On 21 March, the Vienna government introduced the Land Lease Act, which stipulates that peasants have the right to lease land, and the maximum rent cannot exceed 50 percent of the land income.

This is to protect the most basic rights and interests of the peasants, and if there are no restrictions, it is estimated that it will not be long before there will be another outbreak of hunger.

On March 22, the Vienna government promulgated the Law on the Guarantee of the Resettlement of Serfs, requiring the nobles to provide a minimum subsistence guarantee for the freed serfs and solve the employment problem of the peasants.

That is, the peasants shall not be deprived of the right to live in their existing houses; The question of leasing land to farmers, or hiring farmers to guarantee employment.

In order to avoid the exploitation of the capitalist aristocracy, on March 23, 1848, the Vienna government introduced the Act on the Prohibition of Usury.

The Act stipulates that the interest rate of any type of loan in Austria shall not exceed 35% per annum; The annual interest rate on loans to vulnerable groups such as farmers and workers shall not exceed 25 percent.

For any personal loan, interest is calculated based on the actual amount received.

After May 1, 1848, any usury contract was considered null and void and had no legal effect, i.e. it could not be repaid. In usury contracts that have been signed, the law only protects the proceeds within the scope of the law.

In fact, when this law was enacted, the cabinet members did not think that the aristocracy would take advantage of the fire, and usually only the capitalists would do such things.

Well, Franz did not debate with them on this issue, the big nobles would definitely not do it, and such a small gain, it is not worth dirtying their hands, and the small nobles may not be able to say.

There are also poor people among the aristocracy, and every year a group of nobles in Europe go bankrupt, and these people don't care about any aristocratic glory.

Since it is a crackdown on capitalists, this law prohibiting usury naturally has many unfavorable provisions for violators, such as the punishment is terrible.

As long as you catch a loan shark, you will confiscate all your property first, and go to prison by the way, starting at least three years, and indefinite is not a dream.

On 25 March, the Vienna government introduced the Minimum Wage Act, a subsidiary of the Labour Protection Act, which sets the minimum wage.

Due to the different economic developments in each region, the first minimum wage for the Vienna region was announced, i.e. 4.5 dong per week for male workers, 2.5 dong per week for female workers, and 45 kretz per week for child workers.

(Note: 1 dong here = 11.6928 grams of silver = 60 clayts)

Franz was still very pragmatic and did not set a salary that was beyond the actual situation, which only met their living needs, and workers still needed to work overtime if they wanted a better life.

Even the use of child labour, which he hated the most, was not addressed.

There is no way, the current situation in Austria is like this, it is easy to ban the use of child labor in factories, but after the loss of financial resources, the life of these children is a big problem.

However, these laws still have a positive effect, slightly improving the treatment of workers and ensuring the survival needs of workers, of course, this only guarantees the right to life.

If you want to get a better life, wait for the further development of productivity, which is determined by social reality, and if you don't reduce labor costs, your products will lose your competitiveness.

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It can be said that 1848 was the year of legislation in Austria, and Franz may have been accustomed to the rule of law and was very keen on legislation.

In March alone, Franz enacted fifteen laws, and almost every day after his regency, new laws were introduced.

From the initial abolition of serfdom to the later workers' rights, there were special laws and regulations.

Leaving aside the other effects, these laws first stunned the Austrian reformers, and everyone thought that the intensity of the reform must be earth-shattering.

Franz succeeded in diverting the attention of the public through legislation, because the law was too wide, and while the law was introduced, it also met the interests of serfs and workers.

The antagonism between the people and the government has been improved, and the revolution has unconsciously lost its mass base, although only the Vienna region is the first to change, and it will take time for other regions to ferment.

These are things to come, and the Austrian government has just received good news that on March 18 the Berlin Revolution broke out, and Prussia was caught in the midst of a revolutionary wave.

Just being unlucky, that mood must be unpleasant, and at this time, there is another unlucky egg, and everyone's mood is much more comfortable.

Of course, the fear that the Kingdom of Prussia would take advantage of the fire was the main factor, and now that the Berlin Revolution had broken out, Prussia was naturally unable to do anything at this time.

The good mood of the crowd did not last long, and the Czech region was in trouble again, and it was no wonder that Franz knew that the big capitalists in the Czech region were Austrians, and it would be strange if there were no shadows of them.

It is now necessary not only to establish a unified Czech parliament and an independent National Guard, but also to demand that the Czech language be given the same status as the German language.

There can be no doubt that this demand for secession was non-negotiable, and that the Vienna government could not have agreed to the partition of Austria.

Now intelligence officers are recording the names of the nobles and capitalists involved in this event, and Franz is ready to use a knife against the Czech regions.

The biggest problem of ordinary people in this era is to have enough to eat, and any other requirements are dictated by someone.

Franz has always turned his nose up from the fact that the petty bourgeoisie and the working class are put together in the history books, can the needs of the exploiting class and the exploited class be the same?

The Austrian government is pushing for a labor protection law, and there is no reason for workers to oppose the government fighting for their rights at this time?

According to the information that came back, the main crowd of the demonstrations in Prague were students and the petty bourgeoisie, and the workers simply regarded the demonstrations as their work and took the money to do things.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, what is the Cabinet going to do with the parade in the Prague area?"

Franz decisively ignored the conditions they proposed, which could not be agreed to, and there was no need to discuss them.

"We have ordered the Prague government to arrest the masterminds of this conspiracy, and the cabinet has given an order to Prince Wendy Schretz to prepare him to suppress the rebellion!" Felix said murderously

At this time, it was impossible for the Vienna government to make concessions, he did not even bother to do anything about the void and the snake's tail, and the Czech region, unlike other regions, did not have a revolutionary mass base at all.

In his opinion, this was a counterattack by some nobles and capitalists, dissatisfied with the reforms of the Viennese government, after all, as soon as the Czech Kingdom was established, these laws did not need to be enforced.