War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

In fact, Galicia at this time was not as peaceful as it seemed. Even with a hundred thousand troops stationed, there were still people planning a famous conspiracy.

The Polish Restoration Army and other Polish restoration organizations met to launch the Restoration Uprising on February 22, 1846. The purpose was to expel the Russian, Prussian and Austrian invaders and establish a new Poland centered on the Free City of Krakow.

However, the confidentiality work of this group of Poles is really bad. Just ask a few Poles in a tavern in Paris or Vienna to know the detailed time, place, and people.

In fact, the Polish restorers were still facing a very embarrassing problem at this time, that is, businessmen in the Free City of Krakow built a railway to Lviv in order to make more money.

This means that if they stage an uprising in the Free City of Krakow, the garrisons from Lviv, Bilaya, Paowa, and Bochnia will be able to rush along the railway line in a few hours. Come

Lviv, Bilaya, Paowa, and Bochnia were the most important cities in Galicia at that time. The Free City of Krakow, which nominally did not belong to the Austrian Empire, was on the northern edge of Galicia.

In Franz's view, it was impossible for an uprising to occur in the Free City of Krakow, which was already connected to the Austrian Empire, but the slap in the face came so quickly, and rumors in the sky made all three countries take action.

The first to act was the Kingdom of Prussia.

Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace.

Friedrich List strongly agreed with Bismarck's view that if Prussia wanted to permanently occupy Poland, it would have to completely convert the residents into Germans.

Historically, after the Prussian government partitioned Poland, it eagerly named the three newly acquired provinces Prussia, namely West Prussia, South Prussia, and New Prussia.

Frederick the Great ordered all local Polish nobles to be kicked out of government agencies and replaced by Prussians. German replaced Polish as the official language, and Polish language and Polish culture were all discriminated against.

Countless German primary schools and middle schools were established, and at the same time, in order to attract as many talents as possible, a Prussian upward path was created.

Frederick the Great established a number of non-commissioned officer schools in the newly conquered Poland, and made a clear promise that any talented Polish would be able to become Prussia's new nobility.

In addition, Frederick the Great also moved a large number of Germans to the newly conquered territories. In addition to receiving a piece of land of their own, the immigrants could also receive transportation and moving subsidies from the government.

In addition to a piece of land of 5 to 8 hectares, you can also get the privilege of tax exemption for three years. One hectare is 15 acres, which means that immigrants will get at most 120 acres of land without any cost.

Before the death of Frederick the Great, about 350,000 Germans immigrated to the newly conquered Polish lands, which can be called the German version of the Eastward Movement. This left nearly half of the new three provinces 60 years later as Prussians and mixed-race people.

In addition, in order to completely eliminate Poland's resistance, Frederick the Great and his descendants transformed Poland into a colony, an area that provided raw materials, markets, and cheap labor for the mother country.

Under the strong suppression of Frederick the Great, Polish nobles and merchants went bankrupt, and their culture gradually converged with Prussia.

Let me mention here that Frederick the Great was not a time traveler, but he thought of the moves used by modern time travelers hundreds of years ago.

In contrast, Austria was a bit anticlimactic for Galicia. Queen Theresa carried out a series of Austrian transformations during her reign.

These seemingly minor repairs actually laid the foundation for Austria's rule in Galicia for hundreds of years to come.

However, her eldest son Joseph II was obviously dissatisfied with the Queen's lukewarm reform methods, so he started a series of radical reforms (as mentioned above, he basically offended everyone who could be offended.)

If Frederick the Great is compared to a modern online traveler, then Joseph II is a P agency war criminal.

The natural result was rebellions all over the country, the reform was forced to terminate, and the people died and the government ceased, making Galicia the most backward region in the original Polish territory.

In contrast, Russia only continued serfdom and its transformation of Poland was very limited.

Although European historians always like to say that the Poles lived a life worse than death under Russian rule, the fact is that serf rebellions decreased significantly.

In short, Prussia's Germanization of Polish land was very successful for a period of time.

But Frederick William III's capitalist agricultural transformation and the increasing number of mixed-race people became troublesome.

Although Poland was destroyed, it could still defeat the Prussian barbarians culturally. As a result, these mixed-race people who were supposed to dilute the Poles became the vanguard against Prussia.

Frederick the Great probably never dreamed that almost all future officers of the Polish Restoration Organization would come from his sergeant school.

Especially at that time, Paris had an almost irresistible attraction for young people in Europe. Unfortunately, Paris was the center of Polish Zionist activities.

The French were also willing to see this undead disturb the peace of the three countries to the east. In addition, Napoleon's troubles caused the legacy of Frederick the Great to be greatly reduced.

The transformation of capitalist agriculture means the liberation of serfs. From the perspective of modern human rights thinking, this is definitely a great progress and a step that is extremely progressive.

But the reality is that a large number of landless and landless peasants have been created, and their lives are worse than those of serfs.

Because the nobles were freed from their feudal obligations and did not hesitate to use these "free" peasants, the phenomenon of sheep cannibalizing people and land cannibalizing people continued to occur.

In the end, class conflicts in the region became acute, and some landless Germans were even brainwashed by the Poles and began to hope to separate from Prussia.

But now Frederick William IV obviously did not have enough courage, and the first thing he thought of about the possible rebellion was appeasement.

Fortunately, the Tsar set an example and began to target the "Poles" aggressively. However, Frederick William IV's idea was still to capture the culprit and not to threaten him.

However, Poland could not be completely conquered in this way, Friedrich List agreed with Bismarck.

"Your Majesty, I think we should take more effective measures against the Poles."

"Mr. Lister, do you have any suggestions?"

Frederick William IV valued Liszt very much because he was indeed very talented in economic development. Although Prussia's economy was not as good as that of its next door neighbor, it had already escaped the plight of economic constraints.

"Your Majesty, it is not my suggestion, but your people need land."

Friedrich List has been in high and low positions for so many years. He is no longer the all-encompassing chief designer he was. He will take all the blame away from himself.

Frederick William IV: "What does that mean?"

Friedrich List: "I know you are afraid of continuing to intensify the contradiction, but what is the source of the contradiction? The people have no land! And the Poles are occupying the land of the Germans at this time..."

"Then what should I do?"