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Of the two allies in the Holy Alliance, Prussia had been involved in partitioning Poland, but the center of the rebellion was clearly not on its own territory, so it was quite content to sit back and watch.

Besides, compared with the Poles, Prussia considered Austria its greatest enemy. After all, a tiny place like Kraków hardly warranted an army of three hundred thousand.

As for the Russians, it would take some time for the intelligence to reach Saint Petersburg.

The new governor of Poland, Venyabetlovsky, had already fallen in love with Warsaw. It was a city steeped in history.

Moreover, the greatest problem facing Russian-controlled Poland at the moment was not the Austrians or the Austrians, but Cholera. With the flow of refugees to Austria halted, large numbers of wanderers were now roaming the lands of Russian-controlled Poland.

These people were the greatest source of chaos. Even if they were killed, their corpses would become breeding grounds for plague.

At the same time, as more and more people became targets for expulsion, Russian-controlled Poland was experiencing an unusual labor shortage.

And with the Russo-Austrian border closed and the Cholera epidemic spreading, tax revenues in Russian-controlled Poland had plummeted. Merchants were even more afraid to set foot there, owing in large part to the situation on the ground and the Russians' reputation.

As for the Poles' democratic system, everyone knew how that went: absolute democracy meant nobody could make a decision. Perhaps that was why Landry Promis's becoming emperor had displeased everyone, yet no one opposed him.

But the man who was theoretically in charge was nowhere to be seen, so the meeting naturally turned into a farce. Everyone had their own ideas, and no one would yield to anyone else. In the end, it became a rambling free-for-all.

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