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

Chapter 787

So if the British government continues to "do nothing" this year, the number of people who will starve to death will increase exponentially.

Even with the guarantee of O'Connell, a banner figure, the vast majority of Irish people are skeptical.

It has to be said that the British propaganda machine was quite successful. They successfully discredited Austria as an Arab country that was more barbaric than Russia.

However, with the help of O'Connell, the Irish national leader, Franz believed that the local people's image of the Austrian Empire would greatly change.

850 million Irish people were less than 600 million after the famine, and 300 million is a reasonable number after taking into account the natural increase in the population.

One-sixth of the 300 million people who disappeared can go to the Austrian colony to greatly alleviate the problem of shortage of land reclamation manpower, and as long as one-quarter can come to Franz, the infrastructure project of the colony can be completed.

If he can get a third, Franz can rebuild a medium-strength country in Central America.

If one-half of them (150 million people) can be sent to West Africa, Austria can connect all the West African colonies together.

Under ideal circumstances, if all these 300 million people immigrated to the Americas, within 20 years Franz would dare to push the Americans east of the Mississippi River, completely insulating them from the Pacific Ocean.

But of course this is impossible.

In fact, the first people to set foot on the road to Austria were the girls who were used by the British government as reproductive machines for the colonies, also known as "famine orphans".

Because most of these people were alone or cut off from their families, their desire to leave Ireland was very strong.

Moreover, the British Parliament and the Anglican Church are also very willing to see that O'Connell, the national and spiritual leader of Ireland, has to defile himself as a "pimp".

Sending a group of young girls to a foreign land means even the lowest moral line of a British politician knows what it means.

As long as O'Connell does this, his life will be ruined, and this stain will be brought up repeatedly even hundreds of years after his death.

There is no escape from the crime of trafficking domestic women abroad for entertainment.

At the same time, this will also cause huge moral and public opinion pressure on the Austrian side that accepts it. However, at this point in the matter, there is no room for change, and every step back is a bigger whirlpool.

At this moment, Austria's top management hopes that O'Connell can cherish his reputation. After all, he is old, and it is not good to be late.

But O'Connell still did it, and the Austrian side could only accept the move.Fortunately, this is a deadlock for most countries in the world, and it is not difficult to solve in Austria.

Franz can directly build a girls' school in Venice, a German school where all teachers and students are women.

This is completely impossible for other countries at this time, but it is completely feasible in Austria.

Because Austrian girls' schools have been running for several years, except for a few outstanding or well-connected graduates, they can join the government, scientific research institutions and shopping malls.

The vast majority of them can only care for their husbands and children or do nothing, and this kind of literacy-level girls' school is a great thing for them. After all, teachers are a very decent job in this era.

At the same time, with his backing to the royal family, his status has gone up.With the church and newspapers advocating from the side, they naturally had no reason not to go.

certainly!Although Franz was put together by the British, his original purpose was not to invite Ireland to enjoy the blessing.

The agriculture and industry in the Venetian area are relatively developed, so it is not difficult to find some jobs for them.

In fact, only some of the famine orphans who could reach the Austrian mainland were sent directly to the colonies. Some of them were too strange or too difficult to maintain.Therefore, when the upper classes of the Austrian Empire visited the girls' schools afterwards, they would see gentle, considerate, well-educated women. At least this would not make the nobles feel bad.

At the same time, the power of role models also helps plan latecomers.

The cost of transporting refugees is not high, because all the ships transporting refugees are actually merchant ships. After selling Austrian goods at high prices, some of the goods needed are purchased, and the remaining space is used to transport people.

In fact, this is mainly because the vast majority of British goods are not attractive in Austria. Rather than running on empty, it is better to bring some people with you, so that you can not only gain a good reputation but also make a little money.

For the Austrian side, as long as the price of food in the UK does not drop, there will always be money to be made in this life-saving business.

Once again, although France and Spain were also hit by disasters and the price of food was very high, the tariffs were higher and they would lose money if they sold there.

January 1847, Swiss Confederation.

At the Federal Assembly in Geneva, the Liberal Alliance and the Orthodox Alliance quarreled. As a country with 11 length units, 82 grain measurement units, fifty weight units, and more than ten currencies, it would be abnormal if they did not fight .

In fact, the canton of Lucerne is the capital of the Swiss Confederation in name, but due to the opposition of the Freedom Alliance, the Orthodox Alliance agreed to hold a federal conference in Geneva (on the site of the Freedom Alliance).

It is naturally difficult for such a weak person to gain the respect of the other party. At this time, the representative of the Freedom Alliance, Joseph Lowy (later the President of the Swiss Confederation), just threw a document on the table of the representative of the Orthodox Alliance, and did not even bother to say a word.

The representative of the Swiss Orthodox Union was a very senior mayor who stood up with great difficulty and leaned out to take the document thrown a little far away in his hand.

The mayor was immediately shocked after seeing it and almost fell from his seat to the ground. It took him a long time to stammer out a few words.

"Our power is guaranteed... by Austria, Prussia, France, and Sardinia.
You are a challenge to the European order.”

The mayor didn't stutter, but was frightened so that his mouth was a little awkward.

Not to mention the existence of the Orthodox Alliance in the Swiss Confederation, even if the entire Swiss Confederation is assembled, it is impossible to defeat the alliance of the three great powers.

He felt that the person in front of him was crazy.
But Joseph Lowe let out a sneer.

"Idiot! We already have the support of the British Empire! If any country dares to interfere in our internal affairs, it is an enemy of the British Empire! Do your masters have the guts?"

"You are crazy! Britain is far away, but the great powers are right next to you! If you fight a civil war, you will destroy yourself!"

The representative of the Orthodox Alliance was still trembling with fright, but he still insisted on speaking.

"Mr. Representative, Switzerland is easy to defend and difficult to attack. So what if the four countries of Austria, Prussia, France, and Sardinia join forces? As long as we block the mountain pass, they won't be able to enter!"

"Blocking the mountain pass? You are really crazy! How can we survive if the mountain pass is blocked?"

"That's nothing to worry about. If you don't sign the paper now, you won't even be able to get out of this room."

Joseph Lowy lighted the cigar in his mouth smartly with a candle, took a puff beautifully and then leisurely exhaled a few smoke rings.

"Hurry up, will you? If you don't sign your name before I run out of cigars, you won't be needed here."

(End of this chapter)