Chapter 29 A certain Carl from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1)

"Davis, do you know? Only when this boss's corrupt empire is in chaos can we absorb enough benefits! Just like this glass of red wine, a little more, we need a little more, and we must squeeze out the already corrupted huge empire's essence and blood little by little!"

After a while, on a three-story building at the Floburg Franc in the Hankou German Concession, looking at a team of Qing soldiers who were negotiating with black policemen to pursue the fugitives they mentioned, Karl (Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Maria von Habsburg-Lorraine) shook the 1865 French red wine in his hand, and raised his head to drink the half-length wine that was left like blood. He had previously instructed the following: If the fugitives pursued by the Qing Dynasty entered the embassy area, the police in the district only had to pay attention to the whereabouts of those people. As for the Qing soldiers who were chasing them, no one of them could be put in!

"Yes, sir. You are always so wise!"

A middle-aged brown-haired white man next to him with a standard British gentleman Hu owed his body slightly, saluting him and echoing him!

Carl shook his head "Davis, I think I really regret that I would have let my father send you, but without you, I would have messed up everything, and you are always so boring. The British Housekeeper Academy has never been a happy place!"

He paused, "Just like this bottle of red wine given to me by the ambassador, the Germans are as greedy as the French, and they hate them. Don't expect them to really want to please you. In fact, Williams are like France bought all the mineral factories in the Russian Empire, and they have mastered everything in our empire. Hum, John Cow mastered this world, and although the Gaul roosters lost to them, they are just as greedy, but our cousin is not a good person to talk to... Look at them with John Cow (a synonym for Britain), Gaul roosters and even Slavic wrestlings. Hum, they offended the whole of Europe. If there were no great Austro-Hungarian Empire, they would have lost the last pair of pants long ago. Italian women are good, but men, hum, they have men?"

Frowning, Carl stopped the brown-haired middle-aged white housekeeper whom he called 'Davis' whom he called, "I prefer whiskey to red wine. Of course, vodka is OK. I have to say that although the Russians are always so vulgar and savage, their wine tastes so good!"

Putting the wine glass in his hand on the table, Carl picked up a silver wine pot with extremely exquisite carving placed beside him, unscrewed the lid, and poured it into one mouthful!

"Gugugugugu..."

"Ah! The great Austro-Hungarian Empire, salute you..."

After destroying half a pot of whiskey in one breath, Carl put him back on the table, walked to the window again, and looked out the window!

“This is a beautiful and rich place, isn’t it?”

"Yes, sir. I like this beautiful country as much as you!"

Davis, holding a bottle of opened and sealed aged wine, replied respectfully with a faint smile on his face!

Unexpectedly, Carl shook his head, "No, you are wrong, I don't like this country! They are too big, so big that even the madman (referring to the Tsar) admits that it will take centuries to completely swallow it. God bless you, hope that this yellow (harmonious word) that once destroyed our Holy Rome and was twenty times larger than our Austro-Hungarian Empire will always be in the hands of a group of waste!"

"The area of ​​territory cannot represent everything, you are always so wise, sir!"

Davis was not at all embarrassed after being refuted, and still replied with a faint smile. "Just, please forgive me for being too much. You have just returned from the United States of America. Why did you suddenly ask the Duke for those goods and come to this beautiful but outside the civilized world? Duke is also very interested in this, you know!"

Davis is very dedicated to his work.

"This," his face suddenly became serious. Carl couldn't help but think of the country that was rising on the other side of the ocean at an astonishing speed that the whole world ignored. It has a vast and fertile territory as vast as the Russian Empire, and also has the steel and British Empire markets of the German Empire. Although its navy is not as good as the empire, its huge industrial potential is destined to build a huge naval fleet that is no less than Britain and Germany when it is willing. Although its army is almost none, it is the only country in the civilized world that allows citizens to legally own guns. It can be said that once war requires it, it is the only national force that can arm tens of millions of army troops effortlessly.

However, such a country has a less influence than that of the empire in Europe and even around the world. Just like the ancient empire under his feet, they all have infinite possibilities, but they are all sleeping. Once awakened, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After wiping away the cold sweat from his forehead, on a trip to the United States, Carl saw the vast territory of the United States, the well-connected railway network, the huge shipyard in his spare time, and the rising automobile industry like a new star. Although he didn't want to admit it in his heart, he had to say that this country, which ranks in the world on the other side of the ocean after the Austro-Hungarian Empire, had already thrown the empire aside!

"I'm afraid only the British Empire and Germany can compete with it!"

He sighed in his heart, and Carl remembered the situation in the empire again, and immediately made up his mind--the great Austro-Hungarian Empire, the heirs of the Holy Roman Empire must not lose to them.

"It's nothing. The family's factory has been seriously insufficient in production capacity recently. In the past two years, the Far East has been quite uneasy, so I want to come here to take a look and find a new market for the family and the empire's arsenal!"

Carl didn't tell the truth, and the other party obviously saw it, but Davis still stood there with a faint smile, "Yes, the Far East has been quite uneasy in the past two years, but the Yangtze River basin is the sphere of influence of the British Empire after all. In the past two years, with the naval arms race between that gentleman and him, the empire has also been affected to a certain extent. Especially in the Balkans, our allies with the British Empire - the Russian Empire, and even the Kingdom of Italy, Ottoman Turkey, have become extremely expensive. With intelligence and reality, the country has decided to test the support of our allies for the empire..."

"Your father and your grandfather, the Duke did not go to our strongest Tianjin or Shanghai, which has become an "international city", but instead came to this Yangtze River Basin, one of the most powerful provinces in the UK. Although countries do not want to completely tear their faces apart for the time being, through diplomatic means and we have appropriately restrained them in the Balkans, the British fleet did not make things difficult for our merchant ships, but... sir, do you think this is necessary?"

Carl frowned. He naturally knew that because of this, even the emperor of the Empire was his grandfather, the brother of Grand Duke Carl Ludwig, personally asked. Although their family was also part of the Habsonburg family, the struggle for interests within the royal family was even more intense. Who would have thought that they, who should have stood on the Austrian side of the Empire, had greater interests in Hungary. In addition, his father Otto Franz became a force close to the Hungarian nobles in the Imperial Parliament, his mother was the princess of Saxony, and his grandfather was also a powerful grandfather in the Empire. No wonder they were hostile and constrained by the emperor and the forces of his subordinates. For his own idea, although the family did not explicitly say it, he had already received a lot of hints from Davis, his father, who was also his grandfather's confidant!

"I didn't expect that those annoying arms groups had convinced several governments through the forces behind them, including our ally, the Second German Empire, and privately signed an agreement to prohibit the import of arms to China. Not only did they take huge orders of millions of taels of silver from the Qing government, but they also tried to prevent other forces from expanding their influence on China. Not only did we suffer losses, but even the Yankees on the Ocean were so angry that they heard that their domestic arms dealers had already gone to Congress!"

Carl shrugged helplessly. Although his expression was relaxed now, in fact, even Davis could not have the word "calm" in his heart, because he knew how much pressure was on him!

"This is a beautiful and prosperous country, and likewise, she is a poor country!"

"You are right, sir, this is the most beautiful country, the richest country, and the poorest country I have ever been to!" Davis agreed with his point of view.
Chapter completed!