Chapter 738 Firecrackers Ignited

The economic crisis broke out suddenly, and the value of the franc was completely unstoppable. In just a few days, the value of the currency fell by 28.7%, shocking the world.

France is one of the three giants in the world, its economic aggregate ranks fifth in the world, and its military strength is second to none.

When the Paris government sneezes, the world trembles. Such a giant, the financial system is so vulnerable, and it is just a round of attacks and it will kneel.

After the harvest was completed, the consortium capital began to retreat, leaving the international hot money to bear the wrath of the French.

Just like: I came quietly and left with a mighty force, waving my sleeves without taking a cloud away.

Not a single cloud was taken, just a large amount of Aegis, sterling and gold.

It seems that a tacit understanding was reached. After the international consortium headed by Yingao withdrew, the French consortium arrived late and joined the resistance army.

Without capital predators, the remaining group of retail speculators are naturally not the opponents of the French consortium.

Seeing that the French consortium became famous in the first battle, it seemed that they had become a hero of France overnight. Napoleon IV was half-dead with anger. As the object of venting his anger, the vases in the Palace of Versailles were changed a lot.

Capital invading politics, the absolute dominance established since the time of Napoleon III, no longer exists.

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In the Palace of Vienna, Franz was also a bit saddened by what happened to the French government.

After the economic crisis, the strength of the French consortium has greatly increased, and its influence on the government has been further enhanced, and the future French Empire will become more lively.

After simply having breakfast and throwing away these troubles, Franz was preparing to bathe in the soft sunshine when an uninvited guest came.

"Your Majesty, the workers' uprising broke out in Lyon last night, and the situation in France is showing signs of getting out of control," Foreign Secretary Wesenberg reported.

For a big country, foreign threats are no longer deadly, and only themselves can really defeat them.

There is no doubt that France is such a great country. At least in this day and age. As long as there is no gang fight, one-on-one, no one has the strength to destroy France.

The idea of ​​a thousand miles collapsed in ants, and no matter how powerful a country was, it couldn't stand the internal tossing.

The Lyon workers' uprising is just the beginning. If the problem of the economic crisis is not solved, France will not be stable.

Franz asked suspiciously: "Didn't the French government already distribute relief food, why is there an uprising?"

This was a good policy in the era of Napoleon III, and the French working class had unemployment benefits.

Under this favorable policy, although the labor movement in France was still flourishing, there were few uprisings.

Wesenberg explained: "According to the analysis of the news from the embassy, ​​the preliminary judgment should be related to the devaluation of the franc.

Affected by the devaluation of the currency, prices in France have risen wildly, and the original unemployment benefits have been unable to meet the daily expenses of workers. "

Franz nodded, not jumping to conclusions. Generally speaking, the crazy rise in prices is caused by a combination of factors.

Inflation is only one of them. This factor generally works slowly. It is impossible for the franc to depreciate today, and prices will skyrocket immediately. The market still needs time to react.

In contrast, Franz is more willing to believe that hoarding and shortage of supplies have caused prices to rise sharply.

After hesitating for a while, Franz decided to get down to it: "Secretly funded an event fund for an Italian independent organization, and let them wait for the opportunity."

Despite his distrust of the Italian independence movement, Franz was willing to stir up trouble for the French government.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" replied Wesenberg

After a pause, he added: "Your Majesty, according to the information collected by our embassies around the world, due to financial pressure, Alexander III gave the land of the newly occupied area as a reward to the deserving servants.

Affected by this, various degrees of turmoil occurred in Poland and East Prussia, which had just been occupied by the Russians.

The governor of the Tsarist government in Konigsberg, conveyed through the colonial company, hoped that we could ease immigration restrictions. "

This was the aftermath of the previous Cossack cavalry battle, and the tsarist government had very few local people's hearts and was completely tossed away.

It is impossible to win the hearts of the people now, at least until this generation is dead.

If the Russians want to re-establish their ruling base locally, they must support a new ruling class. In this respect, Alexander III's decision was not wrong.

Instead of supporting unreliable local people, it is better to replace your own people directly. By using land as a bounty, the government can also save a lot of money.

Similar things, Austria has also done in the Balkans. It’s just that before the action in Austria, most of the local people had been immigrated, so there was no chaos.

After thinking about it, Franz said: "If you can contact the Russians, you can contact them in the name of the colonial company. It is not convenient for the government to directly participate in this kind of thing.

However, immigration conditions cannot be relaxed. We just need to get rid of the local German populace, or the ethnic minorities that have been Germanized. "

Even after the baptism of war, Russian Poland + Baltic Sea + Belarus + East and West Prussia, the population on these lands all add up, there are still nearly 10 million.

Unable to win the hearts and minds of the local people, these guys were the biggest destabilizing factor for the tsarist government.

If the executive power of the tsarist government is strong enough and the government's financial resources are strong enough,

You can also pick out the stubborn molecules here and wipe them off, and then disperse them and slowly digest them.

Sadly, this is impossible. The tsarist government has neither such executive power nor such strong financial resources.

It's almost the same period after changing the beard, and all of them can be sent to grow potatoes. Before this, there has never been a tsarist government with such a powerful execution ability.

The Russians couldn't do it, and the Austrians couldn't. Accepting a large number of ethnic minorities at one time will bring a fatal blow to the assimilation work.

There is also a limit to the great integration of nationalities. Once that degree is exceeded, things will develop in the opposite direction.

If there is not enough interest, Franz will naturally not take over the mess of the Russians.

From the standpoint of Austria, it is really good to have these people who hate the tsarist government and drag the Russians back.

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Influenced by the workers' uprising in Lyon, the people of Paris, as a holy place of revolution, naturally cannot miss their studies.

On December 11, 1881, the people of Paris launched a massive march, and hundreds of thousands of French people took to the streets in solidarity with the Lyon workers' uprising.

Like firecrackers, France began to explode. On December 12, Toulouse followed with a workers' uprising,