Even though Talia has been the principal for so many years, her behavior is still a little "inappropriate".

As soon as the funeral crowd had dispersed, she sat down next to the tombstone.

"I'm supposed to be a very incompetent teacher, right? Obviously, I want you to get ahead, but I can only sleep here.

You are obviously better than anyone else, and I have found the biggest backer in this country for you. And I didn't sacrifice my hue, and I didn't have to turn around and walk away when I saw me.

I just wanted to tell you that there's no single path to success."

"Ahem.. You're talking about some kind of nonsense. ”

Originally, Franz was still a little moved, but he couldn't help it when he heard it.

"Why didn't you leave?"

"I'll have to stay and hear if you speak ill of me. The Peleni thing was my negligence, there were problems with secrecy and security.

I didn't expect this to happen."

Franz was remorseful and guilty, but he needed people.

Talia knew Franz well.

"You don't have to blame yourself too much, and you don't have to worry about me picking on someone, it's my job and it's my fate.

Here's the list you want, and hopefully you'll make good on your promise.

As for Pelleni, she is very good, and the only thing she lacks may be what you call the 'big picture'. ”

"I will."

Talia leaned on Franz's shoulder and began to engrave the epitaph.

"Here lies a reformer who tries to change the world, but so far only her own state of existence has changed."

It's been a long time, and I used to be able to only hug other people's thighs, but now I have become the other party's dependence. Franz sniffed the sweet scent of Talia, which should have been the smell of Viennese coffee and Portuguese egg tarts.

The Austrian Empire at this time needed people who were outside the rules, or people who were not so easy to integrate into the system.

Previously, Franz created a large number of civil servants in the name of universal education and the development of the colony. Those people, whatever they were, were quickly assimilated after joining the Austrian Imperial Government.

The increase in administrative efficiency was far less than Franz had expected, and corruption in the royal corporations was spreading rapidly.

Especially in the colonies, people dared to do anything for money, and it is impossible to count how many atrocities took place during this period.

The place where Franz passed must have been peaceful, but when he left, it immediately became a place of smoky lawlessness.

At this time, the only thing that is still clean is the scientific community, after all, Franz has been paying attention for a long time, and the top scholars prefer to engage in scientific research than engaging in gate valve factions, so although there are often scientists dueling with each other, but generally speaking, the atmosphere is not bad.

The Austrian Empire was indeed in a state of ill illness at this time, but fortunately there would soon be an opportunity to solve the problem.

In order to get the most out of it, Franz now had to do more.

On the Japanese side, the death of Masahiro Abe caused an uproar, with more than 100 people beheaded alone, and countless others implicated in prison.

It was the first time in hundreds of years that the samurai class had achieved an economic advantage, and the death of the shogunate's chief elder, was enough to send the samurai into madness.

As a result, there were massacres against merchants everywhere, and the shogunate and the daimyo in various places were happy to see it, and the days when they had to rely on domestic merchants were gone.

After trading with the Austrian Empire, these daimyo found it easy to do business, so they went to sea to run on the merchants.

Of course, the daimyo would not actually go to the sea to do business themselves, but they could entrust the merchants of the Austrian Empire to control the trade for them.

In this way, not only can you save a lot of expenses, but also make a lot of profits, and you can suppress the arrogance of businessmen.

At the same time, cheap goods can also improve the living standards of the people and make people "happy".

As for the price, they don't need to worry about it anyway, so it's not big.

In the face of almost zero tariffs on the goods of the Austrian Empire, the merchants of the whole of Japan did not have any power to parry, and for a time Osaka Bay was full of corpses of merchants.

Agricultural products, the Austrian Empire has colonies in California and the fertile land of the Hawaiian Islands, which is many times stronger than the barren mountains of Japan, and Austria is even more complete in terms of industrial production capacity.

Therefore, even if Masahiro Abe was punished by heaven, trade with the Austrian Empire would not be interrupted. It's just that the new chief lieutenant is not Naobi Ii, who Franz is familiar with, but Harujiki Matsudaira.

Franz didn't know much about the man, but given that he was sixty years old, he didn't feel the need to know him too well.

However, the attitude of the other party still needs to be clarified, and Kagura reported back from Japan that this person was a reformer, but he was not welcomed within the shogunate.

Matsudaira Harugaku's rise to the throne was mainly due to seniority issues and the result of the wrestling between Tokugawa Iekei and the shogunate's important ministers.

Tokugawa Iekei, a general with no real power, suddenly wanted to do something, and those in power naturally did not want the shogun to take away their power.

However, after all, the shogunate's surname was Tokugawa, so he found such an old man who was in his last years to be the chief elder. Although Matsudaira was loyal to the shogun, he was also a reformer, which disgusted Tokugawa Iekei.

So at this time, not only the shogun became an ornament, but even the chief lieutenant also became an ornament.

As a result, powerful local feudal lords strengthened their ties with the Austrian Empire, and while Japanese bushido was about loyalty, samurai lords were more about practicality.

At this time, more than 190 of Japan's more than 200 feudal domains sent daughters, wives, or maids-in-waiting. Normally, the daimyo would only do this to the shogun's family, and the woman he sent out was called "Okukata" (おくがた).

For a time, the heavenly shrine where Kagura lived was overcrowded, the first round was physiognomy, the second was intelligence, and after two rounds, 90% of them were excluded.

Although these people were carefully selected by the daimyo from all over the world, they were still far worse in Kagura's eyes.

This is followed by a formal course in order to integrate these people into the Austrian training as soon as possible. After the final selection, a further group of people will be eliminated, and then those who have passed the selection will be sent to Vienna.

But it's not the Imperial Palace, it's the Royal Women's College.

At this time, Atsuhime (the one sent by the former Satsuma Domain) was making up for the elementary school curriculum with a confused face, and what she had learned at home before was completely useless.

Franz also went to see it once, and there was nothing special about Princess Yuichi, who has been called one of the greatest women in modern Japanese history.

Franz felt that she was not as good-looking as the Indian version of Joan of Arc, and that her submissive appearance did not seem to be characteristic.

Franz habitually glanced at the results again, and it was also very mediocre. You must know that Lakshmi Baui, who is the same age as him, also came to Vienna for a short time, but his grades were full marks

However, Talia is very optimistic about Atsuki and dismisses Lakshmi Bayi because she has seen too many geniuses.

Most of those geniuses are excellent and proud, but Atsuhime has a talent that they don't have, and that is a very good communication ability.

Talia remembers what Kagura was like when she first arrived at school, and she almost wrote the word "social fear" on her face, but this princess Yuyi was able to get those proud nobles to take the initiative to talk to her.

(End of chapter)