One of the largest investments in a series of cooperation agreements between France and Austria is the construction of a railway from Lubin to the Oder. With this railway, copper from Lubin could be transported to the docks on the Oder through this railway, loaded onto barges, which were then towed by tugboats along the Oder to the Baltic Sea, from where they were transported to various parts of Europe.

The railway will allow Lubin's copper ore to be more fully utilized, making it easier to transport copper ore to the smelter and other raw materials needed for smelting. In addition, the latest refineries and power plants will be built in the area. According to the plan, the Lubin area will soon become the most important copper production center in Europe, and will bring a large amount of income to Austria every year.

However, this plan was opposed by many people. This is also normal, because this kind of action will always be accompanied by changes in the distribution of benefits. Once there is a change in the distribution of interests, there will naturally be people whose interests are damaged, and then there will naturally be dissatisfaction and anger.

It is said that if you can make the cake bigger, you can theoretically get everyone a much larger portion, so that even if the distribution ratio changes from before, because there are more things in hand, those who occupy a lower proportion of the distribution will generally not have much opinion.

But this is only an ideal state, because even if the cake is bigger, when it comes to distribution, it does not necessarily mean that everyone will not get a larger share. The Gospel of Matthew says, "Whoever has, give him twice as much, so that he may be superfluous; and he that hath not, even what he hath shall be taken from him. And in the Far East, a great philosopher also said: "One of the most fundamental laws of mankind is to take away what the poor have in the first place, and give it to the rich." ”

Therefore, when dividing the cake, although the cake is theoretically much bigger, when it comes to distribution, many people can't get anything.

Not only is there nothing to be shared, but even the loss when making the cake has to be borne by those who can't share anything.

To build a railway, the first thing is naturally land acquisition.

Lubin was originally the territory of the Kingdom of Poland. After the fall of Poland, it became Austrian. But the property rights of the land were basically the property of the Polish aristocracy.

If it is in France, most of the land is already state-owned, and the original owner of the land is either on the guillotine or hung on the street lamp, and it is of course convenient to acquire land or something. If it is in the core territory of Austria, those lands are also owned by the great aristocracy, and everyone's interests are equal, so it is necessary to distribute it honestly and reasonably. But in Lubin, the Polish nobility can also be considered noble? Want to take money as reasonably as a German-speaking aristocracy? How is this possible?

Generally speaking, although bullying people may not be the foundation of happiness, it must be admitted that bullying itself, even if it does not involve interests, can bring real happiness, if you can get benefits while bullying people, then not bullying the weak is simply against "human nature". In contrast, the Polish aristocracy, though they were out-and-out strong in the face of Polish serfs, immediately became weak, helpless, and helpless in front of those who could participate in such trade.

This helplessness can be understood as having no one to help them; It can also be understood that the land was expropriated, but there was no subsidy. Yes, there is no subsidy, and the price of expropriated land is very cheap, the reason is naturally because the land does not grow crops well, the harvest is limited, and it is not worth much. As for why the land can't grow crops, this is indeed a problem, when the copper mines here have not yet been discovered, and the mines and copper smelters have not yet been established, the harvest of the land here is actually still okay. It's just that since there are mines and factories, the land here has gradually become bad for crops, not even crops, and even strange things have happened to the nearby rivers - the creatures in the river have died mysteriously, the downstream residents have contracted strange diseases, and the plants along the coast are constantly mutating.

Anyway, the land over there is no longer valuable. Of course, the price of the land given by the Austrian nobles involved in the railway project was even less valuable than nothing, so the Polish aristocracy was finally outraged.

But the great nobles of the Habsburgs did not care about the anger of these Polish barbarians. In their opinion, the anger of the Polish aristocracy was nothing more than a bare-headed robbery.

In general, the judgment of the great Habsburg nobility was not bad, and the Polish nobility, in the first place, was a bunch of cowardly and useless waste. There is no other regime in the world that can defend their interests better than the regime of the Kingdom of Poland, but in the process of Poland's demise, most of the nobles did not dare to stand up and fight for their homeland, which truly belonged to them. Such a group of cowards, even if they are angry, what can they do? The biggest possibility is that, as Master Lu said, "draw the blade to the weaker" and take those Polish tenant farmers out of anger.

If everything is in order, this should be the end result. However, the sudden participation of certain forces has brought about some changes in the situation.

First, the Pope announced an investigation into Emperor Franz II, in a sense, seriously weakened the authority of the emperor. So some of the Hungarian nobility couldn't help but want to move a little.

At the beginning, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Joseph II, had worked hard to implement the reforms, he established German settlement areas in Galicia, Bukovina, Hungary and West Benbürgen, rewarded the development of German aristocratic estates and German capital in dependent areas, and gave priority to the employment of Germans as civil and military officials; Implement protective tariff policies, encourage the development of industry and commerce, and increase fiscal revenue; In 1781, the "Decree of Tolerance" on religious policy was promulgated, and in 1781~1782, an edict was issued to abolish the personal dependency of peasants in hereditary domains, and in fact abolished serfdom.

But Joseph II's reforms violated the interests of many nobles, especially since Austria is a multi-ethnic country, and in the Austrian Netherlands, Hungary and Bohemia, there are many people who are not particularly interested in Habsburg and think about splitting themselves as kings all day long.

So when Joseph II led an expedition to Turkey, those guys in the country rebelled one after another. Joseph II rebelled and was forced to cancel most of the reforms.

Now, Emperor Franz II also seems to be in some kind of predicament, and it is clear that the Pope will not trouble an emperor for no reason, and still under such an excuse. Speaking of whether it is good to engage in the foundation or something, it is originally a Catholic characteristic, and within the Holy See, there are not too many priests who are engaged in the foundation. Obviously, someone wanted to use the Pope against Emperor Franz II. Considering that in today's Europe, who else can drive the papal crown like this, it is almost self-evident who this person is.

Since the French wanted to deal with Emperor Franz II, it would be a shame not to take the opportunity to do something to come out. They did not know at the time that among the major shareholders of the project were the French, and they were also members of the Bonaparte family. Of course, they can't be blamed for this, who knows how Joseph, the old silver coin, likes to invest so much through multiple holdings. So you see, a few of the companies that have invested in this project are Austrian companies, and then you can see some French companies if you look at the shareholder composition of these companies, and then you can see some other French companies that are not very well-known, and then you can look up the shareholder composition of these French companies, well, you can see the surname "Bonaparte".

This practice is not uncommon in later generations, but it is not common in this era, and there is no such thing as a heavenly eye in this era, so how can those Hungarian buns know?

Because those Hungarian buns don't know this, and they don't understand that there can still be a magical operation in this world where they can cooperate to make money and tear each other down, so some Hungarians began to move. And with the support of these people, the aristocrats of Poland also fought boldly, and actually jumped up and declared that they were going to rebel against tyranny.

And they really resisted. Of course not a direct uprising - because those Polish nobles did not dare, Emperor Franz II was completely right in his judgment about them, they were just a bunch of cowards! Therefore, their resistance is to refuse to transfer the land, resolutely act as nail households, and by the way, use various ways to make trouble for the Lubin Railway.

Since these Poles do not know each other like this, then His Majesty the Emperor naturally wants to give them a little bit of a powerful taste. So His Majesty's police department quickly put on the heads of those nail households some unsolved cases that had not been solved many years ago, such as someone being robbed on a country road, or being killed by a bandit in a certain place.

Of course, His Majesty the Emperor's police station did not have any evidence in its possession. But what's so difficult about proving this thing? Caught in the bureau, are you afraid that there will be no evidence? What, you say we torture to extract confessions? This is a shameless rumor, otherwise, we strip the suspect naked and let you see where he has a little new scar on his body? Which one? That place is hemorrhoids, and it has nothing to do with us. Why don't I get a doctor to give you a diagnosis?

This method of His Majesty the Emperor naturally caused ...... Well, let some nail households soften and are ready to surrender. This also made the Hungarian nobles standing behind them anxious, so they also jumped up.