Holy Roman Empire

Christmas

As the most important festival in the European world, of course, it cannot be sloppy. Did n’t you see that the soldiers and soldiers of the Patriarchate are eager to come back for the festival?

Franz held a Christmas dinner in the palace as usual, and invited a group of people to the banquet.

This is the first Christmas after Franz's enthronement. Everyone attaches great importance to it. The people who are invited are here.

Relatives and friends, military and political leaders, and their families, guests directly exceeded the four-digit number.During the banquet, there were staggered plans, happy words, and joy.

Franz could see that everyone gave him a happy face, and in fact they were all bored to death, talking about dry content.

The court banquet emphasized etiquette, and simply could not let go.Especially the little children, wishing to end the banquet immediately and go out for a happy Christmas.

No way, even his emperor can't be bothered.With shiny tableware, Franz once doubted whether it was gold-plated. After experiments proved that he thought too much, it was indeed real gold, and the people below did not dare to fool him as an emperor.

Well, these tablewares are usually not used by Franz. He usually uses silver tableware, which is said to be sterilizable.

In this era, although Western medicine came out of the original therapy of bloodletting, the technology is still not good, and any disease can kill people. Franz made a decisive choice.

After eating a sumptuous meal, everyone will go back to their homes. Christmas is still at home. Franz does not leave everyone with the intention of having a holiday together, which means finding guilt.

He bet that if it were not for the court banquet, which was a manifestation of the status of these people, most people would rather not attend.

Although the banquet is extravagant, it costs tens of thousands of dongs at a time (1 dong ≈ 11.69 grams of silver).How can anyone who can attend a banquet have poor ghosts?

The guests were gone, the Franz family had spent their Christmas Eve, a few younger brothers were instantly revealed, today is a special day, you can feel free to hi.

Franz envyed him, although he was only 18 years old, but now he can no longer let himself go.Even more tragic is that her mother ’s Christmas wish is to let him marry his wife sooner.

When the emperor will be forced to marry?Franz felt like a dog, and when he recalled the age of the European royal princess, he was relieved.

In a short period of time, there is no need to worry about it. The original princess Sissi was just 11 years old, even her sister is only one or two years old.The other princesses are quite similar, and their ages are small, and the big ones are already married.

However, Franz still did not dare to relax his vigilance, for fear of an accident, he would have an extra loli fiancee.

It is also very popular among nobles to get engaged in advance.As the Emperor of Austria, Franz is the largest diamond king among European nobles, and there are many nobles interested in him.

Fortunately, Franz is now the emperor and has a say in personal matters. If he insists on disagreeing, no one can force him to agree.

Under normal circumstances, this issue will be discussed with Empress Sufi Empress. As for his father who is a patient with tracheitis, he has little say at home.

The bell sounded at twelve o'clock midnight and rescued Franz.

The whole family stood up, lit a candle, read the Bible in unison, and blessed each other, then sang Christmas songs.

...

Christmas in Vienna is particularly lively this year. As the earliest determined statutory holiday, the factory had a holiday early.

Capitalists are reluctant to pay three times the wages and make workers work overtime today.If you meet a generous boss, you might be able to reap a Christmas present.

The streets and alleys of Vienna are now full of children, singing Christmas songs, and reporting good news.

At this time, it is time for everyone to show their demeanor.Those who are generous will usually prepare some Christmas gifts in advance, such as candy and melon seeds, and distribute them to the children who report good news.

This Christmas made Franz's wallet dry.

The Christmas gift is a big head. He was given a Christmas gift by the court servants and guards who worked overtime.

Relatives and friends, government officials, soldiers on duty, and even the group of orphans received by the government also received a Christmas gift from His Majesty the King.

It's all like candy seeds, every gift is worthless, but how many people can't hold it?In order to buy up people's hearts, Franz also worked hard.

However, there is always a reward for paying. In this era, people have a simple heart. In the face of sudden Christmas gifts, many people's loyalty to the emperor has skyrocketed.

Especially for the orphans adopted by the government, many people received the first Christmas gift in their lives, which had a particularly great impact on them.

The price is that Franz spent nearly 200,000 dongs for a Christmas.If it were n’t for the Habsburg family ’s great career, the royal annuity was n’t necessarily enough for Franz to splurge on.

Austria ’s royal annuity was determined not long ago, and is drawn at 1.5% of Austria ’s fiscal revenue, which is about 5 or 6 million rupiahs per year.

The money was not spent by Franz alone, and everyone in the royal family had a share. The uncle Ferdinand I and his wife would get 1.5 million dongs.

Every other royal family has its share, and the emperor left him only about 3 million dongs at his disposal. There is still such a large group of people in the palace to support.

It is not enough to be frugal, but it is obviously not enough to wantonly squander.

After Christmas, Franz is ready to buy some more properties.Franz had a headache as to what to sit on.

There are many businesses that make money quickly, most of which are written in law. As a great emperor, it is obviously impossible to take the lead in breaking the rules.

At one point, Franz wanted to sell the reference materials for the civil service exam, but he quickly dismissed the idea. It was too profitable. He could not make a few dollars without saying it. The impact was not good.

Agriculture does not need to be considered, although the Habsburg family does not lack land, but the rate of return in this regard is too low.Even if it is a cash crop, this rate of return cannot make a fortune quickly.

"Drugs" Franz will not touch, this is to give him a glorious image.

Arms can be sold, but unfortunately, the arms trade is now dominated by political factors. Austria has been spinning in Europe in recent years, and its overseas influence is limited.

The rest is the financial industry. Unfortunately, Franz lacks knowledge in this area. In this era, the financial industry is shady. If it is pitted, he will be too late to cry.

Do not think that no one dares to pit the emperor. For the capitalists, as long as profits are enough, there is nothing they dare not do.

After picking and selecting, Franz feels that there is still a future in investing in food finishing. Usually, companies that follow the policy have a "money" way.

Once the Holy Roman Economic Union is established, explosive development can be achieved immediately, relying on the network of the Habsburg family, there is no need to worry about the sales network.

The variety of snacks in the later generations could not be produced. Products without technical content such as popcorn, french fries, biscuits, cans, and beverages were very simple to manufacture.

In addition, mining is also a very promising industry. It does not need much technical content. As long as the background is hard enough, find a rich mine, you can lie and make money.

This is tailor-made for Franz, at least to mine in Austria, he only needs to find a mine to make money, don't worry, no one dares to break the emperor's money.

...

After a while, Franz wrote a bunch of commercial projects in his notebook, and how to implement it, he still needs to do market research.

All the common problems of traversers love to do one thing-walk at the forefront of the times.This is very dangerous and can easily become a martyr.

Franz is very vigilant about this and rarely arbitrariness.In his view, if even the elites of this era cannot accept things, how can ordinary people accept them?

"Jenny, give the information I listed to Baron Cass, let him do a market survey of these industries, collect as much information as possible, and I want to choose projects that are suitable for investment." Franz commanded

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Jenny answered.

This is the advantage of being an emperor. Anything can be ordered to be done by others, and some people are willing to sell his life.

For example, the Baron Cass is a member of the Habsburg family, and his ancestors have been serving the Habsburg family for five generations.

After the regency of Franz, in order to strengthen the control of the government department, a lot of people were stuffed in. Baron Cass was only one of them and was inserted into the Ministry of Commerce.

At this time Franz asked him to do private work for himself, and Baron Cass would be more attentive than office work.

If Franz did not allow him to do personal things, but was handed over to his colleagues, it is estimated that he would still be worried and worried that the emperor would give up.

With regard to the private use of public weapons, I am sorry that everyone really can't tell the difference between the country and the emperor in this era. In many people's opinion, they are loyal to the emperor, not the country.

This situation is very common in the Austrian Empire. The bond that connects many ethnic groups in Austria is not the government but the emperor.