Life of Being a Crown Prince in France

However, what the Austrian Government did not expect was that their increased 15-year redemption money failed to satisfy the Polish nobility.

What these landlords wanted was to retain serfdom, and even if they were to redeem, they would have to refer to the policy of neighboring Prussia—the redemption period of 30 years and directly allocating a third of the serf lands to the landlord.

Thus, in the Polish territories newly acquired by Austria, a large number of nobles continued to march in protest, even threatening to refuse to pay taxes.

At the same time, Polish serfs were equally enraged.

The Great Sejm of Poland already promised them free land, and these damned Austrian invaders now wanted them to pay 15 years of redemption money!

Serfs did not quite understand parades and the like, but when Polish resistance organizations came recruiting, they were very eager to join—if they drove the invaders away, they could continue to implement the Great Sejm's decrees.

Yes, this is the "big pit" Joseph left for the Poles. Such radical serf reform policy would create major issues anywhere it was placed.

Of course, occupying forces could decisively declare the previous liberation of serfs decrees from the Polish Parliament void. That is exactly what the Russians did.

And this plunged the serfs into rage.

Humans are like this, if they can only live their entire lives in a mire, they just numbly go on. But once they see hope, this hope becomes their everything immediately.

Who dares to extinguish this bit of hope, they will absolutely fight with all their might.

So although the Russian-occupied area in eastern Poland was mostly Eastern Orthodox, the disturbances were much more severe than in Prussian-Austrian occupied areas.

In Minsk alone, after a little more than a month since the Russians arrived, 4 serf uprisings had already erupted.

Prussia was not doing much better. They applied their domestic serf redemption policy directly to western Poland, causing frequent uprisings even in Poznan, which had been occupied for a few years.

In the church square of Mielitz, the Prossno Governor was still earnestly persuading Polish landlords: "You see, just 15 years of redemption taxes have led the serfs to revolt, it really cannot be increased..."

An elder in the crowd loudly said in French, "Please have the Emperor dispatch troops to suppress the rioters!

"Our taxes are meant to feed the army, if His Majesty does not do this, we can only choose to keep the money."

Someone immediately echoed loudly, "Yes! No suppression, no taxes!"

"If this continues, we will have no money even if we want to pay taxes."

"Or let the government compensate everyone..."

All in French, indicating they were authentic nobles.

The Austrian Governor wiped his sweat. The serf riots were already giving him headaches, he did not want to offend the nobility further.

He raised his hand to signal everyone to quiet down: "Alright, I will convey all your demands to His Majesty, please wait for another month..."

"That's too long, at most half a month." someone shouted.

"Alright, alright, I will as soon as possible."

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Krakow Central Market Square (Main Market Square) is one of the largest medieval squares in all of Europe, constructed in 1257, covering 4 hectares, and it has retained the appearance of the city at its original founding. Historic buildings, palaces, and churches are located around the square. In December 2005, the Central Market Square was selected as the best square in the world.

St. Mary's Church (St. Mary Basilica) is located at the northeast corner of the Central Market Square, initiated in 1355, and only reached its present scale in the early 16th century. The church is a typical Polish Gothic building, entirely built with hand-made red bricks, with interior decorations consisting mostly of works by famous master artists, possessing very high artistic value. Most notably, the painted wood carvings on the altar were completed over 12 years by the 16th-century German master carver Veit Stoss. The church has two towers of varying heights, and for hundreds of years, at every full hour, the trumpeter on the tower sounds a trumpet call, an act meant to commemorate the watchman of the 13th-century Tartar invasion who used the trumpet to sound a warning and ultimately perished at the hands of the enemy's arrows.

St. Peter and St. Paul's Catholic Church (St. Peter and Paul Church) was built between 1597–1619, is a Roman Catholic church located in Krakow Old Town, and is the city's first solely Baroque-style building, with the most seating among Krakow's old churches. Located at Grodzka Street No. 54, it was constructed for the Jesuits by Sigismund III, consecrated on July 8, 1635. Between 1809–1815, the church was converted to an Eastern Orthodox church. Since 1842, it belongs to the Catholic All Saints parish. It was elevated to a minor basilica in 1960.

Wawel Castle located atop a hill on the Vistula River, offers a view over the entirety of Krakow city. Built in the 12th century, the castle was destroyed by fire in the 16th century, and later rebuilt in Renaissance style, becoming Poland's largest group of monuments. Historically, Wawel Castle was the residence of the Royal Family of Poland and is one of Poland's national symbols, where monarchs, bishops, national heroes, and Romantic poets of history are interred. Since 1930, the castle has been converted to the National Museum, considered one of Poland's top art museums, displaying weapons, cups used by successive monarchs, oriental treasures, Italian paintings, exquisite gold and silver tapestries, and early Baroque style living rooms. The museum's collection of Oriental art and Ottoman art is the largest in Poland.

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