The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven Chapter 87

Austrian Empire, Graz.

The Oak Hotel was actually taken over, which made many merchants and nobles who were avoiding the flood very upset.

However, when he saw the family crest of the Rothschild family, he had to swallow his anger and leave.

Solomon Rothschild sat alone by the fire, the heavy rain for several days made the temperature drop sharply, and the alternation of cold and heat made him catch a cold, and the doctor's bloodletting therapy made him feel cold all over his body.

What was colder than Solomon's body was his heart. How he hoped that the flood would wash away all the dregs in Vienna and drown them in the Danube forever.

In the past few years, Solomon has lost a lot of things, money, railways, allies, organizations, the empire he built, and his self-confidence.

This heavy rain will undoubtedly cause a reduction in grain production, and the price of grain will rise further, and the grain he sold before will definitely sell for double the price if it is sold now.

Solomon wanted to endure it, but the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. The only way to break the situation now is to buy grain from the United States to suppress the price of Austrian grain. As for Russia, he dare not go.

A month ago, Solomon had already purchased grain from the United States. At that time, the price of grain in the United States had doubled, but it was still lower than the price of grain in Austria at this time.

The food was already on the way, but the price difference was not enough to pay back the cost, so he came up with a "good idea".

A bolt of lightning pierced the night sky, and Solomon's face looked distorted and terrifying.

In Hungary, the Drava River suddenly burst, causing a large area of ​​farmland in southern Hungary, which was not seriously affected by the disaster, to be washed away...

Hungary feels that the south is flooded, which is a manifestation of fairness and justice in the world.

Many nobles in the council wondered how much good land they could buy from the poor after the flood.

Szechenyi looked worried. With the money in his hand, it was a drop in the bucket to help the victims of the disaster.

At this time, Hungary is extremely weak. If there is an uprising by the victims, it will definitely make the situation worse. If the Hungarian army cannot suppress the bullets, then the Austrian army will intervene. He really dare not think about what will happen then. .

Food prices have nearly doubled in Austria, a situation that would be doomsday for a country.

The floodwaters on the streets of Vienna had just receded, and there was a long queue in front of the bakery. Mixed bread, which few people usually buy, became a bestseller at this time.

The price of the mixed bread is only 30% of that of ordinary bread. As for whether it is mixed with wood chips, stones, or mouse hair, it is not explained one by one.

Dead fish on the street are being scrambled to take them home, and a large group of women and children in the outskirts of the city are looking for fern roots and other food that can satisfy their hunger in the grass...

Not only Vienna, but also in major cities in Europe at this time, this kind of tragedy is being repeated.

Ordinary people in this era have very little savings, and once they encounter a famine, they can only beg everywhere. Fortunately, all countries have their own measures. At the same time, there are plants and prey in the wild in Europe that can satisfy hunger all year round, so the scale of the famine will not change. very big.

The food crisis is usually accompanied by the epidemic of the plague, the surge of theft and refugees..

The Austrian government is very clear that the Austrian merchants now have grain in their hands, so they directly limit the price and do not allow the price of grain to exceed 1.7 times the original price.

The royal family took the lead in complying, and the merchants would make money anyway, so naturally they would not cause trouble.

If you want to sell Austrian grain abroad, you have to pay a tax that is double the price of the commodity itself.

As for those merchants who want not to pay taxes, they will be stopped by the army on the border. How much the army will take from them depends entirely on the mood of those soldiers.

At the same time that Austria restricted grain exports, almost all the states in the German Zolluge began to restrict grain exports.

In contrast, food prices in Austria are the lowest in Germany.

At the same time, the Austrian government has also introduced a lot of related relief policies.

The most important of these is work relief. Franz is not prepared to let civilians suffer. There are many large-scale projects in Austria that urgently need to be repaired, such as railways and dredging of rivers. Franz is also planning to build a dam on the Danube and raise the height of the river in Vienna. The height of the embankment was increased to prevent Vienna from being flooded again. These projects just required a large number of cheap labor.

Franz's proposals were sent to the Regent Council, and Archduke Franz Karl and Grand Duke Louis signed them without even looking at them. Count Korolaf and Prince Metternich on the side were a little embarrassed, but they signed one after another. own name.

The original intention of Franz's actions is good, and it can indeed solve the problems facing the Austrian Empire, but there is one thing that makes Metternich and Count Kororav very high, that is, the Austrian imperial government must buy the royal family at market prices. The matter of food..

Refugees and poor people from all the German states are frantically flocking to Austria, and this behavior is also encouraged by the governments of the states. After all, these victims who stay in their own countries are refugees, and refugees are the root of all evil. Plague, theft, riots They are all closely related to the word refugee.

Prussia, Berlin.

William III drank a big gulp of opium wine to calm down his mood.

"Weilich, why can't the price of grain in the Laiyin area be suppressed? Why is the grain you bought from Russia only one-third of the original plan?"

"Because there is no food, no money." Weilich replied.

"I clearly allocated funds to you, why do you still say that you have no money? You must be pocketing your own money, you shameless bastard." William III's eyes were red and he coughed repeatedly. His body was not as good as before~www.mtlnovel.com~ The roar just now exhausted all his strength.

"I went to Russia and paid the money, but only got one-third of the food that was originally planned."

Obviously, Russia has torn up the previous agreement with Prussia. Of course, it is someone else who made Russia make a decision.

Friedrich Liszt arrived in Russia first and met His Majesty the Tsar.

"Your Majesty the Tsar, it is a great honor for me to represent the United States of America and you to reach an agreement on food prices, which will benefit both our countries."

"Mr. Lister, don't you know that King William III of your country is my father-in-law?"

"Your Majesty, but this time you are not only trading with Prussia, but also France, Spain, Sardinia and the Low Countries. As long as Russia and the American Republic can jointly protect the bottom line of prices, then hundreds of millions of dollars in profits will be at your fingertips."

Franz, on the other hand, used the money he earned from the imperial government to continue buying wasteland in Hungary.

Of course, the imperial government did not actually lose much, because except for Austria, the food in the surrounding countries quickly rose to three times the price at the beginning of the year. Even if the fine was doubled, it could still make money selling to the states of the German Customs Union.

"Why..." William III asked unwillingly.

"The Russians said that you have to pay more." Weilich replied.

"Treacherous Russian barbarian! I am really blind!" The angry William III grabbed the opium wine on the side and drank it, and suddenly he fell down stiffly.

The royal physician was at a loss for what to do about William III's condition, so Friedrich Liszt brought in a doctor who was said to have saved many lives by transfusions of sheep's blood.

In desperation, everyone could only agree to transfuse sheep blood.

William III died.

Chapter end