Attack the heart for the top, siege for the bottom.

Many people understand this truth, but there are very few who can really do it. Julius did a good job this time, and probably no one could connect him with the butcher general anymore.

The emancipation of serfs and the division of land were both powerful tools to buy the hearts and minds of the people, and even if the land still needed to be bought by the peasants, Julius still reaped a wave of popularity.

After the local population learned that they could get free land by cooperating with the government forces to suppress the rebellion, the peasants near Budapest spontaneously became volunteers.

The Kossuth government has limited enforcement capacity, and in the absence of one of the three in the circle, they have not been able to block the news.

After the news of the division of the land was transmitted to the city, many people's minds changed. The aristocrats gritted their teeth with hatred, the capitalists trembled, and the workers at the bottom saw new hope.

Now that the Austrian government's bill for the peasants has been honoured, it is only natural that the bill for the protection of the working class may also be honoured.

Against this background, Franz's intelligence organization also took action. Seeing that the wrecked ship of the Republic of Hungary was about to sink, there were many people who were unwilling to bury them.

Even if the big nobles were angry with the Austrian government's approach, they had to pinch their noses now and admit that their family had a big business and were reluctant to fight for their lives.

With the cooperation of these local snakes, the work of the intelligence organization was carried out very smoothly, and the Kossuth government, which had no experience in governance, was blind to these things.

Perhaps miserably by the secret police, these organizations were abolished as soon as the revolutionaries came to power. Budapest's law and order is now maintained by the Self-Defense Army, which has become a thug of the capitalists and aristocrats.

If it continues, maybe in another three or five months, the Austrian government will be able to liberate Budapest without blood.

Vienna

"Your Highness, the Croatian Legion and the Bohemian Legion have successfully joined forces in Budapest, the Hungarian War should end, and it will be very disadvantageous for us to drag on like this!" Prince Wendy Schretz said solemnly

He did not exaggerate that the reason why the rebels were a rabble was because they had risen in a hurry and had no formal training at all.

Such an enemy can be easily dealt with by the regular army, and if it takes a long time and these rabble have completed their training, it will not be so easy to deal with.

Historically, the Hungarian Revolution cost Austria so much energy, and it took the help of the Russians to suppress it, but they were left too much time to prepare.

"Well, in that case, let's attack, order the troops to restrain the army, I don't want to wipe their ass!" Franz said cautiously

"Yes, Your Highness!" Prince Wendy Schretz replied

"Prime Minister, how are the preparations for the aftermath, and how is the government going to govern Hungary once the Hungarian revolution is suppressed?" Franz asked with concern

Prime Minister Felix replied confidently: "Your Majesty, in consideration of the special situation of Hungary, our cabinet is ready to further divide the Hungarian province into three provinces with the Tissa River and the Danube River as the boundary.

They are: the province of Western Hungary west of the Danube, with its capital in Pécs; The province of Central Hungary east of the Danube and west of the Tisza River, with its capital in Miskolc; and the province of Eastern Hungary east of the Tisza River, with its capital at Debrecen.

Together with the provinces of Croatia, Transylvania, Slavonia, and Vojvodi, the Kingdom of Hungary will be divided into seven.

After the war, the Magyars were divided into three areas, and the government invested a lot of money in local education to help the local people integrate into the Austrian family as soon as possible. ”

Franz nodded with satisfaction, the division of administrative regions, the assimilation of language and culture, this set of combinations punched down, and Hungary was just a regional noun after decades.

"How to solve the education funding?" Franz asked with concern

Austria's wartime economic system, the so-called planned economy, has confiscated a large amount of reactionary property, and naturally there is no shortage of money.

This kind of economic model is only suitable for emergency response in the short term, or for a reckless wave of outbreaks, and after a long time, with the rigidity of the system, it will restrict the development of the economy, and when the time comes, it will inevitably be cultivated to restore the normal economic model.

If the central government were to allocate funds, the government's financial pressure would be too great once the economy returned to normal. After all, if Hungary needs to be assimilated, the rest of Austria will also need to be assimilated.

"Your Highness, we are going to abolish the church tithes and replace them with a compulsory education tax levied by the government to solve the funding gap!" Felix said with some hesitation

Franz's eyes lit up, and he had long wanted to abolish the tithes of the Church, but as a "devout" of the Catholic Church, if there was no suitable reason, he would take the liberty of abolishing tithes and the Church.

Now that the prime minister has proposed it, Franz is naturally in favor of it with both hands. If the church has any opinions, it should go to the cabinet for trouble, this is what they raised, Franz thought very unscrupulously.

Anyway, this era is not the Middle Ages, the pope has been driven into exile by the revolutionary party in Naples, and the church cannot do the government. Of course, ruining someone's reputation, they still did it.

"Is there enough money? In the future, all parts of the country will need to invest a lot of money in education, will tithes alone be enough? Franz asked worriedly

Felix said fiercely: "Your Majesty, the religious personnel in the country are seriously degenerate, and as devout believers in God, it is necessary for us to rectify the bad atmosphere of the church.

The Cabinet of Ministers is ready to conduct a strict inspection of church personnel, severely punish church personnel who violate the precepts, and confiscate the illegal property of the church.

We will use all this money for education, plus the compulsory education tax, presumably Austria's compulsory education funds are enough. ”

Anyway, he had already offended the church once, so he simply broke the jar and continued to catch the fat sheep of the church.

How rich was the church in Austria in the mid-19th century? It is difficult to have an exact answer to this question, and after so many years of accumulation, the church is much richer than the Austrian government.

The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty.

More money is not necessarily a good thing, and now it is being targeted by the Austrian government. Franz, a "devout Catholic", naturally had to clear the door for God.

"The Prime Minister is right, the moral cultivation of religious personnel must be strengthened, and as believers of God, we have the obligation to help God's servants who have embarked on the wrong path and guide them back to the right track!!"