Chapter 541

After the victory of the bourgeois revolution, the situation in Europe did not improve. Instead, it worsened.

The capitalists, who had just become the masters, had not yet stabilized their position, but revealed their greedy nature.

Not only did the newly established bourgeois government not fulfill its previous promises, but it also intensified the oppression of the people at the bottom.

Where there was oppression, there was resistance, and the movement of workers and peasants began to flourish.

In Lombardy, Marshal Radquis had collected a large amount of food before he evacuated. After the Kingdom of Sardinia occupied the area, the city of Milan was short of food. In order to raise food, they borrowed some food from the local people.

It was not difficult to borrow again after borrowing.

Unfortunately, the Kingdom of Sardinia seemed to have forgotten to borrow food from the people, which caused the local people to be dissatisfied.

That was fine, anyway, only a small number of people were borrowing food. Next, in order to raise war funds, the Kingdom of Sardinia began to levy war taxes.

After the bureaucrats increased the amount of war taxes, the amount of war taxes had long exceeded the affordability of the people at the bottom.

On April 21, 1848, the peasants of Brianza, who could not afford the high taxes, rebelled, and the uprising quickly spread to Salerno, Calabria, and other areas.

The rebels occupied the nobles' manors, seized the granaries, and distributed the food to the ordinary people. They burned the IOUs and documents, and in some places even divided the land.

The actions of the peasant rebels frightened the capitalists and nobles. The Lombardy government immediately sent troops to suppress it, and the spontaneous uprising of the peasant class was extinguished in less than a week.

The peasant uprising was only the beginning. After the Kingdom of Sardinia occupied the city of Milan, prices began to soar. Take bread, for example, from March to early May, the price soared by 74%.

The capitalists took advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune, and the people at the bottom were hungry and cold, which hurt many of the people who supported the Kingdom of Sardinia.

On April 25, organized by the Workers' Mutual Aid Society, more than 5,000 workers in Milan took to the streets and petitioned the provisional government appointed by the Kingdom of Sardinia, asking the government to calm prices and protect workers' rights.

There was no perfect worker protection law in this era, and the best was the "Labour Protection Act" and its subsidiary acts issued by the Government of Vienna.

Not many workers in Milan were literate, let alone considering the political impact. The workers' representatives directly copied a part of the Austrian "Labour Protection Act", added some provisions that they thought were reasonable, and submitted the petition.

In order to win over the local capitalists and nobles, the Kingdom of Sardinia naturally had capitalists in the provisional government. They immediately used this loophole to arrest the workers' representatives on the charge of Austrian spies and sent troops to suppress the demonstrations.

On April 28, a strike broke out in Milan. Tens of thousands of workers took to the streets to fight for their rights. The provisional government ordered the National Guards to shoot at "disrupting social order". More than 300 people were killed on the spot, and more than 500 people were arrested.

The White Terror filled the city of Milan. Under the suppression of the bourgeois liberal government, the Milan labor movement fell into a low tide.

Sardinia.

It was not only the Kingdom of Sardinia that suppressed the workers' and peasants' movements. In the Southern States of Italy, the bourgeois liberal governments also suppressed the workers' and peasants' movements.

In Naples the Civil Guards shot the striking printer's workers; in Rome the Civil Guards massacred the people demanding bread in front of the bakery; in Palermo the Civil Guards chopped the bodies of their comrades in the January Revolution.

The restoration of the government, the, and for the feudal., of the government of of the of the government.

No matter how much they boasted that capitalists were more advanced than feudalism, the people at the bottom found that the capitalist regime was more abhorrent than the feudal aristocracy.

The monarchs and aristocrats also seized this opportunity to launch a counterattack. The most representative was the Austrian counter-revolutionary group led by Franz, which had suppressed most of the revolution in Austria.

In the Regions of Italy, Pius IX was worried that the Italian Unification would lose his throne, and he was worried about the war with Austria, which would lose the support of the Catholics.

With the efforts of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on April 29, 1848, Pius IX issued the "Declaration", which raised the horn of counterattack.

On May 15, King Ferdinand II of Naples asked the parliament to swear allegiance to the constitution, which was opposed by the bourgeois parliament.

That night, Ferdinand II mobilized troops into the city and raised the butcher's knife to the bourgeois parliament.

In the Kingdom of Prussia, the Juncker nobles, unwilling to lose, were planning a counterattack. King Frederick The Great William III was still pretending to be a snake tail with the bourgeois government.

France

As the source of the European revolution, it was naturally the most lively place.

On April 23, France held a constitutional election. The bourgeois republican party won an overwhelming victory, and the working class was excluded from the core of power.

The French right wing came to power, which caused the discontent of the working class.

On April 26, the French workers launched an armed uprising in Lyon, Limoges, and other cities. The workers' leader, Blanqui, issued a statement condemning the government's betrayal of the revolution, and announced that he would carry out the revolution to the end.

The class contradiction had risen to become the main contradiction in France, and the working class and the bourgeoisie went their separate ways.

At the same time, the royalists did not stay idle, and quietly extended their hands into the army.

If the French royalists did not split into three, and restrained each other, there would be no bourgeoisie left to deal with.

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Vienna

Looking at the information in his hands, Franz breathed a sigh of relief. History had not changed much, and his butterfly effect had not completely changed the world.

The outbreak of the uprising in the Lombardy region meant that the Kingdom of Sardinia had been pulled to the same level as Austria, and there was no need to worry about falling into a people's war.

Venice

"Marshal, the enemy is coming!" Major General Victor said in Marshal Radski's ear.

"Hmm, since the enemy is here, then there's no need to hide anymore. Order the Sixth Division to teach the Tuscan army a lesson, and order the Ninth Division to destroy the Papal State army crossing the river! "Marshal Radski ordered coldly.

It was not easy to lure the Kingdom of Sardinia's army into Venice, and Radski did not expect to defeat the enemy with strategy.

"Marshal, I heard that King Charles Albert is coming to the frontline. If he intervenes, our chance will come!" Edman suggested.

"There's no need for that. We can just set up our formation and fight the enemy in the Mantua region. They have no choice.

If we fight in Venice, the Kingdom of Sardinia's transportation costs will be twice as high as ours. You can calculate how many supplies they have to transport every day to ensure the supply at the frontline. "Marshal Radski said calmly.