Austria's royal estates were an incomparable attraction for peasants, as entering them meant being exempt from all exorbitant taxes.

As long as you pay enough imperial grain, the rest is your own, as the so-called more work and more rewards, this is the case.

The surplus grain can be exchanged for money and asked the housekeeper who enters the city to help bring the goods, or follow the housekeeper out to the city to purchase and pretend to be a big guy.

Children can go to primary school for free, families can receive free medical treatment, there is a separate chapel, and they can go hunting and picnics during their free time.

Watching the sunrise and sunset, watching the children grow up day by day, enjoying the years in the homemade armchair until one day they die peacefully.

In reality, however, this was only the case after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when the Metternich system sustained the Austrian Empire for decades in peace.

In the past, in the event of war, the peasants in the royal estates had to serve in the military or pay for the service.

Generally speaking, no one wanted to go to the battlefield to die, so the money in the hands of the peasants did not dare to spend it indiscriminately, and they all saved it to account for the service money.

Even those fanatics who admired the Habsburgs very much, they had to get themselves a good equipment when they went to war, a good rifle made in a large blacksmith shop, usually 100~200 florins, and mass-produced bulk goods only 20~30 florins.

Daggers, bayonets, ammunition boxes, kettles, matchboxes, tents, blankets, raincoats, military boots, chain mail, crosses, wine jugs, sewing kits, and a mule or horse.

Even so, the peasants in the royal estates still had a better and more dignified life than the peasants outside.

After the royal estate announced that it would accept refugees, not only did a large number of refugees try to join, but also the poor and homeless people in the city tried to fish in troubled waters.

In order to avoid bringing some of the dregs of society into his estate, Franz could only add some restrictions, that is, women and children were given priority, after all, these people belonged to the vulnerable group.

At the same time, it is unrealistic to allow these vulnerable groups to participate in land reclamation, and these people are also the easiest group of people to assimilate.

Wasteland workers, on the other hand, needed to be treated with caution, and unlike the German immigrants who had left their homeland, they were more susceptible to radical ideas, and if they rioted, it would not only cost Franz's efforts but also discredit the imperial family.

The rest of the elderly can only send them to workhouses, or put them in the lowest jobs, not city cleaners, or dung diggers, of course, and there are still a lot of people rushing to do this kind of work.

The only jobs left for the victims are: bone pickers, shit people, rag people, dredgers, gutter people, river people, bank people, this kind of work that sounds unbelievable.

River people usually carry a 3-4 meter long wooden stick to rummage through the mud of the river beach for some valuable items, and they usually wear a wide coat with very large pockets so that they can hold more broken copper and iron.

They are usually accompanied by one or two less sturdy companions, known as mud turners, rummaging through the feet of the river people for rubbish that others look down on, such as coals, ropes, and relatively intact wood

The people on the shore wait by the river for someone to drown, or a floating corpse passing by, and they have business, usually for many days, but one business is often enough for them to eat for months or even half a year.

The bone pickers collect the carcasses of various animals in the city and surrounding areas, and the poop people target the feces of various animals

Franz's approach did not absorb all the refugees at once, but it at least gave them hope.

Adjani also managed to break into the traffickers, collecting a lot of incriminating evidence, and also finding out that the biggest buyer was really French.

The French demanded three thousand Hungarian laborers in one fell swoop, and these people were sent to the port of Houston. Each living white slave could be sold for 800 francs, and a female slave could be sold for 1,200 francs, with an increase if she could speak French and English.

At this point in the book, 1 dollar is equal to 4 francs.

The Tsar was overjoyed to learn that his next-door neighbor was going to buy grain from his own country and ship it to Hungary to sell it, knowing that such an act would undoubtedly add fuel to the fragile internal relations of his ally.

The Tsar, as a neighbor, was naturally very willing to see this result, and as for the agreement with the Americans, he threw it away, not to mention that his own country had too much grain to eat, and selling it to Austria would not only make a profit, but also weaken it by disturbing the internal relations of the other party, so why not kill two birds with one stone?

Russian grain arrived in Budapest along the Danube River by boat, which made the Hungarian profiteers completely lose their temper and could only sell grain frantically, and some people tried to bring Russian grain into Vienna, but after adding tariffs, it became a loss-making business.

Someone tried to smash the field to scare off these outsiders, but after smashing it, they found out that it was the property of the royal family, and they would not only be exiled from the country, but the family property would be confiscated to compensate for the loss of the royal family.

Of course, the Hungarians would not have let Franz do such nonsense, and the letters denouncing Franz were thrown into the Hofburg Palace like snowflakes.

Hofburg Palace, Hall of Mirrors.

"My stupid brother, what good things have your son done? He is like this, how will he inherit this country in the future. ”

"My poor brother, why do you think that my son did it, and not me. He's just a kid. ”

"My stupid brother, didn't you say he was a genius?"

"My poor brother, how can you believe what a fool says."

“.” Ferdinand I was a little speechless, and after a pause, he continued, "My foolish brother, in that case, I have no choice but to ground you. ”

"My poor brother, how else can I hunt? You can't be so cruel to your brother! ”

"My stupid brother, or forbid you to drink?"

"Then I'd better be grounded."

The Hungarian "migrants" boarded the so-called migrant ship in the port of Trieste, but there were only four small boats for 3,000 people.

These boats, most commonly used by the slave traders, were fast and loaded with large volumes, usually hundreds of people crowded on decks, and when it rained, they would be covered with a rubberized canvas, and this humble cabin was also known as the living hell.

However, those brainwashed Hungarian refugees, in order to reach the new world of their dreams, would rather endure this humiliation and pain, and boarded the ship one after another.

Of course, Franz won't let them do this, after all, there are some big people mixed in, they are just here to experience the suffering of the people, not to play with their lives.

The Imperial Austrian Navy suddenly appeared and detained the ship on the grounds that it was overloaded, and then the Hungarian government sent people to negotiate, and the Austrian Navy decided to send ships to help.

At first, the Hungarian government was very happy, after all, it saved even the transportation costs.

After a month of wandering, the Hungarian victims finally arrived in Houston.

After the Austrian Imperial Navy went offshore, the French slave traders took the goods according to the agreement in the covenant, and soon these victims understood that the other party was not an intermediary at all, but a slave trader, and what was even more terrible was that they were sold, and the money was not in their own hands.

(End of chapter)