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

In fact, the higher you stand, the farther you can see.But this is not always a good thing. For example, Prince Metternich overestimated the so-called Italian group at this time.

It makes people feel a little sad that Prince Metternich, who once vowed to turn Italy into a geographical term, is getting old after all.

Compared with the title Italian, the titles Venetian, Lombard, Tuscan, Parma, Lucca, Modena, Roman, Sicilian, and Sardinian are more likely to be accepted by Italians .

Due to thousands of years of geographical isolation, they have formed different cultures and habits, and even their languages ​​​​are also different.

Historically, the Italian government began the process of modernizing the Italian language in 1870 and promoted the Tuscany dialect (that is, the Florentine dialect or Tuscany language). It took 120 years to solve the language problem.

The conflict between the North and the South in Italy still exists today.However, it is not appropriate to let these guys be highly concentrated in northern Italy. After all, no one knows whether they will end up with new problems like Gu refining.

What Franz thought of was to transfer it to Tripoli. After all, it will be very important in the future, and the local population is seriously insufficient, not to mention development, even infrastructure construction.

In fact, there is another point, that is, the execution and dominance displayed by the Karamanli family are far from Franz's expectations.

It would be wasteful and inefficient to let them rule the area, and Northern Italy is full of sailors and dockworkers.

In fact, Italian city-states also had a business tradition, so Franz felt that the plan was feasible. His first step was to prepare to immigrate 1846 people to the Tripoli area from 1850 to 3.

In fact, there was an immigration plan earlier, but natural immigration was too slow. After the end of the second Turkish-Egyptian war until 1846, less than 2000 people from Austria immigrated to Tripoli.

Compared with Tripoli, the natural environment of Tunisia next door is much superior. After all, it was the birthplace of Carthage civilization.

But the reality is that Britain, France, Sardinia, and even the United States have all stepped in. Even if Tunisia made two tentative attacks on Tripoli as a bandit, the Austrian side can only be regarded as an ordinary banditry incident. deal with.

So don't think about the land of Tunisia for the time being, unless some kind of agreement is reached with other powers one day, or some kind of large-scale conflict breaks out.

As for the recruitment of Italians into the army, Franz remained on the sidelines.

Because at this time, the evaluation of Italian soldiers in Austria was polarized. Some people held the same view as later generations, and felt that Italian soldiers lacked fighting will and fighting literacy.

Perpetually low morale, astonishingly poor obedience, disorganization, disdiscipline, marching like excursions, fighting like going to market, in short they don't look like an army.

In addition, the Italians are also a group of people in the army who like to pull mountains the most. They often form secret associations and use their wisdom and strength to escape military sanctions and deal with their own people.

Another part of the commanders believed that Italian soldiers were hard-working, versatile, highly motivated, and had a spirit of sacrifice.

In fact, Italian soldiers cannot be generalized, but at least they are good cooks and logistics troops, as well as excellent hunters.

Franz felt that the reason for some outrageous situations was mainly due to the overemphasis on humanism, which made them lack teamwork and discipline.

At the same time, there is also a lack of recognition and consensus, because since the fall of ancient Rome, the Italian region has always been in a state of separatist city-states. The geographical division is more severe than that of the German region, and there has been a long-term lack of real threats.

The last point is that Italians are often discriminated against. Their military salaries are often lower than those of other ethnic groups, and they cannot be paid in full and on time.

Other problems need to be reformed and educated to change slowly, but Franz thinks that the matter of military pay is easy to handle. After all, the current Austrian Empire is really not short of money, and even has to choose to throw money and carry out in order to reduce the rapidly increasing gold reserves. Some incomprehensible investments.

As for the connection between the Italians, Franz didn't care too much about it. After all, they prefer to form small groups rather than unify them. If they don't do anything, they will fight on their own.

And he also hopes that those potential enemies can emerge by themselves, in a sense, he is leading the snake out of the hole.

Due to the need to take into account the family's reputation and the country's image, there are not many opportunities for this kind of eradication.

What Franz did actually did not conflict much with Prince Metternich's policy, so the two policies could be carried out at the same time.

On the island of Ireland, the situation is deteriorating, as the potato harvest is almost gone again.

And this time there will be no more grain in the cellars, and with British grain prices hitting record highs, more grain is being shipped from the island of Ireland to the British mainland.

The number of people dying of starvation continued to mount, while more Irish people who could not pay their rent were evicted from their homes.The vast majority of land in Ireland was owned by landowners, even their homes.

Landlords had almost the power of medieval feudal lords, and their earnings suffered as a result of the famine.

But those poor Irish couldn't afford the rent, so the landowners from England thought of a new way.

That is to rent the original land to two families, which can not only make up for their losses, but also make a small profit, but this will make the life of the Irish more difficult.

The British imitated Austria's work-for-work project and declared bankruptcy. At the same time, typhoid fever and cholera broke out in the workhouse, and several cartloads of corpses were pulled to the countryside for burial every day.

However, the British have never had a lower limit in terms of inappropriateness.Lord William Gladstone, the Colonial Secretary, proposed that the Irish could be immigrated to Australia, which would not only solve the problem of sparse population in the colony, but also alleviate the famine problem on the island of Ireland.

This proposal sounds okay, but the problem is that when it was implemented, they found that it was not as cost-effective to immigrate Irish Catholics as buying black slaves from East Africa.

Britain would abduct Protestants from Germany, but abandon its own Catholics.At this time, the Governor of New South Wales put forward an opinion that there were too few local women, and hoped that the British government could immigrate more women to solve the fertility problem.

At that time, Australia was not a Governor-General, but a geographic term composed of several Governor-Generals.

So the British government decisively adopted the suggestion of the Governor of South Wales to select healthy and age-appropriate women in the workhouse.

Numerous dirty and dirty transactions took place, and finally batch after batch of Irish girls were lured to Australia to make reproductive tools for the bottom colonists who were almost twice their age.

The corruption of high-level life in the colonies of this era is actually no worse than that of big European cities, so they naturally look down on these ordinary girls.

In fact, high-level officials in the South Wales colony stated:

"Our money should be spent on decent, well-bred girls, not on a bunch of sleazy and ignorant creatures."

Although the bottom of the Australian colony will not be starved to death, high-intensity labor and childbirth cannot be exchanged for dignity and material satisfaction. What most people get is just a long sentence of physical and mental torture.