Chapter 74 Idiot, Genius and Madman

But now, Adjani has a new mission.

The top leaders of the Polish Restoration Army received accurate information that Archduke Franz Karl had brought 7 million expected banknotes into the Schönbrunn Palace.

The top leaders decided to let the Violet Knights take over this mission to find out and find Franz Karl's money.

The money was used to support the widows and their children of the victims of the Polish Uprising in 1830, to help them overcome difficulties, and to reserve for the restoration of Poland.

Apart from those who wanted to forget the past after getting married, Adjani's Violet Knights still had 23 people, six of whom had special identities and could not participate in the action for the time being, and two of them were injured and could not participate.

Among the remaining members of the Knights, there was a young girl named Caroline that she particularly liked.

But rather than using wisdom to solve the opponent, she preferred to use physical methods to kill the enemy. And vases and porcelain were Caroline's weapons, which were very effective in hitting people, but every time they were used, a lot of physical evidence would be left at the scene.

Caroline had no problem pretending to be a prostitute in a dark alley or working as a waitress in a noisy bar.

But it was a bit too much to ask Caroline to wander in the upper class and flatter the nobles.

In fact, as long as they drank, Archduke Franz Karl welcomed them.

Adjani was very dissatisfied with the top leaders of the Polish Restoration Army. Over the years, she led the sisters of the Violet Knights to try every means to raise funds for the Polish Restoration Army.

Sometimes they pretended to be a song and dance troupe. They would perform songs and dances, rob houses, cheat, and set traps. They could do anything.

But those politicians and officers who kept saying that they wanted to restore the country were just enjoying the benefits of a good reputation. Some even used the funds of the Restoration Army to support mistresses in Paris and lived a life of luxury.

The war has been over for five years. The top leaders have never thought of going to war with Russia. They just keep borrowing money in the name of the Polish Restoration Army and let those who are willing to restore the country do some dirty things for them.

These people have long forgotten the national hatred and the compatriots who are still digging potatoes in Siberia...

But Adjani still took on this task, because these 7 million florins can allow those exiled Poles to live a good life for a few years. As one of the leaders of the Polish Restoration Army, she will definitely fight for the rights that those poor people deserve at the high-level meeting.

Now the Polish Restoration Army has 3,000 people in name, but it needs to run around for the livelihoods of 20,000 exiles.

Archduke Franz Karl, some people say he is an idiot, some people say he is a genius, and now some people say he is a hidden ambitionist.

However, people in Vienna generally think that the archduke is a lunatic. After all, a genius that is incomprehensible is a lunatic.

Archduke Franz would hold a hunting rifle and search for wild boars on the streets of Vienna. He could also ask a social elite speechless under the gaze of tens of thousands of people. He would be despised by the homeless on the street, and he could also be admired by a proud person like Baron Bruck.

Adjani had met Archduke Franz Karl several times. This person seemed to have only wine in his eyes and nothing else.

If there was, it must be hunting. It would be easy to assassinate such a person as a target because he often left the team and went hunting in different places.

But it was not easy to get the money from Franz Karl. After all, stealing the archduke's money and kidnapping an heir to the throne are two completely different things.

And Archduke Franz Karl's guards would not let anyone succeed easily.

About Archduke Franz Karl, Adjani also heard some rumors that he used 3 million florins to make 67 million in the United States (not US dollars, but florins converted to Austria) and successfully escaped.

Not only did it make a lot of speculators and bankers lose everything, but it also gained the admiration of countless economists.

Later, all 67 million coins and precious metals were deposited in the Austrian Imperial Chartered Bank.

The Austrian Imperial Chartered Bank is not a bank, but a financial freak produced in a special period.

It exercises many functions of the central bank, but it cannot be called a central bank. To be precise, it should be a monster that emerged after a group of financiers hired by Austria and domestic bankers compromised.

This 67 million real money and silver immediately boosted Austria's confidence in the bank, so the run did not last long in Austria.

Later, he used the expected banknotes he exchanged to kill all sides in the Austrian stock market with another Archduke Karl and successfully bought the Austrian railway at the bottom.

Franz Karl bought at one-third of the highest price, and the stock price returned to the high point a week after the purchase.

What Ajani admired most was not that the Archduke successfully bought at the bottom and made a lot of money, but the Archduke's courage.

In the financial tsunami, no one was willing to take the risk of depositing money in the bank.

Because most banks at that time were private, which meant that once the bank went bankrupt, the depositors would lose all their money.

But he was willing to take such a huge risk and deposit his huge wealth in the bank.

You should know that although Archduke Franz Karl was a member of the royal family, the royal family and the imperial government were completely two different concepts.

He could do a lot of things with the money, spend it on wine and women, and even buy everything he wanted.

This spirit of daring to take risks and dedicate to the country made Adjani admire it very much. She couldn't help but wonder how great it would be if the senior officials of the Polish Restoration Army also had this spirit.

In fact, what Adjani didn't know was that after the money was deposited in the Austrian Imperial Chartered Bank, a lot of creditors came to collect debts, but the Austrian Imperial Chartered Bank's consistent attitude was to pay interest on part of the expected notes when they were due, and to deal with the undue ones later.

And these expected notes were not paid in one go, but in batches and installments within ten years.

It was precisely because Franz knew about the rogue operation of the Austrian Imperial Chartered Bank that he dared to deposit the money without scruples, and was not afraid that someone would withdraw the money to save Prussia or France.

You must know that it was precisely because of this rogue practice that the Austrian Imperial Government was saved from bankruptcy and even killed a large number of creditors.

With money and the royal family as a backing, the Austrian railway company naturally resumed construction with great fanfare.

At this time, the three railways from Vienna to Dresden, Vienna to Graz, and Graz to Udine have been completed.

Among them, the railway to Dresden is the busiest railway in the entire Austrian Empire and even the entire German Customs Union.

The railway has reduced the cost of transportation by 60%. The journey that used to take ten days now only takes half a day.

At this rate, the railway from Prague to Bayreuth in Bavaria and the railway from Udine to Venice will be completed next year.

In this way, Austria's German Northern Railway is basically completed, and the railway to Venice will further strengthen Austria's control over northern Italy.

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This chapter is actually praising the protagonist, not losing the protagonist again.