War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

For such a genius, it took decades for his discovery to be gradually understood, and it would take nearly a hundred years for the related inventions to be revealed to people. And his contribution still affects our lives today.

Color ultrasound, radar, and even the theoretical basis of the Big Bang are all based on his discoveries. Unfortunately, he was not taken seriously when he was alive, and he even lived a life of poverty.

He was born into a famous stonemason family in Salzburg, Austria. As the eldest son, he was allowed to take over the stonemason's business according to family tradition.

However, he did not have the good physique of his father, and he was destined to be unable to engage in the traditional family business.

Although he could not inherit the family business, his family was very wealthy. His father hired the best tutor for him, hoping that he could become an artist, but he was more interested in mathematics.

In 1822 he was successfully admitted to the Vienna Polytechnic and in 1825 to the University of Vienna.

When his teaching assistant career came to an end in 1833, the University of Vienna did not consider renewing his contract.

He had to consider his future. In March 1833, he applied for a teaching position at the Royal University of Prague. He was full of confidence. After all, he had obtained multiple degrees and had many years of experience as a teaching assistant in the imperial capital of Vienna.

However, his application letter was like a stone, and there was no news. Anxious and disappointed, he had no choice but to continue his job search.

There just happened to be news that the Austrian Imperial Naval Academy in Venice was recruiting teachers.

He felt that a group of navy bosses would have no reason to reject an outstanding scholar like himself.

He rushed to the interview excitedly, but was kicked out because of his thin body.

When he left Vienna in 1834, he failed to find a job.

He had no choice but to return to his hometown and became an accountant in a textile factory.

Keeping accounts in a dark factory is obviously not the life he wants.

His younger brother inherited the family business, learned about his elder brother's current situation, and offered to pay for his elder brother to go to the United States for development.

Although his family was just a stonemason family, the person who lived next door to Mozart was definitely a rich man.

Soon, he received a large sum of money, which was enough for him to leave the Austrian Empire and go to the United States across the ocean.

At the same time, he also received two invitation letters, one from Bern and one from Prague, both inviting him to be a middle school teacher.

He chose Prague, which was relatively nearby, and he deliberately learned Czech for this purpose. However, on the first day he arrived in Prague, he discovered that everyone here spoke German.

He married the daughter of a local goldsmith, but they did not live happily after their marriage. The goldsmith's daughter quickly spent all his money, so she often left him and his daughter at home and returned home alone. natal family.

In anger, he took his daughter and went to Vienna to find a job.

Of course, his luck was still as bad as before. He went to several universities in Vienna, but was always rejected.

When he only had two Kreutz left in his pocket, he was kicked out by the hotel owner. Unfortunately, his daughter had a high fever again.

He could only shamelessly go to the Royal Academy of Vienna to try his luck, but the other party had no intention of meeting this commoner without a title.

The gatekeeper, who was fat and full of cavities, pushed him out of the door.

He was still holding his daughter when he accidentally fell to the ground, but he still begged.

"Please, have mercy, for God's sake, let me see Count Effat, my daughter is sick and I need a job."

The gatekeeper spat on the ground.

"Bah! There are tens of thousands of college students in Vienna. Who doesn't want to work at the Royal Academy? You, a country bumpkin who doesn't even have a noble status, are you worthy!?"

He hugged the gatekeeper's thigh and begged.

"Sir, please do me a favor. I'm still a mason and I can help you."

The gatekeeper hesitated and asked.

"What do you know?"

He answered without thinking.

"I can carve tombstones."

The gatekeeper was furious and kicked him.

There were many well-dressed gentlemen around. They didn't even stop to look at the beaten man, they just talked and left as if nothing happened.

While protecting the daughter in his arms, he was hit on the head and fell down the steps. Fortunately, he was caught in time.

"What's going on? If I read correctly, you are beating a gentleman with his daughter. When did the Royal Academy of Vienna become an unregulated place?" A child said very unhappy.

"Where did you come from, little brat? Just stay here. Are you the illegitimate son of this poor man?" the gatekeeper said mockingly.

As soon as the gatekeeper finished speaking, several figures came to his side. Two tall imperial guards held him down, and a man who looked like an officer began to slap the gatekeeper involuntarily.

The officer was tall and strong, and his arm strength was even more amazing. He knocked out two of the gatekeeper's teeth with just one slap, and slapped the gatekeeper's face until it looked like a pig's head.

Seeing that it was the Forbidden Army who beat the person, the gatekeeper immediately begged the Forbidden Army officer for mercy.

"Please, please let me go, sir. I didn't mean to offend you. My words are dirty, and my blood is even dirtier. Don't dirty your hands. Ouch." The gatekeeper lost his teeth, so his words were leaky, but You can still hear the carelessness.

The Forbidden Army officer shook his head and turned his head to look at the young man.

At this time, the gatekeeper realized that the young man was not an illegitimate child, and that the person leading the imperial army could only be a member of the royal family, and he immediately wanted to die.

Insulting the royal family, this is the Austrian Empire, not France.

In France, Philip Pon could insult the royal family arbitrarily and only pay a small fine.

Philippe Pon, a French painter, became famous for insulting Louis Philippe and called on all painters in France to insult Louis Philippe.

But in Austria, this crime can be big or small. If it can be brought against the emperor, it will probably only be exiled or expelled from Vienna.

If he did not make trouble in front of the emperor, he would most likely be lynched by the Forbidden Army. As for the gendarmerie or the secret police, he would probably be worse than death.

Just as the gatekeeper was about to speak, the young man said coldly.

"I ask you why you don't let this gentleman in."

"He is a civilian. The gentlemen in the college think he is not worthy of working here, so they won't let him in. I am just following orders, please let me go."

The young man coughed impatiently, and the officer knowingly slapped the gatekeeper on the face.

"You answer whatever the Grand Duke asks."

The gatekeeper nodded quickly and did not dare to say any more.

"Let me ask you again, did you beat this gentleman on your own initiative, or were you instigated by others?"

The gatekeeper hesitated.

"He, I. I just wanted to drive him away. I didn't think about anything else. Count Effat said he didn't want to see him again, so I just..."

"Okay, you can shut up."

The young man turned to the Imperial Guards officer.

"Mr. Parrish, let him swallow all his teeth. Tell Count Effat that I don't want to visit him today. Let's go to the manor."

The boy turned away and walked towards the fallen man, not watching Mr. Parrish's execution.

"Sir, if you don't mind, you can come to my manor as a guest. There are the best doctors there who can help you."

"Thank you, you are such a good person. My name is Christian Doubler and I am a scholar." The man wearing only a single coat in winter replied.

Doubler? Isn't this one of the three unlucky people in the history of the Austrian Empire? The other two are Mendel, the father of heredity, and Tesla, the son of God.

The doorman just now actually hit the smartest person in Austria in this era on the head. It was a waste of money.

However, the guard was quickly punished. The two Forbidden Soldiers broke open the guard's mouth. Captain Parrish was very skillful and hit him hard with the butt of his rifle. After three blows, he added another kick.

The two Imperial Guards tied a cloth band around the guard's mouth and then pulled his body upright. Captain Parrish hit him hard in the stomach with the butt of his rifle. After a few rounds, the guard's eyes rolled up and he lost consciousness.

The Imperial Guards moved quickly and resolved the battle before the military police arrived.

Parrish got on his horse and came to the gendarmerie captain and whispered a few words. The gendarmerie captain naturally understood what he meant.

"Don't look at it, don't look at it! This person is disturbing public order and polluting the public environment. Take him to the gendarmerie."

A few military policemen couldn't help but put black hoods on the guard and threw him directly into the military police carriage.

Franz invited Doppler into his six-horse carriage and asked him what happened and the reason for his coming to Vienna.

Temporarily prepared food was being heated on the incubator, and Doubler's little daughter also recovered under Thalia's care.

The little girl is not sick, she is just hungry and has no energy. In addition, children have a fast metabolism, which lowers blood sugar and causes panic, sweating, and body heat.

The little girl stared at the soup in the pot, with many crumbs stuck to the corners of her mouth, and she was still holding half a steak in her hand.

Doppler on the side saw that his daughter was getting better, and his nervous heart was relieved, and he swallowed unconsciously when he saw the food.

"Mr. Doppler, if you don't mind, you can eat some too." Franz said with a smile.

"That's so embarrassing, I'm not hungry."

Doubler said he wasn't hungry, but his stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

Thalia on the side also smiled. She liked children very much and sympathized with the father who took care of the children. She rummaged for food in the box beside her.

There was only a box of foie gras and a bowl of fish soup left. Thalia looked at Franz, who nodded.

Thalia poured the foie gras on the bread and handed it to Doubler, and then placed the fish soup on the warm box to heat.

Doubler took the bread and started to eat it without caring about the image.

"Mr. Doubler, I would like to hire you as a professor at the Vienna Women's Academy."

Doubler almost choked to death, and Thalia almost spit out the juice she just drank.

Vienna, Caesar Hotel.

There were fragments of fine porcelain all over the floor, and several servants' faces had been smashed with blood, but these people didn't even dare to wipe them for fear of arousing the wrath of the tyrant in front of them.

"Idiot! Idiot! You have the nerve to call yourself an economist? Let a fool buy the bottom, and I will be better than you even if I hire a bunch of pigs! Where is my money! Where is my railway! If the Northern Railway is still in my hands, the Austrians will , the Prussians, the French, and the whole of Central Europe all want to see my face!"

The veins on Solomon Rothschild's forehead popped out. This time Austria's biggest loser was the Rothschild Bank.

Solomon Rothschild was the first person in Austria to learn about the collapse of the London stock market. In order to avoid danger and to be able to cut the leeks of the Austrian Empire like Nathan Rothschild, he put his name on the stock market. All the shares were sold to his partners.

He had thrown away these hot potatoes, but his loyal partners were not so lucky.

Solomon Rothschild's friends went bankrupt one after another or could only sell their assets at low prices in order not to drown in the financial tsunami.

In fact, Solomon Rothschild also suffered considerable losses, conservatively estimated to be around 10 million florins, while his friends lost tens of millions of florins.

Solomon Rothschild still remembers that when he first arrived in Vienna, he used the public debt of the Austrian Empire to eliminate the Rothschild family's opponents in Vienna at the time. At the same time, he made a huge profit of 20 million florins, which directly led to the Austrian Empire Charter. The birth of the bank.

At that time, Solomon Rothschild almost destroyed Vienna's financial industry, and one-third of Vienna's banks went bankrupt.

The seven-hundred-year-old Gjemüller declared bankruptcy, and the patriarch of the Parrish family, David Parrish, who had served the Habsburg family for fifteen generations, jumped into the Danube River because of bankruptcy.

Later, a 10 million franc bond was issued for Duchess Marie Louisa for a non-existent public project, and Solomon earned 6 million francs.

Solomon Rothschild remembered that there was a time when making money in the Austrian Empire was as easy as cheating candy from a child. Why did he suddenly lose money?

Compared with the economic losses, Solomon Rothschild's reputation losses were more serious.

While transferring risks, Solomon Rothschild successfully killed a large number of long-established banking and financial families.

If it hadn't been for Franz's 67 million coinage rescue, the Austrian Empire would have experienced a run on the country as it did in history, and the impact of the economic crisis would have lasted until 1838.

With Franz's intervention in this plane, the Austrian Empire not only quickly emerged from the shadow of the economic crisis, but also attracted some foreign investment.

Historically, the Austrian Empire did not have close trade relations with Britain and the United States, but it was the country most affected by the economic crisis of 1837 in the entire German Confederation. It must be said that the smart-aleck Solomon Rothschild contributed a lot.

Solomon Rothschild's misjudgment directly triggered a financial crisis that should not have happened.

But in the world of capital where the strong are always strong, Solomon Rothschild eventually became the winner. Not only did he take the opportunity to acquire a large number of excellent assets, he even forced the Habsburg royal family to grant him permission to purchase land in the inner city of Vienna.

(Jews in the Austrian Empire at this time were not allowed to own land in the inner city of Vienna.)

Historically, Solomon Rothschild took the opportunity to buy the Caesar Hotel, which he had coveted for a long time.

But in this dimension, he was just one of the many tenants of the Caesar Hotel, and at this time, the other tenants downstairs were very unhappy with his mistreatment of porcelain.

Along with the sound of the mop hitting the ceiling, a loud "Sukabule!" came from downstairs.