War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

Shares in the second phase of the Vienna-Neletania railway project have almost quadrupled. Such a huge basic market has actually risen so much in just two months. This can no longer be described by the word "horror".

We must know that Apple, the world's largest market capitalization company in modern times, has a market capitalization of approximately US$2.1 trillion. During the same period, US fiscal revenue was approximately US$4.89 trillion, less than half of the latter.

But at this time, the market value of the second phase of the Light Project had exceeded 1 billion florins, which was more than three times the fiscal revenue of the entire empire in 1841.

What’s even more frightening is that this crazy rising momentum is still not decreasing, but is getting faster and faster; according to the optimistic estimates of experts, its stock price will exceed the 100 florin mark in the near future.

To put it another way, that means its market value will exceed the 5 billion florin mark.

You must know that the total gold and silver currency of the entire empire at this time is only 500 million florins, but the financial nuclear bomb in front of you is growing bigger and bigger like a snowball before a landslide.

The financial experts who had previously sworn to Adjani had no choice but to admit that the stock had temporarily deviated from its true value, but they still firmly believed that its return to its true value was an inevitable objective law, and it was just a matter of time. .

Resisting the thought of throwing these guys into the Danube who would only repeat clichés with no new ideas, she was still anxiously waiting for Franz's reply.

Yes, you read that right. Adjani has sent many letters for help. However, apart from praying, there is almost nothing she can do for maritime communications in this era, which relies almost on metaphysics.

Even if two ships are heading towards each other, there is a high chance that they will miss each other.

Of course, the hot-button issue of over-hyping and overheating of stock prices that was making a lot of noise at this time also began to attract the attention of Vienna, because the so-called second phase of the Neletania Railway project was nothing more than an empty frame created by Franz and his men.

The only sections that are actually under construction are several important trunk lines in the plan and the Trieste-Zagreb-Belgrade line. This 550-kilometer railway is expected to be completed within five years. Including the railways that have already started construction, the total planned length is only 3,000 kilometers.

At this time, the massive funds raised cannot be consumed at all, and the only way is to expand the production capacity of some industries. However, the market has limits after all.

Overcapacity, in turn, leads to a decline in product profits, forcing companies to give up this option. In the end I had to restart some route plans that had been abandoned.

Of course, if this momentum continues, the total amount of funds required for the entire second phase of the project will soon be exceeded. However, in the face of such a behemoth, no one dared to puncture the ball and could only let it kidnap the country. So far, 25% of Soros's plan has been completed.

Of course, just four or five times the profit is not enough to satisfy these greedy guys, their desires are far more than that.

The southernmost tip of the African continent, the Cape of Good Hope.

The Cape of Good Hope is located in the terrifying westerly belt, coupled with "murderous waves" and strange ocean currents. The combination of these three dangers has created the "Killing Cape", the most dangerous route in the Age of Discovery.

Fortunately, it is the turn of spring and summer in May, so Franz and Friedrich will not experience the "boiling soup and boiling water" scene in person.

It would be thrilling to come here during the peak summer season.

Of course, Franz didn't like looking for "thrills," so after listening to reports from the navigator and other officers, he chose to pass the Cape of Good Hope at full speed during a safer season.

Taking advantage of his spare days while repairing ships in Bagamoyo, Franz initially established order in the newly acquired colony of Tanzania.

His methods opened Benny Erbin's eyes and gave him a new understanding of the so-called "kindness".

Eliminating evil and eradicating its roots were just two abstract concepts in his mind. But in the past few days, too many dazzling things have happened. First, the once arrogant Omani navy was wiped out while the two precocious noblemen were chatting and laughing.

Later, under Franz's instruction, several tribes who wanted to sit on the ground and raise prices were punished. The saying that wildfires never burn out and are rekindled by the spring breeze is only for weeds.

If a person turns to ashes, he may not be able to be reborn, unless you regard the return of ashes to dust as the rebirth of life.

Friedrich acted in naval battles, and Albrecht was good at land battles, but when it came to how to torture vegetables and fight public security warfare, neither of them together was as good as Franz.

The method is very simple and intuitive. Just set fire to the grassland, deliberately leave an "escape passage", and finally seal it.

Next, in order to truly eradicate the problem, the lands of those tribes were designated as "generous" conditions for offering bounties on their heads.

As a result, even the clans closest to those tribes also joined in this "hunting feast".

During the entire process, the Austrian army did not have a direct conflict with the rebels, so the direct casualties were almost zero, but the killing efficiency was astonishingly high.

Entire four thousand tribes were completely exterminated, and even traces of their lives were artificially erased from the world.

Before Franz and his party set off, they successfully ambushed the Zawasan pirates who were planning to take advantage of the situation. These pirates were defeated faster than the Omanis, because their job was to be "robbers", not "armies", so the confrontation between the two armies would naturally be more disadvantageous.

Fortunately, we didn't mobilize all the troops this time, otherwise it would have been the swan song of the Zawasan pirates.

Due to the huge generation gap between the weapons and equipment of the two sides, and the fact that they were ambushed when they thought they were sure of victory, the pirates were very aware of the situation and chose to surrender at the first opportunity, and did not resort to any trick of pretending to surrender. Jumping state war.

(Bangjing warfare, also known as boarding warfare, is a very passionate and brutal way of fighting.

Except for a few ruthless bandits who refused to surrender and the unlucky ones who were shelled as soon as the war started, most people became prisoners.

Some of the pirate leaders had the idea to surrender to two Austrian royal nobles so that they could attack their old enemies, the Omanis, in the future.

But Franz, who saw through his trick, did not intend to bite this not-so-sweet bait. Instead, he handed all the captured pirates to Said for his disposal.

These bastards put forward the same conditions to the Sultan, saying that they could put aside their past grudges and jointly fight against Austria, but the latter did not accept the pirates' proposal.

Because Said was afraid that this was a game deliberately set by Franz to test him, and after experiencing the power of the opponent's fleet, no one would be stupid enough to join forces with the Zawasan pirates to fight against such a terrifying enemy.

Said had never been afraid of someone or a country in his life, but Majid told him that the enemy's commander was a minor, and the commander-in-chief was a child.

He really didn't know what a kid with huge power would do.

As a result, those pirates who thought they were invincible became witnesses to the brutality of the Omanis. Almost no one of them could leave a complete corpse.

Of course, the above crimes will not be remembered by the Austrians. What will be remembered in people's hearts are only the successful "Bagamoyo Declaration" and the "Treaty of Zanzibar" of equality and reciprocity.

After these three wars, Tanzania has truly achieved "great governance" in a period of time by not picking up things on the road, not closing the door at night, and stopping children from crying.

However, these are not commendable to Franz. After all, he has multiple advantages such as superior equipment and intelligence. If he cannot defeat his opponent completely, it will only be his own incompetence.

After passing the Cape of Good Hope without any danger, our party arrived at one of the terminal points on the voyage, Namibia, known as the "Gateway to Hell".

This place can be said to be one of the earliest colonies established by the empire. The mining of gold and diamonds has brought strong popularity to the place.

The "Gold Rush" and "Diamond Rush" enabled it to be upgraded from a large trading post with only 200 people to a "model colony" in just a few years.

But before he could rest ashore, Franz received a letter from Adjani asking for help, and a huge financial catastrophe had just surfaced.