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Unconsciously, the Russians quickly paid for their actions, and the Polish independence movement exploded more rapidly than in history.

Britain and France increased their financial assistance to independent organizations. After the uprising broke out, independent organizations pulled up an army at the fastest speed and began to sweep the Quartet.

Franz, who was a melon-eating mass, soon received a protest from the tsarist government.

Franz asked in disbelief: "Prime Minister, are you sure the content of this protest book is true?"

Frantz was not shocked. In the Polish uprising, there were 400 volunteers in Austria. Most of these people were retired officers and soldiers from Austria.

Under the eyes of the Vienna government, Poland's independence can actually pull up such an arm, and if there is no problem, there will be ghosts.

It's one thing to secretly trip the Russians. So many volunteers have appeared on the surface. It's not that they are telling the outside world that Austria supports the Polish independence movement.

Has the Russian-Austrian League been dissolved?Just stab the Tsarist government in such a way that it is morally unreasonable!

Prime Minister Felix embarrassedly replied: "Your Majesty, there are indeed many Poles in the Garcília region who support this uprising. It is not just four hundred people participating in this uprising. The number we have counted is eight hundred.

If there is no accident, this number is still increasing.We estimated the error in advance, and did not expect so many people to participate in this uprising, so no measures were taken."

Franz rubbed his forehead, he didn't know what to say.After the outbreak of the Polish independence movement, Poles from all over the world participated.

There are millions of Poles in Austria, and some volunteers are inevitable, but this number is too much.

"Will no one frame us?" Franz asked uncertainly.

He was very suspicious that this was a conspiracy between Britain and France. The purpose was to provoke Russia-Austria relations and disintegrate the Russia-Austria alliance.

Prime Minister Felix replied: "Your Majesty, please be assured. We have checked. These people have no problems, and they did participate in the uprising voluntarily.

Many of these people, originally residents of the Russian-Polish region, emigrated to García because they could not stand the Russian rule.

Now they go back to participate in the uprising, most of which is the power of hatred.We have already taken action, and this will not happen again."

Faced with this result, Franz can only be attributed to the Russians too deadly.If you can make people in exile, you will not forget to work hard to get revenge, what else can you do.

Of course, there must be someone in the Vienna government who has provided them with convenience, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for so many people to enter Poland smoothly.

Franz thought for a while and said: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russians will slowly explain it. By the way, diplomatic declarations are issued. The issue of Russian Poland is the internal affairs of the Russian Empire, and countries should not interfere.

Anyway, things have happened, you can only find a way out.Just after Britain and France expressed their solidarity with Polish independent organizations internationally, European countries responded one after another, and the tsarist government needed Austrian support.

Franz did not expect to benefit from this kind of thing.Show your attitude first, as for the Russians who believe it or not, they can only do what they want.

At this point, the relationship between the two countries is enough, and it is still a little bit closer to the breakdown of the Russian-Austrian alliance.As long as the alliance is still there, slowly repair the relationship later.

Foreign Minister Weisenberg replied: "Your Majesty, the Russians will soon be overwhelmed. According to news from our station in St. Petersburg, the Polish rebel army has exceeded 100,000 people.

The Polish independent organization was premeditated. After the uprising was launched, under the cooperation of the inside and outside, more than 100,000 Russian troops deployed in the Polish region were beaten by the Polish rebels.

Many troops did not respond at all and became prisoners. Many soldiers directly joined the Polish independence movement. It seems that the Russian Revolutionary Organization and the Poles united.

Judging from the information we have collected, the uprising army is not entirely a crowd, and their leadership should have received short-term military training.

Since the outbreak of the Polish uprising, at least 5,000 volunteers from all over the world have participated. Most of these people have received military training and become officers of the uprising army.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs suspects that some people have provided military training to independent Polish organizations. These volunteers may have been trained in advance. They quickly entered Poland after the uprising broke out and led the uprising."

Franz's face changed drastically, which is probably the truth.Even Austrian secret players can toss out hundreds of volunteers. The existence of British and French swords and guns can only do so much.

Is it difficult to train independent Polish organizations?

It's too easy for the hooligan, recruit a group of anti-Russian Poles, and then carry out simple training, fight in the colony for a few battles, and the only ones who survive are qualified soldiers.

If Russian revolutionary organizations are involved, things will be more complicated, which means that the rebellion will not be confined to Poland, and revolutions may occur in a large area of ​​the Russian Empire.

The reforming Russian Empire is undoubtedly at a crossroads.It is now the most prone to problems. There are too many people in China who are dissatisfied with the reform of the Tsarist government.

The radicals think that the reform of the Czarist government is not thorough, and the conservatives think that the reform of the Czarist government hurts their interests. Once these dissatisfied people are stimulated, who knows what will happen?

You know, since the beginning of the Alexander II reform, there has been no peace in the Russian Empire.The serf who had just been freed looked at the huge amount of land for ransom and sighed.

The redemption of Russian land was not as harmonious as Austria.These ransoms all pay interest, and it is not a concept to unify the payment standard with Franz.

The land ransom payment in Austria is basically based on the output income of the land for 5 to 10 years, which is collected by the government and then handed over to the land owner.

Farmers can pay for up to 40 years in installments without calculating profits.The ransom payable each year is within the affordability of everyone.

Because of the unified apportionment, the expropriation standard is 20% of the actual output of the land each year. You can pay more or less, but you can pay it off within the prescribed time limit anyway.

Due to the factors of the rebellion, the government checked a lot of land. In fact, this kind of expropriation is still a big profit for the Vienna government. Naturally, some of the money can be used to quell the lack of ransom in the disaster year.

It won't work here until the tsarist government. The landlords are still alive and well. Most of the land is owned by the aristocracy. Before the reform, the number of civilian mansions in Russia was less than twenty. Free farmers only owned a small amount of land.

Against this background, it is certainly impossible to compress the land redemption price.It is even more impossible not to pay interest in a unified collection.

If it were not for the Great Revolution, Franz could not force the nobles to accept such harsh conditions.In fact, Austria's land reform is not thorough.

Many nobles who were not involved in the rebellion or affected by the rebellion still have a large amount of land, and they cannot force the government to redeem them as long as they are unwilling.

No social conflicts broke out, mainly because the Vienna government reduced the per capita land redemption area and ensured that everyone could redeem land, but the place was uncertain.

Later, with the expansion of the Balkan Peninsula, overseas colonies were opened up, so that the originally tense land supply was loosened, and the contradiction of more land was completely resolved.

The immigration slogan of the colonial ministry is now: "Do you want your own farm? Go to the colony to open up wasteland.

Want your own plantation?Go to the colony to open up wasteland.

You can own as much land as you can."

This cannot be done by the tsarist government. Although there are a lot of wasteland available for reclamation in the country, these wasteland also have a master.

The land area acquired by farmers through redemption is on average lower than that of Austria.Of course, this is the result of calculating the Balkan Peninsula, and Romania and Serbia contributed a lot of cultivated land.

The reform of Alexander II only allowed 13% of the serfs to obtain enough land; 42% of the land acquired by the serfs could only barely make ends meet after paying the ransom; the rest could not support themselves by the land and had to go out to work .

This provided sufficient labor for the development of capitalism in Russia.

Historically, with the development of the capitalist economy and the influx of rural population into cities, the originally tense land problem was gradually resolved.

In the late 19th century, the Russian Empire became stronger again due to the reform of Alexander II.

Unfortunately, the capitalist economy in Russia has just started, and it is unable to absorb too many people.

The social dividend brought about by the reform is too late to play a role; but the social contradictions brought about by the reform have already begun to play a role.

"Following closely the direction of the situation in Russia, clarifying the forces invested by all parties, and preparing for intervention, we cannot allow Russia to make major changes."

Franz made the decision immediately and let the Russians suffer a little. It's okay to destroy the Russian Empire!

Unless the Russian Empire can be dismembered and the threat resolved once and for all, it is better to retain the Tsarist government.

After all, Russia, under the rule of the Tsarist government, has a limited threat to Austria, and there are too many people behind in the country, and even the mighty Alexander II cannot change this problem.

It would be different if the rules were broken. Franz could use the opportunity of civil strife to cleanse Hungary and integrate Austria. Who can guarantee that Russia will not have a powerful comeback?

At least Alexander II has this ability to carry out reforms within the scope of the rules, and he has no way to solve the problem completely.

But once the order is broken, the situation is different.The greatest legacy Nicholas I left to him was the army loyal to the Tsar.

As long as the army is settled, many problems are actually not problems.As long as the table is overturned, Alexander II is very likely to regain the mountain.

If it is another country, it is possible to form a coalition of countries to intervene in a wave. When confronted with Russia, Franz said he was afraid of cold.

When Russia is born again, Austria does nothing but concentrates on acting as a guard in Europe and is responsible for watching the bears.

Felix said in the opposite direction: "Your Majesty, we should not act rashly. Although the reform of Alexander II harmed the interests of many people, it did not cross the bottom line of the conservatives.

As long as these people do not move, Russia will not be in chaos.The Russian army in Poland collapsed, mainly because there were too many Polish soldiers inside.

In order to ensure the stability of the Polish region, not long ago the tsarist government ordered the recruitment of troops from the Polish region in an attempt to remove these people from the Polish region, but the plan happened just after the uprising began.

The Russian army is still loyal to the tsar, the Revolutionary Party has not yet affected the army, and a little rebellion cannot touch the foundation of the tsarist government.

As long as Britain and France do not send troops to intervene personally, it will not be long before the rebellion will be suppressed."

After hearing the Prime Minister's explanation, Franz breathed a sigh of relief.He is a mystery of the authorities, ignoring that Britain and France will not take action in person.

After losing the Near East War, the British were more cautious on European issues and tried to keep themselves out of the way.

Not to mention the French, Napoleon III almost lost his throne and asked him to go to the muddy waters of the Russians. How could it be?

The Kingdom of Prussia was directly ignored. Don't look at how powerful they are being blown up in the later generations. Now that the Russians are sneezing, the Berlin government is frightened.

Now Austria ’s best choice is to watch a play, not prepare to interfere.Any action of the Vienna government may release a wrong signal to the outside world, thus causing an unmanageable situation.

Franz thought for a while and said, "The Prime Minister is right. I was too nervous.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Tsarist Government that we support any action they have on the Polish issue, and volunteers are pushed to Britain and France.

Other things have nothing to do with us and know nothing."

Since static braking is used, it's enough to pretend to be stupid.

Britain and France can stand up to pull hatred because they are far enough away from the Russians to fear revenge from the tsarist government.

It is best to attack the Russians, but also to disgust the Russians if they do not, and to use the Polish independence movement to delay the reform process of the tsarist government.

Is it really that simple?Today, the international situation has long become unrecognizable, and the advantages of Franz ’s prophetic visions no longer exist.

After sorting out his thoughts, Franz quickly figured it out.

Austria is no longer the historical Austria, and it has accumulated enough advantages in the early stage. Even if there is no advantage of the prophet, it is still in a favorable position in international competition.

Too worried about the changes in the Russian Empire is actually due to Franz ’s lack of confidence.After all, the conception of the previous life was so influential that he ignored the change of his own strength.

Compared with any competitor, Austria has one or more advantages in the field, as long as these advantages are exerted.

The first is to start compulsory education first in terms of population quality. Now Austria is already enjoying this bonus.

Once the second industrial revolution started, first-mover advantage was doomed.By the time competitors responded, Austria had already reached the forefront.

It seems that Austria is not lagging behind now. Following the footsteps of the British, some industries can still go ahead.

On the contrary, it is the usury empire that has begun to take shape.Insufficient local coal production capacity has already increased the cost of many industries in France, and capitalists increasingly like to make financial gains.

In the short term, competitors Anglo-French are constrained by the population and local area, and the upper limit of development has been locked.

The restrictions on the local area and resources can also be compensated by using colonies. Everyone is a colonial empire. This resource is not lacking, but there is no way to overcome the shortage of population.

No, the French have already figured out a solution, that is, external expansion.Napoleon III had just eaten the Kingdom of Sardinia, making up for the shortage of domestic labor.

There is really no way for British talents to go to the mainland if they want to expand on all sides.It's a pity that John Bull didn't dare. Once he set foot on the European continent, he would be taught to be a man.

The mid-term competitor, the Russian Empire, is still reforming, and it has fallen behind at least two decades in industry, which cannot be compensated for in a while.

Even if it is open, it will take more than ten years to catch up.In this age of rapid technological change, opponents cannot wait for them to catch up.

As long as it is still under the rule of the Tsarist government, this open-ended development cannot happen, and it can guarantee a normal level of development speed. That is God's blessing.

Long-term competitor Americans, after the toss of this civil war, it is estimated that the development time will be dragged on for two or three decades.At least they have to wait for them to complete the reunification of the country before they have the ability to compete for the world.

These advantages can only be regarded as superficial. The real advantage is that competitors have not yet noticed their own weaknesses and have not taken corresponding measures to solve these problems.