Austria 1840

After John finished speaking, he turned and left.

Emperor Franz's fire is rising again, co-authoring that I won't let you marry a commoner because I am afraid that you will steal the throne. Do you understand your old brother and me like this? Am I that bad?

"A short life, John, come back to me, come back to me."

Franz roared like crazy, John ignored him and continued walking.

"Nie Zha, stop for me."

Franz was tired. He cursed and vented all his hard work over the years. Seeing that John didn't understand him, he was very sad. This obedient younger brother ignored him.

He sat on the ground and burst into tears. He didn't look like an emperor at all. He was like an ordinary old man who was forced by life.

Who can understand the loneliness, hardships, and pressures of the emperor? Especially in this era, an era of rapid change, an era when previous knowledge and experience were powerless to deal with.

After crying for a long time, he slowly calmed down. Hearing a sound, he raised his head and saw John squatting beside him. He handed him a cloth to wipe his tears.

"John, I made you laugh. My brother didn't know you were here, otherwise he would have restrained himself."

"Brother Franz, I still don't know much about you. I didn't know you suffered so much and was wronged."

John's eyes were also red. Seeing his brother's gaffe, he found his ordinary side, vulnerable, painful, helpless, enduring, and continuing to endure the depression.

"John, my brother apologizes to you. I shouldn't have called you evil just now. I'm also very angry. It's my brother who is wrong."

John was also very moved when he heard it. This older brother was a dozen years older than him, and he managed and covered him just like his old father. He never thought that his brother would apologize to him.

"Brother, it's alright, we also called you a scumbag behind your back. I also want to apologize to you."

Seeing that his brother was so emotional, John said sincerely.

Emperor Franz was taken aback for a while, you still scold me for being a scumbag?

But thinking about it, being scolded by someone behind your back is considered light.

Besides, just as I get angry when I scold them, I guess they get angry when they scold me.

It's a pity that the emperor didn't know, the brothers scolded him for being a jerk, not because they were out of anger, but scolded him casually, feeling like walking in the courtyard.

In fact, it's not how bad Franz is, but, who else can you scold if you don't scold the emperor? If the country is good, the emperor is powerful, but if it is not good, it should be the emperor's straw bag.

It's not a certain country in East Asia. Well, it's all about the wise leaders, and badly, it's all about the people below.

Only the beautiful body type and English-speaking children believe in this set.

After Emperor Franz figured it out, he felt a lot more:

"You are all very good. Although Carl sometimes makes me angry, he is really a good player in wars. We have suffered many defeats, and Carl came to help, so that the whole army did not collapse, and the whole country did not collapse. Sometimes I am too harsh to him. No small temper."

Hearing his elder brother talk about Carl, John felt a bit too.

"Yes, Brother Carl is our stab at the sea. With him, Napoleon would not put us to death. Brother Franz, let me tell you something, does it make sense?"

"John, tell me, I'll listen carefully."

In this beautiful atmosphere of "brother, brother and brother", how could you not listen.

"You all grew up with our little ones, Joseph, Anton, Rena, Ludwig, and Rudolph, and me, the oldest is eight or nine years younger than you, you fight Damn it, it's no big deal."

John said softly, and Franz nodded lightly in approval.

"Brother Carl is about the same age as you, and he has great military exploits and thinks highly of himself. You treat him like our younger brothers, but he may not be like us..."

Speaking of Brother Carl, John lowered his voice a little bit, as if he was understating it, as if he didn't care, and didn't even say "any fight or scolding" directly.

In fact, I just formally emphasized to Brother Franz that he should listen to him. When we talk about it in detail, it should be lighter and lighter, so as to reduce the hostility and dissatisfaction of the elder brother.

John is a very smart man. His husband, the old man, thought he was a fool at first, alas, he didn't know who he was.

"You still have to respect him a little bit more. Of course, if Brother Carl makes you angry, you can also scold us for a few little ones to calm down."

How could Franz be provoked by the older brother and come to scold the younger brother to relieve his anger? John said this to alleviate his hostility and dissatisfaction.

"Of course, brother Carl's temper is also very hard, very bad, and he doesn't always make people come off the stage. I don't like this, but, just like you, I will scold him behind his back, and even face to face. Very respectful, hehe."

John scolded Karl again, soothed his brother, and then poured rice soup for Emperor Franz.

"Brother Franz, we only see you as an emperor, watching you laugh at Britain, scolding Russia, watching you mock Prussia, and easily deal with the big scenes in France.

"We didn't expect you to have so much pressure, helplessness, loneliness and pain..."

........

Gradually, the straw bag and the evil barrier understood each other.

Emperor Franz immediately removed John from the top of the list, and Archduke Karl automatically rose to the top again. Well, still Franz's hate list.

"John, tell me a good story, what exactly do you think? Why do you suddenly want to find a commoner girl to marry?"

Since we had to return to this topic in the end, Franz asked John without detouring too much.

"Brother Franz, you also know that I am in my thirties, and I have never looked for a woman seriously. When I see this girl, I will make up my mind."

John still said with some reservations.

"Don't tell me it's really love at first sight."

As the emperor, Franz, everything is for the highest interests of the country. It is up to him to decide which round of marriage.

He couldn't understand love at first sight at all. He thought it was more puzzling than the sudden revolution in France.

"It was love at first sight. And I've been waiting for it for four years."

John's side as an ordinary person is mostly, he can understand, and he also feels love at first sight.

"Then according to the rules of our Habsburg family, if you must marry her, you will lose many privileges, including the possible right to inherit the throne."

Emperor Franz, who is both the eldest brother and the patriarch, has to emphasize the consequences of doing so.

"Brother Franz, I know that if I marry Anna according to the family's rules, I will lose something. However, I am willing. I would rather lose the privilege and the right to inherit the throne than lose Anna."

John stood up and solemnly expressed his thoughts.

"Ah, I really don't know what the love, love, what you're after."

Franz sighed.

"Okay, John. That's it for your marriage. I'll give you a few years to think about it."

"You can get married. If one day you get divorced and you can marry a noble under the arrangement of the family, I will restore your royal privileges and the right to inherit the throne on behalf of the Lao Ha family."

Franz was afraid of his brother's impulsiveness, and wanted to give him a step.

"Brother Franz, I don't need it anymore. I have decided to marry Anna. I am willing to leave the royal family first."

John was very unhappy when he heard what his brother said about divorcing Anna in the future. He is such a person.

Maybe the guys in the French Enlightenment were brainwashed.

Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot looked at each other and smiled, very proud. Kant glanced at them and said nothing.

When Emperor Franz saw that this younger brother was about to explode, he quickly comforted him.

"Sit down, John, what are you talking about.

"Okay, let's follow the family's rules. If these privileges are lifted, then your annuity will be much less. You are used to spending money so carelessly, how will you get it?"

Franz sighed for this younger brother. Well, he has sighed a lot for him now.

"Well, I'll also give you a little subsidy, and I'll give you a few more jobs, so I can make up a little bit on the salary."

Franz still loves his younger brother, but what can he do?

He shook his head, trying to get rid of all these troubles.

"Also, you and I talked about Carl seriously just now. I listened to it and agreed with it. Now I want to talk to you, and I hope you can listen to me carefully. We will discuss whether you agree or not."

After talking about John's marriage, Franz returned to the emperor's original job.

"Carl is the biggest conservative member of the family, and you are the biggest liberal member of the family."

John also knew about this. In fact, the entire family, the entire Austrian Empire, and even big figures in Europe knew that the biggest conservative leader in Austria was Karl, and the biggest liberal leader was John.

"Frankly speaking, for the Austrian Empire, I recognize Karl, just as, for the governance of this empire, I recognize Emperor Joseph II, not our father Leopold II."

Franz glanced at John, patted John's hand, and continued.

"What's the matter, Brother Franz?"

"John, your free thinking, your performance, your opinions, except for Austria and Prussia, are quite liked and recognized by the small states of Germany..."

John still sounds complacent~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If he is recognized by someone who is not his own, that is true recognition. Recognition by one's own person may be flattering, or he may be embarrassed to object.

"...Every time they have a meeting with the small states, they will use this to prove their correctness and squeeze the interests of the Austrian Empire."

John is a free-spirited person and doesn't think about it so much at all. After hearing the second half of the sentence, I found out that it was not the case. Xiao Bangguo may not really recognize him, but just use him.

"There is such a thing, I didn't realize it, hehe, what should I do? I can't do it for a while if I turn into conservatism."

"John, I'm not telling you this to tell you not to be liberal, let alone to turn conservative, but to think twice before you act and think before you speak."

The older brother taught me earnestly, and the stinky younger brother listened to the hadith carefully.

"Actually, I don't blame you, because in your work experience, you didn't fully control the administration of a place, and you didn't understand the difficulties..."

Is my brother going to arrange work for me to compensate for the loss of royal privileges and part of the annuity due to my marriage to Anna?

"...Although Carl did not control the administration of a certain place, he happened to have full control over the military of the whole country, and the military needs support from the administration. He knows better than you."

Franz sighed and added another sentence.

"As long as everyone thinks about the Habsburg family and the Austrian Empire before speaking and doing things, it's not a big problem, and you shouldn't be too intimidated."

Maybe he thought it was too heavy to speak, but Franz finally relaxed a little.

It's hard, it's hard to manage a country, it's hard to manage a family, it's hard to manage a person.

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