Chapter 107 Bavaria Hometown Mutual Aid Association

Schönbrunn Palace, Madame Sophie's palace.

"Seven thousand people? How come there are so many." Mrs. Sophie looked very surprised. You must know that although the number of people in Vienna at this time was much larger than the same period in history, there were only less than 500,000.

London, the largest city in this era, had a population of two million, followed by Paris with 800,000, and Vienna with 500,000. Berlin at this time had only 300,000 people. A gang of 7,000 people was really an exaggeration.

"In order to ensure the loyalty of those people, you asked the whole family to join. Now it's better. This group of people is like mice moving endlessly. They have called all the relatives from Bavaria, plus the gang members who defected to us. , It’s hard even if you don’t think too much.”

Xussel smiled and handed a document to Madam Sophie. Madam Sophie looked at it twice and became even more worried.

"Why did you lose so much? I clearly told you to restrain yourself."

"Mom, do you plan to be the boss?"

"Franz, why are you here?"

Franz's appearance startled Madam Sophie, and the maid on the side could only look at Madam Sophie with a very embarrassed look and said something.

"I'm sorry, Archduke Franz didn't let me inform you, I..."

"Mother, I have something to tell you."

Mrs. Sophie said as she glanced around the room.

"Everyone, please go out. I have something to say to Archduke Franz."

The maids in the room immediately bowed and left. Count Xussel stood at the door and looked at Mrs. Sophie.

Mrs. Sophie waved her hand, and Count Xussel exited the door and closed the door.

Before Franz could speak, Mrs. Sophie picked up Franz and put him on her lap as if showing off, and then handed him two documents.

"My little monster, please help me think about how to deal with this matter first."

Franz looked at the data on the two documents, and combined it with the information he got from Thalia, he knew why Mrs. Sophie was worried.

"Mother, your Bavarian gang should have been called the Bavarians Mutual Aid Committee."

Mrs. Sophie thought about it, and it seemed that it was called this name, but at that time it was a micro-organization with only a few dozen people. Her wish at that time was to expand the organization to 200 people.

Times have changed, and the current scale has far exceeded the limits of her control.

Seeing that Mrs. Sophie did not speak, Franz continued.

“What you should be providing is a platform, not keeping them together like pets.”

Although Franz's words were unpleasant, Mrs. Sophie's current state was like a little girl raising a hamster for the first time, facing so many baby hamsters that she couldn't raise but was reluctant to throw them away.

“Franz, what do you mean by platform?”

"That is, you should build an intermediary platform to allow information, resources, personnel, etc. to flow freely and be combined reasonably, instead of over-interfering like you do. In order to maintain this organization and this platform, you can consider charging them membership fees." Franz said.

Mrs. Sophie was not an idiot. She knew what to do as soon as Franz said it, but with a woman's intuition, she knew that there was something in Franz's words.

"Franz, what you want to say can be said now."

"Mom, what's going on with Miss Adjani? I think she's weird. What is her identity?"

"Your attendant, you weren't staring at people at the ball. I just fulfilled a small dream for you." Mrs. Sophie teased with a smile.

"Mother, I want to know who she is." Franz said seriously.

Mrs. Sophie put away her smile and stood up, walked to a cabinet, pulled out a stack of documents and threw them to Franz.

"It contains her height, weight, body measurements, life history and everything you want to know."

Franz just glanced at it twice before putting down the document in his hand.

"Mother, why did you bring such a dangerous person in?"

"Franz, don't worry, that is in the past, and now she works for our family."

"But, what if she betrays you?"

"It's okay, you have two younger brothers."

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"Aren't you always looking for help? I think Miss Thalia can help you, and by the way, she can also help me monitor you. I'm wrong, she is helping me to watch you don't do stupid things."

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"Why don't you tell me why you are hoarding so much food and involving the entire royal family." Madam Sophie asked the biggest question in her mind.

"Mother, it is impossible to have a good harvest of food every year. There is a saying that things will turn to the extreme. A long-term good harvest makes people forget the pain of hunger, but God will not forget the suffering that mankind deserves."

Faced with a devout believer like Mrs. Sophie, Franz could only bring out God. He could not tell Mrs. Sophie that he was actually a time traveler. He knew that there would be a great famine in Central and Eastern Europe before 1840, but because he could not remember It's the Qing Dynasty, so I have to prepare in advance.

"Well, Franz, I hope God bless you to be right, otherwise the entire Habsburg family will be bankrupted by you." Mrs. Sophie said.

"It's not like we've never been bankrupt before. Failure to pay back money has always been a fine tradition in our family. You have to stick to it, and you are the only one who will go bankrupt, because you have mortgaged all your property. I didn't, and neither did Archduke Karl. "

Franz found it very interesting, but Mrs. Sophie didn't like it very much, so she simply grabbed Franz's face.

"That won't do. You have to think of a way."

"Dear mother, you hurt me. The world has been peaceful for too long. Everyone is ready to make a move. These grains will come in handy sooner or later.

Especially the Mexicans. They have the world's largest silver mine, but their agriculture can't support themselves. There are only two ways before them: spend money to buy grain or continue the civil war."

In the far east, Kabul.

Afghan King Dost was meeting with British envoys. At this time, Afghanistan had just lost the important southern city of Peshawar to the Sikh State, one of the Indian princely states.

The British were the biggest enemy of the Sikhs in India. At this time, the British had controlled most of India. Even the Sikh Empire had to bow to Britain.

The British hoped to join forces with Dost to fight Russia, because Russia's influence in Central Asia was approaching Afghanistan, and the British were very vigilant about anything that might threaten British India.

But Dost hoped to get the British to support him in regaining Peshawar, but was rejected by the British on the pretext that they were not ready to fight the Sikhs.

Later, Russian envoys also came to Kabul. In order to narrow the distance between the two countries, the Russian envoys expressed their support for Dost's recovery of Peshawar.

In fact, all three parties wanted to get something for nothing, but this time, a verbal promise of getting something for nothing was exaggerated by someone with ulterior motives, saying that Russia was preparing to attack India through Afghanistan.

The British Governor-General of India could not sit still, and immediately wrote a letter to the country, asking to send troops to occupy Kabul before Russia.

As a result, Britain suffered the most tragic defeat since the Napoleonic Wars.