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Austrian warships came and went in haste. But in any case, the Dutch army hiding in the fortress breathed a sigh of relief. If the goal of the Austrians was to land on the island and seize the island, they would have no choice but to surrender.

On board the super-class battleship Venice.

"What's wrong in your brain that is different from ordinary people, tell me. If you think this sea trip is boring, we can also go to Hue on the way. Last time I was in the wide palace square of the Vietnamese emperor It's a good place to play football." Friedrich sighed.

"Play football?" Franz asked curiously.

"Yes, thanks to you and Miss Agani. Now this sport is very popular among soldiers in the army."

Of course, compared to competing in person, Friedrich, who was born as a commander, prefers to watch the battle and show off his advantages of being good at tactics by the way.

In addition, the reason why the Hue Palace became suitable for playing football was not the result of Friedrich's indiscriminate bombing of Hue City. After the Austrian army withdrew, the fire in Hue burned for three days and three nights.

"Uncle Friedrich, have you forgotten that we have an armistice agreement? At this time, you should keep a low profile instead of going to other people's palaces to show off your power. If you can't help it, wait a few years before going there Not too late."

At this time, there is no need to push Vietnam too hard. It is better to wait for the internal collapse of the other side before waiting for an opportunity. But Friedrich's remarks still make sense, this trip can not be so empty-handed.

However, the current Southeast Asia has basically been divided up; Singapore and Myanmar belong to the British; southeast Indonesia and Java belong to the Netherlands; and the Philippines belong to Spain.

Even on the island of Kalimantan, there are four forces intertwined. Only Siam, Vietnam, and Laos have not been fully involved.

However, because Laos is too far away from the coast, the traffic inconvenience is first ruled out. Like the Italians, Franz would not do such a thing as overhauling the railway in the colony, emptying the treasury, and finally handing it over to others.

In Vietnam, due to the duration of the armistice agreement and the strength of resistance, the forced occupation is not worth the loss, and it will attract the coveted eyes of other powers.

Of course, this mainly refers to France. They sent a large number of spies, missionaries, and even businessmen to Vietnam to trade with Vietnam.

In addition, the French provided weapons and instructors to the Nguyen Dynasty, hoping that they could drive the Austrians out of Vietnam.

Of course, the French are not really kind, they are just preparing for the invasion of Vietnam. If the Vietnamese can fight Austria again, it is of course best for them to take advantage of it.

So for the Austrian Empire, Siam is the only option left.

However, the "wise" King Rama III was very cooperative. He has offered to help Austria more than once.

But if large-scale planting is really carried out in Thailand, Austria may lose its exclusive advantage over rubber resources.

However, this is of little significance, not to mention that the cunning British will choose to secretly try planting in other colonies, and the changing domestic political situation in Brazil also makes it impossible to fully implement and abide by the agreement.

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Moreover, as far as the current situation is concerned, the biggest beneficiary of the expansion of rubber production is the Austrian Empire, because the advantage of starting early has enabled its industry to take shape.

Three days later, Siam, Bangkok.

Warships flying the yellow and black imperial flag slowly entered the port. The Siamese, who were accustomed to seeing Western-style warships, were also attracted by the "Venecia" as a super-class battleship; they had never seen such a huge ship. warship.

The ship had just anchored, and the Siamese officials who had been waiting on the pier for a long time asked the officers above if they needed help with a group of coolies.

After the price was reached, labor coolies boarded the ship to unload the cargo. To the surprise of visitors from afar, not only the officials but also the foremen can speak German.

"Didn't we go to the wrong place? If it wasn't for the help of a map and a compass, I thought we'd arrived in Kampong Son."

Friedrich joked.

"No, it seems that the king of Siam is not simple."

Franz said with emotion from the bottom of his heart that he understands the difficulty of survival for small and weak countries.

Friedrich looked around and snorted coldly.

"Really? This is an undefended port at all. If the main fleet of the empire is present, the city will be razed to the ground in a day."

"Sometimes I really don't understand your warlike heart. Why do you resort to force when things can be solved politically and economically? Besides, the port that is piled up in ruins has lost its own value. Besides, other powers will Agree?"

Franz was very speechless, and then stopped a little girl who looked very hard with a fruit basket on her head, bought her fruit basket with a gold coin, picked up a durian and broke it open with her hands.

His unintentional movement made Da Yan Shanyin on the side exclaim in surprise, and Friedrich also stared with disbelief.

"How did you do it!" the latter exclaimed.

"Your Highness, the smell of this thing is really unbearable. It is probably poison. For your health, you should throw it away." Dayan Shanyin said while fanning away the smell from the tip of his nose.

Reluctantly, Franz had to put aside the durians that had been pushed away, and then turned to Friedrich, "Do you want to learn?"

"I have no interest in being the victim of a weapon that smells so bad."

"Okay then, let's get down to business."

At this time, Dayan Shanyin pulled the corner of Lafranz's clothes, and the latter followed the direction pointed by the former, and saw that the little girl who had just sold fruit and was about to go home seemed to be in a little trouble, presumably it was a gold coin to blame.

"Uncle Friedrich, please send a company to follow me, I need to deal with something."

In fact, Franz was accompanied by a small team of personal guards during this long trip. But the newcomers are not familiar with the local environment at all, so it is safer to bring more for safety.

After all, even so-called "sages" sometimes make mistakes, not to mention that I just stumbled in Borneo, so I must not be careless.

Then, surrounded by more than a hundred well-armed strong men, Franz turned into the entrance of the alley. The scene inside was naturally a scene of a few gangsters robbing a little girl.

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When these bullying guys saw more than a hundred well-dressed soldiers pouring into the alley, they were all dumbfounded, and then a big show of a sage descended from heaven to help others was staged.

Dayan Shanyin took advantage of this spare time to quietly pull the little girl away from the center of the conflict, intending to ask about her family situation and give her family a sum of money to get them out of this place of right and wrong.

After all, all of this happened because of Franz. Whether it was out of good intentions or not, this little girl was involved in unnecessary right and wrong.

Although it is possible to help out now, the end result of such acts of chivalry is still to be seen. If those little **** continue to cause trouble for her and her family after he leaves, then he will do her harm.

So Franz, who didn't want to be punished by his conscience, was going to spend a sum of money to stop all this, but the answer he received from Dayan Shanyin was that the little girl was actually an orphan.

After asking for his advice, she took the little girl named Yakunda with her; but this did not arouse Franz's much interest.

Not long after this episode ended, Franz and Friedrich had an audience with the King of Siam. According to Siamese common sense, envoys who want to meet their monarch need to go through layers of approval and long waits.

Just when the Siamese officials lamented that the suzerain of the neighboring country was strong, a whole fleet flying the Austrian flag sailed into the port.

The sails that covered the sky made the Siamese officials at the port break out in cold sweat, and the leader of the left horse who was in charge of inquiring about the Austrian envoy ran back to the palace.

King Rama III knew the way of survival of a small country. Although Siam was a hegemon in the Indochina Peninsula, it was nothing more than a joke in the eyes of the powerful Central Plains dynasty and the great powers who came across the sea.

After all, Siam at this time can't even deal with those fanatical Chenla Patriarchs, let alone their masters?

And this time the strength of the Austrian voyage fleet is even stronger than ever. Of course, what surprised him the most was that the identities of the visiting envoys were actually two members of the royal family.

Rama III, who had never seen a member of the European royal family, was full of curiosity, "Do they have four eyes and three legs?"

The magnificence of the Siam Palace complex blinded Friedrich's eyes; of course, he didn't know that the Siam Palace in history was not much better than the Phnom Penh Palace in Cambodia and the Hue Palace in Vietnam, but its special feature was that This is the only royal palace that has not been baptized by war.

He was fascinated by the towering trees and Chinese-style buildings around him. This kind of majesty is not at all the perception of ordinary European-style buildings nowadays, but more like the feeling he had when he first saw the city walls of Constantinople; a heavy sense of history came over his face, making him feel He has an urge to conquer here.

But Franz, who lived in Shenzhou in his previous life, and Dayan Shanyin, who was more familiar with East Asian palaces, had no feeling at all. On the contrary, Little Yakunda seemed to be in the Grand View Garden, curious and frightened at the same time.

Rama III sat on the throne of his own palace, waiting for the arrival of Franz and his party while listening to the reports of his ministers.

"How are their movements and whereabouts these days?"

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"Your Majesty, those Austrians taught a few punks on the pier a lesson."

King Rama III couldn't help sighing, "Really? I didn't expect the gangsters to be so brave now. My generals were scared out of their wits by the Austrian warships."

However, the monarch did not show a trace of surprise on his face, but continued to ask calmly, "Is there any more?"

"They also took a little girl along the way." The minister replied respectfully.

The corner of Rama III's mouth curled up after listening to it. Sure enough, people can be bribed if they have desires, even if they are enemies.

"Bring all the beautiful girls selected before into the palace, those distinguished guests from afar may need them."

The Siamese palace **** naturally understood what the king meant, so he immediately went down to prepare.

An hour later, the main hall of the palace.

Franz and Friedrich met the legendary King Rama III.

Because they don't understand Siamese, the language talents of these two are useless. They wanted to ask Dayan Shanyin to help translate, but according to the summoned eunuch, Rama III had already learned German, so he gave up.

In the main hall, the two sides sized each other up; Rama III's initial impression was that Austria might be the legendary Lilliputian country, and the two royal families seemed to be not as tall as him.

In fact, this kind of looking up and down is a very impolite behavior, but it was acquiesced by both parties.

Friedrich thought that the fat man on the throne was more like a shopkeeper selling groceries, and didn't take him seriously.

And Franz's first impression of the monarch in front of him was not good. The routine fake smile and the presence of a group of ugly monsters made him feel a chill.

However, it does not matter in the slightest that the agreement talks between the two parties ended smoothly in a friendly atmosphere. Rama III decided to set aside 10,000 mu of land for development and planting rubber with a stroke of a pen.

His original intention was to cater to the Austrian Empire, but what he didn't expect was that the other party threw out the condition that the selling price could not be lower than 1,000 florins per ton.

However, this small amount of money did not make King Rama III too concerned. He just felt that Franz seemed to be slightly different from other powers.

The careful King Rama III could see that the other party seemed not to have the slightest interest in the elaborate gift he had prepared, so he let those women exit the hall.

Afterwards, the two sides had a very awkward and business-like exchange. Before leaving, Franz suggested, "Dear Your Majesty, I have one more request."

"Please tell me, Prince Franz." Rama III couldn't distinguish the aristocratic relationship in Austria.

"I met an orphan at the port of your country and felt very pitiful. I hope His Majesty the benevolent King can take him in."

"Oh? The orphans of our country are all my subjects, and this is of course an inescapable duty."

However, the monarch sneered in his heart, "This foreigner is so outrageous that he actually asked someone to raise a woman for him."

Of course, Franz didn't know about his mental activities~lightnovelpub.net~ He just handed over the little girl named Akunda to the other party.

Franz felt that he had finally ended a bad relationship, but what he didn't expect was that it would turn into a bigger bad relationship more than ten years later.

After the trip to the palace, Franz and Friedrich, who carried a batch of gifts from the King of Siam, returned to the battleship. Anyway, the harvest this time made everyone temporarily forget the unpleasant trip to Borneo.

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10,000 mu of rubber forest may seem like a lot, but in fact, the output is only about 650 tons after tapping, which is a drop in the bucket for the exaggerated growth rate of the Austrian rubber industry, and it will take another eight years for a good harvest.

It's just that at this time, a fleet of this size went to Japan to conduct a "black ship incident" in advance, and the time seemed a little earlier.

Just when Franz felt that everything was settled, things turned around again.

When the ship was about to sail into the Strait of Malacca, a fearless boat approached the battleship "Venecia" directly; however, it was naturally impossible to force the battleship on the move to stop.

There was only a crisp sound, and the boat shattered in response. Although Franz and Friedrich didn't know what the other party's purpose was, they decided to organize the officers and soldiers on board to rescue the man who fell into the water first.

Soon a wet oriental woman was pulled up, but she couldn't care about that anymore.

"Are you here for my Ming Dynasty? I am Zhu Qiongying, the daughter of the Zhu Ming Dynasty! Where is the barbarian?"