Chapter 39: The First Fire
Chapter 39 The First Fire
In Europe, there is no market for “three invitations and three resignations”, and you don’t even need three resignations, you just need to reject it once, and then the chicken and egg will fly away.
Since the regency has come to hand, Franz naturally will not ask for trouble, and immediately took over the authority, not to give the Archduke of Louis the opportunity to back out.
Immediately after, Franz changed the topic.
“Gentlemen, the rebellion in Vienna has been suppressed, but I’m afraid that the rest of Austria will soon be in chaos again, so in order to avoid the collapse of the empire, we must take more aggressive action!”
The faces of the crowd changed, the good mood of the aftermath of the robbery was no longer there, the collapse of the empire how terrible is this?
As the great nobles of Austria, their interests were tied to this country, once the empire collapsed, everything they had would go up in smoke.
“Franz, things aren’t that bad, right?” Archduke John asked with concern
“Yes, ever since the February Revolution in Paris, the whole of Europe has been like madness, revolutions are brewing in many regions including Austria.
The bureaucrats of the empire are rotten, just like this Vienna rebellion, which could have been settled by the police, but ended up as a human tragedy, tens of thousands of Austrian people lost their lives because of it, and that includes hundreds of nobles!
At this time, if we can’t come up with more positive measures, the Orleans Dynasty’s today is our tomorrow, and it will even be worse!” Franz threatened
Can these scare them? Obviously impossible, don’t think that just because these grand dukes aren’t very capable that they’re easy to fool, that’s bullshit.
Franz innately put forward these, is to take advantage of everyone just experienced the Vienna revolution, this time the mentality has not yet recovered, look at the problem will inevitably be pessimistic attitude.
At this time, Franz exaggerated, the use of information mismatch, to create an illusion to them, that is: the Austrian people are dissatisfied with the current political system, and the distribution of benefits, if not reformed, people are going to revolt, not right is already revolted.
“Franz, can you say something about the situation outside?” Archduke Louis asked
Obviously, he was also Franz brought the news to the town, light Vienna people rebel they are not afraid, if other places people also follow the rebellion, that would be horrible.
After thinking about it, Franz said cautiously: “Well. After the February revolution in Paris, the revolutionaries in all European countries have been encouraged, all major cities are in the dark, these news are known to everyone.
After the outbreak of the Vienna Revolution on March 7, the revolutionary flames within Austria were high, and although we succeeded in suppressing this rebellion, the mastermind behind it ran away.
It is worthwhile for us to be vigilant that this Vienna Revolution involved not only the revolutionaries, but also the capitalists, the nobility, and the officials of the city government.
If we look at the social classes, including workers, peasants, citizens, middle class, bourgeoisie, and aristocrats, this is too wide a coverage.
If it hadn’t happened so suddenly and the internal contradictions of the chaotic party had been severe, this Vienna Revolution would have been equally successful!”
Hearing this news, everyone was dumbfounded, actually even the nobles were involved in the revolution, meaning that the current Vienna government was losing its roots.
Archduke John quickly asked, “Franz, are you sure that there are nobles involved in this rebellion? Is it an individual, or ……”
Franz smiled bitterly and said, “There are currently eighty-three nobles confirmed to be involved in this rebellion, and the number of those who have not been identified may be even higher.
Their reason for participating in this rebellion is very simple: they are dissatisfied with the government’s inaction during the economic crisis, or rather, it didn’t allow them to make money while hoarding!”
“These bastards, don’t they know what they’re doing? If the empire is finished, they’ll still be able to have a good time!” Archduke Louis said angrily
The others also shared the same hatred, this was smashing their own rice bowls, without the Austrian Empire, could they, the nobles, still have their current status?
……
Franz explained, “I’m afraid this problem has something to do with our system, emboldening them, anyway, even if it fails, we won’t be able to kill them all.
If it succeeds, the new government is established they can likewise become part of the interest group. As for the honor of the nobility, if they still cared, they wouldn’t participate!”
The crowd stopped talking, at this time everyone realized that Franz’s knife came down, it was estimated that the noble class was about to have their interests damaged, involving their own rights and interests, no one was willing to give in.
The only one whose face was unchanged was Archduke Franz Karl, it seemed like he was playing the sauce from beginning to end, as if these things didn’t have any relationship with him, at this time he opened his mouth.
“Franz, what are you going to do?”
The faces of the crowd changed slightly, but none of them said anything, there was no need for them to stand out and oppose before they were sure of Franz’s purpose.
“All those who took part in this rebellion must be severely punished, the leaders of them sent to the gallows, and the others sentenced according to the severity of the circumstances.
Abolish all the titles of the nobles who participated in the rebellion, confiscate all their properties, and other specific disposal options can be decided by the Noble Council!”
Franz decisively said the purpose, he is not afraid that some people will oppose, this Vienna rebellion is dead three digits of the nobles, if the rebels are not severely punished, these people’s friends and relatives will not agree.
For the nobles, the most serious punishment is not to kill the head, but to abolish the title and confiscate the fiefdom, which means that the glory of the family once lost.
Several grand dukes looked at each other, or Louis grand duke spoke up first: “Franz, this time it involves too much, can we keep the title?”
Franz shook his head and said, “If this is handled lightly, I am afraid that the next time there will be more than just a few people involved in the rebellion.
And those who died, how are we going to account for them? According to our preliminary statistics, I’m afraid that another dozen or so noble families have gone extinct!”
Everyone’s face changed drastically, “extinction” was definitely the most horrible consequence, having a noble family become extinct as a result of this, then things have changed qualitatively.
During the time of the Holy Roman Empire, when the emperor wanted to confiscate the fiefdoms of the nobles, it would be collectively opposed by everyone, but now in the Austrian era, it is different again.
The big nobles in the country are not so strong, there is no situation where several vassals join hands and even the emperor can’t do anything about it, so Franz dares to play like this.
Will even implicate part of it in, as long as a member of the noble family involved in the rebellion, all have to follow the bad luck, because there is no way to say this kind of thing.
Of course, if one is smart enough, there is not no way to dodge a bullet, as long as one proves his worth before the liquidation is completed, Franz will also be merciful.
(End of chapter)