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.
