War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

July 20, 1842.

Vienna, Royal Academy for Women.

Today, the college was extremely noisy, but no one stopped it.

Because today is the day when the first class of graduates of the Royal Academy for Women in Vienna graduates, no one wants to do anything to ruin the atmosphere on this memorable day.

The school cafeteria is filled with the graduates' works. Because they are leaving school, they hope to make more food to feed the "poor professors."

For the girls, weekly cooking classes are an opportunity to feed their "pets."

However, there is a huge gap in the quality of these students' works. Franz will not let those precious talents risk their lives casually, even if they suffer from diarrhea.

The school staff will conduct a food taste test first, and only if the taste and toxicity are satisfactory will the professors eat it. A large amount of inferior products and unloved food will be sent to nearby garrison camps, and the last leftovers will be used to help the poor.

Food that was rated as inferior in school became a delicacy to reward soldiers in the army. After all, cooks in this era were divided into ordinary cooks and army cooks. Ordinary cooks were there to cook, while army cooks just wanted to cook things. Ripe.

At that time, there was a well-received food among the Austrian Imperial Army called vegetable broth. The recipe was very simple, just put vegetables, beans, meat, and seasonings into a large pot and cook it.

Don’t be surprised if you find pig skins with hair on them, unwashed vegetable leaves, muddy peas, unidentifiable meat and strange bugs, because the soldiers around you have long been accustomed to it.

Of course, the food left after leaving the army not only looks unpalatable, but also tastes terrible. It is too spicy, too bitter, too sour, too salty, too cold, and too hard. There is always one or more of them.

If you really can't live, or you are hungry, you won't eat this kind of food.

Generally speaking, recipients are not allowed to take away food because it is easy to create a chain of interests. In that case, the relief itself would become an evil deed. Franz was not a Virgin, but he did not want to be a hypocrite. Since he had done something, he had to do it well.

But at this time, the Austrian Empire was booming, especially in the imperial capital of Vienna, where there were almost no cases of survival, so the remaining food was often brought back to feed pigs and serve as fertilizer.

Of course, this is exactly what Franz wants to see. He hopes that those leftovers will never be cared for. That is the best proof of the strength of an empire.

Speaking of graduation, taking a group photo is indispensable.

Cameras were still a new thing at this time, so when I heard that the school would take free photos for all graduates, even those who were arrogant all day long couldn't help but be excited.

In 1839, Daguerre successfully trial-produced the daguerreotype camera, marking the birth of the world's first camera.

The camera at this time was very bulky and easily damaged, so it took two professionals to move it.

At the same time, because the daguerreotype photosensitive film requires high light brightness and long photosensitivity time, taking pictures has become a very painful experience. In order to record beautiful moments, people have to endure hard for more than ten minutes or even dozens of times under the scorching sun on a sunny day. minutes to get a photo.

But fortunately, the Austrian Empire was the first country in the world to develop a condenser lens. Historically, in 1841, a mathematics professor at the University of Vienna designed the famous "Pizval lens" on his own because of his hardships.

However, in this life, Petzval joined the Royal Scientific Society of Vienna and completed the design in 1840 with the help of other experts.

Not long ago, they completed a piece of research that almost shocked Franz, and that was silver halide technology. You must know that silver halide emulsion plus gelatin base is what Kodak started.

In addition, technologies such as wet colloid tincture plate and wet negative sulfonated silver photographic paper photography method have also been developed like mushrooms after a rain. Sure enough, eating, drinking and having fun are the fundamental driving force of human beings.

Soon they tinkered with a camera that was unique in the world. It weighed only one-tenth of an ordinary camera, but its light transmittance was dozens of times that of other cameras. Ten minutes, but this camera only takes a few seconds.

Several professional photographers didn't know what to say when faced with a girl who had been preparing to hold the same pose for more than ten minutes.

When the girls discovered how easy it was to take pictures, they all became more playful and went around to choose the scene to take pictures. Photographers in this era are all "big names" in the true sense. Not only do they need to have professional and excellent skills, but they also need a certain amount of capital to afford cameras and films.

Naturally, they would not agree to such rude requests, but the order was given by Archduke Franz and they did not dare to neglect it.

And this new camera is so amazing that they want to spend all their money to buy one.

But in fact, this new camera uses so much advanced technology that if you really buy one, you will definitely lose your money.

Franz also promised these photographers that he would give each of them one in a few years.

The price of cameras at this time was too high, not because of material cost, but because of labor cost plus technology cost, which made the price ridiculously high.

Once industrialized production is implemented, costs will drop sharply. Of course, in order to maintain scarcity and sufficient profits, prices still cannot be set too low.

Graduation season is also a day for breakups and confessions, but some situations are different from what Franz thought. There was almost no teacher-student love, but a group of girls cried and laughed and argued endlessly.

Franz looked at Principal Thalia beside him.

"Don't look at me! I didn't make them look like that. Don't you always say that love lasts for a long time? It's normal for them to have some feelings during the few years they have been together."

Of course Thalia knew what Franz was going to say, and she would not take the blame. However, during her years as a principal, she still understood some ways of the world and did not directly put all the blame on Franz like she did in the past. , or just say what Franz wants to say.

In fact, Franz is still a little skeptical. After all, there is a lesbian principal who might lead a group of students into trouble.

"Well, let's hope this school doesn't become some club or something."

"How dare you say that! If I hadn't stopped them, the happy people in the city would have turned this place into their playground."

As the principal, Talia usually dealt with harassment cases from nobles and wealthy young men. Fortunately, she had the backing of the royal family, and she was also aggressive enough, so that those noble young men were afraid of them.

This kind of thing can only be left to Thalia. Adjani's handling of this kind of thing depends entirely on her mood. If she is in a good mood, she will trick people into trying to survive, but if she is in a bad mood, they may be directly physically obliterated.

Of course, there is still a certain chance that she will collude with others.

Franz suddenly felt that there were not many useful people around him. The Zhu Qiongying whom he met in Nanyang before was very determined, but it was a pity that she did not speak German, and Nanyang was inseparable from people, so he had no choice but to give up.

Oshio Shanyin had completed middle school at this time, and graduated with the first grade in the school. The teachers in the school spoke very highly of her and called her the smartest "lower person", but for Franz, she was still not enough.