Chapter 49: The Low-Profile Version of ”Fighting the Landlord” and Dividing the Field

  Chapter 49 The Lowly Version of ”Fighting the Landlord” and Dividing the Field

In Austria in 1848, revolution seemed to be the trend of the country, and there was no peace everywhere.

On March 28th there was a rebellion in Dalmatia, well not waiting for the Austrian government to send troops to suppress it, the locals suppressed the revolution themselves.

Looking at the information in his hand, Franz’s heart seems to have a bunch of grass mud horses running through, this time the rebellion was initiated by the local government to form a self-defense force, to help the government to suppress the revolution is actually the local capitalists and serfs.

In other words, the aristocrats and nationalists started the rebellion, and the capitalists and serfs suppressed them.

The main reason for this rebellion was that the local aristocrats, dissatisfied that the government had jeopardized their interests in the reforms, foolishly declared a revolution at the instigation of the nationalists.

This kind of stupidity is not uncommon in ancient and modern times, and Franz has seen it all before.

Every year in Austria there are a few noblemen who have drunk too much wine and declared independence, and then immediately canceled the independence after sobering up, and ran over to the emperor to ask for forgiveness.

Born in the European continent, these fools are lucky, only did not cause serious consequences, the emperor usually do not take them what.

It was normal for the serfs to help suppress noble rebellions. The government of Vienna announced the abolition of serfdom and gave them personal freedom, and these nobles actually wanted to continue to enslave them.

Then it goes without saying that it must be suppressed. This is a fight for freedom.

This group of aristocrats also armed the serfs in their hands to start a revolution, which is why Franz thought they were stupid.

The only thing that surprised Franz is that the local capitalists actually stood with the Vienna government, but also contributed to help suppress the rebellion, and also so quickly, how to look like a premeditated.

Even Franz suspected, may be the nobles and capitalists said everyone together to rise up the revolution, the result of the capitalists see things can not be done, turn their hands to sell them.

The existence of Dalmatia in Austria is very low, belongs to the kind of dispensable frontier provinces, economic backwardness and does not have strategic value, it is easy to be ignored.

Looking at a dumbfounded Franz, Prime Minister Felix gave the answer.

“Your Highness, this Dalmatian rebellion was staged by local government noble officials, who wanted to gain more power under the banner of loyalty to the royal family.

After their interests were damaged, these bastards actually wanted to unite with Trieste to rebel together, preparing to build a nation with the rebels in the Italian region.

But they forgot that the National Guard in their hands was loyal to the Empire, and this rebellion was doomed to failure from the start.

Moreover, their geographic location dictated that they were heavily dependent on the Empire economically, and once they became independent the local area would immediately decline.

It was a foregone conclusion that the capitalists would part ways with them for their own benefit.”

Franz nodded thoughtfully, estimating that it was still more likely that the capitalists felt that the success rate of the rebellion was too low and that they couldn’t gain greater benefits, so they sold out their comrades.

Why would the nobles of Dalmatia be so stupid, Franz could only attribute it to too many poorly read and uneducated rice bowls, coupled with a lust for profit and loss of reason.

“Then let’s send people over to raid the houses first, and at the same time reward the meritorious officials who participated in suppressing this rebellion, and also implement the abolition bill immediately.

Exempt the meritorious capitalists from this year’s taxes, take out a portion of the land and give it to the serfs who participated in suppressing this rebellion, and those who were killed or injured should all be given a pension to their families.”

(The bill to abolish serfdom also took time to implement and couldn’t be done right away, so the serfs weren’t all emancipated yet)

Franz was setting an example, no matter what their purpose or motivation was, this kind of behavior of helping the empire to suppress the rebellion had to be promoted.

Especially the commendation of the serfs had to be publicized, and it was better to make it known to everyone in the whole of Austria.

At this time, Franz has decided to hand out land, mobilizing workers and peasants to rise up to fight the reactionary nobles and capitalists, to see who still follow them to rebel.

“Your Highness, this is not good, giving rewards to the capitalists is fine, for that group of serfs we have already given them freedom, there is no need to give land!”

At this time, Prime Minister Felix stood up for his class, he didn’t want this to happen.

This meant that if the Emperor gained the weapon to mess with the aristocratic class, the monarch’s power would be further expanded, while the nobles’ voice in politics would be limited.

“Prime Minister, this is not a matter of expediency. The rebellion in the Italian region hasn’t been extinguished yet, and those few jumpers want to take advantage of the fire again.

Rebellion could break out in Prague at any time, the Poles in the Galicia region are on the move, and the ambitious Hungarians are preparing to further divide the country.

Now we need to unite all the forces that can be united to eliminate these rebellious parties, and naturally treat the meritorious officials with rewards, for which a little bit of land is nothing.”

There was no doubt that Franz was pretending to be confused. Anyway, as long as the current situation, the nobles have no reason to oppose.

If there were no nobles participating in the rebellion, then Franz really couldn’t do anything about them. Now that a portion of the nobles had rebelled, then as the regent Crown Prince, he had reason to doubt the loyalty of the nobles.

Against this background, his support for the serfs who were about to be granted the status of freemen made sense.

These people were illiterate and had a very simple concept of judging right and wrong, black or white.

As long as they were given land and fed. Then in the coming decades, these people would be Franz’s most loyal subjects, and even their descendants would be the champions of the Habsburgs.

Any ruler is in need of the roots that support their rule. The current foundation of the Austrian Empire was the nobility, which would not change for a very long time, Franz just added a peasantry behind the nobility.

These issues, just politicians need to consider, the vast majority of nobles will not think so far, even if they say it will not be believed.

Hesitating for a moment, Prime Minister Felix chose to back down.

Unlike in history, now that he, the Prime Minister, was appointed by Franz, his voice in the government was not that high. Wanting to use the power of the phase to counteract the power of the monarch like in history, it was better not to dream about it.

Seeing the prime minister acquiesced, Franz naturally won’t be aggressive anymore. Just to achieve the purpose, people help to take the blame every day is not easy, or respect a little good.

Then the Austrian version of the “fight against the landlords and divide the land” began, no it was “suppress the rebellion and divide the land”, those who did not participate in the rebellion, naturally do not have to worry about being divided up the land.

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