Holy Roman Empire

It is impossible to make troubles. These days, any ethnic group in Europe can make troubles, except the Jews.

Being a person with your tail between your legs is precarious. If you jump out to make troubles, it will be an excuse for the anti-Semitic forces.

Agitated, Ossidore said unwillingly: "That defense lawyer is an idiot, I want to..."

Seeing strange gazes from the people around him, fearing that Ocedo would say something stupid again, Feld hurriedly reprimanded: "Shut up!"

Whether the defense lawyer is strong or not is secondary. The key is that the evidence is too sufficient, and there are a lot of witnesses and material evidence.

Whether they want to accept it or not, the court has found Leo Cohen guilty anyway.

Based on Feld's many years of life experience, he knew from the comments of the people around him that Leo Cohen had done a lot of bad things.

Ordinary Jews are very low-key, and try to reduce their sense of existence as much as possible in daily life, so as not to attract hostility.

Generally, the more arrogant Jews hooked up with the local real power faction. Leo Cohen was very unlucky and was betrayed by his boss.

The evidence that was originally used to kill the net has now become illegal evidence for him to frame Austrian officials, attempt to manipulate politics, and conspire to subvert...

The evidence I provided can send myself to the guillotine, so there is nothing to say about it.

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After returning to the station, Feld said earnestly, "Ocedo, calm down first.

We are very sorry about Mr. Leo's matter, but we have no way to overturn the police's evidence.In particular, many of the evidences were confessed by Mr. Lei Ao himself.

Presumably you also know what this means. If the Austrians are to be brought out for a public trial, it means that the charges cannot be overturned.

It is not easy for you to get out of this matter.

You know, Greer and the others haven't come out yet.If nothing else, they may never get out.

If you get involved again, not only will you not be able to save Mr. Leo, but you will also ruin more compatriots.

Trust me, you know what I mean. "

Can you not understand that Osedo was not involved because the Jews were going to push him into the political arena, and politicians cannot have obvious stains, so Leo has never let Osedo intervene in his business.

Of course, that was all before.It is no longer necessary to think about it now. After this incident, the Jewish power in the Bukovina area has been greatly damaged, and it is no longer able to push Ossidor into politics.

Without external support, coupled with his sensitive ethnic identity, even if he passed the examination and entered the officialdom, he was destined to not go far.

"Don't worry, Mr. Field. I know what to do next, and I won't cause trouble for everyone."

……

After appeasing these cronies of Leo, Feld had a headache again about whether to leave Austria.

After staying here for a few months, he has almost figured out the situation.Austria is still relatively friendly to ordinary Jews, but it is not very suitable for Jewish capitalists to survive.

Not to mention other issues, just one ban on usury can kill many Jewish capitalists.

It is not impossible to do it secretly, but with the strength of the Austrian government's anti-corruption and anti-gangsters, it will lose your head if you don't pay attention.

Leo Cohen, who was about to be executed, was a lesson from the past. He was originally a well-known figure in the Austrian capital circles, but once the incident happened, it was over when it was over.

It is true that there is no problem in doing business in compliance with laws and regulations, but legal businesses do not make money!

Today, the domestic market competition in Austria is already very cruel, and the profits of most industries are limited.

As a latecomer, it is even more difficult to get in and get a share.

In high-profit industries, the barriers to entry are very high.Not only does it require a large amount of investment, but it also has high requirements for technology, and it is also full of uncertainties, and even the payback period is very long.

Of course, there are also industries with short cycles and high profits, such as the stock market and futures, which have no other disadvantages except for a little higher risk.

This is definitely not what the Jewish capitalists want. It is true that everyone is pursuing huge profits, but it does not mean that they are willing to be leeks.

Anyone who is an expert in finance doesn't know the depth of the water.Qianglong doesn't overwhelm the local snakes, they are at most a caterpillar, if they rush in, they will die.

Before Feld weighed the pros and cons, the cruel reality made a choice for him.

The execution of Leo Cohn was just the beginning.As the trial continued, more and more people were guillotined.

Seeing the continuous falling of heads one by one, the Jewish rich who had no sense of security could not sit still and urged Feld to leave.

There is no way, this place is not suitable for everyone to make a fortune.He expressed [-] points of resistance to Austria's strict laws.

If all the rich masters leave and only ordinary Jews remain, are they still Jews?

Without capital investment, ordinary people can't last long under Austria's assimilation policy.

After all, cultural inheritance also takes time.Ordinary people have to run around for three meals a day, but they don't have so much time to educate the next generation.

Once the language and characters are lost, it will deteriorate within a few generations.

Chapter 93 Justice shall not be violated

Facts once again prove that the butcher's knife may not be able to solve the problem, but it must be able to solve the person who caused the problem.

Since the Vienna government launched a killing spree, the forces resisting government investigations have suddenly declined.On the contrary, the number of people who surrendered to the investigation team suddenly increased.

Even the safety issue of the troubled members of the investigation team was resolved at once, and the assassin seemed to disappear overnight.

The shocking reversal left Franz dumbfounded.After co-authoring for more than half a year, the so-called toughness is just holding on.Seeing the government's refusal to make concessions, one by one became discouraged.

It's right to think about it, although there are many people involved in the case, there are very few real powerful factions.

Needless to say, most of the emerging nobles made their fortunes during the war, their roots were in the army, and a small number of capitalists transformed.

The time to make a fortune is short, and there is no time to operate in the government. Now it is in the accumulation stage, and few people hold important positions.

The premise of power-for-money transactions is to be in power first. If you don't have enough power in your hands, there will be fewer people who will be dragged into the water.

Veteran aristocrats naturally have their own way of survival. Except for a few idiots, most of them know how to pay attention to how they eat and know when enough is enough.

Even if it's a game of profit transfer, it's a one-time sale, not repeat business.

Immediately after finishing the matter, tidy up the first and last, destroy relevant clues, and there is no evidence at all on the surface.

Occasionally, a power-for-money transaction can be said to be an accidental coincidence, and it will really be suspected. In fact, it is a long-term cooperation. Officials have repeatedly broken the rules for a certain person or a certain company.

If there is no sign at all, even if the government wants to investigate, they don't know where to start.

Even the capitalists who pay the money do not necessarily know the true identity of the collaborators, and the transactions are all carried out through middlemen.

This can be seen from the list of persons involved in the case. Most of the arrested officials are from the middle class, grassroots, and some descended aristocrats. Emerging aristocrats and established aristocrats are a minority.

The most powerful faction, when the anti-corruption case was revealed, had already stayed out of it, and the rest naturally couldn't make waves.

Daring to resist the investigation is nothing more than uncertainty about the government's context and a fluke mentality.Seeing the government raise the butcher's knife, everyone was dumbfounded.

If you continue to carry on, you can only rebel.This kind of high-risk and low-reward job is obviously not suitable for these homeowners.

This point can also be seen from the many assassinations that took place earlier.

None of the assassins even reached the amateur level. They were not so much killers as they were second-year middle school boys.

There are no modern assassination tools, and many people rushed up with a fruit knife. The threat warning is obviously higher than the assassination itself.

After all, if the investigation team officials were really killed, it would not be a matter of corruption and imprisonment, but of losing their heads.

No matter what your identity is, how tough the background is, if you violate the rules of the game, you will have to pay the price in blood.

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Franz asked suspiciously: "Are so many people going to be executed?"

It's not that he made a fuss. Execution of thousands of people at a time in peacetime is appalling enough in itself.

In fact, the one thousand people executed by the Vienna government before caused a sensation, claiming to be the largest execution in Europe in the past ten years.

This is not a joke. After the Paris Revolution was suppressed, the French government did not execute so many prisoners in the aftermath. Only Alexander II carried out the purge more than ten years ago, and the number of executions exceeded [-].

Now there are more than 5000 people to be executed. If this is completed, it is estimated that this will be a world record that has never been seen before or since.

Of course, this is preconditions - "anti-corruption and gangsters" and "judgment by the court".

Prime Minister Karl replied in the affirmative: "Yes, Your Majesty! According to the criminal law of the Empire, the 5316 people above should be sentenced to death.

In addition, 4328 people belong to the category of death penalty and life sentence. "

Prime Minister Carl is also very helpless, the evidence has been found, and there is no need for special targeting at all, and these guys can be sent to the guillotine.

The problem facing the Vienna government is that the killing of all of them has too much impact. The execution of 1000 people earlier caused a sensation in the European world.

If more than 5000 people are wiped out, or 1 people are simply collected, the international public opinion will not be blown up. There is no shortage of talkative parties in any world.

It is also impossible to be merciful, which involves the dignity of the law.If the evidence is in front of you and you don't deal with it, who knows what impact it will have on the future after setting this precedent?

There is a reduced sentence, but the problem is that these guys can't reach it!The emperor can't use his privileges to commute these people's sentences, right?

Rubbing his forehead, Franz could only lament that there are so many scumbags in Austria, and so many criminals were caught so easily.

Franz asked: "What are the identities of these people?"

Prime Minister Karl: "Among this group of serious offenders, there are more than 5000 people with gang backgrounds, most of whom are gang leaders and thugs, and they all have murder cases.

Mainly engaged in illegal and criminal activities such as collecting protection fees, underground casinos, usury, drug trafficking, and counterfeit banknotes.

In addition, there are more than 3000 thugs raised by the capitalists. Nearly half of these people also have gangster backgrounds, and the businesses they are engaged in are similar, except that there is one more strike suppression worker, and less protection money and counterfeit money for drugs.

The number of capitalists and officials who need to be sentenced to death is actually not too many, and the total number is less than 1000. Among them, there are slightly more capitalists, and the number of officials involved in serious cases is actually less than a hundred. "

This result did not surprise Franz.

As long as gangsters have a murder case in their hands, they basically can't escape.Even if it was an accident, it wouldn't work, after all, other crimes would have to be added up.

For these people, the Austrian government has always severely punished them.Anyway, they are all the scum of society, so there is no need to worry about manslaughter.

In contrast, the capitalists and officials involved in the case, even if they have problems, are mostly economic problems, or they are related to gangsters, and few of them are directly responsible for the murder.

There are so many capitalists and officials who want to lose their heads, most of which are because they have too deep collusion with the underworld, and they are jointly and severally liable in the law, so they were brought in together.

As for whether someone will lose their head because of the huge amount of embezzlement, Franz can answer with certainty: No!

The Anti-Corruption Bureau and the police are not idlers. There are too many industries that cannot be covered at all.

The source of the huge amount of unknown property is itself a firefly in the dark, and it is difficult not to be targeted.

Everyone knows that Austrian officials don't do anything when they receive money. Even if it is legal, ordinary people dare not give bribes at all.

Even if someone gives it to you, you have to consider whether you have encountered phishing law enforcement. This kind of thing is often done by the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

Corruption and bribery can only be plucked from a few reliable people, how much oil and water can be squeezed out?

After careful calculation, Franz found that it seemed that keeping these people was of no value except to cause trouble for himself.

As for international public opinion, talk about it as you like, anyway, you can't stop it if your mouth grows on others.

No matter how many criminals are executed, no one will really come over to criticize them. There is still no one who dares to interfere in Austria's internal affairs these days.

"Judicial justice cannot be profaned, and this time we will use these people to show the outside world our determination to uphold judicial justice.

Round it up, it will be more deterrent.Just let this matter become the benchmark of Austrian law. "

Hearing the word "benchmark", Prime Minister Karl swallowed back what he had originally prepared. Judicial justice also needs blood to forge.

This is the opposite of the law not to blame the public.Today, if more people involved in the case show mercy, the deterrent effect of the law will be greatly reduced, and more similar incidents will happen in the future.

Rather than burying hidden dangers for the future, it is better to cut the mess now.Anyway, it is useless for these people to stay, and Austria is not short of labor force now.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Prime Minister Karl replied cautiously.

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Chapter 94 The Arms Race

Those who should be killed, those who should be exiled, and those who should be dismissed, the Vienna government was cleaning up moths and confiscating illegal industries throughout 1887.

With the end of the anti-corruption case, a total of 10286 criminals were executed, 96412 were exiled, and countless others were fined and warned.

Including 1274 corrupt officials detected within the government, 7421 voluntary surrenders, 76 executions of heinous criminals, 376 criminal officials were exiled, all those involved in the case were dismissed, and 4756 million Aegis was confiscated.

Frankly speaking, the amount involved is much less than Franz estimated, and the amount involved per capita is only more than 5000 Aegis. It is obvious that the pigs have not been fattened.

No wonder everyone likes anti-Semitism. Compared with the confiscation of Jewish assets, the corruption of bureaucrats is just a child's play, and it is not on the same level at all.

Of course, this has something to do with the anti-corruption efforts of the Vienna government.Most people dare not pay bribes directly, and the threshold for benefit transfer is too high, which blocks the way for many people to get rich.

The purchasing power of Aegis is still very strong. For front-line public officials, the bribe amount of thousands of dollars is simply out of reach, and the power in their hands is limited.

Even if someone gave a gift, it was usually only a few Aegis, or a dozen Aegis, or at most a few dozen Aegis.