Richard. Metternich and Prince Metternich, you have sorted out all the advantages of the Austrian Empire in one word.

"The Bohemian kingdom has a lot of iron ore and coal, and can serve as the industrial heart of the Austrian Empire!"

"Hungary and Galicia are rich in agricultural resources. If it is put in order, it will surely become the most important granary of the empire. ”

"The Lombard-Venetian kingdom was the most important textile industry base of the empire, and it could also provide a large amount of money for the empire."

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So, in the case of Prince Metternich and Richard. Under Metternich's rule, the entire Austrian Empire was divided into several regions.

Among them were mainly the Lombard-Venetian kingdom, Slovenia, Croatia (due to the 1848 Revolution. Jelačić's decisive action, Croatia's independence was far greater than that of Croatia during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise period) as an auxiliary light industry, tourism region.

It is a heavy industrial area mainly in Bohemia, supplemented by Vienna, Buda and Pest (the three major cities were established to prevent Bohemia from becoming the dominant heavy industry).

There are also agricultural concentration areas and food processing industrial areas led by the Hungarian Plain and Galicia.

In addition, the newly occupied Danube Duchy of the Austrian Empire (which Metternich and his son have already regarded as the inherent territory of the Austrian Empire) and Transylvania, since it does not have some distinctive characteristics like Bohemia, Hungary, and Lombardy-Venice, nor does it have the same political significance as Vienna, Buda, and Pest, so Metternich and his son are ready to build Transylvania and the Danube Duchy into a Black Sea Rim Commercial Free Trade Zone, of which Bucharest is also planned by Prince Metternich"Advanced Industrial Demonstration Zone".

(Mainly, the most important strategic material in the Romanian region was in the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania, and the cost of transporting coal resources back from the Carpathians was much greater than the cost of extracting them in Bohemia, and the role of the Danube principalities was only to satisfy the monarchy's role of expanding territory and acting as a buffer zone before oil was fully industrialized.)

It's just that Prince Metternich forgot one thing, the labor cost of the Carpathian region is much smaller than that of Bohemia and Hungary, and where French capital is not willing to set foot does not mean that the native capital of the Austrian Empire is unwilling to set foot in it, and sweatshops that are more stringent than Bohemia will be established in the Carpathians. ）

Metternich's division of heavy industry, light industry, tourism, and agriculture into different regions was in fact a disguised economic effort to bind nationalists everywhere.

With the exception of the Lombard-Venetian kingdom, all the lands could not survive alone without the Vienna government of the Austrian Empire, and at the same time accelerated the industrialization of the peoples in disguise.

Take the Kingdom of Bohemia as an example, if the future Kingdom of Bohemia were to break away from the Austrian Empire, then Bohemia would lose the huge market of the entire Austrian Empire and face competition from the German region.

The lack of a market in Czechoslovakia after the collapse of Austria-Hungary after World War I forced Czechoslovakia to reduce the wages of its domestic workers in order to resist the invasion of foreign capital.

Once the industrialization of the various nationalities was formed, the connection between the upstream and downstream industrial chains needed to be regulated by the imperial government, and the Kingdom of Hungary was no longer able to influence itself to occupy the vast majority of the territory.

In this case, the resistance of the various peoples will be smaller, and the imperial government is fully capable of using economic means to isolate a small number of resistance.

When Metternich to Richard. Metternich has finished talking about the responsibilities of the future industrialization of the regions and the means of preventing future rebellions of the peoples.

Richard. Metternich also remembered Jérôme. What Bonaparte said to him when he was at the train station.

Who is our enemy and who is our friend is the first priority to maintain an imperial regime.

Who were the enemies of the Austrian Empire? Hungarian? Richard. Metternich began to use dialectical analysis to analyze the problems facing the empire.

No! Wrong! The Hungarian peasants were not enemies of the empire! The real enemies of the empire are the great nobles who are entrenched in the Hungarian land, and they are the henchmen of the empire!

Richard, who figured out the enemies within the empire. Metternich said to Prince Metternich: "Father, I think that the empire should distribute to the Hungarians all the lands confiscated by the Hungarian nobility, and at the same time put an end to the military rule of Hungary. ”

Prince Metternich looked at his son in front of him in astonishment, he didn't know if this sentence was his son's own perception, or whether it was Jérôme. The thoughts that Bonaparte conveyed to them through the mouth of his sons.

"Tell me! What do you think? Prince Metternich did not refute his son, but patiently questioned Richard. Metternich.

"Father, I came up with it through the division of the industrial zone you just had!" Richard. Metternich responded to Prince Metternich, and then added: "Of course, there is Jérôme. Those words that His Majesty Bonaparte said to me when he was at the train station! ”

"What?" Prince Metternich asked curiously.

Richard. Metternich will Jérôme. Bonaparte's words were repeated to Prince Metternich.

Prince Metternich had a solemn look on his face, and after a while, he raised his eyebrows again and exclaimed: "Worthy of the descendants of the Bonaparte family, he is likely to surpass his uncle in his achievements!" ”

"Impossible!" Richard. Metternich couldn't believe his old father's assessment: "His Majesty Napoleon almost won the victory over all of Europe!" ”

"It is true that His Majesty Napoleon almost defeated the whole of Europe, but he also almost destroyed the whole of Europe!" Prince Metternich shook his head and said, "A monarch only knows destruction, and if he cannot build it, he and his empire will face destruction sooner or later. It's easy to destroy something, but it's hard to rebuild it.

Although Napoleon was far inferior to his uncle in the military field, his achievements in the diplomatic field and at home would greatly surpass that of his uncle. ”

By this time, Prince Metternich had largely ceased to consider the French Empire as a threat to the Austrian Empire one day, and he believed that whoever could say it would carefully consider every step he took.

The Habsburgs no longer had to deal with a capricious monarch like Napoleon, and as long as the Austrian Empire did not have the ability to threaten the French Empire, the Habsburgs would always be the most loyal ally of the French Empire.

If the Austrian Empire was a threat to the French Empire...... What a joke, unless the Austrian Empire can defeat the Kingdom of Prussia to the north and the Russian Empire to the east.

Prince Metternich, who briefly commented, once again led the conversation to Hungary: "You're right! It is true that the Kingdom of Hungary cannot be ruled by brutal military rule, which will only increase the resentment of the Hungarian regional people against the Habsburgs, but ......"

Prince Metternich paused, spread his hands and responded to Richard Metternich: "But do you think that a monarch of such character as Your Majesty is willing to listen to you and end his military rule over Hungary?" ”

Richard. Metternich subconsciously shook his head, he knew his own monarch too well, whether he was pedantic or conceited, in short, he was a difficult monarch to get along with.

Although his weak willpower will be guided by external things (Jérôme. Bonaparte slightly revealed his dissatisfaction with the Austrian Empire, Franz. Joseph brought his fiancée with him), but he was often ruthless with his appointed ministers.

Such an emperor would never allow him to undermine the current political environment without setbacks.

Not to mention, Richard. Metternich's confiscation of the land of the great nobles to the peasants and the end of Hungarian rule invisibly offended a part of the Hungarian aristocracy and the Bohemian civil servants headed by Bach.

Their interests in the Hungarian region are not the same as those of Richard. Metternich's proposed policy wanted to be violated.

"Father, what do you think we should do?" Richard. Metternich was reluctant to see the problems facing Hungary, but he was unable to reform them.

"Richard, try to be Prime Minister!" Prince Metternich vs. Richard. Metternich responded: "You can only change the entire empire with your own hands if you become the prime minister of the empire with more power than me!" The past is ours, the future is yours! ”

"But, I ......," Richard. After hesitating for a few seconds, Metternich said to Prince Metternich, "Can I really do it?" ”

"Of course!" Prince Metternich nodded, reassuring Richard in a determined tone. Metternich said, "You are my son!" ”

Hearing Prince Metternich's affirmation of himself, Richard. Metternich nodded firmly.

"That's it! Hungary's problems are not what we are able to solve now! "Prince Metternich is very interested in Richard. Metternich said: "Now let's father and son sort out the measures of imperial industrialization!" ”

Richard. Metternich and Prince Metternich began to organize the industrialization of the empire in the form of official documents.

The contents include: 1. The complete emancipation of some serfs in Galicia and Hungary (serfdom in most areas of the empire has been abolished) and their participation in social production.

2. Establish a credit mortgage bank modeled on France to stimulate investment by private entrepreneurs within the empire.

3. Introduce blast furnace, steam engine and textile machine technology in Britain and France to improve the production efficiency of factories and textile mills.

4. The government shall set up the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Railways (subordinate to the Railway Bureau) to raise funds in the form of public-private partnerships to attract foreign capital to build railways and highways.

5. Vigorously develop the tourism and grain industries to make them have high added value. (That is, Chanel, Hermes)

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