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

So word games became a necessary means. In fact, Franz hired many legal experts and linguists to do this together.

However, Prince Metternich saw the clue at a glance.

"Arch Duke Franz, you do this." He pondered for a while and said.

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with it. But it's best to use the hands of the Regent Council. After all, some guys who don't know how to adapt will jump over the wall in a hurry."

Count Kororav also saw the problem at this time. He also hesitated for a while, but this time he did not contradict Prince Metternich.

"Archduke Franz, I understand how you feel. After all, you have been under the pressure of revitalizing the empire and the title of born saint since you were a child. But isn't reform something that should only be done after being in desperate situations?
Now that the fortunes of the empire are booming, you have plenty of ways to show your ambitions, why do you need to adopt this most radical strategy?
I hate those guys who are always trying to engage in moral kidnapping as much as you do, but I still recommend that you do these things someday in the future.

In fact, after so many years of benevolent rule, the Habsburg family's position in Austria is still strong enough that you don't need to worry too much if you have to. "

Count Latour looked worried. As the leader of the Joseph faction, how could he still not know what Franz was going to do.

Count Latour had been looking forward to this day since he was young, but he was the most hesitant when it really came. After all, no one wanted the tragedy of prosperity and decline to repeat itself.

Although he has not experienced the Teresa era, the empress's name is still circulating in Austria, and it is a possibly greater monarch who ended all that.

At this time, Count Latour in the era of Ferdinand I suddenly felt that it could not be worse.

The changing expression of the Minister of War made it easy to see what he was thinking at a glance. As an old friend, Count Korolov patted him on the shoulder.

"Didn't the army change equipment several times? The number of the army has also expanded several times. What are you afraid of?"

"Who said I was afraid!" Count Latour opened his old friend's hand and defended, "I was just thinking about how to minimize the scale of the war!"

Franz did not expect this kind of statement from the top officials of the empire. After all, in his eyes, these people were representatives of the old forces.

Of course, it is also possible that a group of old foxes joined forces to show Franz, but this is not important.

In fact, Franz was still planning how to persuade them before, but now it seems that there is no need.

"Thank you, but I just want to read this government announcement with a more reasonable grammar, and I don't want to target anyone.

But I have to make one point, that is, some actions and words that are too partial to the Polish nobles may cause greater dissatisfaction. After all, it is the civilians who bleed and sacrifice the most on the front line.

We should give them justice, and those Poles who had been hanged for participating in the rebellion in Russia should thank us instead of accusing us of inappropriate words. "

"Then let's vote by a show of hands."

Although Metternich had spoken righteously before, he would not take the blame himself.

Archduke Franz Karl grabbed the hand of the Grand Duke Louis, which counted as two votes from the royal family.Prince Metternich and Count Kororav, who had been loyal before, would naturally not repent at this time.

As a result, the Regency Council unanimously approved the plan, and of course it will make final revisions before it is made public.

Then this compensation plan for the Polish nobles in Galicia became an amnesty order, and the transfer of protection became a crime and meritorious deed. The article also specifically emphasized Dalmatia, a place of exile.

Most people in the aristocratic circles remained indifferent to it. The Poles were dissatisfied and protested, but the ordinary people seemed to be celebrating it.

Franz took the opportunity to engage in a series of promotional activities, while promoting some new products, such as skewers, fried skewers, and potato chips.

After all, snacks and beer are indispensable for eating melons and watching movies. The promotion of Pilsner beer allows the working people to buy a glass from time to time.

The sudden half-price sale made the whole city drunk, and when the convoy of Polish aristocrats exiled to Dalmatia drove on the streets of Vienna, the citizens of Vienna burst into unprecedented patriotic enthusiasm and sense of national honor.

The angry citizens terrified the nobles, and reminded them of the fear of the French nobles being dominated by the common people, the French Revolution, the guillotine, and the great devil Robespierre.
After that, the protests of the nobles became much quieter, and only a few nobles still went around denouncing the cruelty and tyranny of the empire.

However, these targets were pointed at Prime Minister Metternich and Interior Minister Count Korolaf in the Regency Council. Both of them were well prepared but chose to remain silent and neither explained nor objected.

And those nobles who were provoking troubles everywhere became the targets of German nationalists all at once.

The reason for the latter is very simple. Even Metternich, an old traitor, and Kororav, a corrupt official, did not stand up for the Poles, so the former must be the heinous person who surpassed them.

In this era of awakening nationalism, there were many kinds of nationalists in the Austrian Empire, but under the guidance and secret support of Franz, Austrian nationalists were on the rise.

They are more inclusive and stable than other nationalists, but the disadvantage is that they are low in organization, rational but lack of enthusiasm, so the most troublesome ones are still the German nationalists.

Regarding the treatment of the Polish nobles, the direction of public opinion in the Austrian Empire also changed from benevolent to just.In fact, this is also to lay the groundwork just in case. If the Poles turn against it, it will be convenient to suppress it without too much public opinion and moral pressure.

At this time, the ethnic issues within the Austrian Empire were very complicated. Italians had become the second largest ethnic group in the empire and were highly concentrated in northern Italy.

There are constant conflicts between the new immigrants and the aborigines, and there is also friction between the northern Italians and the Austrian imperial government. They are eager to gain power, but the government of any country will not allow an independent nation to monopolize a region.

Representatives of northern Italy hope that Austria can withdraw its troops and transfer political power, allowing locals to form parliaments and elect officials.

All this sounds very good, but their purpose is to build a country within a country.

The coastline of the Austrian Empire is very limited. If they are allowed to succeed, the harm will be much greater than that of Hungary.

Therefore, it is impossible for the empire to agree, so the northern Italians began to connect in series to try to solve it in other ways, and they began to hold a "banquet" like the French.

Naturally, the Austrian Empire cannot sit still. More than 1000 million Italians are too large, so it is necessary to disperse them.

Metternich's idea was to recruit [-] young Italians into the army in the future, and then move the Italians to the colonies, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and northern Albania to disperse their power.