The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven

In fact, there are still several ready-made intelligence organizations in the Austrian Empire. The first is the notorious secret police, and the second is the church.

The secret police is naturally in the hands of Prince Metternich. This is a very strange organization with a large number and bloated organization, low efficiency and no loyalty at all. This reminds Franz of the 800,000 imperial troops in the Song Dynasty.

Although the secret police is divided into many factions, which gave Franz room to maneuver, it also made the problem more complicated. At the same time, the possibility of intelligence adulteration and leakage has also greatly increased. Before being able to eliminate the factions in the secret police, Franz wasn't going to use this organization.

As for the church, it is still an old-fashioned problem, relying too much on the church is like quenching thirst with poison.

Self-cultivation? This is even more nonsense, let’s not say that Franz himself does not know how to get information, where does the personnel come from, how does the information come in, and how much time will it take, one or two years or ten or eight years?

Recently, Franz had an extra little friend, Edward Taffy, the eldest son of the Taffy family, who came to study with him.

It's just that what Franz has learned has completely surpassed Taffy's cognition, and he is still in a state of confusion recently.

Taffy prefers to get close to herself rather than study, and likes to give Franz some small snacks, small toys and so on.

Until one day Taffy saw Franz's toys and shed envious saliva.

No boy could resist the temptation of toy guns and toy cars. Franz gave Taffy generously. After all, these toys cost nothing.

Clockwork toy cars and pneumatic toy guns are definitely the top toys in this era. Although Taffy has seen real rifles and carriages, looking at them and playing with them are completely different concepts.

According to Taffy himself, his family also had an organization similar to the Vienna Business League.

It's just that the scale cannot be compared with Solomon Rothschild's Vienna Business Alliance, and the headquarters in Moravia is not very helpful to Franz.

However, there is one thing that Franz is very concerned about, that is, the Taffy family runs the largest steamboat company in Austria, and also has its own steamboat factory.

Franz was thinking that maybe Friedrich could get in touch with the Taffy family, and maybe he could speed up the manufacturing of steam warships.

At the same time, it can also pull the Tafi family to the side of the empire. A local tycoon like the Tafei family can easily have the idea of ​​​​confronting the central government.

In fact, Franz was too worried. Historically, this family has sharpened its head and moved closer to the royal family.

In 1848, Taffy's family raised their own military expenses to help suppress the rebellion in Moravia. Taffy's father was broken in Bohemia by a leg.

In 1866, two of Tafi's uncles died in Sadova.

Later Taffy became the Prime Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his younger brother became the Archbishop of Vienna. Both of them were staunch royalists. During World War I, Taffy’s grandson died defending the border city of Lviv in Galicia. His son committed suicide by swallowing a gun after the defeat of Austria-Hungary.

From the perspective of the Habsburg family, it can be said to be full of loyalty.

Perhaps it is the best choice to seize the moment when Solomon's control is weakest and turn his Vienna business alliance into his own intelligence organization.

After all, Vienna does not need two emperors, and now is a good time to take advantage of his illness and kill him.

Once Solomon loses the Vienna Business Alliance as his eyeliner, he will be like a blind man in Austria in the future, and can only rely on the information provided to him by his brothers, which will greatly reduce his threat.

It's just that it is not an easy task to control the Vienna Business Alliance, and who should let it go? I don't have any available candidates at all. Franz's father has such people around him, but it's hard to convince him to work for him.

As the sun was setting, Franz was also a little sleepy, so he lay down on Thalia's lap and fell asleep.

Thalia actually had a lot of things to report, but Franz was already asleep, and she didn't want to disturb him, for fear of being annoying.

Thalia patted her cheek, she couldn't figure out what she was thinking, and she usually chose to do it first and then talk.

Thalia lifted her hair and lightly stamped on Franz's forehead...

Schönbrunn Palace, Royal Greenhouse.

The housekeeper in charge of managing the greenhouse was a little distressed, because out of the 10,000 rubber tree seeds given to him by the University of Franz, only 96 eventually became seedlings, which was less than 1% of the seedlings.

The greenhouse steward even considered whether to add some similar saplings to get through the test, but he gave up in the end, because Archduke Franz is a very shrewd "little man", and it is not easy to get through the test. Vulnerable to Madam Sophie's punishment.

The rubber saplings will soon be transported to Trieste, where they will be boarded and sent to Chenla, where they will thrive.

In Mrs. Sophie's bedroom, Mrs. Sophie is helping Adjani fasten her corset.

Women's clothing during this period was very cumbersome, especially corsets, which women could not put on without help.

The original intention of corset design is to move the meat to the place where it should go to highlight the feminine charm, that is to push the fat on the waist and abdomen up and down to achieve the effect of breast enlargement, hip lift and waist reduction.

But in fact, this thing is similar to a torture tool for women. For example, in Pirates of the Caribbean, the heroine is strangled by a corset until she faints. This situation abounds.

Generally speaking, when women wear corsets, they choose to grab something, but at this time Adjani has nothing in her hands and no pillars for her to hug, so she can only clenched her fists.

Mrs. Sophie was increasing the strength of her hand little by little, Adjani bit her lips tightly, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

"I will give my heart and soul to you, you won't let me down, will you?" Madam Sophie said.

"No, Madam Sophie. I will serve Archduke Franz wholeheartedly." Adjani said with difficulty.

"That would be great, let's have a drink to celebrate you becoming my son's attendant," Madam Sophie said.

The maid immediately brought two wine glasses, and the full wine was illuminated by the pure white transparent glass and candlelight, making the blood-red luster even more vivid.

Ajani picked up the wine glass tremblingly, and drank it down in one gulp, but because her stomach was tightened too tightly, she almost vomited it out, so she had to hold back and swallow it.

Madam Sophie smiled, let go of the rope in her hand, and gracefully picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

"It's too embarrassing, practice ten more times."

Madam Sophie even stretched out her slender fingers, raised Adjani's chin, and looked at Adjani's face carefully.

"What a beauty, but don't you have any men in Poland? Don't think about other things, I will watch you, if you do well, I can let you meet your husband and let you fly away, Go to a place where no one knows you and live your good life."