Marie Louise fell ill on 9 December 1847 and her condition continued to deteriorate. At first, when the news reached Vienna, no one cared.

In the eyes of the vast majority, this is just a new trick that the Grand Duchess wants to win sympathy.

The former French queen has lost everything in the eyes of the people, including credibility, beauty, temperament, two husbands, sons, and fathers.

At this time, preparations for Christmas were still being made in Austria, and various government departments were preparing for the year-end summary.

The Gu workers had already received their wages at this time, and it was the richest time of the year, and some smart businessmen were nervously preparing to make a final wave.

In fact, even if those people are not smart, it is not because Franz's royal mall is doing a lot of promotions.

Carp production in the Austrian Empire has increased tenfold in three years, but sales are not very good in normal times, and it is only during the Christmas season that they explode.

One is due to traditional beliefs, and the second is that the price of carp is not low enough for ordinary people to afford.

Thirdly, the main reason is that in recent years, although the war has not reached Austria itself, people have already felt the crisis, and many families are hoarding daily necessities, even guns and ammunition.

People don't have money in their hands, so they can't afford to buy carp.

Franz's promotional strategy was to spend a certain amount of money to give away carp directly, which would minimize people's resistance, and at the same time he could continue to advertise the ingredient and clear his inventory.

Early generators had been developed, but they were still inefficient and too expensive to store fresh, so Franz had to dispose of the precious carp as soon as possible.

Despite the tensions at home and abroad, Franz has significantly more on his books than in previous years.

Giant Bear, although Karena von der Leant has little business talent, but she is a good hand at anti-corruption and auditing, she has almost no friends, and her background as a military aristocrat makes her almost unscrupulous.

The Deryant family is actually from Russia, but they have been living in Austria for hundreds of years, and their ancestors followed Wallenstein.

However, no one knows what their ancestors' original surnames were, and it is speculated that they were most likely runaway Russian serfs or Cossacks.

Later generations followed the teachings of their ancestors and served the Austrian army for hundreds of years, neither in business nor in politics, so their reputation was not remarkable.

The Deryant family is an outlier who is easily ostracized by the mainstream aristocracy, but they are proud of it, because they also don't look down on the soft eggs who only know how to spend their days drinking and begging for mercy.

So the revenge caused by Karena's series of thunderous tactics is completely proof of honor in the eyes of her family.

Deryant Sr. (Karina's grandfather) led the family to cut down all the trees near the ancestral home, and bought a batch of weapons and bulletproof carriages, vowing to fight hard.

Coupled with the guards and bodyguards that Franz added for him, the Deryant family's ancestral home became a hot potato.

In order to prevent unnecessary troubles and people taking advantage of the loopholes, Franz added all the guards and bodyguards for him to be public, or at least internally.

Over the years, Franz has rarely failed in his calculations on international affairs, but he has repeatedly suffered from domestic problems, and it is impossible for him not to reflect on his own behavior.

In fact, Karena was assassinated, and it was her assistant who did it, but how could two civilians fight the giant bear?

Before she could shoot, one person was pushed out of the window from the third floor, and the other shot in a panic.

By the time the guards outside the door rushed in, the rebel civilian had been beaten to a pig's head, his face had collapsed, and one eyeball was hanging outside.

The reason why some people can rebel against Franz's subordinates one after another is only the connections and prestige that those families have accumulated over hundreds of years.

If you want to completely eliminate this influence, you must either do a big cleaning, or after ascending the throne, you can support your own power and give your subordinates capital that the other party does not dare to move.

Franz thinks that day will not be too far away, but what if the people he supports are just as rubbish? No, he's going to break this cycle.

On December 17, 1847, Archduke Marie Louise finally passed away after more than ten days of pleurisy.

According to Habsburg tradition, the body of the Grand Duchess was to be transported back to Vienna and placed in the royal tombs.

Marie Louise grew up in an environment of disgust with France, and both Austria and the Habsburgs felt that France was a lump of flight.

As a result, for the sake of the overall situation, she had to marry this tuo Xiang. After that, Marie Louise suffered almost all the tragedies that a woman could have encountered, and no one even believed her before she died, and no one cared about her.

In fact, the Austrian Imperial Government had already quarreled over the death of Marie Louise, and they did not expect the Archduchess to die so quickly and so suddenly.

But it was not this poor victim that they cared about, but the national interests of the Austrian Empire.

According to the agreement of that year, after the death of the Grand Duchess, the Duchy of Parma would return to the rule of the House of Bourbon-Parma.

At this time, Austrian investment in Parma did not pay for itself, and if the Bourbon-Parma family moved closer to France, it would be a direct threat to the security of northern Italy by planting a nail in the heart of Austria.

The current head of the House of Bourbon-Parma is Carlo II, grandson of Ferdinando I, Duke of Parma, and son of King Ludwico I of Etruscan.

King of Etruscan from 1803 to 1807, known as Ludwico II; From 1824 to 1847 he was Duke of Lucca, known as Carlo I.

This Carlo II was settling in the Duchy of Lucca at this time, which was actually indirectly controlled by the Habsburgs, so Carlo II's presence was so thin that he almost forgot about his existence.

Theoretically, if Carlo II were allowed to inherit the Duchy of Parma, the Habsburg Este would be able to regain control of Lucca.

This doesn't mean much to Austria, it's just a left-handed hand-to-right-handed. However, if Parma falls into the hands of the Bourbons, it will directly threaten the map of northern Italy.

However, it was not so easy for Austria to break the treaty, not to mention the international implications. The great powers alone will not miss this opportunity.

France wants to compete with Austria for the Apennine Peninsula, Britain wants to stir up, Prussia wants to weaken Austria and France, and Russia hates France and doesn't want Austria to be too strong.

At this time, Carlo II was still thinking about whether to turn to France, or Austria, or to create a miracle left and right.

But soon he had no choice, because France couldn't hold on. At this point, Franz was thinking about whether to let Louis Philippe leave the field or put him in another place to shine?

After all, Napoleon III's attitude towards Austria was anything but friendly