Chapter 602 The Poor Man and the Great Victory
There are still 40 minutes left until the constitutional vote in Poland’s Big Sejm.
Bishop Ignacy Masalski, another key member of the future Tagovica Alliance, saw from the car window that the street intersection in the distance was blocked by dozens of cavalry, one by one. Check out the passing carriage.
A bad premonition surged in his heart, and he immediately asked the driver to go around into the alley next to him.
After a while, he changed into servant's clothes, put on his felt hat, and walked toward the parliament hall alone, while letting the carriage drive around in Warsaw.
Sure enough, he saw his political allies Count Branitsky, Archbishop Gosakovsky and others being stopped by soldiers along the way.
However, with his inconspicuous attire, he still managed to sneak in near the parliament hall.
When he saw the members walking in front of the door of the parliament hall, he suddenly felt confident. He took off his hat and strode towards the parliament, muttering:
"Damn Pawnee Yatovsky, you want to use this method to stop me. This stupid constitution will never be passed!"
He didn't believe that Prince Poniatowski dared to be here, in front of the parliamentarians. He let the soldiers pester him.
Suddenly, a young nobleman in the crowd on both sides pointed at him and shouted:
“Isn’t this the archbishop who is loyal to the Russians?”
Someone next to him immediately followed suit. Get up:
“Yes, that’s him!”
“Why can such a person participate in the Big Sejm?”
"He should vote in front of the Tsar, not in Poland!"
The speech delivered by Stanislaw II in the Winter Palace had long been transmitted back to Poland through Russian newspapers, and people all flattered him. He expressed his indignation to such an extent that the king's reputation was tarnished.
The reputation of the Polish nobles who were "loyal to Russia" mentioned in the speech was ten times worse - people would always subconsciously forgive the king and think that it was these nobles who seduced the king and went to Russia. groveling.
Two young men bravely stood in front of Bishop Masarsky and asked him why he wanted to be a slave to the Russians.
The latter shouted harshly, but attracted more people to surround him.
Soon, the bell rang to start voting from Big Seom. Bishop Masalski was only about 50 meters away from the parliament hall, but was blocked by a "high wall" formed by the people, and seemed to be far away in the horizon.
In this way, more than 70% of pro-Russian MPs and most of the leading ultra-conservative figures failed to participate in the vote.
The king's faction, liberals, centrists, and conservatives have already reached a compromise.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, news finally came from the Great Sejm. Poland's new constitution was successfully adopted with 268 votes in favor and 31 votes against.
Thousands of citizens around were suddenly excited, jumping crazily, hugging each other vigorously, and bursting into thunderous cheers:
“Long live the new constitution!”
“Long live Poland!”
“Thank God, it really passed...”
“This is the victory of the Sejm, freedom. Victory!”
King Stanislaw II did not appear much during the vote. Only then did he hastily sign the constitution and swear an oath to Archbishop Felix Turski. Always be loyal to the Constitution.
Then, he left the Sejm very quietly and rushed to Petersburg without any delay.
When the people saw the king’s motorcade, they all showed disdain and whispered:
“This poor guy who only wants to please the Russians!” “Ha, his throne is Obtained by X Russian women."
"Fortunately, Prince Poniatowski was in charge, otherwise Poland would have fallen into the hands of the Tsar."
"That's right, without His Highness the Prince's promotion, our Constitution would not have been born!"
"Long live His Highness the Prince!"
"I heard that His Highness the Prince is recruiting an army, who will join me? Go sign up?”
“I’ll go!”
“I’ll go too…”
As crowds began to flock to the Tin-Ding Palace Square to celebrate, Count Branitsky and Bishop Masalsky, among others, were finally freed.
However, the voting has ended and nothing can be changed. If they want to overturn the constitution, they must get the support of more than two-thirds of the members of the Great Sejm, that is, 260 members.
This is obviously impossible to do.
These people gritted their teeth and cursed Prince Poniatowski and the untouchables who dared to surround them, and at the same time they rushed to the house of Count Stanislaw Potocki.
That night, the ultra-conservative Polish nobles headed by Count Potocki gathered together, all shouting with angry faces.
"The king and his lackeys deceived us, deceived all Poland! Today's vote is invalid!"
"Yes! We must not accept such a result!"
"We must Try to reverse the current situation."
Count Potocki, standing in the middle of the crowd, waved his hand and said loudly:
"All Poles should not be invaded by the Prussians and those royalists. The little gangs are blind, and it is certain that only Russia can save our motherland! ”
In order to "balance" their pro-Russian overtones, ultra-conservatives slandered the Patriot Party and the Royal Party as being controlled by Prussia - Poland is currently in an alliance with Prussia.
What’s interesting is that in the eyes of the patriotic party and the small nobles, the king sided with the pro-Russian forces.
Until late at night, Count Potocki announced that he would convene all conservative nobles in Poland to gather secretly in the town of Tagovica in half a month to discuss the future of Poland.
But what Potocki and others didn't know was that after Prince Poniatowski received Joseph's tip, he told the Freedom and Security Committee to closely monitor these ultraconservatives.
At this time, there were two members of the Barr Alliance who were servants in Count Potocki's home, and there were five other people outside the house. They had clearly heard the conspiracy just now.
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Slavonia, southern Austrian province.
More than 2,000 Serbian rebels and hundreds of Bulgarian troops withstood intensive fire, and after suffering three to four hundred casualties, they finally advanced to the defense line of the Austrian and Polish coalition forces.
The Serbian commander who saw all this in the telescope was immediately overjoyed. His brave soldiers could make the cowardly Austrians flee with just one charge - this was the time he had fought with the Austrian army for more than ten years. summed up the experience.
However, just as he was looking forward to a great victory, a group of red and white cavalry suddenly emerged from behind the hills on the east side.
To be precise, those people were dressed in bright red military uniforms with two towering white wings behind them.
As a low trumpet sounded, the cavalry team completed the whole team at an extremely fast speed and rushed towards the right wing of the Serbian army.
The rebel commander hurriedly ordered his cavalry to go for reinforcements, but it was obvious that the poorly trained cavalry in his hands was suppressed by the overwhelming momentum of the red "Winged Angel" in front of him. It took him a long time to be frightened. Hurting coweringly towards the flanks of the infantry.
(End of this chapter)