Chapter 40: The Song of the Nation

Kossuth had long been accustomed to the bluffing tricks of these nobles, and the more he actually came into contact with them, the more he felt pity for them.

They can only live in their own circle, in a few canonical words, within a range.

It's ridiculous how a person without any freedom can be called an aristocrat.

"I don't mean to force you, if you don't want to listen, you can go out and leave a place for the person you want to hear."

The conservative parliamentarian naturally didn't have the courage to go out, but his aristocratic status made him unable to put down his shelf, and although he was panicked in his heart, he still had to pretend to be angry.

Kossuth smiled slightly mockingly, then began his speech.

"Three hundred years have passed since the Austrians stole St. Stephen's crown.

For us Hungarians, this is a painful purgatory.

God has blessed this country with all the elements of wealth and happiness, and it has an area of 284,898.69 square kilometers and a population of fifteen million.

Its strategic location was the center of Europe, its resources were abundant, and the land was fertile enough to feed the entire Austrian Empire.

It can be said that without us, Austria would not be where it is today, it is we who have blocked the footsteps of the Arabs, and without us, Western civilization would have ceased to exist! ”

There was immediately a round of applause from the audience, all of which was under Kossuth's control, and he pressed his hand and continued.

"But the sacrifice of our great nation, the great country, was not exchanged for gratitude, but only received a pair of shackles!

It was our support in the War for the Austrian Throne that kept the Lorraine-Habsburgs on the throne, but the first thing they did after making peace was to suppress us!

This is a blatant betrayal!

In fact, there has never been a family in the world that has been as fortunate as the Habsburgs, and they have been able to sit back and enjoy their success as long as they do not hinder the development of this country.

But the Austrians are afraid, they are afraid, and do not dare to give us a constitution and a moderate degree of freedom.

They are jealous of the freedom of the Hungarians, of the strength of the Hungarians, and they want to bind us forever!

Just like all the other peoples they deprived of their freedom, shut us up in the sink of slavery!

They want to stifle our creativity! Strangling our freedom! Take away the power that God has given us!

For the sake of our benefit for Austria! In order to let their foolish emperor squander! ”

"Mr. Kossuth is right! It is said that Ferdinand I only ate the brains of animals, so big a whole cow, he ate the brains of the cows, and fed the rest to his hunting dogs.

One cow per meal, what a waste! ”

A Hungarian parliamentarian gestured as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

A group of people who didn't know why immediately became indignant, they really couldn't imagine that someone was so wasteful at this time when they couldn't pick up the yellow and didn't pick up.

However, there are also some opposition parties who mocked.

"Have you ever been to Vienna? The emperor eats cows, please visit? ”

"Do you know how much a cow's brain weighs? You can't stand eating three cows a day. ”

"Isn't His Majesty the Emperor unable to move? Can he still have a dog? ”

Kossuth was also helpless about the poor ability of his subordinates, after all, most of these people were born with mud legs, and those legitimate college students could not do these dirty deeds.

So he could only pretend not to hear and continue to speak.

"I don't like rebellion, but I think it's only natural for us to expel the evil ruler when a country is forced to be in a long-term alliance with its enemies.

In addition to this, the Austrians were guilty of many crimes, they hired foreign troops to murder their own people.

Although Hungary ostensibly had an independent government, they (Pressburg) were merely puppets of the Viennese cabinet.

They are the instruments of the Austrians to rule us! They used the blood and money of our people to curry favor with their Austrian masters, putting our interests behind the palace intrigues, and we were nothing more than a colony of the Austrians.

The Italians have already succeeded in Sicily, and the French and Czechs will also raise the banner of rebellion against their masters!

What are we waiting for?! ”

(The speech was a bit rough, but the original was rougher.) )

The Kosuth faction in the Pace parliament was naturally excited, but the conservative and liberal bigwigs were a little worried.

Because this is different from what was previously promised, they want the opportunity to negotiate with the Austrian government, not to actually go to war with the Austrians.

At this time, they all set their eyes on Baugjani Lajosz, who was both a great Hungarian nobleman and a commissioner sent by Austria.

The new governor of Baujani Lajosh stood up and began to applaud, and the others could only stand up and applaud.

The big aristocrats and big capitalists were very depressed, and they never expected that such a speech would actually move the Hungarian governor.

What they don't know, however, is that this Baujani Lajos had a lot of correspondence with Kosuth when he was in Vienna, which is why the latter would do so on such occasions.

In fact, if there was no such relationship, and Baugjani Lajos would have detained Kosuth or killed him outright, those Hungarian nationalists would have no choice.

But without that connection, Kossuth wouldn't be stupid.

Outside the Great Council of Pace, Pei Duofei barely spoke along the way, just bowed his head and pondered something.

Many people were afraid of their leader, but in fact, along the way, Pei Duofei completed the greatest work of his life, "Song of the Nation".

(After the national song, I will release a separate free chapter for everyone to read, so I will put it here to account for the word count.) )

"Swear to the God of Hungary,

We swear,

We swear that we

Don't continue to be a slave! ”

The impromptu poem infected the marching crowd, and people began to sing the catchy lyrics.

Thousands of voices chanted with him, and the crowd gathered more and more, but the cacophony disappeared and was replaced by a chorus of recitations.

Speaking in unison, the spectacular scene and momentum sung by 10,000 people are not comparable to the concerts of later singers, but the same is the same crazy crowd.

The marching crowd sang "Song of the Nation" over and over again, as they toppled down the fence and stormed the parliament hall.

The overwhelming momentum of the war horse raised its hooves high, and the gendarmes could only keep retreating under the onslaught of the people.

At this time, Kossuth in the stadium took advantage of the commotion outside, and he shouted loudly to the still hesitant parliamentarians.

"Listen to the Hungarian cry! Either follow it! Or be devoured by it! Decide for yourselves! ”

The overwhelming cries outside cannot be faked, and those nobles naturally know the truth that they are stronger than others.

A quarter of an hour later, Kossuth appeared in front of the door of the Great Council of Pest.

The crowd immediately erupted in earth-shattering cheers, and they knew they had won.

(End of chapter)