Chapter 77: Hungarian Liberators (plus more votes)

  Chapter 77: The Hungarian Liberator (plus more tickets to bring)

Pedrofi Santor, a fellow Hungarian patriotic poet and one of the leaders of this Hungarian revolution, just couldn’t help himself.

“Your Excellency the Count, so are you just going to stand by and watch Hungary go down the drain? Even if the chances of success are low, you can’t do nothing, can you?

For God’s sake, you must do something for this country even at this time!”

Istvan shook his head with a bitter smile and said, “I only regret that I didn’t stop you guys, if I had been a bit tougher at the beginning, maybe this situation wouldn’t have happened.

That’s right, I do need to do something now, but it’s not to enter the government, so don’t be in a hurry to refuse, wait for me to finish my sentence.

In terms of military command, I’m only a middleman, both Duke Leopold and Marquis Lorch are much better than me, so I suggest you turn to them for help with military matters.

If we are talking about propaganda ability, Kosut, you are much better than me, and don’t need my help.

The only good thing about me is that I am self-aware, so I will stay out of matters in the government.

I’m only responsible for stepping in to coordinate ethnic relations, and at this point, Kosut might as well put away your damn nationalist theories!”

Kosut was half-exasperated, and if it wasn’t for the fact that he couldn’t leave Istvan’s support at this point in time, he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to resist rushing up to him and punching him.

This guy was just too annoying, even if he was messing around with bad ideas, he was still revealing people’s scars everywhere.

If there was a choice, Kosut didn’t want to engage in nationalism, but the supporters didn’t agree!

The capitalists need cheap labor, and the majority excluded from the gates of power is the cheap labor left for the capitalists.

That’s right, Kossuth’s nationalism excludes not minorities, but the entire underclass, except for these 500,000 to 600,000 capitalists, aristocrats, and the middle class, the rest of the population is the object of oppression.

Of course, explicitly this line only excludes the minorities, while the Hungarians are excluded with property, titles, cultural level, such external factors.

Theoretically, it was possible for all of them to gain suffrage, provided you got rich first, and when you did you had political rights.

Beyond that, forget it. Aristocrats are born, from the moment they are born, they are doomed; cultural knowledge is not something that poor people can access, they can’t afford to read anything, there is no compulsory education in Hungary.

There were no poor people in the top of the Revolutionary Party in the true sense of the word, including Petofi, who was from the lowest class, was not really from the lowest class, at least he had the financial strength to send him to school.

His mother was a serf, but she also worked as a nobleman’s maid and belonged to a big housemaid with knowledge, and his father was a butcher, but he was also an economically-minded small capitalist.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, He Jin was also a butcher, how come no one mentioned that their family was monopolizing the meat supply of half of Nanyang County?

Ass determines position, they may sympathize with the underclass, but class position determines that they cannot sacrifice their own interests for the underclass.

Istvan is a big noble standing on his position, this time military problems, to the same is a big noble origin of Duke Leopold, Marquis of Loki for help, is very natural.

But in Kosut’s opinion, this is looking for death, now the situation is so bad, who can guarantee that these great nobles of theirs will not fall back ah?

Even if the Vienna government moved their fiefdoms, in fact, the two sides still have the possibility of compromise, it is only the price of the problem, the nobility naturally tends to monarchical state, this class position has no way to change.

The purpose has been achieved, Kosut naturally will not continue to stay and suffer, not even a sip of water, he does not expect Istvan will manage the food.

“Mr. Kosut, what should we do now?” Pedro asked expectantly

There was no way out, Kosut was unreliable, and Pertophi was even less so, his talent was writing poems, and his masterpieces included Song of the Nation and Against the King.

“Life is precious, love is more expensive; if for freedom, both can be thrown away!”

He is the original of this line, which is very marketable among intellectuals. But he also possessed the characteristics of the literati, with a typical lack of practical experience.

There was no way around it, Petőfi, who was born in 1823 and is now only 25 years old, and it was too hard to make him worry about the destiny of a country.

“I have already sent people to contact the Kingdom of Sardinia, and now I can only expect them to defeat the Austrian army in Venice as soon as possible, forcing the Austrians to divide their troops and return.”

Kosut did not mention the matter of asking the Ottomans for help, now this is not able to see the light of day, especially in front of Pedrofi, if he said it out loud he would definitely object.

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Legion of Bohemia

After receiving the order from Vienna, Julius was confused, Budapest was close at hand, but he was not allowed to attack, which was very unreasonable.

A young staff officer asked in dissatisfaction, “Your Excellency the Commander, what does the country mean by not allowing us to attack Budapest, are they going to rely on negotiation to solve the problem at this point?”

“That’s a question you can only ask the Vienna government, or the War Ministry may also know, we just need to carry out the order!” Julius said thoughtfully

This was his greatest strength, being able to fulfill the mission given by his superiors one hundred percent, even if the doubts in his mind were great, he would not bring them to the mission.

“Sir Commander, doesn’t that mean we have nothing to do now?” Another young officer complained

No battles to fight means no military credit, now Austria’s four large armies, only the Bohemian Legion has the best geographical location, Budapest is close at hand, as long as they capture this place they will be the first credit.

Chief of Staff Yelacic said slowly and methodically: ”Do you guys think that there is no war to fight, idle boredom ah?

Then go and paint propaganda slogans for me, and first give the surrounding areas military control and liberate the serfs, which is also our mission this time!”

That’s right, the task of liberating the serfs was given to the army by Franz. This year the nobles are not to be messed with, especially the Hungarian nobles who are used to being the king of the mountain, and it is not good to talk without resorting to force.

“All give me control over my men, this time we came over to liberate Hungary, to bring happiness to the Hungarian people, whoever dares to violate military discipline, shoot on sight!” Julius said sternly

Loyal dogs, naturally, should be loyal to the emperor, this time they are coming as “liberators”, to buy the hearts of the Hungarian people for the emperor, good military discipline is a good start.

(End of chapter)