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

Chapter 761 The True Trial

Maybe it’s because I repented for not being kind all the time, maybe I hated myself for not being able to protect my family anymore, maybe I hated myself why I’m not a big villain
Vikhliu Yasuski was even more infected and shouted "Long live Vladimir Wuster! You are the pride of Schlachta!", and other prisoners waiting to be executed also shouted in unison, with a big look on their faces. The momentum of generosity and elegy.

(Schlachta refers to the Polish nobility.)
Seeing that Vladimir Wooster was about to be regarded as a god, Franz quickly stopped the execution.The latter suddenly felt that the death penalty was too light, really too light, and it was not enough for this kind of person.

Looking at the aroused group of criminals, then at the aggrieved executors, Franz took one last look at the victims who were transformed back into lambs to be slaughtered.

He made a decision that would be scolded to death by jurists and human rights scholars of later generations - using torture.

He handed over this right to the victims. Franz didn't want to return to the original state for homosexual revenge, but he felt that simple justice was what was needed most at this time.

Civilization does not mean that the more constraints, the more civilized, but there should be prisons, no criminals; there should be torture, but no criminals.

When the proposal of requiring the victims to vote for the criminal was announced, it caused an uproar, because most of the serfs and civilians were illiterate, which caused the criminals to laugh, and some even sneered.

"Come and draw me a bed, I'm going to sleep on the bed to death!"

"No! It should be exhausted! Haha!"

But soon their laughter stopped, for after a naive vote, the victim's choice of punishment was impalement.

The so-called impalement refers to using a sharpened wooden stake to stand in the soil, and the victim sits on the tip, allowing the stake to slowly pierce the victim.
The Impaler's favorite, the Black Thorn Lance.

This is definitely not a merciful punishment. At this time, Vladimir Wooster can still pretend to be calm.

But as a purposefully blunt wooden stake was brought up, he began to cry out for the hang, but his throat hurt and he couldn't cry out.

However, at the moment when the wooden stake entered the body, the entire execution ground heard screams that did not sound like human voices.

Vladimir Wooster was poked on the stake like that and ignored, and the criminals finally didn't dare to be presumptuous.

The second prisoner who went to the execution ground pissed his pants in fright, honestly confessed all his crimes, made a sincere repentance, and then went to the gallows with some gratitude.

In the end, there were a total of 753 people, and only three people were tortured, including the housekeeper Vladimir Wuster, the captain of the guard Bodrowski, and a dog trainer.

Another 200 were hanged, and the rest were exiled.

The trial lasted a total of eight days, and on the eighth day, the most critical day, there was only one trial, and that was the trial of Vikhliu Yasuski.

These days, 257 pages of criminal evidence alone have been collected, more than 700 pages of statements from the victims and other accomplices have been recorded, and 30 people have been employed for the scribes alone.

The final verdict was that Vekhryu Yasuski was deprived of his nobility, his estates were confiscated, and the property was used to compensate the victims.

Then all the farmland that was newly assigned to the royal estate was opened to new free people, and the previous village communal system continued to be applied, that is, big public and small private.

Vekhliu Yasuski was no longer a nobleman, and his rights were naturally no longer protected, and all the serf contracts were burned on the spot.

The peasants who successfully got rid of their serf status, had spare money, and had land to cultivate were naturally rejoicing.

In the end, the punishment for Vikhliu Yasuski was also torture, that is, to let him be in the same cage with his bulldog.

But whoever wins will be buried in the ground forever.By the way, the previous gentle beast died on the second day on the stake.

The last battle in Galicia was Krakow, but Mrs. Krakow surrendered before the three-way continental army completed the encirclement.

The city defense commander, Bem, and the King Landry Prome had disappeared at this time, and most of the remaining people were coerced.

Franz still conducted a simple trial, but the subjects of the trial were mainly the prisoners of the Zionist Army caught on the road.

In addition, the guys who ran amok in Krakow during the uprising were dealt with.

What Franz did before was always in the name of serfs and the Krakow City Council. Although he would not have any major problems, it would always make some nobles feel bad.

In order to save everyone's face, Franz arbitrarily put these blames on others.

The Austrian army's entry into Krakow was warmly welcomed by the locals, and the public trial of criminals for them was supported by the majority of people.

As for the forces of the Polish Restoration Army and the Polish Peasant Union in Galicia, they were devastated. During the entire rebellion, about 1 Polish nobles were brutally killed, four times the number in history.

Franz allowed the royal estate to occupy 50% of the arable land in Galicia through confiscation, redemption, and reclamation.

It also obtained the mining rights of most of the mines, as well as the oil resources of Dorobiqi.It's just that people don't know what the black liquid is for at this time.

At the same time, Franz also created a new market, and the new farmers in Galicia had a great demand for consumer goods after they became rich.

They are different from those noble lords in the past. Their needs are relatively low-end, but this is in line with the development trend of this era.

As a result, the money sent by Franz returned to his hands. In order not to rot in his hands, Franz chose to invest, but this time the goal was not land, but technology.

After all, it is still difficult to expect farmers to improve their technology spontaneously, especially when they are full of food and drink.

Although professional scientific research has certain advantages, the role of the front line cannot be ignored.Therefore, Franz's strategy for agricultural reform is to combine scientific research with rewarding inventions. In short, it doesn't matter whether a white cat or a black cat catches mice, it is a good cat.

In fact, the threshold for scientific research in this era is relatively low. It is not only experts sitting in laboratories who can make technological progress, especially in the field of agriculture.

The main achievement of Franz's trip to Galicia was not how much land he acquired, nor how many nobles he killed, nor did he liberate the serfs.

As for the Free City of Krakow, it is just a small chicken rib. Due to the existence of the railway, it has already become half of Austria's territory.

In fact, turning serfs into bankrupt farmers is more suitable for the development of capitalism, because it can provide a lot of cheap labor for factories.

It's just that this is not in line with Franz's original intention. What he wants to give is not the freedom of nothing.

This time Franz's greatest achievement was to kill something and establish something new in the heart of the Galician.

Historically, after 1846, the Polish nobles changed their strategy and began to win over serfs, and later even directly promised to abolish serfdom and expand voting rights.

While the group was never successful, it continued to cast a shadow over the Galician skies.

This time Franz took the initiative, smashing the shadows in the sky.

　I haven't written very well recently, so I want to start another volume.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)