October 20, 1842, Venice.

A low-caste businessman from India visited here. He brought a large amount of spices and jewelry to sell at the port, and soon attracted the coveted eyes of gangsters and local gentry.

Then the hapless businessman was framed by local gangsters and gentry, and imprisoned for disturbing the market and disrespecting local traditions.

Although the businessman brought hundreds of entourages, this was still useless for Venice, which had a navy and army stationed there.

Everything would have been settled in the first place, but Baron Brook just came back from California, and after casually flipping through the files, he discovered something tricky.

Of course, the experience of the past few years in the United States has also taught this upright official a lot. This time, he did not go to the local court in anger to make a theory, but went to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Archduke Friedrich and the Governor of Venice. Prince El Tres.

Archduke Friedrich and Prince Ertres, Governor of Venice, were also willing to sell the central bank governor's face, and the two super heavyweights asked about the same eucalyptus.

This case will naturally be brought out for retrial. Even Franz, who is far away in Vienna, has heard about it. He is very dissatisfied with the local officials. After all, Austria intends to open the door to do business, not to engage in this kind of killing chickens and eggs. deeds.

Franz is very interested in a person who came to Austria from India to do business. After all, in business, there are many friends and multiple paths, especially in areas rich in products like India, you can always find what Austria wants.

However, with the trial of the case, some other things were soon involved.

The Indian businessman's name was Vilawais Adani, and he was a sudra. This is very rare, because Sudra is a low caste in India.

At this time, neither his sea ship, nor the spices and jewels it was fully loaded with, nor the five hundred capable sailors under his command, did not look like the property of a low-caste businessman.

But in fact, the Adani family originated in the Age of Discovery and was once the agent of the Dutch in India. Villawaith Adani is the kind of rich n generation who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, but what Franz saw was a strong Indian man who was not inferior to the Janissaries.

Although his speech frequently aroused laughter in the court, it was not that his language was not up to standard, but that he would naturally make a lot of jokes when he spoke Dutch as German.

Villawais Adani's eyes are firm and his tone is calm, coupled with his powerful figure, he is like Khal Drogo in the Song of Ice and Fire.

When the local gentry accused Villawaith Adani of being an Indian Ocean pirate, he produced letters of recommendation from the Governor of Tanzania, Benny Erbin, and King Saeed of Oman.

This made Franz very interested. After all, these two letters of recommendation were much more difficult to deal with than the big ship and hundreds of Indian sailors.

In fact, this Verawaith Adani was one of the wealthy Indian businessmen who funded Benny Elbin at the beginning. This person also had many years of business dealings with the Kingdom of Oman, so he was able to get a letter of recommendation.

The purpose of Vera Wise's visit was actually to learn from Franz, who once entertained heroes from various Indian states in Calcutta during the Indian Ocean Straits.

These "heroes" had a higher evaluation of Franz than any white man who had been to India, because Franz knew what they wanted, pointed out several directions, and was willing to help.

One of the ways is to study in Austria. As for whether they want to learn organizational structure or science and technology, Franz will not interfere too much. He will only help those people enter Austrian universities to study.

However, Villawais's trip was not to study, but to ask how the subjects of Kerala can be equal?

After the trial, Villawais got to see Franz as he wished.

"Dear Grand Duke Franz, you are younger than I thought, although my friend Benny Elbin has reminded me more than once."

"You're also whiter than I thought," Franz joked.

Villawais Adani made a move that he did not even face the Trivantran Maharaja. He folded his hands and knees before Franz.

Franz is somewhat used to it, because there are not a few people who worship him as a **** outside of Europe, even in Vienna, there are people like old gods who worship him as a god.

"Mr. Villawais, your courage is admirable. But regarding your question, it is impossible to achieve absolute equality. However, a country of relative equality and mutual respect between people is still possible. "

"What should I do?" Villawise asked.

"It's not what you should do, but what your country should do. The people are rich and the country is strong, Junqing. This is the solution." Franz replied.

"The people are rich and the country is strong? Jun Qing?"

"Yes, a philosopher in ancient times in the East once said that warehouses know etiquette. If a person can't even meet the most basic needs of food and clothing, then what he wants to know must be how to make money and how to have enough food. Rather than obeying the so-called social rules.

A weak country has no diplomacy, let alone dignity. Everything you have in a weak country can be taken away by a strong country, including your life.

Rulers need to know where they stand and who is friend and who is enemy. "

In fact, this set of statements was only told by Franz to Villawise, because he could see that the other party actually wanted to be king~lightnovelpub.net~ If Villawise only wanted relative equality, Fran Ci will tell him the shortcut of ruling the country according to law.

But an ambitious person would obviously prefer what Franz said now. After all, India or Kerala at this time is in a situation of internal and external difficulties. The stupid princes and nobles are rampant in the countryside, and the fish and meat people are in collusion with the British.

The British outside stepped up their plunder and controlled the customs. If they want to make money, they must feed the British officials, otherwise no matter how good your goods are, they will not be sold.

Especially for ocean-going merchants like Villawais, once the ship and goods are seized, bankruptcy is almost inevitable.

Fortunately, the centuries-old management of the Adani family allowed him to connect with the Omanis and the Dutch. Otherwise, no matter how capable and courageous Villawais was, he would inevitably end up ruining his family and dying.

So Villawais came this time not only for himself, but also for the future of the Adani family.

"Arch Duke Franz, what should I do?"

This time Villawais asked more directly, and Franz naturally did not shy away from it.

"You have many followers, and you are also very smart and know how to hedge your bets. You can choose to sell half of the goods on the ship for weapons, and sell the other half for the goods of the Austrian Empire to Indian princes and nobles, or A bribe to do what you want."

Villawais felt a little unbelievable that the other party could see through his mind so easily. In fact, this is not difficult to analyze, because he had previously bet on both Benny Elbin and King Saeed of Oman.

This time should be no exception. Although for the Austrian Empire, the trade with Villawais is dispensable, but Franz is still happy to see the destruction of the British backyard by this careerist.