Franz had gone to all this trouble for more than just wiping out a small House of Vantro, and certainly not for the gangsters and rotten apples in the city guard.
In fact, besides the large execution ground in the city center, there were many smaller ones around Vienna. The Bavarian Compatriot Mutual Aid Association and the underground forces Franz had cultivated were naturally in charge of those areas.
Their targets were nobles with long records of misdeeds, people who had been on Franz's blacklist for ages.
This was the perfect opportunity to sweep them out once and for all. But Haynau would not be the one to take the blame.
That burden would fall on the people who had instigated the rebellion, such as Lieutenant General Molka and Duke Vantro.
As the saying went, the dead told no tales, so those two were bound to take the fall.
But with the Vienna uprising, the deaths of so many commoners and nobles, the destruction of the city and its streets, and the charge that they had conspired with Hungarian rebels to overthrow the House of Habsburg, the two men alone could not shoulder it all.
So afterward, Austria's army and secret police would still have to go door to door. First, they would settle accounts. Franz did not want to leave a single person who had directly helped plan the rebellion.
Second, it was meant to strike fear into the rest. Besides the nobles who had directly taken part in the uprising, there were many people in Vienna who had simply waited to see which way things would go.
Now that the imperial family had won, they naturally would not make a move. They might even help the imperial family root out the rebels.
But if the rebels had won,