Holy Roman Empire

Franz is very busy. After the localization of the African colonies, more than a dozen colonial cities have applied.

There is no doubt that this is a circuitous route.Let the qualified areas be localized first, and the remaining areas will meet the conditions.

Anyway, these cities are the core of the colony, and the surrounding area still has to be left to them for custody, and will be split after the future develops.

This is the consensus reached by the Vienna government and the colonial powers. Now that no one wants to be independent, they will naturally not care about the division of administrative regions.

In order to express importance, Franz personally met with the representatives of the colony.These nobles are his support and the cornerstone of the future rule of the African continent.

In terms of interests, everyone belongs to a large interest group.Franz is the majority shareholder of this group, and they are the minority shareholders.Lose everything, glory both.

Internationally, Britain has become restless again, and it seems that Fauo has stimulated them.

On September 2, 1866, the British Foreign Secretary visited St. Petersburg and said publicly that he wanted to improve relations between Britain and Russia.On September 28, the London government issued a note to mediate this Pu-Russian war.

If it wasn't for receiving intelligence, knowing that the Russian Revolutionary Party had been secretly sent back to the country by the Prussians, Franz almost asked for it.

The Franco-Austrian alliance VS the Anglo-Russian alliance feels exciting.

However, this can only be considered.Except that the contradiction between Britain and Russia is too deep to form an alliance.

More often, the Russian Empire is too strong. As long as they have completed internal reforms, they will be the hegemons of the European Union.As long as the London government is not mad, it will not support such a giant.

Then this is for the Russian-Austrian League. In order to break up the alliance, the British tried their best.

This is a conspiracy. St. Petersburg accepted the goodwill of the British, which will inevitably arouse Vienna's suspicion.

In normal times, this kind of suspicion does not matter. This kind of suspicion in the Russo-Prussian War was very pitious. The Vienna government hesitated a little, and the Russians would suffer a big loss.

Once this happens, it will not take long for the Russian-Austrian alliance to survive.

Do you know that Franz will prevent this from happening?

The answer is: no!

The reason is very realistic. The strategic value of the Russian-Austrian alliance has been completed.Over the next decade or two, the Russians had to deal with internal conflicts and the Eastern Front was already safe.

This security is more reliable than the security brought by the covenant.No matter what the Tsarist government thought, they did not threaten Austria's strength in a short time.

In this case, is it necessary to bind with the Russians?

This is the reality of the world, and what Franz can do is not to tear up the covenant and continue to maintain a better relationship between the two countries.

I believe that Alexander II will make the same choice. The existence of the Russian-Austrian League is of value to them and can pass the period of weakness steadily.

For strategic security, the tsarist government will not tear up the covenant.This time limit was only established when the Russian Empire was weak.

In the future, as long as the tsarist government wants to expand on the European continent, the Russian-Austrian alliance is almost at the end; similarly, when Austria unifies the German region, it is also the end of the covenant between the two countries.

Is there a solution?Of course, for example: to encourage the tsarist government to die in India, then the alliance can continue for many years.

To do this, it is difficult and difficult to say, easy and easy, as long as you are willing to spend money.

The Russians wanted to invade British India. This path was not easy. The cost of war was absolutely very high.As long as the gold master is willing to pay, the tsarist government has absolutely no opinion at all.

I don't know what the future is, anyway Franz can't afford the money.If there is such a huge sum of money, he would rather fall into the industrial revolution.

The second industrial revolution has already begun, and Austria is one of the birthplaces, and 1866 is a sign.

In May, Siemens, the new Holy Roman Empire engineer, invented the world's first high-power generator.

It marked the advent of the electric power era. Before this, the power of the generator was too small to be put into industrial production.

Now that the age of electricity is coming, as the center of the empire naturally has priority to enjoy the fruits, Franz decided to install street lamps in Vienna for the first time.

Electric lamps appeared in the last century. In 1854, German watchmaker Henry Gobert invented the carbonized bamboo filament light bulb, which lasted for 400 hours.

As soon as it was reported in the newspaper, it caught the attention of Franz and bought the patent directly, although he had not registered it yet.

Franz still has a temperament and can't do anything to steal patents.Then, naturally, the carbon wire was replaced with a tungsten wire, and a vacuum environment was added.

Improvement can be much faster than R & D, and it took about a year or so to complete.Then Franz took the lead in entering the age of electricity, and the lighting revolution was first launched in the palace.

Because the power of the generator is too low, the cost of power generation is directly high. In this era, electricity has become a luxury and only owned by the rich.

Now that high-power generators have appeared, not only has the cost of generating electricity been reduced, but also the possibility of industrial application has been achieved, and Franz will naturally promote it.What could be more useful advertising than Vienna.

There is no need to pay for advertising, and the newspaper will pass the news to the whole world.Then, London and Paris must be followed up. If the Tsarist government still has money, it will probably follow suit.

It is small things that make money, and the most important thing is to make a name.Attract more people to invest in the power industry. Otherwise, only by Franz will the year of the monkey be able to spread electricity to the industry.

In August, the Transatlantic Telegraph was completed, and the first direct electricity connection between Europe and the United States.

This is not the same as the previous telegraph. Before this, the telegraph line between Europe and the United States was not directly connected, but was transmitted on the islands in the Atlantic.

This is a technical issue. It is limited by the times. Everyone knows nothing about the seabed. Cable laying depends on luck.

If you are unlucky, you will be destroyed directly by the seabed creatures, and you need to lay it again.Encountered special terrain, it may also affect the laying project.

One of the submarine cables has always had problems, and the problem has not been completely resolved until now.Prior to this, this distance could only be relied upon by ships to relay news.Not to mention the lagging news, the operating costs are still high and cannot be commercialized.

It's different now. It can directly connect two continents, and its commercial value has increased greatly.

Affected by this, the British have announced the laying of submarine cables: London-Canada, London-South Africa-India.

The French are also preparing to lay: Paris-French America, Paris-French Asia submarine cable.

Franz also ordered the laying of two submarine cables: Africa-Central America, Africa-New Bavaria (New Guinea).

The telegrams between France and Austria to Africa have long been connected, so naturally there is no need to come again.The problem of duplication of telegraph lines in various countries is that there is no way and no one wants to be subject to others.

Moreover, this is not a loss-making transaction. Most of the telegraph lines in the region can make money.No one is going to lay out a loss-making line.

For example: Franz is not ready to lay the submarine cable to Alaska.

Since the Russians got the land, they haven't developed anything except a fur company.

If it were not for the purpose of swearing for sovereignty, the tax officials in Vienna were too lazy to send.This is a piece of land that cannot be paid for, and it costs tens of thousands of Aegis every year.

It is naturally unnecessary to establish a telegraph line.Anyway, I'm not afraid of being robbed. No country will fight a bloody battle with Austria for a country of ice and snow.

This is just the beginning, and then the major colonial empires are taking action, and everyone knows the strategic role of the telegraph.In order to strengthen the control of the colony, this is an indispensable part.

In September, Alfred Nobel invented nitroglycerin explosive.Of course, this is still in high secrecy and will not be announced until after the Russian-Russian war.

After all, this is also a weapon to change war.If it is announced in advance, whether the Russians want to buy or not will be a headache.

Not selling affects the relationship, and selling it is likely to affect the outcome of the war.Explosives are a sharp weapon for the bunkers and fortresses of this era. Many of the solid defenses that used to be golden, are not enough now.

On the bright side, Austria did not sell arms to Prussia. This proprietary new invention is destined to be impossible to sell two.

The Russians won the war, which was not what Franz wanted to see.The Tsarist government lost the war and may need to cultivate for 20 years; after winning this war, they may have to do things again in ten or eight years.

There is no doubt about the toughness of Mao Xiong, let alone the ability to die.In order to avoid such troubles, Franz decided to postpone decisively.

Alfred Nobel is also full of legend. In 1860, he began to study nitroglycerin explosives.

In 1863, Nobel returned to Sweden to develop explosives with his father and younger brother. The factory was destroyed by an accidental explosion and his younger brother was killed. The government prohibited them from conducting further experiments.

Due to the explosion of the nitroglycerin factory, his brother Yemir died tragically and was forced to close the Swedish factory.

At this time, the Austrian arsenal threw olive branches.The two sides agreed at once and decided to jointly develop explosives.

In fact, most arsenals are co-operated by the government, or to whom will the weapons produced be sold?

The butterfly effect played a role. At this time, Nobel chose to cooperate more securely.

This is not surprising. Nobel is a scientist and a businessman.

Risk avoidance is an instinct, and he is not the only person who has conducted explosive research at the same time.Before the results came out, no one knew whether the product had a market.

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These are just relatively influential technological advances, and more small inventions.The second industrial revolution has erupted, and in 1866 it just opened the prelude to a new era.