-ranking officials.

With the money in place, things were easy to do, and soon Whitehall (another name for the London government) issued an order to transfer Palmerston to the Indian colonies.

As for the reason, of course, it is as much as there is, and there are more people offended by this domineering politician on weekdays.

At this time, there are naturally many people who want to see him unlucky, after all, India is now a powder keg, with continuous internal uprisings, and there are two powerful enemies outside, the Sikh Empire and the Afghan Empire.

He was also helpless, but this genius who repeatedly jumped horizontally could not disobey London's orders, even if he wanted to skip the rank and ask the queen for help, but Palmerston did the same thing at Windsor Castle, Victoria, who valued morality very much, would not speak to such a guy.

Prince Albert was a wise and unruly ruler, but Palmerston had a bad relationship with him, for the latter was an old fox and the former was a natural hunter.

But the main thing is that the two men do not agree politically, and the latter's aggressive diplomatic tactics disgust the former; The former was more inclined to resolve domestic conflicts and reform the existing system of the British Empire.

Prince Albert was a pro-people politician who understood the people's woes, was rigorous, rational and pragmatic.

His enthusiasm for science, the establishment of public libraries, museums, the funding of universities, and even the first World's Fair (Universal Industrial Exposition), the London World's Fair of 1851, showed the public the miracle of the Industrial Revolution and greatly enhanced Britain's international prestige.

Campaigning for the unemployed, striving to raise workers' wages, and trying to change the treatment of the poor showed great concern and sympathy from the poor.

At the same time, he took a tough attitude and banished William Rahm, the Queen's former mentor, Viscount Melburn, and fired Palmerston, the foreign minister who "won the hearts of the people".

He was the first prince to say no to Parliament since 1689 after Mary II's husband, William III, and was arguably the strongest son-in-law of the 19th century.

Transforming London's public health facilities and personally delivering food and medicine to the most dangerous places during a plague outbreak can be almost a heroic figure.

Palmerston knew that his transfer was a foregone conclusion, but he still left a "gift" to the American, which can be regarded as a beginning and an end.

(End of chapter)