Chapter 36: Rebellion and Negotiation
Chapter 36 – Counterinsurgency and Negotiations
When the capitalists tried to pull back, it was too late, Franz had already returned to Vienna with a large army.
“Albrecht, it’s up to you next!”
Franz was still self-aware, if making strategies and whatnot, this was fine, if commanding troops in battle, this was unknown.
Estimated that with this more than two months of experience in leading troops, I’m afraid that I’m still not capable of commanding this large army, in order to be on the safe side, Franz decisively chose to let Albrecht on.
At least in history, Albrecht is also a famous Austrian general, in the Austro-Prussian War with fewer than more dry down Italy, defending the face of the Austrian powers.
Albrecht smiled slightly and said with great confidence, “Don’t worry, Franz! It’s just a bunch of rabble, it won’t be hard to defeat them!”
Franz nodded, he had made so many preparations, the intelligence organization had even mixed into the rebel ranks in advance to create internal conflicts for the enemy, if he still couldn’t win the battle, the city defense army could be disbanded.
The military matters were handed over to Albrecht, the political issues could only be taken up by Franz himself, no one else could afford this responsibility.
“With the third regiment as the spearhead, launch an attack!”
With Albrecht’s order, the prelude to the suppression of the rebellion was drawn up.
Vienna at this time was described in one word – chaos!
Large and small insurrectionary forces, not under each other’s command, each fighting on their own, when the city defense forces are over, there are still a lot of insurrectionary forces do not even know the enemy has been over.
At this time they are really busy robbing it, at the beginning of the time everyone is still only on the aristocrats, capitalists, to the present even the ordinary citizens are also difficult to be spared.
Either out of jealousy or out of interest, military discipline was gone, even the commanders had no way to restrain the troops.
When the long suppressed animalistic nature of human beings had been aroused, then everything would become different, and the destructive power that erupted at this time was often staggering.
Due to the lack of strict organization, there is no binding force between each other, after the hooligans have joined, they will soon be brought down, and they will become vicious in killing, burning, looting and plundering.
The citizens of Vienna, who originally sympathized with the revolution, only regretted it, and not only they but also the University of Vienna, which was called the cradle of revolutionary ideas, were not spared.
In order to avoid the harassment of the rebels, the school had to organize a student army to maintain and defend the campus, as for the revolution?
The number of students of the conservatives could be much more than the revolutionaries. Seeing the tragic scene outside, this time everyone remembered the Paris Revolution of 1789, more than 30,000 people were sent to the guillotine in Paris alone.
Before that, everyone thought that this was a lie fabricated by the government, and when the Vienna Revolution broke out, everyone finally realized that revolutions require bloodshed.
…… (omit 10,000 words, it’s easy to step over the line when you write too much on the dark side)
Franz, who was still preparing for the aftermath at this time, had no idea what kind of demons he had unleashed and what kind of damage he had brought to Vienna.
Of course, even if he knew he would still make the same choice, the Austrian Empire is rotten, if not broken and then established, it will slowly die.
Without this rebellion, to abolish serfdom would have taken at least ten years, and would have even had to face counterattacks from the nobles at all times, and more than likely it would still have evolved into the kind of incomplete reforms that characterized Russian history.
But now it is different, the Vienna revolution is just a beginning, the local revolution will still roll, in order to the safety of life and property, they can only hold their nose and admit it.
Like Lombardy, Venice, and the Hungarian region, Franz was already waiting for them to rebel. As soon as the rebellion occurred, he would come to a division of the fields and fight the landlords, solving the problem once and for all.
Including involved in the Vienna rebellion in the aristocracy, capitalists, he was not prepared to let go, not copied their homes, Franz where to get the money for national construction?
Does Austria really have no money? This question is simply a fallacy.
From the Vienna system has been established, until 1848, this thirty years Austria’s economic development, on the whole, is still very good, the total economic volume turned over.
Against this background, the wealth created by society was naturally small, but unfortunately the dividends of economic development had little to do with the general public, and wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few.
As a member of the vested interest class, Franz obviously could not be radicalized against them, but taking advantage of the revolution to eliminate some of the traitors was still possible.
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Hofburg Palace, Vienna
Since receiving the terms of the bourgeois negotiations, the Archdukes breathed a collective sigh of relief, it was better to save their lives at this point in time, in case the rebels fought their way in.
They have been pampered, they have not had enough of the green life, they don’t want to go to the guillotine just like that.
Ferdinand I can not master, Metternich Prime Minister knows that the trouble is big, ran away in advance, Count Koloft is now unknown, the Regency Council here in the remaining members of the Archduke Luis and Archduke Franz Karl.
Undoubtedly, all the burdens now fall on Archduke Louis, Archduke Franz Kahr that can not be counted on.
Archduke Louis said with a pale face: “The capitalists have put forward conditions, as long as we agree to dismiss the cabinet, implement constitutional government, open up universal suffrage, abolish serfdom, confiscate the land of the nobles and distribute it to the peasants ……
They’ll help us suppress the rebellion, even the constitution they’ve already drawn up, here’s the template for everyone to see!”
These conditions, he really didn’t dare to agree, if he agreed to all of them, it wouldn’t be the capitalists revolting behind them, but the aristocrats would have to revolt en masse.
Do not say Austria, put aside in any country in the world, confiscate the land of the aristocracy to the peasants for no reason, people also want to rise up in revolt ah?
Austria’s army can be in the hands of the nobility, these big nobles have a large piece of land, has released the serfs okay, did not release the serfs will not be confiscated all the land?
Wouldn’t this allow the nobles to live?
If they confiscate their land, how will they be able to make a living in the future?
They’ll all become capitalists?
This is clearly reforming the nobles by capitalizing them, and even making use of the first mover advantage to turn the nobles into a destitute class.
In addition to the economic benefits, the political reforms are also not negotiable. The bourgeoisie has formulated a constitution in which the political rights of the nobles are not as good as those of the common people.
Without any rights, not allowed to join the army, not allowed to enter politics, not allowed to become a member of parliament, these conditions are completely just bullshit.
Of course this was a negotiation, asking for what you want and returning what you get, and the initial offers were all just to test the waters. Even so, it made everyone become on the same page.
(End of chapter)