Chapter 819 The Boers are also human beings

Chapter 819 The Boers are also human beings

Franz nodded, but that wasn't important.

"Want to smoke?"

"Give me a cigar, please."

Franz nodded, and Bordeaux took out a cigar and a box of matches and handed them to Joseph Loy.

The latter failed to ignite the match after rubbing it several times. This was not because the Austrian matches were of poor quality, nor was it because Franz had done anything to tease him, but because Joseph Loy's hands kept shaking. .

Finally, there was a crisp sound, and the match was lit. Joseph Roy took a hard breath, and then slowly blew out a smoke ring.

"Is this a good cigar, French? Or a Spanish Cuban cigar?"

"This is a product from the Nicaragua region of Austrian Central America, and its quality is not inferior to that of Cuban cigars."

Later generations of Nicaraguan cigars are indeed not inferior to Cuban cigars in terms of quality, but due to the long-term war, their reputation is far less than that of Cuban cigars.

The same is true at this time, but one of the important reasons is that the Austrian Empire is not strong enough and has insufficient influence.

Even though French-made cigars were of inferior quality, they were still considered the best in the world, a stereotype that did not disappear until after World War II.

Joseph Roy nodded, and then expressed his doubts with a wry smile.

"When do you plan to execute me?"

Franz shook his head.

"You have accumulated too much hatred, I will send you to a suitable place to judge you"

Franz would have Joseph Loy and Frey Holoser put on public trial in Switzerland and then in Vienna, and then they would be sent to the Vatican to receive the Pope's final verdict.

Along with them arrived two petitions in Switzerland and Vienna, as well as incriminating evidence against them.

In fact, the Papal State had a sworn hatred with these two men. Joseph Roy had already wiped out the Jesuit industries and monasteries in Switzerland.

Pius IX's confidant died directly in Switzerland, and this could not only ease the relationship with the Papal State, but also throw the blame to the Pope.

Franz prefers to pay back favors rather than repaying debts. But whether Pius IX appreciates it or not is another question.

The trial of Konstantin Sigwart and Ulrich Salis might have been troublesome for Austria, but it was a sure win for the Papal States.

First, a church brother was killed, and then a nun was canonized. At this time, the trial of the two culprits was definitely a shot in the arm for the precarious Papal State.

At the same time, the final solution for Switzerland at the Congress of Vienna was finalized.

Austria gets Aargau, France gets Geneva and Vaud, Prussia gets Jura, and the Kingdom of Sardinia gets Valais.

The remaining areas were all divided up by the German Confederation except for the state of Friborg. The grand duke elected by the state of Friborg was the Count of Chambord.

This caused quite a stir at the time, but Louis Philippe finally agreed because he felt that Friborg was a piece of meat in his mouth.

And after the Earl of Chambord has his own territory, will he give up his pursuit of the throne?

In fact, Louis Philippe also tried to force the other party to submit on this condition, but he was still very firm about his throne as Earl of Chambord.

As for the German princes, no one was willing to defend the border and face the French, so this hot potato was thrown to another French monarch.

Then the Ticeno State requested by the Kingdom of Sardinia was replaced by the Valais State, and the Valais State was more desolate than Ticeno State.

At the same time, he had to face the threat of France. Although Carlo Alberto was reluctant in every possible way, it was to no avail.

As a result, an Iron Curtain came down from Jura to Valais, and the isolation zone composed of Prussia, Chambord, and the Kingdom of Sardinia separated France and the German Confederation.

This is of course also within Franz's plan. After all, the thicker the buffer zone, the greater the room for maneuver.

This time it was supposed to be a great victory, but when Franz returned to Vienna, he discovered that something was wrong. That is, instead of easing, the national sentiment in Germany is heading in an even more extreme direction.

Austria's upper class was in a panic, and some savvy bankers were even trying to find ways to exchange precious metals and prepare to run away.

All this stemmed from someone's wild words at the German Confederation Congress.

In fact, the old Kurdre made a not so good start. At this time, the Boers who were desperate in South Africa suddenly remembered that they might also be Germans.

So Andres Pretorius came to Vienna, but the Boers were not as rich as the Luxembourgers.

Even the Boer militia commander had to borrow money from others to pay for his trip, because they had less than thirty pounds in their treasury.

Andres Pretorius was one of the greatest leaders in the history of the Boers, and Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, was named after him.

Andres Pretorius brought the Boers inland to escape persecution from the British.

After another leader Retief was killed by the Zulus, in order to protect the safety of the remaining people, he recruited 500 militiamen, and finally defeated the Zulus dozens of times his own in the Battle of Blood River.

The Zulus, who probably numbered over fifteen thousand at the time, ultimately left behind three thousand corpses, while the Boers lost not a single soldier.

However, being able to defeat the natives does not mean that he can defeat Britain, the most powerful country in the world at this time.

The British have always been good at misbehaving.

The Cape Colony was once one of the many colonies of the Netherlands, and later passed to the British for various reasons.

In order to pass on its own internal conflicts, the British chose to immigrate to the Cape Colony, where the Boers occupied a large amount of land and had a tradition of autonomous parliaments.

This is what the British did not want to see, so they came to drain the firewood.

The British government declared the Cape Colony a royal territory and no longer allowed Boer farmers to occupy and develop it for free. Instead, it implemented a land auction system and had to pay land rent for developed land.

At the same time, British colonial officials also implemented a system of discrimination against the Boers, restricted the Boers from migrating north of the Orange River, and abolished the slavery system on which the Boers relied for survival.

At that time, the Boers in the Cape Colony mainly relied on plantations and pastures, which required a large number of slaves. The abolition of slavery was tantamount to destroying their economic foundation.

As the number of British people in the Cape Colony continued to increase, conflicts with the Boers also increased, and the legal weapons held by British officials made it impossible for the Boers to fight against them.

As a result, a large number of Boers who felt uneasy and dissatisfied abandoned their pastures and houses, left the land where they had lived for generations, and moved inland.

The Boers established the Natal Republic in 1838, but the British were not prepared to let them go and annexed the Natal Republic in 1842.

Afterwards, Andres Pretorius led his people to flee further inland to Orange. In 1847, Britain expanded to Orange again.