Ladislaus first captured a small town that supported the uprising.

After destroying the resistance, Ladislaus first inspected his troops to ensure that there was no unorganized and undisciplined robbery or other crimes.

The situation is good, the officers who have strengthened their discipline have restrained their subordinates.

The temptation of this small town is not great. I don't know if it will be as orderly after conquering the famous city, but at least it is a good start. Ladislaus firmly believes that a strong army without military discipline is not a real treasure.

After Ladislaus and several aides went to the town to appease the local residents, they gathered together in the house of the former mayor.

This is a small town very close to the city of Salzburg, where the Austrian army received much-needed rest and supplies.

The mayor did not own any shares in the Salzburg Salt Mine, but after the interests of a salt road to Vienna were usurped, he also chose to give up his loyalty to Vienna this time in exchange for the rebels not attacking.

Unfortunately, the town guard he organized only lasted less than ten minutes before completely collapsing under the attack of the commando led by Boss Sirica.

Although he explained that he was just making a fool of himself with the rebels, several townspeople admitted that under his organization, he sent food and fuel to the farmers surrounding Salzburg.

Therefore, the mayor and his family are going to Vienna to build the city wall to make up for their sins.

"Haha, that's great. If they are all hidden underground, I really don't have the strength to dig them out, let alone operate on them." Although Ladislaus was somewhat worried that his delay would make him suffer.

The treasury in Augsburg was in danger, but he still did not show this emotion. Of course, what he said was indeed good. There were a lot of these resisters, which meant that there was a lot of property that could be seized.

"These mine owners are not satisfied with letting them retain their shares and continue to operate. This time, these traitors must be severely punished." The mood of the Hohenzollern magistrate also improved. There was really no such thing when he took over this area.

It's very excessive, basically everything is done according to the rules.

"It's true. I haven't even confiscated a single mine, even the few high-quality mines that can bring in tens of thousands of talers every year. They actually want to rebel and are seeking their own death." Ladislaus was really angry.

How dare these traitors repay His Highness the Archbishop's deep kindness?

The fact that the army did not eat up the original vested interests was indeed the result of Ladislaus's great efforts to restrain himself. In order to hold back the hungry hyenas under his men, Ladislaus even went so far as to

He didn't even reach out, even the requests from Mrs. Reinhardt and her eldest cousin Harna to explore several new mines were flatly rejected by him.

What Ladislaus wants is not the benefits of mining, but the benefits of transit and distribution.

The city of Salzburg is named after "salt". "Salzburg" means "salt" in German. It is the most important salt-producing area in the entire German-Italian region. The sea salt produced by the rock salt facing the coastal salt fields is originally

There is a quality advantage. In the Central German region where sea salt is extremely expensive to transport and difficult to enter, it is in an absolutely dominant position. This important commodity is a major product of the future Vienna Trade Center envisioned by Ladislaus.

After Austria annexed Salzburg, the damage to the local salt giants was actually very huge. In the past, the Archbishopric of Salzburg, which had complete sovereignty, could sell salt directly to any businessman who wanted to buy it. Now this process

Permission must be obtained from the saltworks inspector assigned in Vienna.

The joints of these overseers require great cost and time for local merchants to corrode and break through.

Another point is that although Vienna's status as a trade center has not yet been finalized, most of the output needs to be transported to Vienna first. Some of it has been hoarded by Machiavelli to attract surrounding businessmen to buy in Vienna, and some of it has been sold to Vienna as a priority

For local households in Vienna, prices without sufficient competition are naturally not very beneficial to salt mine owners.

Ladislaus's attitude made Magistrate Hohenzollern feel more at ease. Although he did not rob the salt mine, he still reaped the benefits.

The mine owners who lost the protection of their original relationships basically paid him a large sum of money honestly. A few of the particularly stubborn ones were solved by him with a little trick, such as checking for tax evasion and checking the output and taxation of salt mines.

Are they completely consistent? In particular, those saltworks inspectors once triggered fierce struggles among the major politicians in Vienna. As the chief of the State Council, the Hohenzollern Chancellor naturally got a piece of fat, one of his sons-in-law

Just got a seat.

Although General Hohenzollern himself is not ugly, there are inevitably some of his cronies and subordinates who are particularly unworthy, and they also have to distribute benefits to other factions. In short, it still makes the local powerful factions feel dissatisfied with the new ruler.

A small grudge.

This kind of resentment is natural, and generally speaking, it is not a big problem. After all, Salzburg has been semi-vassal to Austria for decades, and the merger process has been relatively peaceful.

This level of damage is only a physical injury, but there is no loss of life or death.

It was just the latent dissatisfaction of the local powerful factions that was ignited by the peasant uprising.

Although the details are still unclear, Ladislaus speculated that the Austrian garrison took the opportunity to send food and pay, which aroused the undercurrent of resistance among Salzburg's powerful factions. After the farmers suppressed the Austrian garrison,

Later, they also speculated on the uprising and wanted to make a lot of money.

"But it shouldn't be a big problem. There are no small knight lords in the Salzburg area. Even the traditional army collapsed after the previous archbishop left." Speaking, Knight Cassano was the strongest warrior in the army this time, Fron.

Count Zberg and Slam were assigned to the southern front and went to Tirol with Sazastan. "We have reached this distance, and the rebels have not discovered us, which shows that they have no intention of releasing scouts at all.

No, it’s just an unorganized and undisciplined mob.”

"Have all the dozens of people organized by the mayor of this town been captured?" Ladislaus needed to confirm the information again.

"Not only did the resisters not escape, but no one was able to go to Salzburg to report the news." Boss Sirica was very confident. "We know the road conditions in the Alps very well, and they were stuck before I launched the raid.

Limited intersections.”

"Okay, well done." After praising one of his cronies, Ladislaus arranged the task. "Silica, you interrogated the prisoners overnight and must thoroughly understand the current situation in Salzburg as soon as possible."

"Your Excellency, Chief Officer, please make arrangements for the supplies that will come later, and fully mobilize the resources in this town and several surrounding villages."

"Knight Cassano, please arrange the camping of the army and try your best to ensure that there is no crime. This is not an enemy country. Except for some traitors who participated in the rebellion against the royal family, these residents are all the sons of my Habsburg family."
Chapter completed!