Lucas had originally been living a stable, comfortable life in Paris with his father, and had even obtained a degree in philosophy from the University of Paris. But after this war ended, he suddenly realized that he had a responsibility to help the Austrian people out of their suffering. He wanted to bring his own happy life to every Austrian.
And so he made the most important decision of his life: he bade farewell to Baron Scheller and his mother, and came to Vienna with the two thousand Francs he had saved. He was no longer the hot-blooded child who had joined the New Barracks uprising back then. During his years in Paris, he had witnessed France constantly becoming stronger and wealthier, and had deeply realized that violent uprisings alone could not solve every problem. Austria's rules had to be changed from the root. And first of all, people's thoughts and ideas had to be changed.
In Vienna, he soon met an old friend of his father's. The latter was doing rather well; he currently worked under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he was also a Liberal.
This elder introduced Lucas to a liberal movement organization, the "Stilz Society," and provided him with quite a bit of internal information from the Austrian government—the matter of the emperor taking 1.2 million Florins for diplomatic Bribes this time had been leaked by him.
Mm, Lucas believed that given the corruption of Vienna's bureaucrats, 1.2 million in diplomatic expenses would require at least 2 million in tax money, so he gave his speeches according to that figure.
He clearly had not inherited his father's gift for writing, but during his time in Paris, he had followed a new friend of his father's, the orator Mr. Varennes, and learned the art of public