Chapter 539: Winter is Coming (9)

Emperor Franz of Austria?? Joseph I finally agreed to meet the representatives of the Hungarian Slovak People's Republic, and the 70-year-old emperor sat on the throne and looked condescendingly at a representative of the republic full of mud legs and rustic atmosphere, that is to say, there was not the slightest aristocratic style. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Out of politeness, Queen Sisi of Hungary gave the traitorous representative, who was not humble, and said 'thank you' with a stiff neck, and sat down comfortably. This vicious appearance caused the Austrian nobles to shake their heads loudly.

Thinking that he had to negotiate with such a mud leg at the age of 70, Franz?? Joseph I felt greatly insulted. But he couldn't help it, and the mud-legged people relied on their roughness to make a sky out. Thousands of Austrian nobles fell into the hands of the clay legs, not only the Austrian nobles were defeated by them, but even the Russians, who had suppressed the Hungarian Revolution, had 200,000 troops killed by the vicious Hungarian poor sticks.

The plague caused by the war closed the homes of Romania, which had taken the lead in the invasion of Hungary, and the towns were like ghosts. In such a situation, the poor sticks who called themselves the Hungarian Red Army were blessed by the devil and were safe and sound in the epidemic area. Franz?? Joseph I's own eldest daughter died of typhoid fever at the age of two, and the Austrian emperor felt panicked when he recalled the past.

"We want to be able to dissolve the Austro-Hungarian Empire, form an Austro-Hungarian Union, or form an equal confederation. Peace is in our interest. Your Majesty, with your wisdom, you can surely understand this. The Hungarian clay leg expressed his opinion in the straightforward language characteristic of the countrymen. Such grammar appeared in the court, causing the nobles present to shake their heads.

"If the secretary and others intend to be peaceful, first prove the sincerity of the secretary and others by releasing all the Austrian officers." His Majesty the Emperor has a majestic voice and elegant diction.

"What we want is peace, those Austrian officers are all cards in our hands, if we give them to you first, wait for them to bring the troops back again?" The Hungarian mud leg even came out with the common words for paper gambling in taverns, but what he said did not elicit any ridicule. The straightforward expression of this clay leg made the Austrian upper echelons fully understand the attitude of the Hungarian Red Army.

"If you don't even want to express the most basic kindness, then please take care of yourself. Austria-Hungary has its own dignity and is in no way threatened or intimidated by anyone. "Franz?? Joseph I had no intention of making any concessions.

"Old man, why are you so angry. If you're not angry, let's not talk about it yet. The mud-legged representative stood up, "What we want now is peace without compromise, and only true peace can allow us to live a good life." Without true peace, all other ways are a dead end for us. When you figure it out, send someone to us. We're done, and we're going to invite your guys to drink. ”

After the mud leg representative left, Franz?? Joseph I was furious, he slapped his hand on the armrest of the dragon chair, and then said angrily: "Stubborn! Stubborn! ”

The emperor shouted so angrily that the other ministers of civil and military affairs couldn't say anything. The reason why these mud-legged people are arrogant today is because the ministers of civil and military affairs are not effective in suppressing bandits. However, at present, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's 300,000 elites have lost 100,000, and if the remaining 200,000 can no longer succeed, the empire's losses will be wasted and public funds will be wasted, and the situation can only get worse and worse.

Queen Sissi didn't expect things to go so far, she couldn't even persuade them. And then I heard Franz?? Joseph I said in a voice full of anger: "Order the General Staff to make a plan for encirclement and suppression again, and these traitors must not be spared!" Don't let it go! ”

Winter goes to spring, spring goes to summer solstice. Before the start of the Olympic Games, in accordance with the regulations set by the Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea, in the name of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, issued an appeal to all countries in the world to "stop the war and maintain peace." Both Austria and Russia took advantage of this opportunity to temporarily declare a ceasefire.

Beginning in January 1900, the two countries each invested 300,000 troops to wage war against the Hungarian Slovak People's Republic, and Austria suffered a crushing defeat, with 30 troops annihilated by 100,000.

The popularity of the 300,000 Russian troops in Romania was greatly reduced, and they still failed to break through the Hungarian Red Army's defenses in the Carpathian offensive and defensive battles. Cholera, plague, and malaria began to spread again in the stalemate Russian army. This time, the Russian army did not dare to repeat the mistakes of the past, so they could only leave behind the Romanians in Hungary who were infected enough and retreat temporarily.

Hungary withstood the attacks of the two European empires with its poor stick and mud legs army, and also won the victory. Even if Russia said that it was only withdrawing on its own initiative, the fact that they withdrew their troops first was seen by countries around the world as a sign of cowardice.

The Romanians did not expect to be hit by the plague twice in a year, and the domestic attitude against the entry of the Russian army into Romania was very fierce, which made Russia very headache. No matter how much Russia claims to have a complete obligation to its Slavic brothers in the Balkans, the fact that they brought the plague is quite realistic. The Slavic brothers are willing to drink soup with the big Russian brothers, but they don't want to die for the big Russian brothers for no reason.

No sooner had the Russian army completed its second retreat than the Ottoman envoy arrived in Budapest. The emissary brought with him the statement of the Ottoman Emperor that he 'strongly supports the just and independent actions of the Hungarian people and wishes to discuss the future peace between the two sides'.

At the meeting of the Hungarian Communist Party, all the members of the Central Committee listened to the opinions of the members of the advisory group of the People's Republic of China, "We need peace, although the four wars did not cause food problems in the country, but we have suffered more than 100,000 casualties." The regular army of the Red Army was only 500,000 people. Now there are less than 400,000 left. Peace in the Ottoman Empire is good for us......"

The party representatives of the Hungarian Red Army knew that the current prestige was entirely due to the help of the advisers of the Liberation Army of the Republic of China, who systematically brought the Hungarian Red Army to the movement war. Because of the limited knowledge of these people, they could only trust the advice of the advisors of the Minchao at this time. It was not easy to get these Hungarian leaders, who were from ordinary people's background, to accept peace with Ottoman Turkey, which was a feud with Russia, and between the Hungarian Ottomans and the Ottomans. It was Austria that liberated Hungary from Ottoman rule.

The envoys of the Ottoman Empire walked on the front foot, and the envoy of the Austrian emperor arrived on the back foot. This time the Austrian Emperor was willing to negotiate with Hungary, and the Emperor offered full respect for the internal and military autonomy of the Hungarian Slovak People's Republic on the basis of maintaining the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Hungarian Slovak People's Republic was required to return confiscated aristocratic property.

Franz?? Joseph I's envoy left, and the Liberation Army commissioners, who had been in the inner room listening to the other party's terms, came out. Most of them don't know German, so they're looking through the documents that have been translated quickly by the translators. Zhou Shuren didn't have this problem, he tightened his lips and sat in his position, his left index finger undoubtedly tapping on the table.

The translator quickly wrote down the conditions proposed by the Austrian envoy, the participants took their seats, and when the Chinese read the contents, Zhou Shuren immediately spoke: "I firmly oppose the return of the so-called aristocratic property. I am against the so-called nobles regaining their status, or even against their stay in Hungary. Did we shed blood and sacrifice so that the old man could ride on our heads again? Zhou Shuren's emotions were very intense, and his voice shook the venue.

The Central Committee members of the Hungarian Communist Party looked at the young Minister of Propaganda with trust in his eyes, and this young cadre, who was also a famous doctor in Hungary, had a great reputation. He has done an excellent job of vaccination, and he has done an excellent job in promoting the epidemic. It's one thing to brag to the outside world, everyone knows their own family affairs. Without the terrible plague, heavy casualties would have been inevitable in the war between the Red Army and the Russian army. After vaccination, the Red Army dared to move freely in the epidemic zone. The luck component of this victory is just as great as the hygiene and epidemic prevention component.

No sooner had the Austrian envoy left the Hungarian-Austrian border than Budapest received a telegram from Viena. Queen Sisi of Hungary requested an interview with the head of the Slovak People's Republic of Hungary. The Hungarians generally had a good feeling for Queen Sisi, so the Central Committee of the Republic quickly replied with approval. At the appointed time, Queen Sisi arrived at the agreed place with only a small entourage. Looking at the somewhat suspicious Hungarian Red Army, Queen Sisi smiled, "I love the sincerity and enthusiasm of the Hungarian people, so I will now put my safety in your hands." ”

When the Queen arrived in Budapest, she was greeted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This young man is very good-looking, but the hard life of wind and rain makes his skin look dull and rough, and the experience of the battlefield has carved the scars of war on his beautiful face. The queen felt as if she was looking at the damaged works of art, and even if it was easy to see the subtleties at a casual glance, the damaged parts were too deep to be noticed.

In the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the two sat down facing each other. The Queen spoke first, "Your Excellency, the purpose of my visit is to ask for your consent to His Majesty the Emperor's conditions for the Hungarian nobility, even if the nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire can be adjusted somewhat. If you really don't want to side with Austria in the war, you can do that, either by treaty or by constitution. But His Majesty the Emperor is under tremendous pressure, and if you are to completely destroy the centuries-old aristocracy of Hungary, Austria will never accept such a change. This is the only one I am asking for, even if it is a textual change to the point where everyone can accept it. ”

The Foreign Minister waited for Queen Sisi to finish speaking before he spoke, "Your Majesty." Why do you have to let us return the land of the nobility to them? These lands are already state land, and we have given them to the peasants to plant. The peasant brothers farmed the land, paid for grain, and served as soldiers. They are our roots! If you ask us to take back the land we have given to the peasants, we are digging up our roots and asking for our lives! It's definitely not going to happen. ”

Queen Sisi didn't expect this fairly handsome young man to be so straightforward, without the slightest concealment of the straight topic. This made her unable to continue for a while, and after a moment of silence, the queen continued: "Your Excellency. I hope that you will recognize the contribution of the aristocracy to Hungary, and among these people there are many patriots, many of whom sacrificed their lives for the country. The aristocratic system represents Hungary's past and present. It is true that the nobles are in conflict with you, and they are not on your side. Now that you have control over the country, can't you be merciful? You don't even have to return it completely......"

"Those nobles kill." The young man's voice was cold.

When the queen heard this, she could not speak. After another pause, she stared into the young man's eyes and said slowly, "You have also killed so many nobles. ”

"People in my village say that my mother is good-looking." The young man began to narrate, the queen was 63 years old, and had seen so many sons who looked like their mothers, and the queen could imagine that the young man's mother must be a great beauty.

"A few years ago, when all parts of the country began to kill the Communists, the nobles in our area insisted that my father was a Communist, and asked his militia to kill my father and snatch my mother away. I learned to hunt since I was a child, and I can use a shotgun. The noble lord felt that I was a scourge to him, so he sent a militia to chase after me and kill me. I ran as hard as I could, met the team, joined the revolution, became a communist. By the time our team returned, the nobleman had already run away. We killed all the militias and rescued my mother from the aristocratic manor. I heard that the nobleman is still in Viena. ”

The foreign minister's speech was not fast, and his emotions did not look excited, but the more Queen Sisi listened, the colder she felt. When the tragic story was finished, the queen asked with some hesitation, "Are you...... Want to get revenge on that person? ”

"Will you judge that man for killing my family?" The young foreign minister asked.

"What if...... You go to court and sue him, and the evidence is conclusive. The queen said diligently.

The young foreign minister stared at Queen Sissi, although he didn't mean to put pressure, but the queen felt that the young foreign minister's gaze was sharp as if it could pierce people's hearts. The Foreign Minister asked: "The court in Viena may take up this case, but I would like to ask if they took this case because that man killed the father of the Foreign Minister of the Hungarian Slovak People's Republic, or because that man killed an ordinary poor man in his domain?" ”

Queen Sisi really didn't know how to answer, this young man's language was not elegant enough, and the queen wondered if there was no one in Hungary who had read a book and spoke softly? Now she doesn't think so, this young man's appearance, manners, and especially the angle from which he sees things, ordinary diplomats are far inferior to him. If there is a bone in the egg, it is probably that this young man has not learned to use the language of the nobles.

"Your Majesty, those nobles owe us a lot of blood debts, and it is impossible for you to undo the bad things they did now. Those aristocrats can pretend that they have not done anything, but the people will not forget. Just as I will never forget how that nobleman killed my father, and how that nobleman's doglegs chased me on horseback. I couldn't breathe when I ran, and I felt that if I ran any longer, my heart would jump out of my throat. I felt uncomfortable, and I didn't think it was anything to fear from dying at that time. But thinking of my father's blood debt, thinking of my mother being taken away and her whereabouts unknown. So I ran hard. Even then, if I hadn't encountered a passing revolutionary contingent, I would have been dead. The young foreign minister finally couldn't help but show a look of hatred in the sea.

Her Majesty was silent again, knowing very well that the courts of Viena would never be able to open a case for the poor of Hungary, let alone convict the nobles of Hungary for the poor. It is not possible to have such a court not only in Viena, but in the whole of Austria. So the queen quickly decided, "Your Excellency, I will inform those nobles that if they commit a blood debt, they will not be able to obtain Austrian protection when they return to Hungary." As long as their trial is fair, observers are allowed, there are witnesses and there are lawyers. The central government of Austria-Hungary would not have objected to the outcome of the trial. I believe that the nobles who owe a blood debt will never return to Hungary. We can also establish a system whereby you cannot claim land as long as you do not return to Hungary in person. The nobles who dared to return to Hungary in such a situation had a clear conscience. ”

"A clear conscience? Haha, yes. Your Majesty, you have a clear conscience. You have never killed anyone, nor have you harmed the people in Hungary, nor have you spent money like water. I understand that you have a clear conscience. The young foreign minister smiled.

"What do you want to oppose?" Queen Sisi knows that behind compliments there is often malice.

"When I rescued my mother, she was going crazy. Later, I followed the team and asked someone to take care of her at home in the country. After I left for more than a month, I got the news that my mother hanged herself while the person who took care of her was asleep. The young man continued to tell about his family's experience.

The queen was silent for a moment and said, "That nobleman is guilty, and those nobles are guilty. ”

"My mother is at a dead end because she feels like a person. Since you are a human being, you should not be treated like this. If this is wrong, either the world is wrong, or she herself is wrong. My mother felt that this world was right, so she went to a dead end. There was grief in the young foreign minister's voice, but there was something above the grief.

"I'm different from my mother, I believe it's the wrong way in this world. Your Majesty, you are a great nobleman, and you have reached the point where the laws of the world cannot hurt you in the slightest. I'm just a poor boy, if it weren't for this revolution, do you really believe that you would talk to me so politely face to face? I don't know if you believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway. ”

The Foreign Minister did not mean to mock, but Queen Sisi felt that she was being ridiculed. The young poor boy was right, Her Majesty was sitting here not because she really wanted to talk to a poor boy about the world on an equal footing. The reason she did this was simply that the poor boy represented the Hungarian Revolution, and behind this poor boy there was a Hungarian Red Army that should not be underestimated. This perception undoubtedly contradicts the Queen's perception of herself, even if she knows that she can't help herself, the Queen is still willing to believe that she is an approachable queen who loves the people and is willing to listen to the people.

Thinking of all this, the Queen suddenly remembered the foreign minister's words, 'If this is wrong, either the world is wrong, or she is wrong'. Yes, the queen now suddenly felt that the world was wrong, and that the young poor boy on the other side could suddenly disappear. In this way, the world that the queen faces can be restored to its original state.

"I've walked tens of thousands of miles over the years, and I can't stand being sleepy so I went to find a place to lie down and squint for a while, as long as I can walk, I will continue to walk, as long as I can do the job, I will continue to work. I participated in dozens of battles, large and small. At first, I was scared to death when I heard the gunshots, but then I was ordered to charge and rushed forward. If the bullet hits me, I'll die. If you can't beat me, I'll continue to kill the enemy......"

Listening to the young foreign minister's account, Queen Sisi could finally understand why such a young man seemed so weathered, because he had really experienced it.

"Your Majesty, we have endured so much to shatter the old way of the world and build a new way of the world that absolutely no one can bully others. Now you want us to bring back the old ways, but it will never work. If the old world wants to come back, it will first step over my corpse, first over the corpse of our comrades, and first over the corpse of our Hungarian Communist Party. Let's kill all our Red Army first, and then talk about whether the old world can come back. ”

This...... What a brilliant talent, Queen Sissi had the idea before she felt depressed. Diplomacy is to enable the other side to accurately understand the content of the exchange, and perhaps the foreign minister is too straightforward, but he has made Queen Sisi clearly understand the positions of the two sides, and even understand where the essential contradictions between the two sides are.

The queen suddenly remembered what she had seen a real communist a few years earlier. At that time, the aristocracy, the royal court officials, the town council, and the church system still existed, and they joined forces to ask Queen Sisi to sentence several communists to death. The queen remembers that at that time, in order to get rid of her inner turmoil, asked several Communists who had been sentenced to death if they wanted to repent. In fact, even if they decided to repent, the queen believed that she might not be able to save the lives of those people. But none of those people repented, and even the Communists trembled with fear at the thought of death, and those Communists openly said that betraying their communist faith was more terrible than death. At that time, the queen intuitively felt that the communists were going to completely destroy the order that still existed in Hungary at that time, and she was deeply worried about it.

Now that Queen Sisi has seen the results, the winner so far is actually a poor man who has inherited the ideas of the original Communists. At that time, there were only a few people who really believed in communism? When the nobles were doing mischief in Hungary on the pretext of exterminating the Communists, Queen Sisi felt that the Communists would be easily and completely wiped out by the nobles.

After listening to the foreign minister's words, the queen finally understood that while the nobles were wreaking havoc under the pretext of eliminating the Communist Party, they themselves were constantly creating a real Communist Party. The gravediggers of the aristocracy were not the Communists, but the nobility themselves.

Queen Sisi thought it was funny......