Fox of France

Among the series of cooperation agreements reached between France and Austria, the one with the largest investment is the plan for a railway from Lubin to the Oder River. As long as there is this railway, the copper produced from Lubin can be transported to the wharf on the Oder River through this railway, loaded on barges, and then these barges will be pulled by tugboats along the Oder River to the Baltic Sea, and then From there it is shipped all over Europe.

This railway will allow Lubin's copper mines to be more fully utilized, copper ore can be transported to the smelter more easily, and other raw materials required for smelting can also be sent in more easily. In addition, the latest refinery and its supporting power plants and other facilities will also be built in this area one after another. According to the plan of the two parties, the Lubin area will soon become the most important copper production center in Europe, which will bring a lot of income to Austria every year.

But this plan has been opposed by many people. This is also normal, because such actions are always accompanied by changes in the distribution of benefits. Once there is a change in the distribution of benefits, there will naturally be people whose interests have been damaged, and then there will naturally be dissatisfaction and anger.

It is said that if the cake can be made larger, in theory, everyone can get a far more share than before. In this way, even if the distribution ratio has changed from before, because there are more things in hand, those who are in the distribution Generally speaking, people whose proportion has decreased will not have much opinion.

But this is only an ideal state, because even if the cake becomes bigger, it may not be possible for everyone to get a bigger share when it is distributed. "Matthew" said: "Whoever has, he will be given double to make him superfluous; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away." In the far east, a great philosopher also said: "One of the most fundamental laws of mankind is to take from those who are poor what little they have and give it to those who are rich."

Therefore, when distributing the cake, although the cake is theoretically much larger, when distributing it, many people get nothing.

Not only do they get nothing, but even the losses when making cakes have to be borne by those who can't get anything.

The first thing to do when building a railway is naturally land acquisition.

Lubin was originally the territory of the Kingdom of Poland. After the subjugation of Poland, this place belongs to Austria. But the property rights of the land are basically owned by those Polish nobles.

In France, most of the land is already state-owned. The original owner of the land was either guillotined or hung on a street lamp. Of course, it is convenient to expropriate the land. If it is in the core territory of Austria, which is serious and honest, those lands are also owned by the great nobles, and everyone's interests are equally shared, and it is enough to distribute them honestly and reasonably. But in Lubin, Polish nobles can also be considered nobles? Want to take money just as reasonably as a serious German-speaking nobleman? How is this possible?

Generally speaking, although bullying people may not be regarded as the foundation of happiness, it must be admitted that bullying people themselves can bring real happiness even if it does not involve benefits. If you bully people, you can also gain benefits , it would be against "human nature" not to bully the weak. In contrast, although the Polish nobles were out-and-out strong when facing Polish serfs, they immediately became weak, pitiful and helpless in front of people who could participate in this kind of business up.

This helplessness can be understood as that no one will help them; it can also be understood that the land has been expropriated, but there is no subsidy. Yes, there is no subsidy, and the price of expropriating land is very cheap. The reason, of course, is that the land does not grow crops well, and the harvest is limited, so it is not worth much. As for why those lands cannot grow crops, this is indeed a problem. When the copper mines here had not been discovered, and the mines and copper smelters had not been established, the harvest of the land here was actually good. It's just that ever since there were mines and factories, the land here has gradually been unable to grow crops, not only crops, but even strange things happened to the nearby rivers-the creatures in the river died mysteriously, and the residents in the lower reaches could go to the river. Strange disease, plants along the coast are constantly mutating, is it a witch casting a curse, or is the national football team washing their feet across time and space?

Anyway, the land over there is no longer valuable. Of course, the land expropriation price given by the big nobles involved in the railway project in Austria was worth less than worthless, so the Polish nobles were finally angry.

But the Habsburg nobles didn't care about the anger of these Polish barbarians. In their view, the wrath of the Polish nobles was nothing more than bare-headed and vain, grabbing land with their heads.

Generally speaking, the judgment of the Habsburg nobles is not bad. The Polish nobles are a bunch of cowardly and useless waste. In this world, there is no regime that can safeguard their interests better than the regime of the Kingdom of Poland. However, in the process of Poland's demise, most of the nobles did not dare to stand up and fight for the motherland that truly belonged to them. Just such a group of cowards, even if they are angry, what can they do? The biggest possibility is that, as Master Lu said, "drawing the edge on the weaker" and venting their anger on those Polish tenant farmers.

If everything worked, this should be the final result. However, the sudden participation of certain forces has caused some changes in the situation.

First of all, the Pope announced the investigation of Emperor Franz II, which in a sense seriously weakened the emperor's authority. So some nobles in Hungary couldn't help but want to move a little bit.

At the beginning, when Joseph II, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, worked hard to implement reforms, he established German immigration areas in Galicia, Bukovina, Hungary, and West Benbergen, rewarding the German noble estates and German aristocrats in the dependent areas. For the development of capital, Germans were given priority in hiring civil and military officials; the protection tariff policy was implemented, the development of industry and commerce was rewarded, and fiscal revenue was increased; the "Tolerance Order" on religious policies was promulgated in 1781, and decrees were issued from 1781 to 1782 to abolish farmers in hereditary territories Personal dependence actually abolished serfdom.

However, the reforms of Joseph II violated the interests of many nobles, especially Austria is a multi-ethnic country. In the Austrian Netherlands, Hungary and Bohemia, there are many Habsburgs who are not particularly interested in the Habsburgs. God thinks of splitting himself up to be the king's guy.

So when Joseph II led his troops on an expedition to Turkey, those guys in the country rebelled one after another. Joseph II betrayed his relatives and was forced to cancel most of the reform measures.

Today, Emperor Franz II seems to be in some kind of predicament. Obviously, the Pope will not find trouble with an emperor for no reason, and he still uses such an excuse. Speaking of radicalism, it is originally a Catholic feature, okay? In the Holy See, there should not be too many priests who are radical. Obviously, this is someone who wants to use the Pope to attack Emperor Franz II. Considering that in today's Europe, who else can drive the Pope like this, it is almost self-evident who this person is.

Since the French wanted to deal with Emperor Franz II, they would be sorry for themselves if they didn't take the opportunity to do something. They didn't know at that time that the major shareholders of this project included French people, and they were also members of the Bonaparte family. Of course, they can't be blamed for this. Who knows why Joseph, an old silver coin, likes to invest so much through multiple holdings. So take a look, the companies investing in this project are all Austrian companies, and then look at the shareholder composition of these companies, um, you can see some French companies, and then check the shareholder composition of these French companies, You can find some other less well-known French companies, and then check the shareholder composition of these French companies, um, you can see the surname "Bonaparte".

This kind of practice is not uncommon in later generations, but it is not common in this era. In addition, there is no such thing as a sky eye in this era, so how would those Hungarian bumpkins know?

Because those Hungarian bumpkins don't know this, and they don't understand that there can still be magical operations in this world where you can cooperate to make money while tearing each other down, so some Hungarians started to get active. And with the support of these people, the nobles in Poland became courageous and jumped up, declaring that they would resist tyranny.

But they really resisted. Of course it wasn't a direct uprising - because those Polish nobles didn't dare, Emperor Franz II's judgment on them was completely correct, they were a bunch of cowards! Therefore, their resistance was to refuse to transfer the land, resolutely acted as a nail household, and used various methods to cause trouble for the Lubin Railway.

Since these Poles are so ignorant, His Majesty the Emperor will naturally give them a little bit of a try. So the police department of His Majesty the Emperor quickly cleared up some unsolved unsolved cases many years ago, for example, someone was robbed on a country road, someone was killed by a bandit in a certain place, etc. Things are all on the heads of those nail households.

Of course, His Majesty's police station has no evidence in hand. However, what is so difficult about evidence? Are you afraid that there will be no evidence if you are caught in the police? What, you said we tortured to extract confessions? This is a shameless rumor, otherwise, we will strip the suspect completely and let you see where there is a little new scar on his body? that place? That place is a hemorrhoid, which has nothing to do with us. How about I get a doctor to give you a diagnosis certificate?

This method of His Majesty the Emperor naturally caused... Well, it made some nail households soften and plan to surrender. This also made the Hungarian nobles standing behind them anxious, so they jumped up quickly.