The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1459 San Andean Alliance
At that time, the situation of selling quinine to other colonial countries will only become more rampant. Not only will it fail to solve the existing problems, but it will also hand over the advantages in the hands of the Austrian Empire to others.

Therefore, quinine was a national strategic material designated by Franz from the very beginning and must be strictly controlled.

In the Zhenla region, farmers and officials joined forces to secretly sell quinine to British merchants, and Franz's approach was to kill them all.

Franz's decision was strongly opposed by the church. After all, Zhenla was nominally a theocracy, so how could it kill innocent people like this?
But Franz knew very well that if he did not kill, or killed fewer people, it would only encourage this trend, and who knew how many people were watching at this moment.

If Franz chose to be tolerant at this time, then the whole of Zhenla and even the whole of Southeast Asia would follow suit.

Although the offending official and several local village elders had their freedom restricted, they all felt that the law would not hold everyone responsible, after all, an entire county was involved.

However, soon all the troops of the Austrian Empire stationed in Zhenla received orders that their mission was to exterminate all the people in the county, leaving no one alive.

After this battle, there have been no more large-scale reselling of quinine and rubber in the Zhenla area.

The British businessman was attacked by thugs in a pub shortly afterwards and all his goods and cash were looted.

His short-lived dream of getting rich was shattered, and his deeds became unknown and buried in the dust of history.

Don't blame Franz for being ruthless. When it comes to the country's core competitiveness, he cannot be merciful.

As long as the existing production areas are not lost, even if the British immediately realize the problem and can immediately find areas suitable for growing quinine, they will need at least 6-8 years to wait for quinine to mature.

The technology involved in quinine purification requires a little bit of luck
During these 6-8 years, Franz can do a lot, at least to some extent offsetting the hundreds of years of first-mover advantage of other countries.

If Franz had not had the experience of later generations, it would not have been easy to mass-produce quinine.

Historically, the British have tried countless times in India, Sri Lanka and other regions, but the scale and output have always been limited, and the cost is almost the same as importing from South America.

The French attempt was even more of a joke. Not only was their quinine expensive, but their production was also very low, and they couldn't even meet the needs of their own expedition team.

Finally, the Dutch found a way to start large-scale cultivation on the island of Java, and within ten years, they accounted for 90% of the world's production. But that had to wait until after 1870, so theoretically Franz still had another twenty years to monopolize it.

Even if we take a step back, the Netherlands had already been incorporated into the German Customs Union by Austria at that time, and even the leadership of Batavia had been sabotaged by Franz.

It was not easy for Britain and France to buy cheap quinine and compete with the Austrian Empire for colonies.
At this time, the San Andean Alliance in South America was still planning to reduce production to increase the price of quinine, which was also an important reason why the colonial activities of the major powers in the world in Africa were not active.

The San Andean Alliance included major quinine producers such as Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, which completely monopolized the world's quinine market at the time.

The purpose of this alliance is to safeguard the interests of quinine producing countries, and for this purpose they can even use quinine as firewood.

In fact, it was Franz who was the driving force behind the San Andean Alliance. It was not difficult to promote this alliance. After all, people are greedy, and similar alliances have appeared in history. Franz just formalized it.

Although Franz deliberately restricted the speed of other countries' colonization of Africa, the high price of quinine was a historical norm and no one would notice anything wrong with it.

In addition, quinine was also a means for Franz to control the early colonies. After all, the Austrian Empire's colonies were too highly militarized at that time, and the biggest problem with such an organization was loyalty.

There are people who like to plant peaches, and there are people who like to pick peaches. People who like to plant peaches must be careful of those who like to pick peaches. After all, who doesn't like to pick peaches planted by others?

There are people who can provide supplies, wages, official positions, and land, but what about life? What about safety?
During the outbreak of this indigenous crisis, a large number of private teams chose to abandon their colonies and sell off their colonial assets. Although the Austrian government issued several notices, it was still stirred up by this group of people. The most direct impact was the decline in the share price of the Austrian Imperial Overseas Development Company, and some people who were waiting and watching chose to invest their money in other industries.

The colonists' confidence suffered a blow, and Franz had to personally buy back the colonial assets sold by private teams and recruit the unemployed colonists.

There were not enough gold mines in the colonies of the Austrian Empire for private teams to mine, and the risks in agriculture were not something that ordinary teams could afford, so Franz decided to do it himself.

As for the fact that someone was providing supplies and even giving advice to the black natives behind the scenes, this was already within Franz's expectations. If the great powers really didn't do something behind the scenes, he would feel uneasy, after all, he didn't know what the other side was going to do.

Now we just need to deal with the situation as it happens. Of course, Franz also prepared a generous gift for the British.

This indigenous attack had more than just downsides; it gave the Austrian Empire a legitimate reason to retaliate against the indigenous peoples, while also striking a blow to the arrogance of some of the “Saints”.

At least they can no longer associate the word harmless with black natives.

In addition, a large number of unqualified colonial and reclamation groups were eliminated, and Franz recovered a batch of assets at extremely low prices.

It has advanced the development of science and technology for indigenous peoples and increased experience in responding to emergencies.

Compared to Africa, things in America are much more difficult to deal with.

Faced with the indigenous peoples invading from British Honduras and the Republic of New Granada, Franz did not want to give them a chance to gain a foothold, so he decided to set fire to the mountains on the border.

Although this is a bit rough, it is the most effective way.

Whatever they had hidden on the border, it was burned to ashes by the fire.

This time it's the British' turn to be furious
London, England.

Prime Minister John Russell was looking at Prince Albert's idea for the Great Exhibition and thought it was a brilliant plan.

It can not only demonstrate Britain's industrial strength, but also establish Britain's world economic hegemony.

This is also a large-scale trade fair, which will definitely boost the growth of the British economy.

In addition, this is also a large-scale dumping of values. After transforming from a pirate to a businessman, Britain has always paid great attention to its image and wanted to package itself as noble and great.

The theme of the International Industrial Exposition was "Peace, Freedom and Progress". Peace was what Britain needed most at that time, and the continuous wars were really too much to bear.

The most important thing is that everything will be easy if you win, but unfortunately Britain has always been on the losing side.

Sardinia lost, but Britain did not. France lost, but Britain did not. Hungary lost, but Britain did not. The Ottoman Empire lost, but Britain did not.
The British people don't care about this at all. They care more about whether they can make money and have bread to fill their stomachs.

Freedom refers more to free trade and everything that is in the interests of the United Kingdom. At this time, the economic crisis has led to a decline in domestic demand, and the United Kingdom is in urgent need of opening up foreign markets, and they are even willing to start a war for this.

As for progress, it is undoubtedly Britain's industrial strength. Britain is the country of progress.