Calm

We silk weavers, Are each so poor we are naked.

The high officials, Don their coats and wear embroidered sashes.

We weave these, Yet die of hunger without a scrap of cloth for a shroud.

We silk weavers, Are each so poor we are naked.

But our world is soon to come, And your world is about to perish.

At that time, we shall

Weave the shroud of the old world, For the thunder of the uprising has already reached the clouds.

The second Lyon uprising shook France and aided Austria.

The internal and external troubles Franz had anticipated did not materialize; instead, everything appeared unusually smooth.

It seemed that once Hungary decided to withdraw from the Zollverein, all problems were solved with ease.

The ambassador of Prussia hanged himself and spent all the funds allocated by the government of Prussia.

What brought even more disgrace to the government of Prussia was that more than one dancer was seen entering and leaving the room of the ambassador of Prussia.

Consequently, busybodies linked money, women, and the ambassador together, fabricating a series of scandals.

The successor Minister of Foreign Affairs of Prussia was forced to state in public that the former Minister of Foreign Affairs loved his wife very much and that the cause of the matter was under investigation.

It would have been better not to investigate; upon investigation, the people of Prussia discovered that this matter was related to an organization called the Polish Restoration Army.

This made the military of Prussia unable to sit still; assassinating a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Prussia was simply too audacious.

The high-ranking officials of Prussia were all in a state of panic, fearing they would be targeted by the Polish Restoration Army, and the turnover of brothels in Berlin plummeted that month.

The French were no better off; the plague had just passed, and an unprecedented worker uprising erupted in Lyon.

This was entirely because factory owners did not treat workers as human beings. At this time, French workers had to work eighteen hours a day, and even had to work overtime.

Since a large-scale uprising had already broken out in France in 1831, the high-ranking officials promulgated the October Decree to prevent workers from forming associations.

In October 1833, the government of the July Monarchy promulgated a decree prohibiting associations and the existence of groups of more than twenty people.

However, as the saying goes, there is a policy from above and a countermeasure from below.

The workers broke into pieces and established countless small groups of fewer than twenty people.

The result was that the associations not only did not stop but became even more frantic, which made King Louis Philippe very angry.

In March 1834, the rulers of the July Monarchy promulgated a decree prohibiting workers from organizing new associations and forcing workers to dissolve existing mutual aid societies, otherwise, all members would be punished, and they ordered the arrest of worker leaders.

This move angered the workers, and they decided to take up arms against the July Monarchy.

However, the French were much more efficient than the Austrians when it came to suppressing revolutions.

The army of the July Monarchy had long been prepared. After the uprising broke out, the army of the July Monarchy quickly entered the city, occupied every intersection and major stronghold, and set up artillery outside the city; the insurgents in Lyon were already trapped in a jar.

Of course, the rebellious ability of the French was not just for show; the insurgents were experienced, and even when facing the pressure of a large army, they chose to respond with street fighting.

If the army wanted to win, they had to attack room by room, and they would have to pay a huge price themselves.

In field battles against the army, unless one encountered a bungling general leading a group of soldiers who did not want to fight, the insurgent army without heavy firepower faced the fate of being slaughtered when confronting regular troops.

It was the uprising in Paris that caught the high officials of the July Monarchy off guard.

The July Monarchy, Cabinet.

"Guizot, damn it, the country is already in a state of emergency, and you are still worrying about the damn Austrians."

"Thiers, you short-sighted fool, the Austrians are competing with the Prussians for the leadership of Germany. No matter which side wins, it is a disaster for France, do you understand?"

"Before the Germans create a disaster, the workers outside will rush in and hang you and me on a lamppost."

In the end, at the insistence of Thiers, tens of thousands of troops entered Paris to maintain order. The uprising was suppressed, but it also left the entire government of France almost paralyzed.

At the same time, the "Bloody Week of Lyon" began. Soldiers received orders that they could shoot anyone who looked like an insurgent or a sympathizer of the insurgents.

In the bloody street fighting, men and women were dragged out of their rooms and executed on the streets.

The atrocities lasted for a week, and the last batch of insurgents was shot dead at Cordeliers Cathedral.

"Charles did not die in vain; he is a hero!" A tall, bearded man used a piece of rag to wrap a young boy tightly.

"I am not afraid of death, let me go back, I want to fight them to the end!" The boy tried to break free, but was held tightly by the bearded man's hands.

"If you go back, their deaths will have been in vain! We must live well for their sake; one day, General Napoleon will return to save us," the bearded man roared.

"But isn't General Napoleon already dead?" tears streamed from the youth's eyes.

"General Napoleon still has nephews, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and General Jerome is also alive."

"But what if they are all gone too?" the youth asked.

"France needs a Napoleon, and there must be a Napoleon," the bearded man replied with absolute conviction.

"Yes! There must be a Napoleon." A glint of determination flickered in the eyes of the youth named Charles.

At this moment, there were many others like them, ragged and tattered, yet the French army had not hunted them all down to the last.

Within this group, some had already regained their spirit, while others had lost their souls.

The Lyon uprising had already failed, and because of this, Thalia had lost a year's salary to Franz.

After all, in the eyes of the people at that time, French uprisings always seemed destined to succeed.

At this time, Louis Bonaparte had just become a captain in the Bern Artillery Regiment, while Jerome, thanks to his father-in-law, had become a prince and was spending his later years in peace in Italy.

In 1834, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was never short of various conspirators, dangerous malcontents, fanatical admirers, or self-righteous swindlers by his side.

A man named Persigny sought out Louis Bonaparte.

This Persigny had once served in the French army but remained a low-ranking officer; later, he went to Bohemia to work as an editor-in-chief, only to be fired shortly after; finally, he discovered that only Bonapartism was his path to the heavens.

Under the introduction of the Bonapartist poet Belmontet, Persigny met Louis Bonaparte, and the two hit it off immediately.

Persigny argued that a hero need not care about the current situation, but rather must create it; these words deeply moved Louis Bonaparte.

In truth, Louis Bonaparte had never given up on taking action, which perfectly aligned with Persigny's philosophy.

Thus, the two decided to go to Strasbourg to create the situation.

Within the Austrian Empire, several small-scale uprisings were swiftly suppressed.

Without the French and the Prussians, the Austrian elites seemed to have wilted like eggplants hit by frost.

Among the Hungarians, due to the loss of power of Prince Esterhazy, they needed to elect a new leader.

But since everyone's strength was roughly equal, things became interesting.

The Hungarian nobles suddenly collectively leaned toward the Austrian side; they would remain loyal servants of Austria until a new leader was decided.

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