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Silesia, the wealthiest province in Prussia at the time, was known as the most loyal place in Prussia, but its civilians lived a life worse than pigs and dogs.

Unlike the merchants and Junker landowners living in the cities of Posen and Breslau, the lower classes in Silesia still live in the dilapidated houses with mud walls and thatched roofs a hundred years ago. The income makes potatoes the only food on the table of many families.

The weavers who sat in front of the loom all day did not even have a decent set of clothes. The life of extreme poverty made people give up their moral bottom line. Many children were forced to go out and beg on the street every day. Theft became an encouraged Behavior.

Among them, the group of linen weavers suffered the most. With the development of the cotton textile industry, a large number of cheap and high-quality cotton cloth seized the linen market, causing the price of linen to plummet.

The situation worsened as industrialization continued to spread, and the income of linen weavers plummeted.

At the same time, due to financial constraints, the Prussian government failed to introduce effective policies to protect the local flax textile industry and weavers. Instead, it required merchants and capitalists to pay the same taxes as in previous years.

The result was that linen weavers had rising hours, often withheld wages, and had to go into debt to work and live.

With the continuous development of science and technology, looms are becoming more and more advanced. This small family-based workshop will inevitably be eliminated. A large number of weavers continue to go bankrupt because they cannot repay their debts.

These homeless people entered urban factories and became so-called cheap labor. It's a pity that Prussia's textile industry was born lame, and it suffered greatly from cotton price fluctuations and market fluctuations.

In order to pass on this risk, businessmen and capitalists naturally racked their brains and tried every means to exploit and squeeze workers.

What's more, the local administration, police, courts and relief are completely controlled by Junker noble landlords.

Wealthy textile merchants only need to pay a certain percentage of taxes, decent aristocrats don’t even pay taxes, and textile workers have to pay a much higher tax ratio than those merchants, and they have to bear various feudal obligations, service and special taxes .

This tax inequality has exacerbated the resistance of the local people.

In fact, in terms of income alone, the average salary of textile workers in Silesia was 150 florins/year, which was higher than the average level of Prussian society at that time.

However, Silesia has the highest prices in Prussia, especially the average premium of daily necessities such as food, salt, and coal is as high as 30%, and there are more taxes than other parts of the country.

Alcohol is the only affordable item here, though locals drink neither beer nor wine but spirits. At that time, spirits were synonymous with cheap wine, also known as bad wine. The physical condition of the locals who drank this kind of wine for a long time can be imagined.

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The Prussian government is still very concerned about the decline of the Silesian economy, but several high-ranking officials have simply attributed it to the laziness, short-sightedness and lack of foresight of the people at the bottom.

But they overlooked an important factor, that is, the Prussian government did not formulate protective tariffs to protect its textile industry, but instead persuaded the German Zollverein to open the market to accept textiles from the British in exchange for exporting timber and agricultural products to the UK. rights and interests.

Trade with Russia has long been the key to Prussia's prosperity.

However, after 1833, the textile industry in the "Great Poland" area ruled by Russia began to rise. The Russians set up trade barriers for their own interests, cutting off the possibility of Prussia's dumping to the east.

To make matters worse, the Austrian Empire's great feat of recapturing Belgrade sounded the alarm for the Prussian high-level.

They believe that under the double blow of the local economic downturn and the decline of leading industries, the Silesians are likely to fall into the arms of Austria without firing a shot, just like the Serbs in Belgrade.

But in fact, at first due to religious issues, the Silesians did not have much expectation for returning to Austria. However, with the deteriorating economic and political environment and the growing influence of the Austrian Empire, some people had to start reconsidering this issue.

During the food crisis, due to the unfavorable disaster relief of Prussian governments at all levels, many people had to choose to leave their hometowns.

On the contrary, Austria has launched a large number of work-for-relief programs on its own initiative, and these projects do not state that foreigners are not allowed to participate, especially since it is not difficult for Germans to pretend to be Austrians.

In fact, the supervisors had already been instructed to ignore the Germans from North Germany, and Franz even sent someone to spread the news within the German Confederation.

Many young friends among book friends may not know what a beggar is or why there are beggars. It is a group of begging people who live on handouts, usually asking for change and meals, and were later eliminated by QR codes.

There are many reasons for beggars, mainly because of the loss of basic living conditions caused by force majeure.

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, this type of beggars is mainly to meet their basic survival needs, that is, to eat and wear warmth, so as not to starve to death or freeze to death. Once the basic survival needs can be met, they generally give up begging and move towards a new way of survival.

There are also professional beggars, but in Europe at this time, there are not many beggars of this type. Of course, it’s not that the Europeans were so noble at that time, but that all countries have introduced corresponding measures to deal with this group of people~www.wuxiaspot.com~The British method is whipping, fines, imprisonment, and sending them to colonies.

Prussia starts with six weeks in prison and carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

France: Forced labor, or sent directly to a mental hospital.

However, there are many organized gangs of beggars in Europe. They usually kidnap and abduct children as beggars and beg along the street. On the one hand, the police and military police rarely deal with children. On the other hand, even if children are caught, they will only be sent to orphanages. Or orphanages instead of going straight to prisons or colonies, except in England.

Therefore, the work-for-relief program has great appeal to refugees in the German Confederation. At the same time, Franz is also promoting his own immigration plan. If he comes to Austria, he will have land to grow, and if he is willing to go overseas to develop colonies, there will be additional subsidies.

Although the vast majority of refugees did not end up staying in Austria due to their aversion to loss, they brought a lot of relevant information about the Austrian Empire back to their country, including the German version of "A Thousand Years Against the Waves".

When they listened to it on the construction site, they didn't feel much, and even when they learned to sing, they didn't feel much. However, when they returned to the "motherland", they found that they didn't know what the song meant when they first heard it, and they were already in the song when they heard it again.

After a trip to the Austrian Empire, they found out when they returned home what kind of life they were living!

When a disaster strikes, the imperial government will fund the disaster-stricken civilians to build projects, which will not only allow those victims to live decently, but also prevent the next disaster from coming.

On the one hand, they are left to fend for themselves, and on the other hand, they are trying their best to keep them alive.