Chapter 732: Life is Hard
Chapter 715 – Life is Hard
While the Berlin government was worrying about the refugee issue, the people below had already made the choice for them.
The cause is the influx of too many refugees, the local government relief is not timely, hungry and anxious refugees ransacked a nobleman’s manor in Skvirzyna, accidentally killed the old count who was patrolling the manor.
Looting of local things happened a lot, but kill the big nobleman is the first time. Perhaps they realized that the matter had become a big deal, in order to survive, these people decisively chose to kill to silence.
Refugees themselves are a temporary cobbled together rabble, killing to cover up the truth is easier said than done, how can they not leave traces?
Needless to say, the news leaked immediately caused shock, the nobles naturally want to retaliate.
A large number of refugees influx, the interests of the damage is not only the local nobles, the local people’s loss is even greater, has long been suffering, this time someone to lead the natural response of the group.
Pandemonium broke out, the butcher’s knife once raised can never be put down. In order to restore order, the Berlin government immediately ordered the garrison to intervene.
In fact, by this time, the Berlin government was no longer able to control the situation. The local troops definitely favored the locals, and the bayonets naturally went for the refugees.
Perhaps many of the refugees were innocent, but by this time no one was able to distinguish, nor did they want to, and the massacre broke out.
Upon receiving the news of the massacre, William I’s first thought was to stop it immediately, and then gave up.
This is a choice of no choice, either side with the refugees, offend the Prussian domestic aristocrats, capitalists, ordinary people, or side with the Prussian people, as nothing happened.
Without using its brain, the Berlin government knew which side it should take. As for the refugees who fell in a pool of blood, they saw nothing and knew nothing.
A bizarre scene appeared, the Russian army was driving out the refugees, the Prussian army was driving out the refugees, and both sides composed a book, “The Killing March” together.
As a result of this, there was also a mutiny among the Polish soldiers in the Prussian army. If the Russians had not been too cautious and fearful of deception, and had not taken advantage of the opportunity to send out their troops, it is probable that there would have been nothing left of the Berlin government.
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The sudden massacre made the European world lose its collective voice.
Condemnation?
The media is already doing it, with newspapers, radio broadcasts railing against the atrocities of the Prussian and Russian governments, and of course condemning the refugees quite a bit.
Newsmen have to eat too, and their positions are naturally influenced by their gold masters.
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Vienna Palace, the big, shocking news, brought Franz, who was thinking about life, back to reality.
How to characterize this matter, this is another headache. Standing on the sidelines, Franz couldn’t determine what was right or wrong.
Were the refugees at fault? The answer is: yes and no!
They were just trying to survive, so naturally they weren’t wrong; but to survive for themselves while hurting others was a big mistake.
The tragedy in Skvirzyna could not be an accident, and more innocents fell halfway through the flight.
Maybe it was only some of the people who did the evil, but people don’t have the ability to differentiate, and they don’t want to differentiate, and others are not obliged to pay for their mistakes.
Human nature cannot be tested, especially in the face of hunger.
Was the Prussian aristocracy, the people, at fault? The answer is still: yes and no!
Defending one’s own interests and suppressing the mob was certainly right; deliberately expanding the problem and magnifying it to the entire refugee community was problematic.
As a bystander, though, Franz didn’t think he was in a position to blame them. Being able to solve the crisis in advance, why should they ask people to solve it after the disaster?
Intelligent people knew that after losing the Polish region, the Berlin government could no longer afford to relieve so many refugees.
Without relief food, the refugees would sooner or later run amok, and this could not be changed by human power.
If the war could not be ended soon, even if the Prussian nobles and capitalists opened their warehouses and released grain together, it would not help.
For the sake of their own interests, for the sake of the country they guarded, chose the simplest and most practical way, seems not wrong.
Including the Russians’ expulsion of refugees, which he could understand. Morality aside, the Tsarist government was unable to provide relief for the refugees, and in order to prevent more people from becoming refugees, the expulsion of the refugees was actually a necessity.
Franz was not a saintly mother and knew to think rationally. Three to four million refugees was an intractable problem even in the 21st century, much less in this day and age.
A simple mathematical problem would tell us that at a ration of one pound per person per day, three million people would consume 1,500 tons of food per day, and four million people would consume 2,000 tons of food.
This is only theoretical data, in practice this amount of food is certainly not enough, high-calorie food maybe a pound can sustain the human survival needs, but cheap low-calorie food, the demand will obviously be higher.
These days people are more able to eat, a young and strong a meal to eat three or five pounds of food, are easy, the vast majority of people are the latter-day king of the big appetite.
Disaster relief doesn’t need to be full, as long as you don’t starve. Just according to the refugees need 2,000 tons of food per day, that is coupled with the consumption of transportation in the middle of the road, this figure should be enlarged to at least 2,500 tons.
In addition to food, other supplies are equally scarce. The number of refugees is too large, it is necessary to do a good job of epidemic prevention, otherwise the emergence of plague will be troublesome.
Preliminary estimates, tents, clothing, medicines, coal, living supplies ……, these messy things add up, no hundreds of millions of divine guilders can not be purchased.
Even if the supplies are all ready, without tens of thousands of tons of capacity every day, it is impossible to meet the demand.
It didn’t seem like a big number, but this was every day, not every month, much less every year.
What about other countries, Franz didn’t know, anyway, Austria didn’t have the capacity to ship so many supplies over, even half of them couldn’t be done.
Perhaps all of Europe, working together, might be able to solve this refugee crisis, but the chances of success were still no more than one in three.
If you know you can’t do it, you’re either a hero or a fool, and Franz is neither, so he can only look on with a cold shoulder.
At least he made a donation, although it was still a drop in the bucket, it was still an effort.
I can’t control what’s going on outside, but I can’t control what’s going on with the refugees who are coming to my door. Russia can not go, the refugees can only run to Austria.
This road is equally bad, Prussia and Russia can not dare to let the Vienna government think that they are driving refugees to Austria, so it must be intercepted.
The effect is not to mention, anyway, the number of refugees on the Austrian border is increasing day by day, if not for the Vienna government has prepared in advance, really can not be pocketed.
Even if it had been prepared, it would have barely managed to put food on the table. It was up to the army to maintain order, and outside almost every refugee camp, there were a few criminals hanging around.
Happiness is a contrast, after seeing the atrocities of Russia, Austria’s approach is not so unacceptable.
Making trouble?
Can’t you see the ones who made trouble are hanging out there. Now they’re all illegal aliens, the kind with no human rights, dying for nothing, breaking any rule in the camp, they could be the chicken that makes an example of them.
Looking at the statistical table sent up, Franz whole person is not good, he suspected that the world has a problem, Austria received the refugees actually broke a million.
Franz asked suspiciously, “Prime Minister, is there something wrong with this data, how can there be so many refugees?”
The more people there are, the more troublesome it is to resettle them. Refugees who were able to make it all the way to Austria were either close by or young and strong.
The ones who dragged their families along were good, but the young adults who ran a single gang were a hidden danger. The military management of the refugee camps is to suppress these people to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, the tragedy occurred in Skvirzyna, also caused the Vienna government vigilance.
Felix replied affirmatively, “There is no problem, we have double-checked three times, each camp is the right number.
The number of people is higher than expected, and there is a connection to the Prussian-Russian atrocities. Although they are also intercepting, there are still many soldiers who sympathize with the refugees and secretly let them through.
We’ve lodged a diplomatic protest with the Prussians and Russians, and this situation should improve later on.”
Raising a butcher’s knife is not the same as killing millions of people. In fact most of these refugees were deported to the Prussian-Russian border area, today you are driving to my side, tomorrow I will drive to your side, nobody wants them anyway.
It was still starvation that led to the mass deaths of the refugees; no one has ever counted how many starved to death; some say hundreds of thousands, others say over a million, still others say two or three million.
All governments are pretending to be confused. Relief of refugees at this time is a hard job, and if it is done well, it should be done well, but if it is not done well, it will be criticized by the international public opinion.
After contemplating for a while, Franz shook his head: “I’m afraid that the situation will be even more serious later, even if the Prussian and Russian countries are willing to cooperate, they may not be able to stop.
Pick a group of young and strong people out among the refugees, if the situation exceeds our tolerance limit, close the border line and let them intercept themselves.
In addition, the government should do a good job of preventing epidemics, forbidding the refugees from leaving the camps and not allowing them to come into contact with the local population. Those who have joined their friends and relatives must also be examined by a doctor and be cleared before they can leave.”
People were always capable of bursting into their greatest potential in times of life and death. Unless the Prussian army was able to let go of the killing spree, there was always someone who could break through the blockade.
This is not something that Berlin and St. Petersburg can control, the Tsarist government is a little better, at least it can control the army; the Berlin government’s control over the army, Franz really can not praise.
If the Russians are willing to pay a high price to buy the Junker nobility, now the Berlin government still exists, are an unknown.
A large influx of refugees, Austria will not be able to pocket. In order not to let the situation deteriorate, then only to say sorry to the later.
Decentralized resettlement exists only in theory. The language barrier makes it impossible to communicate with each other, and we don’t know whether they are healthy or not, whether they are carrying the plague or not. If they are dispersed blindly, the whole country will be disturbed if they are not properly dispersed.
The refugees in the front are real refugees, and the refugees in the back are those who have risen from the dead, and it is unknown how much humanity they still have.
(End of chapter)