Chapter 743 Revolutionary Wave
With the departure of ships, the heritage of the Kingdom of Prussia, which has been praised for hundreds of years, was quietly hollowed out by Franz.
No, this should have nothing to do with Prussia. Now this is the territory of the Russians, and the close cooperation between Russia and Austria is completely based on what they need.
The tsarist government eliminated hidden dangers and stabilized the local situation; Austria increased the population of the main ethnic group, and both sides were winners.
Affected by this, Russia-Austria relations have become more harmonious. As a testimony of the Russia-Austria friendship, the two governments recently reached an agreement on loan extension for two years.
Pure friendship, no political strings attached. Since the agreement was reached, trade between the two countries in the Baltic Sea has flourished.
Affected by the prosperity of the Russian-Austrian trade, Austrian companies engaged in international shipping business took the lead in getting out of the economic crisis. Every day, a large number of ships shuttle between the Baltic Sea and the Austrian colonies.
Followed by agricultural products and daily necessities enterprises, immigration has driven the increase in consumption and brought these enterprises back from the brink of bankruptcy.
The price is that the Austrian National Bank has successively issued tens of millions of Aegis housing loans to immigrants, artificially creating a consumer market.
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A shot in Lyon broke the tranquility of the European continent. Since the Great Revolution of 1848, the revolutionary wave in Europe has been ignited again.
France is naturally the hardest hit area. From Paris to Rome, revolutionary leaflets and slogans are everywhere, just like the small advertisements on the telephone poles of later generations.
"Fire fighting" has become the most important job of the French government. The police and army have no time to take vacations, and everyone is busy.
Affected by the revolutionary wave, revolutionary groups in various European countries responded one after another.
On February 11, 1882, an uprising broke out in Madrid, the capital of Spain;
On February 13, 1882, in Antwerp, the largest port and heavy industry city in Belgium, a dockworker's uprising broke out;
On February 13, 1882, the coal miners revolted in Luxembourg;
On February 21, 1882, a peasant uprising broke out in Switzerland;
On March 1, 1882, the textile workers' uprising broke out in London;
On March 7, 1882, the independence movement broke out in Ireland;
On March 12, 1882, the bourgeois revolution broke out in Portugal;
On March 17, 1882, an anti-Russian uprising broke out in Poland;
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In the past two months, hundreds of revolutions, large and small, have broken out on the European continent, and strikes have occurred in more than half of the industrial cities.
As if overnight, Europe returned to the era of the Great Revolution.
Seeing others unlucky is a joy, but when it's your turn, it's like sitting on pins and needles.
As a leader in the capitalist world, Austria has not been able to stand alone.
In the past two months, the Austrian government has extinguished the Milan textile workers riot, the Venice independence movement, the Saxony copper mine riot, and solved dozens of revolutionary party cases.
Franz was terrified when he saw it. He never imagined that there would be so many disorderly parties under his rule.
There is no doubt that more than 80% of these revolutionary parties are supported by foreign hostile forces, and two-thirds of them are British.
What makes Franz gratified is that in this wave of revolution, Vienna has been very stable. Not only has there been no way to make a revolution, but there has not even been a strike.
At this time, Franz somewhat understood why later European countries were going to industrialize.
It's fine in normal times, but in the event of an economic crisis, the impact on the manufacturing industry is too severe.
Especially labor-intensive industries, it is a disaster.
Products cannot be sold, and companies have to lay off employees to survive. It is difficult to find new jobs in an economic crisis. Workers also need to survive, and conflicts arise.
Although other industries will also be affected, because the number of employees employed is relatively small and they are not concentrated as in large factories, the outbreak of the crisis is also scattered in various places.
In theory, a colonial empire like Austria could avoid a revolution as long as no one disturbed it.
Unemployed people have no jobs in the country, but can be placed in overseas colonies. Generally speaking, as long as people have choices, they will not go to extremes.
Thinking of this, Franz gritted his teeth with hatred towards John Bull. In order to retaliate against the British, Franz immediately decided to increase his support for the Irish Independent Organization and the British Revolutionary Party.
In a sense, this revolutionary wave that has spread across Europe is also the result of several big hooligans stabbing each other with knives.
Prime Minister Felix: "Your Majesty, I just received news that more than 5,000 people in the Silesia refugee camp have launched a protest, asking the government to intervene in the atrocities of the Russians and rescue the oppressed..."
Before Felix could finish speaking, Franz threw the cup in his hand angrily. "Protest", when did criminals have the right to protest?
There is nothing wrong with the illegal immigrants accepted by the refugee camps being legally defined as criminals.
Because of the large number of people involved, the Vienna government did not directly define everyone as a criminal, but only punished the leader.
This protest undoubtedly challenged Franz's bottom line. Russian atrocities, protesting to the Austrian government, isn't this nonsense?
Austria is not an international police, so why should it interfere in other people's internal affairs? If you really point fingers indiscriminately, you will be killed sooner or later.
The Vienna government has
Most of them have been resettled, but there are still more than 200,000 people stranded in the refugee camps, waiting to be resettled.
Franz sneered: "Repatriate all the protesters to the Russian Empire and give Alexander III to plant potatoes.
All relevant responsible persons were dismissed and held accountable. An investigation team was dispatched to investigate the ins and outs of the incident. I don't believe it was the refugees' initiative. "
The refugee camp is managed militarily, and protests can still break out. If there is no managerial malfeasance, Franz will not believe anything.
To put it badly, the managers were unwilling. What happened outside, the people in the refugee camp couldn't receive any news.
These people were not idle either, and Franz built a wall around the border. Not for anything, but mainly to find something for the refugees to do, so as not to get in trouble.
Take every precaution, trouble is still coming. For long-term peace, Franz had to kill the chickens to show the monkeys.
Repatriation to the Russian Empire is the greatest punishment. The tsarist government would not welcome them, and they were lucky to be able to go to Siberia to grow potatoes.
Prime Minister Felix proposed: "Your Majesty, the repatriation of these troublesome refugees is not a problem, the problem is the intensifying wave of European revolutions.
Although most of the riots initiated by the revolutionary party ended in failure and were not as severe as in 1848, the harm caused by such frequent riots should not be underestimated.
For the peace and stability of the European world, it is necessary for us to convene another international conference to unite countries in a coalition government to jointly curb the spread of revolutionary ideas. "
There is no government that is not afraid of "revolution" these days. Due to the limitation of productivity, all countries in the world and the people at the bottom have a hard life.
"Life is not easy", there is the will to revolution, the soil for revolution exists, and the vested interests naturally panic.
It seems that these revolutionary events happened in isolation, but in fact, more than 90% of the revolutions here are inseparable from international forces.
Perhaps everyone did not plan a rebellion directly, but they supported revolutionary organizations, spread revolutionary ideas, and provided shelter to revolutionary party members. These were all done by big hooligans.
Of course, small countries are also involved. It's just that the range of action is smaller, mainly to do thought output.
After the Great Revolution of 1848, European countries learned their lessons and settled down for a while, but they did not expect that they will be revived now.
On this issue, Franz has no qualifications to accuse others, and Austria has also done similar things.
At least the turmoil in England and France is due to the Vienna government. Without the participation of Austria, the European continent would not be so lively.
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