Chapter 715 How Hard Is Life
While the Berlin government is struggling with the refugee problem, the following people have made a choice for them.
The reason was that there were too many refugees influx, and the local government did not provide timely relief. The hungry refugees ransacked an aristocratic manor in Skverina and accidentally killed the old earl who was inspecting the manor.
There have been many incidents of looting places, but killing a great noble is the first time. Perhaps they realized that things were getting bigger, and in order to survive, these people decisively chose to kill people.
Refugees themselves are a mob made up of makeshift groups. It is easy to say that killing people to cover up the truth. How could they not leave any clues?
Needless to say later, the news immediately caused a shock, and the nobles naturally wanted to retaliate.
With the influx of refugees, it is not only the local aristocracy who suffer losses. The local people have suffered even more, and they have been suffering for a long time.
Chaos broke out, and once the butcher's knife was raised, it could never be lowered. In order to restore order, the Berlin government immediately ordered the garrison to intervene.
In fact, at this time, the Berlin government has been unable to control the situation. The local troops are definitely more inclined to the locals, and the bayonet is naturally aimed at the refugees.
Perhaps many refugees are innocent, but at this time no one can distinguish them, nor do they want to distinguish them, and the massacre broke out.
After receiving the news of the massacre, William I's first thought was to stop it immediately, but then gave up.
This is a multiple choice question with no choice. Either stand on the side of the refugees and offend the nobles, capitalists, and ordinary people in Prussia, or stand on the side of the Prussian people and pretend nothing happened.
Mind you, the Berlin government knows where to stand. As for the refugees who fell in a pool of blood, they saw nothing and knew nothing.
A strange scene appeared. The Russian army was driving away the refugees, and the Prussian army was also driving away the refugees. The two sides wrote a "March of Killing" together.
Affected by this, the Polish soldiers in the Prussian army also mutinied. If the Russians were not too cautious and worried about fraud and did not take the opportunity to send troops, it is estimated that there would be nothing wrong with the Berlin government.
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The sudden massacre made the European world collectively silent.
condemn?
The media is already doing it. Newspapers and radios are slamming the atrocities of the Prussian government. Of course, there are also many condemning refugees.
News people also need to eat, and their position is naturally influenced by the sponsor.
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The Vienna Palace, this amazing big news, brought Franz, who was thinking about life, back to reality.
How to characterize this matter, this is another headache. From the standpoint of a bystander, Franz could not determine what was right and what was wrong.
Are refugees at fault? The answer is: yes and no!
They just want to survive, which is not wrong; but to survive for themselves, and at the same time hurt other people, this is a big mistake.
The tragedy that happened in Skwirzyna was not accidental. On the way to escape, many more innocents fell.
Maybe it's just some people who do evil, but everyone doesn't have the ability to distinguish, and they don't want to distinguish. Others have no obligation to pay for their mistakes.
Human nature cannot stand the test, especially in the face of hunger.
Is there anything wrong with the Prussian aristocracy and the people? The answer is: yes and no!
To safeguard one's own interests, it is certainly right to suppress the thugs; if the problem is deliberately enlarged to the entire refugee group, there will be a problem.
But as a bystander, Franz felt he had no right to blame them. If the crisis can be solved in advance, why ask people to solve it after the disaster?
All smart people know that after losing the Polish region, the Berlin government has been unable to help so many refugees.
Without relief food, refugees will be in chaos sooner or later. This cannot be changed by manpower.
If the war cannot end as soon as possible, even if the Prussian nobles and capitalists open their warehouses together to release grain, it will not help.
For the sake of his own interests and the country he protects, he chose the simplest and most practical method, which seems not to be wrong.
Including the expulsion of refugees by the Russians, he can understand. Morality aside, the tsarist government was unable to help the refugees. In order to prevent more people from becoming refugees, the expulsion of refugees was actually a last resort.
Franz was not a Virgin and knew rational considerations. Three or four million refugees, even in the 21st century, are a difficult problem to solve, let alone in this era.
A simple math problem shows that, based on the ration of one catty per person per day, three million people will consume 1,500 tons of grain per day, and four million people will consume 2,000 tons of grain.
This is only theoretical data. In fact, this amount of food is definitely not enough. A pound of high-calorie food may be enough to maintain human survival, but the demand for cheap low-calorie food will be significantly higher.
People these days are more able to eat. It is easy for a young and strong person to eat three or five catties of food at a time. Most of them are big stomach kings in later generations.
Disaster relief does not need to be full, as long as you don't starve to death. Assuming that the refugees need 2,000 tons of food every day, which is added to the transportation consumption in the middle, this figure must be enlarged to at least 2,500 tons.
In addition to food, other materials are also indispensable. The number of refugees is too large, and epidemic prevention work must be done well, otherwise it will be troublesome if there is a plague.
Preliminary estimates, tents, clothing, medicines, coal, daily necessities... all these messes add up, and it is impossible to buy without hundreds of millions of Aegis.
Even if the supplies are ready, it is impossible to meet the demand without the capacity of tens of thousands of tons per day.
It looks like this number, but it's daily, not monthly, and not yearly.
What happened to other countries, Franz didn't know, anyway, Austria was not able to transport so many materials, not even half of it.
Perhaps the whole of Europe can work together to solve this refugee crisis, but the chance of success is still no more than one-third.
Knowing that it can't be done, either a hero or a fool, Franz is neither, so he can only watch from the sidelines.
It can't be regarded as standing by, at least he has donated money, although it is still a drop in the bucket, it is also hard work.
I can't control what's going on outside, but not the refugees who are sent to my door. Neither Prussia could go, so the refugees could only go to Austria.
This road is also not easy to go. Prussia and Russia dare not let the Vienna government think that they are driving refugees to Austria, so they must be intercepted.
Not to mention the effect, anyway, the number of refugees on the Austrian border is increasing day by day, if the Vienna government had not prepared in advance, it would not have been able to hold back.
Even if you are prepared, you can only barely manage your meals. Maintaining order depends on the military, and outside almost every refugee camp, there are several criminals.
Happiness is all contrasted. After seeing the atrocities of Prussia, Austria's approach is so unacceptable.
make trouble?
Are you hanging outside if you don't see what's going on? Now they are all illegal immigrants, the kind who have no human rights. If they die, they will die in vain. If they violate any rules in the camp, they may become the chicken that warns the monkey.
Looking at the statistics sheet sent, Franz was in a bad mood. He suspected that there was a problem in the world, and that the number of refugees received by Austria actually exceeded one million.
Franz asked suspiciously: "Prime Minister, is there something wrong with this data? Why are there so many refugees?"
The more people there are, the more troublesome it will be to set up. Refugees who can run all the way to Austria are either close or young.
It is easy to handle with a family and a family, and the young and strong running single gang is a hidden danger. The military control of the refugee camp is to suppress these people and take the opportunity to make trouble. The tragedy in Skwirzyna also aroused the vigilance of the Vienna government.
Felix replied affirmatively: "No problem, we have checked it three times, and every refugee camp has the correct number.
The number exceeded expectations and was related to the atrocities in Prussia and Russia. Although they were also intercepting, many soldiers who were sympathetic to the refugees secretly let them go.
We have lodged diplomatic protests with Prussia and Russia, and the latter should improve. "
Raising the butcher's knife does not mean killing millions of people. In fact, most of these refugees were expelled to the Prussian-Russian border area. Today you go to my side, tomorrow I will go to your side, anyway, no one wants it.
The cause of the mass death of refugees is still starvation. No one has counted how many people died of starvation. Some say hundreds of thousands, some say more than one million, and some say two or three million.
Governments all over the world are pretending to be confused. Relief for refugees is a chore at this time. It should be done well, and it will be criticized by international public opinion if it is not done well.
After pondering for a while, Franz shook his head: "I'm afraid the situation will be more serious later, even if Prussia and Russia are willing to cooperate, they may not be able to stop it.
Select a group of young people from the refugees. If the situation exceeds our tolerance limit, we will close the border and let them intercept them by themselves.
In addition, the government must do a good job of epidemic prevention, prohibit refugees from leaving the camp, and prevent them from contacting local people. If you have friends and relatives, you must also go through a doctor's examination, and you can leave after there are no problems. "
At the moment of life and death, people can always burst out to their greatest potential. Unless the Prussian army can let go of the massacre, there will always be someone who can break through the blockade.
This is not something that Berlin and St. Petersburg can control. The Tsarist government is better, at least it can control the army; Franz really can't compliment the Berlin government's control over the army.
If the Russians are willing to pay a high price to buy the Junkers nobles, it is unknown whether the Berlin government still exists.
A large influx of refugees, Austria will also be unable to hold back. In order not to make the situation worse, I can only say sorry to the latecomers.
Decentralized placement exists only in theory. The language barrier cannot communicate normally, whether the body is healthy or not, whether it is carrying the plague or not, it is still unknown.
The refugees in the front are real refugees, and the refugees in the back all climbed up from the dead, and still retain a bit of humanity, they are all unknowns.