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

Queen's Village, Ireland.

Scatha Jennings has lost weight, and the food in the cellar has been distributed among the families.

She began to seriously consider going to the workhouse. Although she might be selected to marry a criminal in Australia, there was really no food to eat at home.

The two younger brothers were skinny and skinny, the 13-year-old Ella was okay among the two younger sisters, and the three-year-old Holika was often so hungry that she couldn't sleep, her eyes were deeply sunken and looked a little scary.

The eldest brother, Patrit, does not stay at home all day long, and all the farm work falls on his parents.The villages began to be haunted by brigands, men who robbed the villages of the poor.

After all, the landlord has a dog, a gun, and a bodyguard at home, and usually the poor don't have these. It is obviously much safer to rob the latter than the former.

As a result, there are more and more poor people. At first, their village will try to provide relief, but as the food in the church cellar becomes less and less, they can only choose to sit on the sidelines because they themselves can no longer survive.

Finally, the robbers came to Queen's Village. Fortunately, there were guns and gunpowder in the cellar of the church. The men in the village took up arms and resisted desperately. After fighting with something all night, no robber dared to come to the village to make trouble.

In fact, villagers generally don't know how to shoot, and most of them have night blindness. If the bandits don't hold torches, the villagers don't know where to shoot.

In fact, the people who came to rob were villagers from other villages. They just wanted to live but had no intention of going all out.If they were really desperadoes, they wouldn't just dare to rob the villages of the poor, after all, farmers didn't have much money.

However, the fierce fighting that night woke up all the surrounding landowners, and then they began to pay to hire children and women from various families to work in their manors.

Not only were they given money, but they were also given food, so the villagers were just hungry, but not starving to death or going to the streets to beg.

Of course, no one will take the risk, and the two sides will always live in peace.

Scathach was fond of scrubbing dishes, tables, mirrors, or whatever, for there was money to take it, twopence and quarterpence a day, and a bowl of muesli soup.

Although the miscellaneous barley soup is actually made of horse feed, it can be seen that the Baron is actually very reluctant and always shouts angrily, or wipes his tears silently.

But the Baroness is just the opposite. Mrs. Jasmine has no children, so she likes the children in the village very much.

And Mrs. Jasmine always warned the baron that it was necessary to give the children wages and porridge, if he didn't want to be chopped up and fed to pigs one day, or buried in the ground as fertilizer.

Scathach didn't quite understand this sentence, after all, in her mind, Lord Baron is the most powerful person in these ten miles and eight villages.

In fact, Queen Village did not continue to grow potatoes, but chose to grow other high-yield crops. Although the yield was not as high as potatoes, they could barely satisfy their hunger. Coupled with the fact that the laborers could get some money, they could barely survive.

Franz's exhortation was successful to a certain extent. In fact, the research on the prevention and treatment of potato late blight with Bordeaux mixture has also proved to be feasible.

It's just that the industrial capacity of the Austrian Empire is limited at this time. Although there is no problem supplying the very small disaster-stricken area of ​​their own country, they may not be able to afford the price if they want to sell it to other countries.

Moreover, Bordeaux liquid is not considered a high-end industrial product, and the difficulty of imitation is very low, which is a piece of cake for the big powers.

Therefore, Franz intends to enjoy a period of technological dividends, and does not intend to let it spread prematurely.

Franz walked all the way on the land of Ireland, and he was still very disappointed on the whole. He hardly saw any sign of resistance.

On the contrary, I met someone who dared to jump out and rob the caravan. In fact, anyone with a little knowledge would not take action against a caravan of this size.

This is not because the fleet is too large, or the goods sold are strange, but mainly because there are too many people.Businessmen are after all profit-seeking, and usually don't hire too many people.

A large number of people usually means that the things above are important, or the people are important, which is beyond the reach of ordinary robbers.

Generally speaking, as long as a few shots are fired casually, the robbers blocking the way will run away in all directions.

Franz also saw some public projects, which were very similar to those in Austria. However, they were expected to provide 1 jobs, but the actual number of people affected by the disaster was so large that the establishment could only be expanded again and again.

In the end, the number was abruptly expanded to 44, but the budget did not increase by a penny. The result is naturally predictable.

What's even worse is that due to the crazy rise in food prices, the theoretical wage that is enough to support a family has become two pence, and in some areas it is even only one penny a day. This price can't even hire a child laborer in London.

Moreover, most of the power in the work-for-relief project is in the hands of bureaucrats and local councils. Seeing that there are so many laborers, they naturally expand the scale of the project, which is the so-called increase in intensity.

However, at this time, the vast majority of Irish people had already been malnourished and exhausted by the famine. These people were either skinny or swollen, and they simply could not bear high-intensity physical labor.

So a strange phenomenon appeared, that is, the intense registration and strict scrutiny of the work-for-work project turned into a sit-in protest in the end.

As a result, the British approach not only failed to solve the famine problem, but also led to a large number of bad projects in Ireland. Franz felt that it would not be long before these projects would be unfinished.

After all, the amount of work has far exceeded the government's budget, and the local government does not want to make up the difference.

Theoretically speaking, this kind of wrangling should have an end, but soon the whole of Britain will step into a bigger crisis, a crisis planned by themselves.

"It seems the British are quick learners."

Franz sighed.

"But they don't seem to have learned the lesson, and they don't seem to want to save the Irish.

Your Highness, look at the wheat, cattle and sheep outside the window. The British are fully capable of solving the famine problem in Ireland. Even the so-called famine should not exist in the first place.

You don't need to come here at all, the British are to blame.If you send the grains parked on the pier to the country, the people will thank you for your kindness. "

Archbishop Rauscher said earnestly, but Franz just smiled and did not answer.

It is true that the boats carrying food are docked on the shore, but how can the starving people with only a few pennies in their hands be able to afford it.

这两年时间英国的粮价上涨了75%，其实从1840年开始英国的粮价就在不断上涨，1844年较1840年时上涨了46%。

Although grain prices in the Austrian Empire fluctuated, the trend had always been downward since 1840. As of the autumn of 1846, prices had dropped by 5%.

With this ebb and flow, the price of grain in Austria is less than half of that in England.

The continued delivery of food from these colonies to Austria will not increase the sense of happiness. Instead, it will make the farmers of the Austrian Empire hate it.