War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

Vienna, Lion's Pride Hotel.

When Solomon Rothschild got up early and took the newspaper, he almost spat a mouthful of blood on it.

"The chief dancers of the four major theater companies resigned at the same time and will form a group to debut. 》This news filled the front pages of major newspapers, especially the gossip newspapers, which added fuel and jealousy to it and made it beyond recognition, but it is even more eye-catching.

At this time, the black market business was Solomon's only stable income besides the bank in Vienna, and the theater was just a facade. At this time, the facade of the store was taken away, how could he not be angry?

But one thing shocked Solomon: the principal dancers of the four major troupes resigned at the same time. If it's just one family, it's most likely a conspiracy from other families.

But the principal dancers of the four major theater companies were poached at the same time, which means that there is a fifth party who wants to get a piece of the pie in Vienna. At this time, although this behavior has earned enough attention for the fifth party's appearance, it is also equivalent to declaring war on the four major forces at the same time.

Anyone who does this is either an idiot or has a huge backing.

According to Solomon's past experience, this behavior was no different from suicide, but he had an ominous premonition. Maybe the other party really has enough confidence, just like the Bavarian Mutual Aid Association wiped out the underworld forces in Vienna.

No one would have thought that a foreign gang could become the leader of Vienna's underground forces in less than ten years.

Of course, people never expected that this gang would actually be related to the royal family, but insiders dared not say it because the royal family and the government would not admit it for the sake of face.

Then the speaker is slandering the royal family and the government. These are both serious crimes, and the minimum penalty for both crimes is exile.

Thinking of this, Solomon decided to wait and see what happens. After all, the four major troupes have their own forces behind them, and the cake of the Vienna Underworld is only so big.

If there is one more person, everyone will get less points, so it is better to let this new person disappear.

In fact, someone had already tested it. Franz and his entourage were followed as soon as the carriage left.

Fortunately, he had arranged five hundred spies in advance. The gangsters who were following him were confused, because suddenly someone made a gesture, and then the whole street rushed towards them as if they were crazy.

A few gang thugs were pinned to the ground before they knew what was going on, and then were brutally beaten in a secret police interrogation room, and they called it all out.

These guys come from Bohemia. They are thugs raised by the local wealthy Winster family and are responsible for handling some dishonorable matters in business.

The Winster family does not have much business in Vienna and is the weakest of the four major theater groups.

But he is also the fastest rising among them. It took only a few decades to go from an unknown little noble to the emperor of Bohemia. Even if the governor and senior officials take office, they must visit him first.

Without the approval of the Winster family, even government officials cannot take office. Even if they take office, they will die violently or be ruined.

Franz did a little research and found out that this person was said to be a king, but in fact he was just a domestic slave in the family of Archduke Karl.

Winster's fathers relied on bribes to become the deacons of the Casimir family (the family of Archduke Karl's adoptive father) in Bohemia. After that, they bullied the superiors and subordinates for decades and became a local tyrant, but it was not enough. To claim the title of king.

In Winster's generation, on the one hand, he continued to use Archduke Karl's family as a cover to reap benefits; on the other hand, he sized up the situation and became the largest patron and actual leader of the Czech national independence movement.

This made the Winster family suddenly become a force that cannot be ignored in Bohemia. Even high-ranking officials and governors must act based on their family's face if they want to live a stable life, otherwise there will be unrest in their jurisdiction. .

In addition, Winster also has a so-called 5,000-strong army called the Czech National Revolutionary Army, which is actually his group of thugs. What they do is to watch the scenes and protect the family business for him.

The purpose of these thugs is to find a few easy targets to tie up, and then demand ransom from their families to teach them a lesson.

But he didn't expect that Franz's side was arrested when they were well prepared.

It happened that Franz was still worried about having no place to temporarily house the girl group he was planning, so he asked people to continue interrogating those few people in order to collect more evidence.

The secret police are very good at interrogations, especially interrogations with a purpose. During this period, a manager of the Winster family in Vienna wanted to come to the secret police prison to arrest someone, and his arrogant attitude was memorable.

This person obviously knew more and more detailed information than those thugs, and then the manager was also sent to prison by the leader of the secret police.

After a "friendly" interaction, the Winster family was convicted of dozens of crimes, including but not limited to human trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution, bullying, kidnapping, assassination, poisoning, colluding with foreign governments, and selling national intelligence. .

Franz wanted the Winster family's property in Vienna. The leader of the secret police understood what he meant when he heard this, and changed the manager of the Winster family in Vienna that day.

The Winston family crest was thrown to the ground and replaced with the letter "K".

The next day, an army marched from Vienna to Prague.

At this time, there was a French-style building standing in the center of Prague. In the mansion with an area of ​​24,000 square meters, Eric Winter was watching his men twist the noose. The victim's eyes were turned up and his mouth was white. Mo, his limbs were struggling weakly, as if he was trying to catch something, or as if he wanted to kill someone.

The victim was originally the son of a wealthy businessman. He was originally from a wealthy family, but as the Austrian Empire joined the German Customs Union, orders increased significantly.

It was originally a great thing, but Baron Winston took a fancy to his family's property. His father was unwilling to sell the family property, and the price offered by Baron Winston was too low, so he rejected the proposal.

But he also suffered unexpected disasters. Baron Winter claimed that the wealthy businessman and his family were lackeys of the Austrians. After that, a large number of Czechs came to beat the wealthy businessman to death and robbed all his family's belongings.

His heart bleeds as he looks at his disheveled mother, blindly searching for his father's remains in the ruins of their home.

He wants revenge! But unfortunately, the power of the Winster family is so huge that no lawyer is willing to defend him.

In the end, even if an upright judge risked his career and life, he only received a pension of one hundred florins and a very reluctant "sorry".

It took him three years to finally get the chance to assassinate Baron Winston, but he failed.

Baron Winston was neither surprised nor afraid of such an assassination. On the contrary, he enjoyed it, especially the public executions of assassins.

Every public execution can shock Xiao Xiao, and every public execution can make him feel that he is one step closer to the peak of power.

Baron Winter swayed his red wine glass lazily, thinking, "This is not the first assassin, and it will not be the last."

Suddenly someone stumbled in.

"Mr. Winter! Someone asked you to get out." The man looked very panicked.

Winster likes to be called Mr. because it makes him appear more approachable and progressive. Of course, there is another aspect, that is, he feels that the Baron is too young and does not match his status.

What Winster wants to do is to be president, Grand President of the Republic of Bohemia

"Who is it? You told him to wait. Didn't you see that I'm busy here?" There was already a third of anger in Winston's words.

Winster usually has a lot of authority. Usually when he talks like this, the other person will shut up and be in panic all day long.

But the man still said.

"Mr. Winter, please get out quickly. There are many people outside, and they all have guns."

"Gun?" Winster snorted coldly, and thought to himself, "What's a gun? I still have fifty artillery pieces in my manor outside the city! I don't have many war horses, only two thousand. I can get them tomorrow if I want. Getting to Prague is not a problem either.”

However, someone coming to the door with a gun aroused Winster's interest. No one has dared to challenge his position in Prague for many years.

Of course, he was not afraid, because there were more than two hundred gunmen in the mansion at this time, and these people were not ordinary people, but elites of the Czech Republican Army who had undergone long-term training.

"Who is this blind person who wants to challenge me?" As soon as Winster said this, the key members of the surrounding family all laughed. They all felt that there was nothing to be afraid of in this world.

No one except God can do anything to Mr. Winster, but seeing that he often goes to and from the church without being punished by God, it may be that God has acquiesced in his behavior, and their subordinates are naturally more unscrupulous.

After a while, the subordinate ran back again.

"He said his name was Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf."

Winster's men tried hard to search in their minds whether there was a big man named this name in Bohemia, but obviously there was not.

Then, someone stood up.

"Mr. Winter, how dare this man be so rude, I will arrest him now to make amends to you."

Before the man could finish his words, Winster picked up a pistol and shot him in the head.

Others may have never heard of this name or may not know this person. But it was impossible for Winster not to have heard of it. That was the name of the future head of the family.

This head of the family is not from the Winster family, but from the Casimir family. No matter how lawless Winston was, he did not dare to show any slight to Archduke Carl's family. Every year, he would bribe Archduke Carl's housekeeper with a large sum of money so that he could continue to use his name to do evil.

Franz has the ability to completely eliminate the Winston family, but he still hopes to let Archduke Carl's family handle it. After all, it will be much more dignified.

Archduke Karl went to Switzerland, and Albrecht became the de facto head of the family. This time he went to Prague with his family's guards and the Vienna City Defense Force directly under him.

The normally regal Eric West ran out in a panic.

He saw the guards of the Grand Duke Karl's family. Their neat military appearance and resolute eyes seemed to have returned to when he was a child.

Thirty-four years ago, Archduke Charles rode a white horse and led his army to the front line for a decisive battle with Napoleon. As the army passed through Eric Winster's estate, he was filled with envy.

Eric West also wanted to be that kind of person. His father, Old West, told him that he must be rich and powerful...

Winster had the urge to worship, but at this time Albrecht was riding a horse and said with a dark face.

"What have you been doing all these years?"

"It's nothing. I pay full profits to the Grand Duke every year. We, the Winster family, will always be your servants."

Winster said these words very naturally, and his attitude changed immediately, as if nothing had happened before.

Albrecht raised his hand and threw the note recording the crimes of the Winster family towards Eric Winster.

Eric picked up the paper on the ground and looked at it and said very calmly.

"This is all false and slanderous to me. I ask you to check it out carefully."

Albrecht whipped his riding crop and struck Baron Winter hard on the face, causing the skin and flesh to rip apart immediately.

"Do you think I don't know anything?"

Eric Winter did not answer directly, but asked calmly.

"Do you want to start a war?"

Even if he said these words to Prince Wendy Gratz, who was in charge of the Bohemian military at this time, the other party would still be wary of it.

But Albrecht just said.

"You're not qualified."

This made Winster feel extremely insulted. No one had ever dared to talk to him like this. Today, it was for the sake of Archduke Karl that he gave face to the young man in front of him. He did not expect that the other party would be so disrespectful.

Just as Winster was about to speak, he was interrupted by Albrecht.

"I'll give you twenty minutes to let the women and children leave. There won't be anyone alive here after twenty minutes."

Winster didn't believe what he was hearing and burst out laughing.

Winster believed that such a large-scale military operation in the center of the city would not fail to cause a sensation, and the total number of his Czech National Independence Army in this city had exceeded 10,000. Coupled with the power in his hands, he believed that It won't be long before this army is surrounded.

At that time, he will lead a raid on the arsenal, and then take a train to raid Vienna in reverse.

However, in fact, the hooligans and local gangsters armed with knives and sticks were frightened to death when they saw the regular army.

In fact, the Vienna City Defense Army may not be as good as the second-rate army in terms of combat effectiveness, but in terms of its ability to bully people, it is definitely the best in the Austrian Empire.

These dandy boys, dandy boys, do nothing but bully people all day long. Just one stop on the street can scare those bastards into pissing their pants.

The battle in the mansion couldn't be called a battle at all, it could only be regarded as a slaughter at best.

The elites of the Czech Republican Army, who had high hopes from Winster, could only hold out for less than a quarter of an hour in front of Albrecht's army.

This is not only a difference in numbers, but also a huge difference in equipment. In front of the roaring cannons, those Czech warriors who usually boasted that they were not afraid of death became sheep cowering in the corner.

At the same time, this is also the first time that a sniper rifle has been put on the battlefield. These scoped sniper rifles are the latest product from the Tyrolean arsenal.

The Winston family was quickly swept into the dust of history.

This military action of the Austrian government has not only caused great harm to the Bohemian region, but it is too late for the civilians to support it. How many people will come out to criticize the government's actions?

Besides, the media is also under the control of Austria. Even if someone wants to summon the soul of Winster or complain, they must consider those German nationalists with high morale.

As for the Winster family's property in Vienna, it was soon taken over by "Mr. K", and the theater was renamed the Dark Moon Theater.

In fact, the name came about because Franz thought of the name Darkmoon Circus when he decided to establish a troupe.

"Dark Moon Circus?" The four chiefs in the room looked at each other in confusion, wondering what kind of medicine "Mr. K" was selling in his gourd.

"Dark Moon Troupe. Let's call it that. You can sell yourself, so why don't you want to work for yourself?"