Chapter 555: An Operation Without a Bottom Line
Chapter 543 – Operating without a Bottom Line
Figuring out what happened, Franz was relieved to watch the fun. Deep down inside has felt silent sorrow for the Bulgarian Revolutionary Party, at a wrong point in time, launched a wrong uprising.
At another time, the Tsarist government would have compromised. For example, during the Russo-Prussian War a few years ago, it took the opportunity to start an uprising, and then followed the victor, and would have succeeded in gaining independence.
Unfortunately, at that time, the Russian Empire was so powerful and the people in the country were so stable that people simply didn’t think it was possible to overthrow the Russians.
It was the success of Polish independence that stimulated the development of a national independence movement in Russia. Bulgarian nationalism has also only spread in the last few years, and the agrarian crisis has amplified the conflict again.
The foundations for revolution were in place, but it was still not a good time. Taking on the Russian Empire alone with a corner of the country was not a wise choice by any stretch of the imagination.
Even waiting for the outbreak of the Near East War would be better than this point in time, at least there would be one more ally.
The British who secretly supported the Bulgarian revolution did not venture out at all, and the French and Austrian capitals were simply there for the sake of profit, igniting a war their purpose was achieved.
Sensei this excuse will not hold back, anyway, believe that there are still a lot of fools. Looking at a group of speculators who thought that the price of food was going to rise, frantically joining the ranks of speculation on high food prices, Franz silently said, “Self-inflicted evil, can not live!”
If you can’t find a receiver in time to withdraw, the speculators who participated in it, there is one to count, no one wants to escape.
It was so hard to trap them in, how could the consortium let them go? Having stepped into the ship of thieves, these people can only go on with their heads held high, trying hard to advocate that “food prices should be increased to expand the influence of the Balkan storm clouds.”
There has been a lot of good news in recent times, e.g. floods in Argentina, locusts in India ……
There are pictures and facts, but no one tells them that it’s none of Europe’s business if these countries have a bad harvest.
In this era, Argentina is not a major food exporter, not to Europe, not imported food from Europe. Even if part of the country is affected by the disaster, it will not run out of food if it relies on a good harvest in other areas.
India, not to mention, lack of food is useless, they can afford it? The local population was so large that it wouldn’t hurt to starve to death a few times, don’t expect the British to provide relief.
In any case, any disaster anywhere in the world will appear in the European newspapers. This is really a “showman does not go out, will know the world affairs”, everyone suddenly realized that the world is actually so big, there are so many countries exist.
The world as a whole is “short of food” yes, but this does not affect the outbreak of the agricultural crisis. The people who are short of food are all poor people who cannot afford to buy food at all, and the surplus production of food on the international market has nothing to do with them.
It’s not like chicken soup segments are in vogue right now, and they don’t even have the environment to survive. If you think that this is a big market that nobody pays attention to, and foolishly dive in to develop it, you will be able to lose even the biggest family business to bankruptcy.
Pre-investment does not make money to cultivate the market, there are a few years of persistence, there are also sustained for more than ten years, Franz has not heard of waiting for hundreds of years of stupidity.
Capitalists are not stupid, if they can do it, they would have done it long ago. For example: Africans do not wear shoes, run to sell shoes of chicken soup paragraph.
No one studied whether the locals could afford to buy them or not, and even if they could afford to buy them in this day and age, there was no point, the colonizers had already gotten used to robbing them.
Even though killing the sheep is not as profitable as shearing them for a long period of time, if you don’t kill the sheep, you will starve to death now, so what’s the point of thinking about the future?
The 19th century is the darkest and cruelest era, everyone is struggling for survival, survive to have a future, too far-sighted will become a martyr.
After a series of bombings, many people came to the conclusion that the world was short of food, and a food rush broke out in many areas.
This had little effect on Austria, and although there were fears that food prices would rise, no one thought Austria would run out of food. If the world’s number one exporter of agricultural products is running out of food, how can anything else survive?
After stabilizing prices in the domestic retail food market, Franz pretended not to see the movements in the stock market and futures market.
If you want to speculate, you have to bear the consequences. These areas are, in essence, a gamble. It’s all turned into wool, and it’s going to run away, isn’t it?
In order to minimize the number of ripple effects, at the end of 1873 the Austrian Securities Regulatory Authority raised the capital entry threshold, shutting out small transactions with capital of less than 500 Shenduane.
The power of capital is huge, originally overcapacity in the grain market, hard to let them through the operation of capital, creating a situation of shortage.
This is a good thing for grain exporting countries, at least this year’s grain has someone to take over. It doesn’t matter when the international grain market collapses.
In a way, the Tsarist government should thank the man behind the curtain for getting them through this year’s financial crisis. The price of grain exports, though not high, was at least sold.
Future problems will be discussed in the future, besides, isn’t Austria trying to reduce production, maybe the market will return to normal in a few years.
Moreover, the war is also a large consumer of food, caught the Ottoman Empire a beating, I think the next two or three years do not have to worry about overcapacity.
Without any hesitation, the Russian army, which was originally intended to be used in the Ottoman battlefield, was now put into the Bulgarian battlefield by the Tsarist government.
The great Bulgarian uprising, which lasted for more than two months, hit a low point, and the insurgents were forced to abandon the cities and move into the mountains to continue fighting.
The Russo-Austrian alliance was not yet over, and despite wanting to expel the Russians from the Balkans, Franz did not support the Bulgarian insurgents.
Whether there was arms smuggling or not, of course, was none of his business. Anyway, arms smugglers had no human rights, and if the Russians were capable of catching them, then they could deal with them on their own, and the government in Vienna would not ask questions.
Vienna Palace, Foreign Minister Weissenberg: “Your Majesty, the envoy of the Sudanese government is here. They want to resolve the strife between the two countries through negotiations.”
It was the habit of the European continent to talk if you couldn’t win a fight. Especially for big countries, destroying a country is simply unrealistic, otherwise Napoleon III’s annexation of the Italian region wouldn’t have caused an uproar.
Did the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire have anything to talk about? From the point of view of family hatred, naturally there is no need to negotiate, both sides hate to get each other killed.
From the point of view of interests, naturally, we need to talk before we know. Franz is not a profit-oriented master, so decisively decided: “No talk!”
Strategically need to create an enemy for Austria, who else is suitable besides the Ottoman Empire? The European continent was a mess, and once you rushed in, you were going to be trapped.
How nice to beat up the Ottoman Empire, attacking a notorious enemy, you can stand on the high ground of public opinion, and you don’t have to worry about being pushed back.
The thinning of the Ottoman Empire, even if it is open to complete the modernization and reform, or by the Austrian part of the complete abuse. This is the comprehensive national strength of the decision, there is not the slightest possibility of compensation.
If Britain and France are willing to give the Ottoman Empire blood transfusion, Franz welcomed, which means that the two sides can be entangled in the time can be a little longer.
It is best to let the European countries think that Austria is stuck in the war quagmire can not pull themselves out, so that everyone can rest assured that the tearing. Lest the eyes were always on Vienna, Franz did not even dare to play a small game.
“Send someone to urge the Russians to speed up their preparations for war, and this war must be launched in March. If that’s not possible, just let them send soldiers, we can provide everything else.”
Franz was not going to discount the strategic supplies he had promised to provide. Pulling the Russians along with him was mainly to share the international pressure and create opportunities for the Prussians in the meantime.
Without the Russians and Austrians being held back in their energies, how could the Berlin government have the guts to take on Poland? Of course, Wilhelm I would certainly not be as extreme as Napoleon III, and Franz guessed that he would most likely inherit the Polish throne first.
Europe has the precedent of co-rulers, including Sweden and Norway are co-rulers, this kind of thing is within the scope of everyone’s acceptance. Control the Polish government first, in slowly realize the annexation plan, the difficulty is greatly reduced.
Franz used the same plan to annex the Kingdom of Bavaria, which was now left with a name and was essentially an Austrian province.
Not only the Kingdom of Bavaria, but also several other states did not escape. Whether they recognize it or not, they are only equivalent to a high degree of autonomy. The interests of all parties are linked to Austria, and the Austrian government is the central government of Shinra.
This is the original time and space, the Kingdom of Prussia also did. Only because of the religion and legal system, resulting in the Berlin government’s lack of control over the South German region, Bavaria is still self-contained.
If conditions allowed, it is estimated that Napoleon III would not have directly annexed Italy, but instead adopted the system of co-rulers. Unfortunately, that didn’t play well in the Italian regions.
Who knows what the Italian Emperor was? How can something that doesn’t even exist, a throne created out of practical necessity, gain acceptance?
Without a juridical basis, the co-ruler system certainly didn’t play well. It’s not hard to understand why Napoleon III went hard.
Foreign Minister Weissenberg: “The Russians are not a big problem, even if they are not ready, they can let the Tsarist government declare war first.
Only provoking war still requires a reason, and the Russians propose to use the Ottoman Empire’s support for the Bulgarian revolt as a reason, or the expulsion of the infidels and the raising of the banner of jihad.”
When the word “jihad” came out, Franz’s whole body went bad. It was only a secular war, so why bring up the banner of religion?
Although it can boost morale, it’s not easy to control the tempo! If the frontline troops are so demoralized that they want to kill the Ottoman Empire in one breath, how can they call a halt?
You can’t expect the French to reorganize their “blasphemous alliance” with the Ottomans to save the Ottomans.
“No, the religious war can never be fought. The Russians can use whatever excuse they want, but we will use revenge as the reason.”
Thinking back to the siege of Vienna by the Ottomans, which almost ended the nest of the Habsburg dynasty, how can we not avenge the bloodshed of the Ottomans?
No, it seems that the battle in 1683, or the big Bobo acted as the savior, put this to proclaim it does not seem good.
The two countries still have unresolved territorial disputes, and there are enough grudges between the two sides to make ten TV dramas, so it seems too early to talk about Austro-Polish friendship.
Thinking of this, the latter words Franz will not say, simply let the government to add their own good. Anyway, the hatred between the two countries has lasted for hundreds of years, flip through the history book excuses will have.
Especially the Vienna government’s new history book, that above is really deep hatred. For example, the Balkan population, that are the Ottoman Empire attacked Austria captured the population, and then slowly reproduced the offspring.
The local natives were killed off by the brutal Ottomans long ago. The remaining small portion either defected to the Ottomans as traitors or hid in the deep forests, such as Montenegro.
Whether others believed it or not, the Vienna government did. There is absolutely proof, real people with real stories to prove it. Only the percentage is a bit small, one percent is always there if you check the pedigree.
No, after so many years of immigration, the proportion has increased greatly, in many places more than fifty percent, the credibility has increased greatly.
When the genes can be checked in the future, it will be possible to prove that all of these elements are true, and that the ancestors of the local populace did indeed come from the German region.
The history books of the Duchy of Montenegro in this regard could also testify to this, Franz had used a million divine guilders of material aid to get the Montenegrin government to cooperate.
There will be more evidence in the future, in short, Austria and the Ottoman Empire have a blood feud, and if they do not take revenge on the Ottoman Empire, then they will be sorry for their ancestors.
(End of chapter)