The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 655 The track of history (the main content is in the second half)

"How is this going!"

This time Sir Franklin was even more excited than the young officer, grabbing him by the collar.

"Your Excellency, you listen to my explanation. It is normal for one or two bad cans of eight thousand cans."

The custodian is still quibbling, but there is no can in this world that stinks less than a month after delivery, unless the beef itself is bad.
Afterwards, the expedition team opened other cans and found that almost all of the cans in this box were bad, and the canned fruit on the side was even more outrageous. Not only were they not peeled, but there were even corpses of bugs inside.

Then these people who were about to risk their lives on an expedition to the North Pole expressed strong "dissatisfaction" with the warehouse keeper and his colleagues.

When the guards of the Royal Navy arrived, the storekeeper had already been beaten into a pig's head.

Later, after interrogation, it was learned that the sales staff of the canning factory had bribed the custodians and shoddy them.Naturally, Sir Franklin could no longer trust Dukett and his London cannery.

So Alina got the deal, but she couldn't help feeling a little worried.After all, Sir Franklin was 59 years old at this time, but the latter responded to the former with the humor typical of a British gentleman.

"Miss, I'm not yet 60 years old! Wish me luck! If we return safely, we will never forget the help you and your cans have provided us."

However, only two months after Sir Franklin set sail, his expedition lost contact with London.
The reasons for Sir Franklin's failure vary in history, but what is certain is that most of them died of lead poisoning and scurvy.

There are also many theories about why the crew would rather eat their compatriots than the canned food in the cabin.

One of the factions believed that many of the cans were broken before they were sent to the ship, and they were not edible at all, so the crew chose to find food by themselves.

Since Austria developed the canning compression technology, the [-] cans still made some small money. After all, the mainstream of this era is to rely on manual canning and sealing, and the cost will be several times to dozens of times higher.

However, this level of funds is almost invisible in Franz's account.But having said that, there are really not many people who buy canned food in peacetime, so it cannot be said that they have done a worthless thing.

Of course, whether the canned food of the Austrian Empire can become a hit in the UK depends on whether Sir Franklin and his expedition can come back alive. After all, they are the best billboards.

In fact, Austrian canned food has a price advantage, but the high tariffs charged by the British have greatly offset its competitiveness.

After that, Elena got a new task, which was to sell the canned food of the Austrian Empire to the world.Although it sounds tall, he is actually a senior salesman.

However, this kind of words is still very useful to the ears of people in the nineteenth century. She felt that she was valued and started to work harder.
Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Some news from the other side of the world makes Franz very depressed. The Americans are buying piglets from the Qing Dynasty and planning to build the Pacific Railway.

After all, the Americans found their way to the Pacific Ocean through the cracks, and they are working hard for their own destiny.

However, this also means that the mobilization capabilities of the United States will increase in the future, and war with the California colony is inevitable.

After all, there are British in the north of Oregon, Russians in the northwest, and Austrian colonies across the mountain.

It is impossible for the Americans to do nothing if they want to gain a firm foothold, and their worst enemy is Austria.

This is mainly because the number of Russians and British people is too small, and the total number of colonists from the two countries may not exceed 2000.

In California, Austria, there are hundreds of thousands of Germans alone, not to mention the local aborigines and the diverted Central American population, as well as the rapidly increasing Japanese labor force.

In fact, Franz used Japanese labor instead of Qing labor.The main reason is that the latter's fighting power is too strong.

Although the Japanese also have a tradition of subjugation, it only exists in the samurai class.

On the other hand, since the Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising in the Qin Dynasty, the thought of "princes, generals, and relatives" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese workers.

Let's not talk about the clan and party issues in the south, but just talk about the northerners who are considered weaker and more docile.

The latter undertook almost all the large-scale uprisings in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, such as the Pu Shao uprising of the Laoguanzhai sect; the Wang Lun uprising of the Qingshui sect; the Li Wencheng and Lin Qing uprisings of the Tianli sect;

Even in the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there were Nian Army in the north, as well as the Wenxian Rebellion and the White Lotus Rebellion in Northwest Shandong.

After that, the Boxers caused even more chaos in the world, as a famous aggressor in later generations would say about it.

"The Chinese masses are full of infinite vigor. No matter Europe, America, or Japan, no country has the brainpower and military power to rule a quarter of the world's creatures!"

The enemy's evaluation is often very pertinent, and Franz has no doubts about this.

When someone mentions a fighting nation, he always thinks of Russia, and when he mentions a powder keg, he thinks of the Balkans.Qing people are insensitive and easy to rule.

But the reality is that according to the "Records of the Great Qing Dynasty", from the Opium War to the fall of the Qing Dynasty on February 1912, 2, more than 12 uprisings broke out.

Among them, more than 1856 uprisings broke out between 1865 and [-], the most turbulent period, and the Qing Dynasty's own records, many of which are well written, are almost impossible to contain elements of embellishment and falsification.

而号称日本历史上最为激荡的24年，从1853年黑船来袭到1877年9月24日西南战争结束这段时间里，仅仅爆发了不到五十次大规模民乱。

In contrast, is the fighting spirit of the Chinese much stronger?
Therefore, if Franz wants to save his life, it is better not to touch the Chinese workers. After all, Austria itself is also a powder keg.

Franz was fighting a civil war here, and he couldn't bear the sudden sentence "The prince and general, I would rather have a kind" in the backyard.

At the same time, the Japanese are relatively easy to rule and assimilate in terms of tradition, thinking mode, and national character.

To put it simply, Japanese civilians did not even have names at that time, and the village community was not very sticky.

It is mainly due to the mountainous and island environment of Japan, coupled with the fact that it is located in a volcanic and earthquake zone, and under the blessings of typhoons, tsunamis and other natural disasters, human life cannot be guaranteed at all, so they do not care about the inheritance of blood. Not too much attachment.

On the contrary, these people are both indifferent and fanatical, extremely cruel to the weak, and extremely flattering to the strong.

In ancient times, Japan did not rely on bloodline society, but was divided by region and class, which led to the Japanese being "model students" wherever they went, because these people would spare no effort to integrate into the local society.

Like the Japanese who fought for the U.S. military in World War II, they even did not hesitate to exchange the lives of their compatriots for military exploits.

As for the spirit of bearing hardships and standing hard work, this is shared by East Asian nations. Although Franz hates Koreans very much, those people can really endure hardships.

Even those Korean entertainment stars who are often ridiculed, although their personalities may be very distorted, their serious and hardworking attitude is worthy of recognition.

(End of this chapter)