Chapter 57: John Bull’s Plan (New Week Requesting Tickets)

  Chapter 57 John Bull’s plan (new week begs for votes)

While snubbing the Paris government, the Austrian Foreign Ministry naturally will not forget the London government, this era of the British Empire is still very powerful.

As the only industrialized country in the world today, now is the time for them to be bullish, it’s a good thing that the small size of the British mainland restricts the growth of the population, or else there will be nothing for the later.

The British were also not able to avoid the Revolution of 1848, except that they were child’s play compared to countries like France and Austria.

The ambitious revolutionaries were suppressed by their police uncles before they could break out, and finally ended up in a few strikes.

Franz was well aware that this Austro-Saxon war was, in fact, planned by the British, and long before the Kingdom of Sardinia went to war, the British Foreign Secretary Palmerston began to lobby King Charles Albert.

Against this background, it was naturally impossible for Austria’s diplomatic activities in London this time to bear fruit.

Moreover, the credibility of the British was really not reassuring, and they could switch their position at any time as long as their interests required it.

Fortunately, Franz did not expect to obtain the support of the British, the ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hummelauer, had the simple purpose of lobbying pro-Austrian MPs to prevent the London government from providing substantial support to the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Downing Street.

Prime Minister John Russell was pondering the current world situation, starting with the French question, the recently established provisional government, which had diplomatically shown goodwill to the British Empire, was hesitant to accept him.

The Vienna system has collapsed, what about the future European political landscape?

Do not look at the British diplomatic means to play a bully, before the collapse of the Vienna system, John Russell did not feel anything, but now it really fell apart, he felt a headache.

Under the Vienna system, the European countries maintained an equal footing, and the British could rest assured that they would boldly expand their territory overseas.

“Your Excellency the Prime Minister, according to the current situation, we can continue our previous strategic idea of establishing a unified Italian dynasty to weaken Austria’s strength while blocking the French from expanding into Italy!” Foreign Minister Palmerston proposed

John Russell frowned and said, “Mr. Palmerston, this is the most ideal state. In reality, we still need Austria to exist for the balance of power among the European countries.

Right now, Austria’s internal contradictions are so heavy that it might disintegrate. At that time, without the constraints, the Habsburg family will return to the German region.

Now that there are high calls for unification in the German region, with the prestige of the Habsburg family, it is very likely to unify the German region.”

In the Europe of the pedigree theory, John Russell was not a worrywart; once Austria disintegrated, it became almost inevitable that the remaining Austrian states would return to Germany.

In that case, there is a real possibility that the Habsburgs could unify Germany. Conquering the world with the lower half of your body is no joke.

Even if the Habsburgs didn’t unify Germany, it would be the same if the Prussians did, right? The emergence of a unified Greater German Empire would not be good for the British.

Franz also considered whether to give up Hungary and Italy and turn back to form the German Empire. But after careful analysis, he decisively gave up this temptation.

It was easy to unify Germany, but what about internal conflicts? At least he had no way to subdue the Prussians, and the Catholic Church in South Germany was clearly separated from the Protestant Church in North Germany.

Historically, the Germans had never been able to resolve this problem, and the Second Empire was full of contradictions from its inception.

That’s only Little Germany, if the establishment of Greater Germany, this contradiction will be even more horrible, North and South Germany are evenly matched, the internal conflict alone can make people collapse.

If you look at the map again, the strategic location of the German region is really a huge pit, and the four warring regions have no dangers to defend.

Even if Franz had more confidence, he didn’t think he could punch France, kick Russia, and slap England to death in the face of constant internal conflict.

In the premise of not giving up the Austrian Empire to unify the German region, Franz said that is dreaming, specific reference can be made to the case of Napoleon singled out the major European powers.

Otherwise there was no need to wait for him, after the war against France was over, it was the perfect time for Austria to unify Germany.

Undoubtedly, Franz was not the only smart person, Metternich resisted the temptation to establish the Vienna system and did not go to his death to unify Germany.

A thousand birds in the forest are better than one bird in the hand.

Integration of the current Austrian Empire, in fact, the comprehensive national strength than the unification of the German region, not much worse. Then in a slow effort to develop, waiting for the time is the king.

Into the European continent, to rebuild the Holy Roman Empire; Retreat, the tiger tsunami southern Europe, become a party of the powers.

“The situation in Austria may not be as severe as we imagined. The Vienna Revolution has been suppressed, and although other places are unstable, no major chaos has broken out.

For the sake of the European revolution, without spreading to Russia, the Tsarist government will have to support Austria, and with our support, even if the Hungarian rebellion breaks out, it will be quickly suppressed!

Besides, we don’t need the Kingdom of Sardinia to completely defeat Austria, we can intercede when necessary, as long as we don’t let the French send troops to support the Kingdom of Sardinia, the situation is under our control.” Palmerston thought for a moment and said

John Russell asked, “It is not difficult to mediate the Austro-Saxon war, how are you going to reply to the Austrians? If they can’t get support from us, they will have to turn to the Russians for help.

The Russians are not going to pass up this opportunity, and once Russia and Austria come to an agreement, there will be no one left in the Near East to check them.”

The dominant conflict in the world today is the Anglo-Russian conflict, and the Russian Empire, with its formidable strength, has become the greatest enemy of the British, bar none.

Austria is the biggest force in the Near East to check the expansion of the Russians, and if the Austrians now come to the aid of the Russians, it is inevitable that they will give up a part of their interests in the Balkans.

The British don’t want the Russians to enter the Mediterranean, and historically the Crimean War broke out over this, and it took a joint effort by Britain and France to block the Russians back.

“There is no relationship, we do not need to reply directly to the Austrians, give them some ambiguous hints, let them think that we are supporting Austria on the line.

Sardinian Kingdom wants to unify Italy but also their own efforts, we just provide limited support, success is certainly the best, failure will not involve us.

Letting France and Austria hold each other back is also a good choice, the British Empire’s diplomacy can’t possibly hang itself on one tree!” Palmerston sneered

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