Holy Roman Empire

The economic crisis suddenly broke out and the value of the franc was completely untenable.In just a few days, the value of the currency dropped by 28.7%, which shocked the world.

France is one of the world's three giants, its economy ranks fifth in the world, and its military strength sits second.

The Paris government sneezes and the world will shake three times.With such a Big Mac, the financial system is so vulnerable that it only kneels after just one round of attack.

After the harvest was completed, the consortium capital began to retreat, leaving the international hot money to bear the anger of the French.

Just like: I came quietly, left with great momentum, waved my sleeves, without taking away a cloud.

It didn't take away a cloud, just a lot of Aegis, Pound Sterling and Gold.

It seems that a tacit agreement has been reached. After the withdrawal of the international consortium led by Anglo-Austria, the French consortium was late and joined the resistance army.

Without the capital predators, the remaining group of retail speculators is naturally not an opponent of the French consortium.

Seeing the French consortium become famous in one battle, as if to become a hero of France overnight, Napoleon IV was half angry, and as a target to vent his anger, the vases in the Palace of Versailles changed a lot.

Capital's invasion of politics, the absolute superiority established since the era of Napoleon III, has now ceased to exist.

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Vienna Palace, watching the French government's experience, Franz also a little bit tragic.

After the economic crisis, the strength of the French consortium has greatly increased, and its influence on the government has been further strengthened. The future French Empire will become more lively.

Having simply eaten breakfast, and throwing away these troubles, Franz is preparing to bathe in the soft sunlight, and an uninvited guest arrives.

Foreign Minister Weissenberg reported: "Your Majesty, the workers uprising broke out in Lyon last night, and the situation in France shows signs of runaway."

For a big country, foreign threats are no longer deadly, and only you can really defeat them.

There is no doubt that France is such a big country.At least in this era.As long as there is no group fight, one-on-one, no one has the strength to destroy France.

Thousands of miles can't be beaten by ants, no matter how powerful a country is, it can't tolerate internal toss.

The Lyon workers ’uprising is just the beginning. France will not be stable unless the economic crisis is resolved.

Franz asked in doubt: "Isn't the French government already giving relief food, why is there an uprising?"

This was a good policy formulated in the era of Napoleon III, and the French working class had unemployment benefits.

Under this favorable policy, although the French workers' movement is still flourishing, there are few uprisings.

Weissenberg explained: "According to the analysis of the news from the embassy, ​​the preliminary judgment should be related to the depreciation of the franc.

Affected by currency depreciation, prices in France have risen madly. The original unemployment benefit has been unable to meet the daily expenses of workers."

Franz nodded without rushing to a conclusion.Generally speaking, the crazy price increase is caused by many factors.

Inflation is only one of these factors. This factor generally comes into play slowly. It is impossible to depreciate the franc today, and prices will skyrocket immediately.

In contrast, Franz is more willing to believe that hoarding and material shortages have caused prices to rise sharply.

After hesitating for a while, Franz decided to go down the road: "Secretly funding an independent Italian organization to fund an event and let them wait for the opportunity."

Despite not having faith in the Italian independence movement, Franz was willing to add some chaos to the French government.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Weisenberg replied

After a pause, he added: "Your Majesty, according to the intelligence collected by our embassies around the country, under the financial pressure, Alexander III gave the land of the newly occupied area as a reward to the meritorious officials.

Affected by this, the Russians just occupied Poland and the Eastern and Western Prussia have experienced various degrees of unrest.

The Governor of the Tsarist Government in Königsberg conveyed through the colonial company that he hopes we can relax immigration restrictions."

This is a sequelae of the previous Cossack cavalry operations. The tsarist government's few local people's hearts have been completely tossed away.

Now it is impossible to gather the hearts of the people. At least until this generation of people die, it will do more with less.

For the Russians to re-establish the ruling foundation locally, they must support the new ruling class.In this respect, Alexander III ’s decision was not wrong.

Rather than supporting unreliable locals, it is better to switch directly to your own.Using the land as a bounty, the government can also save a lot of money.

Similar things have been done in Austria in the Balkans.Only before the operation in Austria, most of the local people had been immigrated, and there was no chaos.

After thinking about it, Franz said: "You can contact the Russians and contact them in the name of the colonial company. It is not convenient for the government to directly participate in such things.

However, immigration conditions cannot be relaxed.We just need to get rid of the local German people, or the Germanic minority."

Even after the baptism of war, Russian Poland + Baltic Sea + Belarus + Western Prussia, the population of these lands all add up to nearly 10 million.

Unable to gather the hearts and minds of the local people, for the tsarist government, these guys are the biggest destabilizing factor.

If the tsarist government is strong enough in execution and the government's financial resources are strong enough, it can also pick out and stubborn diehards, and then disperse and resettle, and slowly digest.

Unfortunately, this is impossible.The Tsarist government has neither such executive power nor such a strong financial resource.

It ’s about the same time when I changed my beard. I can send all of them to grow potatoes.Prior to this, no Czar government had such a powerful execution capability.

The Russians can't do it, but Austria can't afford it.Accepting a large number of ethnic minorities at once will have a fatal blow to the assimilation work.

There is also a limit to the great national integration, and once it exceeds that degree, things will go in the opposite direction.

Without enough benefits, Franz will naturally not pick up the mess of the Russians.

From Austria ’s standpoint, the existence of these people who hated the Tsarist government and dragging the Russians behind was really better.

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Affected by the Lyon Workers ’Uprising, the Parisian people, as a revolutionary holy place, naturally cannot be lacking.

On December 11, 1881, the people of Paris launched a massive parade, hundreds of thousands of French people took to the streets to support the Lyon workers uprising.

Like firecrackers, France began to explode.On 12 December, Toulouse followed, a workers ’uprising broke out,