The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 693 The Krakow Conspiracy
The work efficiency of this group of former serfs far exceeded the expectations of the officials of the Austrian Empire. It has been proved that as long as the money and food are in place, the subjective initiative will be there in minutes.

Except for the boulders, the trees and weeds are much easier to clean up. After all, this is a firewood production area, and there are no towering trees with several people hugging them.

Most of the trees can be removed by workers with saw blades and shovels. Some large trees can be removed by a steam tractor and dozens or hundreds of people can pull them together in minutes.

After the ground is basically cleared, the steam tractor will turn the ground thoroughly with a heavy plow.

Then the workers will clear up the sundries, such as stones, tree roots and the like.

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

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

Except for the dykes and wasteland, as well as those swamps and lakes, the original Galician nobles were too weak to transform the land.

As trains brought in steam pumps, huge pipes began to empty the swamps and wetlands that would become fertile soil.

And those barren hills are actually mines. Although the reserves are not very good, they can still solve the employment problem of some people.

The nobles of Galicia would only cling to the few traditional salt mines, but with the development of coastal areas and the construction of railways by the Austrian Empire, the price of salt is plummeting.

In fact, Galicia also has an important strategic resource - oil, but it is a coincidence that the largest oil field is the territory of the Yasuski family.

(The territory of the Yasuski family is in the Dorobichi area, which happens to be near Lviv and is also the largest oil field in the Austrian Empire.)
The Yasuski family is a staunch anti-Austrian faction and has been funding various anti-Austrian actions all year round. At the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrians even had to find a Canadian to deal with this family.

In the end, the Yasuski family united with the Hungarian government and obtained immunity.In World War I, the army was even organized to cooperate with the Russians internally and externally.

Franz actually tried two ways of buying and exchanging land, but was rejected by him.

Vikhliu Yasuski was the patriarch of the Yasuski family at this time. He was the eldest brother of the Polish Restoration Army. Every year, he would transfer one-third of his income out of Austria to the Polish Restoration.

At the same time, Vikhliu Yasuski has been building blockhouses and training militiamen on his own land, but everything he did was legal, because there was no rule at that time that property could not be transferred out of the country, and training the house guard was the freedom of the nobles.

Franz didn't want this kind of person to occupy important oil resources, and Yasuski didn't want him to have a good death.

So Franz must let the Polish uprising in 1846 happen, and the 2000 million florins were just to force them to take action.

The Polish Restorationists, though not very disciplined, were not fools, and they did not revolt as originally planned.

Of course, this group of guys will not admit that they are counseled, but ask their supporters to continue to provide funds on the grounds of a shortage of funds, which forces the uprising to be postponed.

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

In fact, apart from Franz, the high-level officials of the Austrian Empire are also looking forward to the early uprising of the Poles.

In fact, Austria signed a secret treaty with the Holy Alliance countries many years ago, that is, once an uprising occurs in the Free City of Krakow, the Austrian Empire has the right to include it in its own territory.

You must know that Krakow was the most prosperous city in the entire Polish region at this time. Although it was only a drop in the bucket for the Austrian Empire at that time, grasshopper legs also had meat.

The most important thing is that once Krakow is incorporated into the Austrian Empire, the flames of Polish Zionism will be completely extinguished, at least the top leaders of Russia, Pu, and Austria think so.

In fact, the special envoy of the Austrian Empire rushed to Russia as soon as he got the news. The embarrassing thing is that Tsar Nicholas I didn't know the news until the Austrian special envoy arrived.

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

Nicholas I wanted to take the opportunity to borrow money from the Austrian Empire, but was rejected by the latter's special envoy. In fact, Metternich had anticipated this situation a long time ago, so he directly authorized his subordinates to reject the tsar's request.

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

In fact, it is also beneficial to Russia to eliminate 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 couldn't ignore the opinions of this powerful ally.

Austria's attitude towards Prussia was much colder. Although it was submitted by the ambassador to King Prussia in person, it was not an agreement, but a notice.

All Frederick William IV wanted was to sign his own name. Of course, even if he did not sign, it would not affect the next actions of the Austrian Empire.

The Free City of Krakow is very small, and in the hinterland of the Holy Alliance, the opposition of Britain and France is meaningless.

In fact, the British don't have much real support for the Poles, and most of the so-called support is just verbal.

The French are much more affordable than the former. They not only shelter Polish political exiles, but also occasionally organize charity fundraising for these people.

However, no matter whether Britain or France, it is impossible to choose to intervene in the affairs of the Holy Alliance at this time, because they all have more important things.

Almost all the main British troops went to India, but the Indians were really weak, and they refused to admit their uprising when they saw the British coming.

All the princes of the country said that they were countering the rebellion. As for the British who died in their own territories, they were naturally killed by the rebels.

Where are the rebels?Of course they were killed by them. Which territory doesn't have any other factions that disagree.

Sir Henry Harding felt as if he had eaten a hundred flies. He knew that the damned Indians were fooling him.

But for the benefit and dignity of the British Empire, Sir Henry Harding could not start a war to clean up these moths.

He could only accept hand kisses and even foot kisses from the native princes, which made Sir Henry Harding feel a chill.

Ever since, he could only vent his anger on the Sikh Empire and the Nepal Empire, the two unlucky ones who were clearly rebellious.

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

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

At the same time, the British also began to recruit Langger in large numbers, because they found that these people, like the Swiss, only looked at money and not people, and they were absolutely outstanding in South Asia.

(End of this chapter)