Chapter 115: A wave of unsettled waves rises again

In fact, Galicia was not as peaceful as it seemed, and even with 100,000 troops stationed there, there was still a conspiracy hatched.

On February 22, 1846, the Polish Restoration Army and other Polish Restoration organizations launched the Revolt with the aim of expelling the Russian, Prussian and Austrian invaders and establishing a new Poland centered on the Free City of Krakow.

However, the secrecy of this group of Poles is really terrible, and you can find out the time, place, and people by asking a few Poles in a tavern in Paris or Vienna.

In fact, the Polish regents were still facing a very embarrassing problem at this time, that is, the merchants of the free city of Krakow built a railway to Lviv in order to make more money.

This meant that if they had revolted in the free city of Krakow, the garrisons of Lviv, Biraya, Paova and Bochnia would have arrived in a few hours along the railway line

Lviv, Bilaya, Paova, and Bochnia were the most important cities in Galicia at that time, and the Free City of Krakow was nominally not part of the Austrian Empire, just on the northern edge of Galicia.

In Franz's opinion, the free city of Krakow, which was already connected to the Austrian Empire, was no longer likely to revolt, but the slap in the face came so quickly that the rumors spread so much that the three countries began to act.

The first to act was the Kingdom of Prussia.

Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace.

Friedrich Liszt agreed with Bismarck that Prussia wanted to permanently occupy Poland by turning its inhabitants into Germans.

Historically, after the Prussian government partitioned Poland, it could not wait to name the three provinces it had just acquired as Prussia, namely West Prussia, South Prussia, and New Prussia.

Frederick the Great ordered that all the local Polish nobility be expelled from the government and replaced with Prussians. German replaced Polish as the official language, and the Polish language and Polish culture were all discriminated against.

Numerous German primary and secondary schools were established, and at the same time, in order to attract as many talents as possible, a path to the Prussian path was created.

Frederick the Great established a number of non-commissioned officer schools in the newly conquered regions of Poland and explicitly promised that any talented Pole would become the new aristocracy of Prussia.

In addition, Frederick the Great also moved a large number of Germans to the newly conquered territories, and the immigrants would receive a land of their own, as well as government transportation and moving subsidies.

In addition to a plot of land of 5 to 8 hectares, tax exemption is granted for three years. One hectare is 15 acres, which means that the settlers will receive a maximum of 120 acres of land at no cost.

Before Frederick the Great's death, about 350,000 Germans had emigrated to the newly conquered lands of Poland, which was the German version of the Eastward Movement. This left nearly half of the Prussians and mestizos in the new three provinces 60 years later.

In addition, in order to completely eliminate the Polish resistance, Frederick the Great and his descendants transformed Poland into a colony, that is, an area that provided raw materials, markets, and cheap labor for the suzerain.

Under the strong suppression of Frederick the Great, the Polish aristocracy and merchants went bankrupt, and the culture gradually converged with Prussia.

It should be mentioned here that Frederick the Great was not a time-traveler, but he thought of the moves used by modern time-travelers hundreds of years ago.

Austria, by contrast, was a bit of a tiger in Galicia, and Empress Theresa undertook a series of Austrian transformations during her reign.

These seemingly minor moves actually laid the foundation for Austrian rule in Galicia for the next hundred years.

However, her eldest son, Joseph II, was apparently dissatisfied with the Empress Wenton's reforms, so he began a series of radical reforms (as mentioned earlier, he basically offended everyone who could be offended anyway). )

If Frederick the Great is compared to a modern-day web traveler, then Joseph II is a war criminal of the P Society.

The result, of course, led to widespread rebellions, the forced termination of reforms, and the demise of the government, making Galicia the most backward region in the former Polish territory.

In contrast, Russia only perpetuated serfdom and made very limited changes to Poland.

Although European historians have always liked to say that the Poles lived worse than death under the rule of the Russians, the fact is that there was a marked decrease in serf rebellions.

In short, Prussia's Germanization of Polish lands was very successful for some time.

But Frederick William III's capitalist agrarian transformation and the increasing number of mulattoes became a problem.

Regardless of the demise of Poland, it was still culturally possible to beat the Prussian barbarians, with the result that these mestizos, who were supposed to dilute the Poles, became the vanguard of the anti-Prussian movement.

Frederick the Great probably never dreamed that almost all of the officers of the future Polish Restoration Organization would come from his non-commissioned officer school.

Paris in particular had an almost irresistible attraction for young people in Europe, and unfortunately Paris was the center of Polish Zionist activity.

The French were also willing to see the undead disturb the three eastern states, and Napoleon's toss caused Frederick the Great's legacy to be greatly reduced.

Capitalist agricultural transformation, that is, the emancipation of serfs, is definitely a great step forward in modern human rights thinking, and it is a measure that cannot be progressed.

But the reality was that a large number of landless and landless peasants were left to live worse than serfs.

Because the aristocracy was freed from feudal obligations to them, and did not hesitate to use these "free" peasants, the phenomenon of sheep eating people and land eating people continued to occur.

In the end, the class contradictions in the region were sharp, and even some landless Germans were brainwashed by the Poles and began to hope for secession from Prussia.

And now Frederick William IV obviously did not have enough courage to think of a possible rebellion first and foremost to appease.

Fortunately, after that the tsar set an example and began to aggressively target the "Poles". However, Frederick William IV's idea was still to arrest the chief evildoer and ignore it.

However, this would not have been possible to completely conquer Poland, and Friedrich Liszt agreed with Bismarck.

"Your Majesty, I think we should take more effective measures with regard to the Poles."

"Do you have any suggestions, Mr. Liszt?"

Frederick Wilhelm IV held Liszt in high esteem because he was indeed very talented in economic development, and Prussia's economy, although not as good as that of its next-door neighbor, had escaped its financial constraints.

"Your Majesty, it's not me who suggests, but your people need land."

Friedrich Liszt has been up and down for so many years, and he is no longer the chief designer of the big package at the beginning, he will push off all the pots on his body.

Frederick William IV: "What does that mean?" ”

Friedrich Liszt: "I know that you are afraid to continue to escalate the contradictions, but what is the source of the contradictions?" The people have no land! And the Poles were now occupying the land of the Germans .."

"So what should I do?"

(End of chapter)