Holy Roman Empire

Croatia

After Kosut issued the Hungarian Declaration of Independence, many Croatian nobles were hesitant about joining the Republic of Hungary and staying in the Austrian Empire.

However, the reality soon forced them to make a decision. The Hungarian interim government excluded Croats from the scope of their rights, causing dissatisfaction with the local nobility.

The vast majority of the land in Croatia is controlled by the large nobles of Hungary. The Hungarian aristocracy despised the Croatian soil buns, and the local small and medium nobles and the Hungarian aristocracy were separated.

This provided an opportunity for the Vienna government. Franz released the goodwill to the local small and medium nobles for the first time, promising to have their share in the future Austrian government.

Specifically, it is the establishment of an Austrian national federation to represent the right of parliament. Among them, Croatian representatives will have 2 to 5 seats.

The specific number depends on their performance. Anyway, this excessive institution before national integration is one of the highest power institutions of the Austrian Empire in the future.

If you want to gain the right to speak politically, you must participate.Theoretically, it takes one percentage point of the total population and occupies a representative seat.

The Croats are less than 3% of the total population of Austria. If they can get 5 representative seats, their political influence will increase greatly.

After attracting the upper class of the Croats, Franz did not give up enticing the people at the bottom. It was ordinary people in the bottom society who really wanted to sell his life for him.

After the independence of Hungary, the Government of Vienna authorized Governor Josip Jelacic to confiscate the land of the Hungarian nobility and liberate serfs.

The number of people who supported the government of Vienna immediately occupied a dominant position.By May, Governor Yosip Jelacic already had 80,000 Croatian volunteers.

On May 1st, Franz issued a military order to grant fields. Since ordinary people helped the government to suppress the rebellion, they could obtain land, and soldiers loyal to the emperor were no exception.

There is a lot of land confiscated in the hands of the Vienna government. The Kingdom of Hungary has a lot of land waiting to be confiscated. The Austrian Empire still has a lot of land available for development. It is not a problem to allocate some of it to soldiers.

Of course, in order to curb land mergers, the field granting order is limited, and the maximum land grant should not exceed 50 hectares.

For ordinary people, fifty hectares is already a huge number.Especially for the serfs who had just been freed and had no land, this was enough to make them sell their lives to the emperor.

After the introduction of the military power granting order, the number of people joining the army is endless. For most people, the cost of redeeming land is too large, it is better to go to the battlefield.

As the day began to light up, a lot of people had gathered at the Moores conscription site.

"Madici, are you signing up too?"

"Yes, Grorich. After thinking it over, I still think men should be on the battlefield!" Madic replied seriously.

"But Madic, didn't you say you want to be a great blacksmith last time?" Grorich asked doubtfully.

The spring breeze of the Industrial Revolution has not yet reached Croatia. Ordinary agricultural tools are still built by hand. For ordinary people, blacksmithing is a good job.

"No, I have changed my mind now. The blacksmith can do it at any time. Now I want to go to the battlefield. I want to be a great knight!" Madic replied seriously.

No one does not want to be a noble, and the knight is the lowest noble. For ordinary people, this step is the highest pursuit of life.

Before the Revolution of 1848, the entire European world was noble. The sons of nobles were nobles, the sons of merchants were merchants, the sons of doctors were doctors, and the sons of serfs were still serfs.

In an ancient country like Austria, there are already many nobles. These people occupy the upper class of the entire society, and the people at the bottom have no further channels.

In the eyes of many ambitious people, this Hungarian rebellion is an opportunity, an opportunity to cross class restrictions.

Like most young people, Madic also has ambitions. He was not willing to be a blacksmith in his life like his father. Before that, he had no chance and had to face reality.

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The tide of participation in Croatia was only a minor episode. These troops are only local troops and are not in the Austrian military establishment.

In other words, these forces do not need the central government to shove their troops. Their main job is not to fight, but to be responsible for logistics and transportation.

Governor Yosip Jelacic apparently failed to explain clearly, or deliberately did not explain clearly that the central government ’s control of so much land in the hands is not in line with the development of the bourgeois economy.

To cultivate the local market, it is natural that the farmers with the largest number of people have money, and land is their main source of income.

Austria did not carry out a complete agrarian revolution, and the nobles still held a lot of land, so Franz could not distribute the land for free.

In this case, the only way is to distribute the land to the subjects loyal to the emperor. This criterion is very simple. Naturally, it is the loyal minister who is willing to fight for the emperor's life.

As long as you walk on the battlefield, there is no credit but also hard work, when the emperor is magnificent, and they have to pay for the land they bought, they can become rewards and fall directly into their hands.

The specific standards are still being worked out. These people who have obtained the land will soon be able to get rid of the extreme poverty. They will naturally consume when they have money, and they will have a market if they have consumption.

After the market prosperity, the industry must be reversed, the industrial growth government can obtain more taxes, and the cost of the initial investment will also be slowly recovered. This is a benign economic cycle system.

This war of suppressing the rebellion has now become a tool for Franz to reform Austrian society.Through war cover, Austria ’s social system is being reinvented unconsciously.

Croatia is just a microcosm of the changes in Austrian society. This scene is also being staged in Slovenia, Transylvania, Bohemia and other regions.

It can be said that the Hungarian rebellion has just started, and the biggest loss is the Hungarian aristocracy. Franz sold them without thinking.

Everyone is not guilty, he is guilty.

Regardless of whether they have participated in the rebellion, it is the original sin to own a large amount of land in their hands. The most important thing is that they are selling in Vienna and the Republic of Hungary.

Greed makes people fall into the abyss, they want to get more benefits, and now Franz simply puts his hands down and divides their land first.

Even afterwards it was proved that they had nothing to do with the rebellion, and the land could not be recovered, and the government would pay them a land ransom.