Chapter 406: Learning to be a Fisherman (South Street’s Ally Plus )
Chapter 396 – Learning to be a Fisherman (South Street’s Allies Plus 4)
The suddenly prosperous East Prussian docks quickly caught the attention of the Berlin government. With such a fanfare of immigration, there was no way to keep it a secret, and the news naturally leaked out early.
The protest of the Kingdom of Prussia, Franz did not take it seriously at all, and the Foreign Ministry replied directly: it has nothing to do with us, look for the Russians.
That’s right, if it were not for the Russians’ perverse behavior, even if they could be fooled again, it would not have been possible to have such a mass exodus.
A million East Prussians can testify that they left to escape, and that Austria was only doing humanitarian relief.
“Russian-Austrian deal”, is there any proof? There is a price to pay for talking nonsense without evidence.
From beginning to end, the Vienna government did not throw its weight around. Those who organized the departure of the people were merchants from East Prussia and the local churches.
Berlin, since receiving the news from the East Prussian region, William I’s face has never looked better.
The Russians didn’t care about the population of the East Prussian region, it was the fact that there were so many of them, and besides, these people were a nuisance to them in themselves.
By sending all the locals away, Alexander II could also take the land of East Prussia and reward the meritorious officials, it was a one-two punch.
The Kingdom of Prussia was different, their population was already small, and the East Prussia region was the core area they had worked so hard on. Without the population of the East Prussia region, they would have no way to find people to fill it.
Except for the occupation of the two duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, which increased the number of Germans, there were not many Germans in other regions.
Prime Minister Frank persuaded, “Your Majesty, the problem of East Prussia is still to be considered later, it is important to win the war now, at present we are out of reach of the whip.”
Prime Minister Frank looked at the problem very accurately, the East Prussia region is depopulated, the aftermath is very serious, but that is based on the premise of winning the war.
If they lost the war, it wouldn’t be their territory anyway, and these troubles would naturally cease to exist.
William I shook his head and said, ”No, we must take action to delay the Austrians’ immigration speed. Otherwise, by the time our armies have fought their way through, the area will be a blank slate.”
Fortunately, this war was instigated by the Junker nobles, or else losing the core area of the Junker nobles, William I really had no way to give them an explanation.
Right now, what he did was also nothing more than stating his position and performing a political show for the Junker nobles to see.
Stopping the Austrian emigration was a joke. The emigration had already begun since the Russians occupied the East Prussian region.
Initially, hundreds and thousands of people were leaving, but now tens and hundreds of thousands of people are leaving together. If they were really going to stop it, they wouldn’t have to wait until now.
It was only because William I knew very well that he could not stop it at all, and that it might cause even more trouble, that he chose to play dumb.
Now that things have gotten so big, the lid really can’t be covered anymore, and only then did he have to bring the issue out into the open.
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The end result is of course no result, except for calling on the local people to resist the immigrants, in fact they can not do anything.
They can’t really do anything except call on the local population to boycott the immigrants. The Russians were not going to help them publicize it, and the Prussian government was going to face the Russians once they got into East Prussia.
The people of East Prussia, the Russian army had already made the decision for them. In order to speed up the pace of emigration, the Russian army organized levies and began to walk the countryside.
Unlike before, when they were just looting their belongings, this time they were completely trying to cut off the possibility of them staying. If they didn’t leave quickly, it wouldn’t be long before they went hungry.
The big immigration operation continued to the end of September, East Prussia region of the majority of the population, have arrived in Austrian Africa, there is a small portion was assigned to the South Seas region and Central America.
Centralized resettlement did not exist, Franz is not stupid, how could they leave them the opportunity to embrace? Nominally, of course, in order for them to get better jobs.
After all, most of these immigrants were old and weak, and it wasn’t easy to find work. If they were centrally housed together, where would there be so many suitable positions for them?
It is easy to disperse, but difficult to gather. These immigrants are everywhere, and when the war is over, it is estimated that many Prussian soldiers will have to embark on the road to find their relatives.
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Meizumi Palace, looking at the summarized data, Franz was very satisfied. According to incomplete statistics, this war Austria from the Kingdom of Prussia fooled about more than 800,000 immigrants, of which the East Prussia region has 730,000 people.
It was impossible to move all of them, there would always be stubborn people who didn’t want to leave, and Franz never liked to impose.
Having chosen to stay, it was none of his business. Whether or not these people would survive the war would depend on God’s blessing.
The only regret was that the Danes were defeated too quickly, or else they could have lured a large number of emigrants from the two duchies of Schleswig-Holstein.
By now, what Austria lacked was no longer land and resources, but quality population was what Austria needed most.
Franz wanted to unify the German region, mainly for the population. Otherwise, just the 400,000 or so square kilometers of land was not worth paying attention to.
Especially the poor strategic location was a deterrent. If Austria was sandwiched in the center by France and Russia, the North German region was sandwiched in the middle by Britain, France, Russia and Austria.
It can be said that the unification of the German region, Austria’s defense pressure to at least double, and even more.
The Mediterranean region at least did not need to face the British directly, and once the Suez Canal was opened, Austria’s strategic environment could be further improved.
As for the fear of a British blockade, it was completely unfounded. To block both the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal at the same time would simply not be possible unless the Royal Navy came out in full force.
This is the 19th century, not yet the 21st century, and to deploy a fleet at random to be able to blockade the coastline is simply a myth.
Other than that, I dare not say, to raise a navy half the strength of the Royal Navy, Franz is still confident that it can be done.
As a land power country, Franz dares to take the Navy Stud, fight a lose-lose war, change the British they dare to risk it?
Once the Royal Navy is greatly injured, they rely on what to hold the vast colonies? In front of the interests, the European countries will not be polite with them.
This is also Franz crazy immigration a factor, is to worry about one day and naval power dry, the navy is unable to guard the colonies security.
At that point it would be time for the army to come on board. At any one of the important colonies, a decent force could be formed, who would dare to touch the nail?
Strategically speaking, the stronger the power, the harder the war would be to fight. Especially when countries realize the high cost of war, the likelihood of war will be further reduced.
These days, farming is the way to go, so it’s just a matter of bullying the weak. If you engage in a bloody battle with a strong country, even if you win the war, you will still lose strategically.
This point is Franz summarized experience, specific reference can be made to the Near East War and the ongoing Russo-Prussian War, the final victor is a fisherman watching from the sidelines.
Franz admitted that he was addicted to being a fisherman and didn’t want to go down and take the risk himself. This is not a bad thing; a good politician has to learn to be a fisherman.
(End of chapter)