Because the number of imports has been growing explosively in previous years, and after opening up more markets, Austria has increased its imports very little, which arouses John Taylor's suspicions.

Although the president was ousted, he still left a lot of information and analysis to his successor before he stepped down.

And his successor, James Knox Polk, is a hardline xenophobic who will find any reason to justify foreigners as a threat.

However, although neither side liked the other, business still had to be done, after all, the textile industry in Austria was just starting, and the United States of America was also devastated by the war.

As a result, the latter retaliated against the former in this more secretive way.

Prussia also did not want peace and stability in Austria, although the former was at an absolute disadvantage in competition with the latter.

But it was far from time for Prussia to give up, after all, they had not experienced more desperate scenes than this.

In fact, Prussia wanted to provoke Bohemia and Hungary the most, but the nationalist vortex of the former was too terrible.

The latter was deliberately isolated from the world by the Austrian side, and its energy was much less than before, and its internal chaos made it difficult to organize an effective "insurrection".

Sardinia, on the other hand, had been unhappy with Austria for a long time, and Carlo Alberto was deeply affected by the riots in the country, so he naturally hoped that his powerful neighbor would "share the weal and woe" with him.

In fact, from 1841 onwards, due to the spread of revolutionary ideas, Carlo Alberto had to approve decrees establishing representative governments.

This government is very radical, although it has not explicitly put forward anti-Austrian and anti-French, but it has been making small moves around the Apennines.

The Russians were very ambivalent, on the one hand, they wanted Austria to expand into Italy, preferably to take Sardinia directly and then fight the French to the bridle, but on the other hand, the Russians did not want Austria to be too strong.

Ferdinando II of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was a typical ill-conceived figure, and his desire to dominate the Apennine Customs Union and fight competitors was a completely routine operation.

But this is an ambition that simply cannot be realized, because the entire Apennine Customs Union is Austria's own toy, and there is no possibility of changing the chairmanship at all.

Although there are many countries that make trouble, only Britain, France, and Sardinia can really have an impact on the situation in the Italian region.

However, these foreign forces were the main targets of the Austrian Empire at this time, after all, there was no room for negotiation with these invaders, and any compromise would only lead to more excessive demands.

Then there were the Italian nationalists, and if they had to pick one country from Europe that feared nationalism the most, it would be the Austrian Empire.

Italians, Germans, Hungarians, West Slavs, South Slavs, not to mention the innumerable little branches under each of the great races.

Although some countries have many nationalities, none of them has such a small number of major nationalities as Austria.

What is even more terrifying is that the enlightened monarchy that the empire has always practiced has made Austria more civilized, easy to come into contact with new ideas, and easy to accept them.

The entire empire is like a haystack that only takes a few sparks to burn it all.

For the 1,300 participants and supporters of the uprising who were captured, the Habsburgs pardoned their capital crimes as before, and paid no more than confession in front of the church statues.

But Franz did not intend to let them go back unharmed, and first dragged the group to the cemetery to confess to the fallen soldiers and innocents.

These sinners must then sign a maintenance agreement, and they must bear the consequences of their crimes. Maintenance agreements may include the payment of compensation or the payment of alimony to ensure that the victim or family receives the compensation they deserve.

Naturally, the money was to be compensated with their property, and if it was not enough, then it was necessary to atone for their sins with labor.

The Austrian colonies were very short of labor, not to mention a few thousand, but dozens or millions of people could eat.

Of course, even those rich men could not escape punishment, after all, in addition to innocent citizens and soldiers who needed compensation, the Austrian Empire also suffered great losses, cities, reputations, and so on.

In short, no one can use money to fill this black hole, unless he can prove that he can create great value by staying in China, such as inventions, or achievements in music, art, technology, science, etc.

Under this attitude of rushing to kill everything, those young radicals who lack experience in struggle are likely to choose to take risks.

Compared with the fortress of Verona, which was garrisoned by tens of thousands of troops, it was obviously the local gentry who "defected" to Austria that were easy to kill.

And the reason why those big families can stand for a hundred years, or even a thousand years, is of course not a wine bag and rice bag.

As a result, the two sides began a bloody "mutual tear", which made those low-level radicals and the local high-level form a blood feud.

However, it is not possible for every family to have the ability to protect themselves, and those who are weak can only seek refuge from the imperial government.

This brought us back to what the Austrian Empire was best at, co-opting the weaker families and making them its own eyes and vanguard.

Monitor the powerful families and work with the officials sent from Vienna to limit the further development of their power, and then find out the easy ones to control and give support, and slowly carry out the transformation.

In fact, the internal and external environment of the Austrian Empire did not allow Franz to make a big move, after all, it was like a terminally ill patient, and he might be gone with a dose of strong medicine, so Franz would adopt this alternative.

At night, the streets of Milan are lit up, except for a tavern at the end of the road.

In front of the tavern hangs a faded wooden board with the inscription "House of Sicilians".

A horse-drawn carriage as black as ink stopped, and from it stepped down people who did not fit in with the picture.

Three men and two women pushed the door in, and the tavern was filled with choking smoke, the smell of alcohol, sweat, and all kinds of noisy noises.

The man at the head frowned, but the beautiful woman walking in the middle didn't care. The group soon became the center of attention, and one drunken man even teased the girl who walked at the end with a small step.

The result was that the skinny figure overturned the person with lightning speed and took a armbar.

The strong man couldn't break free with all his strength, and just wanted to scold, only to hear a "gaba". The skinny woman broke the man's arm without mercy, and all that was left was a heart-rending howl.

"Do you know whose territory this is?"

The strong man's partner immediately took out his knife, but he had barely taken a few steps forward when he was hit in the back of the head by a wine bottle and fell to the ground.

The bartender at the bar immediately went to the shotgun behind him when he saw that he was not good, but before his hand touched the gun, he heard a burst of gunfire.

When he turned around again, there were already ten revolvers pointed at him.

"We're going to see Al Pacino."

(End of chapter)