The development of agriculture in the Austrian Empire could not be separated from Franz's constant intervention and the Royal Scientific Society's contributions, nor from the efforts of its two agricultural ministers.
Tyndall was responsible for administration, while Mendel handled technological research and development.
Tyndall had begun as a farm manager before rising to become an agricultural tycoon, with an intimate understanding of both farming and the market.
Tyndall himself was not short of money—or rather, compared to money, he valued power itself more highly. The Fortune Tyndall had accumulated over a lifetime was not even worth mentioning beside the power wielded by the Austrian Empire's Minister of Agriculture.
Now, with a single official document, he could bankrupt countless versions of his former self—and even drive them to throw themselves into a river.
In Tyndall's eyes, those corrupt officials who would throw away their lives for money were the truly insane ones. Of course, he was also grateful to those fools; otherwise, a nobody like him could never have climbed to such a position, not even in his next life.
Tyndall was filled with admiration and reverence for Franz. In his eyes, Franz stood even taller than the image promoted by the Church and the government.
Mendel, meanwhile, had deep ties to Franz. From his earliest efforts cultivating superior strains to the royal funding he received while attending university, Mendel had always benefited from Franz's favor.
Under Mendel and Franz's guidance, every crop and livestock animal in the Austrian Empire was being subjected to crossbreeding experiments. It sounded somewhat outrageous, but in practice, the results were outstanding.
Mendel himself was highly accomplished in biology. In this life, he had not dropped out because of poverty, nor had he gone off to study classical philosophy. Instead, he had smoothly pursued biology all