Chapter 32: Out of Control

Two stone pillars, one high and one low, stood on both sides of the doorway, like two majestic sentinels, and an iron door was closed.

The security guards inside seemed to have deserted, ignoring the fact that someone outside was calling for the door.

"What about the sheriff? The people in the school are not cooperative, do you want us to bring people in? ”

One of the officers was anxious to show his loyalty, not noticing that he was pushing too hard and slapped the horse's ass on the horse's leg.

"Big-headed ghost at you!"

"Are these people ordinary people?"

"This black light is blinding, in case an accident occurs when you rush in and a human life is caused, will you bear the responsibility, or will I bear it?"

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Winston scolded his little brother and vented the depression in his heart.

He is already an old fritter in the workplace, and he knows that the second-year teenagers in the school are not easy to mess with, and they are all little experts in death. If you rush in now, you will be beaten up.

If they don't use a gun, they may not be able to do the students inside, and he doesn't dare to use a gun, in case he kills someone with a background, and when he turns around, he doesn't know how he will die.

These are all summed up by rich workplace experience, otherwise Winston would not have climbed from an ordinary person to the position of sheriff.

He is already satisfied, and if he wants to go further, he will have to get involved in politics. Winston is self-aware, and at the level of his elementary school graduation, running to play politics will be a pill sooner or later.

"Everyone is guarded for me, don't let the suspects inside escape!"

Winston came up with a stupid way to block the door here, and as long as the people were controlled and they weren't allowed to go out and make trouble, then things would be easy to do.

Compared to schools, other places are not so lucky, they have nothing to make the police jealous, and many people are imprisoned.

Far from frightening the people, the Viennese government's actions aroused the common hatred of the people, and the next day, under the planning of the revolutionaries, an even more vigorous march broke out in Vienna.

In the government building, Prime Minister Metternich was already panicking, and as was customary, the anti-government movement would collapse if the head of the government was arrested.

It's a pity that this time is different, everyone has been forced into a corner, and the government can't solve the real problem, how can they give up?

The Viennese government panicked, and in a hurry, Prime Minister Metternich ordered the city defense army to be mobilized into the city to maintain order.

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A fast horse galloped along the mountain road, and the Austrians knew that it was a herald. In front of the barracks, the herald turned over and dismounted, and was led in.

"Your Excellency, Commander, urgent military situation!"

Albrecht, who had been prepared for a long time, took the urgent report, opened it on the spot, and there was no surprise, Vienna was already in chaos, and the government, fearing that the situation was out of control, ordered the troops trained in the field to return to the city immediately.

"Pass the order, stop training immediately, pack your bags and prepare to go back!"

Albrecht said calmly, it only takes half a day for the heralds to arrive, but it will take two or three days for the army to return at the earliest, which is enough time for a lot of things to happen.

Franz did not prevent the army from returning to the city, which was too deliberate. He needed the Austrian Empire to break up, but he definitely didn't need Austria to really fall apart.

The Viennese rebellion could break out, but it had to be extinguished immediately. He needed to take advantage of the rebellion to purge the government of moths, but he had no intention of having the rebels overthrow the government.

"Franz, the situation in Vienna has become very bad, 100,000 people participated in the demonstration yesterday, if the government does not handle it properly, I am afraid the consequences will be very serious!"

Albrecht said solemnly, at this time he was already a little worried about Franz's layout, afraid that it would turn into the February Revolution in Paris.

Franz smiled slightly, then pointed to the barracks, and then said slowly: "Don't worry, Austria is different from France, we still have troops loyal to the royal family!" ”

This is his confidence, there is still a palace guard in Vienna, which can defend the court. The remaining 5,000 city defense troops, even if they are all waste, they are also waste loyal to the emperor.

Unlike France, the Austrian army was not accessible to everyone, and the officers were basically nobles, and they did not easily betray their own class.

An uprising without the support of the army is, at best, a massive riot, and will eventually be suppressed.

Franz was ready to go back and remove the Metternich cabinet and give an account to the people.

Then the abolition of serfdom and the implementation of the "Labor Protection Law" were announced to appease people's hearts, and then the natural coercion never asked, only the chief evil.

It's a big deal to catch a few more corrupt officials and take them out for sentencing to divert everyone's attention.

Even after the First World War, the Habsburgs had a very high status in the minds of ordinary people, and if it weren't for the fact that the descendants were too muddy to support the wall, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would not have collapsed.

Historically, after the outbreak of the Vienna Revolution, there were proposals to abolish the emperor, but the Viennese people opposed it.

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Vienna

Demonstrators have surrounded the government, the palace, the parliament and demanded that the government agree to their terms.

Cabinet dismissal, release of political prisoners, constitutional reform, liberalization of electoral restrictions, abolition of serfdom, confiscation of fiefs of the nobility, distribution of land to serfs, abolition of censorship of newspapers and papers......

The situation remained on the verge of spiraling out of control, and the Viennese government could not agree to these conditions, which meant the destruction of the empire.

History has changed, and at this time, the bourgeoisie, no longer satisfied with ordinary reforms, wants to seize power in the country in order to survive the crisis.

In order to achieve this, everyone no longer cared about the future of Austria, and the patriots were used by the conspirators without thinking about the consequences of doing so.

Ordinary people are even less discerning, and most of them are blindly coaxing. Even more workers took part in this march because they had money to take it.

That's right, there is a wage to participate in the demonstrations, otherwise the revolution would not have the ability to organize so many people in a short period of time.

If it were not for the cooperation of the capitalists, the communication in this era would have relied entirely on roaring, and if they wanted to do the ideological work of these hundreds of thousands of people, they would not have been able to organize themselves in a month by relying on the 180 revolutionaries alone.

I don't know who shouted "Metternich get out", and then it quickly spread, and thousands of people shouted in unison at the same time:

"Metternich get out!"

"Metternich get out!"

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At this time, the scene was out of control, and the elderly Prime Minister Metternich was now pale and had lost his former demeanor.