The Rise of the Empire

Chapter 1771: Outcast

"Master, all the guards of the parliament outside have been evacuated, you can go quickly." In a two-story building on the edge of the noble quarter of Budapest, Tisza, his butler and a few loyal servants were temporarily under the protection of the parliament. "under.

   "Really?" Count Tisza got up and walked tremblingly to the balcony with the help of his servant. From this position he could clearly see the smoke and fire rising in Budapest city and its suburbs. There is even a strong smell of gunpowder in the air you breathe.

   "It seems that the situation is not what Albany and the others imagined." Count Tisza smiled bitterly. Since last month he resolutely opposed the "eradication" plan put forward by Earl Albany in an internal meeting of the Independence Party, everything he relied on, the support of the nobility, and the support of the Independence Party have been gone forever. Now he really realizes that as the prime minister of the Hungarian Empire, he has never really mastered the power of this country, and the real masters of this country’s power are still the great aristocrats, big landlords who have passed on for hundreds of years, and the newly emerging 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 drop of tears flowed down his cheeks. The count was not sad for Earl Albany and the corrupted fellows who surrounded him, but for Hungary! This country he loves so much will eventually be buried together by those nobles! Because of their actions, the last trace of the kingdom's essence was consumed!

   To be honest, Count Tisza is definitely a patriot. He really wants to make Hungary prosper. Whether he used the Independence Party to ascend the throne of prime minister or, with the support of the Austrian Emperor, used universal suffrage to force the parliament to pass a military expansion resolution, it was actually for Hungary.

   He is a conservative man, he knows the ills of the Kingdom of Hungary. However, compared with the reform measures of the bourgeois radicals, he prefers a stable Hungary, because he knows that the radicals are too small and are nothing more than a sparse 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 follow Austria to win the war, and then completely destroy Romania, not only for Romania’s food and land, but more importantly, to fundamentally destroy Transylvania. The tendency of Romanians to become independent! Once the kingdom of Romania has been beaten to pieces, what else can Romanians in Transylvania have for jumping?

   Politically, he hopes to unite the hearts of the people of the Kingdom of Hungary through war! In the ten years at the beginning of this century, Austria has developed much faster than Hungary, and a large number of Hungarian talents have flowed to Austria, especially in Bohemia. Count Tisza could feel that the Hungarian ruling system was more bleak, but in the countryside, people from villages left here, leaving behind a wooden house 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 Grand Duke of Mary. You know, they are Hungarians! The influence of this behavior spread rapidly across the middle and lower levels of the empire. Before the outbreak of the war, the nationalist beliefs of the grassroots in Hungary had been greatly weakened.

   Tisza thinks very well. After the war is used to gather people's hearts and destroy Romania, the independence tendency of the largest minority in the Empire will be contained. And the dividends of war can be enjoyed by all classes of society more or less, so the Kingdom of Hungary will be stable for at least 20 years.

   As for the following matters, it is not his old man who can decide. But who knows, this originally seemingly good plan was turned into a bubble with a large-scale military failure, and the impact of the failure of the war shocked the entire Kingdom of Hungary. At this time, Prime Minister Tisza realized that the internal contradictions in Hungary are so deep, and Hungary’s national power is far from as strong as imagined. Even Tisza believed that if it is singled out, Hungary can manage Romania’s capital. It's hard to say... As a country the size of Italy, Hungary’s national strength and performance are really embarrassing...

   What followed was the Austrian forced palace! This was of course unacceptable for the Prime Minister Tisza who was cherishing the "Greater Hungary" doctrine... Yes, it was the beginning. Then, as the situation got worse, Tisza's rights and status issues with Hungary were no longer so entangled. After all, people had to bow their heads under the roof. So, after meeting Austrian Emperor for the third time, he began to adjust his strategy. On the one hand, they are prepared to lose their sincerity to Austria in exchange for more support. On the other hand, they are reforming the country, weakening the rights of the nobility, and compromising with the radicals with a more popular foundation. They do not want the two sides to completely eliminate the contradictions, but seek to make do with it. Past. For the domestic market, we must be steady, and external ~lightnovelpub.net~ should show that Hungary is one unit, so that we can have more bargaining chips when bargaining!

   However, Prime Minister Tisza was still too optimistic. He overestimated the morals of the nobles and underestimated the people's anger towards the nobles! The Independence Party headed by Earl Albany was totally unwilling to negotiate. They wanted to maintain the dominance of the nobility and began to deploy troops through various channels. The radical bourgeoisie even took out a plan to carve up the property of the nobility and the church as a fighting message! And got huge support from the people!

Therefore, Prime Minister Tisza was not pleased by both sides. When he appeared in the parliament for the last time, trying to persuade Count Obini, the latter openly declared in the parliament that "Prime Minister Tisza is not in good health and cannot perform his rights, so he suggested He rests in peace."

   And the result is that since that day when a group of people came to this house, Tisza never left the villa!

   "Master, we can leave here now, why don't you hurry up?" While Tisza was still thinking about it, the old butler next to him urged him to pack his things and prepare to leave.

   "Leave here?" Tisza looked at his faithful servant with a weird expression.

"Yes, we can go back to your hometown or other places, but we must not stay in Budapest anymore. This is simply a battlefield. There have been exchanges of fire near the Parliament Building. We must be unsafe here." The old housekeeper is anxious. Said.

   "Hehe, yeah, it's not safe." Tisza sighed.

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