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I should have embolden it, that the Court sent mixed messages to all the participants on purpose. Their state was burning on so many places they did not have the idea where to start fight the flames. So they promised everything everywhere, sit down with offers of compromises, while they set the plan of making order into motion.

Ferdinand (emperor I, king V.) was a weightless rules, he was naive and clueless to the point where some people thought him as a mild retard (I don't believe he was). Instead of him the Court governed, he just signed what others (like the parliaments) managed to push through the Court. The Court itself were full of cliques with their own interests and schemes, probably an individual could belong several cliques based on his own interests and schemes, and the unfolding events.
As the Hungarian king he had a deputy, the nádor (comes palatinus), the highest dignitary of the country. Often the nádor signed papers instead of him (which later needed to be signed by the king to make it really legal), or petitioned the ruler, lobbied at him (and the Court). After the new independent and responsible Hungarian government set up, they created a ministry that's only job was tending the affairs with the king. This minister had similar job to the nádor, to lobby at the king (and Court), to negotiate, and act as a courier between the govt. and the king. (He might have other jobs too, I've never read about them, it's just what I deduced from the events.)

So the Court set the folks of their empire to keep in check each other, while they saw how events pan out and how they have to adapt to the situation. For example in Italy 30 thousand Croat fought in the armies there to suppress the rebellion, while they propped up the the Serbs and Vlahs in Hungary and Transylvania to keep Hungarians busy. Jelacic himself was a manipulation to secure Croatia. Or the nádor. Jelacic invaded the country with the imperial flag which signaled to the imperial soldier and officers where his support comes from and to whom they should be loyal to. The Hungarian government sent an army against him, and they picked the nádor because he was an archduke from the House Habsburg-Lorraine and a legitimate official whom had the chance the win over those imperial soldiers and officers. But the nádor had a written order from the Court, that he has to engage negotiations with Jelacic, which mustn't fruit results, and then he had to resign and leave for Vienna referring to this failure.