However, what the Austrian Government did not anticipate was that their added fifteen years of redemption payments still failed to satisfy the Polish nobility.
What these landlords wanted was to preserve serfdom. Even if they had to accept redemption, it should at least reference neighboring Prussia's policy—thirty years to buy out the land, with one third of the serfs' land going directly to the landlord.
And so, in the newly acquired Polish territory under Austrian control, masses of nobles kept staging protests, even threatening to refuse paying taxes.
At the same time, Polish serfs were equally enraged.
The Great Sejm of Poland had already promised them free land, but these damned Austrian invaders now demanded fifteen years' worth of ransom!
The serfs didn't really understand protests or the like, but whenever the Polish resistance came to recruit, they eagerly joined—for if they could drive out the invaders, the Great Sejm's decrees could still be carried out.
