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

There are two things to be thankful for Austria:

One is the completion of several important railways.

Second, due to the impact of the economic crisis, the international price of precious metals has risen, and the silver mines in Tyrol have become valuable again.

Vienna to Bayreuth, Vienna to Dresden, Vienna to Udine, these routes strengthened the links between central Austria, South Germany, and North Italy.

The former is Austria's most important foreign trade area, and the latter is Austria's most important tax source.

Although Northern Italy has declined at this time, it is still an important tax source, even more than Hungary, which accounts for 40% of the Austrian Empire.

In 1833, Austria's fiscal revenue was 130,269,877 florins, while the Hungarian region contributed only 23 million florins, which was even lower than the 25 million florins of the Bohemia region, and far lower than the 30 million florins of the northern Italian region. Lorraine.

By 1836, Austria's fiscal revenue soared to 170 million florins. Benefiting from joining the German Customs Union, Bohemia's economy grew explosively, and its fiscal revenue also soared to 35 million florins. The Italian region was flat, while the Hungarian region saw a drop of 1 million florins.

Over time, the region of Bohemia will become more and more important, industrially developed and close to the German region, with the highest degree of openness.

It's just that when the Austrian region is generally triumphant, the Hungarian region appears to be a bit different. A group of young nobles and emerging capitalists headed by Szechenyi hope to join this feast.

However, Hungary's accession to the German Customs Union violated both the agreement of the German Customs Union and the agreement between Austria and Hungary.

Count Kororav and Metternich were unwilling to intervene in the Hungarian issue. After all, the current situation was already in a state of distress for the Austrian Empire, so they had to give up.

Britain and France are at a stalemate on the Spanish issue, Prussia is doing everything possible to create trouble for Austria in the German customs union, and Russia is ready to move in the East.

Carlo Alberto, the new king of the Kingdom of Sardinia, is a restless person. He develops the economy and expands the army, while at the same time he is dissatisfied with both France and Austria.

You must know that the existence of the Kingdom of Sardinia is just a buffer zone between Fao and Austria. At that time, it was generally believed that Alberto's ambition was an unrealistic delusion.

But even so, Austria had to reactivate the veteran Radetzky and let him serve as the commander-in-chief of the Austrian Army in Northern Italy.

Radetzky had already retired in 1829, but the Minister of War Tular felt that the old general could still fight. At the same time, Radetzky himself was destitute after retirement, worrying about the livelihood of his eight children.

However, the old general who went to Italy in 1831 married an Italian noblewoman to show his deep love for Italy, implying that Austria would treat Italians equally.

Radetzky himself did exactly that, never seeing Alberto and his 20,000-strong army as a problem.

But Radetzky, who had experienced the Napoleonic wars, knew what a terrible force it was to stir up those serfs and poor people who could not survive.

Radetzky remembered how the poor were duped by Napoleon's unrealistic promises to turn their guns on their own countrymen.

But Radetzky asked the army to help the poor at the beginning of his tenure. When his soldiers broke the law, he would not choose to cover up, but immediately punished the soldiers who made trouble. Sometimes it would even be unfair, but this made him and his His army has earned a good name among the poor.

In this era, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness and loyalty of soldiers, generals would choose to cover up some of their subordinates who made mistakes in order to buy people's hearts.

Radetzky's approach was to buy people's hearts, but his approach was a bit extreme. Even when his own son was treated unfairly, he chose to endure it and asked his son to apologize to the Italians.

Anton von Radetzky is the third son of Field Marshal Radetzky. He has no talents and does not yearn for a life outside the army, so he has been with Field Marshal Radetzky.

One day, Anton Radetzky was ordered to patrol the street. When passing by a cafe, he heard people inside promoting Mazzini's anti-Austrian ideology.

At that time, Italy was just a geographical term. Most of its land belonged to Austria, and the core of Mazzini's thought was to expel the Austrians from Italy.

This made Anton Radetzky furious. After all, the mission of the Italian Legion was to defend Italy. How could he allow someone to promote the idea of ​​making Italy independent?

"Gentlemen, please stop your conversation immediately, you are treasonous."

"You German pig, don't bother with us, this is private territory." A tall man said in Italian. "God bless, he can understand what we say."

The man's words caused a burst of laughter. After all, in the eyes of these people, the Austrian soldiers are only bluffing and have nothing to be afraid of.

Anton Radecki corrected, "First, I'm a Czech, and second, this is a café, a public place."

The man turned over the open sign and said to Anton Radetzky very calmly.

"It's closed now, you can go."

There was another burst of laughter, and Anton von Radetzky was so angry that he rushed forward and wrestled with the man.

The military police came and separated the two, and then they were sent to the office of Marshal Radetzky.

Before Anton von Radetzky could explain, his father kicked him and told him to apologize to the Italian.

Anton von Radetzky was naturally very angry, and Marshal Radetzky could only order him to apologize to the Italian as a marshal, and finally the Italian left proudly.

It is said that the Italian, an abbot, was very influential.

Radetzky used this almost dog-licking method to make the bottom poor in northern Italy accept the existence of the Austrian army.

But in the eyes of some Italian nobles and businessmen with high self-esteem, these soldiers are a group of lowly wimps, and giving them funding and respect is a meaningless waste.

Middle and high-level Italians often show an arrogant attitude in front of the Austrian army.

As the commander-in-chief, Radetzky actually tolerated the unfair treatment of his subordinate soldiers by the middle and high-level Italians.

The reason why the old marshal did this was because he had always regarded the French as his imaginary enemy, and he also wanted to build a militia team like Napoleon for use in wartime.

However, Radetzky is not Napoleon, and the Austrian Empire does not have enough funds. At this time, the bottom of Italy is not so low that it cannot survive, so his plan can only end without a problem.

Vienna, Hall of Mirrors.

Ferdinand I looked at the imperial order in his hand.

"My stupid brother, who wrote this imperial order?"

"My poor brother, have your eyes failed recently? There is my son's signature on it."

"My stupid brother, the name on it is clearly Franz."

"My poor brother, have you forgotten that my son is also called Franz?"

"My stupid brother, you have never been a liar since you were a child, do you think I will be fooled?"

"My poor brother, why is your mouth bubbling?"

"My stupid brother, I'm sick, why don't you call the doctor..."

Before Ferdinand I lost consciousness, he stamped the emperor's seal on the royal decree.

That same day an investigative party left Vienna for Milan to apprehend the traitors who had beaten Captain Anton Radetzky.