Any reform has a price, and Franz quickly realized it. As victims of this military reform, Franz's three younger brothers came to protest.

There is no doubt that the three little children were brutally suppressed by him, and they were directly speechless and left in disgrace.

In fact, Franz also wanted to establish a junior aristocratic officer school, but in the end he had to temporarily abandon this plan because of poverty.

There is no way, this is determined by the national conditions of Austria. Now the cost of military education for the children of the nobility is borne by the nobles themselves, and once the government establishes the junior aristocratic officer school, then the government will have to bear this expense.

The cultivation of these noble children cannot be sloppy, it must be elite teaching, and the education cost of tens of thousands of noble children will cost tens of millions of dong per year at the minimum, even if it breaks 100 million.

In addition to military and cultural classes, there must also be etiquette classes, art classes, equestrian classes, hunting, fencing, religion, social balls......

In short, what a valuable word. This kind of elite education cannot be supported by ordinary aristocratic families, so what should we do?

The answer is very simple: parents educate the next generation themselves, or let their children learn from relatives and friends.

Of course, this is the nobility with a background. The new aristocracy did not have the ability to provide such a high-end education to their children, and if the aristocratic temperament could not be cultivated, they were made nouveau riche.

In addition to cultural classes, ordinary schools in Austria also have simple military training, which is a tradition in Germany.

It is a normal social phenomenon to imitate the behavior of the ruling class. Compulsory education in Austria is in such poor condition, and there is no lack of basic military training.

The abolition of the Bottle Army was only a minor episode in the military reform, and the impact was not great in substance, and this kind of honorary officer did not need to be paid by Franz.

With the continuous upgrading of military weapons, the requirements for logistical supplies are also increasing, and the traditional logistical support system can no longer meet the needs of modern warfare.

To put it simply, a special logistical support system has been established, and the army's contingent engaged in logistics has grown.

It is worth mentioning that the medical security system also appeared in the Austrian army, and it was also an important member of the logistics system, with medical and health teams established in each company, and special field hospitals in divisional units.

It is a pity that the medical system is still an empty shell, these establishments only exist in theory, and the doctors in the field hospitals are still in the single digits, which can only guarantee the lives of officers.

According to the current situation, Franz estimates that it will take at least three to five years for these institutions to be fully staffed, and it will take time to train medical personnel, even if it is only simple battlefield first aid.

Considering the level of medical technology in this era, it can only be said that something is better than nothing. Franz also did not expect them to be able to save the seriously wounded, as long as the lives of the lightly wounded were saved.

In this era, the mortality rate on the battlefield remained high, and the most important reason was traumatic infection, there were no high-grade anti-inflammatory drugs, and there was still no shortage of alcohol in Austria.

Not long ago, Franz also sent someone to make the miracle drug penicillin, which he was going to make money by selling medicine.

Unfortunately, even if penicillin can be made by the soil method, this penicillin is not equal to penicillin, which can be used to save lives, and there are professional things involved.

The scientists involved in the production were shocked, but they should continue to do experiments. If you can't grasp the middle degree, the miracle medicine that saves the life and helps the wounded will also become a deadly poison.

Historically, penicillin was invented in 1928, and clinical trials were not completed until the end of 1940, although there were interruptions in the process.

When will we be able to stabilize the properties of the drug and make the most suitable penicillin for human use, it is up to these scientists to work hard, Franz said that he really can't do anything.

Laboratory products are so difficult to handle, from laboratory products to industrial production, this middle way is naturally indispensable.

Historically, due to the outbreak of World War II, from the laboratory to determine the efficacy of the drug in 1940 to the beginning of industrial production in 1942, the Americans set a new record in the history of drug research and development.

Franz did not think that Austria's industrial technology could be compared with that of the Americans during World War II. Don't say three years, if this goal can be achieved within ten years, it will be celebrated by the whole world.

Franz could only sigh that anti-Japanese dramas are harmful.

The time when the Americans achieved mass production of penicillin was in 1943, and only then it was supplied to the Allies. I really don't know which counterfeit drug dealer the penicillin robbed by the Japanese army of the protagonists came out of it, and it was even earlier than the laboratory products.

After this failure, Franz directly cut off the idea of selling drugs to make money.

In the era when biotechnology, medical technology, and industrial technology all did not meet the conditions, and he did not have a system to support him, what could he do about it?

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saint petersburg

Ever since the signing of the Russian-Austrian Secret Treaty, the Russians have been preparing for war.

The tsarist government was not stupid, they knew that the continent had just undergone a great revolution, and that governments were busy consolidating power and carrying out social reforms, and this was the best time for them to expand.

"My Chancellor of the Exchequer, when will we be able to finance the war?" Nicholas I asked dissatisfied

Preparing for war naturally costs money, so what kind of war can you fight if you don't have money? From last year to now, almost a year later, the Ministry of Finance still has not collected funds for the war, and Nicholas I is naturally dissatisfied.

Later generations believed that Russia, a backward agricultural country, was the poor of the great powers, and the Russian Empire in this era was not poor at all, with a fiscal income of 200 million silver rubles.

(1 gold ruble = 10.3 silver rubles, one silver ruble is about half a tael of silver)

As a feudal dynasty, the industrial development of the Russian Empire is naturally not good, and the agricultural technology is also not good, but they can't stand up to their own mines?

In the mid-19th century, the tsarist government discovered large quantities of gold and silver in the newly expanded territory, and in 1840 alone the tsarist government minted 439.9 million silver coins and 134 million gold coins.

The production of so many gold and silver coins, in addition to showing that the tsarist government is wealthy, there is also a helpless reason, their banknotes are not powerful.

During the reign of Alexander I, the Russians also issued paper money in line with the trend, but European merchants believed that the tsarist government was not credible and refused to use the paper ruble, and then the value of the paper ruble naturally went all the way.

In 1817, Alexander I changed his monetary policy and banned the issuance of paper money, and the government adopted a policy of shrinking paper money, and successively recycled paper money from circulation in the market.

Without paper money trade, it is natural to rely on gold and silver coins. This thing proved to be really effective, and as soon as the gold and silver double standard system came out, it was immediately well received by merchants from all over Europe.

Judging from these figures, the tsarist government of this era should have been very wealthy, and the 100 million taels before the depreciation of silver was not a small amount, much higher than that of Austria before the reform.

As a feudal dynasty, the Russian Empire did not have much social welfare to spend, and the government's financial revenue was mainly to support the army and administrative organs, which should be sufficient.

Nicholas I and Franz faced a common social problem – corruption, and even the richest countries should not expect to be financially rich as long as this problem cannot be solved.

"Your Majesty, this cost is too huge, I'm afraid it will have to wait until the second half of next year." Chancellor of the Exchequer Arry Stanley replied

Nicholas I frowned and asked, "Isn't there already a war tax?" ”

"Your Majesty, the nobles have not yet paid this war tax, and they have asked for this money to be paid after the outbreak of the war, so now the war tax is lower than we expected." Arry Stanley explained

This is all normal operation, and the taxes of the nobility of the Russian Empire have always been easy to collect. The reputation of the tsar was not very good, and the nobles were afraid of being deceived by the tsar, unless the war had broken out, otherwise it was difficult to receive taxes in advance.

Of course, if Nicholas I had been tougher, he could have taken it in advance, but this would have affected the unity and stability of the country.

But Nicholas I would not have done that, and the rights and obligations of Europe were clearly divided.

The Tsar had the right to levy war taxes during the war, and the nobles were obliged to pay war taxes, but didn't the war break out yet?

"Can't they be allowed to pay the taxes in advance?" Nicholas I asked with a frown

"Your Majesty, we have a commercial contract, and if we ask them to pay taxes in advance, the price we need to pay is too great." Arry Stanley patiently explained

That's right, this is the legendary tax package system.

Now all European countries have basically abolished it, but Russia is too big, and the government wants to directly collect taxes and manage the cost is too high, and it is difficult to protect tax revenue, so it has not been abolished.

Nicholas I frowned and said, "Then forget it, anyway, we still need time to raise strategic supplies." However, the Ministry of Finance must hurry up the matter of raising military spending, and I do not want to delay our military operations because of lack of money. ”

Unlike other tsars, Nicholas I was a responsible man who did not like to break the rules, and he would persevere in his goals when he set them.

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