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

Afterwards, the so-called commendation conference naturally commended those who performed outstandingly in the counter-insurgency process, and the reward for them was the status of nobility.

In fact, the Austrian Empire is a very strange country. This country has been working hard to increase the number of nobles, and even regularly grants noble status to Jews who convert to Catholicism.

At this time, as long as you pay 1000 florins in the House of Nobles in Vienna, you can become a nobleman. However, this kind of noble status does not bring any benefits. You only need to pay 3000 florins to become a nobleman.

The so-called noble titles have the right to add an additional affix to their postcards or epitaphs, such as the sword of the oak tree.

The title of nobility cannot usually be bought with money, but as long as you can afford it, someone will help you find a way.

In fact, many orthodox dynasties, including the United Kingdom, have been trying their best to expand the ranks of nobles since the sixteenth century, but Spain is the only one as weird as the Austrian Empire.

This is also something that can't be helped, who let the department come out of the same school?
Franz's purpose is self-evident for the reason why noble status is used for commendation. The old nobles are finished, but their ecological niche needs to be filled by someone.

So these new nobles have become the best substitutes. They are relatively more loyal and easier to control because of their shallow foundation and no backing.

Another advantage of this prize is that it does not cost money.Franz took a list of nobles from the House of Nobles, like picking something out of a bag.

Moreover, increasing the number of nobles is beneficial to the country and the family. After all, those nobles are associated with the dynasty. Whether they want to admit it or not, they must have an emperor.

But for Franz, he is one step closer to his goal.

Serfdom is a system that must be eliminated, but the nobility and the privileged class will not disappear.According to this basic logic, Franz's actions are easy to understand.

But he didn't want to disperse the land too much like the French, because that would only make a short-term profit and then gain a reputation as a good man.

In fact, the agricultural and land problems that have plagued France for hundreds of years stem from this, and it is difficult to improve the efficiency of land use if it is too scattered.

Guizot also noticed this. During his administration, he even openly supported land mergers, saying that "there are fewer French farms than before, but this does not mean that French agricultural production has decreased, because large farms are more productive."

It's just that the French farmers didn't understand this. They felt that Guizot was a black-hearted ghost who supported the annexation of their land, and even the natural and man-made disasters in recent years were all to blame.

Moreover, the way some farmers annex land is disgraceful, and some even use everything to the extreme, otherwise it will be difficult to get the land that farmers regard as their lifeblood.

During the period, the French government and officials were even a little bit abettor. Although Guizot had been driven to New Louisiana (Texas), this policy was retained.

However, these notorieties still hang on him. After all, Marshal Soult doesn't want to go into this muddy water at all, and others are unwilling to take this responsibility.

So everyone tacitly pinned the blame on Kizo.

Back in Galicia, Franz wasn't going to sell the confiscated Polish Restoration lands to peasants in small plots.

(The Galician serfs who were liberated before, but not all, because not all nobles participated in the rebellion, and it was impossible for Franz to cleanse all those nobles with trumped-up charges indiscriminately.)
However, these farmers who lived as serfs in the past have nothing to do except farming.

The main reason was that these people did not want to leave their land, and the factories and mines were already full of Jews, and the docks were dominated by Italians. After all, the main commercial ports of the Austrian Empire were in northern Italy at this time.

Trieste is traditionally regarded as a military port, but due to the increasingly prominent problem of insufficient throughput in the Port of Venice, Trieste's commercial status is also rising.

Franz's plan was to combine the manor economy with the commune system that had appeared in history, that is, farmers divided the scope of land lease and plantation on the basis of families and villages.

At the same time, the owner of the manor will take the lead in purchasing agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers, and improved seeds, and the amount will be apportioned according to the area of ​​the land.

In fact, being controlled by the government and nobles can reduce the blindness of farmers to a certain extent, and effectively avoid the situation of paying for what they plant. After all, the government and nobles have wider sources of information and a better understanding of the market.

Moreover, the larger the scale of the farm, the lower the relative cost, which helps to increase production, improve efficiency, increase income, and make people feel happy.

The trivialities and intrigues that occurred in the specific manor should be handed over to the local nobles and churches to bridge the conflict.

In short, Franz's request to the managers of the manor is "don't be confused about big things, and don't care about small things."

In fact, this is another restriction on the power of managers, otherwise there will be many local emperors who abuse their power.

Don't underestimate some small things. Although some things may seem insignificant to outsiders, they cannot be relieved from the perspective of the person concerned. If the depression in the chest has been accumulated for a long time, problems will inevitably arise.

This is the case for the so-called small people. It is better to let the local people digest it by letting officials restrain it with administrative orders.

Of course, if the matter rises to the point where the law or force must be used to resolve it, it is time for the managers of the manor to come forward. After all, only certain groups of people can use these two weapons.

In fact, the land of those Polish nobles was also very small in Franz's eyes, and it did not fit Franz's setting of large farms and manors.

Franz's requirements for the future of agriculture could only be met by bringing together a large number of noble lands.

However, those nobles who have died or have clear evidence of having an affair with the Polish Restoration Army are easy to deal with, but more nobles did not participate in the rebellion, and Franz could not use force, so there was a second phase of the plan .

The reason why Franz made such a big battle as soon as he came into contact with it was to criticize the conference and commend the conference. His purpose was to show it to others.

The first thing is to express your determination and warn the Polish Zionists to restrain themselves, otherwise it is best to weigh the consequences yourself.

Secondly, these are a role model. People in these villages can be rewarded and obtained the status of free people, so other serfs in Galicia will also have this opportunity.

Although it is a bit of a loss, if you sail against the current, you will retreat. The Polish Restoration cannot be so stupid forever. Instead of waiting for the opponent to learn and use this trick to counter the Austrian Empire, it is better for Franz to strike first now.

And compared to the freedom of having nothing, Franz at least gave the serfs hope and tangible benefits.

Finally, some of the nobles who did not participate in the rebellion also had lands in Franz's plan, so he hoped to get those lands at a lower price.