Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

"Is it really necessary?" Adjani couldn't help but frown.

"It's necessary." Franz was sure.

Although there was no sign of cholera in Vienna at this time, that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future.

After all, smuggling between Germany and Britain and France has never been cut off, and Russia, where the cholera epidemic is most severe, has close trade ties with the Austrian Empire.

In particular, the Russian-Austrian border, which originally belonged to Poland, is simply a virtual reality. Although the border line is non-existent, the residents of both places almost never cross the border.

As for the reason, it is that both parties feel that they are living a good life. You must know that in the propaganda of the Anglo-Saxons, Austria and Russia have always served as the lower limit of the human political system.

However, in a sense, it can also reflect what kind of life the people at the bottom of the Polish land lived in the past.

However, it is surprising that the Polish reverters are still alive and well after a series of heavy blows, and even intend to take advantage of the natural disaster to revive Poland again.

Straight to the point.

"But didn't you just fix it a few years ago?"

Adjani still doesn't understand Franz's approach, and the former thinks that such a large amount of money can make a very large profit whether it is used to build a railroad or do anything else.

However, not only will there be no financial support for the urban sewage management system, but the aristocracy and the common people will probably not support it, because it will not only increase the cost of sewage discharge, but also "complicate" the "simple" things.

"I did fix it once, and it cost a lot of money at the time. But now you can see the speed of the Austrian Empire, and Vienna as the capital could only be faster.

In the past, there were fewer than 400,000 people in Vienna, but now there are almost a million. That's what you're talking about in a few years, and Vienna's population and city size will continue to swell for the foreseeable future."

Franz was talking about an inevitable result, as long as the Austrian Empire did not collapse, the future of Vienna as a megacity was already a sure thing.

Historically, Vienna had a population of more than 2 million at its peak before the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Franz did not feel that he would do any worse than his original owner.

What Franz thought was common sense seemed to Adjani was incredible.

"Do you want Vienna to be bigger than Paris?"

Adjani had been to Paris, and although she didn't think that Paris was comparable to Vienna now, it was a special complex that she had cultivated since childhood, which made her feel that Vienna was inferior to Paris.

This is the benefit of cultural export, which can subtly influence the judgment and choice of many people, and even allow people to defend you for free.

For Adjani's question, Franz seemed unimpressed and gave a positive answer directly.

"I think two or three should be a conservative estimate."

"Oh my God! Did I hear me right? ”

"Nope."

"Well, Archduke Franz. Your plan will be astronomical."

"I know, so let's renovate the old city first, like the old city walls, although they are very memorable, but it's almost time for them to flow into the pile of old papers.

It's good to leave one or two paragraphs as a memorial, but since you want to commemorate it, you need to make it more formal, and you can build a memorial. ”

Franz had enough money, but he didn't want to waste it at this moment.

"Okay, a museum."

"It's a big museum, after all, this history is still very glorious."

"You mean Leopold I, who fled in a hurry? Or the lone Count of Starlenberg? Or was it the Polish Confederation, which saved Europe but was annexed? ”

Franz had no choice but to give Adjani a quiet look, and then took advantage of her unpreparedness to pull the latter into his arms.

Regarding Franz's sudden attack, Adjani did not appear flustered, but generously chose a more comfortable position to sit down.

"Madame Sophie is looking for a sanitary countess for me, are you interested?"

Adjani tilted her head, hooked Franz's chin with her fingers, and gently opened her lips.

"Don't you know that the Countess of Health is going to keep her virginity?"

Then he threw the document he had just drawn up into Franz's arms and walked away.

On the way out, he was hit by Colonel Bordeaux, and then stomped the surface of his foot with the heel of his shoe.

"Oh my God, this damn madwoman isn't doing you any favors, is she?"

After Adjani left, Colonel Bordeaux limped in.

"No, what's the matter? Mr. Bordeaux. ”

"It doesn't matter too much, it's just just"

"Just what?"

"It's just that I found that there were fewer guns issued to the guards."

"How many are missing?!" This immediately touched Franz's sensitive nerves, and he had a sense of foreboding.

"No, it's just that a couple of new lever rifles have been replaced with front-loading guns. They thought I wouldn't find out, but as soon as I trained, I showed my horse's feet, and a few of them were frontloaded."

"What did you say!" Franz roared, directly and rudely interrupting Colonel Bordeaux's narration.

"There were a couple of lever-mounted rifles that were swapped out for front-loading guns."

"Damn! Get them out now! Whatever you do, you have to recover my gun! Franz roared.

"Yes!" Colonel Bordeaux saluted, then immediately turned around and ran out in a panic.

Franz slammed his fist on the table, although he knew that the lever rifle would not be kept when he was in the army, and even if he did not load the army, the country could get the news that the new rifle had been developed.

But what Franz never expected was that the royal guard, which he thought was the most tightly managed, was the first to go wrong.

Fortunately, it was only a false alarm, and the two royal guards only mortgaged their guns to the casino, and did not quietly sell them to spies or arms dealers from other countries.

By the time they arrived in front of Franz, they had been fanned into pig's heads by Bordeaux, who was the only one who was angrier than Franz.

It wasn't because he was reprimanded by Franz, but in the mind of Colonel Bordeaux, it was a great honor to be a royal guard.

The two guards not only violated the discipline of the royal guards and the orders of the Grand Duke Franz, but also mortgaged their weapons to the casino.

All this seemed to Colonel Bordeaux as a knight selling his sword, and as the commander of these people, he really had a sense of shame.

From the point of view of an old aristocrat like Bordeaux, these two men were simply unforgivable, not only ruining themselves, but also dishonoring the family and the entire royal guard, which was simply a great shame.

However, the Grand Duke of Louis (the nominal supreme commander of the Royal Guard, but in fact the guard is divided into many factions) made a surprising decision:

"Since the gun has been recovered, and the two children know that they are wrong, then punish them not to use this new gun in the future."

(End of chapter)