Austria 1840

Karl replied, and in the eyes of Archduke John, it was still too general, and he asked, "Be specific, it's actionable."

Carl saw that the old man was still a little interesting, so he described the situation in more detail.

"One is that the country itself has to get rid of the rotten flesh, and the other is that the personnel have to get rid of the rotten flesh before they can make progress."

"Be more specific." John felt that it was still not in place, and it was almost meaningless, so he called.

"The two big points and the four small points actually mean two things anyway. First, there are several kingdoms and principalities close to Austria that belong to the Catholic Church. Let them join Austria and become the direct power of the Austrian Empire. They cannot be as big as Hungary. autonomy.”

After two big and four small, Carl said slowly.

"What about the second?" Archduke John was a little anxious.

Carl picked up the water glass and drank for a while before he said:

"The rotten flesh of Hungary is going to be cut off, of course it's not this kingdom, this land, it's these people, it's the Magyar nobles; of course, this is also the third point, that is to clean up the nobles who are against the empire, and they don't cooperate well. If the title is taken away, at least the title will be reduced."

"The fourth is to assign new nobles, right?" John asked impatiently.

"Yes, that is to assign the new nobles, but the new nobles do not have much land rights, or divide the land that does not cooperate with the old nobles and give them to the new nobles. As for the land of the nobles, they are all directly under the empire's territory."

The new rules on enfeoffment are actually more important than killing the old aristocracy. The new aristocrats and new ideas can also bring the old aristocrats with them.

The same is true for Northern Italy. The emerging nobles are cleaned up, the ones who have not emerged are honest, and some new nobles are distributed.

"This is a big move, can the empire stand up to such a toss?"

Of course, it can stand up to that big move, and it can withstand almost 80 years, Carl said.

"If you don't toss it hard, the empire will die earlier and more suddenly, and the empire will not die if you toss it? How can it die if you toss it into a teenager?"

"Now?" John said puzzled.

"Prepare now, in a few years, the virus, republic, freedom, and nationalism in France are raging everywhere, and all countries are suppressing, but the suppression of three or five years is fine, at most ten or eight years, if it can't be suppressed, it will It exploded for a while."

Karl knew about the revolution of 1848, so he was very sure of being a magician.

"Then let's wait until all countries in the world have problems, otherwise we will rectify it, and then it will be eaten by Britain, France, Russia, and the United States."

"Uncle Gaojian, of course, we have to wait for them to be in chaos before we deal with them drasticly."

Well, it seems that the revolution has the least impact on Britain and Russia. The former is that the cake continues to grow, and there is not much internal pressure; the latter is that the level of repression is high, and it cannot break out at all.

No, the big brown bear still has spare power. You can see that he helped the old friend Austria to suppress the Hungarian revolution.

However, these two **** can't be cheap, and then I'll light a fire for them. If something goes wrong, everyone will have an accident, so why should you be clean?

Carl thought wickedly, how to do it, we have to think again.

Anyway, Britain will choose Scotland and Ireland, especially Ireland, let them make more violent noises, send some money, send some arms or something, the British often do this too.

As for Russia, let’s choose Moscow and St. Petersburg. Although the Decembrists died and were exiled, there were a lot of nobles who sympathized with them. The most important thing is that their descendants are all grown up, and they can make trouble.

This wave of upstarts cannot be limited to military exploits or royal children.

All things that love the motherland Austria, science and education, industry, capital, mine owners, and landowners should be sealed, giving them a high political status, but no fiefs, and then creating a public opinion that those who have fiefs are rotten people.

Of course, whether it is new or old, they are all based on respecting and loving the emperor, supporting the Habsburgs, and recognizing and supporting the Austrian Empire. It is impossible without this premise.

Of course, this is Carl's exclusive idea. How to implement it, and to what extent, still needs to be negotiated to give a clear system.

"Speaking of which, how can we get these small German states to join us, or make us more attractive when compared to Prussia."

John seems to be talking to himself, but in fact it depends on whether Carl can do anything.

"It's too difficult. Xiao Bangguo hopes that both of us will become smaller and similar to them, so that they will not be annexed by us. It is estimated that in the end, whoever gives good conditions will play with whomever."

"What do you mean by up for sale?" John said with a frown.

Carl hummed

"So, they were happy when Napoleon slapped us off the Holy Roman Empire hat."

John murmured, of course he knew it was true. At that time, a bunch of small states joined the Rhine Confederation and became the servant states of France, and they also attacked Austria with Napoleon.

"That's for sure, whoever wants more than one father above, everyone wants to be someone else's father."

Carl speaks the truth.

"What do you think it will be in the end?"

"How about it? Let's see who is stronger, who offers good conditions, who can fool around, and how many fools there are in these countries."

Karl complained that he knew that Austria's moral appeal was not bad, but its strength was poor, so he had to withdraw after the Prussian-Austrian War.

Of course, it is not to be ruled out that the states can see that Prussia is strong. In addition to the iron, the wave that swings from side to side supports the weak Austria and fights against the strong Prussia. It is best to let them both lose.

All hurt.

"The point is, don't go so far."

"First of all, we are stronger than Prussia in morality. After all, we have ruled the German region, so if we are stronger, it will be more attractive."

Carl still throws away the guessing part, in terms of more reliable strength.

"Are you still German? How can you say that you will leave seven points out of three." John scolded.

Just waiting for you here, Comrade John, Carl thought.

He just wanted to wait for John to be in a hurry before throwing out this method, so as to attract John.

"Uncle John, this is up to you. You have been a liberal for decades, the enlightened Grand Duke of the Austrian Empire. This requires your enlightenment and liberalism to deal with them."

"How to say?"

"Now those small capitals, huh, but they all regard you as a help for them to fight Lao Ha's family. Then you continue to play this role, and of course you have to communicate frankly with them, that is, they have no future in the future, either with Prussia, or With Austria, such views can be shared with them.”

Everyone can see this, and so can John, but the authorities are confused and a little confused. He talked about this with the small German states, and they recognized John more, thinking that he was not phony and reliable.

"Then what?" John seemed to know something, but wanted to see what Carl thought.

"Then don't mention Austria's conditions, anyway, everyone can see that there is a formal team to negotiate with them, or a German state conference will be held to discuss this matter."

"We hold a regular assembly called the German Confederation. Austria is the initiator and leader, we are the presidency, and Prussia is the vice-chairman."

"Oh, there is also a German Confederation, how many vice-chairmen?"

"No, Prussia is the only one, and it often competes with us for the dominance of the conference."

"Then choose a few more vice-chairmen. Bavaria will be elected first, then Hannover will be elected, and Saxony will be elected. In this way, there will be someone on the same level as Prussia, and his power can be dispersed."

Karl thinks that the German Confederation, which is so awesome, has only one vice-chairman seat. I'm sorry for Eastern Wisdom. Our small county with 200,000 people can have 17 county magistrates.

"When we relax the conditions, and if we want to be stronger than Prussia, we can fool the southern states first, for example, get a Catholic district conference, such as connecting the railway with them, just All right."

"Are you talking about Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Hesse, Saxony and other states?

Well, just a few of them, but to be honest now, the strength of our Austrian Empire is stronger than that of Prussia, but the strength of the Grand Duchy of Austria is actually far worse than that of Prussia. "

John was silent, feeling sorry for the ancestors.

"So firstly, we need to increase the strength of the Grand Duchy of Austria, and secondly, we need to subdue those who are dissatisfied in the empire, so that they don't dare to move, or if they move, they will be killed quickly, unless they want to lead snakes out of their holes."

John felt that Karl was a violent maniac, and it was a bit of a waste for him not to go to Prussia.

"Well, that's what it means. In this way, the overall strength of the empire can be strengthened. The sum of the strengths of the various regions must not be greater than theirs, and the combined strength of the various regions is less than theirs. That would be embarrassing."

Carl also gradually realized the problem that the sum of the divided forces is good, but the combined force is not strong, and he continued to chase Carl:

"After Fudge came in, don't you want to be another Hungarian, looking good?"

"First, Hungary is a Magyar, and the southern German families I just mentioned are Germans. Second, Hungary is our own. We know more about us than these countries. That's why we Pride and arrogance.”

Carl continued:

"Also, you can relax a bit in form, but in essence, you need to pay close attention. If nothing else, let's talk about alliances, currency unification, and unification in various markets, such as unification of industrial standards."

"Well, these are indeed very important, and they are silently moisturizing, and the industry association can handle it without the government's intervention. It depends on who is stronger at that time, and whoever has the strength in the industry association will be able to dominate these things. Unification of technical standards.”

"What about you, uncle, just continue your character design, but you know what to do, don't go too far. In this way, they think you are their own person who was placed in Austria, and we know that you are our own person who was placed in the country~www.wuxiaspot .com~Double Agent?"

"No, not at all, you are one of our people, pretending to be their spy, and you are not hurting them, you are helping them."

If they didn't have our spies on their side, it would be half hell. Carl sighed.

"If they were annexed by France, they would be a minority, and if they were annexed by Prussia, they would be a religious minority. Let them choose for themselves."

At this time, everyone still attaches great importance to religion. The divine right of the monarch is the consensus of the emperor, the king, and the dukes of the principality.

That year, in 1848, a group of small German states wanted to elect Wilhelm IV as the German Emperor, but Wilhelm IV refused without hesitation.

Wah, ah, you have chosen a few of you, to have a fart, I need God to put a hat on me.

Hmph, the throne conferred by the council is nothing but a "crown picked up on a ditch", and I don't want to wear it.

Of course, there are other reasons, for example, the king does not have a veto power, but in the final analysis, it is still a question of whether it is divinely granted or not.

/> The logic of divine empowerment is that power is granted to me by God, and I will assign it to you. Of course, I have the right to veto.

The logic of the parliament conferring the throne is that the power is given to you by the parliament, and you still veto it.

Only if the parliament vetoes the emperor's proposal, the emperor cannot decide the decision of the council.