Chapter 5: Demon Wind

The mighty Bavaria lasted only five days, thanks to the well-developed railway lines in Germany, which at this time had a total length of more than 7,000 kilometers, compared to 3,500 kilometers in the same period in history.

By the way, at this time, the total length of railways in Britain and the United States had exceeded 10,000, and Austria ranked third with 8,000 kilometers.

Louis Philippe's ambition was not realized, and the total length of railways in France at this time was only 2,100 kilometers, which was slightly stronger than the 1,900 kilometers in the same period of history.

The fall of Bavaria made the other German princes even more frightened, and at the same time greatly strengthened the confidence of the nationalists.

Frightened, the princes wrote to Austria and Prussia for help, but Prussia was also suffering from nationalism.

Factions of all kinds flaunted the banner of nationalism, and the zoo rallies were attended by just over 20,000 people in history, but at this time there were nearly 100,000 people, or nearly a third of the entire population of Berlin.

However, the Prussian army was still very violent, and they opened fire on the assembly despite their numerical inferiority, with the result that the army of more than 2,000 people was besieged by fifty times their own people.

In the end, General Leopold von Grach, the aide-de-camp of King Wilhelm IV, and his direct troops were all killed, and for a time the streets were filled with the corpses of Prussian soldiers.

However, the populace did not choose to storm the palace, so the Prussian royal guard captain breathed a sigh of relief.

Even more chaotic than Berlin was the Rhine region, where the Archbishop of Cologne declared autonomy when the storm swept across the region.

Field Marshal Karl von Hagen, commander-in-chief of the Rhine region, wanted to send troops to suppress it, but was directly placed under house arrest by the German nationalist officers around him.

Several high-ranking officials in the Rhine region, most of whom were also nationalists, infiltrated the "hydra" of the Prussian government, and saw that they were about to tear the whole of Prussia in half.

All this happened in a dozen days, which was somewhat unacceptable to Frederick William IV.

If he bows his head now, then Prussia will inevitably become a dualist state, but if he does not bow his head, he will lose his head like Louis XVI.

In the end, Wilhelm IV decided to write to Austria for help.

At this time, Austria was relatively calm and there were no rebellions or forced palace incidents, but a large number of German nationalists poured into Bohemia, and both sides turned the streets into battlefields.

Several demonstrations broke out in Vienna, and German nationalists demanded the expulsion of the Czechs and the latter to the east of the Carpathians to join the Russians.

However, thanks to a strong internal inspection system, these small riots quickly subsided, and the citizens were relatively peaceful.

The mainstream media has long been controlled by Franz, and some tabloids that like to send random news have also been dealt with in a timely manner, and there have been no major problems with public opinion as a whole.

In fact, there is another reason, that is, the most difficult student party has not yet started. Franz's plan was to delay the opening of the school, which immediately caused an enthusiastic response from the majority of scumbags.

All those who came to the school in advance were sent back to their hometowns, and those who stayed in the name of scientific research must be examined, and those who passed the test were sent to Tyrol to continue scientific research, and those who failed to pass were directly repatriated.

Nineteenth-century college students were too precious for Franz to be a killer, but young people were susceptible to emotions and thoughts, so he had no choice but to do so.

Northern Italy also appears to be calm under the suppression of powerful forces.

At the same time, the huge fines also made those local tyrants jealous, and the poor would not be able to go to the colonies to pay off their debts, but those rich squires were going to break their homes.

Al Pacino Corleone and his gangs, as well as fellow outsiders, took massive revenge on the local snakes who had bullied them in northern Italy.

A large number of scandals have been exposed, and these news have spread widely in the tavern, and the people do not want to be fools and shed their own blood and tears for the old men to pick peaches.

There are more scandals involving nationalists and Jesuits under Pius IX, many of whom are wanted, and the latter typical of the rich and unkind.

In fact, not only the media in Vienna, but most newspapers in northern Italy also had business dealings with Franz, and were even directly controlled by him.

Therefore, there will only be what should appear in the newspapers, and there will be nothing that should not appear, which is a unilateral massacre of the rebels by the Austrian government, and there is no such thing as a counterattack.

Except for the Bohemian region, which is somewhat chaotic, the rest of the region basically maintains normal order, and the country is functioning relatively normally.

Metternich was considering sending troops to the German region, but was quickly dismissed by himself, because God knows if Austria would be in the same trouble.

Franz was recruiting troops in Tyrol on the one hand, and at the same time collecting intelligence at home and abroad, it seems that after all these years of development, Austria should not be as stormy as it was in history.

However, it is a pity that the Hungarians did not move, and of course the Hungarians were not stupid, they could not have acted rashly in the absence of unrest in Austria.

As for the Italian region, both Sardinia and the Pope are just clowns.

Franz dared to guarantee that if Carlo Alberto dared to act rashly, at least 100,000 troops would have invaded Turin.

But it was a clown Franz who couldn't even look at him that changed all that.

February 16, 1848.

Pius IX issued a royal decree denying Austrians entry and demanding that the Austrian Empire withdraw from the Papal States in its entirety.

The edict was to be communicated to all the Western countries, and France, Great Britain, Prussia, Spain, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire issued a joint declaration demanding that Austria return the territory of the Papal States.

At the same time, Pius IX authorized all citizens of the Papal States to raise their own arms and violently expel the Austrians.

For a time, Austria, which had been quiet, was directly pushed to the cusp, after all, at this time, all countries in the world wanted to pass on the domestic contradictions.

This is an almost unsolvable situation, Franz thought for a long time, Austria can not get out of the whole body, can only choose to abandon the car to protect the commander, otherwise it will be the enemy of the world.

But this retreat was too difficult for Metternich, who devoted the rest of his life to the land of the Papal States, and wanted to annex Central Italy to fulfill the old emperor's and his own dreams.

Franz, the land of the Papal States, didn't care, and Metternich was indeed in a bit of a hurry. If it's just two pieces of land on the border, it's okay, whoever let him dig into people's hearts.

It's strange that Pius IX didn't react, but this kind of offending people to death is really not something ordinary people can do.

With this personality of the Pope and the corrupt officials under his command, the land of the Papal States will be Austrian sooner or later, and it is only a matter of time before it is recovered.

In fact, there is another reason why Franz doesn't care much about the land in the Papal States, that is, the land here is too barren, and he has to put money into it every year.

Franz, however, was worried about whether Pius IX would make any more moths in the future, and he had already made up his mind to send the Pope to another world to harm others.