Chapter 360： Explosion of national independence

In fact, the Allied Powers such as Britain and France are reluctant to talk about the wishes of the Austro-Hungarian peace talks. Because all countries participating in the war have suffered heavy losses (except the United States and a certain wall), it is urgent to find a place to supplement the losses. As for Austria-Hungary, the chief culprit of the war, its internal contradictions became the best goal of the Allied Powers.

Moreover, after experiencing the lessons of this war, many people have discovered that there are too many European powers. If the frictions and disputes among the major powers are amplified, it may trigger a war. So for the sake of Europe's stability and peace, let's demolish a big country first. Therefore, the Austro-Hungarian peace talks completely failed, and Britain, France, the United States and other countries completely ignored their requests.

In China, the charity activities of Empress Zeta with the ladies to improve their image are also tepid. It does not deny that their actions have benefited many people, and their influence on the Habsburg family has changed somewhat. But in the overwhelming opposition, these people can't get through the waves at all. Moreover, Queen Zeta does not have the approachable image of Princess Sissi, nor does it have her flexible and changeable methods. And her deliberately imitating gesture made many people dissatisfied.

One of the newspapers in Prague commented: Queen Zeta’s deliberate imitation of Princess Sissi in front of the people makes people feel uncomfortable, and in the face of various emergencies, the queen will only behave like a puppet. Following the arrangements of others, there is no demeanor of a queen of a country at all.

The diplomatic and internal policies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not play its due role at all, which made nationalists and careerists in various places even more unscrupulous.

On the day of July 12, members of the Prague Parliament are holding a key meeting where they are discussing the independence of the region.

"independent."

This is a word that fascinates the Czechs. Many bloodstains of martyrs have been stuck in this word.

From the 5th to 6th centuries, the Slavs moved west to the Czech Republic and Slovakia. And slowly formed today's Czech and Slovak nation.

From the end of the 9th century to the first half of the 10th century, after the disintegration of the Great Moravian Empire, the Przemes family established the Czech Principality with Prague as its center. The Czech name also appeared in front of the world.

In 1086, the German King Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire granted Czech Prince Vladisov II the title of King of Bohemia (Bohemia is Latin, Germanic for the Czech Republic), and the Czech Principality has since surrendered In the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1620, the combined forces of Bohemia (Czech) and the Palatinate lost in the Battle of White Mountain, and the Czech Republic entered the territory of the Habsburg dynasty until today.

At the time of being ruled by the Habsburgs, the Czech national awakening was not too slow. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Czech national culture gradually developed. Many intellectuals devoted themselves to studying Czech history and language, which promoted the national awakening. In 1845, the petty-bourgeois radical revolutionary political group "Lebery" began its activities, and its leader was called Frisch.

In 1848, the February Revolution in France inspired the whole of Europe. Every country declared a bourgeois revolution, and revolutions broke out in the Czech Republic. However, due to various reasons, this revolution made the Czech Republic still obey the rule of the Habsburg family, and Frisch's remarks about Czech independence were also ignored by everyone.

Today, these Czech parliamentarians will cast a valuable vote for the independence of the region.

At the parliamentary podium, the leader of the Czech Progressive Party who returned secretly from abroad, will be the three presidents of the Czech Republic in the future until Masaryk, who is immobile, is standing here, giving generous speeches to the congressmen and the influx of people. Speech.

"My fellow citizens, today is a sacred day. It is a day when we Czechs decide our own destiny. From today on, we don’t have to bend our knees to anyone, nor do we need to obey the emperor’s will when we do anything. Today We want to cheer for our independence: Long live the Czech Republic, long live the people."

"Long live the Czech Republic, long live the people."

Masaryk's words successfully aroused the voice of the people. Everyone uttered their own shouts, this voice was so real, and it was full of their hope.

Masaryk was very satisfied with this situation, after the shouts subsided. He announced loudly: "Now it is up to the parliamentarians to vote whether our Czech region should be independent."

After Masaryk's voice fell, someone in the crowd chanted. "independent."

This sentence ignited the enthusiasm of the crowd, and then it became louder and louder and more and more neatly sounded.

"independent."

"independent."

"independent."

Faced with this situation, the parliamentarians present know what choice to make. Many of them will put the ballot paper that says agree to independence to the crowd before putting it in the ballot box. The actions of these parliamentarians made the voice of ‘independence’ even louder.

Masaryk stepped aside and watched the votes of these parliamentarians with his deputy Stefanik and the leader of the National Party Benes.

"I have negotiated with leaders in other regions of the country, and they will also hold independent voting in the last few days."

Benes, who was on Masaryk's side, told him what he had done.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. This is all to ensure the independence of the Czech people. I didn't expect your decision to be correct."

Facing Benes’s words, Masaryk replied: “I can’t say that my decision is correct. And this is the people’s choice. I just let the people speak out their inner voice.”

"Yes, this is the people's choice."

Benes thought of the days when they ran for Czech independence. Now that he finally saw Czech independence happen before his eyes, he felt that everything was worth it.

And Masaryk was in the same mood as him. And he knows that now is the first step for Czech independence, and there are a lot of things they need to do next. However, there is a very important thing at the moment, which can be regarded as a top priority.

I saw Masaryk turned his head and asked Stefani on the other side: "We must pay close attention to the matter of conscription."

"I have almost done it. We are ready for the 200,000 quota. Only after the independent voting is completed, it will be immediately issued by the interim government's order."

Szstéfanik’s words temporarily settled the hearts of Benes and Masaryk All three of them knew that the current voting was only through the legal situation, and no one could stop Czech independence.

But after independence, it is imperative to defend the results. And the result of their deliberations was that the army was drafted to form the Czech Republic's own armed forces. As for the Czech soldiers and officers in the Austro-Hungarian army, they were mainly called on with patriotism. In this way, after the mobilization, the Czech Republic has at least a certain degree of self-protection ability. This will allow Austria-Hungary and Germany to have more worries when considering interfering in Czech independence.

The result was not unexpected. All the MPs present voted for independence. Then the newly-launched Czech government was announced in the parliament. And a photo of Masaryk, Benes, and Szstéphane embracing together and cheering for Czech independence appeared in the newspaper the next day. At the same time, there is a bold title on it, ‘Czech Independent Big Three’.

After the independence of the Czech Republic, Croatia and Slovenia also declared their independence, and they also formed their own governments. The successive independences finally aroused strong dissatisfaction with Hungary (Croatia and Slovenia are both territories of the Kingdom of Hungary). For this reason, Prime Minister Tisza of the Kingdom of Hungary sent a report to Karl I, demanding that the empire must act on this.

And Carl is completely overwhelmed now, because a big event has happened in Austria.