Chapter 353: Unworried Brother
Chapter 343 – Unconscientious Brother
Originally Franz just borrowed the opening of colonies to cover the military preparations for intervention in the American Civil War, the results of the American Civil War did not interfere to, Austria’s new round of colonial expansion first broke out.
First of all, the African continent, do not look at the three infantry divisions do not seem to have a lot of troops, but put into the overseas colonization, that can be swept a dozen indigenous tribes.
Open the map to know, from West Africa to the Congo region of the colonies, has been linked together.
The Austrian colonial power in the south has pushed its sphere of influence along the river to Zambia; in the east, it has penetrated into Uganda and Kenya.
In the Middle East, Austria has used the Sinai Peninsula as a springboard to push its tentacles deep into the Arabian Peninsula, and has already snubbed several tribes into signing land-buying treaties, and Austrian colonial strongholds have appeared in the Persian Gulf region.
Just waiting for the opening of the Suez Canal, these areas will fall into Austria’s hands.
Central America, Austria to penetrate the main, and did not come up to play the war of extermination. The United States from the United States to lull a group of immigrants to settle down, countries want to not be controlled by Austria can not.
Take Nicaragua as an example, the number of ethnic Germans took up four layers of the white population and became the first major ethnic group there. With the Austrian army stationed there, the government can’t even think of not being pro-Austrian.
The new Holy Roman Empire has added an autonomous province of Lanfang, Franz does not mind adding a few more, and peace **** is also a good way to expand.
Of course this is only effective for such a sparsely populated place as Central America, after all, the number of local whites is only a few hundred thousand, but also divided into five or six countries.
Even if they weren’t incorporated into the imperial system, they could still be turned into pro-Austrian countries. Away from areas that were difficult to rule in the homeland, direct annexation wasn’t necessarily a good thing in practice, and loose alliances weren’t unacceptable.
In the South Seas, the Austrian colonial government occupied how many islands, Franz is not sure, anyway, it is a four-digit number, multi-island country is really not covered.
Expansion in the South Seas had stopped, and it was now up to Prussia and the German Confederation to perform.
The German Confederation ran rampant in the Malaysian region, and it looked like George I had already put the London government in its place.
The Kingdom of Prussia chose to die in the Central and Southern Peninsula for a very simple reason: the Central and Southern Peninsula was fertile enough and had plenty of room for expansion.
Sumatra, though not bad, was still too small compared to the peninsula, and the Dutch had already occupied a lot of territory.
Prussia could beat the Dutch in Europe, but the situation was reversed in the South Seas region, where the nascent Prussian navy had no strength.
Opened the world map, carefully looked over again, Franz surprised to find that the world actually want to be divided up.
This is not a good thing, it means that in the future the conflict between countries will occur from time to time. Especially the emerging empires, which were bound to challenge the world order to seize the living space.
Franz then dismissed this idea, the current situation, the European continent wants to appear emerging empire is too difficult.
Russia, France and Austria stand side by side, there is no room for the rise of the fourth pole. The next level of Spain is still deep in internal conflict, and they were originally the old empire, leaving behind a lot of heritage.
Prussia, not to mention, in order to solve the industrial raw materials and markets, was forced to move towards the road of overseas colonization. Establishing the German II empire, unless someone gives them the boot.
The other potential, the Kingdom of Sardinia, is out of the woods this time. Not to mention unifying the Italian regions, they themselves became the sustenance of the French.
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The Palazzo dei Mezzogiorno
Franz is bringing up his children and to this day he is a father of three.
Despite being only seven years old, as the Crown Prince, Frederick had no chance of being an asshat. Every day there was endless homework to do and learning to do.
Seemingly devastated, a downcast Frederick walked up to Franz and asked, “Father, why is it that I’m the only one who has to go to school and none of you have to?”
Franz patiently explained, “It’s simple, because I’ve already learned all this homework, so I don’t have to read it now.
Your brothers are still too young, you see William can’t even speak well, how can they learn? When they are a little older, they will go to school with you.”
Frederick complained, “But I have too much homework too, I’ve been out there and many children only have three subjects.”
That’s right Austrian compulsory education consists of only three subjects: German, math, and history, and all other subjects are optional.
German and history are spiced up, and German includes a patriotic education. History is naturally the Greater German version, proving from the source that all Austrian races are branches of the Germanic peoples.
Whether ordinary people believed it or not, the nobility did anyway. Their ancestors basically came from the Germanic region, and then they represented the Austrian nationalities.
The history is untraceable, and the culture is still arguing about it. Franz did not intervene, anyway, as long as the assimilation and education of two generations, later want to repeat impossible.
It didn’t matter if the textbooks proved to be wrong, too much time had passed and it was understandable that there were errors in the information that had been passed down.
The government does not confirm, nor deny, professional problems let history scholars slowly quarrel, in short, are academic issues.
Discuss it as you like behind closed doors, the public doesn’t care about that anyway. It is impossible to amend the textbooks before a uniform answer is formed.
Franz explained, “That’s just the basic education provided by the state, and all those who are in a position to do so will have to learn more homework.
The world is cruel, Frederick. The amount of knowledge one learns also means the level of position one is in in society.
As the Crown Prince of the Empire, you are born at the top of the world and must be the best, so naturally you have to learn more. This is an ability you must have, and I have come this way as well.”
Happy education? Being born in a royal family is inherently insulated from happiness.
Cultivate hobby development? Or do not dream, as the Crown Prince career is the emperor, do not need to consider the employment problem.
This is one of the most enviable and difficult career.
As long as the emperor is cultivated in strict accordance with the process, perhaps it will not produce a genius, and likewise will not cultivate a stupid white sweet.
Franz didn’t need a genius heir because geniuses usually had quirks that didn’t suit the emperor profession.
As an heir to the empire, it was enough to be able to maintain the empire in a step-by-step manner, have some basic knowledge, and not be fooled.
As for governing the country, isn’t there still a cabinet?
A large empire’s tolerance for error is very high, only the emperor does not toss and turn, from the bottom by the performance of the cabinet officials step by step to climb up, the ability to govern the country even worse, will not make the people angry.
Besides, the cabinet can not be replaced. As the emperor as long as in the critical moment, they screwed things up guys thrown out to take the blame on the line.
In short, if the emperor doesn’t meddle recklessly, things can’t get much worse. At the same time in the bureaucrats on a spell, occasionally catch a few ungrateful corrupt officials to make an example of, that is a good emperor.
Looking at the depressed Frederick, Franz just smiled slightly and didn’t say anything more.
A maid hurriedly ran in and said, “Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager asks you to come over.”
The person who came Franz also recognized, it was the most favored lady-in-waiting beside the Empress Dowager Sophie.
“Elena, what happened that you are in such a hurry?”
Elena ran a little fast, a little out of breath, swallowed and said, “Archduke Massimiliano is preparing to go to Mexico to be the emperor, was opposed by the dowager empress, there was a fierce quarrel, you quickly go over to see!”
Franz had an instant headache with this unconscious brother.
Franz had already had the information about Mexico handed over to him, the purpose was to make him know what to do, did not think that now he still made the same choice in history.
It goes without saying that, being a good older brother, Franz arrived at the scene as fast as he could.
From afar, he heard the roar of Empress Dowager Sophie, who was clearly infuriated by Massimiliano. As a member of the royal family, the most basic international common sense Empress Dowager Sophie still knew, judging by her amateur political vision, this was a giant pit.
Seeing Franz come in, Empress Dowager Sophie stopped roaring, eased her emotions and said, “Franz, popularize the situation in Mexico to your baby brother, this idiot actually wants to go to Mexico to be the emperor.”
Franz comforted, “Okay mother, I’ll leave this fool to me, just calm down.”
Looking at the downcast Massimiliano, Franz knew he was very unconvinced. The smooth sailing Massimiliano had naturally developed a sense of arrogance, such as wanting to challenge a copy of hell right now.
“Massimiliano, who told to go to Mexico to be the emperor? Never tell me that you don’t even have supporters.” Franz asked
Massimiliano replied, “The Mexican Constitutionalists, and Napoleon III promised to support my succession.”
Obviously, Massimiliano is not really stupid, theoretically obtained the support of France and Austria, coupled with the strength of the Mexican Constitutionalists, he is not difficult to sit on this throne.
Franz asked sternly: “Want to wear the crown, first bear its weight! Massimiliano, what makes you think you can sit on the Mexican throne? Come up with your policy of governance to convince me and prove yourself.
The Habsburgs will not put an ignorant fool on the throne, or else one day this fool will go to the guillotine, and we can’t afford to lose that honor.”
The stimulated Massimiliano, immediately replied, “Just you wait, I will prove it to you!”
Franz did not continue with his sarcasm; the hole had already been dug. There was never a perfect governance program in the world, no matter what kind of program Massimiliano came up with, Franz could pick out the thorns.
If he couldn’t even fool an idealist, on what basis could Franz realize the Austrian renaissance?
(End of chapter)