Chapter 30, let the market restore confidence?
In Vienna's Bolton Manor, more than a dozen well-dressed figures gathered together. Although they had tried their best to control, they still could not hide the temperament of the explosive household.
A middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes asked hesitantly: "Mr. Owen, can these mud legs work? Even if we get them weapons, a group of mobs will not become a climate?"
The atmosphere inside was a bit dull. The elegant and luxurious man sitting in the main seat slowly stood up, smiled slightly, and said slowly:
"Mr. Love, of course, it's not possible to rely on them alone! However, at this time, it's not just us who want revolution!
Everyone has felt how much harm this economic crisis has caused to Austria?
It can be said that all the eighth-story capitalists in Austria suffered heavy losses, and hundreds of thousands of people were unemployed as a result.
The Vienna government is not doing anything. If everyone wants to survive, are there any other choices besides the revolution?”
This is the key to the problem. By this time, most capitalists have been forced into the corner, but many people have not realized it.
Now many Austrian capitalists have stockpiled a large amount of goods in their hands. If they cannot take action in a short period of time, the capital chain will be broken.
The question now is who can I sell the goods to?
Ordinary people can't afford it. At this time, there are too few people with purchasing power in Austria.
People in the bank have never been easy to talk to. As vampires at the advanced stage of the bourgeoisie, they have always been the ones who eat people and don’t spit their bones.
If capitalists don’t want to be done, breaking the existing order and cutting the nobles’ flesh through the crisis is the only choice.
There are also a large number of unemployed workers facing this problem. They may not want to rebel, but their stomachs cannot deceive people.
If you are hungry, people will lose their minds. As long as someone encourages you, a revolution can break out in minutes.
Compared with history, the social contradictions in Austria have changed during this period. It is not because of the revolution initiated by everyone's unsuccessful request for reforms to the government, but because it is forced toward the revolution by reality.
An old man in his fifties and sixties shook his head and said, "Mr. Owen, we use mud legs to revolt. What if they want to establish a proletarian government and revolutionize us together?"
This is also a problem that all capitalists are worried about. In this era, proletarian thought has begun to sprout. Once the proletariat has established a government, it will take their lives.
Owen said with a smile: "This problem is very simple. French colleagues have helped us solve this problem. After the revolution is successful, we will not have any problems as long as we grab the power as soon as possible.
Currently, there are nearly 120,000 workers in Vienna. Under our deliberate control, the guild organizations have been divided into hundreds of factories in various sizes according to industry.
As long as they are not allowed to unify, the new government established must be dominated by us. You don’t think that someone in the mud legs can organize them, right?”
Organizing? In this era when communications are roaring, it is estimated that whether members of various trade union organizations recognize each other is a question.
Most of these trade union organizations are spontaneous and do not have coercive binding force on their members. There is still no idea how many capitalists’ nails are buried in them.
Before the October Revolution in Russia, the combat effectiveness of trade unions was very limited, and a large part of them were secretly controlled by capitalists.
It is not possible to organize all the workers overnight. As long as they establish a government first and control state rights, the overall situation is decided.
This can be seen from the February Revolution in France. After the victory of the revolution, capitalists snatched the power. At the first time, it was not to pursue the troubles of the former government, but to suppress the working class who participated in the revolution together.
In the eyes of capitalists, they have long known what integrity is.
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Late at night, the Vienna government was brightly lit, and Prime Minister Metternich was worried about the current situation. At this time, at least one interest group would make sacrifices.
Whether to make a knife against capitalists, aristocrats, or an ordinary people is a difficult multiple-choice question.
Prime Minister Metternich has been dominating Austria's political situation for more than 20 years and is inevitably bound by rules, otherwise he would not have to have a headache.
The Paris Revolution broke out and Austria was also surging undercurrents. Unfortunately, Prime Minister Metternich's concept was still ten years ago, believing that conservative Austria is different from open France.
Apart from strengthening vigilance in Italy and Galicia, he did not think that Vienna would be in any danger. In his opinion, even if a revolution was about to break out, it would break out in other places first, such as Hungary.
"Prime Minister, judging from the current situation, the opposition will not make concessions this time. They may also plan a large-scale parade!" Grand Duke Louis said with a gloomy face.
If Prime Minister Metternich was just to step down, he would agree. But if the Regents Committee was asked to get out of here and hand over the rights to the parliament after the constitutional reform, it would be fucking nonsense.
Even if it is not so unhappy to Metternich, Grand Duke Louis must stand with him at this time, and everyone's political life is equivalent to being bound.
Prime Minister Metternich sighed, and then said slowly: "That's right, unless we accept their conditions fully, they will not give up. The enemy may still be connected. Tomorrow I will encounter a larger parade!
Unless we take the initiative to arrest the leader of this incident, order the garrison to enter the city, block various intersections, and prohibit them from connecting!”
He is old and has no courage as a young man, otherwise he would not have hesitated now and would have ordered the arrest of people long ago.
"Then let's catch people first. If they keep messing around like this, we may not be able to control the situation in the future!" Grand Duke Louis said without hesitation.
Anyway, this order will be given by the Prime Minister. Except for the blame for Metternich, he does not need to be responsible for it.
Metternich smiled bitterly and said, "This is just a treatment of symptoms but not the root cause. If the domestic economy cannot improve, things will continue to happen today.
Let’s abolish the serfdom. At this time, we need to create a market. Even if this market is just on paper, we must restore confidence in the market!"
Indeed, the announcement of the abolition of the nationwide serfdom at this time can restore confidence to many people. After all, it can increase the purchasing power by more than 20 million at one time, although their purchasing power is very small.
Chapter completed!