Chapter 1081: Franz, the Spiritual Guide

  Chapter 1060 – Heart Tutor Franz

To buy or not to buy?
It wasn’t even a multiple choice question.

From the standpoint of the Vienna government, the Moroccan region had to be taken, it was only a matter of time.

The Air Force’s “Terminator Plan”, although somewhat idealistic, is not entirely without merit.

It is unrealistic to attack the Royal Navy’s lair, but it is still possible to use Morocco as a giant aircraft carrier, deploy a few hundred bombers on it, and lock up the western gate.

For the Holy Roman Empire, the greatest value of taking Morocco is to grasp the strategic initiative.

With both the eastern and western gates of the Mediterranean in hand, the Holy Roman Navy can take the initiative, and does not need to nestle in the lair every day to watch the house.

In recent years, the government of Vienna has been very peaceful, rarely involved in regional conflicts, not that it will not engage in things, mainly because of the lack of mobility.

Most of the Royal Navy’s main force stayed in the Home Fleet, just to keep an eye on the Shinra Navy. In order to ensure the control of the Mediterranean Sea, the Vienna government can only leave the main ship in the lair squatting.

There was no way around it, the British Navy was too powerful. Shinra could only allow the navy and air force to cooperate in order to gain the upper hand in the Mediterranean.

If the main force to go out, the British to a hard, directly from the back to launch a surprise attack to blow up the Suez Canal, the Shen Luo Navy blocked outside, that would be the end of the game.

When it comes to the struggle for hegemony, there’s never anything to lose. No one can guarantee that Britannia will not be able to produce a ruthless person.

Taking the Moroccan region is different, the western gate is locked. Regardless of how the outside world is changing, Shen Luo is able to ensure the control of the Mediterranean Sea.

Even if war breaks out, the British will at most send a few submarines in to mess things up. As for surface ships, it was estimated that passing through the strait would be almost a waste.

Airplanes can’t sink warships, that’s just hard to do in a short raid. If they follow their asses and keep bombing, even the most powerful warships will have to go into the sea and feed the fish.

As long as the Mediterranean Sea is still in the hands of the Vienna government can through the sea, in the shortest possible time to mobilize the resources of Asia, Europe and Africa.

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Another windy and sunny day, Franz, who had nothing to do, appeared with a group of grandchildren on the shore of the artificial lake in the Vienna Palace.

For some reason, every wealthy emperor liked to repair palaces, and Franz was no exception.

The giant artificial lake in front of him was one of Franz’s masterpieces. After several expansions, the sunset Mizuno Palace and Hofburg Palace have been connected to form the current Vienna Palace.

If you simply calculate the floor space, the Vienna Palace is definitely the largest palace in the world, without one.

If Franz was willing to do so, he could have raced his car in his own home. If he were in the Eastern world, if the emperor had made such a large enclosure of land to build a palace, the civil officials would have been sprayed with blood.

However, in the Holy Roman Empire, this was not a big deal at all. As a large empire with a territory of nearly 40 million square kilometers, there is a possibility that everything will be lacking, but there will not be a lack of land.

Vienna was originally the emperor’s direct territory, most of the land is the private property of the royal family, the emperor wants to add a fence on his own land, no one can control.

That’s right, the so-called expansion is to add a wall. Increased the patrol range of the royal guards, on the contrary, the buildings increased not much.

The original farms and manors still existed, and it was only the factories that migrated away.

Seasonal vegetables inside the palace are provided by these farms. All natural products, absolutely no chemical fertilizers and pesticides additives.

Mainly for convenience, otherwise the two palaces running around, although not very hurtful, but really very laborious.

It can’t be helped, who made Franz afraid of death?
Every time you travel to escort to monitor the two kilometers in a radius, absolutely do not give the enemy to leave any opportunity, the battle is not at all than the marching and fighting movement is small.

In order to facilitate everyone, simply connect the two places well, save running back and forth to toss the residents of the surrounding area.

Anyway, the emperor is now rich, can afford to raise enough royal guards, the palace is no longer big enough to monitor over.

Putting aside private property, the annuity alone is enough for Franz to squander.

To know the constitutional time, see the Vienna government financial difficulties, Franz took the initiative to make sacrifices, put forward and national suffering, early set the royal annuity according to the financial income 1.5% extraction.

Really “sacrifice”, the Vienna government that was really poor. Extract the royal annuity, even the palace guard can not afford to support.

The first few years, Franz did not less money. At that time, the media also made propaganda, really moved a lot of people.

It’s just that no one could have imagined that the country would grow so fast. In just over forty years, from an Austria of less than 700,000 square kilometers, it snowballed into the current Holy Roman Empire.

The country was growing, and the economy was booming, the financial income of the Vienna government naturally rose, and actually swelled by tens of times.

Needless to say, public companies still have equity incentives. As the person responsible for promoting the development of the country, the emperor naturally followed the benefit.

To this day, a political show back then has become a great story that has spread around the world.

As far as Franz knew, there were already several aspiring emperors following suit. The end result is that these followers have developed good habits of thrift and frugality.

There was no way around it, these days there were just too many challenges for a country to face if it wanted to develop.

Although Austria was in decline back then, it was at least the fourth largest power in the world, and it still had the strength to hold up its end of the bargain.

Not only do not need to worry about the threat of foreign enemies, but also to promote social reform at the same time, play colonial expansion to transfer domestic conflicts.

There is no such thing as a family background, but also jumped out to follow the wind for show, but the hard life still want what?

You should know that industrialization is very costly, no foreign colonial plunder of the proceeds, just rely on farming to save the family base, the development speed is absolutely touching.

Hailed as a model monarch Franz, to unintentionally pitted counterparts, can only silently express spiritual support.

To put it simply, he had his retainers write letters of encouragement to these juniors from time to time, constantly instilling chicken soup for the soul.

In short, the road ahead is winding and the future is bright. As long as one perseveres in what one is doing, one day one will be able to achieve success.

Based on the principle of fooling one and counting one, Franz’s reputation in the circle of monarchs, that is rubbing upwards, has a large number of believers.

As for how it would end up, it was beyond Franz’s control.

As a qualified spiritual teacher, Franz knows very well the reasoning of “doing more is more wrong, not doing is not good”.

Therefore, he has never done only spiritual encouragement, not to make any specific suggestions, the beautiful name of not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

It is all for the idle out. When the time to start the world, Franz hated the rulers of other countries are drunk, not to mention encouraging them to struggle.

Now it is different, the dominant position of the Holy Roman Empire has been established. No matter how much the later ones can toss and turn, they can’t change the big picture.

Then why not just be a good guy and inspire the later generations to study hard, complete industrialization as soon as possible, and push forward the development of human civilization?

I don’t know whether it is because of “fish eat bad luck food”, Franz every time fishing is always happy to come, but return disappointed.

This time is no exception, looking at a group of bouncing grandchildren, Franz knew that today is difficult to harvest.

However, this is a small problem, fishing is meant to pass the time, whether or not the harvest is actually not important.

“Father, the English are out to make trouble again!”

Hearing a familiar voice coming from behind him, Franz knew that trouble was coming again. In these recent years, the dark war between Shinra and Britain was getting more and more intense.

Today you pit me, tomorrow I’ll pit you. As the days and months accumulated, the grudges between the two countries had long been smoothed over.

Especially Frederick officiated this period of time, the government of Vienna has not been less than a loss. In the spirit of the principle of tuition, as long as it does not involve the core interests, Franz are too lazy to ask.

“Morocco’s problem?”

From the news that the Spanish government was going to sell the Moroccan region, Franz knew that the British were going to make things happen.

The essence of international politics is: I oppose what the enemy supports, I support what the enemy opposes; what the enemy wants to do, let them fail.

Frederick: “That’s right. The English spread rumors around that we were bullying the Spanish government to take the Moroccan region by force.

Just this morning, the British foreign minister also made a public declaration in support of the Spanish government’s defense of its rights and interests, suggesting that the Spanish government bring the Moroccan region completely under its control.”

Franz commented with interest, “It seems that this British government is progressing very quickly, and its political tactics are becoming more and more mature.

But these small tactics are just enough to disgust people. Unless the British are willing to pay, supporting Spain to control the Moroccan region is a joke.

As long as the Spanish government’s financial problems are not solved, their determination to sell the Moroccan region will not be easily shaken. Now made a fuss, it is just convenient for the Spanish to raise the price.

Keep a close eye on it, the British must still have a backhand. Warn the Spanish government to be wary of a revolution breaking out at home.”

It was a bit surprising that the British government didn’t jump in to compete for the Moroccan region. But considering that the British have suffered similar losses before, it’s not surprising that they’ve learned their lesson now.

As for the pressure on public opinion, it was nothing more than a question of price. Only if the money is given less is it a forced purchase; as long as the price is reasonable, it is an ordinary colonial transaction.

In a simple calculation, the Vienna government would have to pay tens of millions of guilders more for this, and the British had no reason not to do it.

Frederick said with a frustrated face: ”The reasoning is right, but the English calculation has brought our negotiations with the Spanish to a deadlock once again.

Not only has it sparked public opinion internationally, but the people at home are likewise very concerned about this issue. There are even several fundraising committees that want to pay for the government.

Ever since the news of the Spanish government’s intention to sell the Moroccan region spread, there has been a steady stream of people coming to lobby for it, and I’m getting tired of it.”

Apparently, the sudden emergence of “fund-raising committees” that want to pay for the government isn’t as patriotic as it sounds.

In the final analysis, it was still because of profit. The Holy Roman Empire was all about reciprocity, and how much you gave to the cause of the Empire, how big a piece of the cake you got.

Vienna government to pay for the purchase of the Moroccan region, that is the central government directly under the land, we at most follow a mouthful of soup.

If the civil society paid for the purchase of the Moroccan region, and completed the armed occupation, then another group of fiefdom aristocrats rise.

The government in charge of the lead, at most, will only take a few big cities and important ports, most of the benefits will be distributed to the people who contributed money and effort.

With immediate interests involved, everyone’s reaction was naturally fast. As for the issue of money, that was nothing to worry about at all, there were capitalists who wanted to cross class sponsorship.

Financial power + force = colonization success.

Along with the world being divided up, the chances of obtaining a fiefdom had become less and less. Every time an opportunity arose, there would be a large group of people fighting and grabbing for it.

Especially since the Moroccan region is still very close to Europe and has a very good climate, the attraction is even stronger.

To his son’s depression, Franz did not show half sympathy, but gloated: “Get used to it.

There will be a lot more of this kind of thing in the future, you have to learn to adapt.

When you have practiced a strong heart, you will realize that these trivialities are just a speck of dust in life, nothing at all.”

Sometimes a little more chicken soup is good for the body. Unattainable, beyond the reality of the dream chicken soup, is with poison.

Although Franz’s words have the element of flimsy, but if you are really strong in your own heart, you can indeed treat these troubles as a speck of dust.

After all, Frederick is the Crown Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, as long as he can hold on to the principle, lobbying people can not help.

For such a result, Frederick was very depressed. Originally came over to report to his father, just to seek the help of.

The solution was not found, but instead he was given a bellyful of chicken soup. If he was young, Frederick would have been boiling with fervor and put forth twelve percent of his spirit to accomplish it.

But Frederick, who was over forty years old, had obviously passed the age of fervor. For the encouragement within the chicken soup, he had long since realized immunity. Generally speaking, it was now him who was filling others with chicken soup.

Franz did not give an answer, then it means that the distribution of the interests of the Moroccan region, to him as the Crown Prince to make their own decisions.

Obviously, this was not an easy task. At any time, the distribution of interests was the most headache.

The Moroccan region was that big, and there were so many people spying on it. Obviously it is impossible to satisfy everyone’s appetite, and the distribution is very testing.

Soon Frederick reacted, the Moroccan region did not get, on the first step to consider the issue of distribution of benefits, obviously their own overthinking.

Looking at a group of small children who were frolicking and playing at the lake, Frederick exuded a look of envy.

The time of childhood is the best, you can think about nothing and play around to your heart’s content. It was a pity that time was gone and could never return.

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(End of chapter)