【War court and knee pillow, Austria's destiny】【】

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Franz was absorbed in reading several letters from California.

It clearly reads: "After untold hardships, Baron Bruno finally found several huge gold veins. According to conservative estimates, the total amount is more than 1 million ounces, equivalent to 38,834,500 florins."

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Putting down the letter in his hand, Franz leaned back on the chair and let out a breath.

"It seems that the geology of this era is unreliable. Even the most conservative estimates of later generations show that the total amount of gold mines in California is more than 12 million ounces, and most experts estimate that it is about 20 million ounces to 30 million ounces. between."

In fact, this kind of open-pit gold mine is easy to find. As for whether it is a good estimate, Franz is not sure. However, in this age when precious metals are scarce, it is only natural to have insufficient control over him. Of course, that is just his worst guess.

If the gold mine here is hollowed out, it should be just enough to pay off the debt of the Austrian Empire. It's just that Franz doesn't really want to do this. After all, why should he pay off the debt he owes.

Of course, the main reason is that there are a large number of usury in these debts, and some of the sum of principal and interest has even doubled dozens or even hundreds of times.

Over the years, after Baron Bruno's unremitting efforts, an agreement has been reached with the creditors, otherwise Franz intends to directly kill all the guys who are too full.

Coincidentally, during the previous civil strife in Hungary, the empire had a batch of corpses of creditors, so its overall debt directly fell by more than 200 million florins.

Franz asked someone to make a rough calculation before, and found that as long as creditors with serious anti-Austrian tendencies disappear from the world, the debt level of the empire will drop by 60%.

Although it would be cool to do so, what you are doing is just repeating the same choices made by countless predecessors in the parallel world.

To really break the cycle, Franz had to walk a path that no one had gone before. Of course, this road will be very difficult, and it may be more difficult than realizing the ambitions of the Habsburg royal family, but he does not intend to back down.

On the other hand, Baron Bruno also brought bad news, that is, the Mexicans did not keep their promises. While they turned a blind eye, a large number of American pioneers flooded into California.

Although it has not yet formed a scale, it will definitely become a big trouble here in the long run. It is not difficult to imagine the next picture, they will gain a firm foothold and compete with the local Austrian immigrants for land and resources.

Once they discover the secret of discovering the gold mine, the consequences will be disastrous. This piece of land will definitely become the object of fierce competition among major powers such as Britain and France.

By that time, not only will it be impossible to fulfill the promise to Mexico, but even the cost invested by the empire for many years will not be able to recover.

The New Mexico defense line built by Tasan Anna is like a colander. The two neighboring countries in the north can always enter and exit easily, allowing them to feel the true strength of their southern neighbors clearly.

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It's just that France and the United States are intimidated by each other's strength, and they dare not invade Mexico easily, unless God, the old man, tells them the important information that there are gold mines in California in a dream tomorrow.

In this regard, Franz can only sigh with emotion, "It's really mud that can't support the wall."

Also immigrating to California were Spanish laborers, mostly refugees who had traveled across the ocean to come here during the Civil War.

These people have just arrived and are not familiar with their identities. Not only do they look down on the local Mexicans and aborigines, they even plan riots in some settlements to overthrow the rule of the Omer United Company.

However, it was soon suppressed by the Austrian soldiers organized by Archduke Karl Ferdinand in time.

In addition to the 500 retired soldiers recruited by Franz from various places, there were also 200 elite guards of Archduke Karl who followed the grand rebel. It was precisely because of the existence of these people that the laborers who participated in the riot paid Painful price.

Those who escaped the war and came to California to start a new job, did not know how to be grateful, but thought that they should be the rightful owners of this former Spanish colony. Under the deliberate instigation of the local Hispanics, they either fled in disobedience or participated in the rebellion.

In one of the largest riots, the number of rioters who were killed alone reached 3,700. Due to the language barrier and the deep wilderness, the local Austrian soldiers did not show mercy.

Grand Duke Karl Ferdinand is different from his elder brother who is full of honor, and his younger brother who advocates force. He only wants to complete his task. He is a truly ruthless killing machine.

Whether it is a participant or a helper, regardless of men, women, old or young, as long as they are involved in the rebellion, they will all end up dead. Even those instigators who hid in the village and thought that everything would be fine were not spared.

Although this approach is cruel, it is effective in the western region where "natural selection, survival of the fittest" prevails.

Moreover, the number of local Austrians is at an absolute disadvantage. If they stand idly by and watch the opposing forces become one, they will be the ones who will be cruelly treated.

After reducing the local population of 4,000 households to 1,000, the situation gradually stabilized. It's just that after nearly two years of development, the local Mexican population has not increased, but has dropped a lot.

Austria's population has risen from 700 to 4,000. The number of aborigines dropped from 8,000 to 8,000, and only 3,000 of the 20,000 Spanish laborers were brought in.

At this time, there were only about one white settler in the entire California square kilometer, that is to say, one person could be encountered within an average of 39.59 square kilometers.

This gave great opportunities to pioneers from the United States and France, because not to mention the limited number of Austrian immigrants, they also needed to train and deploy enough militiamen to guard their homes, and the available manpower was really stretched.

At the same time, finding and identifying intruders on the mighty Great Plains cannot be accomplished overnight.

What is even more deadly is Mexico, an unreliable partner. They do not intend to contribute, and relying solely on Austrian immigrants who are at a disadvantage in numbers cannot solve the immediate difficulties.

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So Baron Bruno wrote several letters to Archduke Franz Karl, hoping that he could find a way to help them out of the predicament.

To be honest, it is quite difficult to deal with this matter. Franz originally hoped that the Mexicans could be the black gloves, but what he didn't expect was that Austria would take the blame~lightnovelpub.net~ But there is no way out, wild There are savage laws, and if you want to forcibly violate them, you will definitely suffer backlash. The original seven hundred Austrians would have been reduced to a heap of bones if they had not risen up.

In fact, it is not difficult to find hundreds of people who understand Spanish from within the empire, but if the number of people expands to tens of thousands, even Austria, a language-rich country, cannot do this.

The reason why Spanish workers resisted so fiercely has a lot to do with long-standing national characteristics, stereotypes, and prejudices.

During this period, Europeans looked down on Americans, and Mexico was once a Spanish colony, so these Hispanic immigrants still believed that they were upper-class people from the suzerain country.

Another point is national identity. After all, the empires that tried to conquer Spain all declined without exception. Neither the thriving Berbers nor the mighty Napoleon Empire could conquer the Spaniards.

And with the end of the Carlos War, there will only be fewer and fewer people willing to come to the New World, so Franz's plan a should have failed.

Fortunately, he is not a person who likes studs. It is always right to have a few backup plans.

At this time, Franz set his sights on another place on the map, the Central American Federation.

The civil war in Central America, with the deepening of the participation of the French, has obviously escalated in intensity, and the people who live in this land are also Spanish-speaking people.

Moreover, most of them are of mixed race. These people's self-esteem is not as strong as that of the Spaniards, and they are more able to bear hardships and stand hard work. At the same time, they are easier to rule with a small number of people.