Chapter 693: Krakow's Plan

The efficiency of these former serfs far exceeded the expectations of Austrian officials, which actually proved that as long as the money and food were in place, they would be motivated in a matter of minutes.

In addition to the boulders, trees and weeds were much easier to clean up. After all, this was originally a firewood production area, and there were no towering trees that could be hugged by several people.

For most trees, workers could deal with them with saw blades and shovels. Some large trees could be dealt with in minutes by hanging a steam tractor and pulling with dozens or hundreds of people.

After the ground was basically cleaned up, the steam tractor would turn the land over thoroughly with a heavy plow.

Then the workers would clean up the debris that was turned over, such as stones, tree roots, etc.

After that, the steam tractor would turn the land over again, exchanging the upper and lower layers of the soil. This behavior was also called "tillage".

Finally, fertilizer was added to increase the fertility of the soil, and the land was leveled so that crops could be planted.

In addition to the dams and wastelands, there were also those swamps and lakes. The original Galician nobles had too little desire to transform the land.

As the trains brought in steam pumps, huge pipes began to drain the water from the swamps and wetlands, which would also become fertile land.

And those barren mountains were actually mines. Although the reserves were not very good, they could still solve the employment problems of some people.

The nobles of Galicia would only hold on to those traditional salt mines, but with the development of the coastal areas and the construction of railways by the Austrian Empire, the price of salt was plummeting.

In fact, Galicia also has an important strategic resource - oil, but it just so happens that the largest oil field is the territory of the Yasuski family.

(The territory of the Yasuski family is in the Dorobichi area, which happens to be near Lviv, and is also the largest oil field in the Austrian Empire.)

The Yasuski family is a staunch anti-Austrian faction, and has been funding various anti-Austrian actions for many years. At the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrian side even had to find a Canadian to deal with the family.

In the end, the Yasuski family joined forces with the Hungarian government and obtained immunity. In World War I, they even organized troops to cooperate with the Russians.

Franz actually tried to buy and exchange land, but both were rejected.

Vihliu Yasuski was the patriarch of the Yasuski family at that time. He was the top brother of the Polish Restoration Army and transferred one-third of his income out of Austria to the Polish Restorers every year.

At the same time, Vihliu Yasuski had been building bunkers and training militias on his own land, but everything he did was legal, because there was no regulation at the time that property could not be transferred abroad, and training family servants was the freedom of the nobles.

Franz did not want such people to occupy important oil resources, and Yasuski did not want him to have a good end.

So Franz had to make the Polish uprising in 1846 happen, and the 20 million florins were to force them to take action.

Although the Polish Restorers had no discipline, they were not fools. They did not revolt according to the original plan.

Of course, these guys would not admit that they were scared, but asked their supporters to continue to provide funds on the grounds of lack of funds, which forced the uprising to be postponed.

So Franz wanted to give them a fire. Don't you have no money to revolt? I will give you money.

In fact, in addition to Franz, the top leaders of the Austrian Empire were also looking forward to the Polish uprising as soon as possible.

In fact, many years ago, Austria signed a secret agreement with the Holy Alliance countries, that is, once the Free City of Krakow revolted, the Austrian Empire had the right to incorporate it into its territory.

You must know that Krakow was the most prosperous city in the entire Polish region at this time. Although it was just a drop in the bucket for the Austrian Empire at this time, the grasshopper legs also had meat.

The most important thing is that once Krakow was incorporated into the Austrian Empire, the flame of Polish nationalism would be completely extinguished, at least that's what the top leaders of Russia, Prussia and Austria thought.

In fact, the Austrian Empire's envoys rushed to Russia as soon as they got the news. The embarrassing thing was that Tsar Nicholas I didn't know the news until the Austrian envoys arrived.

Nicholas I didn't want the Austrian Empire to annex the Free City of Krakow, but he didn't want Poland to continue to revolt on its own land.

Nicholas I wanted to take the opportunity to borrow money from the Austrian Empire, but was rejected by the latter's envoy. In fact, Metternich had anticipated this situation long ago, so he directly authorized his subordinates to reject the Tsar's request.

In the end, in exchange, the two sides only reached some painless agreements.

In fact, it is also beneficial for Russia to eliminate the Polish Restoration Army and reduce the Polish people's will to restore their country. It's just that Nicholas I was a little jealous, and the Austrian Empire couldn't ignore the opinions of this powerful ally.

Austria's attitude towards Prussia was much colder. Although it was submitted by the ambassador to the King of Prussia in person, it was not an agreement, but a notice.

All Frederick William IV wanted was to sign his name. Of course, even if he didn't sign it, it would not affect the next action of the Austrian Empire.

The Free City of Krakow is very small and in the heart of the Holy Alliance. The opposition of Britain and France is meaningless.

In fact, the British did not have much real support for the Poles, and most of the so-called support was just verbal.

The French were much more practical than the former. They not only sheltered Polish political exiles, but also occasionally organized charity fundraising for these people.

However, neither Britain nor France could choose to interfere in the affairs of the Holy Alliance at this time, because they all had more important things to do.

Almost all of Britain's main forces went to India, and the Indians were really weak. When they saw the British coming, they did not admit that they had revolted.

Those princes of the state said that they were suppressing the rebellion. As for those British who died in their own territories, they were naturally killed by the rebels.

Where are the rebels? Of course they were killed by them. Which territory does not have other factions with different opinions?

Sir Henry Hardinge felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a hundred flies at this time. He knew clearly that the damn Indians were fooling him.

But for the interests and dignity of the British Empire, Sir Henry Hardinge could not start a war to clean up these termites.

He could only accept the kiss of the hands and even feet from the princes of the princely states, which made Sir Henry Harding feel a chill.

So he could only vent his anger on the Sikh Empire and the Nepal Empire, two unlucky rebels.

With the support of the British, the Rana family regained the military and political power of Nepal. However, due to fear of the power of the Qing Dynasty, Nepal still had to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty.

In order to reduce the resistance of the Nepalese, the British deliberately asked the Rana family to carry out a massacre and burn a large number of crops.

At the same time, the British also began to recruit a large number of Langkor, because they found that these people only cared about money and not people, just like the Swiss in the past, and they were definitely the best in South Asia.