Chapter 1771: The Abandoned
"My lord, all the guards in the parliament outside have been evacuated. You can leave quickly." In a small two-story building on the edge of Budapest's aristocratic district, Tisza, his butler and a few loyal servants were temporarily under the "protection" of the parliament. "under.
"Really?" Earl Tisza stood up and tremblingly walked to the balcony with the help of his servants. From this position, he could clearly see the smoke and flames rising in Budapest and its suburbs. Even the air he breathed had a strong smell of gunpowder.
"It seems that the situation is not what Albany and the others imagined." Count Tisza said with a wry smile. Since I resolutely opposed the "eradication" plan proposed by Earl Albany in a meeting within the Independence Party last month, everything I relied on, the support of the nobles, and the support of the Independence Party have left me forever. Only now did he truly realize that as the prime minister of the Hungarian Empire, he had never really controlled the power of this country. Those who really controlled the power of this country were still those big nobles and big landlords who had been passed down for hundreds of years and the newly rising big factory owners. .
"This country has never changed before. This system has existed in Hungary for thousands of years. However, today, this decadent class is destined to disappear." Count Tisza looked at the parliament building in the distance. A tear rolled down his cheek, and the count was not sad for Count Albany and the rotten fellows who surrounded him, but for Hungary! This country he loves so much will eventually be buried with those nobles! Because of their actions, the last trace of the kingdom's energy has been exhausted!
To be honest, Count Tisza is definitely a patriot. He really wants Hungary to prosper. Whether he ascended to the prime ministership with the help of the Independent Party, or with the support of the Austrian Emperor, he used universal suffrage to force the parliament to forcefully pass the military expansion resolution, in fact, it was all for Hungary.
He is a conservative man, he knows the chronic diseases of the Kingdom of Hungary. However, compared with the reform measures of the bourgeois radicals, he hopes for a stable Hungary, because he knows that the base of the radicals is too small, and it is nothing more than a small and complex middle class in the country. If the radicals are allowed to reform, let alone the counterattack of the nobles who control the state power, even if there is no interference, the radicals may not be able to control the whole situation in the end.
Before the war, his plan was very clear, that is to win the war with Austria, and then completely destroy Romania, not only for Romania's food and land, but more importantly, to fundamentally destroy the Transylvania region The tendency of the Romanians to be independent! Once the Kingdom of Romania is torn apart, what else is there for the Romanians in Transylvania to dance about?
In politics, he hopes to unite the hearts of the Kingdom of Hungary through war! In the first ten years of this century, the development speed of Austria was much higher than that of Hungary, and a large number of Hungarian talents flowed to Austria, especially the Bohemia region. Count Tisza could feel that the Hungarian ruling system was becoming more and more depressed. In the countryside, people from villages left here, leaving behind wooden houses with doors and windows sealed by wooden boards. They found more suitable jobs elsewhere in the empire and declared their allegiance to the Austrian Emperor or the Archduchess Mary. You know, they are Hungarians! The influence of this kind of behavior spread rapidly in the middle and lower levels of the empire. Before the war broke out, the nationalist beliefs of the Hungarian grassroots had actually been greatly weakened.
Tisza thought very well, using the war to unite the hearts of the people, after destroying Romania, the independent tendencies of the largest minority in the empire will be curbed. And the dividends of the war can be enjoyed by all social classes more or less, so the Kingdom of Hungary will be stable for at least 20 years.
As for the latter,
Then it is not for him as an old man to decide. But who knows, this plan that seemed to be going well at first came to naught with a large-scale military failure, and the impact of the defeat in the war shook the entire Kingdom of Hungary. At this time, Prime Minister Tisza realized that the internal conflicts in Hungary were so deep, and Hungary's national power was far from being as strong as imagined. Even Tisza thought that if Hungary was singled out, could Hungary handle Romania? Hard to say.... As a country with the same area as Italy, Hungary's national strength and performance are really embarrassing...
And what followed was Austria's forced palace! This was of course unacceptable to Prime Minister Tisza with the "Greater Hungary" doctrine at first.... That's right, it was at the very beginning. Later, as the situation got worse step by step, Prime Minister Tisza was no longer so entangled in the issue of Hungary's rights and status. After all, people had to bow their heads under the eaves. So, after meeting the Austrian Emperor for the third time, he began to adjust his strategy. On the one hand, they are planning to confide in Austria in exchange for more support. On the other hand, they want to reform the country, weaken the rights of the aristocracy, and compromise with radicals who have a more popular foundation. They do not want the two sides to completely eliminate the conflict, but they want to make do with it first. over. We must be stable domestically, and externally, we must show that Hungary is one, so that we can have more bargaining chips when bargaining!
However, Prime Minister Tisza was still too optimistic. He overestimated the integrity of the nobles and underestimated the anger of the people towards the nobles! The Independence Party headed by the Earl of Albany is not willing to negotiate peace at all. They want to continue to maintain the ruling status of the nobles, and they have begun to deploy troops through various channels. And the bourgeois radicals even came up with a plan to carve up the property of the nobility and the church as a call to arms! And got huge support from the people!
As a result, Prime Minister Tisza did not please both sides. When he appeared in the parliament for the last time and tried to persuade the Earl of Albiny, the latter publicly announced in the parliament that "Prime Minister Tisza is not in good health and cannot perform his rights. Therefore, it is recommended that He rests in peace."
As a result, since that day when a group of people brought her to the house, Tisa never left the villa again!
"Master, we can leave here now, why don't you hurry up?" Just as Tisa was still thinking about it, the old butler next to him urged him to pack his things and prepare to leave.
"Leave here?" Tisa looked at his loyal servant with a strange expression.
"Yes, we can go back to your hometown or other places, but we must not stay in Budapest any longer. This place is like a battlefield. There have been exchanges of fire near the Parliament Building. We are definitely not safe here." The old housekeeper was anxious Said.
"Hehe, yes, it's not safe." Tisa sighed.
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