Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a multi-ethnic federal imperial state with the Germanic people as the main body.

Of all the federated federations, the Kingdom of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary are the most powerful, and then there are the Balkan federations dominated by Slavs, Gypsies, Greeks, Serbs and other ethnic minorities.

Therefore, this resulted in internal contradictions in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Those minorities have always wanted independence.

Simply put, the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself was a powder keg.

This can be seen from the First World War.

Originally, after the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was in a state of forcibly extending its life and barely surviving.

Emperor Karl I of the Empire, in order to allow the empire to continue to exist, took the initiative to give up some rights to those minorities after World War I, hoping that the empire would not be divided.

Such measures by Karl I and the support of ethnic minorities allowed the empire to barely maintain unity.

Logically speaking, if there are no accidents, then the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire will not be a problem for several decades.

But at this time two surprises occurred.

The first one is that those Jews are plundering resources around the world and disrupting the economies of various countries with powerful funds.

Among them was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Therefore, it was inevitable that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was plundered by financial groups, leading to economic collapse, imperial fiscal deficit, and further deepening of domestic conflicts.

In particular, the two main member states, the Kingdom of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary, are not as close as before due to financial problems.

The second point is that Karl I suddenly died of cerebral infarction, and the new emperor Karl II did not have the same prestige as his father.

As a result, after Karl II came to power, those member states could not be suppressed. Therefore, those member states who wanted to split began to be restless again.

In March 1921, this divisive thinking reached its peak.

All member federations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were clamoring for independence.

One thing to note here is that it is not just a few regions that want independence like before World War I, but the entire federation.

Including the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which mainly joined the Federal Kingdom of Hungary, was also clamoring for independence.

It can be seen from the name of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that the entire empire is composed of the Kingdom of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary. As a result, the other half of the main body wants to be independent. This shows how serious the matter has become.

Each independent faction gave the final consent to Karl II. If the empire did not agree to their demands before April, a civil war would await.

After receiving this final notice, Karl II knew that he had no way to resist the wave of opponents independently, so Karl II asked for help from the Hans Empire, the big brother of the Germans.

But the problem is that at this time, the internal problems of the Hans Empire were also serious and were about to cause the country to collapse, and there was no way to support the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After many discussions to no avail, Karl II finally agreed to the opposition's demands at noon on March 3.

On April 1, just after midnight, the Austro-Hungarian Empire announced its disintegration and returned national sovereignty to each member state.

Since then, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was once extremely powerful and even won World War I, officially declared its demise.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided into more than a dozen countries, including the Kingdom of Austria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Republic of Serbia.

When this news came out, the whole world was in an uproar. No one thought that a powerful empire would suddenly reach this point.

It only took a few months from the time when the voice for independence came out to the disintegration of the empire.

This makes people all over the world feel incredible. At the same time, I began to worry that such problems would occur in my country.

But having said that, the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was sudden? Not really.

As we all know, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a multi-ethnic empire with inherent internal conflicts, especially the Balkan Peninsula, which the Austro-Hungarian Empire controlled, could even be called the powder keg of Europe.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was not as powerful as the Hans Empire or the John Empire, nor did it implement a multi-ethnic policy like Bactria. They just blindly adopted high-pressure strategies.

To put it simply, when a certain region wants to be independent, the first thing the emperor thinks of is not to listen to the local demands and find ways to solve the problem, but to directly send troops to suppress it.

Well, after you suppress them, shouldn’t you also listen to the opinions of the opponents?

As a result, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor refused. He returned to his palace and continued to enjoy himself.

To put it simply, in response to the voices of such opponents, the Austro-Hungarian Empire simply suppressed them, thinking that relying on suppression could solve all problems.

As time went by, those regions became more and more dissatisfied with the empire's senior officials.

During World War I, it was because of this situation that the Balkans were called the powder keg of Europe.

Although the First World War was won, the root of the problem was not solved, so it only lasted for a few years before these opposition groups emerged again.

This time, the Kingdom of Hungary, an important component of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was involved.

Maybe it’s hard to understand this way, so let’s put it another way and compare the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a family. Austria is the husband, Hungary is the wife, and other regions are the children of the two.

The children were separated, but the husband did not agree, so he beat the children, and the children became honest.

But when your wife tells you that she wants a divorce, can the family still maintain it? Of course it can't be maintained.

In particular, the children who were beaten by you in the past are now with your wife, indicating that they also want to separate the family.

So what can a lonely husband do? He could only agree to divorce.

This was the beginning and end of the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After the disintegration, Austria has lost the glory of the empire and has become a small and low-class country in Europe, which makes others sigh.

However, there was another country that contributed a lot to the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and that was the Rhineland Republic.

As mentioned before, the Republic of Rhineland is a country formed by consortiums, and they have a lot of wealth.

For a country formed by a group of greedy businessmen, his first priority is definitely to make money.

Therefore, from the first day of the establishment of the Rhineland Republic, he began to suck blood from the surrounding countries to support himself.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was one of the many blood sucked targets in the Rhineland.

During the final period of the division of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a large amount of capital poured into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, shorting the Austro-Hungarian Empire's treasury, leaving the Austro-Hungarian Empire unable to spend a penny to quell the rebellion.

Moreover, national deficit is also the main reason why each franchise country wants to go independent.

After all, no one wants to work hard for a year, and then one year's salary cannot support them at all.

If that's the case, why not do the opposite?

This is a true portrayal of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time.

It can be said that if the Republic of Rhineland had not caused trouble in the middle, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would not have disintegrated so quickly.

And the Hans Empire will not be unable to support the Austro-Hungarian Empire because it has no money.

It can be said that the Rhineland Republic played the most important role in the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

And is this the end of the matter? This is not enough.