Austria 1840

There were only John and Carl left, and the 11-year-old boy who believed in Carl's Uncle Leopold.

"Uncle John, I earn some money on the London Stock Exchange. I have already taken some out and set up a few factories in Novi Sad, which is Aunt Maria's lair, on the banks of the Danube, there are many people, and it can be developed. "

It seems to be a small talk first, but in fact it is to prove his strength, and then go to the main topic, John will listen carefully, although he may not agree.

"Uncle, your mining school, I can support you with 30,000 pounds of start-up capital, 6,000 pounds of non-specialized funds, 600 scholarships, and 600 grants each year."

"Are there any conditions?"

Little brother Leopold, no, little uncle, he is a smart man, he directly asked his father.

"Uncle Leopold, there are almost no conditions. This school is the core area of ​​Austria, the home of the Habsburg family. It should be Austrian language teaching. If not, my condition is Austrian language teaching. If Yes, I have no conditions."

He glanced at Uncle John and saw how casual he seemed, and continued:

"I talked with Uncle Karl. In terms of the proportion of major ethnic groups in the country, Britain and France account for 80-90%, Russia accounts for 50-60%, even Prussia has 60-70%, and only Austria, 20%."

"You mean that you are afraid that you won't be able to twist it into a single rope, and you won't be able to use your strength in one place?"

Leopold asked, it seems that the logic education of Uncle John's family is in place.

"Why do I have to be tied with you, why do I work hard with you? Since nationalism spread from France, especially when Napoleon hit Europe, where has he not been swept away by this plague?"

Carl said confidently.

"That's right, five brothers have five hearts, and eight sisters have eight hearts. Among the titles of emperors that we recite, we can blurt out 35, that is, 35 hearts."

Leopold was thinking, this is indeed the truth. He was feeling this inconsistency, and his heart was cold, more than 35.

"If I'm Hungarian, if I'm Italian, I don't want to be with you Germans or with you Austrians."

Carl still said confidently.

"Then why are you still thinking of assimilating them?"

John couldn't help but interject when he heard these two guys sing along.

"Because I'm Austrian, I'm German, because I'm not Hungarian, not Italian."

Carl's tone was so unreasonable, but what he said was so reasonable.

"Then why don't you put yourself in their shoes and think about it?"

Unwilling to give up, the liberal Archduke John asked.

"Why should I put myself in their shoes? Why don't the Britons put themselves in Costin's shoes? When Napoleon ravaged my grandfather Franz, why didn't I put myself in Austria's shoes?"

Now John was stopped. In fact, a person like John, on this road, is like all the people who are not very good at bullying gentlemen.

"Have you seen any peasants uprising to fight the gangsters? No, they will only fight the squires, landlords, and loot shops and granaries."

Carl glanced at John and mentioned a phenomenon to him.

"Have you seen the gangsters take the hostages and said to the sun, if you expose me again, I will kill the hostages? No. They will make demands on the hostages' parents, brothers and spouses."

Carl continued to block John.

"Are they all bullying people who obey the rules?"

Leopold thought for a while and concluded.

"Yes, Uncle Leopold, they are the bullies..."

John also looked at Carl in confusion.

"...There is an idiom in Haidongqing, that a gentleman bullies him, that is, for a gentleman—a person who obeys rules, he should use rules to bully him. Since it is bullying, it means that he will not Follow the rules."

"Then what about us, are we going to be unruly people? Then we won't be able to get along, if we are unruly people."

Or Leopold, thinking, talking to himself.

"As for us, of course it's not that we don't obey the rules. We have to obey those who obey the rules; and those who break the rules, we shouldn't obey the rules."

"Then you are not following the rules when you promote the Austrian language. Who are you breaking the rules with? Are those non-Austrian kingdoms, principalities, or territories breaking the rules?"

John raised his voice, questioning Carl a little.

"What do you think, Uncle John, if they follow the rules, the central policy of the Austrian Empire will be implemented like a bird when it gets down to it?"

"These kingdoms, principalities, territories, they all swore allegiance to the Habsburg family and worked hard for the Austrian Empire, but did they do what they swore? They did what the empire and their laws stipulated. Yet?"

"The local aristocrats, especially the Hungarian and Italian aristocrats, do not follow the rules, they are all condoning and even promoting the spread of nationalism, and they are all playing their own little calculus. Are these not breaking the rules?"

Carl asked Uncle John three consecutive questions, and his momentum suddenly rose.

John was still immersed in his beliefs and couldn't extricate himself, but he was a little dizzy. Leopold had been brainwashed by Karl. He blurted out:

"Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous; since you don't keep your oath, we have no choice but to break the rules."

Well, what's more, Uncle John, Karl thought to himself, where is this, I haven't sent out a lot of arguments and emotions.

"Yes, we are in Austria. This is a typical small horse-drawn cart. For England, France, Russia and Russia, it is a big horse-drawn cart."

Looking at John, Karl sighed and continued:

"If there's nothing to do, they're all walking slowly on the flat ground. In fact, it's not a big problem. If something happens, the British and French are not a big problem. After a pause, they can start again. Window, broken door."

"What about us, what about us in Austria?"

"We, if we overturned the car directly, any turbulence and grass on our cliff will cause our car to crash and die. It's not the majority of people who die first. The Habsburg family and the Austrian Empire die first."

Carl added another fire:

"The core people of Lao Ha's family have two paths in the end, one is to go to the guillotine, and the other is to exile on a small island in the Atlantic Ocean. We, who are dressed in fine clothes and jade, are estimated to be able to survive for another three or five years on the small island. Then I went to see my ancestors."

"What about those who are in good health and can endure hardships and hardships?"

Leopold asked, it's not that he doesn't agree with Carl, but he wants to see if there are any loopholes in Carl's thinking.

"Is Napoleon in good health? He fights all day long and sleeps in the open air. Is it okay to endure hardships and toil? Slowly add some ingredients to the food, and the body will gradually collapse."

No one can say that he is anti-virus and anti-disease. Maybe Napoleon's death has something to do with the old Ha family, maybe a core person like John knows what's going on.

"What about those who died later? I see you mentioned earlier that the Habsburg family and the Austrian Empire died first."

John is a rational person and won't mess around. He wants to see if there are any major loopholes, so he asks again.

"The Habsburg family perished first, the dead people perished, the empire was torn apart, and the wars continued. There would be border disputes between the states that belonged to the empire, and there would be disputes with Britain, France, Prussia, and Ottoman Turkey outside the empire. …”

Both John and Leopold nodded, thinking that would happen.

"...how to resolve disputes? It's not like blood flowed into rivers. The more problems are fought, the more people die, the more the hatred becomes more and more knotted, the endless cycle, unless the saints appear, such as Jesus, such as Muhammad, Like Shakyamuni."

The two of John and his son also understood what they heard, but how can the saints appear so easily. For thousands of years, there have only been three, and after these saints appeared, they continued to fight against each other for hundreds of years.

"Well, it is estimated that in another 100 years, the population of the Ottomans in Britain, France, Prussia, and Russia will increase three or four times. In our place, it's still those populations. Why? They're all killed, and those who live will not die soon."

Carl added some more dry wood.

John seemed to have some energy, stared at Carl and asked:

"Is there any other good way?"

"Yes, of course there is."

"Well, let's talk about it."

"Leave the Principality of Austria, and other countries have their own ways. But they will fight soon. This means that their car crashed and died. It has nothing to do with us, and it is not our people anyway."

"In this way, our old Ha family, our Austrian family, can continue a good life, so separation is not a way."

Leopold said, of course he is not like this, he is stimulating Dad John.

"Uncle Leopold, you are thinking too much. About our Austrian Grand Duchy, after a few years, or Bavaria, or Prussia, annex us, we will be gloriously Bavarian, or Prussian."

"No problem, let's be Bavarians, let's be Prussians."

Still provoking his father.

"However, Uncle Leopold, whether it is Bavaria or Prussia, if it wants to grow to the size of Austria, it will take another war, and we still have to get involved. Life and death are unknown, see it all. The enemy's artillery fire has long eyes but not long eyes."

Carl went on to say:

"Or you will meet a strong man like Napoleon..."

"How about it, how about meeting a strong man like Napoleon?"

"It's not very good, just go back to the above question, there are two roads, one is the guillotine, and the other is exiled to a small island in the Atlantic Ocean."

"Isn't it unfair to teach Austrian language, or assimilate others?"

"It's injustice, Uncle John. If it's fair, you should spend all your money and live like the poor."

Maria and Anna came in, she said to John.

"If it's fair, your annuity and salary, as well as Uncle Carl's money, can support more than 1,000 families, not more than 1,000 people, but more than 1,000 families."

"If it's fair, we may have all died long ago, and we may not have the opportunity to sit here and chat. The chances of children from poor families being malnourished and dying are much higher."

Carl lit the fire on his uncle again and added some more ingredients.

"Although I come from an ordinary family, I also agree with Maria and Karl's views."

"Dad, I also agree with the views of Sister Maria and little Carl. When Uncle Carl came a while ago, I was a little shaken."

"Let me think about it."

John said something, got up, and left.

Until now, he left without saying whether the school was teaching in Austrian or non-Austrian languages.

Carl felt a bit of confusion in his heart. Uncle John's liberal ideology has a very strong barrier.

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