Chapter 195 News

Vienna.

Franz was stuffed into the royal carriage as soon as he got off the ship and joined the victory parade.

The parade slowly drove through the streets, with celebrating crowds on both sides and petals floating in the air. The victory of retaking Belgrade made people intoxicated.

Of course, the Austrian government also invested money. They prepared 20 tons of candy to celebrate this victory.

In fact, the Austrian government did not spend much money on this batch of candy. They were sent by Mexicans to pay off debts.

Tasan Anna's governance level is comparable to that of Emperors Huizong and Qinzong.

After the end of the civil war, the Mexican economy not only did not improve, but fell into depression.

Due to successive economic crises and famine, the demand for sugar in Europe dropped sharply, and Mexico's economy suffered a heavy blow. At the same time, the Mexican-American War and the Civil War left Mexico with huge debts, and Tasan Anna's way of dealing with it was to increase taxes.

The Mexicans were overwhelmed by the various taxes, but as France began to invade the Central American Federation and the Americans expanded their military and prepared for war.

Tasan Anna felt the crisis, and in the face of the crisis, he must have a strong army.

As a result, the continuous increase in taxes finally led to the people's resistance, and with the instigation of some local forces, rebellions in some parts of Mexico continued.

But Tasan Anna could not see the crux of the problem at all. In order to quell the rebellion, he had to feed more troops, and more troops meant higher taxes.

In the end, even the Mexican soldiers found the problem, because those resisters would not rise up to resist as long as they could survive.

But Tasan Anna himself could not get out of this vicious circle. After some thinking, he remembered the friend who had helped him.

Archduke Franz Karl certainly could not understand what the other party wrote, so he gave it to Madame Sophie.

However, Madame Sophie's ability to govern the country was not very good. After giving Tasan Anna a few bad ideas, she handed it to Franz.

Franz saw at a glance that Tasan Anna was avoiding the important issues. What he was most worried about was actually the territorial ownership of California and New Mexico.

The Americans and the French were constantly infiltrating these two sparsely populated lands. And Tasan Anna's immigration plan proved to be a fantasy.

The people in the south were unwilling to leave their homeland, and the states of California and New Mexico were not ready to receive immigrants, and the Mexican government played a counterproductive role in the immigration process.

As a result, Tasan Anna's ambitious immigration plan had to be terminated because of the untouchables, and the subsequent debt crisis and endless rebellion made him breathless.

Franz sighed, "It's really a waste of mud."

However, the land in Mexico is really good, either gold or silver, it's simply God's gift.

It's a pity that I am incompetent and have bad neighbors next to me.

Rather than letting the Americans get away with it, it's better to dig it myself.

Franz had made up his mind. Just when he wanted to let Ajani do this, he found that the latter could hardly stand.

The previous parade was a torture for Franz. He had to sit upright in the carriage and accept the blessings of his subjects.

What was even worse was Adjani, who walked eight kilometers with the carriage in high heels and did not stop for a moment when she returned to Schönbrunn Palace. At this time, her legs were shaking. If she had not insisted on exercising, she would have collapsed.

"Go to the bed."

"Ah?!" Adjani was a little shocked for a moment, thinking that she had heard it wrong.

"Go to the bed." Franz repeated it again.

Adjani had received professional and strict training, and generally would not sit on the master's bed or chair casually. But she was about to stand at this moment, and she didn't care so much when she heard Franz's words, and jumped directly on the bed.

The moment she lay on the bed, she felt alive again. Adjani, whose waist and legs were relaxed, looked at the ceiling, and was in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking. She didn't even care too much when Franz went out and came back.

Just as Adjani was about to stretch and relax, Franz suddenly grabbed her ankle. In an instant, a feeling like an electric shock spread throughout Adjani's body, making her shudder violently.

But Adjani only struggled symbolically twice, and then let Franz take off her shoes and stockings.

Just when Adjani was expecting something to happen next, she suddenly felt a hot current rushing up under her feet, and she sat up straight.

Seeing that her feet were pressed into the hot water basin, Adjani felt very puzzled, and thought to herself, "Foot washing ceremony? What does Franz want to express?"

As Adjani's feet were bathed in the misty hot water, a stream of warm currents rushed straight into her heart. Soon her brain was in a state of downtime due to the accelerated downward circulation of blood flow.

Adjani leaned on the edge of the bed with both hands, looking intoxicated.

Due to the influence of religion, Westerners have given special meaning to foot washing. But in Franz's eyes, there is nothing more comfortable than soaking feet after a tiring day.

But looking at Adjani's appearance, things may not be discussed for the time being.

Another war broke out in the Zhenla area, and the Vietnamese misjudged the situation. They believed that Austria was able to quickly occupy a large area of ​​Cambodian territory because it had the support of Cambodians and Siamese.

So, Emperor Minh Mang of Vietnam made the biggest mistake of his life. He ordered the arrest of Queen An Mei's sisters and tortured them to death in front of her. Their bodies were thrown into the Mekong River.

This move greatly angered the people of Zhenla. Nobles, monks (Zhenla was a place of devout Buddhism at that time, and monks had a high status and considerable power.), peasants, and even bandits and mountain bandits rose up to resist the Vietnamese.

The church did not miss this opportunity and sent troops to attack Phnom Penh. The Vietnamese side assembled all 50,000 troops to try to break the myth of the invincibility of the Guardians.

However, the situation did not go as planned. The Vietnamese army wanted to take advantage of the Guardians' lack of cavalry and use elite cavalry to break through the front line in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, the Guardians had just added a batch of Congreve rockets. These rockets flying all over the sky caused great panic to the Vietnamese cavalry.

In addition, the Vietnamese, who had been defeated repeatedly at this time, lied that the Western Barbarians would use magic to cover up the fact that they had failed. When the Vietnamese army saw the rockets flying all over the sky, they immediately felt that a disaster was imminent and fled in a panic.

As a result, the Vietnamese cavalry collided with their own infantry formation, leading to a comprehensive retreat. In this battle, 3,500 Vietnamese soldiers were killed and more than 30,000 were captured. They were forced to release the Zhenla royal family, recognize the independence of Zhenla, and pay a compensation of 3 million taels of silver.

Prince Anton, who should have seized the throne of Zhenla in history, died inexplicably at sea, along with his confidants.

Siam and Zhenla became allies, and Zhenla paid tribute to Austria. Queen An Mei officially ascended the throne, Ambrosius became the king's husband, and their son was named the prince.

However, the Guardian Army did not disband, and the church still actually controlled power, but the queen herself did not care, and there was no force in Zhenla that could fight against the church.

However, Franz was a little worried because the church took too big a step.