【215】Joseph I(1/2)
Kalanka was shocked and woke up. She said in shock: "This is a tunnel built at the bottom of the Danube River? Oh my God, is this project possible? Could it be...is it built by God himself?
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Putting aside the difficulty of construction at the bottom of the river, the surrounding building materials that seem to be transparent and suspended, and other strange things, just taking the problem of human ventilation at a water depth of 100 meters is almost impossible for today's engineering technology.
The problem overcome!
No wonder Kalanka was shocked!
No wonder she thought it was God’s work!
Jielioff shook his head and sighed, "Miss Rothschild, your father, your grandfather, and the eleven masters of the Meer Blue Castle were all when they first used the Gate of Redemption.
Your expression also has your questions... Well, you don't need to understand it, well, it's okay to understand it as a masterpiece of God! Next, you are about to embark on a journey that will last you forever!
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Speaking of this, the ancient butler muttered, as he walked forward, "One more time, this door of redemption will be opened again, and I will be free from here! I hope that the English Count,
Don't let me wait too long! Hehehe..."..
Jielioff took a few steps, and his hands fumbled on the almost transparent space wall. Then a hole suddenly appeared in the transparent place. The dark hole entrance could just accommodate two people. Zheng Gongxiao's eyes were pointed.
The entrance of the hole seemed to contain two round cylindrical entrances, just like a large coffin with two small coffins placed flat, and these three coffins were opened with a hole from the head.
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Well, this metaphor may not be very auspicious... Let's use Miss Kalanka's rhetorical technique: these are two silkworm pupas! Will we really not be suffocated after we enter?
After Jielioff expressed his doubts about letting Kalanka and the others get into the hole.
"I may feel a little weightless, oh. It's a wonderful feeling that the anal sphincter contracts when I fall rapidly from a high place... Well, I guarantee that I use the honor of my Meir Blue Butler, I will never suffocate you to death!"
Jielioff replied seriously: "Miss Rothschild, your father and your grandfather have all been in there. Look, aren't they living well?"
Oh, my grandfather has gone to heaven, and my father is bedridden. They are not what you said, "Life is good." Kalanka complains in her stomach, but she still chooses to believe Jielioff
The suggestion was that his feet hesitated to stretch into the black 'silk pupa'... But Zheng Gongxiao laughed: "I'm afraid of being a hair, but I can't die a bird that can't die for thousands of years, hahaha!", and then
Then he jumped into the adjacent "silkworm pupa". Seeing this, Kalanka moaned: Oh, Zheng, did I really choose him as a contestant in the gambling game? May God bless me...
The inner city of Vienna, the imperial palace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Joseph, dressed in military uniform, sat in front of an extremely wide round table, with countless documents piled up on the table, as well as several dining plates, cups, and fragments of midnight snacks left on it.
This is where His Majesty Joseph I usually work. Unlike ordinary people, he likes a generous desk. Because this can make him feel like he is giving advice and swaying in a simplicity. Even at the age of 62, he is still thinking.
In a few months, this big table should be added with the effect of sand trays. It is best to look over and you can see your colorful territory!
Yes. This emperor, who is of noble origin and has direct bloodlines in the Habsburg family, has a strong face, sharp eyes, full of energy, and has a strong control. He not only keeps all kinds of military uniforms for many years, but also insists on working 12 hours a day.
Above... At 11 o'clock in the evening, he usually eats the late-night snack pastry cooked by the imperial chef of the palace, then takes a cool shower, then rests on the camp bed between the side for an hour, and then he wants to
Work until four in the morning!
Joseph I was such a stubborn, stubborn, conceited, and proud man with the traditional royal pride. He hoped that when he opened his eyes, he could bring the second largest empire in Europe into his eyes, and even if he fell asleep, he would still be in
In my dream, I rode my horse and whip and galloped on the land of Austria and Hungary!
However, today, the bell has been ringing 24 times. After midnight, our Emperor Joseph still sat in the hard, high-back seat that was definitely not comfortable, not as usual.
He went to rinse his tiredness with cold water, but his eyes stared blankly at the dark void outside the room, and his whole body seemed to be in a state of dazedness.
This free state was rare for Joseph I, but he had reason to do so today, because in the morning, a vicious explosion occurred in the inner city of Vienna, which he always thought was impregnable!
Yes, it's an accident!
Joseph's dull eyes suddenly turned, and the beautiful white beard on the corner of his mouth trembled. When he moved his body, he had already grabbed the conclusion report written by the Fire Dragon Knights and Secret Jingzhai in his hand: An
Tiel's warehouse contains a large amount of explosives, which caused an explosion due to poor management...
"Hmph, Antel, Antel Eurasian Freight Company..."
Joseph muttered to himself in the voice he could only hear: "Don't think that the country you registered is France, I can't guess your origin! You have stockpiled so much explosives, do you want to blow Vienna into the Kingdom of Heaven
?Hehe, except for the turtle grandchildren in Italy, who would be so interested in killing me and my empire?”
In just one sentence, our Emperor Joseph actually used five pronunciations. There was no way, who made the imperial nations under his rule many, including Bohemians, Poles, Austrian Germans... and various
Slavs!
Therefore, Joseph, who is proficient in eight languages, often uses this way to make any diplomat envy and crazy in his daily life, and changes his oral language at will.
Of course, this also made the servants and officials serving Joseph sometimes seem at a loss. Fortunately, after Lord Schwarzenberg's death in 1852, His Majesty the Emperor no longer appointed the Prime Minister. He did everything himself.
After Joseph muttered, he picked up one-third of the coffee cup left and drank it all. The bitter and sweet taste remained on his teeth, which made the ducái lips slightly curled up: "This
Once the Fire Dragon Knights were pretty, hum. The stupid person in charge of Antel Company did not put out the fire and destroy the evidence of crime at the first time, but wanted to escape from Vienna! But my red walls were not a waste of cultivation.
? Now that I seized all the evidence, the Antel company will belong to the royal family. I didn’t expect that a small freight company would have such a strong foundation…”
When he thought of the property he had seized after seizing Antel, even Joseph's ambition was so excited: According to the report of the Flame Dragon Knights he founded, this Antel Eurasian Freight Company was actually in Austria
The bank deposited a huge deposit of 2 million pounds, which is not counting. According to the records of the searched books, their deposits in Austrian banks are only a small part! It only accounts for about 25% of their total value!
"2 million pounds, that's already a lot..."
Joseph slapped the table with the folder "Antel's property list" with the red cover, and smiled and murmured: "Companies engaged in illegal acts? Oh, God testified that their property is naturally dirty,
Sin, endangering the people. I represent the will of the empire. Of course, I can confiscate all their deposits in Austrian banks! No matter which country comes to explain it, I can't find any fault!"
£2 million is a huge sum for a business company, but for a vast empire, it is often just a trivial sum, perhaps expanding a 10,000 infantry regiment. Perhaps building several ships in the powers
The popular ocean-going warship, the 2 million pounds will be like the bread in the hand of a beggar, and will disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye!
However, this time, His Majesty Joseph I was excited about this "small 2 million pounds, for the simple reason. The empire in his hands was already full of holes and was heavily in debt. If it weren't for the sake of preserving a little bit of the face of the Austro-Hungarian royal family
, In order to pay off the debt, His Majesty Joseph once planned to rent out the palace!
Joseph I ascended the throne at the age of 18, and it has been 44 years since now. However, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was turning around at a speed that Joseph could not understand, and let him use all his strength to stop.
Can't hold on to this downward momentum!
Suppressing the revolutionary army, stupid sidelines in the Crimean War, the failure of the Battle of Solfelino... These mistakes in Joseph's early years of power caused the military prestige of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to be destroyed!
After more than ten years of war failure in the early period of administration, Joseph attributed this to his lack of experience and the scheming of the enemy. He believed that this was his tuition for his youth, so since then, he turned his attention to the constitutional experiment and
In resolving national conflicts, and striving to make his empire a powerful military power when it is externally, while in the internally, it is necessary to give the people a confusing, inducing and just federal image.
After all, in Europe at that time, revolutions occurred frequently, and it was a general expectation that Joseph had to follow the public opinion, right?
Joseph's idea was beautiful, but his unwise political approach could not control this huge and complex concept of "binary". Instead, due to the complete bankruptcy of the federal solution, he had to face Hungary, which had been disobedient.
People made compromises. In 1867, the Austro-Hungarian Empire became a "dual monarchy of empires and kingdoms". The "dual system" imagined by Joseph was realized in such a ridiculous way!
Originally, Joseph I was the common monarch of Austria and Hungary, but since 1867, Austria and Hungary have become 'equitable partners'! This is equivalent to depriving Joseph I of half of the rights, and it is also more within the empire.
The problem of national disharmony has buried the fuse.
After this, although Joseph had a feat of "The Three Emperors Alliance", in general, the empire in his hands slowly declined in the continuous internal friction and repeated failures of diplomatic strategies, and finally reached ten years ago.
The empire's zhongyāng Bank: Austrian Bank was completely acquired by the Ford family!
The second largest country in Europe, unknown, turned into a debtor of a "small family"!
In order to maintain the domestic economy from collapse, starting nine years ago, every year, Joseph borrowed millions of pounds from the Ford family. Just the interest paid was a command every year to His Majesty the Emperor
Astronomical figures that can't breathe.
It is also because of this. In order to compensate for the interest, Joseph no longer remembers that he signed several commercial tax exemptions to the Ford family. Although he knew that the taxes lost in this way were not a small amount, there was no way, who could let him do it.
Is the financial lifeline completely pinched by the Ford family?
Madd, I also want to take action against those greedy bankers!
Joseph mumbled, but put the tempting idea aside for the time being: the banker is a threat, but it will not be destroyed, at least his control over the army is still there, if the Ford family is stupid enough to force me into it
In a desperate situation, I would never mind using the army to clean up the Ford family, regardless of what other countries say...
However, what really poses a fatal threat to the empire is the surrounding countries with bad intentions! Italy, Serbia... Take the incident where his granddaughter was almost assassinated not long ago, these damn anarchists.
It is clear that I want to incite the empire to start a war!
When I think of my granddaughter: Princess Sissi, Joseph's fierce eyes softened: This granddaughter looks so much like her queen when she was young, but I have to blame Sir Kosha, what's wrong with my granddaughter
OK? You dare not? If you obediently obediently, you will be happy to make Xiao Xixi happy and everyone will be happy... But you are ungrateful, but you just want to make do with that little girl Kalanka.
Isn’t this intention to make things difficult for me, a wise and powerful emperor?
I don’t have the time to care about your love and love!
Joseph cursed Zheng Gongxiao, who was "ruthless and unrighteous, ignorant" in his stomach. However, His Majesty the Emperor still believed that this was a small conflict between the younger generation. He was unwilling to use imperial power to suppress it.
An oriental who had saved his granddaughter.
What's more, Joseph was very clear about the origin and background of Kalanka. The imperial army needed weapons provided by Kalanka. As the king of a country, it would be very stupid to offend a powerful arms dealer for the emotional entanglement of his younger generations!
"Oh, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, hum. That Kexiao, I missed my cute, beautiful, lively and kind little Qianxi, and I will wait to regret it in the future!"
Joseph stretched, sincerely "blessed" Zheng Gongxiao, and then got up to complete his daily cold shower.
At this moment, Princess Sissi, who was "cute, beautiful, lively and kind" in Joseph's mouth, was wearing a flesh-colored nightgown robe, tossing and turning on the wide and soft bed, so excited that she couldn't sleep!
This Princess Sissi has completely inherited the beauty of her grandmother. Thinking back then, Princess Elizabeth Emily Vesbach of Bavaria (i.e., Princess Sissi, Joseph's wife) has spread throughout the European royal family. Who wouldn't want to
To be continued...