Chapter 459: The Road to Death

  Chapter 449: The Road to Death

Ever since the opening and passage of the Suez Canal, Austria’s export trade to Asia has increased dramatically, and along with that the number of ships involved in accidents has also increased dramatically.

In order to maintain a smooth sea trade passage, the Austrian navy has been deployed several times to sweep away a number of pirate strongholds.

The number of pirates hanging in the harbor exceeded three figures, and the number of those killed outright was naturally even higher.

The effect of eliminating pirates is still remarkable, no matter whether there is someone behind it or not, there is no country that supports pirates on the surface.

In the process of rounding up pirates, all countries’ navies were involved. Because the probability of a ship’s accident in recent times was on the verge of breaking through one percent.

The folklore of the sea monster incident has also appeared frequently recently. What is the truth, Franz can not figure out, claimed to have seen the pirates witnesses are more than four figures, people from all countries.

Of course these sea monsters aren’t all that scary, as evidenced by the fact that the witnesses are still alive. These sea monsters are still within the realm of scientific explanation, but they are just huge and relatively tough to fight.

Fire-breathing sea monsters don’t exist, but there are quite a few water-breathing ones. There is no magic ability, and can not fly to the sky, just in the sea to make a demon.

Many sea monsters just look strange and pass by in people’s sight, and do not attack ships.

I don’t know if it’s because of their gentle temperament, or if it’s because ships are something that’s not in their recipes. Come to think of it, who would be interested in lumps of wood and iron?

It was even funnier to say that it was for the sake of cannibalism, so little meat was not enough for these behemoths to stuff their teeth, so there was no need to attack ships for this reason.

Catching sea monsters was not part of the Austrian Navy’s duties, and Franz was not prepared to play with the biologists, despite their interest.

No matter who was behind it, there was nothing wrong with catching pirates and killing them. It didn’t matter if you killed the wrong ones, there were no innocent pirates anyway.

Hundreds of causes must have consequences, choose this road of no return, be prepared to be killed. Killers, people always kill.

The campaign to eliminate piracy has continued until the end of 1869. First, the Mediterranean Sea pirates were brutally beaten by the community, then the pirates in the Indian Ocean fell down, and finally the pirates in Southeast Asia did not escape.

Both to protect the shipping lanes, but also to practice, and with a bit of luck you can capture some booty, the Austrian Navy are going to love this meaningful activity.

Plucking the pawns of England and France and others, that was just incidental. Anyway, everyone will not admit that they have contact with pirates, before and after the elimination of tens of thousands of pirates, do not see anyone to help say a word.

The media of all countries are advocating their own anti-piracy achievements, if all the anti-piracy figures in the newspapers of all countries together, hand in hand can be around the earth a circle.

Whether there are so many pirates or not is not important. Anyway, after the extermination campaign, the thriving pirate groups were hit hard.

Looking at the increasing labor force in his hands, Franz was already thinking about whether he wanted to be digging a Grand Canal. In the original time and space, Austria-Hungary also had a plan for a ubersi chts-karte canal, only for it to end in vain because of the World War.

Now the same plan has been proposed to dig a canal from Vienna to Triasco. There are several rivers along the way, so theoretically it would just have to run through them.

However, Franz was not sure if the canal would really be useful.

Knowing that the railroad from Vienna to Triasco was already in operation, either the canal would not have enough capacity to be economically viable in the face of railroad competition, or the canal would have enough capacity to make the railroad economically viable.

In short, the end result was that one of the railroad canals always fell. The Suez Canal and the Suez Railway are obvious examples, and now the British Suez Railway Company is bankrupt.

In terms of investment science, it doesn’t seem to be very cost-effective. However a country cannot focus on the immediate benefits, the operating costs of a canal are much lower than those of a railroad, and this canal has the potential to become another major artery for Austria.

Involving an investment of tens of millions of guilders, Franz was also very cautious. This issue was temporarily shelved, in order to be safe Franz decided to organize several more field research.

As for the captured pirate prisoners, it is better to join the road building army! Now the scale of the road building army has dropped dramatically, on the one hand, the world is peaceful, not so many “felons” to join; on the other hand, the casualties are too large, the first few batches of road building army members have been consumed.

The big projects of this era were filled with human lives. In the case of the Suez Canal, for example, there were bones behind every meter of excavation.

Although the construction of railroads is not so exaggerated, but the average to each kilometer still have to fall a few people, especially the cliff area construction losses are more serious.

On the one hand, it was the engineering team’s lack of protection awareness and the lack of relevant safety education; on the other hand, from the very beginning, these criminals were doomed to be consumed, and their casualties did not attract the attention of the railroad company.

When Franz realized this problem it was already too late. He didn’t have the ability to indoctrinate these people, and since they were destined to be enemies, it was naturally impossible to release them.

Filled with hatred, with no hope in sight, these people were not so easy to manage.

Almost every month there would be a riot of sinful prisoners, and in order to guard this group of people, there was a division of troops stationed next to them.

There is no need to describe the internal situation; in short, it is very bad. The capitalists are in a management mode, but they are trying to minimize costs and extract profits.

Franz was no Madonna and was never soft on his enemies. For the sake of Austria’s longevity, it simply chose to ignore it.

For this reason, in the continent of Europe, Austria’s crime prisoners construction team suffered a lot of criticism, and even Franz also damaged his reputation.

If it were not for the governments’ asses sitting squarely on the ground, Austria’s days would be numbered. There are many who sympathize with the chaotic party, and many of them are self-righteous and boastful.

Austria also has a lot of mouthpiece party, treat these people, Franz did not have the politeness to directly invite them to correct the criminal prisoners.

Simply put, they were asked to be companions with the criminals and did not need to do anything else, but to give them ideological work. After a first-hand experience, these people left having changed their positions.

Of course, there were also some who stayed forever. Do or die, the Madonna Party thought they were all good people, and the price they paid was their lives.

There was no way around it, the crime camps were nothing but political prisoners, just vicious felons. Many are deserving of the death penalty for treason, and sent here just to be wasted and milked for their last value.

Someone wanted to sensitize them with love, Franz would not object, and whoever wanted to go would do so on their own anyway.

Adults are responsible for what they say, they can’t just talk about it, and since they dare to advocate it in the newspapers, they have to go to prison and practice it.

It may be cruel, but the world is crueler. You can’t sacrifice the interests of millions of people for the sake of one brainwashed person.

Strict law enforcement is rewarded with social stability. Having taken the wrong path, one has to pay for it, even though the price may be very cruel.

……

Mexico, Massimiliano I, for once in a rare moment, was smart enough to take Franz’s advice and contract the task of suppressing the rebels to the French.

Unbeknownst to the arrogant French, this was a godsend. With the introduction of Massimiliano I’s reform measures, the rebels were growing in strength.

He was not only following Austria’s example, but many of his policies were done more thoroughly than even Franz. For example, it was stipulated in a legal situation:

The right of laborers to leave their places of employment at will, whether they were in debt to their employers or not, the cancellation of all debts above ten pesos, the restriction of working hours and the use of child labor, and the prohibition of corporal punishment of laborers.

At the same time, the right of Indian village communities to own property was restored and village lands were given to those villages that did not have them.

In short, the serfs were emancipated and the national debt was forgiven, while land was distributed to the population.

Obviously, this was in the interest of the underclass. Logically, this kind of agrarian revolution should have been very popular, and the emperor who had gained the support of the people could quickly put down the rebellion.

The reality was just the opposite, the unorganized underclass just passively accepted it, and did not come forward to support the emperor, and even many of them stood against the emperor.

There was no way around it, the voice of society was not in the hands of the Emperor, nor in the hands of the underclass. Without the cooperation of the ruling class, the decrees of Massimiliano I, an outsider, did not leave the palace.

The landowners and capitalists whose interests were damaged in the reform did not receive any compensation, and these people were naturally very dissatisfied. Besides resisting the reforms, they were tacitly supporting the rebels.

These people took control of the discourse in society, and soon Massimiliano I became notorious in Mexico as greedy, inhumane, murderous, temperamental, and dictatorial ……

All the words that described a tyrant became the titles of Massimiliano I. The only people left to support the emperor were the idealists, and these were the kings of the mouth.

Actual competence probably might have been non-existent, or else such policies, which offended the entire ruling class, should never have been introduced.

Even if you want to reform, you should at least take it in steps! One step at a time, that’s not ascending to heaven, but falling into hell.

In the original time and space, this is how Massimiliano I went to the guillotine, personally forcing the constitutionalists and the Church who supported him to the opposite side.

Now Franz’s intervention still hasn’t changed his death wish. He had just fooled the French, so he thought the world was in good hands and he could die without fear.

Domestic rotten tossing is just, the emperor has shouted out the political slogan of recovering the lost territory. It seems to think that the Americans are easy to bully, and will spit out the meat they ate.

This move, obviously offended the federal government. There are Britain, France and Austria on top of the pressure, the federal government on the surface is not dare to mess around, secretly no one can guarantee.

This is not all, another thing that made Franz spit blood happened.

Because the emperor and the empress have no heir, they adopted the grandson of the former Mexican emperor Agustín de Iturbide, small Agustín and Salvador, as adopted children, granting them the title of His Royal Highness Prince Iturbide, and setting up a small Agustín as the heir to the Mexican throne.

The heir to the throne was made without a word, and it was directly declared that the Mexican throne had nothing to do with the Habsburgs.

At this time, Franz really have nothing to say. Even if the Habsburg family is not interested in the Mexican throne, to set up another heir also need to say hello ah!

Murphy really think that Massimiliano is the son of destiny, the original time and space in 1867 on the guillotine, and now still alive and kicking sitting on the throne of tossing, the Habsburg dynasty is also out of great efforts.

Anyway, after the news came back, Franz was accountable by a group of Habsburg family archdukes, demanding to cut off any support for Massimiliano I. The Habsburgs were not only the most powerful, but also the most powerful and the most influential.

The reasons were readily available; the family’s resources were limited and could not just be wasted on an outsider.

The opinions of family members also needed to be taken into account, not to mention that they didn’t seem to have much of a role to play, but in fact, through political alliances, they all contributed to the family.

The European royal families are all family, that’s how it came to be. Otherwise the number of children of emperors and kings by marriage alone would not be enough!

Franz didn’t have any hesitation and directly agreed. Anyway, the elder brother had done his duty, and had consumed enough resources on Massimiliano, so much so that the children of the family had come to protest.

At the age of Mr. and Mrs. Massimiliano I, it was simply not time to be sterilized, and Empress Carlotta was not even thirty years old, so it was entirely possible to have offspring.

Now, in order to gain the support of the former dynasty, the creation of young Agustín as heir to the Mexican throne can only be described as a downright dim move.

Not to mention how one should conduct oneself with a biological son, just to consider the reaction of the Habsburgs, one should consider the family children first.

Massimiliano I did not have a son, but he had a bunch of nephews, identity enough to qualify for more than ten people.

Even if the first branch was not interested, wasn’t there still a side branch? No matter how far the blood relationship was, if they were still family members, people would not be so resistant.

Political resources are never limited, the rule of the game has always been that if you take more than one share, others will have to take less.

There are no ambitious people in the Franzes’ generation, except for Massimiliano I, an idealist, the other two younger brothers are of average ability, and the several princes of the side branches are about the same.

Otherwise, these people would have already jumped out to compete for resources. Do not underestimate these political resources, invested in a certain person, now the throne of Spain, the throne of Poland have a fight.

Taking a step back, they could also go to South America to hook up with the constitutionalists of a certain country and participate in the fight for the throne.

This is all a legacy left by the ancestors, and now the nobility of many countries in South America have a little bit of incense with the Habsburgs.

This is a hundred years ago, the Spanish Habsburg dynasty extinct, the crown fell to the Bourbon dynasty. Once a son, this argument exists everywhere.

The original and the Habsburg dynasty too close to the aristocracy, gradually sidelined out of the core of power, a lot of family children were forced to put into the colonial expansion movement.

Now many of these people have become the rulers of South American countries, the relationship between the nobility will always be stroked, the secret connection still exists.

Especially after the rise of Austria, these potential network of relations once again established, to ask them to continue to be loyal that is impossible.

However, some countries with serious internal strife, the constitutionalists are still thinking of restoration. After all, South America has only been independent for a few decades, the Republic’s hegemonic son, the Americans were severely beaten, the world’s mainstream is still a monarchy.

Constitutionalism naturally can not do without the king, the Habsburg dynasty is precisely one of the options. The Habsburgs were just one of the options. With their connections, people were naturally willing to install someone they knew.

If there is an ambitious person in the family, Franz does not mind giving him a push. Learning from Napoleon III can be, directly appear as a presidential candidate, and then the republic turned into an empire.

Luckily there was no such person, otherwise Massimiliano I would have been a real tragedy. Being divided up with political resources, then he would be in danger, maybe he would go to the guillotine again.

A member of the first line of a valued family, and an unvalued member, are two completely different concepts.

In the original time and space, because of the decline of Austria, the Habsburg dynasty’s power is limited and unable to intervene in Mexico, Massimiliano I on the guillotine.

If the army appeared directly in front of the door, the Mexican Revolutionary Party would also calmly think. Even if they didn’t, the artillery fire would have calmed them down.

Sighing, Franz sent a letter to Massimiliano I, directly conveying the position of the Habsburg family, from now on the two sides will draw a line.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, forgive the sea moon salty day, dog food eat too much support, hostile some heavy ????

(End of chapter)