Chapter 18: Dangers lurk
A wave has not settled, and another wave has risen. At the same time that Japan was mired in the "Misau Movement", the situation in Europe also deteriorated rapidly, and the voice of revolution once again resounded on the continent.
Unlike previous revolutions, this time it was no longer France that led the team. Perhaps the shadow left by the former revolutionary government is too terrifying, and the people of Paris have been quite peaceful lately.
Nor are the Belgian and Italian states that Franz is most concerned about, although these countries are the most in crisis, but they can't stand the hatred of the French!
From the government to the people, the blame for the economic crisis in the country was attributed to the invasion of the French, and now is the time for the people to be most united.
Coupled with the timely assistance provided to them by the Vienna government, the ordinary people were barely able to eat half full thanks to the relief food distributed by the government, and the social order was stabilized.
Spain, which was caught up in the Philippine war and could not extricate itself, would definitely not be able to escape. However, they were not the birthplace of the crisis, and it was Bulgaria that no one expected to fire the first shot of the revolution.
The city gate caught fire, affecting the fish in the pond.
Bulgaria is one of the fish in the pond. 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, and Bulgarian rose essential oil, which is the king of rose essential oil, is the object of everyone's pursuit.
It's the time of the roses again, and the factory's production capacity has long been booked out at this time of year, and I only hate the limited production capacity.
This year's situation is special, affected by the economic crisis, the volume and price of rose essential oil in the international market have fallen. When it comes to the season of buying rose essential oil, very few foreign businessmen arrive in Bulgaria.
Even with this limited order, the purchase price was kept very low, less than one-fifth of that of previous years.
Processing enterprises are having a hard time, and people in the entire industrial chain don't want to have a good time. Farmers who make a living from growing roses and workers who are engaged in picking and processing are struggling.
The suffering of the people was invisible to the officials of the tsarist government. Not only did no relief be provided, but the taxes that should be collected were also indispensable.
No money is no money, no matter how much you squeeze it, there is still no money. Bulgarian peasants and workers, who were driven to a dead end, launched a campaign against taxes.
Under the tsarist government, life was not easy for the Bulgarian people, and the anti-tax movement soon gained support from all sectors of society.
On June 26, 1894, hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians staged simultaneous demonstrations and petitioned the tsarist government for tax relief and national autonomy.
It is a pity that the Bulgarian people have run into a governor who wants to cover the lid. For the sake of his official position, Aristotlevich dissuaded the population on the grounds that it would take time to report the decision of the tsarist government.
Immediately after the people retreated, Governor Aristotlevich turned his face and sent people overnight to arrest the leader of the organization of the march and petition.
Needless to say, the deceived Bulgarian populace was completely enraged, and the flame of revolution was ignited.
Revolutions are contagious, and the Bulgarian populace launched a national uprising that directly stimulated the Poles, who also wanted to break free from Russian rule.
On July 11, 1894, Polish independence organizations launched an uprising in the Warsaw area. Before the Russian army, which was caught off guard, could resist, Warsaw fell.
Once the valve is opened, it is difficult to close it again.
On July 16, 1894, the Portuguese republicans revolted in Porto; On 21 July, the Great Greek National Union launched an uprising in the Peloponnese; On August 2, a workers' uprising broke out in Bilbao, Spain; On 13 August, the Irish people launched a national independence movement in Carvin......
In just two months, more than 20 uprisings, large and small, broke out on the European continent, affecting Russia, Spain, Britain, Portugal, Greece, France, and the HRE.
True, the Holy Roman Empire was not immune to the wave of revolution. There is no way, the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and it is normal for some strange things to happen when there are more 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, on the same day, it was suppressed by Adolphus, Duke of Nassau, with his guards.
As long as the end result is good, what exactly happened in the middle, Franz does not care and does not want to know.
Open the map of Europe and plant small flags in the areas where the revolution broke out, as if the flame of revolution has been burning vigorously on the European continent, and there is a great tendency to burn the prairie fire.
Of course, these are all illusions. Although the revolutions broke out many times and spread widely, not many of them actually became the climate.
In fact, revolution has not been a new word since the beginning of the 19th century. Revolutions occur almost every year on the European continent, but very few actually make a disturbance.
Compared to the Revolution of 1848, the influence of this revolutionary wave was significantly weaker. In the final analysis, they are still not cornered, and the people have another choice - to go to the colonies.
Don't think that politicians are fools, there is no stupidity if you can beat many competitors and stand out, and you will only choose to be stupid because of the need for profit. When it comes to asserting their rule, people are usually wiser.
Every economic crisis is the culmination of European emigration abroad, and it is not just the spontaneous initiative of the people, but without the cooperation of the government, how could thousands of migrants leave so easily?
Despite the spillout, Franz still did not dare to take it lightly. There are so many lords in the Holy Roman Empire who are constantly pulling people in the country, and even the social unemployment rate can be taken by them to the lowest point in history, so naturally there is no need to worry too much.
What really worries Franz is the many younger brothers, Belgium and Italy, which seem to be in a stable situation, who knows how long their morale can last?
Even though there are French people who pull hatred and divert the public's attention, there is a limit to the patience of the people. Just half-full, I'm afraid it won't be enough to meet everyone's needs.
Not to mention Spain, the Bilbao uprising was extinguished, but the social contradictions in Spain remain unresolved.
While others rely on war to divert their internal crisis, Spain exacerbates it because of war. For no other reason, victory has not been achieved, and the population has been waiting impatiently.
"Japan is strong", this explanation is probably a European, and they will laugh. In everyone's impression, the world's powerhouses are in Europe, and overseas are soft-footed shrimp.
In the original time and space, the Italians continued to break records, and everyone's ability to bear it was much stronger, and even if the Spanish-American war was lost, the Spanish people survived.
Now it is different, there is no Italian contract joke, and the current performance of the Spanish army has become the object of ridicule.
It has been almost two years since the outbreak of the Philippine War, and the Spanish government has invested more than 100,000 Spanish Army + 100,000 mercenaries, spending hundreds of millions of Aegis military spending, but it has not been able to get a decent record, and the shame has been thrown to my grandmother's house.
In addition to these hard-hit areas that may collapse, there are also some lightly affected areas affected by the revolutionary wave, such as Greece and Switzerland, which also need to be paid attention to.
If the younger brother only has the hidden danger of revolution, then France, as the cradle of the revolution, is a bomb that ignites the line of fire.
As the big boss in the European War, it has experienced another civil war, and France's losses cannot be counted at all. Finally, when the Bourbons came to power, the situation stabilized, and immediately encountered an economic crisis.
fell from the world's top power to a third-rate country, this kind of psychological gap, it is estimated that normal people can't stand it. Now that they can't even fill their stomachs, the people's resentment is even greater.
Several rounds of dynastic changes have passed, and no matter how to guide the people's emotions, the sequelae will have to be borne by the Bourbon dynasty.
In a sense, the Philippine War also freed France. Behind the hundreds of thousands of mercenaries are hundreds of thousands of families, and millions of people have a livelihood because of this war.
From this point of view, the war in the Philippines is also of positive significance. Theoretically, a threefold increase in the number of mercenaries would solve France's predicament.
After all, the current France is no longer the French empire it used to be. 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 alone is more than 6 million Aegis, and if you add the benefits on the battlefield, it will be even greater.
The repatriation of so much foreign exchange can not only solve the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of families, but also stimulate the domestic economy and create a large number of jobs.
However, this is not possible. Even if the Japanese had to carry it to the end, the Spanish government could not afford to raise so many mercenaries.
In modern warfare, the cost of salaries is only a small part. Even if the weapons and ammunition are second-hand goods after the victory of the anti-French war, other logistical materials also cost a lot of money.
In fact, the Spanish government has been able to hold out until now also because mercenaries are cheap enough.
It's not that salaries are cheap, but mainly pensions. Out of humanitarian concern, just give a symbolic little, and there is no big problem if you don't give it, and you don't have to worry about the protests of your family members at all.
The combat effectiveness is not bad, cheap and easy to use, there is no need to worry about family protests, and it is properly cost-effective. At one point, Franz wanted to sell French mercenaries to the major colonial empires as a way to help the French government survive the crisis.
Come to think of it, there is still no concrete action. The reason is very realistic, this is in the capital enemy. With cheap and easy-to-use mercenaries, the cost of maintaining the colonies of various countries is reduced, and the advantages of the Holy Roman Empire are invisibly weakened.
Of course, the most important thing is that French mercenaries are not welcome. Despite the defeat of France and their fall from the altar, the European countries still feared them.
If you hire French mercenaries to maintain the stability of the colony, once France re-emerges, it will be a wolf in the house. Spain, which was using French mercenaries, was no exception, and people were hired on a temporary basis and sent back after the war.
If it were replaced by Swiss mercenaries, it is estimated that everyone's acceptance would be much higher. At least there is no need to worry about the Swiss being anti-client-oriented.
The No. 1 solution to the internal problems of France failed, and Franz could only passively activate the No. 2 plan, that is: to finance the Bourbon dynasty and use the power of the aristocratic group to stabilize the situation.
Fortunately, the people of Paris did not participate in the riot this time, and King Carlos's political skills were not bad, and the situation was barely stabilized. Overall, however, it is still not optimistic.
The current situation is that the situation on the European continent will not be stable until the economic crisis ends.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the revolutionary wave has also pulled Britain and Russia into the water, and everyone has reached the edge of the cliff, and no one dares to toss blindly at this time.