Chapter 739 Ten Thousand Years Is Too Long

According to the old man's estimate, Emperor Ferdinand is in his prime, and it won't be a problem for him to live another 20 or 30 years. By then, he will have turned into a pile of yellow earth, and those young people will become old and will no longer make trouble.

There will be no war without rebellion. The Habsburg family is indeed the most benevolent master who has ever existed on this land.

"I hope you can participate when I ascend the throne, not as serfs, but as free men."

"What a beautiful thing to say. This archduke can handle things so skillfully at such a young age. He will definitely be a great emperor in the future. Maybe the serfs will have a better life at that time. It's a pity that I may not see it."

The old serf sighed secretly, and the young people on the side were very excited and felt that their descendants should have the opportunity to get rid of the status of serfs.

The civil servants who followed Franz breathed a sigh of relief. They were too afraid that the young people would act impulsively.

The soldiers did not react much. Obedience was their duty, and Franz also promised that he would invite some free men to attend the ceremony when he ascended the throne.

"Now I declare that all serfs who died in the uprising this time can receive pensions according to the standards of the imperial soldiers."

This sentence is like thunder. You should know that the pension of the Austrian Empire at this time is twice as high as before.

Three hundred florins may not be a big number for the residents of Vienna, but for the serfs, it is the income of a strong laborer for six years.

Franz's statement made the serfs very excited, because with this money they can redeem themselves.

Some people must have questions here, that is, these serfs can't even save six years of wages? The answer is that they really can't save it. Not only can they not save money, but they have to borrow money from the landlords from time to time to barely make ends meet.

Serfdom can last for thousands of years, so there is naturally a way to control the upward space of serfs, otherwise who will work.

This is equivalent to liberating the serfs in disguise, but no one dares to raise any objections when the money is paid in one hand and the goods are delivered in the other.

However, there were about 3,000 nobles who died this time, and at least tens of thousands of serfs, which required tens of millions of florins in pensions.

Such a huge amount of money was not easy to collect at once, and it was unknown whether these serfs would accept the expected money.

Just as the entourage and serfs were thinking about it, Franz threw out a more heavy news.

"The Austrian Empire will deprive all traitors of their property."

This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, for everyone present, even Albrecht, a royal family who did not care about politics.

It was common in the East to confiscate the property of traitors and exterminate their families, but it was not the case in the Austrian Empire in the 19th century. Nobles who committed treason were usually not sentenced to death, but exiled, and their families would mostly be disgraced, not tarnished.

There was a death penalty for nobles, but it was very rare. Even in 1848 in history, most rebellious nobles were lynched by the people, not sanctioned by the imperial government with laws. The number of people sentenced was very small, but the number of nobles who died under imperial sanctions was even smaller.

In 1848, in a rebellion of this scale in Hungary, less than 100 people were executed, and there were very few nobles among them.

Afterwards, Franz could not confiscate the property of these people for treason, but had to confiscate the property of foreign hostile forces in the name of confiscating the property of Galician serfs and local officials.

Mia Artiez sighed, "Archduke Franz still took that step." Her idea can represent the thoughts of most people in the entourage at this time.

Because Franz's behavior was a bit too radical, the news would probably explode when it was reported back to Vienna. But in fact, he had more radical measures.

Franz then gave a speech.

The general content of the speech is as follows:

Affirming the achievements of the Galicians, while angrily denouncing the inhumane behavior of the local nobles.

Then he put forward a few hopes for the future, and finally held a commendation meeting and a criticism meeting.

In order to promote something new, criticizing old things is the most effective way, but Franz will not let it expand.

So the criticism meeting only criticized those evil rebellious nobles, not the aristocratic system itself.

Polish nobles have always been good at being unkind, otherwise they would not have been beaten like this by their own serfs.

This kind of criticism meeting is very effective, and even other nationalities in Franz's team want to punch him.

Miss Mia and other clerks who are responsible for recording are shaking their hands, because once these contents are published, they will cause an uproar.

The contents can no longer be described as appalling, they are simply shocking, and some of the behaviors have exceeded the imagination and understanding of ordinary people.

But the serfs are getting more and more excited, and there is no lack of exaggeration, but the soldiers and Franz's accompanying officials don't know, they have no doubt about what these poor people are crying about.

The anger of the serfs and the rebellious nobles crying in the fire, there is no deeper education than this. The views of good and evil of most of them are frozen at this moment.

This is actually the education of remembering the bitterness and cherishing the sweetness in later generations. It is not only for the lower class people to see, but also to make the people around Franz firm in their beliefs, whether to serve the country as an individual or to be slaughtered as a beast.

As for the dross of serfdom, Franz did not want to keep it. He directly burned the serf contracts of the nobles who participated in the rebellion in Vienna, the so-called final backup, together with the bodies of those nobles.

The flames shot into the sky. At this time, the rebellious nobles finally panicked. They no longer took pride in being the Polish Restoration Army. Instead, they began to say that they were Austrians and loyal servants of the Habsburg family.

Some people even took out a flag of the Principality of Austria with them, but there was an indescribable strange feeling. The executioners hesitated when they saw the flag, because they did not dare to burn it.

Franz: "Mr. Iga Skorowski, right?"

"Yes! I have always been a loyal supporter of the Austrian Empire. You see, I still carry the flag with me."

In fact, the flag of the Austrian Empire is black and gold, and the red, white, and red in his hand is the flag of the Principality of Austria. Franz naturally will not believe this nonsense.

"Can you show me your flag?"

Iga Skorowski hurriedly handed it to Colonel Bordeaux, who then handed it to Franz.

There was just a click, and the flag was torn apart. The Austrian Principality flag instantly turned into the Polish flag (white and red), and the strange feeling disappeared.

"This" Iga Skorowski was at a loss.

Franz laughed at this time.

"It seems that you not only betrayed the Austrian Empire, but also the Polish Federation or the Kingdom of Poland."

In surprise, Iga Skorowski was pushed into the pit of fire by Colonel Bordeaux.

"This noisy guy is finally finished."

I didn’t write down the specific content of the speech, so as not to be criticized for the word count all day long. In addition, I want to say that whether the speech is false or empty, or true, good, and beautiful, it requires energy and brain power.