Kossuth could send people to block the Austrian representatives on the surface, but they could not do anything about those who were secretly on the side of Austria.

The Hungarian Revolution did not take place through bloodshed, which meant that there were a large number of people in the country who were inclined to the Viennese government, and Kossuth did not think of purging them, but they simply could not do so. (Casualties are negligible)

The internal relations of the Kingdom of Hungary were complex, and the nascent Hungarian regime was fragile and could not withstand the wind and rain.

Vienna

After receiving the news that Hungary had expelled the Austrian representatives, everyone knew that the countdown to the war had begun, and that the Austrian government could not allow Hungary to become independent.

"Prime Minister, how are the supplies going?"

After entering the era of thermal weapons, the war was fought with materials, and now Austria has to take care of the Italian battlefield, and Franz is most worried about logistics supply.

"Your Highness, the Hungarian counterinsurgency campaign has not yet begun, and at present, we are prioritizing the Italian battlefield, and if the troops mobilized exceed 200,000, we will not be able to guarantee logistical supplies." Felix thought for a moment and said

It was not that Austria could not get this batch of strategic materials, as one of the great powers, the Vienna government did not lack such supplies, and the most crucial problem was that it could not guarantee that the materials could be delivered to the troops needed on time.

The first major problem is transportation, which requires the transportation of large quantities of supplies to support hundreds of thousands of troops and the post-war refugee relief.

Since its inception, the new Cabinet has been working hard to achieve this. After the suppression of the Vienna rebellion, Austria entered a wartime economic system, and all government departments worked for the war.

"We can't wait any longer, the Hungarians have already rejected our kindness, and all eyes are on us at this time.

Military action can be postponed, but political offensive cannot be delayed, what do you suggest? Franz said solemnly

Everyone is playing politics, and naturally knows that there is a word called chain reaction, and if the Viennese government does not pay attention to Hungary declaring independence, other careerists will not follow suit?

No, it seems that by this time the careerists of other regions were finished, and if it were not for Franz's deliberate indulgence, the Hungarians would not have become independent so smoothly.

Historically, the independence of the Hungarians was based on the fall of Austrian Italy, the occupation of Vienna by the revolutionaries, and the outbreak of the Austrian Civil War.

At that time, everyone thought that Austria was going to be cold, so they turned their hearts to the side and simply revolutionized.

Even if it was a rebellion, they did not forget to report their work to the emperor, explained the reason for the rebellion, and left a way back for themselves.

Now the Italian battlefield is still fighting, the rebellion in Austria has been suppressed, and the Vienna government still has a strong power in its hands.

The capitalists and aristocrats were not outlaws, everyone had a family and a business, and under normal circumstances, they would not jump out to find death at such times, but the Hungarian revolution was still successful.

On the face of it, it seems that the rise of Hungarian nationalism was only succeeded by the efforts of Kossuth and others.

In fact, the wise people know that this is very abnormal, the Vienna government has been too slow to react, and if the rebellion had been suppressed earlier, the Republic of Hungary would not have had time to be established.

Austria had a standing army of 350,000, the Vienna government mobilized another 200,000 reservists, expanded the city defense army by 30,000, and only 100,000 men were used in the Italian battlefield.

Austria deployed 40,000 men in Galicia, 50,000 in Bohemia and 20,000 in Slovenia.

There were still 120,000 Austrian troops in the Kingdom of Hungary, distributed in Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Transylvania and other regions.

Even though part of the army was affected by Hungarian nationalism, the vast majority of the people were still loyal to the emperor, and if the rebellion had been suppressed in the first place, it would have been a different situation.

"Your Highness, I feel that it is time to immediately declare the Hungarian government illegal, and at the same time convert Croatia, Transylvania, and Slovakia into provinces under the Empire." Foreign Secretary Metternich said murderously

The wallsmith can also kill, and breaking up the Kingdom of Hungary is something he has always wanted to do but did not dare to do, and now the opportunity has come.

If the Hungarians dare to rebel, then there is nothing to say, it must be split! If you miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it will be difficult to encounter it later.

The Austrian Empire was a multi-ethnic state, and the Kingdom of Hungary was also a multi-ethnic state, and the fact that the Hungarians wanted independence did not mean that the Croats, Romanians, and Slovaks also wanted to follow them.

"Mr. Metternich is right, but at the same time as the Kingdom of Hungary is being dismantled, the National Equality Act, which we are drafting, can now be published in advance.

Don't Hungarians preach nationalism? We can also take advantage of this to classify the serfs and commoners in Hungary into the Austrian ethnic group, and directly draw wages from the bottom of the kettle. Chancellor of the Exchequer Karl proposed

Franz's eyes lit up, and the Chancellor's suggestion was undoubtedly to artificially create a nation to separate the Hungarian nobility from the plebeians.

If you open the history books, you will know that the so-called ethnic groups are artificially divided according to factors such as culture, language, history, region, and economy.

If we really talk about blood, it is a false proposition, in the changes of human history, basically all ethnic groups are mixed-blood, this is not clear at all.

Of course, the aristocracy would not have recognized their ancestry with the plebeians, just as the present "Hungarians" did not recognize the serfs as one of them.

Because of the level of education, most of the serfs in southern Europe in this era were of no nationality, or no one told them which nationality they belonged to.

In Franz's view, this was an opportunity, an opportunity to bring Austria together.

"Mr. Karl, I don't think there's any positive point in doing this, Austria already has a lot of nationalities, and adding another nation will only make our rule more troublesome!" Archduke Louis said with a frown

He had already heard Karl's implication that the creation of an Austrian nation was a fake, and that the real purpose was to bring all the Austrian nations together.

But this was not what Archduke Louis wanted, and as soon as all the nationalities of Austria were united, the Germans would be no exception, and Austria and Germany were thus separated, which was nothing short of a disaster for the Great Germans.