Chapter 20: Calm
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We silk weavers,
They were so poor that they were naked.
Those who are great officials,
Put on a coat and a brocade chest.
We weave these,
However, he starved to death without a single cloth to decorate.
We silk weavers,
They were so poor that they were naked.
But our world is coming,
Your world is about to be destroyed.
Ah, then, we will
Old world mourning clothes,
Because the thunder of the uprising has been heard in the sky.
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The second Lyon workers' uprising shook France and helped Austria.
Franz's expected internal and external troubles did not appear, but seemed to be unusually smooth.
It seems that after the decision of the Hungarians to withdraw from the German Customs Union, everything was solved.
The Prussian ambassador hanged himself and spent all the money allocated by the Prussian government.
Even more discrediting to the Prussian government was the sight of more than one dancing girl entering and leaving the Prussian ambassador's room.
So the good deeds linked money, women and ambassadors and created a series of scandals.
The succeeding foreign minister of Prussia had to say in public that the former foreign minister loved his wife, and the cause of the matter was under investigation.
It was good not to investigate, but an investigation of the Prussians revealed that the incident was related to an organization called the Polish Restoration Army.
At this time, the Prussian military could not sit still and assassinated the Prussian Foreign Minister, which was also too bold and reckless.
The Prussian hierarchy was even more at risk, fearing that they would be approached by the Polish Restoration Army, and the turnover of brothels in Berlin plummeted that month.
The French were not much better, and the plague had just passed, and a workers' uprising of unprecedented scale broke out in Lyon.
The reason for this is simply that the factory owners do not treat the workers as human beings. At this time, French workers had to work eighteen hours a day, and even had to work overtime.
Since a large-scale uprising had already broken out in France in 1831, the October Decree was issued at the top to prevent the workers from forming associations.
In October 1833, the July Dynasty government issued a decree prohibiting associations and the existence of groups of more than twenty people.
However, as the saying goes, there are policies at the top, and countermeasures at the bottom.
The workers broke up into pieces and formed numerous small groups of less than twenty people.
As a result, instead of stopping, the association became more and more frenzied, much to the anger of King Louis Philippe.
In March 1834, the rulers of the July Dynasty issued a decree prohibiting workers from forming new associations, forcing workers to dissolve existing mutual aid associations or punishing all members, and ordering the arrest of workers' leaders.
This move angered the workers, who decided to arm themselves against the July Dynasty.
But the French were much more efficient at suppressing the revolution than the Austrians.
The army of the July Dynasty had long been prepared, and after the outbreak of the uprising, the army of the July Dynasty quickly entered the city, occupied various crossroads and main strongholds, and set up artillery outside the city, and the Lyon rebels were already in the urn.
Of course, the French rebel ability is not covered, and the insurgents have rich experience, even in the face of the pressure of large soldiers, they also chose to deal with street fighting.
If the army wants to win, it must attack room by room, and it will have to pay a huge price for itself.
Fight in the field with the army, unless you meet the general of the straw bag with a group of soldiers who don't want to fight.
Otherwise, the rebel army, which did not have heavy firepower, faced the regular army, and was slaughtered.
However, it was the uprising in Paris that caught the high-ranking officials of the July Dynasty by surprise.
July Dynasty, Cabinet.
"Kidzot, damn it, now that the country is on fire, you're still caring about the damn Austrians."
"Thiers, you fool, the Austrians are fighting the Prussians for the leadership of Germany. Either side wins, it's a disaster for France, do you understand it or not. ”
"Before the Germans cause a disaster, the workers outside will rush in and hang you and me on the street lamps."
Finally, at Thiers' insistence, tens of thousands of troops entered Paris to maintain order. The uprising was suppressed, but it also brought the entire French government to a virtual paralysis.
At the same time, the "Bloody Week of Lyon" began. The soldiers were ordered to kill anyone who resembled the insurgents or sympathized with them.
In bloody street fighting, men and women were dragged out of their rooms and shot in the streets.
The brutality lasted for a week, and the last of the insurgents were all killed at the Corderi Cathedral.
"Charles won't die in vain, he's a hero!." A tall bearded man wrapped a teenager firmly in a rag.
"I'm not afraid of death, let me go back, I'm going to fight them to the end!" The boy tried to break free, but was held tightly by the bearded hands.
"If you go back, they will die in vain! We have to live well for them, and one day General Napoleon will come back to save us. The bearded man roared.
"But General Napoleon is dead?" Tears welled up in the boy's eyes.
"General Napoleon also had a nephew, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. , and General Jérôme is alive ...
"But what if they're gone?" The boy asked.
"France needs a Napoleon, and there must be a Napoleon." The bearded man's answer was firm.
"That's right! There must be a Napoleon. The young man's eyes gleamed with determination.
At this time, there were many people in ragged clothes like them, and the French army did not exterminate them all.
And some of the people in this team have been reinvigorated, and some have lost their souls.
The uprising in Lyon, France, had failed, for which Talia also lost a year's salary to Franz.
After all, in the eyes of the people of the time, it seemed that the uprising in France would always succeed.
At this time, Louis Bonaparte had just become a captain in the Bernese artillery regiment, and Gérômto's father-in-law was a prince who was living out his old age in Italy.
In 1834, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was surrounded by conspirators of all stripes, dangerous elements dissatisfied with the state, and even fanatical admirers and self-righteous liars.
A man named Pesini approached Louis Bonaparte.
This Pesini, who had served in the French army, was always a low-level officer; Later, he went to Bohemia to become the editor-in-chief, but he was soon copied squid; In the end, he found that only Bonapartism was his way to heaven.
Pessini met Louis Bonaparte on the recommendation of the Napoleonic poet Belmonte, and the two hit it off at first sight.
Pessini's advocacy that heroes should not care about the situation, but should create it, deeply moved Louis Bonaparte.
In fact, Louis Bonaparte never gave up on action, which coincided with Pessini's ideas.
So, the two decided to go to Strasbourg to create a situation.
Within the Austrian Empire, several small uprisings were quickly suppressed.
Without the French and Prussians, the Austrian magnates seemed to have become frosted eggplants.
Within the Hungarians, with Prince Elthazy losing power, they need to elect a new big brother to take the lead.
But everyone's strength is about the same, so things become interesting.
The Hungarian aristocracy suddenly fell en masse to Austria's side, and they would be loyal servants of Austria until a new boss was decided.