By mid-May, food shortages occurred on a large scale in Budapest, and the high food prices had swept away the last wealth in the pockets of the people.
In order to stabilize order, the republican government had to start implementing a food rationing system.
At this time in Budapest, vegetables and fruits became luxury goods, and meat products also withdrew from the dining table of ordinary people and became exclusive for nobles.
What the government can provide is only the basic five hundred grams of brown bread per person per day, plus three hundred grams of potatoes and two hundred grams of corn.
The bureaucrats in the government are still making profits from such a small amount of materials, and it is a routine operation to be short.
There are dark hearts, black bread with impurities such as leaves and sawdust, potatoes that have changed color, and colorful corn. People with poor digestive systems may die at any time if they eat these things.
Only the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the integrity of the officials of the republican government can be called a model of the capitalist world.
The food shortage in Budapest is limited to the people at the bottom. For the ruling class, they are not short of food. Although the enemy has already knocked on the door, their banquets have not stopped.
Even through the underground black market, they began to plunder the wealth of the middle class and petty bourgeoisie. The price of food is skyrocketing, and a piece of brown bread without additives costs the same amount of silver.
In an ordinary residential house in Budapest, only 50 kilograms of bread can be bought at this time; even a prosperous shop is only a few hundred kilograms of bread at most.
In the corner of the city, there are women standing on the street everywhere, just need a piece of brown bread or a potato, you can get their services.
In order to reduce food consumption, since June, the revolutionary government has successively expelled the old, weak, sick and disabled from the city. Lieutenant General Julius accepted these refugees with a smile and carried out proper resettlement.
Franz attaches great importance to propaganda, and reporters from major Austrian media were invited to come over. They waved their cameras and took pictures from all angles. These are important evidence to expose the crimes of the Revolutionary Party.
Now, the government does not need to take action. Looking at these yellow-faced and thin war refugees, and listening to them complain about the atrocities of the Hungarian republican government, the media with a "full sense of justice" are all scrambling to scold the unscrupulous Hungarian revolutionary government.
The famous Hungarian composer Liszt also joined the press team at this time. The more he knew, the more hurt he became.
Not only him, but many literati and writers came over, including some supporters of the revolutionary party.
The literati's pen is bloodless. With the joint efforts of everyone, this Hungarian revolution has been redefined.
Kossuth and others who were trapped in Budapest did not know that their reputation was already ruined. Tens of thousands of people submitted petitions to the emperor, hoping that the emperor would give them justice.
Of course, Franz went along with the flow, accepted the petitions of the people, made it clear that there would be a public trial for all the chaotic parties, and invited the victims to serve as a jury, and the jury voted to decide the final sentence.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is the Austrian government's beheading of the revolutionaries.
How could this group of victims be merciful to them now that they can't wait to swallow the revolutionary party
The end result is sure to kill people. The trial is still carried out in the name of the people, and no matter how many people are killed, the Austrian government cannot be blamed.
Of course, this is limited to one time only. In the future, Austria must be a country with the rule of law, and it is impossible to be so capricious again.
Before the Great Revolution, Hungary and Austria were administered separately, and the laws in the two places were very different. The laws of Hungary were out of date, and the laws of Austria had not been implemented locally, so Franz could take advantage of the loophole to hand over the sentencing power to the people.
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Seeing that the fire of revolution was extinguished everywhere, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, the only ally, was hanged by Austria with one hand, the revolutionaries were also thinking about the way back.
The Austrian army suddenly stopped attacking Budapest, which surprised the revolutionaries, and Kossuth's first thought was internal response.
The Habsburg family has never lacked supporters in Hungary. There are also royalists in Budapest. In addition to this, there will never be a minority of nobles and capitalists who want to re-speculate.
Once these people are activated, Budapest will change hands in an instant.
The revolutionary party had too shallow roots and was divided into different groups, and until 1847 the largest revolutionary group did not exceed three figures.
After the outbreak of the Great Revolution, the revolutionary ranks expanded a hundredfold, and most of these people took a piece of the revolutionary party's skin. In fact, the revolutionary party had no binding force on them at all.
The sequelae of the rapid expansion of the team broke out. There was no strict revolutionary organization, and there was no unified political program. Most of the people were hot-headed, or they were embarrassed to refuse the recommendation of acquaintances, and they became members of the revolutionary party.
No one wants to die, not even revolutionaries. The Austrian army was not in a hurry to attack, but the internal contradictions of the Hungarian republican government were intensifying.
After a series of failures, the prestige of Kossuth, the head of state, has dropped to a critical point. The opposition can no longer bear him, and even his direct descendants have begun to doubt his ability.
The Hungarian National Guard expanded too fast and mixed into the three religions and nine streams, and Kossuth did not restrict it, and finally this rabble ignited disputes.
On June 8, a company of the National Revolutionary Army rushed into the house of Count Istvan on the orders of Kossuth, labelled him a counter-revolutionary, and executed several people including the count on the spot. Ten people, after looting all their belongings, also took all the young women back to the barracks to have fun.
Things have become a big deal. Count Istvan is not an ordinary noble. He is honored by later Hungarians as: the greatest person in Hungary. Can such a person be killed at will
You must know that since the establishment of the Hungarian Republic, there have been many internal contradictions. Kossuth personally asked Count Istvan to mediate, but now he was executed for the crime of counter-revolution
At the meeting of the Hungarian government on June 9, the opposition led by Shemir directly attacked.
"Mr. Kossuth, I want to ask who authorized you to convict Count Istvan? Why did you execute a great noble? What is the explanation for the atrocities that took place in the Count's Palace?"
Kossuth's heart is broken, the conscience of heaven and earth, when did he order the execution of Count Istvan
But what has happened, the National Guard has done it under his name, the company commander of the party is now missing, and there is no way to restore the truth of the matter.
"This matter has nothing to do with me. I have never issued such an order!" Kossuth denied it.