Unexpectedly, Wagner finally found a job, and he became the court orchestrator of the Netherlands.

Of course, this was without the help of Wilhelm II's mistress, Miss Caroline, and the new financial adviser, Hans Hoffmann, strongly advocated keeping the genius.

It is said that the new financial adviser's real name was not Hans Hoffmann and was changed after studying in Prussia.

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Franz was worried because he got news of something he never knew about.

According to Austrian intelligence, a civil war was brewing inside Switzerland. Franz thought this was ridiculous at first, because in his previous life, although Switzerland often pretended to be neutral, not to mention the civil war, not even the war had contaminated the land.

But the archbishop confirmed that the locals did have this idea, and it was supported by the pope.

That's right, it's the miser Gregory XVI who opened the Holy Water Company, the Bank of the Holy Spirit.

It is hard to imagine that such a short-sighted man could have such great ambitions to annex Switzerland and make it a direct domain of the Pope.

After some investigation, Franz learned that this was not the work of Gregory XVI, but a kind of inheritance.

The Holy See has had this plan since 1814, during which time it has gone through four popes.

Roman missionaries rebuilt the Society of Jesus and formed the Popular Catholic Union to promote the legitimacy of papal rule.

The Papal States invested a lot of money in this, but with little success. By the time Gregory XVI came to power, he did not want to waste money on meaningless things anymore.

So he sent a group of radicals to "provoke" the local population, and these clergy who were high in Rome even wanted to interfere in local public affairs.

The absurd plan, the stupidity, ended up drawing the wrath of Catholic and Protestant governments across Switzerland. The ambassadors of the Holy See were expelled and the influence of the Jesuits was much less than before.

The Swiss federal government even proposed "Render to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." ”

However, due to the predominance of Protestantism in the Federation, the Popular Catholic Union was sidelined. This provoked the resentment of Catholic parliamentarians and priests.

Some clergy cried out that "our faith is in jeopardy", which led many simple and devout mountain dwellers to believe that the Swiss Confederation would persecute them and that they would have to resist in order to survive.

At the same time, a priest named Belite approached the French ambassador and claimed to ask for help from King Louis Philippe of France.

Louis Philippe was initially excited to learn that there was indeed a French-speaking part of western Switzerland, and that the whole of Switzerland had once belonged to France (in Napoleonic times).

It's just that under the reminder of the old marshal Sirte, he looked at the map of Switzerland and saw a Prussian territory.

Louis Philippe lost his temper at once, he was not afraid of the Swiss Confederation, nor of Prussia, but if the whole German Confederation were involved, I am afraid that it would be like the Luxembourg incident.

Coupled with the slow and inscrutable reaction of the Russians, the Vienna Peace Treaty had made Switzerland a neutral country, and if France had sent troops to Switzerland, it would be tantamount to challenging the treaty.

Russia is a member of the Holy Alliance, and it must not want to see anyone undermine the system established by the Holy Alliance.

Sirte told Louis Philippe from a strategic point of view.

"Annexing western Switzerland alone will not attract the covetousness of the Holy Alliance, as it is mountainous and difficult to defend, and there are not many resources to use for supplies."

"Aren't there many mountains in Luxembourg? The locals had to import their own food, but Austria and Prussia still sent troops. We can't afford to take that risk," Louis Philippe immediately retorted.

Soule is already an old man on the verge of death, and he has long lost the courage to kill and make decisions on the battlefield. If it weren't for the fact that Guizo was driven to the Americas, he would just want to spend his old age in his office.

Now that His Majesty had made up his mind, Soult didn't want to say anything more and kept his mouth shut.

Louis Philippe had no responsibility, and the French layout at this time was too large and almost pulled the treasury into an empty shell, which gave him even more reason to shirk.

The result, of course, was the rejection of Belite's request for military assistance.

The Swiss Civil War was not only a matter of faith, but also of family conflicts and conflicting interests, such as the Clouen and Horner families in Schwyz, both of whom had large flocks of sheep and grazed on the same pastures.

Eventually, the Horners drove the Clounns out of Switzerland once and for all, and the bloody slaughter and outright conflicts of interest were borrowed in the name of defending the faith.

From 1814 to the present day, the unrest in the Swiss Confederation has never subsided. At the same time that the German Confederation regained Luxembourg, the German population of Switzerland was also on the verge of revolting.

It's just that their actions are overshadowed by fierce religious conflicts.

Among them, the Aargau canton is the most conflicted region, and the local Catholics have even begun to recruit soldiers and buy weapons.

In 1841, a riot broke out, and the federal government demanded the arrest of Catholic leaders, but the local Catholics did not show weakness and attacked the local Swiss federal government and prison.

General Frey Holosey led his army to suppress the local rebellion, an operation that killed more people than the entire Swiss Civil War combined.

Augustin Keller demanded the permanent abolition of the monasteries, an act against Catholicism that was opposed by Catholics throughout the Swiss Confederation.

Even because of its radical approach, many Protestant states opposed it.

Although Augustin Keller's approach was opposed by many people, the matter had to be closed because the Swiss Confederation at that time was incapable of carrying out its will against the cantons under its rule.

In May 1842, new elections gave birth to a new liberal government.

January 16, 1843. The canton of Lucerne became the capital state of Switzerland.

(The capital state is the state where the federal parliament is located.) ）

The new government again asked Augustin Keller to stop his actions, but was refused.

Subsequently, the canton of Lucerne sent a circular to the other Swiss cantons requesting that a parliament be convened to resolve the issue.

But Augustin Keller and the government of the canton of Aargau had long been prepared to not only escape sanctions through lobbying and covert dealings, but also to pass a series of bills that would be extremely unfavorable to the Catholics of the Swiss Confederation.

This is where the priest Belite asks for help from France.

Of course, in addition to this, the Swiss cantons of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, and Fribourg secretly formed an independent union.

But only what others don't know can be called "secret", and the organization of this independent alliance is so loose and undisciplined that the surrounding countries are clear about their actions.

Of course, this also includes their enemies, and Franz can only sigh that this is really a mud that can't hold up the wall.

However, Franz was still interested in recovering the ancestral property of the Habsburgs, Eagle Castle, and by the way, increasing the German-speaking population of Austria.

(End of chapter)