Chapter 30: Restoring confidence in the market?

  Chapter 30: Restoring Confidence to the Market?

Inside the Bolton Manor in Vienna, a dozen or so well-dressed big shots gathered. Even though they had tried to control it as much as possible, they still couldn’t hide that explosive temperament.

A richly dressed middle-aged man hesitantly asked, ”Mr. Owen, can these mudbloods do it? Even if we get them weapons, a bunch of rabble won’t be able to make it?”

The atmosphere in the room was a bit dull, the magnificent man sitting in the main seat slowly stood up, smiled slightly and said slowly:

“Mr. Love, of course you can’t rely on them alone! However, we are not the only ones in Austria who want a revolution at this time!

Everyone has felt how much this economic crisis has hurt Austria, right?

It can be said that the capitalists of the eighth layer of Austria have lost a lot of money, and hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs because of it.

And the Vienna government is inactive, so if everyone wants to live, is there any other choice but revolution?”

This is the crux of the matter, by this time, the vast majority of capitalists had been pushed to the wall, only many did not realize it.

Now many Austrian capitalists have hoarded a large amount of goods in their hands, and if they can’t get out in a short time, the capital chain will be broken.

The question now is to whom can the goods be sold?

The general public can’t afford it, and at this time in Austria, there are just too few people with purchasing power.

The bankers were never easy to talk to, and as vampires in the higher stages of the bourgeoisie, were consistently the masters of cannibalism.

If the capitalists don’t want to be finished, breaking the existing order to cut the flesh of the nobility to get through the crisis is the only choice.

Also facing this problem are a large number of unemployed workers, they may not want to rebel, but their stomachs can’t fool anyone.

When they are hungry, they will lose their sanity, and as long as someone encourages them, a revolution can break out in a minute.

Compared to history, the social conflicts in Austria during this period had already changed. Instead of revolutions initiated by people who were unsuccessful in demanding reforms from the government, they were forced into revolutions by reality.

An old man of about fifty or sixty years of age, shook his head and said, “Mr. Owen, we are using the mudbloods to revolt, what if they want to set up a proletarian government and revolutionize us all together?”

This was the problem that all capitalists were worried about, the proletarian ideology had begun to sprout in this era, and once the proletariat was allowed to establish a government, it would kill them.

Owen said with a smile on his face, “This problem is very simple, our French counterparts have already helped us to solve this problem, after the revolution has succeeded, we just need to grab the class and take over the power at the first time, and there will not be any problem.

Currently there are nearly 120,000 workers in Vienna, and under our deliberate control, the guild organizations have been divided into hundreds of large and small by industry and factory.

As long as they are not allowed to unify, the new government that is established will inevitably have to be dominated by us, and you don’t think that anyone among the mudbloods will be able to organize them, do you?”

Organize? In this age of communication by roar, I guess it’s a question of whether the members of the various union organizations recognize each other or not.

These trade union organizations, mostly spontaneous, do not have a mandatory binding force on their members, and there is no telling how many capitalist nails are buried inside.

Before the October Revolution in Russia, the fighting power of the trade union organizations were very limited, and a large part of them were still secretly controlled by the capitalists.

Trying to organize all the workers is by no means something that can be done overnight. As long as they preempted the establishment of a government and took control of state power, the jig was up.

This can be seen in the February Revolution in France, after the revolution was won, the capitalists seized power, and the first thing they did was not to pursue the former government for its troubles, but instead to suppress the working class who had joined the revolution together.

In the eyes of the capitalists, they have long since lost sight of what modesty is.

……

Late at night, with the lights on in the Vienna government, Prime Minister Metternich is fretting about the situation at hand, and at this point in time, at least one interest group must make a sacrifice.

Whether to put the knife to the capitalists, or to the aristocracy, or to the general public, this is a difficult choice question.

Prime Minister Metternich has dominated the Austrian political situation for more than twenty years, inevitably bound by the rules, otherwise he would not have to have a headache.

The Paris revolution has broken out, Austria is also in the dark, but unfortunately, Prime Minister Metternich’s concept is still stuck in ten years ago, that the conservative Austria and open France is not the same.

Apart from strengthening the guard in the Italian region and Galicia, he did not think that Vienna would be in any danger. It seemed to him that even if a revolution were to break out, it would break out first somewhere else, like Hungary.

“Your Excellency Prime Minister, judging from the current situation, the opposition will not make concessions this time, and they are afraid that they will still plan a very large scale march!” Archduke Louis said with a gloomy face

If it was just a matter of getting Prime Minister Metternich to step down, he was in favor of it with both hands. But to have the Council of Regents roll together and transfer power to the constitutionally reformed parliament, that would be non-negotiable.

Even if he looked at Metternich with displeasure, at this time Archduke Louis had to stand with him, everyone’s political life was still tied together.

Prime Minister Metternich sighed, then slowly said: ”That’s right, unless we accept their conditions in full, they will not rest, now I’m afraid that the enemy is still continuing to conspire, tomorrow I’m going to encounter an even larger scale march against the army!

Unless we strike first and arrest the ringleaders of this event, order the garrison into the city and blockade every intersection to prohibit them from stringing them along!”

He was getting old and didn’t have the vigor he had when he was young, otherwise he wouldn’t have hesitated now and would have ordered the arrests long ago.

“Then let’s arrest people first, if we let them mess around like this, I’m afraid the situation behind us, we won’t be able to control it!” Archduke Louis said without hesitation

Anyway, this order is going to be given by the Prime Minister, it’s not like he needs to be responsible for this except for the fact that the one taking the blame for the matter is Metternich.

Metternich smiled bitterly and said, “This is only treating the symptoms but not the root of the problem, if the domestic economy is not able to improve, the things that happened today will continue to happen.

All of you abolish serfdom, at this time we need to create a market out of it, even if this market just stays on paper, we must let the market restore confidence!”

Indeed, announcing the abolition of the nation’s serfdom at this time could restore the confidence of many people, after all, it could increase the purchasing power of more than twenty million people out at once, even though their purchasing power was very small.

(End of chapter)