MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 21 Freedom of the Malzars (Part 1)

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Franz looked at the news of the Silesian uprising in the newspaper in front of him, and thought to himself, "Is this year a bit wrong?"

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In fact, due to Austria's entry into the German Customs Union, the political, economic, and geostrategic pressure on Prussia has suddenly increased. Unfortunately, this pressure has also been passed on to the civilian population.

At the same time, the immigration policy led by Franz and the spread of the idea of ​​Greater Germany also accelerated the fermentation of this incident.

But no matter what, Franz thinks this is a good thing, because the civil strife in Prussia means that its status within the German Confederation will also decline.

If it develops according to the current trend, Austria can definitely sit firmly as the chairman of the Confederation, and even have a chance to reunify.

Of course, Franz is not yet ready to single out the whole of Europe, so this idea still exists in his mind. But what he didn't expect was that the top politicians in Austria actually lacked interest in regaining Silesia.

The crux of the problem lies in religion, but Franz doesn't understand it. Up to now, under his own guidance, at least 100,000 Protestants from North Germany have been recruited, and no inappropriateness has been found for the time being, especially in the royal manor Among them, the issue of religious differences seems to have been forgotten.

Although Austria's fiscal revenue has grown rapidly over the years, there is still a big gap with Britain and France. At this time, Britain was at its strongest, and Austria's economic aggregate was about two-thirds of that of France.

It's just that Austria's taxation capacity is too poor, and too many people in the country pay less or even no tax. For example, Franz has not paid a cent of tax on the tens of millions of florins he has earned over the years.

Strictly speaking, the Austrian Empire is not a modern country. Although it always wants to build itself into a universal empire with no restrictions on ethnicity and religion, its essence has never changed.

A feudal dynasty suture monster based on the royal family and linked by religion. Its most notable features are its extremely powerful local forces and ubiquitous churches.

These forces are mainly the local economy, military and political groups, and they are fighting with the central government. The result of the constant internal friction is that whenever the imperial government proposes reforms, they will come up with a lot of things. The moths come and push three times and four times.

One of the biggest cancers was the Kingdom of Hungary. At this time, the fiscal revenue of the Austrian Empire was 230 million florins. However, Hungary, which accounts for nearly 40% of the empire's land area, only turned in 22 million florins, which was less than 10% of the empire's fiscal revenue.

Franz has purchased more than 10 million mu of "wasteland" in Hungary, but in fact this is still only a small part of the "wasteland".

Now that only one million acres of it has been developed, Franz has already recovered the cost, and there is even extra money to strengthen the construction of the royal manor.

In addition to the immigrants who joined the royal manor, there were also many German immigrants who were directly integrated into Austrian society, especially the South Germans. It was difficult for Franz to find out the difference between them and the Austrians.

The arable land area of ​​Hungary is as high as 7.8 million hectares. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the arable land area developed by it was only 2.5 million hectares. At this time, the arable land area may be less than 2 million hectares.

Franz's behavior also aroused the hostility of some Magyars. They publicized that the Habsburg royal family was going to eat away at Hungary by purchasing, and they had to find a way to save their motherland.

According to Franz's vision, there are about 3 million serfs and nearly 800,000 landless nobles in Hungary. As long as the Hungarians can implement a bill similar to the Westward Movement of the United States, the entire foreign Tania will be greatly benefited. develop.

In this way, the problems of taxation and development can be greatly alleviated. Moreover, the 10 million mu of land can already attract at least 200,000 immigrants. If other industries and related personnel are included, the total number should reach 500,000.

It's just that the extremes in Hungary chose a method that Franz least wanted to see, that is, trying to drive out German immigrants in a violent way, and called on the Hungarian nobles to stop selling land to the royal family.

"The Germans in the royal manor are nothing but serfs of the Habsburg family. They have no right to cultivate our sacred land in Hungary!"

"They must be sanctioned!"

"Take back what belongs to us Magyars ourselves!"

"Long live Hungary!"

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Kossuth's speech can be said to be very successful, and many middle- and lower-class young nobles in Hungary were inspired by him to join the so-called "Hungarian Legion".

At first they only carried out some intimidation, kidnapping, and extortion. The deacons in charge of managing the manor sought help from the Hungarian government, but they did not receive a response.

The situation soon deteriorated. On May 1, 1840, the Holy Advent in Hungary, the first German immigrant was killed. By May 17, many evil deeds had occurred, and even a royal deacon was killed.

On May 20, the Hungarian Royal Manor and the Land Reclamation Group began to organize guards, after which there were many fierce exchanges of fire between the two sides.

As the situation continued to escalate, some of the great Hungarian nobles began to waver, such as Count Szechenyi, Prince Elthhazi...

They didn't think that the so-called free men and descendants of the Huns could win the Austrian regular army, so they sent a lot of information to the Austrian side.

In fact, Franz has been suppressing this matter and not reporting it to the Austrian imperial government because he was afraid that a civil war would break out in advance.

Although it is impossible for Austria to lose, it will ruin the current excellent situation, and it will interfere with Britain, France, Prussia, and Russia as appropriate, and even Serbia and Sardinia will intervene.

Some people think that civil war is a good thing, but in fact, unless there is the power to despise everything, war is always the last option.

Hungary is not a native of Africa, nor is it a small country that can be controlled by a single treaty. It has nearly 40% of the land of the Austrian Empire, 35% of the population, and a history of nearly 800 years.

Once the war drags on for a long time, the economic development will come to a standstill, then the prices will soar, social unrest, unrest and panic may trigger mass exodus, or even break out of another uprising. Even if the war is ended as soon as possible with a quick fix, there is a high possibility that another law and order war will be needed afterwards.

This consumes a terrible amount of national power. If you want to solve the problem once and for all, you have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources~www.novelbuddy.com~ or expand the scale of the operation. Obviously, Franz cannot accept these two results .

Metternich, who heard the news, naturally wanted to avoid the outbreak of civil war, so he only imposed slight punishments on the families involved in the attack on the royal manor, and planned to let the Hungarian side hand over the horse bandits involved and compensate the royal family for losses. until.

Before Earl Kororav objected, the military jumped out first. Earl Latour said that all suspected families should be arrested, punished if guilty, and released without charge.

Count Latour also pointed out that Hungary is dominated by plain terrain, and the whole territory has no danger to defend. There are only two important fortresses, Sepzemysl and Budapest.

Among them, General Namet Hans, who was stationed in the Przemysl Fortress, is a virtuous person. Even if he does not help Austria once the war starts, he will not join the rebels.

The remaining Budapest, the Austrian military is sure to take it within two months.

At the same time, in Belgrade, there is also a heavy Austrian army group. It takes a month to mobilize for war, and Tular is sure to win the entire territory of Hungary within two months.

Count Kororav said that the use of force had not yet been reached, but Metternich's punishment was too light, and they had to see blood. They should be threatened by liberating the serfs and let the Hungarians solve the problem by themselves. .

If Hungary accepts the emancipation of the serfs, it will be good news for Austria, not only fulfilling the long-cherished wish of Joseph II, but also dividing the land will greatly weaken the power of the Hungarian nobility.

If they are unwilling to liberate the serfs, they must show sincerity to satisfy the empire, otherwise...