Alchemy Greater China

() Kalanka was startled, and she had already woken up. She said in amazement: "This, this is a tunnel built on the bottom of the Danube River? Oh my God, is such a project possible to be completed? Could it be that... this was built by God himself ?"

Aside from the difficulty of construction at the bottom of the river, the surrounding building materials that seem to be suspended as if they are transparent, etc., the problem of human ventilation at a water depth of 100 meters is an almost insurmountable problem for today's engineering technology. problem!

No wonder Karanka was terrified!

No wonder she thought it was God's handwriting!

Jielioff shook his head and sighed: "Miss Rothschild, when your father, your grandfather, and the previous eleven owners of Merlin Castle used the Gate of Salvation for the first time, they all You have this kind of expression, and you have the same doubts... Well, you don’t need to understand, well, it’s okay to understand it as God’s masterpiece! Next, you are about to start a journey that you will never forget!”

Speaking of this, the ancient butler walked forward and muttered: "One more time, this door of salvation will be opened again, and I will be free from here! I hope that the British Earl, Don't make me wait too long! Hee hee..." ..

Jieliov took a few steps, groped with his hands on the almost transparent space wall, and then a hole suddenly appeared in that transparent place, the dark hole just enough to accommodate two people, Zheng Gongxiao's sharp eyes , the opening of the hole seems to contain two round cylindrical entrances, just like two small coffins are placed horizontally in a large coffin, and these three coffins are still opened with a hole drilled from the head !

Well, that analogy might be inauspicious...let's use Miss Karanka's figure of speech: these are two silkworm chrysalis!Will we really not be suffocated when we go in?

After Jieliov expressed that Kalanka and the two got into the hole, Kalanka expressed such doubts.

"Maybe there will be a little weightlessness, oh. It's a wonderful feeling caused by the contraction of the anal sphincter muscle when falling rapidly from a high place... Well, I promise with the honor of my butler Mellan, I will definitely not suffocate people to death!" Jielioff replied solemnly: "Miss Rothschild, your father and your grandfather have all been in there once, you see. Aren't they alive and well?"

Oh, my grandpa has gone to heaven, and my father is bedridden, they are not 'living well' as you say...Kalanka swears in her stomach, but still chooses to believe in Jieliov At this suggestion, he hesitated and stretched his feet into the dark 'silkworm chrysalis'...but Zheng Gongxiao laughed loudly: "I'm afraid, the big deal is that I will die, and I will not die for thousands of years, hahaha!", and then Just jumped into the adjacent 'silkworm chrysalis'.Seeing this, Kalanka groaned in her stomach: Oh, Zheng is a daredevil, did I really choose him as a contestant in the game?God bless me...

Inner City of Vienna, Imperial Palace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Joseph in military uniform was sitting in front of an extremely large round table, on which countless documents were piled up, and there were also a few plates and cups with crumbs left over from supper.

This is where His Majesty Joseph I usually works.Unlike ordinary people, he likes a large desk.Because that can make him feel like pointing the country and scolding Fang Qiu. Even at the age of 62, he is still thinking that in a few months, this big table should be added with the function of a sand table. Take a panoramic view of your own colorful territory!

Yes.His Majesty the emperor, who was born noble and had the direct lineage of the Habsburg family, has a resolute face, sharp eyes, abundant energy, and strong control. …and it’s 12pm.He usually eats the late-night pastries cooked by the palace chef, and then takes a cold shower, and then rests on the camp bed in the side room for an hour, and then he will work until four o'clock in the morning!

Joseph I was such a stubborn, stubborn, conceited person who possessed the pride of the traditional royal family. He hoped that when he opened his eyes, he could take the second largest empire in Europe into his eyes. In the dream, ride the horse and whip, gallop on the land of Austria and Hungary!

However, today, the bell has struck 24, and it is past 12 o'clock at midnight. Our Emperor Joseph is still sitting in that hard, absolutely uncomfortable high-backed chair with a gloomy face, not as usual Instead of rushing to wash off his tiredness with cold water, his eyes stared blankly at the dark void outside the room, and his whole person seemed to have fallen into a state of trance.

This dissociated state was very rare for Joseph I, but he had a reason to do so today, because in the morning, a vicious explosion occurred in the inner city of Vienna, which he always thought was impenetrable!

Yes, it was an accident!

Joseph's sluggish eyeballs suddenly rolled, and the beautiful white beard on the corners of his mouth trembled. With a movement of his body, he grabbed the conclusion report jointly written by the Flame Dragon Knights and the Secret Police: Ann There is a large amount of explosives hidden in the warehouse of Tier Company. Due to poor management, it caused an explosion...

"Hmph, Antier, Antiel Eurasia Freight Company..."

Joseph muttered to himself in a voice that he could only hear: "Don't think that the country you registered is France, so I can't guess your origin! You have hoarded so much explosives, are you trying to blow up Vienna to heaven? ? Hey, who else would be so interested in killing me and my empire, except for the bastard sons of Italy?"

In just a short sentence, our Emperor Joseph used five voices. There is no way, who made the empire under his rule have many ethnic groups, including Bohemians, Poles, Austrian Germans... and all kinds of people. Slavs!

Therefore, Joseph, who is proficient in eight languages, often uses this way to make any diplomat envious and crazy in his daily life, changing the language he speaks as he wants.

Of course, this also made the servants and officials serving Joseph sometimes seem at a loss. Fortunately, after the death of Lord Schwarzenberg in 1852, His Majesty the Emperor no longer appointed a prime minister.Do everything yourself.

After grunting to vent, Joseph picked up the remaining third of the coffee cup and drank it down in one gulp. The bitter and sweet taste lingered on his teeth, making the du cai's lips curl up slightly: " This time, the Yanlong Knights did a pretty good job, heh heh. That stupid person in charge of the Antill Company, instead of putting out the fire and destroying the evidence, wanted to escape from Vienna! But how could my red wall be white? Repaired it? Now that we have captured all the evidence, this Antier company will be owned by the royal family, tsk tsk tsk, I can't think of a small shipping company with such a strong foundation..."

When he thought of the property that was confiscated after the seizure of Antiel, even Joseph's ambition, which he was used to, was also very excited: according to the report of the Flame Dragon Knights he founded, this Antiel Eurasia Freight Company.They actually deposited a huge deposit of 200 million pounds in the Austrian bank. This is not counted. According to the confiscated account books, their deposits in the Austrian bank are only a small part!Only about 25% of their total value!

"Two million pounds, that's a lot..."

Joseph tapped on the table proudly with the folder of 'Antil's Family Property List' with the red cover, and muttered with a smile: "A company engaged in illegal activities? Oh, God testifies, their property is naturally dirty , Evil, and endangering the people. I represent the will of the empire, and of course I can confiscate all their deposits in the Austrian bank! No matter which country comes to explain it, there is no way to pick out the slightest fault!"

Two million pounds is a huge amount of money for a commercial company, but for a vast empire, it is often just a negligible sum, perhaps expanding a ten thousand infantry regiment.Maybe build a few ocean-going warships that are popular among the great powers, and the 200 million pounds will be like bread in the hands of a beggar, and it will disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye!

However, this time His Majesty Joseph I was excited by the 'mere' £200 million for a very simple reason.The empire in his hands was already riddled with holes and heavily in debt. If it wasn't for saving the face of the Austro-Hungarian royal family, His Majesty Joseph had planned to rent out the palace in order to pay off the debts!

Joseph I came to the throne at the age of 18, and it has been 44 years since then. However, the great Austro-Hungarian Empire turned around and went straight down three thousand feet at a speed that Joseph could not understand. Can't stop the downward momentum!

The suppression of the revolutionary army, the stupid stance in the Crimean War, the failure of the Battle of Solferino... These mistakes made by Joseph in the early days of taking power have completely ruined the military prestige of the Austro-Hungarian Empire!

Joseph attributed the failure of the war for more than ten years in the early days of his administration to his own inexperience and the insidiousness and cunning of the enemy. He believed that this was the tuition fee he paid for his youth, so since then, he has turned his attention to constitutional experiments and In resolving ethnic conflicts, and trying to make his empire a powerful and powerful military power externally, while internally, it is necessary to give the people a kind of min in zhu, which is a common expectation. Joseph also has to conform to public opinion, right?

Joseph's idea is good, but his not-so-smart political skills are unable to control this huge and complex concept of a 'dual system'. On the contrary, because of the complete bankruptcy of the federal solution, he has to deal with Hungary, which has always been disobedient. People made a compromise, and in 1867, the Austro-Hungarian Empire became a "dual monarchy of empire and kingdom". The "dual system" imagined by Joseph was realized in such a ridiculous way!

Originally Joseph I was the common monarch of Austria and Hungary, but since 1867, Austria and Hungary have become 'equal partners'!This is equivalent to depriving Joseph I of half of the rights in his hands, and it also buried the fuse for the multi-ethnic disharmony within the empire.

After that, although Joseph still had feats such as the "Alliance of Three Emperors", generally speaking, the empire in his hands gradually declined amidst constant internal friction and repeated failures in diplomatic strategies. Finally, ten years ago, The Central Bank of the Empire: Austrian Bank was completely acquired by the Fuld family!

The former second largest country in Europe, unknown to everyone, turned into a debtor of a 'small family'!

In order to keep the domestic economy from collapsing, starting nine years ago, Joseph had to borrow millions of pounds from the Fuld family every year. Breathless astronomical figures.

And because of this.In order to compensate for the interest, Joseph no longer remembers signing several commercial tax exemption orders to the Fuld family. Although he knows that the tax lost in this way is not a small amount, there is no way. What about the German family?

Mad, I also want to draw my hand to deal with those greedy bankers!

Joseph grunted.But put this tempting thought aside for the time being: the banker is a threat, but it is not enough to destroy the country, at least I still have control over the army, and if the Fuld family is stupid enough to push me into a corner, I will never die. I don't mind using the army to purge the Fuld family, no matter what other countries say...

However, the ones that really pose a fatal threat to the empire at present are those countries with malicious intentions around them!Italy, Serbia... Take the incident where my granddaughter was almost assassinated not long ago, these damned anarchists.It is clear that they want to stir up the nerves of the empire to launch a war!

As soon as he thought of his granddaughter: Princess Sissy, Joseph's fierce and aggressive eyes softened: This granddaughter looks too much like his queen when she was young, but it's all due to that Sir Koshaw, what's wrong with my granddaughter? good?How dare you not?If you obey obediently, it will be fine, and you can make little Qianqian happy, and everyone will be happy... But you don't know what to do, and you want to make do with that little girl Kalanka. You didn't mean to give me this Will the wise and mighty emperor add to the obstacles?

How can I care about your love love love!

Joseph cursed Zheng Gongxiao who was "ruthless, ignorant and unflattering" in his stomach.However, His Majesty the Emperor still thinks that this kind of thing is a small conflict among the younger generation. He is unwilling and disdains to use imperial power to oppress an oriental man who has saved his granddaughter's life.

not to mention.Joseph is very clear about Kalanka's origin and background. The imperial army needs the weapons provided by Kalanka. As the king of a country, it would be very stupid to offend a powerful arms dealer for the emotional entanglement of the younger generation!

"Hey, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, hehe. That Ke Xiao, missed my lovely, beautiful, lively and kind little Sissy, and I will regret it in the future!"

Joseph stretched his waist, gave Zheng Gongxiao a heartfelt 'blessing', and then got up to finish his daily compulsory cold shower.

And at this very moment.Princess Sissi, whom Joseph called "cute, beautiful, lively and kind", is in her bedroom, wearing a flesh-colored knee-length nightgown, tossing and turning on the large and soft bed, so excited that she can't sleep!

This Princess Sissi has completely inherited the beauty of her grandmother. Back then, the beauty of Princess Elisabeth Emily Weisbach of Bavaria (that is, Princess Sissi, Joseph’s wife) spread throughout the European royal families. Who wouldn’t want to marry her?And at present, Her Royal Highness, who has just turned 20 years old, seems to be three times more beautiful than her grandmother!

There is no need to repeat her exquisite face and cloud-like hair, and her milk-like skin under the luminous light is even more dazzling like a piece of pure white porcelain... She has a graceful figure, every one Concavities and convexities are so perfect that they can arouse the most primitive desires of men, but now, in the early hours of the morning, she is dressed so thinly that she can see some beautiful convexities and black radiance, fortunately there is no one around, otherwise Even the timeless eunuch would howl and transform into a werewolf on a moonlit night!

Princess Sissi's two dizzyingly long beautiful legs are twisted together, her crystal clear jade toes are upturned playfully, shining charmingly like jewels, she blinks her deep blue eyes, The little devil laughed in a low voice: "It's so damn beautiful, it's a pity, I didn't see the helpless expression of that bitch Kalanka during the day, um, tomorrow morning, I will use this incident, Go give Zheng that bastard, and that shameless bitch a good look..."

It's hard to imagine that the eldest grandson princess of the empire can utter so many indecent words from her beautiful and fiery mouth. Obviously, she inherited her grandfather's language talent. Many of these cursing swear words are from the Slavic language family. Absolutely uncommon slang in China.

And the reason why our Princess Sissi is so excited is because of the big explosion that caused a sensation in Vienna during the day!

As soon as the big bang happened, the entire Austro-Hungarian palace was sealed off. Princess Sissi, as an important member of the royal family, was strictly protected and could not go out at all.However, Princess Sissi bought several members of the Yanlong Knights who admired her appearance, so a small team of the Yanlong Knights blocked the Mellan Palace, which made Kalanka unable to negotiate and left in anger. It reached Princess Sissi's ears without hindrance.

Princess Sissy would not give any kind words to this former best friend, who is now a woman who has taken her love with a knife. She wished that Kalanka would be so angry that her blood pressure would hit her brain, and she would be fine if she could not get sick!

And when the Antill company was found to be hiding a large amount of prohibited explosives, Princess Sissi heard about it. As smart as she was, she was already conceiving a plan to make Zheng Gongxiao's "European Freight Purchasing Company" eat it raw. Depressed! (To be continued.)