Chapter Eighteen, Dangerous
Before one wave was settled, another wave started again. Just as Japan fell into the "Mi Sao movement", the situation in Europe also deteriorated rapidly, and the voice of revolution resounded on the European continent again.
Unlike previous major revolutions, this time the team was no longer France. Perhaps the shadow left by the former revolutionary government was too terrifying, and the people of Paris have been quite at ease recently.
It is also not the Belgium and Italian states that Franz cares most. Although the crisis in these countries is the most serious, it cannot withstand the French's hatred!
From the government to the people, everyone attributed the responsibility for the outbreak of the domestic economic crisis to the invasion of the French. Now is the time for the Chinese people to unite the most.
In addition, the Vienna government provided them with timely assistance, and relying on the relief food distributed by the government, ordinary people could barely eat half full, and the social order became stable.
Spain, which was trapped in the Philippine War, would definitely not be able to escape. However, they were not the birthplace of the crisis. The first one to fire the first shot of the revolution was Bulgaria that no one expected.
A fire broke out in the city gate, causing fish to fall into the pond.
Bulgaria is the fish that has been affected. As a raw material for high-end cosmetics, rose essential oil with limited production capacity has always been in short supply in the international market. Bulgarian rose essential oil, the king of rose essential oil, is the target of everyone's pursuit.
It is the season when roses bloom again. In previous years, the factory's production capacity had been booked out long ago, and I regretted that the production capacity was limited.
The situation this year is special. Affected by the economic crisis, rose essential oil has both volume and price in the international market. When the rose essential oil purchase season, there are very few foreign investors arriving in Bulgaria.
Even for this limited order, the acquisition price was suppressed very low, less than one-fifth of that in previous years.
Processing enterprises have a hard time, and no one in the entire industrial chain can do well. Farmers who make a living by planting roses and workers who are engaged in picking and processing are all in a difficult situation.
The sufferings of the people are invisible to the officials of the Tsarist government. Not only are there no relief, but the taxes that should be collected cannot be lost.
If you don’t have money, you don’t have money. No matter how hard you squeeze it, you still have no money. Bulgarian farmers and workers, who were forced to go to a dead end, launched a tax-resistant campaign.
Under the rule of the Tsarist government, the Bulgarian people did not have a good life, and the tax resistance movement soon received support from all walks of life.
On June 26, 1894, hundreds of thousands of Bulgarian people launched a demonstration at the same time, petitioning the Tsarist government, demanding tax reductions and granting Bulgarian national autonomy.
Unfortunately, the Bulgarian people encountered a governor who wanted to cover up. For the sake of their official hat, Aristotle Vic said to the Tsarist government to resolve the decision to take time.
After the people retreated, Governor Aristotle Dvich immediately turned his face and sent people to arrest the leader who organized the marches and petitions overnight.
Needless to say, the deceived Bulgarian people were completely angered, and the spark of revolution was ignited.
Revolutions are contagious. The Bulgarian people launched a national uprising, which directly stimulated the Poles who also wanted to get rid of the Russian rule.
On July 11, 1894, the Polish independent organization launched an uprising in the Warsaw area. Before the Russian army could resist, Warsaw fell.
Once the valve is opened, it will be difficult to close it.
On July 16, 1894, the Portuguese Republicans launched an uprising in Porto; on July 21, the Great Greek National Union launched an uprising in Peloponnese; on August 2, a workers' uprising broke out in Bilbao, Spain; on August 13, the Irish people launched a national independence movement in Caven...
Within just two months, more than 20 uprisings broke out in the European continent, affecting the seven kingdoms of Russia, West, Britain, Portugal, Greece, France and Shinra.
That's right, the Holy Roman Empire did not escape the impact of the revolutionary wave. There is no way, there are all kinds of birds in the forest, and it is normal for a few strange things to happen if there are too many countries.
At the end of July, a bourgeois revolutionary movement broke out in the Duchy of Nassau, which was almost impossible to find on the map. Then, the Duke of Nassau Adolf and his guards were suppressed that day.
As long as the end result is good, Franz doesn't care and doesn't want to know what happened in the middle.
Open the map of Europe and plant a small flag in the area where the revolution broke out, as if the flames of the revolution were already burning vigorously on the European continent, and it was like a prairie fire.
Of course, these are all illusions. Although revolutions broke out many times and affected a wide range, not many people actually became climate-shaking.
In fact, since the beginning of the 19th century, revolution has not been a new word. Revolutions appear almost every year on the European continent, but few people are really making noises.
Compared with the Great Revolution in 1848, the influence of this revolutionary wave is obviously much weaker. In the final analysis, it is still not forced into a desperate situation, and the people have another choice - to go to the colony.
Don’t think that politicians are fools. If you can defeat many competitors, you will not be fools. Choosing to be foolish is just because of interests. When maintaining your rule, everyone is usually smarter.
Every economic crisis is the climax of European immigration to overseas, and it depends not only on spontaneousness among the people. Without the cooperation of the government, how could thousands of immigrants leave so easily?
Although there was a flood discharge, Franz still dared not take it lightly. There were so many lords in the Holy Roman Empire that kept pulling people in China, and even the social unemployment rate could be killed by them to the lowest point in history, so naturally there was no need to worry too much.
What really worries Franz is the many younger brothers. Belgium and the seven Italian states, which seem to be stable, do you know how long their morale can last?
Even if the French have attracted hatred and diverted the public's attention, the people's patience has its limit. Just eating half-full may not meet everyone's needs.
Not to mention Spain, although the Bilbao Uprising was extinguished, the social contradictions in Spain have not been resolved.
Others rely on war to transfer domestic crises, but Spain has exacerbated the crises because of war. For no other reason, it has been unable to win for a long time, and the people are already impatient.
"Japan is very powerful", this explanation is probably a European, and they will laugh. In everyone's impression, the world's strong countries are in Europe, and overseas are soft-footed shrimps.
The original time and space have Italians constantly set new records, and everyone's ability to withstand much stronger. Even if the Spanish-American War failed, the Spanish people survived.
It's different now. Without the Italian contracting jokes, the Spanish army's current performance has become the target of ridicule.
The Battle of the Philippines has been around for almost two years. The Spanish government has invested more than 100,000 mercenaries in the Spanish Army and spent hundreds of millions of military expenses in the Aegis, but it was unable to produce a decent record, so it was so embarrassing that it was thrown to my grandma's house.
In addition to these hard-hit areas where the collapse may occur, there are also some light-hit areas affected by the revolutionary wave, such as Greece and Switzerland, which also need to be paid attention to.
If I just have a potential for revolution, then France, as the cradle of revolution, is a bomb that ignites the line of fire.
As the boss in the continental war, he experienced another civil war, and France's losses were simply uncountable. After finally getting to power, the situation stabilized and immediately encountered an economic crisis.
It is estimated that normal people can't stand the psychological gap from the world's top powers to third-rate countries. Now that they can't even fill their stomachs, the people's resentment will be even greater.
The dynasty has changed several times. No matter how people are guided, the sequelae will be borne by the Bourbon dynasty.
In a sense, the Philippine War also rescued France. Behind the hundreds of thousands of mercenaries were tens of thousands of families, and millions of people had a livelihood because of this war.
From this perspective, the Philippine War also has positive significance. Theoretically, as long as the number of mercenaries has increased three times, the dilemma faced by France will be solved.
After all, France is no longer the French Empire before. After a wave of chaos, the total population of France has dropped to less than 30 million.
If there are more than 400,000 mercenaries, the monthly salary income will be more than 6 million. If the profit on the battlefield is added, it will be even greater.
So much foreign exchange return can not only solve the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of families, but also stimulate the domestic economy and increase a large number of jobs.
However, this is impossible. Even if the Japanese are determined to survive, the Spanish government cannot afford to support so many mercenaries.
In modern wars, salary expenses are only a small part of the money. Even if weapons and ammunition are used after the victory of the anti-French war, other logistics supplies will cost a lot of money.
In fact, the Spanish government has been able to persist until now because mercenaries are cheap enough.
It’s not that the salary is cheap, but mainly because the pension is cheap. Out of humanitarian concern, just give some symbolically. There is no big problem if you don’t give it. There is no need to worry about family protesting.
The combat effectiveness is not bad, it is cheap and easy to use, and there is no need to worry about family protests, and it is definitely cost-effective. Franz once wanted to sell French mercenaries to major colonial empires to help the French government overcome the crisis.
No matter how much you think about it, you still can't take specific actions. The reason is very realistic, this is to invest in the enemy. With cheap and easy-to-use mercenaries, the maintenance costs of colonies in various countries will be reduced, and the advantages of the Holy Roman Empire will be invisibly weakened.
Of course, the most important thing is that French mercenaries are not popular. Although France fell from the altar after its defeat in the war, European countries still fear them.
If French mercenaries are hired to maintain colonial stability, once France rises again, it will lead to a wolf into the house. Spain, which is using French mercenaries, is no exception. They only hire temporarily and will send people back after the war.
If it were Swiss mercenaries, everyone's acceptance would probably be much higher. At least there is no need to worry that the Swiss would turn their backs.
The No. 1 plan that resolves internal hidden dangers in France went bankrupt, and Franz could only passively launch the No. 2 plan, namely: to fund the Bourbon dynasty and use the power of the aristocratic group to stabilize the situation.
Fortunately, the Parisian people did not participate in the trouble this time, and King Carlos's political skills were not bad, so it barely stabilized the situation. But overall, it was still not optimistic.
The current situation is that the economic crisis will not end for a day, and the situation on the European continent will not be stable for a day.
The only thing that is thankful is that the revolutionary wave has also pulled Britain and Russia down. Everyone has reached the edge of the cliff, and no one dares to mess around at this time.
Chapter completed!