Chapter 354： Disappearing Prophets, Mindsets (1/2)

Unconsciously, the Russians soon paid the price for their actions, and the Polish independence movement broke out more rapidly than in history.

Britain and France increased financial assistance to independent organizations. After the uprising broke out, the independent organizations pulled up an army at the fastest speed and began to sweep the Quartet.

Franz, who was eating melon, soon received a letter of protest from the Tsarist government.

Franz asked incredulously: ”Prime Minister, are you sure the contents of this protest book are true?”

Not to be surprised by Franz, there were actually 400 volunteers from Austria during the Polish uprising, most of whom were retired officers and soldiers from Austrian Poland.

Under the eyes of the Vienna government, Poland's independence was able to pull up such an armed force. If there is no problem, there will be ghosts.

It is one thing to secretly stump the Russians. So many volunteers have emerged on the bright side. It is not clear that Austria is supporting the Polish independence movement.

Has the Russian-Austrian League not been dissolved? It's morally justified to give the Tsar government a knife!

The Prime Minister Felix replied awkwardly: ”Your Majesty, there are indeed many Polish people in the Gasilian region who support this uprising. It is not only 400 people who participated in the uprising, but our number is 800.

If nothing else, this number is still increasing. We made a mistake in advance and did not expect that so many people would participate in the uprising, so no measures were taken. ”

Franz rubbed his forehead. He didn't know what to say. After the Polish Independence Movement broke out, Poles from all over the world participated.

There are millions of Polish people in Austria, and some volunteers are inevitable, but this number is too much.

”No one will frame us, right?” Franz asked uncertainly.

He was very skeptical that this was a British-French conspiracy, the purpose of which was to stir up Russia-Austria relations and dissolve the Russia-Austria alliance.

The Prime Minister Felix replied: ”Sir, please be assured. We have checked that these people have no problem, they did participate in the uprising voluntarily.

Many of these people were originally residents of the Russian-Polish region, and because they could not stand Russian rule, they emigrated to Casilla.

Now they go back to join the uprising, which is mostly a force of hatred. We have already taken action and this situation will not continue in the future. ”

Faced with this result, Franz can only be attributed to the Russians being too hard-working. What can you do if you can make people go into exile without forgetting to work hard for revenge.

Of course, some people in the Vienna government have certainly provided convenience to them, otherwise it would never be possible for so many people to enter Poland smoothly.

Franz thought for a while and said, ”The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russians will explain it slowly, and by the way, issue a diplomatic statement that the issue of Russian Poland is an internal affair of the Russian Empire, and countries should not interfere.”

Anyway, things have already happened, you can only find a way to deal with it. Just after Britain and France internationally supported the Polish independent organization, European countries have responded, and the Tsarist government needs Austria's support.

When this happened, Franz was not counting on the benefits. Show your attitude first. As for the Russians, believe it or not.

In this regard, the relationship between the two countries is enough, and it is still a little worse than the collapse of the Russian-Olympic alliance. As long as the alliance is still a big deal, slowly repair the relationship later.

Foreign Minister Weissenberg replied: ”Sir, the Russians will soon be overwhelmed. According to our news in St. Petersburg, the Polish Rebel Army has exceeded 100,000 people.

The Polish independent organization had a long-term plan. After the uprising was launched, the Russians deployed more than 100,000 troops in the Polish region, and were beaten by the Polish insurgents.

Many troops did not respond at all and became captives. Many soldiers joined the Polish independence movement directly. It seemed that the Russian Revolutionary Organization and the Poles were united.

From the information we have gathered, the insurgents are not entirely Uzbek, and their leadership should have received short-term military training.

From the outbreak of the Polish uprising to now, at least 5,000 volunteers from all over the world have participated. Most of these people have received military training and have become officers of the insurgent army.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs suspected that some people provided military training to independent Polish organizations. These volunteers were probably trained in advance. They quickly entered Poland after the outbreak and led the uprising. ”

Franz's face changed dramatically, which is probably the truth. Even undercover men like Austria who are secretly behind the scenes can toss out hundreds of volunteers. The existence of such a knife and gun as Britain and France can only do more.

Is it difficult to train Polish independent organizations?

It's too easy for the big hooligan. Recruit a group of anti-Russian Poles, then carry out simple training, put them into the colony and fight a few battles, and the qualified soldiers will survive.

With the participation of the Russian revolutionary organizations, things will be more complicated, which means that the rebellion will not be confined to Poland, and a large area of ​​the Russian Empire may have a revolution.

The reformed Russian Empire is undoubtedly at a crossroads. Problems are most likely to happen now, and there are too many people in China who are dissatisfied with the reform of the Tsarist government.

The radicals suspect that the reform of the tsarist government is incomplete, and the conservatives feel that the reform of the tsarist government has hurt their interests. Once these dissatisfied people are stimulated, who knows what will happen?

You know, since the reform of Alexander II, there has been no peace in the Russian Empire. The serf, who had just been free, sighed at the huge land redemption.

Redemption of Russian land is not as harmonious as Austria. These redemptions are paid for interest, and it is not a concept to uniformly set the payment standard with Franz.

The land redemption money in Austria is basically based on the output income on the land for 5 to 10 years, which is collected by the government and then transferred to the land owner.

Farmers can pay up to 40 years in instalments without counting benefits. The amount of redemption you need to pay each year is within your affordability.

Because of the uniform apportionment, the collection standard is 20% of the actual output of the land, which can be paid more or less, and it can be paid off within the prescribed period anyway.

Due to the factors of the rebellion, the government seized a lot of land. In fact, the Vienna government still made a lot of money. Naturally, it was possible to use some money to quell the shortage of redemption money in the disaster year.

It will not work when the Tsarist government is here. The landlords are still alive and well. Most of the land is owned by the nobles. Before the reform, the number of civilian estates in Russia was less than twenty, and free farmers only owned a small amount of land.

In this context, it is certainly impossible to reduce the land redemption price. Collecting and issuing uniformly, it is even more impossible not to pay interest.

If it were not for the Great Revolution, Franz would not have been able to force the nobles to accept such harsh conditions. In fact, Austria's land reform is not complete.

Many nobles who have not been involved in the rebellion and have not been affected by the rebellion still own a large amount of land, as long as they do not want the government to force the redemption.

There have been no social conflicts. The main reason is that the Vienna government has reduced the per capita land redemption area to ensure that everyone can redeem the land, but the place is uncertain.

Later, with the expansion of the Balkans, the opening of overseas colonies opened up the original tight land supply, and the contradiction of land was completely resolved.

The immigration propaganda slogan of the colonial ministry is: ”Do you want your own farm? Go to the colonies to open up wasteland.

Want your own plantation? Go to the colonies to open up wasteland.

You can own as much land as you can. ”

This is not something the Tsarist government can do. Although there are many wastelands available for reclamation in China, these wastelands also have owners.

The area of ​​land obtained by farmers through redemption is actually lower than that of Austria. Of course, this is the result of calculating the Balkans, and Romania and Serbia contributed a lot of arable land.