The previous blind date was very successful, and Mrs. Sophie decided to set the marriage of both parties while the iron was hot.

Franz thinks it's not bad, after all, the relationship with the Russians is not a bad thing.

On the contrary, it can deter to a certain extent those who want to sow discord between the two countries, and at the same time, it can also make other powers turn into a trap and dare not easily threaten either side of Russia and Austria.

In fact, if you want to win the Crimean War, no matter how much supplies Austria provides to Russia, it is not as real as the Russians themselves to build a railway to Crimea.

There was a joke in the war that the Russians were more expensive to transport on their own soil than the Anglo-French forces across the oceans.

After the marriage of the two countries, Franz can micro-manipulate the future layout to a certain extent.

It's just that Franz didn't want to get married too early, because 1848 was approaching, and Austria would become very unsafe and uncertain.

Franz didn't want to increase the likelihood of an accident, so he felt that the wedding should be postponed as much as possible.

"Franz, what are you thinking? It's normal to get engaged this year and get married next year. What the hell is the three-year covenant?! ”

Mrs. Sophie was furious, she didn't know what Franz was thinking, but it would be troublesome if the Russians thought it was humiliating them.

"Mother, I think it's too early to get married! And there are still a lot of hidden dangers in the country"

"Earlier? Someone else is as old as you and has a son! When the sky falls, it's not your turn to stand up, tie the knot first, and talk about what happens later. ”

"No, Mother. Trust me, our situation is not safe.

The rapid development of Austria has affected the survival of the Hungarian government, and they are unwilling to give up their privileges to embrace the new era, and sooner or later we will have a war between us. ”

The attitude of the Hungarians was becoming more and more arrogant, and Mrs. Sophie was well aware of it, but the radical events that broke out in Hungary did not affect Austria, at least so far.

Moreover, at this time, everything in the Austrian Empire was developing at a high speed, and even if it was a real fight, the Hungarians would never win.

"Then it's time to get married quickly, and then we can use the power of the Russian Empire to help us fight the Hungarians on both sides."

"Mother, that's definitely not a good idea. The Romanovs would not give up their ambitions just because they were their in-laws.

And the most difficult thing in this world is to repay the debt of affection, and you don't want people to say that our Habsburgs will take revenge one day, right? ”

The more Mrs. Sophie listened, the more confused she became, but she had a bad feeling that her son was having some big plan.

When you think about it, it seems that seven or eight years ago, Franz had foreseen everything today, and she didn't want to admit it, but she did give birth to an amazing monster.

"Franz, I don't know what you're thinking, but you weren't the only one in the history of the Habsburgs who had great ambitions and were incomprehensible.

But what happened to them? Frederick III had to live in isolation, Joseph II was dead, and I don't want you to join him for posterity. ”

Franz understood Mrs. Sophie's intentions, of course, but he could not explain it to him, because it was too sensational.

"Mother, doesn't the archbishop always say that I was born a saint? I'm going to make it. ”

"Whether you succeed or not, if you first talk about how to stabilize the Tsar's family and let the 24-year-old girl wait for you for three years, I don't know how to speak.

If you're too old to give birth, don't think about using illegitimate children to inherit the throne. Do you understand? ”

Madame Sophie was very dissatisfied, but she still hoped that Franz would get married as soon as possible so that she would not have to dream too many nights.

In fact, after learning about the history of the Habsburgs, he really didn't care much about whether his descendants could inherit the throne, after all, there were no particularly sensational fratricidal incidents in this family.

As for having no offspring, it's not bad, after all, Franz's path is very hated, and naturally no one dares to do anything when he is alive, but not necessarily after death.

It is not a relief to be free from worries.

In fact, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna did not have children in history, but Franz did not know about it, because this princess was not famous in history.

"It's actually simple to stabilize the Tsar's family. Nicholas I was so proactive because he saw the benefits of his marriage to Austria, so we could make a dowry first. ”

"What kind of gold and silver sea can block the mouth of the tsar, I want to see it."

"A railway from Moscow to the fortress of Sevastopol, three new steel battleships."

"And what about Olga?"

"She'll wait."

"Why?"

"A poem."

St. Petersburg, Russia.

Nicholas I paced back and forth in his office, sometimes screaming in excitement, sometimes tearing his hair at a good point.

Because the gifts sent by the Austrians were too precious, and they happened to be the most urgently needed by Russia. Although the railways and warships did not reach their own hands, they gave hope to the whole country.

Russia's finances have always been tight, and the Russians have been far more expensive to build railroads than in other European countries, almost ten times as much as Austria.

As for the battleships, the Austrians' battleships are not as good as the British, but they are still ironclad battleships.

Note: At this time, Russia did not have the ability to produce ironclad warships, and even during the Crimean War, they were unable to build large ironclad warships.

The marriage between the two countries also facilitated the further expansion of trade, and once Franz became emperor of the Austrian Empire, the Russian economy would inevitably be boosted.

It's just that all this will come at the cost of the happiness of his own daughter, Nicholas I will be brutal and civilized, but he will not rise in such a way.

Nicholas I did not understand why Austria had set the date of marriage three years later, and the reason given by the Austrian side was that it was still necessary to experience physical and mental success.

If this sentence is placed on the brothers Ferdinand I and Franz Carr, there is no sense of disobedience, but isn't this generation of Habsburgs full of talents?

Albrecht, Friedrich, and Ambrosius were all outstanding talents, and Madame Sophie's four sons were even more impressive, ranging from saints to unearthly ghosts.

Suddenly Nicholas I thought of something, Albrecht and Friedrich were an army genius and a naval genius, but the two were comparable to idiots in terms of human sophistication.

Albrecht was old and unmarried, and every blind date gave people popular science and military. Friedrich is said to have robbed an Arab as his wife, and now it has become a joke in aristocratic circles.

If the latter's father had not been Archduke Karl, he would have been expelled from his home or executed with honor.

The situation was similar with Ambrosius

According to this situation, even Mrs. Sophie's sons are not much better.

(End of chapter)