The efficiency of this group of former serfs far exceeded the expectations of the officials of the Austrian Empire, and it turned out that as long as the money and food were available, the subjective initiative was available in minutes.

In addition to the boulders, the trees and weeds are much easier to clean, after all, this is a firewood production area, and there are no towering trees that can be hugged by several people.

Most of the trees can be solved by workers with saw blades and shovels, and some large trees can be solved in minutes by hanging a steam tractor and pulling together by dozens or hundreds of people.

After the ground has been largely cleared, the steam tractor will carry a heavy plow to turn the ground over.

Then the workers will clean up the debris that has been turned out, such as rocks, tree roots, and the like.

After that, the steam tractor turns the land over again, exchanging the upper and lower layers of the soil, an act known as "tilling".

Finally, fertilizer is added to increase soil fertility, and then the land is leveled to grow crops.

In addition to the dikes and wastelands, as well as the swamps and lakes, the original Galician aristocracy was too weak to reform the land.

As the train arrives with steam pumps, huge pipes begin to drain the swamps and wetlands of stagnant water, which will also become fertile soil.

There are also those barren mountains that are actually mines, although the reserves are not very good, but they can still solve the employment problem of some people.

The Galician aristocracy clinged to the traditional salt mines, but with the development of the coastal areas and the construction of railways by the Austrian Empire, the price of salt was plummeting.

In fact, Galicia also has an important strategic resource - oil, but coincidentally the largest oil field is the domain of the Yaszudski family.

(The Yałudski family was in the Dorobich region, near Lviv, and was the largest oil field in the Austrian Empire.) ）

The Yałudski family was a staunch anti-Austrian faction that funded various anti-Austrian actions for many years, and by the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrians even had to find a Canadian to deal with the family.

Eventually, the Yałudski family, in alliance with the Hungarian government, was granted immunity. In World War I, he even organized an army to cooperate with the Russians.

Franz actually tried to buy and exchange land, but he refused.

Vikhlius Yałudski was the patriarch of the Yałudski family, the number one leader of the Polish Restoration, and every year transferred a third of his income out of Austria to the Polish Restorationists.

At the same time, Vikhlius Yałudski continued to build pillboxes and train militiamen on his land, but what he did was legal, because there was no rule that property could not be transferred out of the country, and the training of domestic servants was the freedom of the nobility.

Franz didn't want such a person to have a monopoly on important oil resources, and Yałudski didn't want him to have a good death.

So Franz had to let the Polish uprising of 1846 take place, and the 20 million florins were to force them to act.

The Polish Restorationists, though undisciplined, were not fools, and they did not revolt as planned.

Of course, the group of guys will not admit that they have coaxed, but will demand that their supporters continue to provide funds on the grounds of lack of funds, thus forcing the uprising to be postponed.

So Franz is going to give them a fire, don't you have no money to revolt? I'll give you money.

In fact, in addition to Franz, the top of the Austrian Empire was also hoping that the Poles would revolt sooner.

In fact, many years ago, Austria had signed a secret pact with the Holy Alliance that the Austrian Empire would have the right to include the Free City of Krakow in the event of an uprising.

You must know that Krakow was the most prosperous city in the whole of Poland at this time, although it was only a drop in the bucket for the Austrian Empire at that time, but grasshopper legs also had meat.

The most important thing is that once Krakow is annexed to the Austrian Empire, then the flame of Polish Zionism will be completely extinguished, at least according to the top leaders of Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

In fact, the envoys of the Austrian Empire rushed to Russia as soon as they received the news, and it was embarrassing that Tsar Nicholas I did not learn of the news until the arrival of the Austrian envoys.

Nicholas I did not want the Austrian Empire to annex the Free City of Krakow, but he also did not want Poland to continue to revolt on its own soil.

Nicholas I wanted to take the opportunity to borrow money from the Austrian Empire, but the latter's envoy refused, in fact, Metternich had already anticipated this situation, so he directly authorized his subordinates to refuse the Tsar's request.

In the end, in exchange, the two sides reached some painless agreements.

In fact, it is also beneficial for Russia to destroy the Polish Restoration Army and reduce the will of the Poles to restore the country. It's just that Nicholas I was a little jealous, and the Austrian Empire could not ignore the opinion of this powerful ally.

Austria's attitude towards Prussia was much more indifferent, and although it was submitted to the Prussian king by the ambassador himself, it was not a letter of agreement, but a notice.

All Frederick Wilhelm IV wanted was to sign his name, and even if he didn't, it would not affect the Austrian Empire's actions.

The Free City of Krakow was small, and in the heart of the Holy League, British and French opposition was of little significance.

In fact, the British did not have much real support for the Poles, and the so-called support was mostly only lip service.

The French, on the other hand, were much more affordable, not only sheltering Polish political exiles, but also occasionally making charitable donations for them.

However, neither Britain nor France could choose to meddle in the affairs of the Holy Alliance at this time, because they both had more important things to do.

Almost all of the main forces of the British went to India, and the Indians were really not strong, and when they saw the British coming, they did not admit that they had revolted.

The princes of the princely states all said that they were counterinsurgents, and as for the British who died in their own territory, they were naturally killed by the rebels.

Where are the rebels? Of course they were killed, and there are no other factions in any territory that disagree.

Sir Henry Harding was as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a hundred flies, and he knew that the damned Indians were fooling him.

But for the sake of the interests and dignity of the British Empire, Sir Henry Harding could not start a war to get rid of these moths.

He could only accept the kisses and even the kisses of the feet of the princes of the princely states, which made Sir Henry Harding feel a chill.

As a result, he could only pour his anger on the Sikh Empire and the Nepalese Empire, two unlucky people who were obviously rebellious.

The Rana family, with the support of the British, regained military and political power in Nepal. However, due to the fear of the strength of the Qing Dynasty, Nepal still had to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty.

In order to reduce the will of Nepalese people to resist, the British deliberately allowed the Rana family to carry out a massacre and burned a large number of crops.

At the same time, the British began to recruit Lang Colles in large numbers, because they found that these people were like the Swiss who only looked at money and not people, and were definitely the best in South Asia.

(End of chapter)