Holy Roman Empire

Chapter 42 Military Preparation

"His Royal Highness, in view of the current domestic situation, I propose to double the Vienna City Defence Force immediately and build a 200,000 rebel army to suppress the domestic rebellion!" Prime Minister Felix said aggressively

Regarding the suppression of the rebellion, everyone's positions are the same, and no noble likes the revolutionary party.

"The proposal of your Excellency the Prime Minister is very good. The City Defense Army is adding it. The waste that had done nothing in the rebellion in Vienna, I think I will order them to retire!

The formation of the rebel army is urgent. Lieutenant General Albrecht performed well in suppressing the rebellion in Vienna. I think he will be in charge!"

Franz did not hesitate to carry private goods, not only took the opportunity to clean up the moths in the city defense army, replaced his own people, and also extended his hand to the soon to be formed rebel army.

"His Royal Highness, the formation of a major military rebellion is of great importance. Lieutenant General Albrecht may not be too busy. It is better to let Marshal Radski and Prince Wendisch Gratz come back to preside over the overall situation." Felix strived

(Remarks: Marshal Radsky and Prince Wendishgratz rescued the Austrian triad, the former suppressed the Italian rebellion, the latter suppressed the Prague rebellion and the Vienna rebellion)

Both of them were big men in the Austrian army. If they came back, Albrecht would have to stand aside, and Prince Wendisch-Gritz was Felix ’s uncle, and he could n’t let him return.

But it was not difficult for Franz, and he said as soon as possible: "These two are indeed the best candidates, but unfortunately now there has been a rebellion in Lombardy. At this time, we transferred Marshal Radski, who was responsible for rebellion. What?

In my opinion, Marshal Radkis is appointed as Governor of Lombardy and Venice, and he is solely responsible for presiding over the rebellion in Italy.

A further 50,000 troops were mobilized from Austria to reinforce the Italian region in an effort to suppress the rebellion in the shortest possible time.

And now that the Bohemian region (Czech Republic) is also unstable, we have transferred Prince Wendishgretz, who is responsible for suppressing a possible rebellion?"

The front line requires them to command the suppression of the rebellion. This reason is very powerful. Since Franz proposed it, no one would dare to easily replace it. Otherwise, if there is a problem on the front line, you must be responsible.

Austria is still the Austria of the Habsburg family. Even if Prime Minister Felix is ​​very strong, he can only withdraw in the face of Franz ’s persistence.

The political struggle is very complicated, and today's concessions mean that in the years to come, the Austrian government will focus on Franz and the cabinet will be in a subsidiary position.

Seeing that there was no objection, Franz said again: "Considering the special situation in Hungary, we must also take action.

I propose to use Yosip Jelacic as a high-ranking Croatian official and concurrently as the commander of the City Defense Army;

(Josip Jelacic saved one of the Austrian triads, his main achievements stabilized Croatia, and participated in the suppression of the Vienna rebellion and the Hungarian rebellion)

Appointed Julius Jacob von Heinau as Slovakia's senior official and concurrently as the commander of the city defense in preparation for the Hungarian rebellion."

(Remark: Marshal Julius Jacob von Heinau, famous for brutal suppression of Italian and Hungarian rebellions, became: Arad executioner, Brescia ’s hyena, and Habsburg tiger.)

Franz ’s plan is very simple, which is to advance the heroes in the history of Austria ’s suppression of the rebellion. Those failed rice bins do not have to give the enemy heads.

"His Royal Highness, now that the rebellion in Hungary has not yet occurred, we will do so, I am afraid it will cause a lot of adverse effects!" Felix thought and said

He did not expect that the Vienna government was still negotiating with the Hungarians at this time, and the crown prince was directly preparing to suppress the rebellion, which was completely destroying this negotiation.

However, once the Hungarians really rebelled, these arrangements were very useful.Croatia and Slovakia were both sites of the Kingdom of Hungary this time, but the people above were inclined to Austria.

Controlling these two places in advance is very useful for suppressing the Hungarian rebellion. In the history of suppressing the Hungarian rebellion, the Croatian province brought out 40,000 troops.

Franz shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, do you think it would be good to let the Hungarians go on like this?

In the past many years, the Vienna government has made concessions to them many times. If they continue to make such concessions, it would be better to let them be independent!"

This is not nonsense. Hungary is now nominally part of the Austrian Empire, but taxes in the Hungarian region have nothing to do with the central government of Vienna.There are even tariffs between Austria and Hungary.

But they also declared that Austria is oppressing and exploiting Hungary, which in Franz's view is completely nonsense.

The Vienna government has obtained certain benefits from Hungary, but Austria has protected Hungary ’s security, so there is no need to charge protection fees?

If you leave Austria, Hungary will be annexed by the Russians or by the Ottomans, and the final result will only be worse than it is now.

On the surface, Austria's industry is more developed, Hungary is mainly developing agriculture, and has become a market for Austrian goods.

In fact, this era is weak meat and strong food. As a weak person, it is not possible to demand too much from the strong. Even for ordinary Hungarians, the Habsburg family is still the defender of their interests.

Under the current system, only the Hungarian capitalists and nobles suffer the real damage, and only the capitalists and nobles have always wanted to make trouble.

After the Great Revolution, it was once said that the Kingdom of Hungary, with more than 10 million people, had only 500,000 Hungarians.

In fact, it was the half a million capitalists and nobles who actually exploited and oppressed the Hungarians. Now Franz is planning to kill the worms and distribute their land to the Hungarian people.

So this time, it is not a revolution to suppress the revolution, but to bring revolution to the Kingdom of Hungary and truly liberate the revolution of more than ten million ordinary Hungarian people.

There will be bread and milk.In this respect, Franz considers himself to be a sacred cause.

"His Royal Highness can't say that, Hungary is our granary. As an integral part of the sacred empire, we must not let them be independent!" Felix said seriously

Franz said with a smile: "Your Excellency, don't be so nervous, I just said the fact that the Hungarians want reform, but all this must be built on the premise of integration into Austria.

Just want to get benefits, but do not intend to pay the price, where is there such a good thing in the world?Rather than whispering with them every day, it is better to solve it in one go!"