Chapter 1: Crossing
Chapter 1 Crossing Through
Late Night
Li Mu looked at the classical yet luxurious room, and then looked at his own cold iron bed, how to look at it all feel awkward.
Li Mu sighed helplessly for two years!
That’s right, Li Mu had traveled across the world, he was now named Franz Joseph, that old Austro-Hungarian emperor in history, the main character in Princess Sissi’s love story.
The grandson of Holy Roman Emperor Franz II, the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl, his mother is the daughter of King Maximilian I of Bavaria – Princess Sophie Friederica.
(Franz Joseph I, founder of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and last emperor of the Habsburg dynasty, born August 18, 1830, ascended the throne December 2, 1848, died November 21, 1916)
As if God had played a joke on Franz, in his early years he lived a fairytale life, with an exceptionally beautiful queen, lovely children and control of a powerful empire.
In his early years, Franz deserved the title of Emperor, he made his people, his country, his nation and the woman he loved so much safe and proud because of him.
Unfortunately, this was like a dream, and it took a sharp turn for the worse in his later years.
His brother was shot in Mexico, his wife was stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist in Geneva, and his son committed suicide at a young age.
His chosen heir was stabbed to death by the Serbian mafia, and his retaliatory wars for this caused tens of millions of people to fall in a sea of blood and the empire he had fought for all his life to crumble in war.
Franz’s uncle, Ferdinand I, the current Emperor of Austria, was unable to have children due to a birth defect, and Franz was groomed early on as heir to the Empire.
As the heir to the empire, the childhood happiness of life, and he said goodbye, the aristocrats of the paper drunken happy life, that’s not to say, and Franz did not have half a penny to do with.
Study, study, or study, from the moment of birth, Franz received the strictest training.
Sleeping in a cold marching bed, he had to get up every morning at four o’clock, wash himself with cold water, start the morning prayers of a devout Catholic in front of the little prayer desk beside his bed, and then begin his twelve-hour-long studies.
Whether in the cold months of winter or in the three volts of summer, it remained unchanged.
Just after crossing, ice and snow covered Vienna, the first time to take a cold shower in the cold winter, Li Mu thought that he was about to be finished, but he did not expect his body to be surprisingly good, actually even a cold.
More than seven hundred days and nights are enough to change a lot of things, now Li Mu is Franz, he did not even know that his willpower is actually so strong, it is true that people are forced out.
During these two years, Li Mu, no, is now Franz. He retained the vast majority of the original owner’s habits.
Many times he wondered if the memories of his previous life were a dream.
After carefully comparing the historical development, Franz helplessly realized that this world was exactly the same as the one he experienced in his previous life, even the potato underharvest in the German region had not changed.
As a history enthusiast, in his previous life he did not study the history of Austria less, and he was clear that the Austrian Empire that looked like a flourishing empire was actually already externally strong, and would collapse with just a gentle push.
On the surface, the current Austrian Empire is still as good as new, as the dominant player in the Vienna Conference, the European order maker after the war against France, this time is acting as the role of the European gendarme.
No one knew that the empire of this boss would come crashing down in the Revolution two years later, and that the Austrian Empire would have become history in 1849 if the Great Powers had not needed him to exist.
Even if it barely survived, the Austrian Empire went from strength to strength from then on.
Because of the diplomatic failures, it led to a series of military defeats, first the Austro-French War was lost, then the Austro-Prussian War was lost, and even the Italians bit off a piece of meat from Austria.
A series of failures struck the authority of the central government, which was finally forced to make a compromise and transformed from the Austrian Empire to the dualistic Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in history was full of contingencies, and Franz did not dare to bet that he could do better than the original master. Saving the Austrian Empire now was his interim goal.
Of course, he could also choose to escape, give up the right to inherit the throne, and go to be an ordinary person, finding a safe place to be a happy capitalist.
Unfortunately, after two years of aristocratic life, Franz’s ambition had already been bred.
Life is short, a few decades in a hurry. Why should he retreat when he can stand at the peak of the world and be the mover of the times by traveling across once?
The night was already deep, Franz continued to perfect his program of national salvation, which had been revised for an unknown number of times.
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“Grand Duke, it’s time to go to class!” The maid reminded softly
The maid’s voice woke Franz from his sleep.
“Got it!” Franz said helplessly
Now he was a good student, politics, history, philosophy, language, religion …… dozens of homework, that was all able to ~ average pass.
That’s right, it is to add up the grades of all the subjects together, and seek the average he barely passes, if he fails, then it is rounded up well.
This is definitely a good student, compared to the two younger brothers who study together, Franz how is also an honor student.
Of course, this is the result of different standards, his mother, Mrs. Sophie’s requirements for him is to be the best, while the standards of the two younger brothers is just make do.
In Franz’s opinion, this kind of education was essentially a failure. Too much of the curriculum required rote memorization, leaving no time for reflection at all.
There is no way, this time the Habsburg family had a change of heart, father and uncle are congenital IQ deficit of the Lord, the family’s inheritance of education appeared to be a break in the generation, was originally handed down by word of mouth imperial scholarship, this is interrupted.
These courses were arranged by his mother Sophie, a faithful Catholic, who believed that as the emperor’s heir must be strong, any emotional outbursts would be disastrous, and was extraordinarily strict with Franz.
In addition to learning his mother tongue, Franz was able to write letters in French at the age of 8, then learned Magyar, Czech, and Italian at the age of 11, and began dabbling in Latin and Greek at the age of 13 ……
Unfortunately, he didn’t inherit the genes of the original owner’s schoolmaster, and after finishing the old capital left by the original owner, Franz’s schoolwork was deteriorating.
The historical Franz who was fluent in eight languages and could converse in almost all the national languages of the Austro-Hungarian empire has gone away, and now there is only one schoolboy left, Franz, who is struggling to pass the exams.
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(End of chapter)