The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

The flowers are still blooming, but some hardy varieties have been changed.But Franz felt something unusual, and I'm afraid the next day will not be easy.

While Western Europe was hit by blizzards, Central Europe experienced a mild winter. The Netalenya region seemed to have no snow for a whole winter. Maybe there will be another drought in the coming year.

But in fact, Franz was too worried. The agricultural harvest of the Austrian Empire would fail after 1846, but it was still much better than its neighbors.

The three consecutive years of poor harvests in France from 1845, 1846, and 1847 led to a sharp decline in the purchasing power of French farmers. At the same time, financial defaults increased sharply, and land mergers accelerated, eventually triggering a revolution.

As for how bad things in Spain will be, Franz is not sure, but he will not jump out of the routine of famine, riots, and civil war.

At the same time, Franz also intends to increase the area of ​​food cultivation in the colony. Although doing so will sacrifice some economic benefits, it can add an insurance for the future.

In fact, such behavior will not lead to a reduction in production, but a relative slowdown in growth.

In addition, Franz also needs to build some food reserve bases. After all, with his brain circuit, uprisings and riots seem to have something to do with not being able to eat or survive.

Franz was thinking that if he could feed most people, would he be able to eliminate the rebellion in some areas?Or should we only let rebellion appear in some areas, and then use all our strength to completely cull them?
It's just that a sudden riot poured cold water on Franz.

Northern Italy, Milan.

Italian nationalists staged a riot in the heart of the Austrian Empire, which naturally ended in failure.

Historically there have been minor uprisings in Northern Italy ruled by the Austrian Empire, about which they are not even accurately recorded.

However, this time the scale was very large. The insurgents held a large number of weapons. They first attacked the police station, and then coerced the people to try to rob the arsenal.

Fortunately, Marshal Radetzky did not adopt a soft policy this time, and directly mobilized three regiments to suppress it.

When the crowd saw the ready army, they began to retreat. The rebels who coerced the people knew that when the crowd dispersed, they would completely lose their chance.

So someone detonated the explosives that had been prepared in the crowd, and then shot at the crowd.

"The Austrians have fired!"

"Fight with them!"

"Come on!"

Fortunately, Marshal Radetzky's soldiers were disciplined enough and did not shoot indiscriminately because of excessive tension, otherwise it would have been a real massacre.

The people fled in panic, but because the Austrian army did not shoot, and the black muzzles and neat queues were also daunting, naturally no one rushed to the Austrian army formation desperately.

Soon there were only die-hard rebels left, and instead of retreating, they chose to shoot and hurl homemade explosives at the Austrian troops.

But this kind of messy attack is not a threat to the army that is ready to fight. With the sound of neat gunfire, the first insurgents who rushed up were wiped out, followed by continuous gunfire. The sound is like frying beans.

The insurgents were completely suppressed, and the line began to move forward. Those who had never experienced war were already frightened by this sense of oppression, and could only run wildly.

However, some elite hunters had already gone around and cut off their retreat, and at the same time occupied the commanding heights everywhere, and a precise hunting began.

Later, the captured insurgents learned of the existence of its remnant party, and finally arrested nearly 1300 people, plus the total number of people killed and captured before reached an astonishing 2500.

Although it is not comparable to the number of tens of thousands of rebels in the Pope's Palace, the northern Italian region controlled by the Austrian Empire has not had a riot of more than 100 people for several years since the Charcoal Party uprising.

After all, if you have money to earn and food to eat, who wants to risk their lives.And because of the emperor's imperial order "The wicked must not be indulged, and the good must not be wronged.", coupled with Franz's continuous attention, the law and order in northern Italy is relatively good.

On the contrary, Italian civilians often broke out fighting with hundreds of people because of business robbing or gangster robbing territory. However, because the Austrian Empire collected a large number of weapons, it did not cause too many casualties.

The local magistrates just said that this is a national tradition and did not interfere too much.

After investigation, most of these rebels are dock workers, traditional craftsmen and small businessmen.They each have their own reasons, although they said on the surface that they want to overthrow the imperial system and resist foreign humiliation.

But in fact, they are all based on their own interests. Due to the arrival of a large number of immigrants, the wages of dock workers have been suppressed again and again. Although Italy's economy has taken off, their treatment has continued to decline.

At the same time, the officials of the Austrian Empire had no intention of stopping these immigrants. After all, in their view, this was a problem between brothers.

And they can't manage the border is so big, not to mention that the Austrian Empire is traditionally a multi-ethnic country, and it has never been said that the people of the country are not allowed to enter.

Some officials are even "foreign immigrants" who migrated from South Germany or North Germany.

The industrialization of Austria will inevitably have an impact on handicraftsmen, especially the emergence of those large factories, which directly wiped out the survival soil of many traditional handicraft industries.

As for those small businessmen, they were also severely impacted, because the development of industrialization would inevitably tilt the financial policy towards those big businessmen.

This has led to the rapid expansion of capital, the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.While those big businessmen were praising the policies of the Austrian Empire, those small businessmen were struggling with shrinking assets and squeezed living space.

In fact, big businessmen will not give up because of low profits in some industries, on the contrary, they plan to want all of them.In order to complete the monopoly, those small businessmen need to be squeezed out.

So they crazily raised the threshold while crazily lowering prices.

Although the people feel the benefits in the short term, in the long run, the result of monopoly is very likely to harm the interests of the people and the upstream and downstream industries, and may even harm the country.

But now it seems that it doesn't take long for these people to stand up and endanger the interests of the Austrian Empire.

This uprising sounded the alarm for Franz. It seems that things will not be as smooth as he thought.

At the same time, such a large-scale uprising, and these weapons and intelligence.Franz didn't believe that it was all spontaneously organized by the local people, and there was a high probability that there would be black hands behind the scenes.

And this black hand may be the United Kingdom, it may be France, it may even be Sardinia or Switzerland, or all of them.