Chapter 16: A Great Revolution in the Making (Request for Votes)

  Chapter 16: The Great Revolution in the Making (Requesting Tickets)

To be able to establish the Vienna system, to keep the European continent stable for more than thirty years, and to sit in the position of Austrian Prime Minister for more than twenty years, deadlocking his political opponents, how could Prime Minister Metternich be an ordinary commodity?

Count Koloft today is obviously to stimulate him, only stimulated, people are prone to make mistakes, how can Metternich not know it?

This is a conspiracy, Metternich’s Prime Minister has felt the pressure, this pressure is not brought by Count Koloft, but the Austrian conservatives, as well as the Vienna court together to impose.

Franz played a role in this, Metternich could not be unaware of it, and did not even need evidence, but only by virtue of his rich experience in political struggles, he could judge it.

As early as a year ago, Franz had communicated with him about this problem, only Metternich wanted to maintain the balance of power in the country, and did not go out of his way to suppress the bourgeoisie.

Now that Franz had stirred up with the conservatives again, then there was no doubt that it showed that the Vienna court had reached the limit of its tolerance of the reformers.

Not to mention the royal family, even Prime Minister Metternich himself was disappointed with the reformists, proposing an idealistic reform program that took no account of the actual situation.

The bourgeoisie, wanting to seize power, did not even bother to curb their ambitions, and put forward demands that could not be acceded to by the government at all.

Even Metternich was certain that if the conditions of the bourgeoisie had been accepted wholesale, the Austrian Empire would have become history immediately.

The bourgeoisie had joined forces with the separatist groups in order to seize power, and their so-called American-style autonomy took no account of the actual situation.

There are so many countries on the European continent, and once Austria is scattered, it is ready to break up, and the enemy is unlikely to give up this opportunity.

A group of idealists, encouraged by the bourgeoisie, have become the vanguard of the reformists, proposing programs that are completely taken for granted, without the slightest consideration of the consequences, and no one can stand such reformists.

“Come on people, inform down, tomorrow hold a cabinet meeting, invite the Regency Council to join!”

Obviously, Metternich had made up his mind, since the reformist faction was out of control, it could naturally be sacrificed for political needs.

No, it should not be considered a sacrifice, only the bourgeoisie is unlucky, this group of idealistic intellectuals, has been divided, a part of the bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie less involved in the people, is also in support of the enactment of the “Labor Protection Law”.

There are even those who think that we can go further and calculate wages directly according to the profits of the factories and share the benefits, so that the working class can profit along with them.

Well, for such idealists, Metternich was speechless. He bet that if this idea was proposed, he wouldn’t want to go out in the future.

A labor protection law, the capitalists will go crazy, if you dare to deprive the capitalists of the vast majority of profits out, the bourgeoisie will not tear him a prime minister!

“Yes, Prime Minister!” The valet said in a hurry

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After the victory of the July Revolution, the development of capitalism in France impoverished the mass of workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie.

The development of the Industrial Revolution had left the capitalists with deep pockets, and while their wealth continued to grow, thousands of craftsmen and small business owners went bankrupt due to the competition from the big capitalists.

The social crisis in France was deepening and there was a growing call for social change, but this did not go unnoticed by the Julys.

(July Dynasty: The Orléans Dynasty, established after the July Revolution in France in 1830, was the dynasty representing the French financial groups, and the usury empire had already begun at this time.)

By 1847, Franz had begun to pay close attention to the situation in France, as the weathervane of European revolutions, basically every major revolution began in Paris.

Watching the news from France, Franz knew that a revolution was brewing within the country, and that the prelude to the revolution, the “Banquet Movement,” had begun to flourish.

(French Banquet Movement: A political struggle in which French reformers and various social forces opposed the rule of the July dynasty and met in the name of a banquet to deliver speeches and present their political views.)

There is no doubt that the revolution that was about to break out was still led by the bourgeoisie, and in Franz’s view it was a result of the unequal division of the spoils within the French bourgeoisie.

The capitalists, who had lost in the competition and were not willing to have their interests usurped, united the anti-government forces on all sides and took advantage of the public’s dissatisfaction with the government to launch the February Revolution.

Franz knew that a new revolutionary upsurge was coming, and historically in 1848 revolutions broke out in all European cities with populations over 100,000 people.

The trigger for this revolution was the February Revolution in France, and the success of the French set an example for everyone to follow, so everyone followed suit, and all of Europe was in chaos, except for the Woolly Bear, which was still an agricultural country.

Franz said cautiously, “Theron, infiltrate the social groups in Vienna, keep track of their movements, including the workers’ groups at the bottom!”

“Yes, Archduke!” Head of Intelligence Teren replied

That’s right, this intelligence organization was that secret unit of the royal family, and Franz had incorporated it after contacting them.

Of course, the letter of appointment that Franz had snubbed from his uncle Ferdinand I also played a crucial role.

As a price, Franz had to pay eight hundred Rheinland guilders per month for his activities, which dried up his wallet day by day.

There was no way around it, even if most of the people were working on a voluntary basis, the intelligence organization needed money to operate.

But it was all worth it, and now Franz knew a lot about the domestic situation in Austria, and to his surprise the bourgeoisie hadn’t planned a revolution yet.

That is to say that the March Revolution in Vienna in history was not premeditated in advance, but was influenced by the outbreak of the February Revolution in France, and a group of people patted their heads and launched it!

Many of these people were not even revolutionaries yet, there were bourgeois, students and workers, as can be seen from the conditions put forward by the revolutionary groups after the March Revolution.

Even because of the Government’s proposed Labor Protection Act, which diverted the people’s attention, most of the lower classes, still had expectations of the Vienna Government.

They were still waiting for this law to be introduced to improve their poor living conditions.

This, in turn, made Franz see a new possibility that once the government put the Labor Protection Law in place, the March Revolution that was about to break out might be aborted due to the lack of supporters.

There was even a possibility that they might side with the government in suppressing the bourgeois rebellion because of the antagonism between the working class and the bourgeoisie in terms of interests.

(End of chapter)