Giovanni Battista had actually gone to Britain to investigate. He knew what kind of hell British workers lived in.
That was why Giovanni Battista found those Pro-British Faction members and people who wanted to imitate Britain's system absurd. As an Italian himself, he also found Italian nationalists utterly absurd.
Why refuse to be decent human beings? Did they have to become ghosts instead?
Franz naturally knew everything they were saying. After all, he commanded the largest intelligence agency in the world at this time.
But in truth, the situation was not as grave as the Austrian Empire's upper ranks imagined. In fact, everything remained within Franz's grasp.
The ethnic tensions in Bohemia were indeed sharp, but only in the cities, where both sides had to compete for the right to speak.
As for where the Czechs had found the nerve to compete for that right, it all stemmed from the Austrian Empire's previous census.
Due to the special circumstances and particular needs at the time, Franz had set the standards for classification very broadly.
Back then, virtually anyone in the Austrian Empire could list whichever ethnicity they believed themselves to be. That was why the number of ethnic minorities across the empire had plummeted.
Yet some had chosen to go against the current. After all, most of those who had constantly waved the banner of Czech nationalism in pursuit of decentralization and autonomy were Germans.
However, once they had truly become Czechs, they discovered that the benefits and privileges they had imagined had not arrived. This new emperor was clearly not attentive enough to special groups like them.
Following past experience, these people gathered together, preparing to make a fuss and prove their worth to the emperor and the state. That way, they could continue enjoying treatment above everyone else.