Chapter 167: "Atrocities"

In fact, Franz gave these people the option of taking money to continue their aristocratic careers in the cities, or going to the colonies to continue their landowns.

Although the landed aristocracy was outdated, it was appropriate to place it in the colonies, as they did not hinder the development of society, but on the contrary strengthened Austrian rule in the region.

However, Franz still hoped that they would choose the first path, after all, the development of cities and industry required a lot of capital, and the financial and industrial aristocracy was much easier to control than the landed aristocracy.

Franz tossed and turned, but did not quell the rebellion. Since it was impossible to determine whether the railway was damaged, he asked people to repair it all the way along the railway, while he led people all the way to "administer justice".

Franz's atrocities against the Polish nobility soon reached Vienna. However, this did not cause much repercussions, mainly because the Austrian aristocracy did not regard the Polish aristocracy as compatriots.

Even fellow aristocrats had chains of contempt, and at the bottom of the Austrian Empire were the Polish nobility.

There is nothing special because they came late, although Northern Italy was annexed to the Austrian Empire even later, but the blood relationship between the two sides cannot be supported, and even the Habsburg family that now rules Austria came out of Italy.

Leopold II was Grand Duke of Tuscany until he succeeded to the throne of Joseph II, and the old Emperor Franz II felt that he was an Italian until his death.

The Polish aristocracy is much more motley, because in the past, Galicia was the poorest place in Poland, and the nobles living here were naturally not noble.

However, this group of guys has the arrogance characteristic of the Poles, which makes it difficult for them to integrate into the new circle.

At this time, these guys were in trouble, not only could not cause the rabbits and foxes in the aristocratic circle to die, but also made everyone feel happy.

Franz confiscated the land and made it national, and did not distribute it to the poor, which also made many big nobles put their hearts down.

They are not afraid of a greedy emperor, but they are afraid of an emperor who sits his ass crookedly.

At the same time, because of the collusion with Madame Sophie for a long time, the royal family will offer a large number of positions to the aristocracy.

To a large extent, this can solve the troubles of some aristocratic families, after all, there are so many possessions, and decent jobs are hard to find, and many people are not determined to enter churches and monasteries.

Although many later films and literary works portrayed the clergy as a group of delicious, lazy, and undisciplined idiots.

But in reality the clergy are to be trained and examined, and it will be a very boring and tedious period, and it will be almost impossible for a true idiot to pass these selections.

Secondly, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where people play with people's hearts and human nature, the water is often very deep.

Thirdly, even if you want to be lazy and lazy, you need a group of believers to support you to be lazy and undisciplined.

The clergy in the lower and remote areas may have lived in the same way as the dervishes, and the priests in Dalmatia have rioted over treatment.

There's no way, even if you have faith, you have to fill people's stomachs, right?

Dalmatia of this era was horribly desolate, sparsely populated, barren, unintelligent, barbaric and brutal.

Due to poor infrastructure and low productivity, there is no way for local people to spend effectively, even if they have money.

For a variety of reasons, few children of the nobility are willing to take up the unpromising job of being a priest unless they have family ties in place or money in place.

On the other hand, being an errand boy in the royal domain is completely different, at least a decent job, even if it is managing some former serfs and rotten land, it is already a great honor to serve the royal family.

Even the greatest nobleman would not dare to laugh at this glory, unless he was not an Austrian, or really had no brains.

Franz just gave these noble children a chance, provided them with a platform, gave them a chance to show themselves, but he didn't expect all of them.

Franz would hire a team of professionals to plan the construction of the estate, and these aristocratic officials were merely low-level executors.

Of course, if they are really talented, they can definitely reflect it, or they are not talented, but they can do things in full accordance with the rules and regulations and the rules of the aristocracy, and Franz is willing to use them.

As for the slag, those who are vegetarian can go home to the house; And for those who want to get Franz wool, Austria has a lot of colonies that they can pay off their debts; Those who have the ambition to swallow the sky, or those who are dissatisfied with the status quo of the empire, mental hospitals and fire pits await them.

Inside the city of Krakow.

Randre Promi was bent on becoming emperor, but the bad news came one after another, and although he had been mentally prepared, it came too quickly.

The first was the failure of the Poznan and Warsaw uprisings, which were directly suppressed by the Prussians and Russians due to the destruction of the organization before.

In fact, due to poor intelligence work, every move of the Polish Avenger Army was under the surveillance of the Poznan and Warsaw governments.

So it is not surprising that the two uprisings were stillborn, and the next uprising in Lviv was more outrageous.

Before the rebels could reach the designated location, a large number of local serfs were waiting for them, and a live-action battle royale began.

Faced with the overwhelming encirclement of the serf army, the insurgents finally had to seek refuge in the Lviv police station.

The unknown Director Samar thought that he had made a great contribution, but was reprimanded by Governor Stadion.

"Why don't you and your men close the door and let them fight a little longer?"

The latter is a civilized person, and he has always been moody, but at this time, saliva splashed the former's face.

The Count of Tadion had long since seen these Polish nobles as unpleasant, and he wished that this group of people would make a big deal out of it, and then send troops to clean them up.

At the same time, he was also one of the few people who saw Franz's intentions, so he secretly cooperated from the beginning, and even sent his cronies to fan the flames everywhere.

Director Samar, who was sprayed with saliva in his face, naturally knew the seriousness of the matter, and he naturally knew that the time had come to take the blame when he could serve under such a smart person.

The next day, a group of serfs were imprisoned for gathering a crowd to make trouble, and the screams were heard endlessly that night, and a large number of casualties occurred in a group brawl among the prisoners.

Director Samar was dismissed, but due to the special period, he still temporarily replaced his original post to see the aftermath.

As for those who participated in the brawls in the prison, they were driven back to their homes, after all, the Lviv prison does not support idlers.

At the same time, the Count of Stadion was not idle, he collected a large amount of incriminating evidence, and on the other hand, he asked the survivors to testify against the villains, naturally in order to confirm the guilt of those people.

It's just that this group of people usually did too many bad things, and this investigation involved a lot of old accounts, and Franz and Count Stadion both thought it was good, at least it proved that they had not killed the wrong person.